Karen Akhikyan
Karen Akhikyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1963. It seems he lives in art. During different periods of his life Karen Akhikyan was interested in different spheres of art. First he was drawing oil paintings, then he started to paint wonderful batik scarves and then he moved to amazing world of sculptures. In two words he is in interested in everything that is connected with art. During the last 15 years he is creating wire sculptures. It seems he has a huge zoo with its different and wild animals. As Karen Akhikyans says, he doesn`t decide which animal what kind of emotion must have the sculpture itself decide its emotion. Without having cultural education he was always in art, the only education he got was the artist who was his neighbor. He was usually spent his time following the artists works. Karen Akhikyan says that the wire is an instrument through which he is able to transmit his emotional states. During creating a sculpture his soul seems to be cleansed. His latest collection is called “Little world” because the sculptures are so small that they can fit in the palm.
