Attila Kondor

May 1, 2013, 9:34 am

Attila Kondor graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. He has been the winner of Barcsay-award for two times and his litography works were also awarded. He received Kondor Béla award in 2000, Roman Scholarship prize in 2007, Újbuda Mecénás scholarship in 2009. His paintings are built up from classical elements, however, they are always connected to the present.

The paintings contain philosophical thoughts – the artist obviously studies the great philosophers’s works – from Heracleitos to Heidegger. Two main motives appear in Attila Kondor’s works: Firstly, the theme of the garden, inspired by philosophy: still water surfaces, pits, the road. Secondly, metaphores of the architecture: doors and stairs with strong contrasts, light-shadow effects and colours. These objects are rather connected to metaphysics, than sight painting, the deep, dark colours are suddenly compensated by white sources of light. According to the paintings, Attila Kondor wrote a short statement titled The sign of the Unconditional:

,,Can the unrepresentable be represented? In Byzantine aesthetics, the idea of uncreatred light was rendered by the golden background of icons. An extraordinary Indian jain sculpture of Liberated Person shows the form of his body -- cut out of a golden plate -- as an empty space with the characteristic silhouette around it .
The clear white pigment between the door-frame and the window sashes stands out of the rest of the sensual elements of the compositon. The experience resulting from concentration is the starting point. The white form is so intensive that it almost burns into the gaze; this negative form is separated from the positive form, which is the mark of the Unconditional. In this series I returned to the themes of my three previous series from my new starting point in order to saturate my previous themes with the transparency of unconditional existence.”

The gallery hosting the exhibition bears the name of its owner, Mr. Ari S. Kupsus, a Finnish entrepreneur living in Hungary for 11 years, whose activities in Budapest include the running of various charity programs supporting young talent both int he world of music and the fine arts. His gallery shows contemporary art in an interior comprised of early 19th-century antiques, achieving a distinct totality of ambiance.

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Beáta Székely

May 1, 2013, 11:10 am

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TANULMÁNYOK:

2007 - 2012: Budapest, Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, festő szak.
2011: Kolozsvár: Universitatea de Arta si Design, Románia, festő szak.
2007: Vilnius Collage of Higher Education, Litvánia, ruhatervezés és szabászat.
2004 - 2007: Kolozsvár, Universitatea de Arta si Design, Románia, ruhatervezés-imprimé szak és művészeti pedagógia.
2000 - 2004: Marosvásárhely, Művészeti Líceum, képzőművészet, textilművészet – kozépiskola
1996 - 2000: Marosvásárhely, Művészeti Líceum, képzőművészet

MESTEREK:
2007 - 2011 Nagy Gábor
2007 - 2013 Kósa János
2009 - 2011 Wehter Ákos
2011 - 2013 Nemere Réka

DÍJAK:
2012: Communitas Ösztöndíj
2011: Amadeusz Kisalkotói Ösztöndíj
2011: Ari S Kupsus Salon Concert Society-prize I
2011: Ari S Kupsus Salon Concert Society-prize II
2011: Cafe MOOD-prize I
2011: Andi Reith-prize
2011: Balazs Arato Art Management-prize
2011: Erasmus ösztöndíj.
2011: Fehér György pályázat, kiválasztott mű, a Fehér György Díj 2011-es nyertese számára.
2010: Raul Wallemberg dij, Raul Wallemberg Egyesület.
2010: Székely Bertalan dij.
2009: Semmelweis Egyetem által hírdetett portréfestő pályázat, kiválasztott pályamű.
2008: Pannon Color támogatás, Budapest M.K.E.
2007: Erasmus ösztöndíj, Litvánia, Vilnius.
2005: Apáczai Csere János ösztöndíj, Kolozsvár.

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Peter Anton

May 1, 2013, 1:35 pm

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Peter Anton

Peter Anton's work has been featured in solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City; UrbanArt in Seoul; Galerie Terminus in Munich; the Henri Gallery in Washington, DC; Galerie Adler Bertin-Toublanc in Miami; Galerie Ralph Schriever in Cologne, Germany; and the Hammer Galleries and the Bruce R. Lewin Gallery in New York City.

The artist created Peter Anton's Sugar & Gomorrah, an expansive outdoor/indoor installation and solo exhibition for Art Miami.

Mr. Anton has participated in group exhibitions in museums and galleries including the Schloss Gottorf Museum in Schleswig, Germany; Museum Villa Rot in Burgrieden-Rot, Germany; Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, Germany; Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany; Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, Germany; Schloss Neuenburg Museum in Germany; Austin Museum of Art in Texas; the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York; the Fresno Metropolitan Art Museum; the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Strathmore Museum in Bethesda, Maryland; the Castellani Art Museum in Niagara, New York; the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City; the Elaine Baker Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida; the COPIA Museum in Napa Valley, California; and the Keszler Gallery in New York City.

His work has been extensively exhibited at numerous art fairs in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Peter Anton's work is widely collected and is featured in several prestigious private, corporate, and museum collections including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; the CEO of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer; Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones; the Jordanian Royal Family; architect Lord Norman Foster; Oppenheim Bank; The Blackstone Resort Hotel in Korea; Breitling Watches; Raymond James Financial; candy maker giant Perfetti Van Melle; the Portland Museum of Art; The Dennis Hopper Collection; and Susanne & Wolfgang Porsche.

