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Aron Meynell

September 6, 2013, 4:29 am
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"Aron Meynell's work portrays the quiet and uncertain world of abandoned figures in insecure eerie environments, alongside the discovery of beauty and comfort within them. Meynell uses sleep and hibernation as a place for his characters to process discomforts, and to discover treasures left behind from their decayed and neglected existence. The characters in Aron’s narratives are no longer concerned with their exposed skin or the feelings that isolation can bring; they are instead released from their impurities, finding freedom in the unknown. "

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"As if whisking us to a place removed from time, Meynell’s drawings capture a moment of perfect stillness. Many of the compositions focus on the delicate body of a bird, placed centrally in smooth foregrounds that give no hint of actual location. Removed from natural habitats, with graceful wings at off kilter angles, these figures’ vulnerability and beauty are magnified.
Working in greyscale, Meynell arranges his subjects carefully, with an impressive eye for small details. Meynell’s work is infused with a calm that is bordered by unease; it is like looking at the silver reflection of a placid lake, knowing that the slightest motion will break the surface.
Meynell was born in Birmingham, England, but was raised in Detroit, Michigan. He received his bachelors in fine art at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Aron continued his education at the Academy of Art San Francisco where he received his masters in fine art. In Detroit, Aron found inspiration in the muted colors of the empty factories and high-rises once filled by the thriving automobile industry. As a child the artist loved to explore the corners of city’s surrounding forests, and found relics in left behind machinery and cars."







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Andrew Sendor

September 6, 2013, 5:17 am
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Andrew Sendor


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Born 1977 in New York City


Education
2000 Pratt Institute: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Southern Cross University: Painting, Lismore, Australia
1997 Columbia University: Anatomy Studies, New York, NY



Awards
2007 Statens Værksteder for Kunst og Håndværk, Gammel Dok Pakhus, Copenhagen, Denmark (Aug. – Sept. 2007)
1999 Firehouse Art Gallery: Uniondale, NY
1997 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant


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Andrew Hollis

September 6, 2013, 6:17 am
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Andrew Hollis





Born South Africa, 1974

Since graduation in 1996 I have been making art, primarily in the form of paintings, taking part in 1997 in No 4, a human rights exhibition held at the Old Fort in Johannesburg. In 1999 I had my first solo show of paintings, held at the AVA in Cape Town. In 2000 I left South Africa.
I have since travelled extensively, mostly in Europe and Latin America, producing artwork: paintings, sculpture, photography, and more recently video, and have shown work in London, Hamburg, Israel, the Czech Republic and Guatemala.

My work deals with concepts of identity and anonymity, with the dialogue between the internal looking out and the blind external.
Over the last couple of years I have become increasingly interested in developing processes and systems of painting with which to remove the individual from the figurative, in order to return to the human, to arrive at a point beyond relating a story or capturing a moment.
Ive wanted to lose the moment, empty the painting of the specific in order to describe the universal, to create a testimonial to a shared experience.
I am interested in the way the personal can be concealed or negated, being superficially deceitful in order to be truthful, giving information through the removal of information.
I wish to portray neither the subjects visual reality, nor the idea of the subject, but rather a concept made visible through the distortion of the subject.
I wish the subject of the painting to no longer reside in the painting but to reside in the loss of the identity of the subject.
What Ive attempted is the alignment of the practice of figurative painting with a more historical, natural perspective.


1994 1996 National Diploma 3D Design, Technikon Witwatersrand (University of Johannesburg), JHB, RSA



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Claudio Martinengo

September 6, 2013, 7:08 am
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Claudio Martinengo


A painter since 1970, he developed his art work in the eighties and in the nineties with several italian art galleries. His oil paintings express an unpublished and theatrical vision of the mediatic post-modern society, proposing personalities of common life in the immobility of their everyday life.
Oil paintings are of medium-big size dimensions.
Martinengo has participated in art-show exhibitions at: Bologna, Gand, Barcellona, Madrid, Miami, Hamburg, Dusseldorf. His works of art are all over Europe and USA and he has a wide curriculum in Italy.


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Daniel Caro Gardeazabal

September 6, 2013, 7:37 am
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Daniel Caro Gardeazabal


Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1986, Daniel Caro is an emerging artist who has developed his work in a self-taught way. Currently incorporates paper figures in his compositions, breaking the pattern of traditional still life paintings, creating classical realistic compositions with modern aspects that place his artworks into contemporarity.

