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| Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer |
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Female, 53
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Lexington, Massachusetts |
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"Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed her mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again." (A passage from Pentimento by Lillian Hellman)
Using oils and acrylics, inks, and pastels, Sirarpi draws, scrawls, scrapes, and paints on canvas and wood surfaces that are rich in layers of handmade and recycled papers, fabric, wood powder, sand, and other natural materials. These compositions celebrate or reinvent a world of inner apprehension and appreciation for the modulations wrought over time. Her suggestive abstract figurative work springs from meditations on nature, or childhood memories distilled into a single dramatic moment. In several of her paintings, an abstracted female figure prevails within an abiding sense of solitude.
Sirarpi's works have the musicality of Kandinsky and the inwardness of Klee; their energetic surfaces imply an ongoing tension between freedom and containment. Informed by readings in Thoreau, her response edges the viewer closer to that place where chaos erupts into clarity.
Sirarpi holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in biomedical and systems engineering from Boston University, and a degree from the Academy for Fine Arts, "The Etage," in Berlin, Germany, where she studied painting, stage, and theatre design. In Berlin, where she lived for thirteen years, Sirarpi worked with such international artists as director/stage designer Andrej Woron, environmental artist Peter Erskine, and among others Milan Knizak, Pauline Disson, Jan Hendrikse, Klaus Denhardt and Tim Harney.
Sirarpi has exhibited her work, including installations, in Germany and USA. She lives and works in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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