"In my sculptures I like to alter and overstate foods to give them new meanings. I have an innate reverence for the things we eat. Food brings people together and there is no better way to celebrate life. Through the use of humor, scale, irony, and intensity in my forms, the foods we take for granted become aesthetically pleasing and seductive in atypical ways. I like to create art that can lure, charm, tease, disarm and surprise. My sculptures put viewers in a vulnerable state so that I can communicate with their inner selves in a more honest and direct way. I activate the hunger people have for the things that give them pleasure and force them to surrender. The sensual nature of the works stimulates basic human needs and desires that generate cravings and passion."

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Hanneke Beaumont

May 1, 2013, 2:02 pm

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Hanneke Beaumont

Hanneke Beaumont (born 1947 Maastricht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch-born sculptor.

She studied dentistry in the United States, but moved back to Europe, to Belgium, where she still lives today. Beaumont started her artistic studies in 1977 at the Académie de Braine l'Alleud, then at La Cambre and in Anderlecht; she received her first solo exhibition in 1983.

An important turn in her career happened in 1994 when she was awarded, for her terracotta sculpture group "Le Courage", the major award of the Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Château Beychevelle. Shortly after, she participated in the second Exposiciòn Internacional de Esculturas en la Calle, organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Canarias, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where her work was permanently installed. In 2005, the Beelden aan Zee museum made an important retrospective of her work in the Hague (Netherlands). More recently, in 2007, a very large bronze, titled "Stepping Forward", was installed in front of the new headquarters of the European Council of Ministers in Brussels. Many other public and private collectors have manifested great interest in her work. She now enjoys an international reputation with exhibitions in the US, UK, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland. She shows at the Contessa Gallery.

Hanneke Beaumont has said the she is “very much a clay person”, a persuasion apparent in the bold way the sculptor carves her forms (such as “Terracotta 78 & 82”), leaving their surfaces rough and unrefined. Neither man nor woman, Beaumont’s sculptures represent ‘Man’ in the broader sense, she addresses grand issues of the human condition. Many of Beaumont’s figures appear neither male nor female, neither young nor old. They do not appear as portraits of particular individuals, nor are they modeled after idealized human forms. Physically, they are approximations of human beings, and as such, they provide a way to consider, from a distance, general ideas about the nature of the human race.

Beaumont's sculptures are realized in Terracotta, Bronze and Cast iron. Hanneke currently works in Brussels and in Pietrasanta, Italy.

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David Begbie

May 1, 2013, 2:23 pm

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David Begbie

Internationally renowned sculptor David Begbie creates body sculptures made of woven metal mesh with amazing shadow-play. His sculpture have a much greater physical presence than any conventional solid form. He is the master of his medium mesh wire and his work speaks for itself.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1955

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Stefano Bombardieri

May 1, 2013, 4:29 pm

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Stefano Bombardieri nasce a Brescia il 28 Gennaio 1968

Cresce nello studio del padre anch’esso scultore, apprende le tecniche artistiche e sperimenta l’uso dei materiali acquisendone una conoscenza approfondita.
Il suo è stato inizialmente un approccio figurativo con la scultura, influenzato dai grandi maestri del ‘900.
Successivamente la ricerca si è evoluta sperimentando un orientamento più filosofico al fare arte: “il tempo e la sua percezione”, “l’esperienza del dolore nella cultura occidentale”.Il suo lavoro parte dalla realtà per giungere a immaginare universi fantastici, mondi interiori.

Accanto ad opere di matrice iperrealista ritroviamo espressioni legate all’arte povera, al minimalismo, alla video-installazione, alla ricerca concettuale.
Dagli anni ’90 realizza in prevalenza opere di grandi dimensioni per spazi pubblici e privati.
Lavora tra Italia, Francia e Germania .

Ha partecipato alla 52° Biennale di Venezia
ospite del Padiglione della Repubblica Araba
Siriana con l’opera “Europa Pallida Madre”installata presso il Chiostro di San Francesco della Vigna,
riproducendo in grandezza naturale la Colonna e il Leone di piazza San Marco, simulandone la caduta.

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Andres Compagnucci

May 1, 2013, 5:23 pm

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Andres Compagnucci

Born in 1966 La Plata, Argentina.

Education
1982 - 1987 Studied painting and drawing with Carlos Pacheco.
1992 Graduated as a Graphic Designer, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
1992 Studied Argentinian decorative art with Armando Miotti.
1994 Received a scholarship from PROA Foundation to study with Guillermo Kuitca for a year.

Special features
1998 Two of his paintings were reproduced in ceramics for the Carlos Gardel underground station, Buenos Aires.
His paintings were reproduced by the Spanish Mail on three occasions:
2001 To conmemorate the 25 anniversary of the reign of Juan Carlos I.
2003 For the 25 anniversary of the Spanish Constitution.
2004 On the occasion of the Royal Wedding.
2009 Declared Illustrious Citizen by the Honorable Concejo Deliberante, La Plata