He has participated in group exhibitions in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, Panama, Mexico and Colombia.










MENTIONS AND AWARDS:
2011 — Honorable mention, 9th National Art salon, Bogotá (Colombia)
2010 — Honorable mention, 8th National Art Salon, Bogotá (Colombia)
2008 — Honorable mention, Exhibition "Process" ( Guerrero Academy of Art / Bogotá - Colombia )



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Tristram Lansdowne

September 6, 2013, 12:22 pm
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Tristram Lansdowne

Born 1983

Education:

2007: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design


Grants & Awards:

2013: Toronto Arts Council project grant

2011: Ontario Arts Council project grant

2007: Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour: Julius Griffith Award











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Fabienne Rivory - Labokoff

September 6, 2013, 1:08 pm
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Fabienne Rivory - Labokoff



Labokoff is a project born in 2007 where I explore interactions between photography and painting, real world and imagination, memories and reality.

My images are built around photographs that are picked in my personal collection: landscapes, nature, silhouettes…
These are individual memories but, through the choice of the photos , the way they are processed, and the minimalism of the resulting pictures, they become more universally evocative and can remain anybody a place, a memory, an emotion…

Painting is made of gouache or inks that are then digitally combined with photos, it is employed as textures, splatters or lines and shifts the images in a dreamy register. It brings vibrancy and add the strength of colors and shapes to raw photographs which creates a more subjective and poetic vision.

These are dreamed images trying to recreate a momentary emotion that anyone can feel in front of nature’s beauty, a particular architectural shape, a landscape passing by or the silhouette of a beloved one.

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Labokoff est un projet artistique que je mène depuis 2007 et qui explore les interactions entre photographie et peinture, monde réel et imaginaire, souvenirs et réalité.

Mes images se construisent autour de photographies piochées dans ma collection personnelle : paysages, végétaux, silhouettes...
Ce sont des souvenirs individuels mais qui, par le choix des clichés, leur traitement et le minimalisme des images résultantes peuvent devenir plus universellement évocateurs et rappeler à chacun un lieu, un moment, une émotion…

La peinture réalisée à la gouache ou à l’encre puis combinée digitalement est utilisée en texture, tache ou ligne, et permet de faire basculer l’image dans l’irréel. Elle apporte une vibration et adjoint la force de la couleur et de la forme aux images photographiques pour créer une vision plus subjective et onirique où chacun peut se fondre.

Ce sont des images rêvées, qui tentent de restituer l'émotion passagère que l’on peut éprouver devant la beauté de la nature, une forme architecturale, un paysage qui défile ou la silhouette d’un être cher.

Fabienne Rivory.




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Diego Simancas

September 7, 2013, 3:38 am
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Diego Simancas




Nace en Badajoz en 1958.



Cursa estudios de grado medio y superior en el Instituto Zurbarán de Badajoz y en el Colegio Salesianos “Ramón Izquierdo”, de la misma ciudad, obteniendo la calificación de matrícula de honor en dibujo en los años 1969, 1970, 1971 y 1972. Cursa estudios universitarios en la Facultad de Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales de la Universidad de Extremadura.



Posteriormente en 1981, coincidiendo con el servicio militar, obtiene el 1º Premio en el certamen de pintura y escultura del campamento militar San Clemente de Sasebas (Gerona). Y el 3º Premio en el certamen de pintura y escultura de las Fuerzas Armadas de Barcelona.



De 1987 a 1995 comparte la pintura con su trabajo en la Industria Farmacéutica.



Desde 1996, dedicado solo a pintar, desarrolla una intensa labor como retratista, culminando esta etapa a finales del 2000. Paralelamente participa en diversas colectivas y ferias de arte.



A partir del 2001, comienza una nueva etapa en la que abandona el modelo y la realizad, como referencia, para dar paso a la imaginación y convertirla en la columna vertebral de su obra.



En 2009, es nombrado profesor de dibujo de la Escuela de Bellas Artes y Oficios Artísticos Adelardo Covarsí de Badajoz.




















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Bernard Vista

September 7, 2013, 6:04 am
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Bernard Vista

Bernard Vista is a full-time painter residing in Pakil Laguna. Famous for his cubism style of rural life scenes with bent heads




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Bernard Vista


"Genre painting is a long-standing tradition in Philippine visual art. Throughout art history, paintings of harvests, markets and the countryside representing the idyllic Philippine vision have earned the respect of art collectors and aficionados. In the fast paced, rapidly developing economic scenario of today's modern life, a look back at the spirit of the Filipino, hence Vista's forthcoming one man show's title "Filipinismo", is best presented with his vision of quaint and picturesque scenes and characters of the rustic Philippine countryside.

