Thavibu Contemporary Art from Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma
Edvard Sasun
Edvard Sasun is an Armenian painter who currently resides in Thailand. He was born in 1955 in Armenia and was first educated as a mathematician at the Yerevan State University of Armenia. However, following his strong conviction of being an artist, he was later accepted at the Academy in St. Petersburg (Leningrad at that time). It was very hard to pursue a second line of education in the Soviet Union, though Sasun worked hard and his talent was recognized. He successfully graduated from the prestigious Academy in 1987 after eight years of professional art training, most of the time under professor Boris Ugarov. Edvard Sasun draws inspiration from people's personalities, landscapes and objects around us. He masters the classical style as few others, and his portraits may be seen as the pinnacle of his art. In his 'still life' paintings every object has a role to play, composition is carefully thought out, and the pictures come to life. Sasun has exhibited several time in the USSR, taken part in the Europ'ART 2000 in Geneva and also held a solo show at the National Gallery in Thailand (1999).
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