OHOO GMT – (Assadour Bezdjian) ◄ voorgaand Volgende ►

Artist: Assadour Bezdjian

Tatum: 1999

Trootte: 74 x 54 cm

Tuseum: Contemporary Art Platform (Kuwait City, Kuwait)

Techniek: Etching

“As­sadour is born in Beirut in 1943, in a Lebanese-Armenian family. He went abroad at the age of 18 to study engraving and painting, first in Italy and later in Paris. Assadour is rec­og­nized as a great master in the field of engraving, and he devel­oped a renowned oeuvre of gouaches on paper and oils on canvas. His paint­ings are rare and often sought after as he did not exe­cute many. A recur­rent theme in Assadour’s paint­ings, the fig­ures are inserted in a land or cityscape which is only sug­gested by the geo­metric lines and shapes of the com­po­si­tion. This con­struc­tivist approach refers to Assadour’s attempt to put some order to the world’s chaos, like the one he expe­ri­enced back in Beirut and just like the dis­order he still sees today, and the first of all dis­or­ders, the Armenian geno­cide. In the artist’s latest works, mon­u­mental fig­ures seem more and more to replace archi­tec­tural struc­ture and to be the core of the com­po­si­tion’s space.” (Claude Lemand)