Hanjo Schmidt

Hanjo Schmidt
Hanjo Schmidts paintings are the departure from the smooth evenness of the beautiful facade to the core of the human being in its essence. His paintings represent the human being per se: an ambivalent existence, beautiful and at the same time ugly, vulnerable and brusque, searching and denying, showing and hiding. Our look at the paintings is like a look in the mirror reflecting upon ourselves.

Artist:
HANJO SCHMIDT

Born 1944 in Oberstdorf/Allgäu Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 *Hanjo Schmidt, Malerei, Städtische Galerie Fellbach 2015 Goldrotschwarz German Arthouse, Vielschichtig, Potsdam 2014 Park Art Fair International, Triberg 2013 VBKW Waiblingen, Was bleibt Württembergischer Kunstverein, Gesichter *Kunstverein Musberg, Messer statt Pinsel, Lignopraphie VBKW, Open Studio 2012 VBKW Jahresausstellung Waiblingen, Portrait Park Art Fair International, Genf 2011 Park Art Fair International, Genf, Erster Preis 2010 Landratsamt Waiblingen, Gesichter 2009 Park Art Fair International, Genf Galerie Bräuning, Esslingen, Körper Zomertentoonstelling, Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam A Book about Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York 2008 *Kunstforum Weil der Stadt, Wendelinskapelle, Gesichter 2007 *Open Studio, The Trapani Project *Kunstverein Musberg, Malerei Artprocess Trapani 2007, The Trapani Project 2005 *Open Studio Kunstverein Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart, Jahresausstellung 2004 *Galerie Dr. Ulrike Montigel, Stuttgart 2003 *Open Studio *Galerie Gatzanis, Stuttgart, 2002 *Papp Gallery, Soho, NYC 2001 *b+b Galerie, Stuttgart *Crane Street Studio House, Open Studio, NYC

Bibliography

Georg Leisten, “Nackedeis mit Fettröllchen”, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 30. Januar 2004 Petra Mostbacher, Interview, Lift Stadtmagazin, 2005 Petra Mostbacher, „Unendliche Nuancen“, Der Maler Hanjo Schmidt, Sonnendeck, 2006 Adrienne Braun in: Katalog Hanjo Schmidt Gesichter, Kunstforum Weil der Stadt 2008 Reiner Enke, “Dem Menschen ins nackte Antlitz schauen”, Leonberger Kreiszeitung, 2008 Christa Hagmeyer; “Der menschliche Ausdruck schlechthin”, Kreiszeitung Böblingen, 2008 Jochen Buchholz, “Gesichter sind wie eine Bühne”, Böblinger Zeitung, 2008 Georg Leisten, “Monster-Ich”, Folder zu Threefold Black, 2009 Grady Harp, „Painting larger than Life yet About it“, Poets&Artists Magazine, Los Angeles

Awards and Honours

Appointed New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting for 2006 First Prize, Park Art Fair International, Genf 2011
Tomoko Momoki

Tomoko Momoki

Artist:
Tomoko Momoki

Biography

Tomoko Momoki, was born in Japan in 1972. In 1993 she completed the general study course of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tokyo, and continued her training at the same Academy, specializing in 1994 in painting techniques. In the same year, and for the following three years, she participated in the Shiun-You-Kai salon in Tokyo and presented her works four times in art galleries in both collective and personal staging. In 1994 she passed the selection that enabled her to stay in the ateliers of the Academy where she continued her specific research on oil painting until 1997. In 1997 she undertook a study trip to Europe with the Academy which will have a decisive influence on her subsequent transfer to Italy. In 1998 he moved to Rome with the aim of studying and absorbing the codes and archetypes of Western and in particular Italian art. For two years she continued to paint by inserting new elements into her painting and in 2000 he exhibited his works in Tokyo. Since 2001 she has added wall painting to easel painting and collaborates on decorative interventions in buildings of historical / artistic importance that keep her busy for the next ten years. The time spent next to original works of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is well spent, these works further enrich not only her technical background, but lead her to reflect on the path made by man in art, and on the profound role that it covers, when it is able to really convey an emotion. In 2013 she returned to deal exclusively with easel painting.

2014 ~ 2015 Collective exhibition “Artisti ai banchi” Rome 2016 ~ 2017 Collective exhibition "Rilievi Contemporaly Art" Rome. 2017 Collective exhibition "Galleria Opera Unica" Rome 2017 ~ 2018 Collective exhibition “Unicorn Gallery Rome” Rome 2018.11 Bipersonal exhibition DIVERGING INCIDENTS “Galleria Francesco Zanuso” Milan 2019.6 Collective exhibition “Secret Art Show” Milan 2019 Collective exhibition "KoArt Gallery" Noto (Catania) 2019.9 He started his collaboration with ArteAtelier in Milan. 2019.10 Art Fair of Parma 2019.11 Bipersonale ESTRI PAINTERS FROM THE EAST "Galleria Spazi Arte" Piacenza 2019.11 Arte Fiera of Padua 2019.12 Collective exhibition “Secret Art Show” London 2021.10 Personare exhibition "Studio rosi" San cesareo (Rome) 2021.12 Two-person “Galleria del Corso” Rome

Sasha Hartslief

Sasha Hartslief
Hartslief's experimentation with chiaroscuro techniques derives inspiration from the works by 17th century Baroque masters such as Rembrandt who, through the buildup of impasto paint, evoked light and shadow in his portraits as a psychological device, similar to the way in which stage-lighting functions in the theatre. Often seeming to be lit from below, the expressive shading in Hartslief's portraits tends to converge around the facial hollows, giving the paintings a spatial as well as emotional depth. The eyes of the women in her portraits, in particular, seem inwardly focused.

Artist:
Sasha Hartslief

Sasha Hartslief was born in 1974 in Gauteng. At the age of seventeen, she came to Cape Town to study English and Philosophy at UCT. Passionate about drawing from an early age, she is largely self-taught, closely observing other artists and avidly reading up on technique. Hartslief had always been passionate about drawing, but the desire to become an artist only crystallized into a decision in 1995, when she enrolled at Cape College under the tutelage of Elizabeth Gunter. Her subjects are often viewed from a philosophical, deeply personal perspective, resulting in striking works that are emotionally charged, pensive in mood and considered in composition. Her subtle investigations into the human condition via the underbelly of Cape Town life somehow strike a chord with us. "I defer to the classical Masters for inspiration," says Sasha Hartslief, who admits to placing images painted by the 19th century American Impressionist, John Singer Sargent, next to her easel while she paints. Her muses include the 19th century neo-classicist, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, whose draughtsmanship and linear dexterity provide formal inspiration for her works. But Hartslief's brushstrokes are more diffuse than the precise, stylized techniques of the neo-classicists. Like the 19th century French Impressionists, she uses brushstrokes to evoke the transience of light, colour and movement. And like her Renaissance and Impressionist forebears, she employs everyday visual devices to explore the way in which atmospheric light and tonal modulations inform a surface, and to evoke atmospheres fraught with symbolic subtexts. But the transience of the captured moment is counterbalanced by the disciplined rigour of Hartslief's technique and painterly process. She admits to being "obsessively skills-driven and consumed" by her work. Each image becomes a formal study in light, contour and line. Hartslief's experimentation with chiaroscuro techniques derives inspiration from the works by 17th century Baroque masters such as Rembrandt who, through the buildup of impasto paint, evoked light and shadow in his portraits as a psychological device, similar to the way in which stage-lighting functions in the theatre. Often seeming to be lit from below, the expressive shading in Hartslief's portraits tends to converge around the facial hollows, giving the paintings a spatial as well as emotional depth. The eyes of the women in her portraits, in particular, seem inwardly focused. Since 1999, Hartslief has exhibited regularly at the Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, including several solo exhibitions. She continues to attract a broad collector base from around the world and is clearly one of South Africa’s most exciting young talents.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Interiors, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa Aura, Everard Read, London, UK 2016 Sasha Hartslief: New Works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa 2013 Hartslief New Works, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa 2012 Sasha Hartslief, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa Solo Exhibition, Rosendahl, Thöne & Westphal, Berlin, Germany 2011 Recent Works, Everard Read, Cape Town 2009 Sasha Hartslief : New Works, Everard Read, Cape Town 2007 Solo Exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 People & Portaiture, Everard Read CIRCA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2016 Nocturne, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2015 Summer in the City, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Homage , Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa WINTER, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa EMPIRE, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2014 Summer Season Part I, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Winter, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2013 100, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Exhibition of Frédéric Blaimont

Exhibition of Frédéric Blaimont
With a fabulous technique, a mixture of accomplished dexterity and the clever exploitation of the weft of the canvas, the bristles of the paintbrush or the brush, the ambient light, defying all the laws of composition, he invents balances tightrope walkers, always on the verge of breakage and ideal stability. Through his characters, Fréderic Blaimont translates real life in a tender yet uncompromising manner. What one notices, at first sight, is the banality of his subjects. Something unusual happens, the solitude of his characters is particularly present. His painting is a mixture of benevolence and wickedness. Sometimes unpleasant with his characters he nonetheless paints them with gentleness and attention. Ordinary passers-by, anonymous, transparent like the air we breathe, are pretexts to seize the chatter of these tiny heroes. If we listen, they tell us their past, their hopes, and their fears, one may recognize some of them.

