Tigran Petrossiantz

Tigran Petrossiantz

Still life is my way of seeing the world. An attempt to bring order to chaos. To turn an object into a feeling. To make the silent expressive, and the everyday meaningful.

Still Life with a Floral Pattern on the Wall, acrylic on canvas, 2024

Paintings

The Waiting Violin, acrylic on canvas

The Waiting Violin

Acrylic on canvas, 2024
100 × 81 cm

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This painting does not show a violin being played — it captures the moment just after. We do not see the musician, we do not hear the music, and yet the whole scene tells us that something has just happened. The music is still in the air.

You can even see the music in the background — in the soft, rhythmic waves of colour on the wall, as if the echo were slowly fading but had not yet disappeared.

By choosing exactly this moment — the moment of silence — the artist reminds us that music does not only live in action; it also lives in anticipation. And the only question the waiting violin seems to ask is: what will be the next music?

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The Girl on the Balcony, acrylic on canvas

Balcony Series

The Girl on the Balcony

Acrylic on canvas, 2024
81 × 60 cm

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“The Girl on the Balcony” belongs to the artist's Balcony Series, a reflection on how the time of day and the season transform the same view, revealing endless moods from a single balcony.

Within this scene, the light rests on the floor and the chair, like an invitation to step outside and experience the moment. It stirs curiosity to see what is happening out on the balcony. It is this very light that has led the woman outside — as if it had called to her, offering her a quiet moment of her own. Her face remains hidden, yet her calmness can be felt, a feeling that resonates softly and deeply.

Each of us can find ourselves in this figure: a person who withdraws from the world for a brief moment, simply to feel peace, warmth, and the light of a tranquil day.

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Still Life with a Floral Pattern on the Wall, acrylic on canvas

Still Life with a Floral Pattern on the Wall

Acrylic on canvas, 2024
100 × 81 cm

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The painting explores the tension between soft and hard elements. The heavy tablecloth, with its tactile folds, merges visually with the blue wall covered in rigid, repeating floral motifs, creating a dialogue between two patterned surfaces of different character.

The fruit in the bowl, contained in a hard vessel, appears more strict and alert, while the fruit resting directly on the tablecloth feels relaxed and calm. The white fabric embodies the same duality: one part pressed tightly into the jug, suggesting discomfort and constraint, another lying freely across the table, suggesting ease.

The work is also defined by a deliberate opposition of warm and cool colour. Warm oranges and yellows in the fruit and vessels stand against the cooler blue of the patterned wall. Within what first appears to be a simple still life, the artist reveals contrasts of comfort and discomfort, rigidity and softness, showing how the same objects shift in meaning depending on their surroundings.

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Room 104, acrylic on canvas

Pipe Series

Room 104

Acrylic on canvas, 2024
60 × 73 cm

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“Room 104” belongs to the artist's Pipe Series. You do not travel with three pipes unless you are a person of ritual. This painting is about the third pipe — the one that is not in the frame.

The artist has a ritual whenever he travels with his family: after a day of sightseeing, visiting museums and walking through new streets, he returns to his room, lights his pipe, and enjoys a moment of peace.

This painting captures that quiet in-between — the time when the third pipe is no longer part of the scene but lives within the story. In this moment, the artist is smoking it on the balcony of his hotel room, number 104.

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Pipe or Lemon?, acrylic on canvas

Pipe Series

Pipe or Lemon?

Acrylic on canvas, 2023
65 × 81 cm

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The artist loves to smoke pipes and cigars. It is one of the pleasures through which he can truly relax and reflect on days gone by. He also loves citrus fruits, especially lemons. He never combines the two in real life: citrus can ruin the taste of tobacco, and they are not a harmonious pair.

On canvas, however, they can coexist elegantly. The dark wooden elements, combined with the bright yellow, create an immediate contrast and, at the same time, a lasting mental association.

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The Wine Glass, acrylic on canvas

The Wine Glass

Acrylic on canvas, 2025
65 × 54 cm

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At first glance the fruit draws all the attention, but the title reveals something different. The glass stands empty — quiet, almost unnoticed — and yet everything seems to revolve around it.

Perhaps the person has only stepped away for a moment, to fetch a knife to cut the orange, or to bring the wine: the choice that, in this moment, may be more in tune with their desires.

This work speaks of hesitation between decisions, of that instant when we believe we know what we want — in this case, to eat the orange — and then realise that perhaps it is not the orange we are missing, but simply a glass of wine and a moment of quiet contentment.

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The Silent Story of the Quince, acrylic on canvas

Forgotten Fruits Series

The Silent Story of the Quince

Acrylic on canvas, 2025
46 × 61,5 cm

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This painting is part of the artist's “Forgotten Fruits” series, which gives a voice to fruits that are often overlooked. Quinces are richly fragrant, yet they ripen slowly and often remain firm until patience and warmth transform them.

The paper that wraps them acts as a shell — perhaps a protection, perhaps a secret. Wrapped in paper, they rest here between care and forgetfulness, waiting for their time to come. It almost seems as if they whisper to one another about patience, and about what wishes to remain hidden until the right moment arrives.

Perhaps this painting also speaks of us, of the parts of our own stories we keep carefully wrapped and protected until we are ready to reveal them.