"Nací en La Plata en 1966. Soy diseñador en comunicación visual. Durante los años de facultad me dediqué a investigar la gráfica popular argentina llamada fileteado, sus vínculos con la publicidad y el graffiti callejero. También asistía al taller de un viejo fileteador: Armando Miotti.
En 1994 fui becado por la fundación PROA para trabajar en los talleres que dirigía Guillermo Kuitca en la Boca.
En 1998 me fueron encargadas dos pinturas para ser reproducidas en murales que se instalaron en la estación de subte Carlos Gardel, en el Abasto.
Los muchos viajes a España me llevaron a trabajar con una galería de allí y tuve el honor de que el Correo Español reprodujera en estampillas, en tres ocasiones, pinturas mías junto a la Familia Real Española. La primera fue para conmemorar los 25 años del reinado de Don Juan Carlos Primero en 2001, en 2003, también junto al Rey, con motivo del 25 aniversario de la Constitución Española y en 2004 al celebrarse la Boda Real.
La más importante muestra individual la realicé en 1997 con 25 pinturas en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Simultáneamente se exhibía la retrospectiva de Antonio Berni que batió record de público con más de 300.000 visitas.
He participado de las destacadas ferias internacionales: BASEL-MIAMI, en 2003, 2004 y ARCO-MADRID 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004 y 2005. Expuse en colectivas en Viena, París, Londres, Nueva York, Tokio, Miami, Marbella.
He recibido entre otros siguientes premios: Premio Adquisición Fondo Nac. de las Artes, Salón Nac. de Santa Fe, (1990); Gran Premio Adquisición, Salon Trienal de la Prov. De Bs. As. (1990); Premio Adquisición Fundación Pro Arte de Córdoba (1991); Primer Premio Bienal de Arte Joven Bs.As. (1993); Segundo Premio Adquisición Gunther, CAYC (1995); Distinción de Honor Premio Fortabat (1995); Adquisición Fondo Telefónica de Promoción de Pintura Joven (1996); Segundo Premio Universidad de Palermo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1996); Mención Salón Nacional (1996); Ternado para Artista Joven del Año por la Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte (1996); Premio Adquisición Bco. Mayo, Salón Nacional (1998); Primer Premio Adquisición Universidad de Palermo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2000)."

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Gabriel Berlusconi

May 2, 2013, 2:05 am

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Gabriel Berlusconi

Gabriel Berlusconi is an Argentinian artist who was born in 1954.

Nació en 1954 en La Plata. Se crió en Villa Castells. En 2002, una galería estadounidense decidió comprarle toda su obra. Berlusconi dijo que no. Al segundo intento, aceptó. Y empezó de nuevo, como si nada hubiera pasado. “Son esas oportunidades que me da la vida”, dice. Y pinta.

Infancia. "Yo me críe en Villa Castells con todas las libertades. Yo me asombro, a veces charlando con amigos, de la libertad que tenía. Me asombro porque yo jamás les dejaría a mis hijas hacer las cosas que yo hacía, si bien las épocas cambiaron y hay una serie de historias y peligros nuevos. No termino de entenderlo, pero yo tenía 'la libertad'. Sin embargo, la infancia acá, en Gonnet, no está tan presente en mi obra".
La casa de los abuelos. "Yo tenía unos abuelos, que vivían en La Plata, en el barrio El Mondongo, en una casa de las típicas casas platenses, una casa chorizo, una de esas casas con fondo, gallinero, patios, parra, mate y biscochito. O picada y vermouth los sábados y domingos a la mañana debajo de la parra. La casa de mis abuelos era también para mí, un lugar de mucha libertad, aunque en un espacio más acotado. Pero como era una casa muy grande, con un fondo muy largo y un terreno adosado, había 10 millones de recovecos y lugarcitos que también te daban libertad. Todo eso sí creo que esta presente en mis cuadros".

Juegos. "Cuando era chico me entretenía mucho dibujando. Jugaba a los soldaditos dibujando, dibujaba escenas. No eran grandes dibujos, eran casi esquemáticos o con lo que yo podía hacerlos a los 7 u 8 años. Iba haciendo un relato, iba jugando como quien juega con los soldaditos de verdad pero en el papel, en la hoja".

Trabajo. "Lo importante para que el trabajo te rinda, para que haya una continuidad es trabajar, con ganas o sin ganas. En los momentos que tenés ganas, todo marcha mejor. Y en los momentos en los que no tenés ganas, igual hay que trabajar, porque no todos los días uno está súper bien. Si yo solamente apelara a esos días, como en cualquier actividad, sería casi imposible. Los días que no estoy tan bien predispuesto podría decir que por ahí me aburre lo que estoy haciendo, pero no porque es transitorio. Lo de los pisos es inagotable, tengo bocetos, apuntes e ideas anotadas que capaz nunca llegue a realizarlos".

Compañía. "A la hora de pintar la música o la radio están siempre presentes. Llega un momento que me canso de la música y me entretiene mucho escuchar noticias o programas tipo magazine. En un momento donde estoy bocetando no puedo estar distraído escuchando, pero cuando estoy pintando que lo que vale es más el oficio que otra cosa, ahí sí puedo estar escuchando noticias. Silencio, rara vez".

Madrugada. "Me levanto temprano y más en invierno que en verano. En invierno me encantan esas horitas, ahora no fumo, pero cuando fumaba la combinación de madrugada, mate y cigarro para mí eran el elixir. La mayor fuente de inspiración, el silencio de la madrugada, que sea de noche todavía, el ruidito de la estufa, la pava calentándose, mate y cigarro. Ahora es todo igual pero sin cigarro, lo que es un poco menos".

Estaciones. "Yo me llevo bien con todas las estaciones. No me llevaría bien con un lugar donde no hubiese estos cambios de estaciones. Ese supuesto paraíso donde siempre se vive igual, no me gusta. Me gusta el otoño, la primavera, el invierno y el verano".

