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Ingrid Nilsson

November 27, 2013, 3:01 am
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Ingrid Nilsson


Born 1968 in London. Moved to Scotland in 1995 and worked in hospitality for 14 years while building up my experience and confidence in painting.
Opened gallery - cafe 'Bon Papillon in Edinburgh's New Town in May 2011 with my partner Stuart Allan.

I have always been drawn to create, to make and to weave stories around it all.
Following a childhood spent obsessing over illuminated projects and craft activities I trained in fine art and photography while working as a freelance illustrator in London.
Since moving to Scotland fifteen years ago my painting has been a learning curve and a journey; an evolving narrative referencing dreams, travels and discoveries with characters created along the way. I work in acrylic on board with mixed media and printed pattern elements; the colours and designs I use evolving in sketch books which are an invaluable part of the process. My starting point is usually figurative, around which the rest of the image develops quite spontaneously; there is often an autobiographical content dependant on recent experiences and heroes.
My Scandinavian lineage draws me to the art of the north and the wilder areas of Scotland; conversely I am also in love with the Far East and the exuberant, florid aesthetic found in abundance there.
Having spent a number of years working in the catering industry in Edinburgh while trying to squeeze my creative work into pockets of spare time, I have recently escaped to focus on my painting.


Education


Foundation at Norwich School of Art,
Photo Arts at Central London Polytechnic
Journalism at Darlington College of Technology














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Fiona Wilson

November 27, 2013, 3:38 am
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Fiona Wilson is a fine arist specialising in portraits and figurative studies in oils. She works from a WASPS Artist's studio in The Briggait, Glasgow and is a member of the Glasgow Print Studio where she makes monoprints and etchings.

















Fiona Wilson
Born 1969
BA (Hon's) Glasgow School of Art, and graduating in 1991
Post Graduate in animation at the University of Teesside 1992
Lecturing in colleges and universities in England and Scotland 1992-2005
Working full time as a painter, designer and illustrator from 2005 onwards.

Background to my work:
From my teenage years I have been obsessed with the era of the 1950s. I was brought up on a healthy diet of rock'n'roll music and Marylin Monroe Movies and was lucky to be a teenager in the 80s when there was the first 50s style revival in fashion and cinema. The era of the 50s to me, typifies the prime of the American dream, where everything was big, the dresses, the cars, the hair and of course, the war was over so everything was looking peachy.

I have a great love of travel and particularly seek out the faded romance of route 66 and 1950s Americana, the deserts and crumbling towns of Argentina and of course the shoppers and commuters in my home town of Glasgow. I am a well known face on the burlesque circuit in Scotland, and I even visited New York to research the cabaret scene in the Big Apple.
New subjects that have attracted my artist's eye at home lurk behind closed doors in antiquated venues of the city such as The Panopticon, Sloanes bar and Dr Sketchy's Anti Art class at The Arches. Here can be found the old world glamour of victorian musicals, burlesque performers, tango dancers and cabaret acts. My most recent figurative work tries to capture the vintage glamour these fabulous women (and men) and portrays both the humour and sexiness in their acts. I have been lucky enough to meet and work with the most flamboyant and talented performers through creating these paintings. Long may it continue.

I also take portrait commissions, and have information on this in the commissions section.


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Alexander Bourganov - Алекса́ндр Бурга́нов

November 27, 2013, 4:17 am
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Alexander Bourganov - Алекса́ндр Бурга́нов





Alexander Bourganov (Born 1935) is a Russian sculptor, a National Artist of Russia, and a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. His recent works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC (2000); a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2008); and a statue of poet Walt Whitman located on the campus of Moscow State University (2009). In 2001 his studio in Moscow was given the status of a State Museum. His other works around Moscow include a series of fountains and statues on Ukrainsky Boulvar, near the Hotel Ukraine.

Bourganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and was graduated from Moscow State Artistic and Industrial College (now Stroganov University). He received a PhD. in art history.































