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Through the Cosmic Veil
Stone that Holds the Cosmos
- 61 x 51 cm
€9,000
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Stone that Holds the Cosmos explores Karahunj as a meeting point between earth, memory, and the infinite space beyond the visible landscape. A monumental stone dominates the composition, its characteristic circular opening framing a fragment of the distant horizon. Behind it stretches the open Armenian landscape of Karahunj, while the stone itself seems to contain another realm. Across its weathered surface, earthly texture gradually gives way to a deep, star-filled space — as though the cosmos were not above the ancient monument, but held within its material. This inversion lies at the heart of the work. Stone, traditionally associated with weight, permanence, and the earth, becomes a vessel for something immeasurable and infinite. Nebulous forms, points of light, and celestial depths emerge from its surface, transforming the ancient object into a threshold between the tangible and the unknowable. The circular opening intensifies this relationship. It is simultaneously a physical feature of the Karahunj stone and a visual passage through it, connecting the intimate scale of human perception with landscape, sky, and cosmic distance. Rather than offering a literal interpretation of Karahunj or making a historical claim about its function, Vahagn Bagoyan uses the site as a poetic space in which different dimensions of time can coexist: geological time, human memory, and cosmic time. In Stone that Holds the Cosmos, the ancient stone becomes more than an archaeological presence. It appears as a keeper of time and space — rooted in the Armenian landscape while carrying, metaphorically, an entire universe within its surface.
2025
Acrylic painting
This painting depicts a megalithic stone with a circular hole at its center, standing in an open, ancient landscape. Likely inspired by the Armenian site of Karahunj (Zorats Karer), the scene evokes a sacred connection between earth and cosmos. The central stone becomes a silent observer — its eye-like hole revealing the sky and distant horizon. Its textured surface, covered in lichen and subtle cosmic dust, blurs the line between matter and mystery. Scattered stones and grasses populate the field, while clouds drift in the background, adding to the timeless atmosphere.
- euros
€9,000
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Through Ancient Eyes
- euros
€7,200
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Through Ancient Eyes transforms the characteristic openings in the ancient stones of Karahunj into three distinct points of perception—three frames through which earth, sky, and time appear to meet. Presented as a triptych, the work isolates the circular openings from the wider landscape. Each stone carries its own texture, irregularity, and sense of age, while within each dark aperture appears the luminous blue of the sky. Similar yet never identical, the three openings create a quiet visual rhythm across the composition. The contrast is fundamental: the weathered density of ancient stone surrounds fragments of light and open space. What is physically small becomes visually infinite. The openings cease to function merely as features of the stones and begin to resemble eyes — silent witnesses directed toward a world that has changed around them for centuries. The triptych format reinforces this idea of multiple perspectives. Moving from one opening to the next, the viewer encounters not a single view but a sequence of gazes, as though the landscape and sky were being observed through three fragments of deep time. Rather than explaining the original purpose of the Karahunj openings, Vahagn Bagoyan turns them into a poetic metaphor for perception and continuity. In Through Ancient Eyes, we do not simply look at the ancient stones — we are invited to look through them. The openings become ancient eyes, connecting the present moment with a landscape, a sky, and a sense of time extending far beyond human memory.
2025
Acrylic painting
- euros
€7,200
euros
Through the Cosmic Veil
- € 9,500euros
€9,500
euros
Through the Cosmic Veil explores the boundary between the earthly and the cosmic through Karahunj's ancient presence. The monumental stone fills the composition, its weathered surface carrying the physical weight of time. Beside it, however, the familiar landscape gives way to a deep celestial field — a space of darkness, distant light, and cosmic depth. The ancient stone appears to stand at the threshold of two realities. At the center of this relationship is the characteristic circular opening. Instead of revealing the surrounding cosmic space, it frames a fragment of clear blue sky. This unexpected reversal transforms the opening into a visual paradox: the infinite universe lies outside the stone, while through its ancient aperture we encounter something immediate, luminous, and earthly. The contrast between the dark cosmic field and the intensely blue opening creates a passage between different scales of perception. The stone becomes both barrier and threshold, separating worlds while allowing them to coexist within a single image. Karahunj is approached here not as an illustration of an archaeological monument, but as a poetic symbol of humanity’s enduring relationship with space, time, landscape, and the unknown. In Through the Cosmic Veil, Vahagn Bagoyan reverses the expected direction of our gaze. We stand before the cosmos, yet through the ancient stone we look back toward Earth's blue sky —as though the familiar world itself had become the distant revelation.
2025
Mixed Media
Ancient stones, cosmic symbolism, portals, time, human connection to the universe, Karahunj (Armenian Stonehenge).
- € 9,500euros
€9,500
euros