Artesano. “La pintura sería una conjunción de lo intelectual con lo artesanal, pero a mí me gustan mucho actividades manuales muy distintas. Disfruto mucho haciendo algo de carpintería, como soldándome las ventanas para el taller, entonces tiendo a dispersarme si no tengo un poco de conducta. Yo hice un esfuerzo para poner las pilas acá y darle para adelante en esta actividad, sino no la puedo desarrollar. Si pintás un cuadro por año podés ser excelente pero no pasa nada, no podés hacer una muestra, no te conoce nadie, no podés desarrollar tu carrera”.

Autocensura. “Yo vivo de esto y es otro aspecto que influye. El tema de entrar en un circuito comercial nada tiene que ver con el arte, más vale lo contrario y no porque yo lo desprecie. Al contrario, estoy agradecido porque me da de comer pero también te condiciona y muchas veces tenés que tranzar en cosas. Con el último cuadro que pinté por ejemplo, el boceto entre otros tantos elementos, llevaba uno que yo había pintado en aquel primer cuadro, que era una cucaracha. Terminé sacándola. Desde el significado, reforzaba una cosa. Y desde el punto de vista plástico tampoco era imprescindible, pero a mí me hubiese gustado ponerla y no se la puse porque pensé: ‘Por ahí le meto la cucaracha y no se lo vendo a nadie’. Esos pequeños condicionamientos los tenés. En aquel primer piso quedó, pero en aquel no tenía compromisos comerciales con nadie. A veces tenés ideas que decidís no llevarlas acabo. La autocensura en alguna temática es lo más jodido".

Fe. “Yo me tengo confianza. Hay tipos que dicen ‘puta, que mala suerte que tengo’, porque les pasa esto o lo otro. Y a mí, siempre al revés, creo que de algún lado va a venir la mano salvadora y siempre llega. Por eso soy agradecido a la vida. La vida en casi todas las cosas me dio no dos oportunidades, sino un montón de oportunidades, más de las que debería haberme dado".

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Gabriel Perrone

May 2, 2013, 2:23 am

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Gabriel Perrone

Artista plástico de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trabajos realizados en óleo sobre tela, carbonillas sobre tabla, intervención de muebles y obras de gran formato.

Gabriel Perrone

"I born in Buenos Aires on September 6, 1961.

My father, Jorge Perrone, was a writer, poet and historian ... I think the most remarkable person I ever knew. Surely his attitude towards life and respect for art, propped my vocation. At age 15 I began studying painting with Professor Carlos Cañas in his studio in Barracas. In the late 70's I entry into the National School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano. There I had teachers like George Wacu, Pearl Feijoo, Aida Carballo, Castex ...In that time I also studied photography with Willams Freddes.

In terms of work, I start working on creative work with textiles. So I went through different companies: Textil Le Mans, Castelar, Estampería Albalonga... and Sedamil S.A.C.I., where I manage their product and design department. After a period retired from art, I got back and decided to expose in 2008.

In July of that year I made a individual sample at the Galery Isidro Miranda, headquarters, where I presented more than 12 large-format oil paintings, curated from Julio Sanchez. In October 2009 another particular individual sample. With the name "Venetian Carnival" I exposed in the "Gabriel Del Campo Anticuario", Puerto Madero, more than 15 works including oil paintings on canvas, oil on wood and furniture seized. In this exhibition are acquired 9 works. Also in 2009, during December, I participated in an exhibition in the Gallery Lordi. THere my work is sold, as other colleagues (Felipe Noé, Kosice, Eduardo Hoffman, Milo Locket, Brizzi, etc.) to benefit the ALCESI foundation, Ricardo Gutierrez Hospital.

In June 2011 expose in the gallery "holz" street Arroyo. Again a single sample, where 12 oil paintings presented under the headings "Gula" and "Opera".

2012, April 13 to June 25 in "La Compañia", expound on wood cinders eleven and three large-format oil paintings. This series is called "anatomy"

I am currently in the series tabajando "circus rings" that will be presented on April 26 to May 17, 2013 in the gallery Holz."

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Raphaella Spence

May 2, 2013, 3:25 am

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Raphaella Spence

Raphaella Beatrice Spence was born in London (England) in 1978.

Her family traveled to France where she spent the first eight years of her life.
When they returned to London she continued her studies and her interest in art began to emerge. Her initial production of works were still life paintings. At age twelve her family moved definitively to Italy where she completed her studies at the St. George's British International School (SGBIS). Influenced by views of the Umbrian countryside, Spence turned toward the creation of the Photorealist (Hyperrealistic) landscape and concentrated on developing her technical skills. In 2000 she had her first solo exhibition in Italy, obtaining public recognition and that of the critics.

In 2003 she had her first solo exhibition in the United States at the Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery in New York. Since then her paintings have been included in numerous group survey exhibitions including the, Vero Beach Museum Of Art, Vero Beach, FL (U.S.A.), MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ (U.S.A.), Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (U.S.A), The Roberson Museum of Arts & Sciences, Binghamton, NY (U.S.A.), Chiostro del Bramante, Rome (Italy), Musei Capitolini, Rome, (Italy), Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York (U.S.A.) Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (U.S.A.) and Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec.
Spence has received critical recognition for her work in widely circulated newspapers and magazines including The International Herald Tribune, ART + Design Magazine, rh+ artmagazine, The Spectator, The artist’s Magazine, Art News, Dan’s Papers, Arte di Giorgio Mondadori, Panarama, La Republica, Corriere Della Sera and Il Messaggero.
Her paintings are included in private, public and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada, England, Russia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
In April 2011 Dan’s Papers dedicated the front cover to Raphaella Spence.
At the end of 2012 Raphaella Spence will take part in an international museum tour on Photorealism (Hyperrealism) which will start at the Kunsthalle Tübingen Museum, Tübingen (Germany) and will be continued at the Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (Spain), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, (England), NOMA - New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (U.S.A.), OKCMOA - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklaoma City (U.S.A.) and The Butler Institute Of American Art, Howland Township, Ohio (U.S.A.).

