Andranik Ghazarian is the founder and chief executive of Fine Art International Switzerland AG, an international fine-art laboratory that works with collectors, institutions and art professionals.
The description covers a great deal of unglamorous work. A picture arrives; a file arrives with it, usually thinner than anyone would like; and the task is to establish what can be said about the object with evidence behind it.
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.
The work behind the title
That work has four recurring parts: scientific examination, art-historical research, assessment of condition, and documentation. Around them sits the practical side — coordinating restoration, storage and transport — which decides whether a work survives its own circulation.
The public side of the practice is the part visible in this archive: the meetings with historians, curators, collectors, lawyers and academics who bring their own reading of the same objects.
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).
