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FIRE and BLUE
The secret of her success? Other than her passion for painting, her talents as a colorist are certainly a possible answer and this, in spite of a palette that entails two essential colors: orange and blue, where one to the exclusion of the other covers the whole canvas. The paintings in orange tones seem like great fields of color burnt by the sun. The vast spaces, almost monochromatic, are however animated by a rich irregular texture, sprinkled by small grains of sand as though blown by the desert wind. It is the space, the infinite, the inhabited silence which predominate her works, and then the discovery at the very centre, or in a corner, of small zones sprinkled with signs scratched in the wet paint, or of a colored square bluntly cut, or of a sign inscribed as a sort of characteristic description. These are signs inviting the eye to decipher and discover the path, in order to penetrate at the heart of the painting and capture its essence. In other paintings, certain spaces consist of a light incisive, mysterious handwriting whose profound meaning the artist alone can know.
The blue paintings have the same technique and savoir-faire, depicting geometric forms in full or in void, of colored squares inscribed or overlapping rectangles or other squares, at the center or on the edge of the canvas, painted with a free hand and audacity, in the image of the artist who likes to communicate, without any detours, her passion for color and texture. The surface of the canvas is dense, structured, luminous and worked in various tints. The blue fields of color, evoking beaches where water and sky merge and unite, blend the aquatic and the spiritual. The red/orange canvases, on the contrary, are full of life, fire and light. The work of Peggy Hinaekian is a source of life and creation, generous and enriching to discover.
Danielle Junod-Sugnaux, PhD
Art Historian
CURRICULUM VITAE
HINAEKIAN Tel: 954 568 4397
4280 Galt Ocean Dr. email: hinaekian@hotmail.com
Fort Lauderdale , FL , 33308 , USA www.peggyhinaekian.artspan.com
Hinaekian studied art in Montreal and New York and has exhibited extensively in Europe and the USA .
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Principal One-Man Shows
1960 Galerie Libre, Montreal
1970 Galerie de l’Université, Paris
1972 Galerie Grand’Rue, Geneva , Switzerland
1974 Portfolio Gallery, London
1976 Sloane Street Gallery, London
1977 Galerie Artarena, Zurich , Switzerland
1977 Nigel Cameron Gallery , Hong Kong
1978 Galerie Florimont, Lausanne , Switzerland
1979 Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel , Switzerland
1979 Gallery Bellair, Toronto , Canada
1979 Galerie Cassandra, Drobak , Norway
1980 Galerie Christian Quart, Kristiansand , Norway
1980 Gallery Yaneff, Toronto , Canada
1983 Galerie Bohren, Geneva , Switzerland
1985 Bank Credit Suisse, Geneva , Switzerland
1986 Galerie Kristen Richards, New York
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
1989 Galerie Catherine Van Notten, Geneva , Switzerland
1990 Gallery Petra Zschokke, Basel , Switzerland
1991 Galerie Couleurs du Temps, Geneva , Switzerland
1991 Galerie A, St. Gall , Switzerland
1991 Bilderhus Gallery, Zurich , Switzerland
1992 Anker Bank, Zurich , Switzerland
1992 Galerie La Coupole, Frankfurt , Germany
1993 Walter Rentsch, Geneva , Switzerland
1993 Gallery of Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne , Switzerland
1994 Head Office of Philip Morris, Lausanne , Switzerland
1994 Society of Swiss Banks, Lausanne , Switzerland
1995 Galerie Les Vergers “Prestige”, Sion, Switzerland
1997 Lighthouse Point Gallery, Fort Lauderdale , Florida
1997 Galerie Vita, Bern , Switzerland
1998 Fore Street Gallery, Portland , Maine
2000-08 Gallery Dar Al Funoon, Kuwait
2000 Galerie 63, Klosters , Switzerland
