A conversation with an artist is often like standing before one of their canvases: you try to find the thread through which their worldview is woven. In the case of Roman Makaryan, that thread leads to the old streets of Gyumri, reaches back to the illustrations of childhood books and knots itself into the mysterious patterns of Armenian carpets. For him, art is a “way of speaking through silence” — a language where words give way to color and …
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