For Van Soghomonyan painting and ceramics were never detached fields, existing in independent dimensions. For him plastic arts were always connected with painting. In last few years or so, Van Soghomonyan transferred the main interest in sphere of oil painting, adhering to his sign system. Moreover he enriched it with supplementary graphic means of painting, techniques that allowed the mastering of languages of forms and objects, revealing sculptural qualities and textures of phenomena.
In his painting Van Soghomonyan achieves a speed of affection, a phenomenon sometimes lacking in the world of sculpture, but also gives all the opportunities for the artist to mirror today’s life, fraught with drama. The artist restrains the eluding meaning of life, which resembles, to him, an initial world of chaos. New aesthetics emerge in the world of oil painting, saturated with tones and inflections of changed emotional situations. They reflect his unsettled soul, demanding distinct and deep expression of thoughts and feelings. The burden of Van’s compositions is a destructive warfare between equal strengths where there is no winner. In Van Soghomonyan’s simple and plain canvas stories, they are told with excitement and emotion.
There is always space for infinity, sunrise and sunset, abysses and outbursts, swirling and shaggy shadows…