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Bruno Lucchesi

November 28, 2013, 5:07 am
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Bruno Lucchesi



1926 Born in the Village of Fibbiano Montanino, Lucca, Italy.
1947 Studies at the Art Institute of Lucca, Italy.
1950 Completes Education at Lucca’s Art Institute and Moves to Florence, Italy.
1953 Assistant Professor at Florence University, Florence, Italy.
1958 Moves to New York, New York.
1961 First Solo Exhibition in America.
1962 Teaching at The New School of Social Research, New York, New York.
1970 Teaching also at The National Academy of Design, New York, New York.
1980-Present Travels Yearly Giving Workshops Throughout the USA & Europe.























Bruno Lucchesi


Born in 1926 in the village of Fibbiano Montanino, Lucca, Italy, Bruno Lucchesi has been called “the last of the Renaissance sculptors.” As a boy, he worked as a shepherd, his first artistic imaginings demonstrated in designs he would carve out of sticks while tending the sheep. At ten years old, he left his home village to study at a monastery in Lucca, where he had his first exposure to sculpture as an art form. After a few years, he returned home to work on the family farm, throughout the Second World War. During this time he met a Yugoslavian refugee artist, who took Lucchesi under his wing, teaching him the basics of drawing and encouraging him to pursue more formal training. Lucchesi did so, enrolling in the Art Institute of Lucca in 1947, and completing the classical training there in 1950. Subsequently, the twenty-four-year-old Lucchesi moved to Florence and continued to study sculpture, working for the Paternino Reproduction Company, where he made ceramic models of various types of figures for the tourist trade and invented a new technique termed sfoglia, used for creating realistic folds and texture in clothing. He was appointed assistant professor of architecture at the Art Academy in Florence and so began a teaching career, which would continue in the United States, at the New School for Social Research and the National Academy of Design.

It was 1958 when Lucchesi, with his young wife and child, moved to New York City where his wife’s parents lived. In his first year in America, Lucchesi worked a variety of jobs, finding little time for his own work and a scarcity of commission opportunities available. He took to making small sculptures in his spare time, which he began selling through his father-in-law’s frame shop in Greenwich Village. His work soon found a faithful group of followers and he began to earn his living from sales of his artwork. In 1959, Lucchesi won the Helen Foster Barnett Prize for Sculpture from the National Academy of Design and the following year had his sculpture The Bather selected for inclusion in the Whitney Annual, an annual exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture at Whitney Museum of American Art. He returned to Florence, to focus exclusively on his work for one year, coming back to New York City in 1961 to a one-man show at the newly-opened Forum Gallery. His relationship with Forum Gallery would continue for the next several decades, with a total of nine solo exhibitions during that time span.

1962 brought Lucchesi a Guggenheim fellowship (1962-1963) and his first U.S. commission for a frieze at the National Westminster Bank USA of New York. The following decades included a succession of awards and prominent commission work, including four Gold Medals for sculpture: two from the National Academy of Design (1970, 1974), one from the National Arts Club (1963) and another from the National Sculpture Society (1977, 2010). Commissioned sculptures by Bruno Lucchesi can be found at churches in Lucca, Italy, office buildings in Manhattan and various other locations throughout the U.S. and Italy. His work is included in the following collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Columbia Museum, Columbia, South Carolina; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.



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Diego Peñuela

November 28, 2013, 5:58 am
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I was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and got a BFA in visual arts at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Currently I live in Atlanta, GA, where I’m coursing the MFA Illustration program at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) and if everything goes as planed I’ll be graduating on spring of 2013!. I mostly do editorial illustration, although I enjoy experimenting with other fields like animation and graphic design.












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Marta Orlowska

November 28, 2013, 6:35 am
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Marta Orlowska



"Marta Orlowska is a Polish artist that has had a keen interest in Art for many years using different mediums such as pencil, charcoal, acrylics, oil, mosaics and more to express her unique artistic vision. Now using the camera and Photoshop as the next tools, she exploits them to evoke her feelings and mood. Using a photographic medium she creates a different world from everyday reality by
capturing moments of others and her surroundings and by placing them in her own creative world.

Her works has been exhibited in many on-line Art Galleries and published in Art Magazines like " Digital Photo UK Magazine", "Fine Art photo" German Magazine, " Somerset Digital Studio" in USA, book "Altered Images: New Visionaries in 21 Century Photography" in UK.