Artist's Statement
The truth is found in observation. I am curious about my contemporaries, people in their everyday life. I like to watch their attitudes without complacency; I like their faults. Their imperfections are sympathetic to me, their authenticity makes them touching, moving, endearing, close to us. I try to reproduce in my paintings these characteristics and the feelings they arouse in me. And it is with great sincerity that I would like, through my painting, to share with you my interest and my look for these transparent anonymous and so common.
Moving, natural, captured by a lucid unforgiving vision, these portraits represent an image of society that the artist brushes with benevolence. –Luis Porquet / Journalist and art critic

Artist:
Frédéric Blaimont

Frédéric Blaimont is a brilliant portrait painter. With a fabulous technique, a mixture of accomplished dexterity and the clever exploitation of the weft of the canvas, the bristles of the paintbrush, ambient light, defying all the laws of composition, he invents balances tightrope walkers, always on the verge of breakage and ideal stability. Living in South West France, Blaimont exhibits mainly in galleries in France and Europe. He was distinguished by the magazine “Miroir de l’Art” as one of the 100 leading artists followed by gallery owners, collectors and art lovers. In 2017, he received the Renée Bernard Award from the Taylor Paris Foundation.

Distinctions & training

• Distinguished by the magazines "Mirror of Art" and "Aesthetica" as part of the 100 contemporary artists of the future. • Laureate "Renée Bernard Award" from the Taylor Foundation (2017) • Nominated in the Luxembourg Art Prize (2015) by Galerie Hervé Lancelin • Grand Prix at the Salon des Artistes Méridionaux (2008) Education • School of Graphic Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) - Basel - Switzerland • National School of Decorative Arts - Paris • Massier at the Met de Penninghen workshop - Paris • CAP as a painter - Meaux

Personal exhibitions

2019 • Airial gallery - Mimizan • The blue donkey gallery - Marciac 2018 • Galerie Art du temps Luxart in collaboration with Delem Private Bank Arlon - Belgium • Galerie De l'Ancien Courrier - Montpellier 2017 • Galerie Courcelles Contemporary Art - Paris • Art Gallery of Time - Cleon of Andran - Drôme 2016 • Gallery Of The Old Courier - Montpellier • Galerie Duchoze - Rouen 2015 • Center of Contemporary Art - Mont-de-Marsan 2014 • Sakah Gallery - Toulouse 2013 • Anagama Gallery - Versailles 2012 • Sparts Gallery - Paris 2010 • Gallery "of all colors" - Saint-Clar • Yves Callet-Molin Gallery - Vevey - Switzerland 2009 • "Nothing" Gallery Aix en Provence • Roger Betti Gallery - Toulouse 2008 • The Blue Donkey Gallery - Marciac

Collective exhibitions

2019 • Galerie L'Angélus New Art - Barbizon • Anagama Gallery - Versailles • Art Gallery of Time - Cleon of Andran - Drôme • Gallery of the Ancient Courier - Montpellier • Biennale of Contemporary Art André Malraux Cultural Center - Le Pecq • Salon Comparison - Grand Palais - Paris • Passage to Art - Cherbourg 2018 • Salon Art Up - Castle Gallery - Lille • Salon Saint Sever de Rustan - Guest of Honor • Salon Comparison - Grand Palais - Paris • The 111 arts - Toulouse 2017 • Salon Comparison - Grand Palais - Paris • The 111 Arts - Toulouse • Art Up Salon - Duchoze Gallery - Rouen • Salon de la Figuration Critique - Paris • Taylor Foundation - Paris Winner "Renée Bernard Prize" 2016 • Salon de la Figuration critique - Paris • International Fair of Contemporary Art in Pouilly smoked • Salon Art Karlsruhe - Roy Sfeir Gallery - Germany • Art Up Salon - Nicole Evin Gallery - Lille 2015 • Macparis Salon - Paris • Hervé Lancelin Gallery nominated in Luxembourg Art Prize 2015 - Luxembourg 2011 • Lacroix Gallery - Quebec - Canada • Pont Neuf Gallery - Paris 2010 • Roger Betti Gallery - Toulouse 2009 • Salon of Southern Artists - Toulouse 2008 • Salon des Artistes Méridionaux - Grand Prix - Toulouse • Galerie L'Etang d'Art - Bages - France 2007 • Espace Saint-Nazaire - Sanary-sur-Mer
Richard Thorn - Richard Thorn SWAc – Artist & Tutor

Richard Thorn - Richard Thorn SWAc – Artist & Tutor
Richard Thorn spent his early years drawing which led naturally into painting in watercolor. After pursuing a career in music (after leaving art college) he returned to painting in my chosen medium. Since that time his watercolours have gone through many changes. Appreciation of colour, tone, and composition have been my principal concerns. Light, texture and (spatial) distance are Thorn's chief interests, and these elements predominate his compositions and subject matter. For him, painting is a continuum – an exploration. But with watercolor, it is the medium that seems to be forever ahead of time.

Artist Statement
"I like to paint the soul of the scene I’m working on, depicting the essence of that which is before me. Watercolour is the master, I am the student."

Artist:
Richard Thorn

Born in Torquay, England 1952, Richard’s art began with drawing. His love of the countryside and the sea drew him to sketch and paint nature in an around his close environment. Since those early days, his paintings have been exhibited around England, Europe, and America. The Artist is principally self-taught apart from his schooling and a spell at art college after leaving school.

Biography

Thorn began painting professionally In the early 1980s. Since then he has produced many fine paintings of the commanding Devon and Cornish landscapes and coastline specializing in watercolour. Having lived for most of his life in and around Torbay he has committed the area's most picturesque coastline to paper in sublime fashion making the sun dance across the water like no other. The South West has a “quality of light” that attracts many British artists and Richard Thorn is no exception. He is drawn to the intensely bright and suffuses light, together with the many variations in the coastal and inland landscape of the area. In addition, he has enjoyed sojourn's in Spain and Venice from which he created equally emotive compositions in hot Mediterranean tones to great effect. Richard has had many exhibitions and one-man shows. His strong distinctive style and his penchant for light has made his work sought after by Galleries and Collectors throughout the country. In 1998 Richard exhibited his "Images of Portugal" at the Anglo-Portuguese Society in Belgrave Square, London. He is currently preparing a book for publication of his drawings and sketches. He has won two awards at the Royal Institute (for painters in watercolour) at the Mall Galleries in London - 2016/17 and his book - Down an English lane - was published in 2016.

Lene Kilde

Lene Kilde
Lene Kilde grew up in Rælingen outside Oslo. She has a Master’s degree in Production Design from the Oslo and Akershus College at Kjeller. She also has studied at Einar Granum’s Art School and Asker Art School. Early on, Lene primarily worked with figurative steel wire sculptures.Through the steel wire sculptures, she challenges ideas about the differences between sculpture and drawing. Lene Kilde creates sculptures inspired by children and their emotions. She finds that children’s body language is their purest form of communication. This is visualized by showing very few body parts, usually only hands and feet, which then are placed in proportion to each other with the use of metal mesh. Her intention is to invite the audience to use their own imagination so that they can complete the sculptures and fill in the lines and volume by themselves. The sculptures are made of concrete, metal mesh and air.

Artist:
Lene Kilde

Lene Kilde grew up in Rælingen outside Oslo. She has a Master’s degree in Production Design from the Oslo and Akershus College at Kjeller. She also has studied at Einar Granum’s Art School and Asker Art School. Early on, Lene primarily worked with figurative steel wire sculptures.Through the steel wire sculptures, she challenges ideas about the differences between sculpture and drawing. Lene Kilde creates sculptures inspired by children and their emotions. She finds that children’s body language is their purest form of communication. This is visualized by showing very few body parts, usually only hands and feet, which then are placed in proportion to each other with the use of metal mesh. Her intention is to invite the audience to use their own imagination so that they can complete the sculptures and fill in the lines and volume by themselves. The sculptures are made of concrete, metal mesh and air.
Diana Rosa

Diana Rosa

Artist:
Diana Rosa

Dream of compelling magic

I am always fascinated with the human story that all of us are living- often untold, sometimes unrecognized, but always significant. My paintings reflect the natural beauty of human emotions. They are a bridge from my imagination to theirs, and although the story I mean to tell may differ from what the viewer ultimately takes away, what is most important is that we have shared the tale. Elegance and sensuality are combined with spirituality in a contemplative surreal environment. I explore the human dimension: themes of the real and virtual world, a nostalgic state of adaptation. Adapting to survive like succulent plants in unfavorable environment and conditions, expecting a change to occur. I strive to draw honest and intriguing lines, to investigate the beautiful, as well as the odd, and to illuminate the common in an environment of graphic symbols and layered patterns. I create a visual dialogue where everything is possible and magic is the queen. Humans, animals, and plants are some of the themes that I use in my drawings, a subtle injection of ambiguity that blurs the gap between the ordinary and the fantastic. The background of this sub-world appears to be transformed into an innocent children’s fantasy that almost looks like a dream. When creating a piece, I take what is most personal and assume it is universal. I use my own experiences and emotional responses, and turns them into a narrative work that suggests to the viewer a peek into their own life. The stories I tell are about inner worlds revealed - the things that we are supposed to talk and feel, about our bodies, our families, and our life’s choices All elements drive my creativity along with a light touch of the paintbrush, feeling of peace and sense of a place. I strive to re-create the peaceful, contemporary landscape in my art to expand upon the beautiful palette that nature provides us. I appreciate the human form and the emotions within, so I explore acrylic mediums to convey the limitless individuality the human form embodies. I think of my drawings as portraits of a soul, not an actual person–pulling from the universal level instead of our clouded worldly view. They are more than their surface, much like us. They are my perspective and appreciation of who I am and what I know: a woman who embraces adaptation in a virtual world.

