NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN:

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“I am not obsessed with the beauty of instability. I am just taking it as something that is there.” — Nairy Baghramian

Traditional Western sculpture dates back to the ancient Greek period and beyond, with the use of materials such as stone, metal, ceramics and wood continuing to this day, and the original forms evolving over time. But what is sculpture? During the Renaissance, Michelangelo's iconic “David” was seen as a representation of the ideal proportion of human body, with a concentrated and confident gesture that is revealed in a masterful sculpture. In modernism, Constantin Brancusi blurred the line between figuration and abstraction with “A Muse”, which simplifies the female form and emphasizes pure lines, redefining the language of sculpture of the past. For her works exhibited at the Winsing Art Place, Nairy Baghramian, an artist of Iranian descent, once said, “Sculpture, art in general, is not there to make things more suitable than society expects of us. Art shouldn’t bear the burden of anticipating success.” In the contemporary art world, her sculptures are not only about the work itself, but the conditions of their surroundings that constitute an essential factor in their appearance, and the varied shapes of the pieces interact with each other to produce a relationship that is both contradictory and balanced.