Sassoon Kosian’s artistic research

Sassoon Kosian’s artistic research unfolds as an introspective journey shaped through a geometric language that is both rigorously constructed and intensely vibrant. His works—from the monumental sculptural structures such as Alien Flower #1 and Alien Flower #2 to the more recent wooden reliefs like As Above So Below and Light of the Mind—emerge from a creative process that balances intuition, method, and a profound symbolic resonance.

Kosian creates forms that appear to rise from an alternate universe, where geometry is freed from rational function and transformed into organism, architecture, flower, constellation. Color becomes an active force: vivid, contrasting, or metallic surfaces generate optical motion, pushing each work beyond the static nature of the object.

His Artist Statement reveals an almost ritual dimension in his painting process: images originate from intuition, evolve through digitally refined blueprints, and materialize only when they are “ripe.” Sculpture, by contrast, follows a direct, immediate, and risk-laden path. Works such as Artsakh or Good News show a spatial construction that is spontaneous yet architecturally sensitive, liberated from strict design constraints.

Within this duality—discipline and risk, structure and impulse—lies the poetic core of his practice. Kosian’s faceted forms, often balanced in ways that defy expectation, capture the moment when a thought solidifies into luminous presence. Surfaces activated by paint, metal or natural wood evoke symbolic layers connected to memory, mythology, cultural identity, and existential fragility.

Kosian does not pursue mimesis but essence: the underlying energy that animates all things. His works—autonomous, rigorous, and visionary—stand as visual meditations on the relationship between order and chaos, geometry and life, matter and light.