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Javier Torices

May 2, 2013, 4:20 am

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Javier Torices

Madrid 1968

Formación

Inicia su formación, donde aprende las técnicas básicas, en el estudio de arte de su padre, Ramón González, discípulo de D. Nicolás Prado López (Director Artístico de la escuela de artes y oficios de Granada)

IV Curso de Investigación Plástica impartido por D. Antonio Zarco Fortes en Priego de Córdoba

PIEL DE AGUA

Nada hay en el mundo, y con ello en la existencia, que carezca de importancia para Javier Torices. Apunto esto desde el aviso que el observador recibe en los recodos y extensión de su hacer pictórico. Un hacer de artista que urde con firmeza y mesura al abrazo de un rigor que convierte la realidad en imagen, imposible atribuir a nadie más, fruto de la importancia y la perspicacia óptica que regala a lo observado.
Porque la suya es pintura de autor en permanente diálogo consigo mismo, actuando como mediador el impulso perenne de un pensamiento que trasciende al espectador desde sus asuntos. De ahí que podamos señalar que nada de cuanto el mundo es, resulta ajeno al juicio de la realidad individual a la que Javier Torices invita.
Desde la liturgia de la pintura, que tantas veces sus manos han iniciado para concluir y traer al arte escenarios vividos, es posible sentir el maridaje y la comprensión del autor acerca de la propia naturaleza –de la primera persona- y el modo en que la vida y el mundo se presentan.
Nada queda al azar en las miradas nacidas para ser pintura. Pintura y vida, porque las maneras en que Torices aborda la realidad, nos remiten al propio devenir de un artista pródigo en recursos y generoso en sus facultades; tanto, que el observador no puede evitar sentirse casi turbado ante esa extraña agudeza técnica con la propiedad de sobrecoger por cuanto dice, encandilando por su sobriedad y enjundia de peso creativo.
Como acabo de apuntar, Javier es artista de retos, no de alardes; sí de compromiso personal en cuyas conclusiones mucho tiene que ver su capacidad reflexiva, igual en la resolución de asuntos como en el hecho mismo de que sus contenidos se correspondan con el sentido emocional que pone alma a lo pintado.
Con toda seguridad, es por eso que en su obra los ecos de la ciudad tengan mucho que decir y se hallen relacionados con un plano de situación donde las luces y sombras, la noche y el día dibujan el contraste entre esa naturaleza propia, y una ordenación surgida de la medida humana que se pierde en las proporciones para ser cobijo, que Torices domina con mirada de pintor; también para ser paisaje y atmósfera inventada en arquitecturas sahumando el encuentro con las distancias y el horizonte de verdad hecha en los ambientes, la bruma o los destellos. Una arquitectura que Javier lleva dentro de sí y vertebra en sus cuadros sin trasgresión y, sin embargo, suya en los sonidos enmudecidos, solas entre la batahola del trasiego, lejanas acaso por tan cercanas e inspirada en la trazada pictórica tentando el lienzo, como quien busca y halla el pulso animado por donde la ciudad respira y el ruido se silencia en la mirada mascullando al sentir.
Torices pinta la noche. Investiga y crea esfumatos de autor. Pinta la noche acaudalada y el día sereno. Ahí, la obra de Javier se arma de visiones renovadas y encanto entre el esplendor y el pensar cautivo como quien mira al horizonte huido en lo propio con punto de fuga en la realidad. La ciudad en la noche y el día de Torices es una e infinita, para vestirse de nuevos recodos y arquitectura, tocada de ese ambiente propio que se suscita cuando se está en el sitio sabiendo, en fin, que es destreza de pintor e ilusión para los sentidos, propiciando remembranzas, emociones y el tono justo en el que el tiempo es uno, quieto, ese que toca somero la melancolía.
Y es al hilo de este reto que tiempo ha se impuso, desde donde Torices apunta un más allá en sus propuestas. El pintor sabe y es consciente que no es fácil la empresa que sobre sus espaladas se echa. Aún así, se arroja a ello convenciendo y sorprendiendo al observador.
Javier Torices, se adentra en la mar, en el agua, en sus formas y efectos, conformando un nuevo orden estilístico que nada tiene que ver con el asunto de marinas. El artista se moja, se empapa, estudia la superficie de las aguas y el paisaje que construye. Fija su atención en las maneras del ambiente haciendo cresterar el líquido que parece amasado en la labor de sus caricias y los golpes de su pasión, mientras la pintura modela las henchidas sensaciones de lo inconmensurable.
La mar de Torices es litoral de huella jugando entre la arena y la mar, es playa de fino lecho perdida y perfecta retratada y, sin embargo, dispersa al ocio y al recreo, para ser soledad animada y ritmo de poesía al estímulo de su vera. Agua y arena besada de espuma en olas, efímeras tocadas de pincel, razonadas con el mar de las ideas pensadas para el tacto de la mirada y burbujas imposibles pintar empero pintadas.
La mar de Torices es más que todo esto. Parece así haberla sabido y experimentado la densidad que la agita. El tono de su piel y color del abismo. Porque Javier sabe que la mar tiene piel y se relaja o aflige, se enhiesta o compunge como el cuerpo se eriza de frío o emoción, de interior azorado o profético, dejando que esos rotundos y poderosos primeros planos de oscuridad transparente nos adviertan el lugar desde donde el pintor mira.
Y mira desde los adentros, desde la hondura que somete al artista a hacer del mar, la mar no interferida de subjetivo significado, ni concesiones a la épica. Torices pinta la mar desde la superficie hasta lo profundo. De tan grande, casi perpendicular a la mirada, dejando asomar tierra, sin apelar a la sugerencia. Necesita pintar la mar como es y la vemos; insondable, casi negra, azul, verde o espejo punzante de luces y, en primer lugar de la escena, al fondo, vistas desde las afueras, acaso la ciudad, la reverencia al horizonte no resuelto en fusiones frías sino en arquitecturas trabajadas de poemas, elegidas en sus armonías desde esa mar desde la que mira y vadea.
Porque el artista se moja, se empapa y pintando desde la verdad como pinta, retrata la mar que inspira, la mar y su presencia, sin jarandacas, ni decorada; pinta la mar que es, honda, grande que por ser así, así la pinta, sentida como musa y épica de piel desnuda.