Marta's images can also be found on book covers in the UK, Italy, USA, France and Italy.

She is the author of " The Stars Like Dandelions" (2012), a compilation of the images from 2009-2012 from her own portfolio.

Marta Orlowska lives and create in the UK, in Harrogate."


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Anne Bagby

November 28, 2013, 7:23 am
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"I employ a combination of printmaking and painting, with layers of color, glaze, texture and pattern. The paintings play with the boundaries between design and texture. My work is deliberately formal and beautiful. The quilt tradition, oriental rugs, and the kaleidoscope inspire the fabric-like look, the lack of volume and deep space and the use of multiple images. In these paintings the edges are firm and significant, but the surface is my primary concern. Layers of glaze over layers of pattern, over collage and stitching: color, shape, texture and the human face. My paintings are concerned with the relationships we have with the world and with ourselves and with who we want the world to think we are. I paint these surfaces."



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Eduardo Rodriguez Calzado

November 28, 2013, 8:12 am
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Eduardo Rodriguez Calzado




Artist Statement

With the use of bright colors, geometric shapes, dashes and dots I create extraordinary abstract imagery. I have been a painter for most of my life, taking painting classes from a very young age, but it wasn’t until recently that I started expressing myself through my artwork.

I am an artist obsessed with detail, expressing emotions through the fragmentation of color, capturing a great light in my artwork. In most of my paintings I represent the human form or some sort of human element and our connection to another plane of consciousness . In my process of painting, I sometimes have a very clear image of what I want to represent, they are images that pop into my head, and that is what I put down on canvas. At other times I just work from a feeling and start putting forms and colors down and later I look at it and find the story I want to tell.

My hope is that whoever sees my paintings will take something away with them, even if it´s just the spark of a memory or a feeling. And that is what great art does, it speaks to you through your emotions and changes you and the way you think and feel. I hope that I will be doing this for the rest of my life because I love to paint and the whole process of using my imagination to create fantastical imagery.


Declaración del Artista

Con el uso de colores brillantes, formas geométricas, líneas y puntos creo extraordinarias imágenes abstractas. Eh sido un pintor toda mi vida, tomando clases de pintura desde una temprana edad, pero no fue hasta hace poco que empece a expresarme a través de mis obras.

Yo soy un artista obsesionado con el detalle, expresando emociones a través de la fragmentación de elementos y color, plasmando una gran luz en cada uno de mis cuadros. En la mayoría de mis trabajos represento a la forma humana o algún elemento humano y nuestra conexión con otros estados de conciencia. En mi proceso de pintura hay veces que tengo una muy clara imagen de lo que quiero representar, son imágenes que entran a mi mente, y eso es lo que plasmo sobre el lienzo. En otras trabajo a partir de un sentimiento y comienzo a colocar formas y colores para después observar y encuentran la historia que quiero contar dentro de esas formas.

Yo espero que las personas que vea mis pinturas se lleve algo con ellas, ya sea el indicio de una memoria o algún sentimiento. Y eso es lo que hace el arte, te habla a través de tus emociones y cambia tu manera de pensar y sentir. Espero continuar haciendo esto por el resto de mi vida porque amo pintar y todo el proceso de utilizar mi imaginación para crear imágenes fantásticas.




Eduardo Rodríguez Calzado (Torreón, México. Septiembre de 1976)

Es un artista plástico dedicado en la actualidad, a la pintura de cuadros en diversos materiales, su obra se basa en el plasmado de temas, visiones y cualidades humanas relativamente conocidas, es agradable para el espectador, admirar el amplio colorido en la composición y el trazo que muestran una armonía bien plasmada, exteriorizando una madurez y equilibrio artístico de vanguardia.

Desde temprana edad, Rodríguez Calzado mostró especial interés por el dibujo y la pintura, estudió la Licenciatura en Diseño Gráfico en ISCYTAC – La Salle, en México, para luego, alimentar su inquietud artística en el Academy Of Art College, en San Francisco, CA. En los Estados Unidos, a donde sus primeros trabajos creativos como diseñador lo llevaron, sin imaginar que toda esa labor de aprendizaje, le traerían al territorio de lo que es hoy, su verdadero trabajo: La creación; Actividad que el pasado 2 de diciembre de 2010, le rindió fruto al ser inaugurada su primera exposición individual titulada Reflejo De Los Sueños, en Torreón, Coah. Además de actualmente, contar el reconocimiento de la comunidad artística como el creativo por excelencia en la comarca lagunera.

