Artashes Sardarian
Artashes Sardarian is a ceramicist, installation artist, and painter who has exhibited across Europe in France, Switzerland, and Russia. His work has been featured in notable publication features such as the Flair Project curated by Katerina Perez, Mymodernmet, and Lolypop Magazine. He currently lives and works from Argentina and has been featured in collections on Saatchi Art.
With an intense focus on transformation, Artashes takes found ceramics and glassware such as vintage porcelain plates and wine glasses, shatters or breaks them, and then reconstructs the objects into a creation entirely of his own. Ranging from sculpture, installation application, and painting, Artashes has several series of works which contain broken porcelain plates reconstructed into sculptures, broken and glued back together with gaps and painted with hands and eyes, dripping with resin. He also breaks wine glasses and porcelain drinking fine ware and applies oozing with drips of epoxy resin.
In essence, the artist recreates vintage objects into contemporary art, with an ancient, naturalistic flare. Artashes’ oozing epoxy broken glass and porcelain installations appear similar to icicles hanging from an iceberg in the arctic or similar remote location. With vibrant colors reminiscent of flavored ice candy, the wine glasses remain broken and shattered, spilling their remains to the viewer in a reconstructed aesthetic. The broken porcelain plates containing paintings become reminiscent of French Rococo decorative arts but with contemporary and expressive subject matter. Theatrical and silently deafening, as if the viewer can hear the shatters of the porcelain, these plates hastily reconstruct themselves to present to the audience portions of suggestive anatomy.
Broken History (pictured above) contains a series of vintage porcelain plates, shattered in portions to reveal frozen liquid with dried flowers. The still substance contained with the teacups happens to be epoxy resin which resembles glass or ice. Like a fine-tuned sculpture, these eloquent works appear carefully crafted from scratch rather than improvised. The practical application of the piece remains the greatest strength.
Artashes Sardarian defines the nature of post-structuralism because of how he deconstructs objects and concepts and then reconstructs them into entirely new purposes and forms. With an adventurous and ancient spirit, these delicate works reflect dynamic refurbishing of retro objects. He expresses naturalistic tendencies such as depictions of ice and anatomy against constructed found material of porcelain and glass creating a dichotomy of definition. With a creative, improvised application and sense of high aesthetics, Artashes redefines notions of contemporary beauty using destroyed and unusual, refined material.
