FRANCE • PORTUGAL • SYRIA • BRAZIL • EGYPT • ITALY • ENGLAND • CHINA
BEIRUT
2019
UNTITLED
Exhibition Oeuvres Tranchantes
Galerie Europia ,
Paris 2012
Annie Kurkdjian's paintings are sober and at the same time powerful, they portray beings in tortured postures, monstrous, grotesque.
Sometimes they fixate on the beholder, with a numb eye and vaulted shoulders, as if harassed or lost. Their bodies seem dissected, analyzed, they form shivery and poignant images.
These big canvases breathing tragedy interrogate us about life itself. According to Annie Kurkdjian the answers lurk in the sincerity of the artistic approach: “Art is capable of sublimating everything, war, crime, shame, sickness and total hell”.
ARTIST:
ANNIE KURKDJIAN
Annie Kurkdjian graduated from the Lebanese University with a bachelor in Fine Arts in 2002. But it was only in 2005 that Kurkdjian seriously started pursuing a career as a full-time artist, after years of trying to find her niche in various other fields, ranging from art management to psychology and ultimately theology.
Marked by a childhood ravaged by war and personal traumas, Kurkdjian creates works that portray monstrous and grotesque beings in tortured positions. And yet, her canvases breathe serenity as they treat disturbing and complex feelings with calm and humour.