A lo largo de su carrera, Eduardo ha experimentado en un sinfín de medios de expresión artística palpable, entre ellas el teatro, donde además de actuar, destacó como diseñador -tanto de escenografía como de vestuario- pintor y realizador de Stages para diversas puestas en escena, tanto de nivel local en su ciudad natal, como aquellas que fueron llevadas a gira por el territorio nacional.

En todas y cada una de las obras que Eduardo ha realizado, se muestra un estilo artístico propio, de origen, transparente; influenciado única y exclusivamente por el autoconocimiento personal y una razón de vida: la pintura.







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Raina Gentry

November 28, 2013, 4:34 pm
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Raina Gentry




Raina was born and raised in Southern California. As a young adult, she moved to Arizona to attend Prescott College where she earned a BA degree in Environmental Philosophy. In 2000 she went back to school to earn a degree in art from the UA, in Tucson. Raina’s artwork incorporates her studies in printmaking, life drawing, collage, and painting, and is heavily influenced by her education at Prescott College. She views each canvas as a playground for her psyche. Each piece evolving naturally and intuitively, with little structure or expectation about the final outcome. Through this organic approach to artmaking, Raina believes that she taps into, and expresses universal themes that many people can identify with. Through complex layering of various media, with a focus on the human form, and nature, she creates meaningful, evocative works that draw her viewers in. Raina now lives in Evergreen, CO.














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Diana Woods

November 28, 2013, 5:07 pm
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Diana Woods is an experimental artist living in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her work is in private and public collections around the world.


In 1980, Diana graduated from William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting & art history. While pursuing her art career, Diana has always believed in the importance of arts advocacy and education. She worked as an artist-in-residence in various schools; as Executive Director of Cinema at the Avalon, a non-profit independent film organization in Grand Junction, Colorado; and as Director of Exhibitions, Permanent Collection, Education and Public Relations at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts.
Diana has exhibited in California, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico. Her solo and group exhibitions include shows at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Red Brick School House in Aspen, Colorado, the Durango Arts Center, The Boulder Gallery, The Webb Gallery in Glenwood Springs, contemporary Colorado Juried Exhibit, Thomas Moxley Gallery in Santa Fe, and Kiechel Fine Art in Lincoln, Nebraska. Diana’s studio sits at the base of Red Canyon, looking up at the spectacular Colorado National Monument.

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As an experimental artist, I try to push the boundaries and explore the territory of color, composition, line and texture. My work bridges painting and sculpture in a patchwork of ideas. Using canvas or wood as a painting surface, I incorporate anything from oil paints, to metals, glass, sand and found objects to create layer upon layer of texture and luminous color.
My studio sits at the base of Red Canyon, below the Colorado National Monument. The canyons tower above me, constantly changing in shadows and light. My work represents the spirit and soul of nature. I search for the essence of land, sky, water, rock. The natural world is ever present as the source and inspiration for all my work.



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Morag Charlton

December 3, 2013, 4:41 am
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Morag Charlton



Morag Charlton was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. She studied Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, Ruth Prowse School of Art and the University of New Mexico. Over the past twenty years she has taken part in numerous solo, group, juried, and invitational exhibitions and completed commissions for businesses and private individuals. As well as teaching drawing and painting she has taught Art as Communication workshops and Outreach programs for Artspace in Raleigh. She is a member of the Burning Coal Theatre Company and has designed and created sets for six of their productions, Einstein’s Dreams, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House, Travesties, The Dead and Twelfth Night. She divides her time between her studio at Antfarm in Raleigh, and Atelier du Monestier, in Caunes Minervois, France. She is represented by the Eno Gallery located in Hillsborough, North Carolina


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Samantha Wilson

December 3, 2013, 5:18 am
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Samantha Wilson


I am currently entering my fourth year at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, after completing a Drawing and Painting focused exchange program at OCAD University in Toronto.

