Metamorphosis of the City

Metamorphosis of the City

  • 100 x 75 cm
  • euros

15,000

euros

Metamorphosis of the City examines the city as a constantly changing organism — a structure that is never complete, but continuously rebuilt through expansion, erasure, memory, and time. The composition is divided into three distinct spatial fields. At its center, a dense urban layer stretches horizontally across the canvas, formed by fragmented architectural elements and an intricate network of intersecting lines. Above it, the city opens into an expansive, almost weightless pale-blue atmosphere, while below, a dark geometric field introduces a striking sense of depth and interruption. Fine vertical and diagonal lines move freely between these zones, dissolving the conventional boundary between architecture, horizon, and open space. At the lower center, a concentrated cluster of white and dark lines appears almost like an emerging nucleus — a point of transformation from which a new structure might form. The apparent calm of the distant city contrasts with the instability of its underlying systems. What initially seems ordered gradually reveals itself as a complex network of tensions, connections, and continuous change. In Metamorphosis of the City, Vahagn Bagoyan presents urban transformation not as a single event, but as an ongoing condition. The city exists between construction and dissolution, stability and uncertainty — perpetually becoming something other than what it was.

2025
Acrylic painting
  • euros

15,000

euros

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