Laurent Boyadjian

Laurent Nissou, de son nom d’artiste Laurent Boyadjian est né le 16 novembre 1970 à Paris.

Après une année d’étude préparatoire aux Ateliers de Sèvres en 1989, cet artiste se dirige rapidement vers une production autodidacte. Dès l’âge de 20 ans il se passionne pour la peinture et créé une série de 300 œuvres à la gouache. Il passe rapidement à la peinture à l’huile .C’est aussi le moment de sa rencontre avec Cérès Franco qui dirige la galerie, l’œil de bœuf, à Paris, rue Quincampoix et qui le soutiendra longtemps.

Dans les années 2000 son art se diversifie et il s’essaye à la photographie. Utilisant également la vidéo pour mettre en scène les peintures de personnages ou de visages qui prennent vie, Laurent multiplie les supports et les techniques pour tenter d’embrasser un univers infini.

De mère arménienne, il s’attache particulièrement à la représentation de la figure et du corps humain dans une création qui semble puiser son inspiration aux sources d’une mythologie ancestrale, elle-même traversée par le souffle de ses origines.

Il expose en France à la chapelle de la Salpêtrière à Paris en 2000 ou encore à la Galerie Europ’Art à Aigues Mortes mais c’est dans son pays d’adoption qu’il présente le plus régulièrement ses œuvres.

Depuis 2014, il expose régulièrement au Musée d’Art moderne et au Musée national d’Erevan en Arménie.

La sculpture comme une renaissance.

En 2019,il opte pour le nom de sa mère, pose ses pinceaux et décide de se consacrer exclusivement à la sculpture et plus particulièrement au travail de la terre. Commencent alors trois années de travail intense et de recherche qui verront éclore près de 400 sculptures en grès, bois, métal ou carton.

« Mes mains ont plongé au plus profond de cette matière pour en extraire des vestiges qui attendaient patiemment. Des reliques de cette culture arménienne que m’a transmis ma mère et dont j’ai pris le nom »

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Laurent Nissou, whose artist name is Laurent Boyadjian, was born on November 16, 1970 in Paris.
After a year of preparatory study at the Ateliers de Sèvres in 1989, this artist quickly moved towards self-taught production. From the age of 20 he became passionate about painting and created a series of 300 works in gouache. He quickly moved on to oil painting. It was also the time of his meeting with Cérès Franco who directed the gallery, l’oeil de boeuf, in Paris, rue Quincampoix and who supported him for a long time.

In the 2000s his art diversified and he tried photography. Also using video to stage paintings of characters or faces that come to life, Laurent multiplies the supports and techniques to try to embrace an infinite universe.

Of Armenian mother, he is particularly attached to the representation of the human figure and body in a creation which seems to draw its inspiration from the sources of an ancestral mythology, itself crossed by the breath of its origins.

He exhibited in France at the Salpêtrière chapel in Paris in 2000 and at the Galerie Europ’Art in Aigues Mortes, but it is in his adopted country that he most regularly presents his works.

Since 2014, he has exhibited regularly at the Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Yerevan in Armenia.
Sculpture as a rebirth.

In 2019, he opted for his mother’s name, put down his brushes and decided to devote himself exclusively to sculpture and more particularly to working with clay. Then began three years of intense work and research which saw the emergence of nearly 400 sculptures in sandstone, wood, metal or cardboard.

“My hands delved deep into this material to extract the remains that had been waiting patiently. Relics of this Armenian culture passed on to me by my mother and from which I took the name”

Laurent Boyadjian

Laurent Boyadjian

Laurent Boyadjian

Créations / Works

SEA SCHELL MAN

GRANDE TOUR BLEUE

VASE VERT ET LILA AUX DEUX OISEAUX

VASE BLANC AUX DEUX OISEAUX

TOUR COURONNE