During my time in Toronto I began a body of work consisting of large charcoal drawings, my source material being largely derived from photographs. The purpose of these works became really an exploration of line and surface. What the image felt like to me on the paper, rather than trying to depict exactly what I saw in my source material. It was about working an image until it was interesting and stimulating enough to look at, deliberating what to leave in and what to take out.

This year, building on what I developed in Toronto I have introduced painting into my practice. Continuing to work with photographs, my source material has focused increasingly on historical images. I'm fascinated by their melancholic energy. It's inspiring for me because I want to create works that have somewhat of a "terrible beauty". I'm interested in works that can unsettle the viewer or have a powerful impact yet doesn't horrify.

By starting with an image that I can emotionally engage with, I then juxtapose areas of detail like the face or hands with contemporary images. That way the work can never be a simple reproduction of a photograph, but something completely new.

This process is enjoyable and allows me to answer questions of what I'm trying to create along the way.







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Morag Cullens

December 3, 2013, 5:21 am
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Morag Cullens



"Is it the subject or the handling of the paint that makes a painting attractive? My work challenges the fragile boundary between abstraction and representation, deconstructing the female portrait and exploring the potential of paint handling, fragmentation and composition as subject matter as important as the face it represents"

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Forest Rogers

December 3, 2013, 9:23 am
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Just a word here, for the moment. I studied stage design at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, receiving an MFA in Costume Design. I make critters, both 'fine' and commercial. More anon!

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Rashida Ua Bakari Ferdinand

December 4, 2013, 7:19 am
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Rashida Ua Bakari Ferdinand





Rashida Ua Bakari Ferdinand lives and works as a visual artist in New Orleans. “My spirit vessels are metaphorical representations of bodies as objects of physical, as well as spiritual containment. The emerging and introspective faces on the vessels evoke serenity and bring spiritual peace to my work.”

 Rashida Ua Bakari Ferdinand lived with art throughout her life, inspired by her father’s paintings, artist mentors in her family and community, and her own physical and conceptual explorations as a child. During junior high school, Ferdinand studied with Clifton Webb in the Talented in the Arts Program of New Orleans Public Schools, and continued her artistic studies as a college undergraduate at Xavier University with John Scott.


A desire to further her educational experience led Ferdinand to study at Howard University in Washington DC, where she began her work with clay under the tutelage of Winnie Owens-Hart, from whom she learned an Ipetumodu Nigerian coiling technique. With clay as her foundation, Ferdinand began to create anthropomorphic ceramic vessel forms as representations of spaces for spiritual containment. During the summer of 2005, she apprenticed with Yvonne Tucker in Tallahassee Florida and studied Tucker’s conceptual spirit vessel forms, as they were an inspiration to Ferdinand’s artistic development. She learned the craft of traditional Italian mosaic with Felice Nitollo at Penland Glass School in Seattle, Washington later that year.



During 2006, Ferdinand studied with Syd Carpenter at Haystack School of Crafts in Deer Isle Maine and learned terra sigillata and handbuilding techniques. During her graduate studies at Syracuse University, Ferdinand worked with David MacDonald and was inspired by Carrie Mae Weems to continue her explorations of installation through sculpted forms of trees and roots as representative spaces of renewal. Her works are reflections of her thoughts on the cyclic continuity of life and recognition of the legacies she follows. Rashida lives and works as a visual artist in New Orleans.



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Gerhard Lentink

December 4, 2013, 1:44 pm
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Gerhard Lentink


“I view my work as a declaration of love - spoken terribly slowly”

B I O G R A P H Y

1956 -  Born in Deventer, eastern Netherlands
1968 -1974  - Baudartius College, Zutphen: gymnasium β-
1974 - 1975 - Vrije Academie, Amsterdam (teachers include Ies Jacobs)
Travels in Greece and Italy
1975 - 1980  -St. Joost Academy of fine arts, Breda, southern Netherlands
monumental design/painting
(teachers include Theo Mols, Paul de Swaaf)
1977 - Travels in Egypt
1981 - Sahara, long stays in Mali and Ivory Coast
1982 - presentBased in Dordrecht
realising monumental wooden sculptures
2006 - Stays in Mas de Charrou, France
starts writing autobiographical sketches: Anatopen (published in 2009)