In his world, Vista takes the numerous techniques and movements of Philippine modernism from his mentors National Artists H.R. Ocampo and Cesar Legaspi into a contemporary journey of exploration of specific scenes and moments capturing that unique sense of Filipino warmth and optimism via his art.

Vista, heir to the tradition of tipos del pais paintings of farm life, is featured in a much-awaited exhibition titled "Filipinismo" which runs March 1- 10 at Galerie Joaquin Podium located at the Lower Ground Floor, B12-13 at the Podium Mall. There will be an artist's reception on Thursday, March 7, 2013, 6:30 p.m. For more information, please cal 634-7954 or visit www.galeriejoaquin.com

Being one of the Founding Members of the Guevarra Group of Artists, together with Dominic Rubio, Gig and Vincent de Pio and Jerry Morada, Vista has had successful shows at Galerie Joaquin Main and Galerie Joaquin Singapore. He was a resident artist of the Artesan Gallery in Singapore and his works have been included in major international auctions such as the Larasati Auction House in Singapore.

One of Pakil, Laguna's more exciting figurative artists, he gained recognition in the arts for his larger than life depictions of the Filipino way of life, highlighting the rich customs and traditions of Filipinos passed on from one generation to the next. Inspired by the rural scenes of his hometown, he puts on canvas the humble countenance of his people, humanizing the fisher folk and farmers while highlighting their passion for life and their oneness with the bounties of nature. His portrayals of men and women possess that strong glimmer of indescribable peace, contentment and strength of inner spirit.

A product of the fine arts program of the University of Sto. Tomas, he was also a member of the Saturday Group of Artists led by National Artist Cesar Legaspi. National Artist H.R. Ocampo handpicked him as a sponsored scholar of the group with a monthly stipend. He was a children's book illustrator and an art director for a publishing company prior to his career as a fulltime painter. His canvases are living tableaus being acted before the viewer's eyes – a seminal story of bountifulness, prosperity and of Filipinismo. "

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Lydia Velasco

September 7, 2013, 7:21 am
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Lydia Velasco was born on December 27, 1942 in Navotas, Philippines. She is regarded as one of the top women artists in the Philippines.




Lydia Velasco’s love for the arts is an innate calling she traces back to her childhood. She took her early influence and encouragement from parents, who also appreciated the arts. Her father was a set designer for LVN studios while her mother was a typical homemaker who took care of the children, performed regular house chores, and occasionally painted still life works. Since her father earned a meager living, she had to help support the family as fish vendor in Malabon.

She enrolled at the University of Sto. Tomas and pursued Fine Arts Major in Advertising. She worked shortly after as an artist for the advertising agency called Philprom where she stayed for over 10 years. Rising from the ranks, she became Art Director for several multinational advertising companies such as DYR, J.Walter Thompson, Pacifica, Ace Compton, Basic, and McCann-Erickson. It was in 1988, when she finally left advertising and ventured in entrepreneurship as co-owner of Lightmoves Photo/Design, Inc. She also became the company’s Art Consultant.

When the company was about settled, she went back to painting and became core member of Malang’s Saturday Group. She devoted her time fully in painting and went way to discover her art, medium, and style. She focused her subjects on women, liberating them on her canvases and asserting their glory, identity, and freedom amid a mainly patriarchal society. She describes her depictions of women as elongated, massive, heavily set, and invigorated with almost masculine assertiveness.


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Lydia Velasco

Lydia Velasco’s love for the arts is an innate calling she traces back to her childhood. She took her early influence and encouragement from parents, who also appreciated the arts. Her father was a set designer for LVN studios while her mother was a typical homemaker who took care of the children, performed regular house chores, and occasionally painted still life works. Since her father earned a meager living, she had to help support the family as fish vendor in Malabon.

She enrolled at the University of Sto. Tomas and pursued Fine Arts Major in Advertising. She worked shortly after as an artist for the advertising agency called Philprom where she stayed for over 10 years. Rising from the ranks, she became Art Director for several multinational advertising companies such as DYR, J.Walter Thompson, Pacifica, Ace Compton, Basic, and McCann-Erickson. It was in 1988, when she finally left advertising and ventured in entrepreneurship as co-owner of Lightmoves Photo/Design, Inc. She also became the company’s Art Consultant.