GERARDO FELDSTEIN NosOtros

GERARDO FELDSTEIN NosOtros

Artist:
GERARDO FELDSTEIN

SELECTION COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2019 Art Paris, Grand Palais, París France /Huntenkunst Art Fair, Ulft, Nederlands 2018 Art Expo Malaysia, DC Gallery, Malaysia / BARCÚ, DC Gallery, Colombia / Art Chico DC Gallery, Colombia / Salón Manuel Belgrano, Dibujo y Escultura, Mueso E. Sívori, Bs. As. Heterodoxa, Museo de la Cárcova, Bs. As / Faca, Galería Imaginario, Hipódromo Argentino, Bs. As. 2017 Huntenkunst Art Fair , Ulft, Nederlands / Beyond Time and Space, Gwangju National Muesum, South Korea / Zu-recht gebogen, Land Man 3, KÖlon, Germany / Stroke Art Fair, Munich, Germany / Art Lima, Galería Alfredo Ginoccio, Perú / Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Dibujo y Escultura, Palais de Glace, Bs. As. / Salón Manuel Belgrano, Dibujo y Escultura, Mueso E. Sívori, Bs. As. 2015 ART Revolution, Taipei; Taiwan 2013 Kiaf, Seúl, Corea, Mundo Nuevo Gallery Art 2012 Kiaf, Seúl, Corea, Mundo Nuevo Gallery Art 2011 KIAF Korean Art Fair, Mundo Nuevo Art Gallery, Korea del Sur/ Arteaméricas, LZ Fine Art, Miami, EEUU/ Realidad Utópica, Centro Cultural Coreano de Bs.As./ Arte Ba Galería Holz 2010 Cuatro artistas argentinos, Embajada Argentina en Ottawa, Canadá/ Artecho, Ctro. Cultural Recoleta – Malba 2009 2ª muestra y subasta de Arte Contemporáneo, Amia- Malba/ Arte Ba 09, Mundo Nuevo Gallery Art, CABA/ Cuatro Artistas Contemporáneos Mundo Nuevo Gallery Art, CABA 2008 Buenos Aires Polo and Arts, CABA/Muestra y remate en el Sívori, Museo E. Sívori/ 2007 Beauty in Art: 21st Century Interpretations, Ruiz Healy Art Inc. San Antonio, Texas- 2006 Primera Muestra de Arte Urbano a Cielo Abierto, Corazones Vivos, Buenos. Aires Cow Parade, Buenos Aires 2000-2005 Arte Ba Espacio Giesso, Buenos Aires

SELECTION SOLO SHOW

2019 Une Exposition de Gerardo Feldstein, APPART Paris, Francia 2016 Equilibriums, Afredo Ginoccio Gallery, Mexico, México 2016 Nos Otros, Carnacini Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015 Feldstein, Obras Recientes, Central Newbery Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014 Ser Es, Korean Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 Feldstein, Raúl Lozza Comtemporary Art Museum, Alberti Argentina 2012 Y no esencia perdida, Holz Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 In estabilidades, Dácil Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 Drähte Ausstellung, La Galería, Lüchow Alemania 2010 Somos, Mundo Nuevo Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2008 Errantes, Empatía Art Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006 Wired Series, The White Shop-Art fifteen Gallery, Ottowa Canada 2004 Exposición Paralela Oficial, Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador

PRIZES

2016 Third Prize Sculpture, Salón Manuel Belgrano, Museo Eduardo Sìvori, Bs. As. 2008 2º Prize Salón de Pintura Copime. -Honour Mention, Salón Pampeano de Artes Plásticas. -Honour Mention, Salón Osram Arte Clásica. 2007 3º Prize Drawing, Salón Manuel Belgrano, Museo Eduardo Sìvori, Bs. As. Sculpture Mention, Salón Manuel Belgrano, Museo Eduardo Sìvori, Bs. As. 2006 Mention Prize Salón Manuel Belgrano, Drawing , Museo Eduardo Sívori- Special Mention of the Jury, Pintura, Salón Nacional de Arte Sacro, Tandil, Pcia.de Bs.As. 2005 2° Prize Drawing, Salón Pampeano de Artes Plásticas, La Pampa. 2004 Honour First Mention in Sculpture, Salón Pampeano de Artes Plásticas, La Pampa -First Mention. Salón Nacional Juan Manuel de Rosas. Ctro.Cultural Borges 2003 Mention Prize. Salón Nacional de Dibujo. Palais de Glace 1994 First Prize in Painting. Revista Actualidad en el Arte. Espacio Giesso. .Buenos Aires. -Third Prize in Painting. Salón Nacional del Mar. Mar del Plata -Second Mention in Painting. CEP. Centro de Estudio Psicoanalíticos. Buenos Aires.

Warwick Fuller

Warwick Fuller
“You can read ad infinitum of the landscape painter trying to “paint his feelings”, “capture the light”, “render the mood of a scene”. There is nothing particularly new or unique in this ideology, developed in part through a natural progression of a very strong landscape tradition in Australia. It is sad to see these expressions misused, abused and over used to the point of becoming almost meaningless with insincerity. Those statements are though, I believe, some of the more important aims and ideals at the core of the genuine landscape painter’s psyche. I, like others, do search for a means of expressing these qualities! I know for me these are genuine and worthy goals. In this, there is a dilemma I feel will test me. It has been a long held opinion of mine that too often the work of the traditional landscape painter has been seen in an over-familiar sort of way. That is, known objects in the picture being seen superficially and assessed according to a preconceived understanding of those objects. How do I express my vision of the subject unambiguously. It’s not a technical thing as for example, in composition. It’s far more elusive than that. I am doubting more often whether the direction I am taking can adequately reveal, for example, the thrill of gazing at the last rays of sunlight in the tree tops. I can paint something of what it looks like but I am trying to paint how I feel! I want my pictures to sing the songs I sang when I painted them. My hope is that if I can paint with the joy of that moment, something of my emotional responses to the moment will shine through.” Warwick Fuller

Artist:
Warwick Fuller

Plein air painter Career spanning over 35 years Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW Paintings hung in private, corporate and institutional collections in Australia and overseas Represented in prominent galleries in Sydney, Blue Mountains and London Numerous awards and over 60 one-man exhibitions Occasional art judge, adviser and teacher Lives in Little Hartley, west of the Blue Mountains, NSW.

“You can read ad infinitum of the landscape painter trying to “paint his feelings”, “capture the light”, “render the mood of a scene”. There is nothing particularly new or unique in this ideology, developed in part through a natural progression of a very strong landscape tradition in Australia. It is sad to see these expressions misused, abused and over used to the point of becoming almost meaningless with insincerity. Those statements are though, I believe, some of the more important aims and ideals at the core of the genuine landscape painter’s psyche. I, like others, do search for a means of expressing these qualities! I know for me these are genuine and worthy goals. In this, there is a dilemma I feel will test me. It has been a long held opinion of mine that too often the work of the traditional landscape painter has been seen in an over-familiar sort of way. That is, known objects in the picture being seen superficially and assessed according to a preconceived understanding of those objects. How do I express my vision of the subject unambiguously. It’s not a technical thing as for example, in composition. It’s far more elusive than that. I am doubting more often whether the direction I am taking can adequately reveal, for example, the thrill of gazing at the last rays of sunlight in the tree tops. I can paint something of what it looks like but I am trying to paint how I feel! I want my pictures to sing the songs I sang when I painted them. My hope is that if I can paint with the joy of that moment, something of my emotional responses to the moment will shine through.” Warwick Fuller
Thomas Ruckstuhl

Thomas Ruckstuhl
Thomas Ruckstuhl was born in 1969 in Mannheim, Germany. In regular art classes at high school his little paintings received quite some attention and many compliments. This kind of work felt so effortless to him that he could hardly understand and acknowledge the great feedback. He never considered art as a hobby, not to speak of a potential profession. Ruckstuhl studied physics and received his PhD degree in 1999. With his work in research in the area of optical microscopy he felt increasingly unfulfilled which culminated in an identity crises in early 2012. This crisis, however, offered him a great opportunity. Finally he took the time to think what he really wanted in his life. It did not take one week from the first idea of becoming a fine art painter to his decision. "The sudden new prospects of seeing myself as an artist in the future was the greatest sensation of my life". It was mainly his structured way of scientific thinking that lead him into the next period: systematically learning about art and how to paint. In June 2012 he bought his first set of oil paints and signed into the Virtual Art Academy, a four year apprentice online program by Barry John Raybould. Ruckstuhl worked himself through the program and also studied under Barry's instruction in the Tuscany.
"I can't stress enough how much Barry Raybould has helped me to become a professional painter and how thankful I am to him". Ruckstuhl has direct and loose style in capturing his perceiption on canvas. Using few economical brushstrokes he suggests the form of his observations instead of painting objects smoothly and with much detail. "I like to invite the viewer onto a journey. The eyes should not just travel across the painting to discover what is there but I ask the viewer to look at my paintings at close and then gradually step back. The abstract color pattern of the brushmarks will step by step fuse into a realistic picture of the scene. I think this change of perspective passes on my perceiption best, along with my joy at finding the beauty in ordinary things."

Artist:
Thomas Ruckstuhl

Thomas Ruckstuhl was born in 1969 in Mannheim, Germany. In regular art classes at high school his little paintings received quite some attention and many compliments. This kind of work felt so effortless to him that he could hardly understand and acknowledge the great feedback. He never considered art as a hobby, not to speak of a potential profession. Ruckstuhl studied physics and received his PhD degree in 1999. With his work in research in the area of optical microscopy he felt increasingly unfulfilled which culminated in an identity crises in early 2012. This crisis, however, offered him a great opportunity. Finally he took the time to think what he really wanted in his life. It did not take one week from the first idea of becoming a fine art painter to his decision. "The sudden new prospects of seeing myself as an artist in the future was the greatest sensation of my life". It was mainly his structured way of scientific thinking that lead him into the next period: systematically learning about art and how to paint. In June 2012 he bought his first set of oil paints and signed into the Virtual Art Academy, a four year apprentice online program by Barry John Raybould. Ruckstuhl worked himself through the program and also studied under Barry's instruction in the Tuscany.