T R A V E L S

Spain (1984-1988, 1991, 1998)
Eastern-Europe (1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2002, 2007, 2010)
Iceland (1987)
Turkey (1987)
former USSR (1989)
Morocco (1992)
Lithuania (1993)
Israël en Jordan (1994)
Italy (1994, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2013)
Scandinavia (1995, 2006)
Turkey en Macedonia (1997)
New York (2001, 2002)
Ireland (2006)
Iran (2007)
Cyprus (2010)

A W A R D S

1990 Ary Schefferprijs-
1997 - La médaille de bronze, Société des Artistes de la Haute-Corrèze
2011 - Public Price jubilee exhibition Open Stal




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Fons Bemelman

December 5, 2013, 9:52 am
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Fons Bemelman


Alphons William Bernhard Johannes (Fons) Bemelmans (Born in Maastricht, January 8, 1938) is a Dutch artist, best known as sculptor. He also works as goldsmith, painter, graphic artist and medal artist.

Bemelmans began his training as goldsmith in 1955 at the Stadsacademie voor Toegepaste Kunsten in Maastricht, where in 1958 he St. Luke Price won. From 1960 to 1962 he went to study with Professor Ludwig Gies in Cologne at the Kölner Werkschulen and afterwards with the Italian sculptor Luciano Minguzzi at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan until 1963. His work can be described as abstracted figurative with the classic theme of myths and legends caught in dreamy yet powerful shapes. Fons Bemelmans lives and works in Eijsden. He signs his work sometimes with AB.

In the 1980s he was also working as Professor at the School of Fine Arts, Amsterdam. His work has been bought by the British Museum. In 1999 Fons Bemelmans was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.




















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Sacha Sosno

December 5, 2013, 11:36 am
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Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky, (1937 – 3 December 2013), better known by his name Sacha Sosno, was an internationally renowned French sculptor and painter. Working most of the time in Nice, in the last decades he has achieved international recognition for his monumental outdoor sculptures in Côte d'Azur, France. He is a part of the New Realist (Nouveau réalisme) movement with the greats: Yves Klein, Arman and Cesar. Sosno has a singular artistic approach: the concept of obliteration. His sculptures are masked by empty or full space, inviting the viewer to use his own imagination.

Sosno was born in Marseilles. His father was Estonian and mother from France. Sosno spend his childhood in Riga (Latvia). During World War II his family manage to escape to Switzerland and later to France. Sacha began painting in 1948 when he was inspired by his neighbour Henri Matisse but stopped in 1956. In 1958 he studied in Paris (political science & oriental languages), followed courses at the Law Faculty and at the Cinema Institute at the Sorbonne. In 1961 went back to Nice and founded the magazine Sud Communications (Southern Communication) where he published his first theory of the "School of Nice". Shortly afterwards, he started his long friendship with Martial Raysse. In the 60s after Military service in Toulouse and work in the press as a war reporter in Ireland, Bangladesh and Biafra Sacha Sosno returned to painting. In 1974 he sold his art studio in Paris to cross the Atlantic by sailboat. Three years later returned to France to make his first sculpture: obliterated cars. In 1983 - important one-man show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret in Nice. The year to follow - first one-man show in the United States at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Galerie Beaubourg in Paris commissioned one of his works in 1986. 1986–1988: Developed several projects which associates sculpture and architecture, e.g. Hotel Elysée Palace with architect Georges Margarita, a 28-meter high work, including a 19-meter high bronze and 420 tons of granite. 1989–1990: Four one-man shows in the U.S.: Miami, West Palm Beach, Sarasota and Tampa. In the 90s he set up his workshop on the heights of Nice where he plants vines and olive trees. In the last decades many important international exhibitions were held in France, Russia, China and Italy. His most recognizable work is "Tête Carrée" (square head building) library in Nice, France in 2001 with architectures: Yves Bayard, Francis Chapus.