When the company was about settled, she went back to painting and became core member of Malang’s Saturday Group. She devoted her time fully in painting and went way to discover her art, medium, and style. She focused her subjects on women, liberating them on her canvases and asserting their glory, identity, and freedom amid a mainly patriarchal society. She describes her depictions of women as elongated, massive, heavily set, and invigorated with almost masculine assertiveness.

To date, she has already majored in nine exhibitions including "La Danse" and has worked with a number of artists for various group shows.

Lydia also commits her time with other organizations such Art Association of the Philippines. She concurrently chairs a group called Kulay Marikina, composed of 30 artists in support of the young art enthusiasts of the city.

There is a book written about her by Galerie Joaquin Managing Director Jack Teotico titled Allure. Velasco’s main interest is to explore the subject of women in her unique and highly personal style depicting them as strong and sensual, exuding inner beauty and confidence. Her works free the Asian women from age-old societal conventions by her highly contemporary style of rendition.

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Katrina Pallon

September 7, 2013, 8:07 am
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Katrina Pallon



KATRINA PALLON is a visual artist working with the medium of paint, photography, and masks. She also works as a freelance book and graphic designer.

A maximalist whose creative works are highly influenced by the intricacies of Viennese and French art nouveau, her paintings, illustrations, and photographs attest to her love for elaborate designs and her knack for romanticizing even the simplest of subjects. Her works echo her enthrallment to fairy tales and myth which she fuses with ornate Pan-Asian motifs, and exquisite blooms. Her subjects more often than not comprise of dark, melancholic, sometimes mystical figures; fleeting beauty; masks; mystery; and women. Using warm, vivid tones, she translates these images into paintings and photographs.

She presently lives in Sta. Ana, Manila with 8 delightful cats. She also participates in spoken word events, sings for goth band Scarlet Tears, plays bass for grunge band Narcotic Venus, and continues to produce masks, photographs, paintings, and illustrations profusely with the hope of improving more on her craft.











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No mysterious air surrounds her, and perhaps that is what which lends most to her mystique. She comes, she goes. She embarks on her travels, a few days here, a month or two there. This wisp of a child-woman has engaged on a discovery of her Asian roots, traipsing through the nooks and crannies of Thailand and Hong Kong, to the less travelled routes of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, before yielding to the irresistible pull of India and Nepal.


Each homecoming is followed by an outpouring of veiled thoughts and emotions on canvas using oils and acrylic. Inspired by German symbologist Gustav Klimt and the dynamic renditions of Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s painter of renown, Katrina or Kat has embarked on a very similar vein of artistry – colors, symbols, portraits of enigmatic women. A case in point is “Ceasing to Bleed,” showing a woman in Vietnamese attire surrounded by a halo of flowers and brilliant colors, her arm outstretched, sporting a long, savage gash but blood no longer streaming from it. It was done after a deep, personal loss.


Katrina is prolific, rendering both commissioned and gallery artworks with prodigious output, and which find their way to buyers and collectors soon enough. A Magna cum Laude graduate of Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines, Katrina Pallon promises to conquer both frontiers of classroom and gallery. Collectors have began to take notice of her obras, as she has just began her own artistic journeys of discovery littered with symbols.


A very intimate picture emerges of her art as described by a friend and critic:

"After her last solo exhibit, Resurgence, artist Katrina Pallon has become the ferryman transporting her captive audience across the underworld river: in her upcoming exhibit, Illuminata, Pallon now takes us through a grim, mystical nether-region of lanterns, cranes, skulls, and roses. As a reflection of her current emotional status, her works reveal a transitory state, a tunnel that leads to the light: it is the ending night with the break of dawn visible from afar; that quickly fleeting, terribly beautiful moment when you hold your breath in anticipation.



Executed in the artist’s trademark maximalist style, 'Illuminata' mythologizes both Pallon’s recent travels across Southeast Asia. Whence before Pallon’s women had been in a state of mourning, the characters in her current exhibit are now in transition–wading out of their entanglement, rising from the emptiness slowly beginning to dissipate."



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Benedicto Reyes Cabrera - BenCab

September 7, 2013, 12:53 pm
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Benedicto Reyes Cabrera - BENCAB


Benedicto Reyes Cabrera (born August 27, 1942), better known as "BenCab", is a Filipino painter and was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006.He has been noted as "arguably the best-selling painter of his generation of Filipino artists."