"I can't stress enough how much Barry Raybould has helped me to become a professional painter and how thankful I am to him". Ruckstuhl has direct and loose style in capturing his perceiption on canvas. Using few economical brushstrokes he suggests the form of his observations instead of painting objects smoothly and with much detail. "I like to invite the viewer onto a journey. The eyes should not just travel across the painting to discover what is there but I ask the viewer to look at my paintings at close and then gradually step back. The abstract color pattern of the brushmarks will step by step fuse into a realistic picture of the scene. I think this change of perspective passes on my perceiption best, along with my joy at finding the beauty in ordinary things."
Helga Stentzel - Household Surrealism

Helga Stentzel - Household Surrealism
Helga Stentzel is a Russian-born artist based in London, UK. She works across a wide range of media including illustration, photography, video and stop motion animation. Helga received "food art creator of the year" award in 2020 and has collaborated with BBC, Honda and O2, among others. A St. Martins alumna, Helga worked in the advertising industry and ran a children’s clothing business before becoming a full-time artist. “To me, household surrealism is about finding magic in the mundane, seeing beauty in imperfections, and connecting to our reality in a new way. I love noticing playful similarities - be it a sweater on a clothing line looking like a horse or a slice of bread resembling a dog’s head. It’s only the starting point though. From this moment onward the stories and visuals start buzzing in my head: What will this horse look like? What’s her name and character? Does she like racing with other horses? - the list goes on and on! I hope that my art will help people to connect with their inner child and rediscover the joy of savouring little visual delights in and outside their homes.”

Artist:
Helga Stentzel

Helga Stentzel is a Russian-born artist based in London, UK. She works across a wide range of media including illustration, photography, video and stop motion animation. Helga received "food art creator of the year" award in 2020 and has collaborated with BBC, Honda and O2, among others. A St. Martins alumna, Helga worked in the advertising industry and ran a children’s clothing business before becoming a full-time artist. “To me, household surrealism is about finding magic in the mundane, seeing beauty in imperfections, and connecting to our reality in a new way. I love noticing playful similarities - be it a sweater on a clothing line looking like a horse or a slice of bread resembling a dog’s head. It’s only the starting point though. From this moment onward the stories and visuals start buzzing in my head: What will this horse look like? What’s her name and character? Does she like racing with other horses? - the list goes on and on! I hope that my art will help people to connect with their inner child and rediscover the joy of savouring little visual delights in and outside their homes.”

Helga’s work has received media attention across the globe – from Korea to Columbia; including in the press, on TV and online. Her Instagram page is often featured by the largest accounts (including by the Instagram itself)

Selected media mentions

Conversación con Helga Stentzel, la artista que creó la vaca con ropa colgada / El Columbiano, March 2021 ‘Household surrealism’ by visual artist Helga Stentzel / South China Morning Post, March 2021 Artist Transforms Everyday Household Items into a Host of Playful Characters / My Modern Met, March 2021 [이 한 장의 시각예술] 세탁, 소 / The Chosun Ilbo, March 2021 De l’art avec des objets du quotidien par Helga Stentzel / 2Tout2Rien, France, March 2021 Il bucato al pascolo di Helga Stentzel / Objects, March 2021 Clothesline Farm Animals Graze the Countryside in Playful Illusions by Helga Stentzel / Colossal, February 2021 Helga Stentzel hangs clothes to create surreal farm animal illusions / DesignBoom, February 2021 This Artist Turns Everyday Items into Hilarious Optical Illusions / DIY Photography Magazine, February 2021 凭奇葩“菜狗”表情包火出圈，设计师“糟蹋”无数食物，却让人有被治愈到! / qq.com, January 2021 L’artiste Helga Stentzel détourne le quotidien avec humour / Creapills, January 2021 Дизайнер из Лондона оживляет еду и предметы быта / Metro Moscow, August 2020 Food art creator of the year award / SnackableContent Awards, July 2020 I Use Food to Tell Fun Visual Stories / Bored Panda, January 2019 Helga Stenzel: la artista que construye figuras y escenas con objetos cotidianos / SDP Noticias, March 2018
Lara Zankoul Photography

Lara Zankoul Photography
Lara Zankoul, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Beirut, Lebanon. Her work captures everyday human behavior and issues that occur within society through photographic media. The aim is to invite the viewers to come up with their own interpretation and understanding of the photographs and the stories behind them. Her signature work not only stands out in its conceptual identity, but also in its timelessness. As a self-taught photographer, Zankoul’s work is heavily based on experimentation and world building within her photographs in order to create moments and craft them rather than just document them. She has been featured in a number of exhibitions: locally, in group and solo exhibitions in Ayyam Gallery and Art Lounge, Beirut. On an international scale, she has been showcased in the Guy Hepner Gallery in New York and HEIST Gallery in London.

Artist:
Lara Zankoul

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, «As cold as a white stone», Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, January 2017 Solo Exhibition, «As cold as a white stone», Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, September 2016 Group exhibition, «ArtxDesign», Gyu Hepner Gallery, Broadway, New York, June 2016 Group exhibition, «Beirut Photo Fair», ARTHEUM, Beirut, Lebanon, October 2015 Group exhibition, «Beirut Art Fair», Heritage of Emotions, “Work in Progress” and Nikki Diana Marquardt, Beirut, Lebanon, September 2015 Auction, Young Collector’s Auction, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, 10 February 2015 Group exhibition, «The Road To Elysium», HEIST Gallery, London, November 2014 Solo Exhibition, «The Unseen», Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, February 2014 Group exhibition, «Festival Photomed Edition 3», Beirut, Janurary 2014 Auction, Young Collector’s Auction #18, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai January 2014 Group exhibition,«Festival Photomed Edition 3», Sanary-Sur-Mer 2013 Auction, «Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art Part II» , Christie’s, April 2013 Solo Exhibition «Depths», Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, 2013 Auction, Young Collector’s Auction #14, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai 2012 Auction, Young Collector’s Auction #13, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai 2012 Auction, Young Collector’s Auction #12, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai 2012 (made the cover’s catalogue) Group exhibition and competition «Shabab Ayyam Photography», Dubai 2011 (Award recipient) Group exhibition «Woman in Contemporary Art», Art Lounge, Beirut 2011 Group Exhibition «Through Our Lenses», Solar Hotel , Paris 2011 Solo Exhibition «Synopsis», VAPA Association, Beirut 2011
Charlotte Baston - Série Art'd'Corps / Art'd'Corps series

Charlotte Baston - Série Art'd'Corps / Art'd'Corps series
Série de dessins et tableaux aux accents bruts, corps d'hommes et de femmes en prise avec un vivant tumultueux, fort et fragile, violent parfois, corps d'êtres à la sensibilité extrême dans toute leur présence éclatante. Series of drawings and paintings with raw accents, bodies of men and women in contact with a tumultuous, strong and fragile, sometimes violent life, bodies of beings with extreme sensitivity in all their dazzling presence.

Série L'Encore des Corps / L'Encore de Corps series
Série de dessins mais surtout de tableaux où les corps viennent parler une langue frêle, puissante et douce, corps sans visages, paroles de peaux, de bras, d'épaules et de cœur à cœur, l'envie de toucher, ces êtres aux tons terreux et aux textures passées. Series of drawings but above all of paintings where the bodies come to speak a frail, powerful and soft language, bodies without faces, words of skin, arms, shoulders and heart to heart, the desire to touch, these beings in tones earthy and faded textures.

Artist:
Charlotte Baston

L'Encore des Corps

Née en 1977 à Lecco en Italie, Charlotte Baston est très tôt formée à la musique et à la danse, deux arts qu'elle a ensuite longuement pratiqués professionnellement. C'est en 2015 qu'elle débute la peinture de façon autodidacte, art auquel elle consacre tout son temps depuis. "Je travaille avant tout les matières, c'est le commencement de toutes mes œuvres, un essentiel pour moi, le lieu de tous les possibles, et nouveau à chaque fois, où le support lui-même est à réinventer. De ce monde travaillé, vieilli, usé, il semblerait qu'il se cache toujours des corps, j'entrevois leurs formes, et je ne fais que les laisser émerger... Ainsi corps et matière ne font qu'un, un mur, une roche, une fresque... en vérité je ne sais pas, mais ils existent" Le corps est au centre de l'oeuvre de Charlotte Baston, source inépuisable d'inspiration, corps qui dépeignent à merveille, les nuits et les jours des hommes depuis toujours.
Thuan Le Cu - My oil paintings depict ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam.

Thuan Le Cu - My oil paintings depict ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam.