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In the Corner of the Old Kitchen, acrylic on canvas

Forgotten Fruits Series

In the Corner of the Old Kitchen

Acrylic on canvas, 2025
61 × 50 cm

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“In the Corner of the Old Kitchen” is part of the artist's “Forgotten Fruits” series, which gives a voice to fruits that are often overlooked.

This work can be seen as a sister painting to “The Silent Story of the Quince.”

It feels as if the old kitchen wall, with its yellow and green rhombuses, had been waiting for this fruit — as though no other could belong here more naturally than the yellow quince.

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Skating Rink, acrylic on canvas

Balcony Series

Skating Rink

Acrylic on canvas, 2025
65 × 50 cm

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“Skating Rink” belongs to the artist's Balcony Series, a reflection on how the time of day and the season transform the same view, revealing endless moods from a single balcony. Even in winter the balcony remains a special place. The view changes — the snow transforms the world, making it quieter, but not lifeless.

The main figures are the people gliding over the ice behind the trees. Their movements bring life to the cold; their cheerful mood blends with the winter calm. They circle gracefully, light and effortless, as if they had for a moment escaped the weight of winter.

From the balcony one can observe it all — the movement, the joy, the fleeting sense of freedom on the ice. And yet you feel part of it, connected to the life outside, which continues to flow even in the cold, leaving traces of warmth behind.

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Morning on the Balcony, acrylic on canvas

Balcony Series

Morning on the Balcony

Acrylic on canvas, 2025
55 × 46 cm

In a private collection

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The artist's favourite moment of the morning is the quiet of the balcony. It feels like a space both inside and outside the comfort zone: you have not left the flat, and yet you are already outdoors. It is the first thing he does in the morning — he steps out and enjoys the silence. No cars, no people; you can only see and feel the sun.

If you are cold, this painting offers you warmth; if you are stuck at home, it draws you outside. The peach and the apricots are already enjoying the sun, as though the light had brightened their colours. The fruit seems to invite you to join them.

Life and work today are too stressful and too fast. Each of us wishes, at least once a day, for comfort and quiet — as if time had stopped, nothing were happening, and there were no thoughts. Tigran wants to bring that feeling as close to the viewer as possible. A minute in front of this painting feels like a minute on that balcony, enjoying the sun and listening to the silence.

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Conversation, acrylic on canvas

Conversation

Acrylic on canvas, 2023
81 × 65 cm

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An autumn afternoon spent talking with a friend. Wicker chairs facing each other, a coffee cup, fruit, a carafe of flowers, and the garden turning colour outside. Not a holiday or an important event — one of the quiet hours that are worth keeping.

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Pumpkins, acrylic on canvas

Pumpkins

Acrylic on canvas, 2023
100 × 100 cm

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A street vendor on Pushkin Street in Yerevan set out pumpkins of unusual shapes and colours every day. After walking past them for a season the artist finally painted them. When he showed the vendor the canvas, the man said he had never realised his pumpkins were so impressive.

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Breakfast, acrylic on canvas

Breakfast

Acrylic on canvas, 2024
100 × 81 cm

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Morning in an old Yerevan house. A brightly painted table, delicate tableware, a plate of croissants — a family gathered for the ordinary and unrepeatable pleasure of eating together.

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Still Life with Oranges, Pipe and Jug, acrylic on canvas

Still Life with Oranges, Pipe and Jug

Acrylic on canvas, 2023
100 × 81 cm

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Before Breakfast, acrylic on canvas

Before Breakfast

Acrylic on canvas, 2023
81 × 100 cm

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Still Life on a Red Table, acrylic on canvas

Still Life on a Red Table

Acrylic on canvas, 2022
92 × 73 cm

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Still Life by the Window, acrylic on canvas

Still Life by the Window

Acrylic on canvas, 2023
73 × 60 cm

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Still Life with Tablecloth, acrylic on canvas

Still Life with Tablecloth

Acrylic on canvas, 2022
73 × 92 cm

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Front Yard, acrylic on canvas

Front Yard

Acrylic on canvas, 2022
81 × 60 cm

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Balcony II, acrylic on canvas

Balcony II

Acrylic on canvas, 2022
81 × 60 cm

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About

Tigran Petrossiantz

Tigran Petrossiantz was born in 1965 in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied at the Yerevan State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Design, from 1982 to 1989, and returned to the Academy between 1995 and 2000 as head of the Department of Fashion Modelling.

The turn toward painting came from something much earlier. As a child he noticed things in his surroundings that other people walked past — the colour of an object, a form that departed from its standard, the way light came off a surface. The urge to hold on to those impressions never left. Painting, for him, is less a profession than a way of looking.

His years in clothing design shaped how he builds a picture. Objects are never isolated on a neutral ground; they sit inside real rooms, on patterned cloth, against tiled floors and papered walls, framed by balcony railings. Jugs, glasses, fruit, a violin, a pipe return again and again. The colour runs warm — yellows, oranges, reds — and is often pitched brighter than the room actually was, which is how he saw it.

He is a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia and is represented by Arame Gallery in Yerevan, having previously worked with Gala Art Gallery. He has taken part in exhibitions in Armenia and abroad since 2020. His paintings are held in private collections in Armenia, Russia, Lebanon, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.

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