Saré, painter of pure tenderness
Artistes Actuels met Saré in 2022 at ART CAPITAL’s Comparaison fair: just how useful fairs can be! Since moving to the countryside, Saré has loved these opportunities to meet up with artists, particularly those in Joël Crespin’s “Expression hors normes” group and the Figuration Critique team.
Her artist’s name “Saré” is a combination of the beginning of her surname Sarkisian and the first letter of her first name Evgénia
A connection with classical painting
Born in Armenia, Saré graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan. For six years, her masters from the artistic elite of Saint Petersburg taught her the rigors of technique and the tools of creation, not forgetting the history of art.
Those who emerge unscathed from these academic rigors are brilliant. “Once integrated and mastered, the technique and tools become your allies: you can speak several languages!” says the artist with relaxed optimism.
After graduating, Saré worked in theater and film as a set and costume designer.
In 1991, invited to exhibit in Paris, Evgenia Saré settled there and continued her personal creation of drawings, engravings, paintings and sculptures.
Tender mankind in costume
Saré paints a tender, costumed mankind out of time, its chaos and contingencies. Her sweet, tender, playful figures are absorbed by play, music and dance.
Her precise, delicate touch creates a multitude of refined details on her canvases, where her creatures evolve with delicacy and distinction, while casting a kindly eye on nature and the objects that surround them.
Their extraordinary elegance gives an impression of being totally out of time. Each of their movements is precisely orchestrated, yet unexpected.
Whatever the format of her canvases, Saré offers us poetic and slightly burlesque scenes where an appearance of Jacques Tati’s charming awkwardness as Monsieur Hulot would come as no surprise.
Fun to play with…
For these reasons, Artistes Actuels chose to honor her at the Figuration Critique show in October 2024.
She exhibits regularly in France and abroad, especially in Austria, Turkey, the United States, Canada and Bulgaria. Her works are also available on her website https://www.saregalerie.com
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