Artist:
Lê Cù Thuần

LE CU THUAN. Born in 1981 in Tuyen Quang Graduated from Vietnam Viet Bac School of Culture and Arts in 2001 Graduated from Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2006 Member of Vietnam Association of Arts and Sciences, Member of Association of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities, Member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association. Reality Team Membership. Writing point of view: Drawing is telling stories. Technique: Draw many classes according to classical master. Exhibition: Regional art exhibition from 2000 to present. 2001 Vietnam Students Exhibition in Hanoi. Exhibition About Tuyen 2010 in Hanoi. Exhibition of works in the collection of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2011 in Hanoi. Exhibition of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2011, 2012 in Hanoi. The 2012 Imperial Energy Exhibition in Hue. 2014 National Youth Festival Exhibition in Hanoi. 2014 Back to Top Exhibition at Thanh Trung Gallerry. Exhibition of armed forces and revolutionary war 2014 in Hanoi. Exhibition of works in the collection of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2014 in Hanoi. Exhibition of Photographic Art on the theme HTVLTTGĐHCM by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism 2015 in Nghe An, 2015 National Exhibition in Hanoi, Contemporary TET Painting Market-TET ART 2015 in Hanoi, TODAY Exhibition in Hanoi 2016, Domino Art Fair in Hanoi 2017, Exhibition of silk paintings and silk products in America 2017, Real Group Exhibition 2015, 2017 at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum. The Reality Group Exhibition at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts 2018. Award: Young author award of the National Committee of the Union of Vietnam Fine Arts Associations 2001. The same prize of Vietnam Fine Arts Association in 2011, 2012. Prize of Vietnam Fine Arts Association 2013. Awards C of the Vietnam Ethnic Minority Association in 2014, C Prize of Photography Fine Arts Exhibition on the topic of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2015, Consolation Prize of the Association of Ethnic Minorities in the region year: 2015, 2016, 2019 Prize B of the Vietnam Association for Ethnic Minority Studies: 2016, 2019. Contact address: village 4, Trung Mon commune, Yen Son, Tuyen Quang, Viet Nam. Tel: (+84)766300991. Email: lecuthuan81@gmail.com. https://www.instagram.com/lecuthuan81. https://www.facebook.com/lecuthuan81
André Lundquist The Poetry of Silence

André Lundquist The Poetry of Silence
For those who decide to enter the world of his paintings, Lundquist promises a great deal of emotions. His figurative painting is sensual and timeless. Grace, lightness, peace … are other words to describe the painting of André Lundquist. There is in his works a silent poetry that allows the viewer to enter each of them calmly, without fear. This is a real tour de force, because for the most of them, the women portraited and sketched, which he gives life to on the canvas, are presented and revealed in their intimacy. They are sitting, standing, lying, kneeling … And yet, the painter’s gesture never exudes any kind of voyeurism. These women are like stills who let under their skin pigments, behind the iris of their eyes, break a more complex story … As visual metaphors, they sometimes are the mirror of our own experiences sometimes a door open, behind which the viewer can give free rein to his / her imagination. In each of these women there are a thousand stories, a thousand situations to appropriate for one self or not.

Artist:
André Lundquist

André Lundquist was born in 1972 in Copenhagen, where he received his initial training with the painter Therese Dragshøj (1909-1998). His graphic studies under the tutelage of Peter Martensen (represented by the “Galerie Danoise” in Paris) have clearly left their mark on his technique and explain his penchant for creating tensions between the characters which he paints and the surface of the canvas on which they are painted. In 1999, he was the recipient of a scholarship from the Beckett Foundation. As part of the prize he had a residency in Southern Spain at the Valparaiso Fondación. He used that stay to seek new sources of inspiration. From this trip as well as many stays in the South of France, he withhold some feelings and sensations, which he later released and translated into light and colors. For those who decide to enter the world of his paintings, Lundquist promises a great deal of emotions. His figurative painting is sensual and timeless. Grace, lightness, peace … are other words to describe the painting of André Lundquist. There is in his works a silent poetry that allows the viewer to enter each of them calmly, without fear. This is a real tour de force, because for the most of them, the women portraited and sketched, which he gives life to on the canvas, are presented and revealed in their intimacy. They are sitting, standing, lying, kneeling … And yet, the painter’s gesture never exudes any kind of voyeurism. These women are like stills who let under their skin pigments, behind the iris of their eyes, break a more complex story … As visual metaphors, they sometimes are the mirror of our own experiences sometimes a door open, behind which the viewer can give free rein to his / her imagination. In each of these women there are a thousand stories, a thousand situations to appropriate for one self or not. Lundquist mixes oil, ink, charcoal, crayon, wallpaper. Many overlays which give all its originality to his body of work. These palimpsests sometimes born out of a subtle pastel color palette sometimes full of vivid, bright colors, are the creations of fine colorist whose lineage goes back to the late nineteenth / early twentieth century.

Exhibitions

2020 Galleri Kant, THE ISLAND SHOW – EASTER EDITION. Kunstfagligt kurateret af Kerry Harm Nielsen og Anna Gram Sørensen. Galerie L´oil du Prince, Paris, Frankrig. ” A fleur de toile” v / Yann et Laetitia Deshoulières. 2019 Forside til bogen ” La Chambre des époux “, forfatter Èric Reinhardt, Forlag : Gallimard. Paris, Frankrig. Galerie L´oil du Prince, v / Laetitia & Yann Deshoulières, Biarritz, Frankrig. Gallerie AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES, v / Christian Geux, Annecy, Frankrig. Galleri Nobel, ” Som en del af labyrinten ll “, v / Henning Johannesen, Oslo, Norge. Bærum Kunsthal, ” Som en del af labyrinten ” Sandvika, Norge. 2018 Luxembourg Art Fair, v / Christian Geux. Gallerie AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES. Carlsberg Centre for Comtemporary Art, København. Fælles udstilling. Kurateret af Rasmus Højfeldt og Simon Ganshorn. Galerie Albane, Nantes, Frankrig. Fælles udstilling med galleriets kunstnere. Gallery Down To Art, ” Naos ” ,Gent, Belgien, v / Marc De Corte. 2017 Galleri Nobel, ” Som blandt mennesker ”, Oslo, Norge, Kurateret af Henning Johannesen. Art Up, Lille, Frankrig v / Galerie L´oil du Prince, v / Yann et Laetitia Deshoulières. Gallery Down To Art, ” Among lines of poetry “, Gent, Belgien, Kurateret af Marc De Corte. Gallerie AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES, ” A fleur de peau “, Annecy, Frankrig v / Christian Geux, . Galerie L´oil du Prince, ” Féminin Pluriel ” , Paris, Frankrig. v / Yann Deshoulières.

2016 Galeria Art Catto, Algave, Portugal. Separat, v/ António Lourencco. Gallery Down to Art, Gent, Belgien, v / Marc De Corte. Book Launch & Udstilling v/ Tomorrow Management, København. Udgivelsen af kunstbogen Før, Before, Avant – Efter, After, Après, er en bog der beskriver mit virke fra forskellige faglige vinkler. Der er i bogen bla. bidrag fra Kunsthistoriker Trine Ross, Dramatikker, Billedkunstner og forfatter Tomas Lagermann Lundme, Journalist på Kids News i Berlinske Hus Thorkil Jacobsen, Forfatter Gerd Laugesen, Journalist Lisbeth Rindholt og Arkitekt Lawrence Ebelle. Karin P. Madsen har udarbejdet alt det grafiske. Bogen er på Dansk, Engelsk og Fransk. Galerie L´oil du Prince, Paris, Frankrig. Fælles udstilling af galleriets kunstnere, v / Yann et Laetitia Deshoulières. 2015 Elle Magasin, Foto / maleri, i samarbejde med modefotograf Signe Vilstrup m.fl, København. Illum, Udsmykningsopgave, i samarbejde med modefotograf Signe Vilstrup, reklamebureauet DDB, Chef for marketing i IIlum Majbritt Tornhøj og Tomorrow Management m.fl, København. Gallery European Makers, Amsterdam, Holland. Galeria Art Catto, Algave, Portugal. Kurateret v / António Lourenco. Frederiksborg Slot, ” Portræt Nu ” Prinsessefløjen, gruppe. Kunstfagligt kurateret og censoreret. v/ Direktør Mette Skougaard m.fl. Galleri Nobel ,” Quiétude ” Oslo, Norge. v / Henning Johannesen. 2014 Galerie L´Oeil Du Prince, ” Féminin pluriel ” Paris, Frankrig. Kunstfagligt kurateret af Yann Deshoulières. Separat udstilling. Mellem linjer, Århus. Tema; Forfatterinden Gerd Laugesens dagbog ´På lysserødt papir ´. Ambasciata di Danimarca, Separat, Torino, Italien. The White Wall Project, Papirøen i København. Kurateret af Rikke Sengelsø. Nordic Artwork Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. Kurateret gruppe udstilling. Galleri Nobel, Oslo, Norge. v/ Henning Johannesen. 2013 Galleri Nobel ,Norge, Oslo. v/ Henning Johannesen. Gallery European Makers, Amsterdam, Holland. Gallerie Brigitte Capy, Hossegor, Frankrig.

Vladimir Daibov - Once Upon a Time in Russia

Vladimir Daibov - Once Upon a Time in Russia
Vladimir Daibov was born in the Urals region. His creativity evolved in the artistic environment of the late 1970s Leningrad, absorbing the influences of the Russian avant-garde, the German expressionism, and the Leningrad underground culture. While studying at the Serov Art School with fellow artists and future rock stars Georgy Guryanov and Viktor Tsoi, Daibov witnessed the inception of the Leningrad Rock Club and countercultural movement. For him, however, the time of great change was not a period of all-out theatricality, but a chance to concentrate and find his own distinctive style. Like a Buddhist, he escaped the turning wheel of big city life, jumped off the merry-go-round of vanity, stepped off the train in the quiet town of Kursk to get a true feeling of self and the unhurried surroundings. For some, the time in provincial towns seems to have come to a halt, but for Daibov it has distilled and purged itself of any anxiety, emerging as a pure figurative formula. His unpeopled landscapes are filled with the dense substance of contemplation, expressing not the transience, but the permanence of being. Deep significance, plasticity, and generalization are generic to his works. The artist favours thick and pastose strokes, sharply defined shapes, contrasting colour schemes. At the same time, Vladimir Daibov's paintings are not simply visual facts and lucky finds of striking colour combinations manifesting a tried and tested craftsmanship. Rather, they can be seen as metaphysical landscapes, at times equally capable of instilling in the viewers a kind of existential yearning and astonishing them with the unexpected beauty of the everyday.

