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Halftone series No:5 by A G EhsanA G EHSAN

PAINTER · ANKARA

HALFTONE SERIES NO:5 · OIL ON CANVAS

A G EHSAN · VISUAL ARTIST

PORTRAIT AS
TRANSLATION.
IMAGE AS
QUESTION.

A G Ehsan is the artistic identity of Ehsan Ghanbarzad Khajeh. His paintings examine what happens when the intimacy of a gaze meets the mechanical order of the printed image.

Built through dots, repetitions and interruptions, his women appear close and unreachable at once—direct, strong and outside time.

ARCHIVE

Selected Works

14 WORKS
PAINTING / WORKS ON PAPER

"BLUEPRINT" Series, Sana no:2 by A G Ehsan
“BLUEPRINT” SERIES, SANA NO:2 · WATERCOLOR ON PAPER

A. G. EHSAN · احسان قنبرزاده

THE HUMAN IMAGE,
RECONSTRUCTED.

The work is informed by Iranian modernist poet Forough Farrokhzad, the mathematical discipline of architecture and Derrida’s ideas of deconstruction. Ehsan begins with his own model photographs and images drawn from fashion culture, translating them into paintings that ask how beauty is manufactured, circulated and seen.

Before developing his painting practice, Ehsan trained as an architect and worked as a caricaturist from 1996 to 2006. That dual background remains visible in the precision of his structures and the economy with which an image is made to carry an idea.

“Painting is a translation of an idea or experience. The viewer translates it again through life, visual memory and social culture.”

EDUCATION

Background

2015Doctor of Fine Arts in Painting (DFA)Hacettepe University, Ankara
2014MFAHacettepe University, Ankara
2009Bachelor of ArchitectureTabriz Azad University

2010—2019

Selected Exhibitions

2019Anna Laudel GalleryIstanbul
2018Anna Laudel GalleryIstanbul
2017Anna Laudel GalleryIstanbul
2016Solo exhibition · Foy Art GalleryAnkara
2015Summart GalleryIstanbul
2014German EmbassyAnkara
2013Solo exhibition · Peker Art HouseAnkara
2013Lale Gallery / Sarv GalleryTehran / Tabriz
2012Artist Gallery / Hacettepe University / Sarv GalleryAnkara / Tabriz
2011One-day installation · Tabriz Art HouseTabriz
2010Lale GalleryTehran

INSTAGRAM · @GHANBARZADEHEHSAN

Studio
Journal

Studies, paintings, works on handmade paper and workshop activity—shared directly by the artist.

A public space for the questions and concerns behind the work.

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WORKS & ENQUIRIES

AVAILABLE
WORKS

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