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Since my very first encounter with Khachatryan’s works years ago, I’ve been convinced that this original and unique friend of mine had been blessed by God in many different ways. I was even more surprised by his ability to deal with the many extraordinary gifts bestowed upon him by Heaven and, first of all with the deeply felt professional and moral obligation to create in any accessible genre of art: in drawings, painting, sculpture or in the puzzling multi-dimensional works of the last few years.

There’s never been any showing off, bohemian ambition or desire to pose as an authoritarian master…There was always just work: work - despite the official ideological apparatus of the old Soviet times, or the newly fashionable art movements and the demands of the market in our days.

And the work was truly harmonious, originating from the depths of the artist’s heart and soul, evoked by the will of personal muses and not by some superficial concepts, which for many, sometimes even, outstanding, artists, create an illusion of their belonging to the gods of the contemporary art life Olympus.

Khachatryan’s technical innovations, such as his levkas drawings, which look like monochrome painting, or the multi-dimensional installations, which evolve like real live organisms, and, perhaps, have no precedents in the history of world art, can neither be regarded as merely formal, spectacular technical devices. These, too, are determined by the artist’s personal and unique spiritual development.

I cannot predict the scale and originality of Rudolph Khachatryan’s future revelations, but I am convinced that they will become phenomenal events for both Russian and world culture. The present exposition of Rudolph Khachatryan’s creations is the best proof to that.