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Raffaele Minotto

May 2, 2013, 5:24 am

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Raffaele Minotto

Raffaele Minotto nasce a Padova nel 1969.
Frequenta l’Accademia di Belle Arti, corso di Pittura, a Venezia, dove si diploma nel 1991.
La sua ricerca artistica si concentra sullo studio della figura e sulla sua interazione con l’ambiente circostante. Presta attenzione alla percezione visiva delle immagini attraverso lo studio della ‘materia colore’ e del ‘segno’: nei dipinti degli ultimi anni, in particolare, privilegia un equilibrio, un dialogo, tra materia pittorica e disegno. Alla pittura affianca l’incisione, dedicandosi soprattutto alla tecnica dell’acquaforte e della puntasecca.
Nel 1995 realizza la sua prima mostra personale, presso il Centro di Storia del Costume ‘Ieri Attualità’ di Padova e da questo momento comincia ad esporre con continuità i suoi lavori.
'Via Euganea', mostra realizzata a Padova nel 2003 a cura di Giorgio Segato, documenta bene l'intenso lavoro svolto in questi anni.

In tempi più recenti, nel 2009, la pittura di Minotto è stata selezionata per 'Contemplazioni' ampia esposizione a cura di alberto Agazzani, che ha proposto nel Castello Sismondo di Rimini un efficace punto di vista sulla pittura italiana.
Nel 2010 propone un ciclo nuovo di opere sul tema dei 'riflessi': la mostra dal titolo 'Teatri naturali' viene opitata presso lo Spazio Aref a Brescia.
L'anno seguente espone le sue più recenti incisioni nella mostra 'Dialoghi Incisi. L'arte del segno tra Padova e Giappone': l'esposizione a cura di Carla Chiara Frigo è accompagnata da un prezioso catalogo Edizioni Antiga.
Nel 2011 viena selezionato da Vittorio Sgarbi per rappresentare la sua regione nell'ambito della 54° Biennale di Venezia - Sezione Regione Veneto.
Subito dopo viene pubblicato il catalogo 'Riflessioni' a cura di Alberto Agazzani.
Il lavoro di Minotto è segnalato nei volumi 'La pittura nel veneto - Il Novecento (Mondadori Electa 2006) e la Pittura nel Veneto - Dizionario degli Artsti (Mondadori Electa, 2009)

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Elena Molinari

May 2, 2013, 6:28 am

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ELENA MOLINARI

Elena Molinari nació en Montevideo, Uruguay.
Desde 1988 reside y trabaja en Madrid, España.
Desde 1996 es profesora asociada de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Desde 1980 exhibe extensamente, tanto exposiciones individuales como colectivas, en España, Reino Unido, Alemania, Suecia y Uruguay entre otros lugares.

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Carol O'Malia

May 2, 2013, 8:41 am

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Carol O'Malia

Awards

2010 Berkshire Taconic Grant
2009-10 Winter Show, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
2006 Fitchburg Art Museum, New England/New Talent
2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grant
2001 Vermont Studio Center Artist Angel Grant, Johnson, VT
1999 Winter Show, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA

2010- Framingham State College, Art Department, Visiting Lecturer
present
2008 & Massachusetts College of Art, Communication Design Dept., Visiting Lecturer
1989-1997

Carol O’Malia’s paintings depict ordinary objects and places we have seen and experienced. The subject matter is intentionally serene. The human presence is never far away.

These familiar objects and places summon ephemeral moments and feelings that are often forgotten in the rush of our everyday lives.

Carol was born in Boston and is a native New Englander. She earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. When not in her studio, she can often be found wandering in and around the woods and lakes of New Hampshire and Maine

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Luis Pérez

May 2, 2013, 10:18 am

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Luis Perez

Luis Pérez was born in Valladolid (Spain) in 1978. He studied History of Art at the University of Valladolid. He lived in London for four years and then moved back to Spain.

