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French fine artist, born in 1962 in Marseille to parents of Armenian origin. He is the third generation after the genocide. A former dancer at the National Ballet of Marseille directed by Roland Petit and the Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam, he now teaches classical dance in the conservatories of Paris. He began his work as a fine artist in 2008. His early works were X-ray collages - a clinical material that objectively shows the interior of a body and with which he explores his origins, cultural and social influences, and education. He exhibited them in 2008 and 2009 at the VIP Marseille Gallery. In 2013 he switched to paper and canvas. This work is mainly figurative, most often portraits of subjects that are lost on a solid background. He projects on them his loneliness and his fantasies. To date, he has made around a thousand drawings and canvases, which he is beginning to share and to exhibit.