Artist:
Vladimir Daibov

Once Upon a Time in Russia

Vladimir Daibov was born in the Urals region. His creativity evolved in the artistic environment of the late 1970s Leningrad, absorbing the influences of the Russian avant-garde, the German expressionism, and the Leningrad underground culture. While studying at the Serov Art School with fellow artists and future rock stars Georgy Guryanov and Viktor Tsoi, Daibov witnessed the inception of the Leningrad Rock Club and countercultural movement. For him, however, the time of great change was not a period of all-out theatricality, but a chance to concentrate and find his own distinctive style. Like a Buddhist, he escaped the turning wheel of big city life, jumped off the merry-go-round of vanity, stepped off the train in the quiet town of Kursk to get a true feeling of self and the unhurried surroundings. For some, the time in provincial towns seems to have come to a halt, but for Daibov it has distilled and purged itself of any anxiety, emerging as a pure figurative formula. His unpeopled landscapes are filled with the dense substance of contemplation, expressing not the transience, but the permanence of being. Deep significance, plasticity, and generalization are generic to his works. The artist favours thick and pastose strokes, sharply defined shapes, contrasting colour schemes. At the same time, Vladimir Daibov's paintings are not simply visual facts and lucky finds of striking colour combinations manifesting a tried and tested craftsmanship. Rather, they can be seen as metaphysical landscapes, at times equally capable of instilling in the viewers a kind of existential yearning and astonishing them with the unexpected beauty of the everyday.
Mohamed nouiri by Gallery Luxury Artwork

Mohamed nouiri by Gallery Luxury Artwork

Artist:
Nouiri Mohamed

Nouiri was born in an urban suburb of Rabat capital city of Morocco, during the beginnings of the 1970. His natural leaning towards creating art materialized having been stimulated by comics and the cinema as a child. The mix of peoples in morocco also provided a variety of cultural a visual inspiration. The environment propelled him to be absorbed into the creative mindset. It was when he visited an exhibition by a Brazilian painter that was the final push which gave him the ambition to become a painter that was the final push whish gave him the ambition to become a painter. Between 1988and 1992 Nouiri enrolled at the Tetouan fin artschool, here he focused his talent on expressing himself within a framework of expanding the classical compositions he was introduced to as a part of his “art- training” He also becomes very interested in sculpture, which was to haveasignificance in this artistic development. Nouiri become known in the academic art word in Tetouan by the various awards and participated in number of exhibitions . He then attended the (French institute of art) in Tanager where he further expanded his knowledge as an assistant in the engraving workshop. It was here that he helped established an accomplished seniors artists to translate their work into engravings. Tow artist advised Nouiri about directions that could be pursed in paintings. International artists Claude Viallat and Gerard Titus-Carmel were two of the artists who Nouiri had opportunity to discuss art creation with. Stimulated for knowledge Nouiri examined the work of Antonio Tàpies, Carlos Garcia Muela and Josep Niebla, which deepened his artistic aesthetic. The artist stumbled across a book on Henri Matisse and totally digested Matisse‘s writing on art creation which had an enormous effect on his own work. By 1998 Nouiri gained the opportunity to participate in the Dakar biennial (in 1993 the structure of the biennial transformed and DAK’ART1996 become an exhibition specifically devoted to contemporary African art. The following biennial this structure was consolidated and enlarged). It was at the biennial that Nouiri met the known sculptor Ousman Sow. This chance meeting and the discussions he had with the sculptor had significant influence since that meeting. In 1999 Nouiri spent time in Paris.it was here that the identity grew and as a consequence Nouirispent time in meditation and self-examination. “Between figuration and disfigurement according to the terms of myself, I become torn by a perpetual questioning of the act of painting, as if to affirm my multiple affiliations, Urban, Sub-Saharan, and Mediterranean and it’s spiritual connections”.

Christiane Vleugels

Christiane Vleugels
Christiane Vleugels work can be characterized as realism, but if you look closer you realize there is much more. Not only a lot of love for the subject, but also the feel of an ethereal atmosphere that exudes dramatic beauty and glamour. Each of her paintings unveils a certain aspect of life and inspires to dream. Christiane paints her philosophy of life in every painting she does, and it’s instantly visible. Her zest for life and her unshakable belief that the universe provides are palpable in her paintings, never failing to lift a smile from the viewer. Originally painting in a romantic style to gain the recognition she craved as an awkward teenager, she soon developed a mature mastery of the styles of the old masters through commissioned paintings, “which paid my bills and honed my skills,” Christiane recalls with a smidge of melancholy and a handful of gratitude. These days Christiane paints what’s alive and calling in her, whether it’s a sense of wonder about this world or compassion for her models, especially those that lack an articulate voice, such as women who’ve suffered trauma, her widowed father, or sometimes animals. Christiane paints in oil on board or aluminum panels, preferably of large formats, drawing, according to the mood or theme that may be stirring in her, on her large archive of photographs of models who have posed for her over the years.
"To paint what is in the heart always has been the biggest challenge. Sheer beauty, clears the mind and lets you open up for world’s beyond the dream. Of course it hasn’t always been like that, it took many years of reproducing old Masters and working on commission before I realized that the time has come to create from the heart. When I look back at those tiresome years, during which I often felt under incredible pressure and even, at times, uninspired, I realize they were a necessary part of my artistic journey. I really do believe I owe my various skills to that endless list of commissions. But now the time has come to take new directions in life. With each original work I create today, I realize more and more that the true learning process has only just begun for me!" Christiane Vleugels

Artist:
Christiane Vleugels

At the age of 12, Christiane went to the Academy of Art in Schoten (Belgium). At the age of 17 she went in Antwerpen to the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts where she focused on decor, publicity and nature drwaings. After that, it was time for the Royal Academy in Antwerp. There she studied figure drawing, oil painting and restoration techniques. Christiane Vleugels work can be characterized as realism, but if you look closer you realize there is much more. Not only a lot of love for the subject, but also the feel of an ethereal atmosphere that exudes dramatic beauty and glamour. Each of her paintings unveils a certain aspect of life and inspires to dream. Christiane paints her philosophy of life in every painting she does, and it’s instantly visible. Her zest for life and her unshakable belief that the universe provides are palpable in her paintings, never failing to lift a smile from the viewer. Originally painting in a romantic style to gain the recognition she craved as an awkward teenager, she soon developed a mature mastery of the styles of the old masters through commissioned paintings, “which paid my bills and honed my skills,” Christiane recalls with a smidge of melancholy and a handful of gratitude. These days Christiane paints what’s alive and calling in her, whether it’s a sense of wonder about this world or compassion for her models, especially those that lack an articulate voice, such as women who’ve suffered trauma, her widowed father, or sometimes animals. Christiane paints in oil on board or aluminum panels, preferably of large formats, drawing, according to the mood or theme that may be stirring in her, on her large archive of photographs of models who have posed for her over the years.

"To paint what is in the heart always has been the biggest challenge. Sheer beauty, clears the mind and lets you open up for world’s beyond the dream. Of course it hasn’t always been like that, it took many years of reproducing old Masters and working on commission before I realized that the time has come to create from the heart. When I look back at those tiresome years, during which I often felt under incredible pressure and even, at times, uninspired, I realize they were a necessary part of my artistic journey. I really do believe I owe my various skills to that endless list of commissions. But now the time has come to take new directions in life. With each original work I create today, I realize more and more that the true learning process has only just begun for me!" Christiane Vleugels
Susan Abbott

Susan Abbott
Susan Abbott was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, and grew up in this Victorian suburb of Washington, DC. Her parents met as labor organizers in the 1930’s, and they continued to be active in social and environmental causes throughout their lives. Because her father was an artist and graphic designer, there were many art books and supplies at home and Abbott was drawing and painting from an early age. Her mother was a skilled seamstress and taught her to sew, knit and embroider. These hand crafts and time outdoors exploring the creeks and woods in her neighborhood were favorite childhood activities that have informed her work as an artist. Abbott began her formal art studies at fourteen, studying life drawing in the summers under the famed professor Robert D’Arista at American University. She dropped out of high school to begin full time studies at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, which she selected for its rigorous painting program. At MICA, Abbott focused on figure painting and plein air landscape with Israel Hershberg. She graduated Summa Cum Laude and two years later received a MFA degree from the Institute’s Hoffberger School of Painting, working with renowned abstract painter Grace Hartigan as her advisor. She went on to study printmaking in the graduate program at the University of Iowa under the master intaglio artist Mauricio Lasansky. Susan Abbott has been working as a professional artist since that time, exhibiting in galleries and museums around the country. Her still life and landscapes have been featured at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Museum of Technology, Hood College, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Her painting was included in the show “Objects of Personal Significance”, which toured museums around the United States. She has been a recipient of a Maryland Art Council “Individual Artist Award” and a Vermont Arts Council “Creation Grant”. In 2009 she was one of ten a

Statement
Growing up in Washington, DC, I had an early love of drawing encouraged by my artist father and for textile crafts learned from my mother, as well as many happy hours exploring neighborhood woods and streams. These childhood activities gave me a connection to hand craft and nature that have stayed with me and informed my work as a painter. In my eagerness to begin my art education I dropped out of high school to attend the Maryland Institute, College of Art, where I received a BFA and MFA. I’ve been working as a professional artist since that time, exhibiting in galleries and museums around the country and teaching art workshops around the world. I moved to Vermont twenty-five years ago for the most impractical of reasons, love at first sight. I’m still attracted to all the ordinary things I see around me here–houses, barns, trucks, fields, mountains—and how they are made magical by ever-changing light and seasons. When I paint in my studio from the references I gather on-site, invented colors and shapes take over and combine with my memory of the subject to create something completely new. My hope is that the paintings that result from this alchemy of the real and abstract communicate to the viewer something of my deep love for the familiar yet mysterious landscape of Vermont. Susan Abbott