BenCab was born to Democrito Cabrera and Isabel Reyes in Malabon, Philippines on April 10, 1942. He was the youngest of nine children.BenCab's first exposure and discovery of the arts happened through his elder Brother Salvador, who was already an established artist during Bencab's childhood.

He went on to study at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, where he explored different art visual forms - photography, draftsmanship, printmaking - while honing his chosen craft as a painter. He received his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 1963.

BenCab met British writer Caroline Kennedy in 1966, and eventually married her in 1969. The couple decided to stay in London, where their three children were eventually born.The eldest, Elisar, was born in 1971 and is now a filmmaker based in London; Mayumi was born in 1973 and is now a model and actress living in Los Angeles; the youngest, Jasmine was born in 1977 and is now a London-based fashion stylist.

Bencab's first years as a painter in London "were not particularly easy", but his talents were immediately recognized. Over the next four decades, he established for himself a name of international importance, holding exhibitions from London to New York to Macau, and winning several major art awards in a career spanning four decades.

When BenCab returned to the Philippines in 1972, he was hailed as a Filipino pioneer of the arts and a significant influence among his peers. However, he returned to London once more in 1974, partly to get away from the tightening grip of Martial Law, which Ferdinand Marcos had declared in 1972. That event is said to have "marked the beginning of [BenCab]'s passionate involvement with social commentary and the topics of repression and freedom."
















In 1985, however, BenCab's 13-year relationship with Kennedy ended in a painful divorce, and he eventually decided to come home to the Philippines
BenCab eventually returned to the Philippines, and settled in the City of Baguio in Northern Luzon, eventually putting up a studio and a secluded little farm on Asin road, in the nearby town of Tuba, Benguet. He and a small group of fellow artists - visual artist Santiago Bose, filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, and sculptor Ben Hur Villanueva, among others, established the Baguio Arts Guild (BAG). It was during this period in his career that BenCab began to more deeply explore the use handmade paper as a medium on which to work.

When the 1990 Luzon earthquake struck, BenCab and the BAG helped out by instituting programs such as the ArtAid workshop for traumatized children, and a fund-raising art auction they titled "Artquake." Bencab was elected president of the guild the following year.

Later in the 1990s, BenCab's input was a critical element in the creation of Tam-awan Village, "a refuge for local artists who desire a nurturing environment in which to develop their talents, and a community for all those who wish to take part in the harmonious fusion of art, culture, environment, and history."

BenCab also exhibited considerably during the last decade of the Millennium, also reaping many accolades. Among the most prominent of the many awards received by BenCab during this period was the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining (Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for the Arts) in 1992.







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Hideaki Kawashima

September 7, 2013, 3:07 pm
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Hideaki Kawashima



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1969　Born in Aichi, Japan

1991　BA, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibitions
2011 ”Turning” Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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"Wandering" Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"convolvulus" Michael Ku
Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


2008
 "wavering" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (May 17-Jun 7)


2005 
"mutability" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 
"Shadow Monk" Project Room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo,
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Kawashima's paintings are filled with luminous lips and marble-like eyes. He's interested in the features of people that are burned into our memories. His focus is studies of feminine heads with piercing eyes. Crafted with pristine realism, these works have ventured into the gothic, enchanted, and carefree territory. Abstracted, simply but fetchingly, with contours of balloon-shaped heads and wisps of hair, the figures are delicate and dainty, but powerful.


Kawashima, who studied with Yoshimoto Nara and served a two-year stint as a Buddhist monk, is no stranger to the strange. Influenced by Mark Ryden and Pierre et Gilles, he and his otherworldly figures plot out an ethereal vision that is gaining popularity throughout Asia, Europe, and now in the States — seducing with eyes, lips, and all.










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David de la Mano and Pablo S. Herrero - a different style of Steet Art

September 8, 2013, 3:19 am
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Carl Payne

September 8, 2013, 11:56 am
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Carl Payne


Continuing a successful career in England and Ireland, Carl joined Callaghan Fine Paintings and Works of Art at the beginning of 2004 in order to dedicate his time to create and develop stunning individual contemporary sculpture.

Carl is a Staffordshire based sculptor for whom art has played a large part in his academic work taking him through the Burslem School of Art, the Henry Doulton School of Sculpture and then to Stafford College.

