Blind Finds Exhibition at The Running Horse

The Running Horse Gallery is hosting an exhibition by Talar Aghbashian called “Blind Finds”. Telling the tales of old city ruins and excavation sites, “Blind Finds” invites the viewer through the intricate meanders of Aghbashian’s apprehension of a world burdened by disillusion and the weight of a background tied to the Lebanese civil war and the Armenian genocide.

A dark questioning sense of the world where recognizable forms are sometimes fragmented to near abstraction, Talar Aghbashian explores the ambiguity of landscapes, the fate of humankind and the fantastic: a pictorial interpretation that depicts landscapes and cultural inheritance. While investigating on intrinsic constituents that are reflected, obscured, distorted, she examines the full spectrum of emotional response from wonder and joy to melancholy and loss.

The magnitude of the depicted landscapes projects the viewer further away from the frames and actively immerses him/her into the artist’s uncanny universe. This form of contemporary sublimity resonates with Hegel’s theory of beauty where “the sublime lies at the bottom of a hierarchy of beauties set in formal relationships to reality” bringing to the fore an objective study of beauty established between its content and its representation.

The paintings disconcert as they reveal multiple solutions, an intangible and ambiguous supplement looks to call on our consciousness of the world surrounding us.

The exhibition brings together around thirty paintings that are poised between abstraction and rendition, presenting a skillful painter whose works radiate a sense of emotional attachment between the artist and her sitters.