Artist:
Susan Abbott

Susan Abbott was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, and grew up in this Victorian suburb of Washington, DC. Her parents met as labor organizers in the 1930’s, and they continued to be active in social and environmental causes throughout their lives. Because her father was an artist and graphic designer, there were many art books and supplies at home and Abbott was drawing and painting from an early age. Her mother was a skilled seamstress and taught her to sew, knit and embroider. These hand crafts and time outdoors exploring the creeks and woods in her neighborhood were favorite childhood activities that have informed her work as an artist. Abbott began her formal art studies at fourteen, studying life drawing in the summers under the famed professor Robert D’Arista at American University. She dropped out of high school to begin full time studies at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, which she selected for its rigorous painting program. At MICA, Abbott focused on figure painting and plein air landscape with Israel Hershberg. She graduated Summa Cum Laude and two years later received a MFA degree from the Institute’s Hoffberger School of Painting, working with renowned abstract painter Grace Hartigan as her advisor. She went on to study printmaking in the graduate program at the University of Iowa under the master intaglio artist Mauricio Lasansky. Susan Abbott has been working as a professional artist since that time, exhibiting in galleries and museums around the country. Her still life and landscapes have been featured at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Museum of Technology, Hood College, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Her painting was included in the show “Objects of Personal Significance”, which toured museums around the United States. She has been a recipient of a Maryland Art Council “Individual Artist Award” and a Vermont Arts Council “Creation Grant”. In 2009 she was one of ten artists selected from an international competition to receive funding to produce a series of paintings about the future of Vermont for the “Art of Action” project. She is an active partner with non-profits in projects that connect art and conservation. Susan Abbott’s paintings are in many private and corporate collections, including Mead Data Central, the Gund Company, the Federal Home Mortgage Administration, Peat Marwick, and Chittenden Bank. Her commission for Oprah Winfrey was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Statement

Growing up in Washington, DC, I had an early love of drawing encouraged by my artist father and for textile crafts learned from my mother, as well as many happy hours exploring neighborhood woods and streams. These childhood activities gave me a connection to hand craft and nature that have stayed with me and informed my work as a painter. In my eagerness to begin my art education I dropped out of high school to attend the Maryland Institute, College of Art, where I received a BFA and MFA. I’ve been working as a professional artist since that time, exhibiting in galleries and museums around the country and teaching art workshops around the world. I moved to Vermont twenty-five years ago for the most impractical of reasons, love at first sight. I’m still attracted to all the ordinary things I see around me here–houses, barns, trucks, fields, mountains—and how they are made magical by ever-changing light and seasons. When I paint in my studio from the references I gather on-site, invented colors and shapes take over and combine with my memory of the subject to create something completely new. My hope is that the paintings that result from this alchemy of the real and abstract communicate to the viewer something of my deep love for the familiar yet mysterious landscape of Vermont. Susan Abbott
Anne-Françoise Ben-Or

Anne-Françoise Ben-Or
My intention is that my painting Will be a source of inspiration for people. It is a process of observation Through which we discover Anew and see beyond What we already know. I wish that my painting Will create a direct connection to The essence of reality on a State of being and sensing. Anne Ben-Or

Artist:
Anne-Françoise Ben-Or

Born in Belgium (1965) Studies 1997-2000 Painting and sculpture - Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2001-2004 "Jerusalem Studio School", Israel Hershberg Additional 1997-2002: "The Israel Stage Orchestra" Stage designer

Solo Exhibitions

2020 „Prey To Prayer" Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2018 „State of Mind" Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Varda Steinlauf 2017 „Secret games" Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2016 „Anne Ben Or Paintings" Artists' House, Jerusalem, Curator: Ron Bartos „New members" Artists' House, Jerusalem, Curator: Oscar Abush 2015 „Defiance" Rothschild Fine Art Gallery Tel Aviv, Curator: Irena Gordon, accompanied by catalog. 2012 „Intimate Room" Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Ktzia Alon. 2011 „Tender" The Obsession of Art, Holland 2010 „Transparent Flowers" Giv'at Ha'im Ihud Gallery, Curator: Hanush Morag 2008 „Becoming" Bernard Gallery Tel-Aviv, Curator: Maya Moor, accompanied by catalog 2007 Wohl Centre, Bar- Ilan University, Curator: Guy Olami 2006 „Christine Decuyper" Gallery, Brussels 2005 „Echo" Bernard Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Maya Moor

Group Exhibitions

2020 „Corona Time" Art Gallery Gan Shmuel, Curator:Adi Yekutieli 2019 „Fresh Paint 2019" 2018 „I to eye" The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Shir Meller-Yamaguchi. 2017 „BP portrait award 2017" National Portrait Gallery, London „Summer arrivels" The Obsession of Art Gallery, Holland. „Summer Exhibition" Zemack Gallery, Curator : Anat Bar-Noi. 2016 „Art 16" London, by Rothschild Gallery „Arti" Tiroche Auction House, by Rothschild Gallery „Art on Craft" Tel-Aviv. Curator: Esti Drori, Doron Polak. „Papers of value", Curator: Liza Gershuni, Liza Gershuni gallery 2015 „Women Of the Book" The first station, Jerusalem, Curator: Shoshana Gugenheim , Dr Ronit Steinberg, Judith Margolis 2015 „Salon Hacubia" Hacubia Jerusalem, Curator: Ela Cohen, Dan Orimian 2014 „They paint flowers" Art salon Jaffa , Curator: Amit kabesa 2013 „Fresh paint 6" Art Festival, Tel-Aviv, Zemach Gallery „Joy of life" The obsession of art gallery, Holland. 2012 „2012" Zemack gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator : Ktzia Alon „La Prabola leri oggi domani" The museum of Israely art Ramat-Gan, Curator : Carmine Siniscalo „Summer exhibition" Zemack Gallery, Tel-Aviv „Fresh paint 5" Art festival, Tel-Aviv, Zemack gallery. 2011 „Two Hopes away", Museum Lehi, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Revital Silverman Grun „A Season in Heaven" Florentin Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Irena Gordon & Gilat Nadivi „Ee Mahut" Gerstein gallery Tel-Aviv. Curator Nurit TaL-Tenne. 2010 Salon d'art contemporain business art 2010 a' l'espace du Pierre Cardin

2009: "Childhood Stories”,. WhiteBox gallery, Munich.Germany Curator Yael Katz Ben Shalom "Manofim project" Jerusalem "Close Watch" Curator Irena Gordon & Boaz Noy "Tableau Vivant" Artist House Tel Aviv Curator Nir Haramat "Stories" Ein hod. Curator Naomi Hoss "Whispers of nature" The Obsession of Art Gallery, Holland "Self Examination" Hi-touch Gallery, Israel. Curator Dafna Naor "Primavera" Art Fair, Rotterdam, Holland 2008: "New passions" The Obsession of Art Gallery, Holland. 2007: "The Obsession of Art Gallery", Holland "Art Laren" Fair, Holland "Art fair" Maastricht, Holland "Primavera" Art fair, Rotterdam, Holland "Open Air" Art fair, Holland 2005: "Saint Augustine", Germany Sponsored by the "Kunstler" Gallery 2004: "Work in progress" Art space Gallery Jerusalem. "Abstraction", French cultural center, Romain Gary, Jerusalem 2003: "Mabat Meshulash" ,Jerusalem Theater 2001: "Omanut Yozert" Cultural center, Jerusalem

Johnson Tsang - Ceramic Art

Johnson Tsang - Ceramic Art
Born in Hong Kong in 1960, artist Johnson Tsang employs realist sculptural techniques accompanied by his incredible surrealist imagination. Tsang pushes the boundaries of the viewer’s imagination. In Tsang’s magical realism, he is able to see each object with a new soul and function and does not rest until he has finally extracted it. After being familiar with the world as it is seen through Tsang’s eyes, we step into a new creative hemisphere, he adds a sort of beauty and an unforgettable meaning to everyday objects, constantly reinvented in his anthropomorphic sculptures. He takes them to a whole new existential level in a surreal, fantastic and magical manner, one that invites us to dream. Tsang’s porcelains are provocative, they challenge us and they have an irreverent stance. His sculptures convey this sensation in which they seem to be able to shape themselves and the metamorphic and anthropomorphic character is yet again displayed with full intensity in which the energy and movement are almost always present. They make us step into their inner and sensorial world, takes us to their passiveness and inner silence. A frequent feeling of pain, oppression or being crushed is also evident. In the series of babies Tsang depicts a playful world that is intensively fun and cartoonish, in which the babies’ big faces underline their traits and emotions. The babies show an evident disbelief towards the world and the beings around them, as if they aren’t able to see themselves abiding by this world’s laws. Creativity never ends, Tsang has a surrealist imagination which never becomes complacent, developing instead new techniques which give us innovative and unexpected approaches at all times.

