Andranik Ghazarian met the art expert Dimitri Nakov for a working conversation of the kind that rarely leaves the room: two specialists comparing how they read a work, and where their methods agree.
Expertise in art is not a single discipline. It is a negotiation between the eye, the archive and the laboratory, and the most reliable conclusions are usually those that survive contact with a second specialist who has no reason to agree.
Art connects cultures, and the exchanges that shape it usually happen in rooms like this one: a conversation, a picture on the table, two people looking at the same object from two directions. This page belongs to a series recording the meetings of Andranik Ghazarian with figures from the international art world.
Expert to expert
This is why Fine Art International Switzerland works as a network rather than a closed office. Scientific examination establishes what a work is made of and how it has been treated; art-historical research places it in a body of work; a second expert eye tests whether the two accounts hold together.
Andranik Ghazarian has built his practice on that discipline. A conclusion that cannot be explained to another specialist, step by step, is not yet a conclusion.
Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS) works with collectors, institutions and art professionals. Its work combines scientific examination, art-historical research, condition assessment and documentation, together with the coordination of restoration, storage and transport. Andranik Ghazarian is its founder and chief executive.
Andranik Ghazarian is the founder and CEO of Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS).
