Author: Mkrtich Tonoyan , Yerevan, Armenia

Working title: “Some Perfect Sings of Heterotopias”

Concept: Hetero-Utopias as an art object

‘If I weren’t Alexander the Great, I would have been
Diogenes’

The initial heterotopias are expressions of the loneliness of a human being. God created a man lonely, a as a single spiritual space. The man was in fact the very first heterotopias.  The rest of heterotopias were already created by men. Men gave these heterotopias names and symbols.

These geometric forms were not chosen by accident. They are at the core of many “gerb” symbols, and contractions. I’m focusing on inner, spiritual heterotopias rather than sub-social ones. The question of the meaning of masculinity is a question that men ask themselves over the course of their life. He finds pride in being masculine and tries to stand up to his self-expectations and inner ideals about masculinity and manhood and search for fame and physical strength. He creates limits which he sets for himself, and which can even affect his physique and appearance. The woman also becomes a “slave” of her beauty and femininity. What does woman’s loneliness mean? Every woman deals with it differently.

Love creates its own ideal romantic limits and boundaries. Family – creates their own. Responsibility and questions of life– their own. Therefore, conscientious life of a person become a cycle of liberations and enslavements, where s/he exits one set of boundaries only to be locked inside a different set or boundaries. These are red lines that he creates by himself and which he has no control over.

Thus, Diogenes fond his freedom in a barrel where he lived for years, while Alexander the Great had become a “slave” of his ideals having to concur the whole world.

Description:
The work consists of five elements. Each panel – are of perfect geometric forms, which over the course of human history were used as symbols of various ideologies. Inside, one can see human figures encapsulated inside red frames. These forms are installed as a cycle of life of a single person. 1. Inception 2. youth 3. love 4. old age 5. death.

Media: wood, canvas, acryl, plastic.