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Item: Untitled

2005

Painting, 220 x 150 cm.
Materials: oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection.

“I paint aggression and pain because I’m fascinated by the way that people can simply prove their existence through cruelty. The image of nature, as well, plays an important part in my work. The earth and the forests are silent and eternal. People can destroy them with their brutalities, and build them up again. Then it will be silent once more.” - Armen Eloyan

This powerful painting from Eloyan shows the more than life-sized portrait of a girl in a suggestively apocalyptic setting.

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Narcisse Tordoir – The Pi...
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Werk van jonge kunstenaar...
“It has so often been said that painting is on its last legs, but this is utter nonsense.”– Narcisse Tordoir Narcisse Tordoir has worked wit

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Armen Eloyan
The Armenian artist Armen Eloyan (b. 1966) is a painter who's canvases make an energetic and tormented impression, with their thickly layered

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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