Hagop Sulahian

Unlike many people who felt being in lockdown was a sort of obligatory confinement, the lockdown experience was very unique and productive for me and my wife. Both being artists who spent most of our time travelling from one exhibition to another at all four corners of the world, we embraced this period with such artistic fervor that we did not even feel the time passing as if it was a valuable bonus  gained  but with certain handicaps where I had to be creative to make up for the shortage of paint materials or canvases etc. So I had to resort to using recycled wrapping paper of the art studio to paint on making use of the backdrop of my abstract works. My architectural background has always been a source of inspiration for my geometric abstract paintings that generate a visual dynamics and a movement leading the viewer’s eye in a particular direction.

The confinement became an inspiration for my wife and I to conceive and curate an international virtual exhibition of Mask Art for 252 international artists from 120 countries in 3 weeks’ time, entitled “Creativity under Lockdown - Artists against Covid 19”.