Complementing Michael Janssen’s gallery in Berlin, which has participated in major art fairs such as Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Hong Kong and The Armory Show, the Singapore space will showcase emerging, mid-career as well as established artists from North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. The gallery will present ambitious solo presentations as well as group exhibitions and will host public programs such as performances, talks and film screenings. Artists to be featured in the program include Yoshitaka Amano, Peter Zimmermann, Meg Cranston and Christoph Steinmeyer, among others.
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ANNA NAVASARDIAN
John, 2009
ANNA NAVASARDIN
The Boys, 2010
ANNA NAVASARDIN
Child II, 2011
ANNA NAVASARDIN
Child IV, 2012
Michael Janssen Singapore is pleased to announce its first exhibition in Asia featuring young painter Anna Navasardian.
Anna Navasardian was born in Armenia and moved to the United States with her family at an early age. A graduate from the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, Navasardian paints people on large canvases.
Digging into the nature of her sitters, she does not only describe the physical attributes of people but also seems to illuminate a moment of their nature.
There is always strife - a dramatic inner state - in the faces of her characters. She likes her subjects to sit for lengthy sessions in order to create a neutral zone in which their personas dissolve. The resulting figures offer a sense of permanency, and a simplification of detail seems to reveal the subject’s purest form.
Her life-size paintings feature intimate portrayals of adult and school-aged subjects whose individual personas are sublimated by their universality. Her paintings investigate the many layers of reality and deal with themes such as identity, puberty, growing up and memory. By using the raw, inherent qualities of paint, her oeuvre illuminates the invisible things that surround us and make the boundaries that separate personal and constructed identities unrecognizable.
Some of the works on view in the exhibition are from her ‘Kids’ series. For this series Navasardian used old class pictures to expose the rigid and unnatural scenarios forced upon the youth. It addresses questions of memory and the recollection of how people remember themselves as children.
Navasardian acknowledges German Expressionists, and Armenian artists like Arshile Gorky and Minas Avestisyan as influences - evident in the choice of her color palette and expressive brushwork.
Anna Navasardian, b. 1988 in Yerevan, Armenia. Lives and works in New York City.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2013: Michael Janssen Singapore. 2012:
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany. 2011: Gasser Grunert, New York NY.
Opening Night:
16 March 2013
4.00 - 7.00 p.m.
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