2000 Galerie Marianne Brand, Geneva , Switzerland
2000 Galerie Nota Béné, Geneva , Switzerland
2001 Galerie Collis, Lausanne , Switzerland
2002 Galeria de la Calle Cristo, San Juan , Puerto Rico
2003 Galerie Maya Guidi, Geneva , Switzerland
2003, Galerie de Grancy, Lausanne, Switzerland (also in 2005, 2007)
2003 Ferme de la Chapelle, Geneva , Switzerland
2004 Galerie du Solstice, Treycovagne , Switzerland
2005 Galerie Pro Arte Kasper, Morges , Switzerland
2005 Galerie de Grancy, Lausanne , Switzerland
2006 Galerie Etra, Miami , Florida
2006 Junod Art Gallery , Nyon , Switzerland
2006 Gallery 22A, Innsbruck, Austria
2007 Gallery Adler, Gstaad, Switzerland
Gallery Bleu de Chine, Fleurier, Switzerland
Gallery Ame Couleurs, Fleurier, Switzerland (etchings)
Principal Group Shows
1971 Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1972-83 International Art Biennale, Bradford , England
1972 Rath Museum , Geneva Switzerland
1974 International Art Biennale, Florence , Italy
1974-76 International Art Biennale, Fredrikstad , Norway
1975 International Fair of Contemporary Art, (FIAC) Paris
1977 Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong
1979-83 International Art Fair, Toronto
1983 International Art Exhibition, Kanawaga, Japan
1979-85 International Art Fair, Basel , Switzerland
1983-90 Art Expo, New York
1988-95 International Book Fair, Geneva , Switzerland
1989 United Nations, in honor of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1990-92 World Print Fair, Tokyo , Japan
1995 Centre d’Art en l’Ile, Geneva, Switzerland
1996 Exhibition of Swiss artists, Yverdon les Bains , Switzerland
2000 Art Exhibition, USA/France, Bordeaux , France
2000 Erotic Art, La Petite Galerie, Concise, Switzerland
2002 Christmas Exhibition, Gallery 29, Evian , France
2003 World Triennial of Small Size Etchings, Chamalieres , France
2003-08 Europ’Art, Geneva , Switzerland
2004 Inaugural Exhibition, Broadway Gallery, Fort Lauderdale , Florida
2004-06 International Biennale of Prints, Grenchen , Switzerland
2007 International Art Fairs, Innsbruck and Vienna, Austria
Etra Fine Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Hinaekian’s paintings and etchings can be found in private and public collections such as: National Library, Paris; Print Museum, Geneva, Switzerland; Center of Contemporary Prints, Geneva, Switzerland; California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco; United Bank of Switzerland, Credit Suisse, Geneva and Zurich; Trade Development Bank, Geneva; Company of Investment Bankers, Geneva; Popular Bank of Switzerland; Society of Swiss Banks, Switzerland; Anker Bank, Zurich; Hofmann Bank, Zurich, Switzerland; Association of Private Bankers, Barclays Bank, Nestle S.A., Switzerland; Zyma Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland; Cogecot S.A Switzerland; Dupont de Nemours, Geneva; Firmenich S.A., Geneva; La Tour Hospital (Columbia Group), Geneva; Medical Clinic of Cornavin, Geneva; Medical Clinic of Meyrin, Geneva; City of Geneva Collection; Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway; Her Royal Highness Farah Diba.
Radio Interviews: Voice of America ; Radio 74, Radio Lac , Switzerland
She has illustrated covers of two books:
This Watery World: Humans and the Sea. Eds. Nandita Batra and Vartan P. Messier. Newcastle, U.K: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Besinnu ng und Einsicht (in German). Ed. Strom-Verlag, Zurich. 1981. She has also illustrated the aphorism in this book with her etchings.
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Peggy Hinaekian
Abstract paintings in oil on canvas . Mixed technique on canvas. Mixed technique on paper
1209 Geneva Switzerland
take part in biennales and triennales and contemporary art shows all over the world.
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