Aram Jughian

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Aram Jughian, a Lebanese-Armenian self-taught artist and poet, has developed over five decades a distinctive abstract idiom grounded in the expressive interplay of colour, texture, and gesture. His mixed-media compositions reveal a subtle dialogue between spontaneity and control, their layered transparencies and sweeping forms evoking both vegetal growth and human movement. Recurrent organic motifs—flowers, leaves, and floating figures—animate the surface with a lyrical vitality that fuses rhythm, fragility, and reflection. Since the mid-1970s, Jughian has exhibited widely in Lebanon and Russia, maintaining a long-standing presence at institutions such as the Sursock Museum in Beirut, the M’ars Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, and Galerie Tanit. His major solo exhibitions, including Brushstrokes (2011), I am Here (2017) and Fireworks (2022), have charted the evolution of a pictorial language rooted in gesture yet open to introspection. Participation in Art Dubai (2018) and the Sharjah Biennial (1997) further consolidated his transnational visibility. Jughian’s practice is deeply informed by musical structure—Bach and Ravel as much as jazz and blues—whose tonal modulations echo in his chromatic harmonies. His works articulate a sensorial engagement with nature and memory, where emotion serves as an organising principle rather than a narrative theme. Paintings by Jughian belong to public and private collections in Beirut, Paris, Cologne, London, Washington, Los Angeles, and Jakarta, situating his abstraction within a reflective and enduring humanist framework.