ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Day by Day Part II, the first Belgian solo exhibition of Armenian-born artist Armen Eloyan. In Armen Eloyan’s impasto paintings a wonderful pathos, brutality, sensuality and a sense for the grotesque all coexist in some post-disaster condition. Eloyan creates a mood, and this mood, this state of mind echoes throughout the exhibition. Most canvases have enigmatic titles like The Light called „Day“, and the Darkness called „Night“ and Jekaterina Jekaterina, but are populated by a familiar subject matter such as cartoon characters, teapots or tomato-heads. These characters are drawn in broad painterly strokes, but come across as extremely powerful. “It is based on a cartoon, but it is not a real cartoon, it’s an abstract vision of it. It’s faking up a painting. If I paint for example Coming-Painting, it’s a De Kooning, but done much faster and looser. Wi