Awards:

Beca de Artes plásticas 2006/07 (Fine Arts Grant). Diputación Provincial de Valladolid (Spain) (New York City Project, April 2007)

Saatchi Gallery "Showdown Winners Exhibition" at Saatchi Gallery, London (UK) 2009

"CreArt Artists Workshop" with Antonio López & Cristóbal Toral, Valladolid (Spain) 2013

Bio

Luis Pérez nació en Valladolid en 1978. Es Licenciado en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Valladolid. Entre 2004 y 2008 vive y trabaja en Londres. En la actualidad reside en España.

Premios y Becas:

Beca de Artes plásticas de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Valladolid 2006/07 (Desarrollo del proyecto en Nueva York, Abril de 2007).

Saatchi Gallery "Showdown Winners Exhibition" at Saatchi Gallery, London (UK) 2009

"CreArt Artists Workshop" with Antonio López & Cristóbal Toral, Valladolid (Spain) 2013

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Nicky Hoberman

May 3, 2013, 1:04 am

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Nicky Hoberman

Nicky Hoberman was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967.
She has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University, a BFA from Parsons and an MA from Chelsea School of Art. She lives and works in London. She was selected for the 1996 New Contemporaries at Tate Liverpool and included in Saatchi's New Neurotic Realists. She has been in group shows at the Chicago MoCA, Sydney MoCA, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria and Magasin 3, Stockholm. She has had 3 solo shows at Feigen Contemporary, New York.

Education
1994-95 MA, Painting, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1992 Yale Summer School of Art, USA, Battell Stoeckel Fellowship
1989-93 BA Fine Art, Parsons School of Design, Paris
1986-89 MA, Modern History, Worcester College, Oxford University

Nicky Hoberman (British b.1967)

Nicky Hoberman's style is a mixture of photorealism and caricature, illogical figures contrasted against even and flat backgrounds interpreted only through their clothes, expressions, and poses. She is perhaps most famous for her effective investigation of the concepts of isolation, identity, and individuality through her art.

Nicky Hoberman has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University, a BFA from Parsons and an MA from Chelsea School of Art. She lives and works in London. She was selected for the 1996 New Contemporaries at Tate Liverpool and included in Saatchi's New Neurotic Realists. She has been in group shows at the Chicago MoCA, Sydney MoCA, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria and Magasin 3, Stockholm. She has had 3 solo shows at Feigen Contemporary, New York.

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LÉA RIVIÈRE

May 3, 2013, 4:59 am

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LÉA RIVIÈRE

Born in France, LÉA RIVIÈRE studied visual arts, drama and dance in Paris. She completed her studies at the Beaux-Arts in Geneva. Starting in 1984, exhibitions, seminar and study tours enriched her pictoral language. She has been living in Québec since 1990.

She started painting at a very young age with her uncle who taught her the essentials of painting. Her training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva gave her a profound understanding of abstraction, technicality and concept. Léa Rivère's artistic practice has been focusing on painting the female form, as well as horses; an interest that was derived from her earlier experiences of working in horse therapy. Her vast knowledge of anatomy and movement comes from her years of teaching, which enabled her to truly apprehend the true meaning of motion, form and figuration.

EDUCATION

École des Beaux-Arts de Genève 1984/1985

Stage «L’aquarelle de l’abstraction» avec Micheline Bousquet (Anecy) 1987

Stage de peintre à l’œuf «technique des anciens» avec Laurent Bonnet 1991

Stage d’aquarelle avec Jean-Paul Ladouceur et Nicole Foreman (Montréal) 1991 et 1994

Stage «Couleur et espace» aux Nouveau Ateliers d’art visuel avec Francine Labelle (Montréal) 1994 et 1995

Stage de peinture, techniques à l’œuf, à la cire et résines avec Tom Hopkins, Centre Saidy Bronfman (Montréal) mai 1995

Stage de gravure au Carborundum avec Michel Beaucage au Zacolo- atelier d’art de Longueuil, nov. 98

Stage de perfectionnement en gravure avec le peintre graveur Yvon David, mars 2001.

Originaire de France, Léa Rivière, expose dans de nombreuses galeries en Amérique du nord ainsi qu'en Europe et en Afrique. Elle est représentée à Montréal par la galerie Saint-Dizier depuis décembre 2011. Elle commence à peindre toute jeune avec son oncle, qui lui apprend les rudiments du métier. Sa formation à l'école des Beaux-arts de Genève lui donne une bonne connaissance de l'abstraction et de la technique. Établie au Canada en 1990. Elle peint depuis longtemps la femme mais aussi le cheval. L’artiste ne s’attache pas à rendre l’assise d’un cavalier, la véracité de la monte. Ce qui l’intéresse, est le rapport intime et non-dit du cavalier et du cheval, à la fois guide et protecteur.

