Ar(thé)facts

Ar(thé)facts Un jour il y a eu le premier sachet. Au lieu de le jeter, il l’a regardé.Le jour d’après il a gardé son sachet. Puis, il l’a séché et soigné comme on soignerait quelqu’un. Avec patience petit à petit, ils se sont apprivoisés, alors quand les sachets sont devenus nombreux il a commencé à […]

Art(tea)fact – as long as it needs to…

Ar(tea)fact – as long as it needs to… One day, there appeared the first teabag. Instead of throwing it away, he contemplated it. The next day, he held onto it. After that, he dried it and cured it like one would heal somebody.  Step by step they patiently tamed each other, so that when the […]

« The Ground We Have in Common » Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso / Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche

The ground we have in common

« The Ground We Have in Common » Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso FONDAZIONE BENETTON STUDI RICERCHE Opening:Friday, 10th May 2019, 18:0011/05/2019 – 30/06/2019Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso The Ground We Have in Common is the title of the exhibition that will take place at Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, curated by Patrizia Boschiero from Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, and […]

« Espaces tempérés, architectures de l’intime d’Armén Rotch » par Gilda R. Guégamian paru dans Urbain-trop-urbain.fr

« Espaces tempérés, architectures de l’intime d’Armén Rotch » par Gilda R. Guégamian paru dans Urbain-trop-urbain.fr Puis vient le geste. Un geste gratuit. Celui de garder, de prendre soin de cet objet — mais un sachet est-il même un objet ? n’est-il pas plutôt ce temps de la transition dans le passé dont parle Saint Augustin ? — pour en faire don […]

Constructions – installations (2014 – 2017)

It is no longer just a question of the tea that we drink, that we taste and that we smell, but of intimately organized spaces that balance each other, of colors formed by and for the other senses. Through the contact of each particular breath with the liquid element in which the teabag bathes, this […]

Armen Rotch presented by Galeri77 at Contemporary Istanbul 2017

The most well-known of Armén Rotch’s works are the collages and installations he makes with simple, even minimalistic patterns using tea bags. While others utilize tea bags to rest their weary eyes or as fertilizers in their gardens, Rotch transforms them with his creativity to give them a whole new striking purpose. He uses different tea bags each […]

in vivo

What is this? A new space ? Rusty traces of a civilization sinking that such an organization “in vivo” encrust the monotonous reality of plastic field …  Or … another view of the indifference of a consumer society , an avatar , an iconoclastic incarnation of the reality of the post-industrial globalization , whose function […]