Artist:
Johnson Tsang

Ceramic Art

Born in Hong Kong in 1960, artist Johnson Tsang employs realist sculptural techniques accompanied by his incredible surrealist imagination. Tsang pushes the boundaries of the viewer’s imagination. In Tsang’s magical realism, he is able to see each object with a new soul and function and does not rest until he has finally extracted it. After being familiar with the world as it is seen through Tsang’s eyes, we step into a new creative hemisphere, he adds a sort of beauty and an unforgettable meaning to everyday objects, constantly reinvented in his anthropomorphic sculptures. He takes them to a whole new existential level in a surreal, fantastic and magical manner, one that invites us to dream. Tsang’s porcelains are provocative, they challenge us and they have an irreverent stance. His sculptures convey this sensation in which they seem to be able to shape themselves and the metamorphic and anthropomorphic character is yet again displayed with full intensity in which the energy and movement are almost always present. They make us step into their inner and sensorial world, takes us to their passiveness and inner silence. A frequent feeling of pain, oppression or being crushed is also evident. In the series of babies Tsang depicts a playful world that is intensively fun and cartoonish, in which the babies’ big faces underline their traits and emotions. The babies show an evident disbelief towards the world and the beings around them, as if they aren’t able to see themselves abiding by this world’s laws. Creativity never ends, Tsang has a surrealist imagination which never becomes complacent, developing instead new techniques which give us innovative and unexpected approaches at all times.

Philippe Bluzot - Appearances

Philippe Bluzot - Appearances
His paintings are unsettling due to its reality, they flirt around with photographic illusion, without actually being hyper-realist. Especially since the painter offers a mirror of our life or a life that one is determined to conceal (death, life in the street...). Ordinary or even banal scenes are gilded in a sensitive manner. The artist says "It's about re-constructing a sensitive space, where the hand's role, usage of pigments, composition, values, quest for materials are all important questions, just like investigating appearances of the world in which we are immersed. I rub against this reality and try to reveal or trigger a presence due to visual power, in order to titillate the look".

Artist:
Philippe Bluzot

Philippe Bluzot was born in 1959 in Montluçon (Allier). The artist draws inspiration from Vermeer, Chardin, Balthus or even Rothko to depict everyday life. In 1981, Philippe Bluzot made a contribution to the « Poudre d’or » association with Jérôme Mesnager, one of the first street painters. They share this passion to highlight forgotten beings. His paintings are unsettling due to its reality, they flirt around with photographic illusion, without actually being hyper-realist. Especially since the painter offers a mirror of our life or a life that one is determined to conceal (death, life in the street...). Ordinary or even banal scenes are gilded in a sensitive manner. The artist says "It's about re-constructing a sensitive space, where the hand's role, usage of pigments, composition, values, quest for materials are all important questions, just like investigating appearances of the world in which we are immersed. I rub against this reality and try to reveal or trigger a presence due to visual power, in order to titillate the look".

Mes Voyages by Niloufar Banisadr - Artist Biography

Mes Voyages by Niloufar Banisadr - Artist Biography
-------------------------------- Niloufar Banisadr was born in 1973, in Tehran, where she grew up and trained herself in the art of photography. She had just turned 30 when she decided, in 2003, to settle in France in order to polish her craft. First in Strasbourg then in Paris a few years later, she worked in earnest to expand her palette and broaden a catalogue of photographs which were exhibited in Dubai, Istanbul, Arles and the City of Light. After being granted French citizenship, and while enjoying a growing reputation in the world of photography and contemporary art, Niloufar contributed, in 2013, to the foundation of the Parisian Gallery 55Bellechasse, which, for its inauguration, organized a successful retrospective exhibition of her work. The œuvre Niloufar Banisadr has been creating for more than 20 years strings together series which are sometimes abstract, often representational, but always preoccupied with a certain idea of womanhood. When she is asked about her artistic approach, usually seen as politically committed and controversial, Niloufar replies that it ought to be interpreted as an introspective and reflective work on what being a woman today signifies and entails, a work she mostly fulfils in a narrative and illustrative mode. Closely listening to the stirrings of her own body as well as to those of the women of her generation, both in the East and in the West, the Franco-Iranian artist has often represented herself in her works, either as self-portraits or as dreamlike figures. Having been fascinated, since her very beginnings, by the “clash of cultures” in her native land, Niloufar Banisadr is today internationally renowned and exhibits in a growing number of museums and galleries, notably Basel, Miami, New York and Paris--------------------------------

"Mes Voyages" artist's statement
-------------------------------- Niloufar Banisadr has here chosen to systematically superimpose her own portrait, where she appears as an iconic representation of her native culture, on photographs of places, artworks and objects which have inspired her in the course of her mostly European peregrinations. The artist acknowledges that this series probably reveals, on her part, a form of parapraxis: the uprooted, expatriated individual seeking a new sense of belonging without going as far as disavowing her own origins.

Artist:
Niloufar BANISADR

PHOTOGRAPH

Niloufar lives and works in Paris her works can be seen 55Bellechasse - Paris7 as well as in few partner galleries, museums and private institutions
Victor Sheleg

Victor Sheleg
Victor Sheleg is a Russian artist who grew up in Latvia, and who has exhibited his art throughout Moscow. His creative outlook is based on his personal worldview, which explores the conformist culture of the society he experiences before turning it into an intriguing artistic aesthetic. His depictions of female figures, laced with shadow and suggestion, provide an intriguing balance of conformity and freedom, both in form and content. "When creating a picture, I am guided by emotions and energy. Harmony born of chaos of color, stains, lines and splashes." Viktor Sheleg

Artist:
Victor Sheleg

Personal exhibitions

1993 Gallery "TEN", Liepaya, Latvia. 1994 Gallery "Ars Moderna", Riga, Latvia. 1995 Gallery "Ars Moderna", Riga, Latvia. 1996 Gallery "Ars Moderna", Riga, Latvia. 1996 "Business Center" Moscow Chamber Of Commerce and Industry, Moscow, Russia. 1997 Russian Center of Science and Culture, Helsinki, Finland. 1997 Gallery "Ars Moderna", Riga, Latvia. 1998 Gallery "Mara", Daugavpils, Latvia. 1998 Gallery "Centrs", Liepaya, Latvia. 1998 Gallery "Ars Moderna", Riga, Latvia. 1999 Fashion House A.Pavlov, Riga, Latvia. 1999 Gallery "Basteja pasaža", Riga, Latvia. 2000 Gallery "Nellija", Riga, Latvia. 2000 Gallery "Basteja pasaža", Riga, Latvia. 2000 Gallery "Signature of Art", Chicago, USA. 2002 Gallery "Howard Alberts", Chicago, USA. 2003 Gallery "CDH", Moscow, Russia. 2004 Gallery "Le Siants", Prague, Czech Republic. 2005 Gallery «Basteja Pasaža», Riga, Latvia. 2006 Gallery «Moscow House», Riga, Latvia. 2007 Gallery «Moscow House», Riga, Latvia. 2010 Gallery «Slavinsky art", Sankt-Peterburg, Russia. 2010 Gallery "Arthaus Genzel", Vetcslar, Germany. 2011 Gallery «New Form", Geteborg, Sweden. 2011 Gallery «Tornby", Denmark. 2012 Gallery «New Form" Geteborg, Sweden. 2013 Gallery " Timelles",Spain 2014 Gallery " Timelles", Poland 2015 Gallery "Gall'Art Roma", Italy 2016 Gallery "Onessimo", USA 2017 Gallery "901" USA

Group exhibitions and art fairs

Art Ireland, Dublin (2004-2009) Art Zurich International (2004) Art Edinburgh (2005-2008) The Affordable Art Fair, London (Spring Collections 2006-2009) Art Melbourne (2006) Affordable Art Fair, Paris (2008) Chelsea Art Fair, London(2009) Glasgow Art Fair (2009) Edinburgh Art Fair( 2009) Bergamo Arte Fiera (2010) Affordable Art Fair Brussels (2010) The Affordable Art Fair Spring Collection (2010) Glasgow Art Fair (2010) Chelsea Art Fair (2010) AAF NYC Fall (2010) AAF Amsterdam (2010) Edinburgh Art Fair (2010) Affordable Art Fair Milano, ( 2011) Affordable Art Fair Brussels (2011) AAF NYC Fall (2011) Colectiva de Otoño (2011) Edinburgh Art Fair (2011) AAF MILAN (2012) AAF BRUSSELS (2012 GRAND DESIGNS LIVE LONDON (2012)
CHRIS KLEIN

CHRIS KLEIN
These quiet yet visually captivating paintings combine the exquisite color with contrasting textures and a convincing sense of depth through meticulous use of light and shadow, reminiscent of Dutch masters.

Artist’s Statement:
I find inspiration from all of my surroundings. This is reflected in my last two series of paintings: my “Costumes” series inspired by my work in the theatre, looking at all the clothes as they hang in the vast costume warehouse in Stratford, and my “Second Hand” series, which was originally inspired by passing a local salvage yard and admiring the colour and texture of the crumpled and rusting metal. I see mundane or everyday objects in a way that others might miss. It isn’t simply the objects themselves that I wish to reproduce, it is their forms, many of which create abstraction with light and shade, colour and texture. It is the composition that is of initial importance to me, not the subject. But when complete, the objects themselves add a whole new life to my paintings. They create their own stories, they can tap into people’s subconscious minds, sparking memories or creating stories that may or may not have existed.

Artist:
Chris Klein

Chris is a British artist, currently living in Canada. Exhibiting his own work in the UK, Europe and North America. In 1983 Chris had his work accepted by the Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK for their prestigious Summer Exhibition. Before coming to Canada he was also an associate member of the Guild of Motoring Artists. As well as producing his own work, he is also a scenic artist for film and theatre. For 10 years he has served as the head of scenic art at both the Stratford Festival and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Chris has worked on many sets, creating backdrops and related artwork and has contributed to major productions in London's West End and Broadway. In Canada, he has painted for many major Hollywood films and many shows for the Cirque du Soleil.

Exhibition

Solo shows 2019: Christopher Klein; Dystopian Utopia, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago Group shows 2019: New Arrivals Group Exhibition, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago Fair booths 2018: Gallery Victor Armendariz at SOFA CHICAGO 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz
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