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Patrick Pietropoli

May 3, 2013, 5:20 am

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Patrick Pietropoli

Né à Paris en 1953, Patrick Pietropoli peint figures et paysages urbains depuis bientôt 30 ans. Ses paysages trouvent leur source dans les panoramas de plusieurs villes à travers le monde, dont Rome, Venise, New-York, Paris ou encore Londres et Patrick Pietropoli continue de s’inspirer des villes qui l’entourent. L’artiste porte une attention méticuleuse à chaque détail, et son usage réaliste de la couleur ainsi que sa gestuelle distinctive, donnent à ses paysages urbains un caractère personnel et familier. Le Graal personnel de Pietropoli est la quête de la beauté : « La beauté, je pense est partout, même dans les détails infinitésimaux de la réalité, telle une cheminée au dessus d’un toit ou une fenêtre gothique tout en haut d’un building New yorkais. » Dit-il. « Je n’ai pas à chercher bien loin pour voir la beauté, car – à mes yeux – elle est dans tout. Par ailleurs, je ne me considère pas non plus comme un peintre réaliste. J’utilise simplement le réalisme afin d’atteindre une autre dimension au-delà des frontières du réalisme. » Patrick Pietropoli a exposé en Italie, en France, en Belgique et au États-Unis. En 2008, l’artiste s’installe à New-York. Ses œuvres se retrouvent tant dans les collections privées que publiques. Le Musée de Melun en France vient de faire récemment l’acquisition d’une de ses œuvres et l’Artiste fait partie de la collection permanente du Musée de la Marine à Paris. La Galerie Saint-Dizier est fière d’être la toute première Galerie au Canada à représenter l’œuvre de Patrick Pietropoli.

Born in Paris in 1953, Patrick Pietropoli has been painting figures and urban landscapes for almost thirty years. His landscapes have been influenced by the panoramas of many cities around the world including Rome, Venice, New-York, Paris or London and he continues to draw inspirations from cities that surround him. His meticulous attention to detail, his realistic use of color and his distinct linear gestures are what make his urban landscapes very personal and familiar, creating an intimate experience between the artwork and its audience. Pietropoli’s own personal Grail is the quest of beauty: “Beauty, I think, can be anywhere and everywhere, even under all the infinitesimal details of reality, like a chimney on a rooftop or a gothic window on the top of a building in New-York City.” He says.” I don’t have to look far or wide to find beauty, because – to my eyes- it’s in everything. And I do not consider myself a realistic painter at all. I use realism to reach another dimension that is beyond the boundaries of realism.” Pietropoli has exhibited in Italy, France, Belgium and the United States and settled in Brookling, New-York in 2008. His work is in both private and public collections, including a recent acquisition by the Museum of Melun, France. His artwork can also be found in the permanent collection of the Musée de la Marine in Paris. Galerie Saint-Dizier is proud to be the first gallery in Canada to represent the works of Patrick Pietropoli.

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Philippe Charles Jacquet

May 3, 2013, 5:44 am

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Philippe Charles Jacquet

Philippe Charles Jacquet was born on November 5, 1957 in Paris, France
He lives and works quoted of Paris.
Adventurous by nature, he loved open spaces and the sea, his early tended towards painting and natural landscapes.

Painting is his way of telling stories, those he would have liked to live, those he could not live. His landscapes are timeless decors, aspirations towards infinity.
He studied Architecture in Paris, graduated in 1980 and practiced for 20 years.

He managed a gallery in Pantin for ten years, where he met numerous artists and used the facility to show his own work. He now devotes his time entirely to his painting.
Dreams, day visions, open fields, oceans, endless plains, fountains, boats lying and forgotten…
An imaginary world, of infinite detail and rigorous lines.
A very particular and mysterious atmosphere.
A universe lying somewhere between fantasy and reality.
His most recent trend is rooted in the theme of ships, a mysterious ambience in a universe lying somewhere between fantasy and reality.

"Philippe Charles Jacquet is not simply a painter of landscapes; he is a creator. Jacquet has mastered the ability to combine what is real and what is imagined. As a result, his compositions, heavily inspired by Brittany coasts and estuaries, have an element of the sublime and register deeply with the subconscious. Although he paints sparse landscapes there is something fundamentally pleasing in the surreal, idealized quality of his work.

Jacquet was trained as an architect at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. After pursuing his career in architecture, he decided to dedicate himself solely to painting and has been doing so for six years. One can detect his background in architecture in his heavily symmetrical, geometric landscapes. However, he successfully offsets the very calculated appearance of architectural compositions with rich colors and an intriguing variety of surfaces ranging from glass-like water to rusted, flaking hulls of barges.

Jacquet is entirely self-taught and his painting technique undoubtedly sets him apart from other artists. Working in gloss paint, an industrial medium, he begins by painting his plywood surface with a uniform base of an off-white color. This medium allows him to achieve remarkably smooth surfaces. Each area of the composition is approached differently; sometimes textures are created using several transparent layers while others are achieved through the use of a razor blade to scratch away at the surface.

Jacquet takes extra care when approaching the houses that often appear in his paintings. He builds, rather than paints these structures, often composing them on paper and later transferring them onto the backdrop. They effectively serve as reminders of a human presence in these expansive, dream-like landscapes.

Jacquet currently lives and works in Pantin, a suburb north of Paris, where he ran an exhibition hall. He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout France. Notably, he won first prize at the Plastic Arts Exhibition at Melun. Axelle Fine Arts is delighted to offer the work of Philippe Charles Jacquet to the American market."

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Goxwa

May 3, 2013, 6:06 am

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Goxwa

Goxwa was born in Valetta, Malta in 1961. She began painting at a very young age and enrolled at the Saint Martin School of Art. Years later, she moved to Boston where she attended Emerson College for film studies. In 1993 she was awarded fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Her encaustic works on canvas defy categorization. Although she draws inspiration from ancient frescos, her paintings have a very contemporary feel. Goxwa explores all genres, yet all of her paintings have the same element of mystery and intrigue. In 1993 she had her first of many solo exhibitions. Since then she has shown in various cities including Paris, New York, Strasbourg and San Francisco. Goxwa currently resides in Paris and her exhibitions continue to draw crowds of admirers and collectors.

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