After studying in Figurative Sculpture he launched his career with commission after commission which has now secured his reputation for fine quality workmanship both in life-size format and smaller gallery pieces.

The list of his completed commissioned work is extensive, including many ‘house-hold’ names from the sporting world, commerce and the past.The following are just some of the private and publicly commissioned completed works that form Carl’s prestigious portfolio:-

King George 5th and Queen Mary – life size portrait bust commissioned by Cunards Cruise Ships and located in the ballroom of the Queen Mary 2 (QM2) cruise ship. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross – life size and a quarter commissioned by Banbury Council, located at Banbury Cross and unveiled by Princess Anne. Randolph Turpin – life size and a quarter - commissioned by Warwick and Leamington Spa Council located in Warwick Town Centre, Sir Stanley Matthews – life size and a half - commissioned by the Stanley Matthews Foundation located at The Britannia Stadium, Stoke, Joe Dolan singer –life size commissioned by co.west meath council located in mullingar town, ireland

George Best, Bobby Moore, Roger bannister and Pele have all been commissioned by private collectors and are all life size.





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Michael Talbot

September 8, 2013, 12:15 pm
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Michael Talbot was born in Staffordshire in 1959. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts London, as a post graduate student specialising in figurative sculpture. Michael works from life, creating the original sculpture from clay and casting into bronze before uniquely patinating each sculpture. The process is wholly under his control allowing him to enhance and refine the final image. Michael's bronze sculpture capture the detail, spirit and emotion imbued in the original clay studies of the live model, giving a unique personality to the final work that sets Michael apart from other sculptors. Michael's sculpture is in public and private collections throughout the world including: Patrick Lichfield, former chairman of the Arts Council Lord Gibson and the Nat West Bank.







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Rachel Anne Stevenson

September 8, 2013, 12:31 pm
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In my work I try to capture the impossible the swirling mist of a dreamers mind, as artists we are day dreamers and our business is capturing the impossible, holding on to it and showing it to the world.

But even as we think we have a firm grip, the dream shifts and changes due to each new experience. So as we prepare to project our perfect day dream on to a canvas or thought clay it will take a mighty shift as we then influence and distort our ideal with our clumsy mark making, lets say the idea is represented by a wet oil painting each time we have a new experience we smear our hands from one corner of the canvas to the other distorting our perfect image but seeing new images within the distortion that excite us as before so by the time the painting or sculpture is complete it is nothing like our original image, I believe this is why artist visit the same themes over and over as it is almost impossible to capture our own absorbing and beguiling thoughts, it's like trying to catch mist with a net, this is what keeps me up through the night leaping through the swirling fog of my unconscious mind with a net and a bucket, determined to return home with the impossible silence of these part imagined part remembered places.



Education

NULC collage of art and design

The oval school of figuritive sculpture

Cross St Gallery

Steve white sculpture studio CA

Chenzhen studios HK

The Royal society of portrait sculpture

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Stéphane Cipre

September 9, 2013, 2:20 am
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Born in Paris in 1968, his family, originating from Nice. Stéphane Cipre moved to the French Riviera at the age of four. His artistic career began in 1997 after studying Fine Arts and Art History. His early works can be described as an academic figuration and rapidly became more and more graphic, now seen in his actual works. Naturally, like a child walking his first steps, Stéphane started integrating writing into his work. For Stéphane, it's a revelation. The words and what they mean, are now one. With righteousness and precision, Stéphane revisits the writing, so that it now forms its subject. His art is amazing, a confusion between the signified and the signifier, which both complement each other and become inseparable.










At the same time, it is "art as a commodity" that inspires the sculptor. Deeply affected in his youth of losing local shops and artisans, Stéphane Cipre, through his art, snubs globalization. Which by nature is intangible and therefore valuable, but once in the hands of the artist, becomes valued as an ordinary consumer product!Whether they are strapped, compressed, sequenced or on transport pallets, the letters ART twist perfectly, a dissonant reality in which everything becomes commercial.A true artist of his generation, Stéphane Cipre works as much on his computer as in his studio—giving birth to his sculptures.Stéphane's work is intercontinental, satisfying several foundations and collectors around the world.


