Spring Festival

Paul Guiragossian said he started painting to express himself. For him, 'colour shape, composition are a base, a mediation to access his inner self as well as universal truths about humanity. Guiragossian's canvases are crowded with vertical lines, elongated arabesques which powerfully evoke, through a remarkable restriction of means, groups of human beings which are motionless but full of life. The rich colours bring a rhythm and because they are faceless, the purged bodies carry the expression. Guiragossian's search for the universal unconscious lead him to abolish the landscape. His work are like the ancient bas-reliefs, bi-dimensional, allowing us to concentrate not on physical but on psychological space. Guiragossian's work is neither western nor oriental because they are an expression of the human. Both joyful and sad, at the same time the powerful and delicate.