Mathias Ary Jan, SNA president
“I want to put the collector at the very heart of the Biennale,” says Mathias Ary Jan. He took over last November as president of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA), the dealers’ association that organises France’s premier art and antiques fair, La Biennale, Paris.
Ary Jan, a dealer specialising in Orientalist painting who was formerly the SNA’s treasurer, is at 45 years old its youngest-ever president.