Archie Zan

“I was born in Yugoslavia to a failed artist father who persuaded me to become an architect. In 2015 and after years of designing buildings in London, I eventually left for Paris to become a self-taught artist. Influenced by Bacon and Mušič and with something to prove, I immersed myself into explorative art. Nothing was out of bounds and no mistakes were too big. The isolation from the pandemic allowed me to focus and narrow down a path upon which I could explore deconstruction and displacement using the Gestalt Theory of perception. Classical compositions manipulated sculpturally and gesturally into Contemporary expressive portraits.”