« On this wall, I wanted faces that tell stories. All different faces, like their stories. » Spray paint in hand, Aram Minassian draws the features of the ultimate trombine. A hat and hair sticking out. “ Then I will add the emotions… »
The rear section of the La Vallée-Verte neighborhood house is the 27-year-old artist’s latest playground. A few strides from that of his adolescence. “ I grew up in La Vigne-aux-Roses. I spent some time at the community center with friends… »
The colors added to the white wall also remind him of those he left “ in the country ». « My dad fled Armenia with my sister and my grandparents. With my mother, we were only able to join them two years later, in La Roche-sur-Yon. »
It is here that Aram Minassian honed his art. Honed his passion. “ As a child, I had very bad grades… except in visual arts. » In Vendée, he obtained his professional baccalaureate in visual communication. Adds a commercial course and the first jobs. “ I always created on the side, but it faded… »
“Today, I make a living from my art”
The Covid confines him to his bedroom-workshop. “ Everything came back. I found some materials from high school and started drawing and painting again. I felt like I was reborn. » His paintings find buyers. The galleries make his phone ring. “ Today, I make a living from my art and I feel so free… »
Happy, in front of this giant “canvas” of La Vallée-Verte. “ I exhibited in October at the neighborhood center, there, I display myself outside, he smiled. This wall, I imagined it so much, reinvented for 10 years. I wanted to put my neighborhood, its inhabitants, its diversity, its differences, its cultures… and joy! »
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