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Enzo Scatragli

September 9, 2013, 3:01 am
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Enzo Scatragli


Enzo Scatragli nasce a Castiglion Fiorentino il 15 febbraio 1949. Dopo gli studi presso l'istituto "Margaritone" di Arezzo lavora come orafo, medaglista e modellista presso la Uno A Erre, dove resta fino al 1977.
Successivamente abbandona la fabbrica per esercitare il mestiere di scultore, conservando l'estrazione orafa in molte sue opere. Viene invitato in numerose manifestazioni e mostre a livello internazionale, ed espone in numerose "personali", oltre a realizzare molte opere pubbliche.
La sua prima opera pubblica è nel 1968. La sua prima mostra personale è al Circolo Artistico di Arezzo nel 1971. La sua prima mostra collettiva di spessore internazionale, su invito, è "Forme nel Verde" nel 1975.
Tra le principali mostre personali ricordiamo il Palazzo Ducale di Pesaro nel 1976, le Sale del Castello di Caprese Michelangelo sempre nel 76, Palazzo Barberini a Roma nel 1983 (presentata da Ferruccio Ulivi e Mario Guidotti, visitata dal Presidente della Repubblica Pertini, recensita dalla RAI, dalla critica e dalla stampa nazionali), la Galleria Senato di Purificato a Milano Successivamente espone a Lugano nel 1986 (con la presentazione di Enrico Crispolti), a Roma nel Complesso del S.Michele, sede del Ministero dei Beni Culturali, (presentata da Ferruccio Ulivi, Guidotti e Strinati, inaugurata da Francesco Sisinni e Amintore Fanfani), nel 2002 a Firenze, Palazzo Panciatichi (sede della Regione Toscana, inaugurata dal Presidente Nencini con la presentazione di Antonio Paolucci, Liletta Fornasari e Mario Guidotti), nel 2006 a S.Quirico d'Orcia ("Forme nel Verde", presentato da Liletta Fornasari, Guidotti, e dalla Sovraintendente Mangiavacchi) e nel 2007 Ronda, in Spagna, gemellata con Castiglion Fiorentino. Inoltre numerose altre personali, negli anni, a Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Ponte Buriano, Caprese Michelangelo.
Ha esposto anche in collettive (tra cui numerose edizioni di "Forme nel Verde" a S.Quirico d'Orcia e Caprese Michelangelo), a Colonia, a Cracovia, a Budapest, a Lugano, a Las Vegas, ad Arezzo, a Roma.
Ha realizzato numerose opere pubbliche, tra cui la "Crisalide" nello Scalone d'Onore del Senato della Repubblica a Roma il Monumento allo Sport di Arezzo, il Monumento a Gino Severini a Cortona, il monumento a Carlo Zucchi ad Arezzo; altre opere si trovano ad Orvieto, a Roma, a Palazzo Panciatichi a Firenze, a Caprese Michelangelo, a S.Quirico d'Orcia. Numerose opere sono presenti anche all'estero.
Ha realizzato anche creazioni di arte orafa ed edizioni numismatiche. Ha partecipato a numerose mostre internazionali del gioiello e della medaglia.
Ne hanno parlato numerosi critici d'arte come Ferruccio Ulivi, Mario Guidotti, Enrico Crispolti, Antonio Paolucci, Franco Simongini, Sandra Giannattasio, Liletta Fornasari, Giorgio Di Genova, Mario Luzi ed altri. E' stato recensito dalla RAI e dalla stampa nazionale ed estera tra cui Il Tempo, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, La Stampa, Avvenire e molti altri mass-media (giornali, riviste ed emittenti radio-televisive) in Italia e all'estero.
Totalmente autodidatta, da sempre realizza fonde e scolpisce personalmente le sue opere (nei più svariati materiali, dal marmo al bronzo dorato, alla pietra, al granito), comprese quelle di grandi dimensioni, all'interno del suo laboratorio, presso la sua abitazione, a Brolio in Valdichiana, nella campagna di Castiglion Fiorentino (Arezzo).

















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Renate Verbrugge

September 9, 2013, 3:55 am
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Renate Verbrugge




My stone sculptures are created out of pure inspiration. It should be appreciated with your eyes, your hands, your heart, your soul. No intellectual analysis will speak louder than the emotions my sculptures provoke.

Stone Sculptor at work in Udine, Italy
Born in Belgium in 1964, Renate emigrated to New Zealand in September 1995.

Co-organiser of Te Kupenga Stone Sculpture Symposium, New Plymouth, New Zealand




Introduced to stone sculpture by Filipe Tohi, New Zealand in 1999



















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