Sosno's work has been termed l'art d'oblitér or the ‘art of obliteration’ as a result of his idiosyncratic voids or solids added to an artwork, which obliterate or distort the full picture or figure. Thus giving the viewer the task of imagining what is absent: "I only do 50% of the work; other people have to finish creating the sculpture". His pieces frequently display either the absence of material or an obstructing addition. For example in Tete aux quatre vents femme Sosno removes sections of the bronze work, leaving holes where the face, ears and back of the head ought to be. This requires the audience to use its imagination in constructing the full image. Sacha Sosno's







































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Sosno art gallery building is created by the joint venture of Lithuanian architect Rytis Daukantas and French sculptor Sosno. Artist Sacha Sosno is well known for ‘distorted ‘or ‘unfinished’ sculptures and paintings. The missing gap is left for the viewer’s imagination. The art by Sosno is half finished. The other unfinished work depends on the imagination of people.

He’s has begun his giant scheme of outdoor sculptures in the Côte d’Azur, France recently with Rytis Daukantas Lithuania based architect. The Sosno Art focuses on a saying that you must remove your own log before looking at others eye’s splinter. The ‘log’ here is provided with wood containing four art galleries. This can be accessed through a central stair of the building. Construction having girders and beams fixed in one end will hold the ‘log’ in place.

SOSNO’s “La paille dans l’œil du voisin” an inhabited sculpture is of six hundred square meters and twenty two meter tall structure having gallery space. It consists of souvenir store, conference hall, multimedia room and other amenities. The art gallery building is arranged in six floor plates. The wooden beam meets at the point of bust. The structure is a mixture of fine art and absurdity. It is built exclusively for handicapped persons.

Sacha Sosno, French contemporary art sculptor has been working in Nice. He has got international recognition for monumental sculptures in Côte d’Azur, France. His remarkable work is Library in Nice in the 1980s. Many International exhibitions were held in France, Russia, China and Italy. He has been working on projects in Abu Dhabi, Moscow, and Shanghai.



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Guus Hellegers

December 5, 2013, 4:11 pm
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Guus Hellegers



Gustaaf T.M. Hellegers (1937), sculptor and medallist, lives in Steggerda, The Netherlands. Graduated with honor in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Plastic Arts The Hague (1964), scolarship at the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp (1964). He executed many sculptures in commission through The Netherlands and his works are represented in many privat and public collections.

He works both in bronze and stone.

Type of work: flat sculptures, lying figures and Dreamgates; medals in two and three dimensions.

Awards:
Grand Prize of the FIDEM (Fédération International de la Médaille) Neuchâtel, 1996
J. Sanford Saltus Award for significant achiefment in the field of medallic art from the American Numismatic Society, New York, 2001
Honourable Mention - III International Biennial of Contemporary Medal Seixal Portugal 2003
Hannie Mein Kunstprijs, Wolvega, 2006

















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Fatma Abdullah Lootah

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Fatma Abdullah Lootah

The artist Fatma Lootah resides in Verona, Italy and she's working on this project from her studio there. She left the UAE in 1979 on a journey that ended in residing in Verona. She has exhibited internationally in places such as Italy, France, Switzerland, and Bahrain. She has also exhibited nationally in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.

Her life in Europe has added some elements to her soul as an Emarati artist as she brings in an international eye to Emarati art.

Fatma does not impose her paintings, she lets the viewer appreciate and interpret; yet indicating that it is her "inner fire" which she lays on the canvas















Fatma Abdullah Lootah

Born in May 1955
Education - Academy of Fine Arts / University of Baghdad










Under the fire of colours
by Anthony Papalia ,Le Figaro, May 2002

Mix mischief and exuberance, add a zest of frankness, sprinkle with talent, shake, pour here is Fatma Lootah, artist from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Leaving her country in 1979 “to see something else”, she goes and studies Art in Washington and is trained for three years to drawing, portrait and above all, painting, her favourite way of expression. Fatma Lootah needs to discover the mass, which is what makes the richness of her art.
After her American stay, she flies to Italy where the city of Verona welcomes her with open arms : “Verona is extraordinary, its artistic potential is phenomenal”. That is so true that she still lives and paints there. Her workshop is her secret hideout.


She always paints alone, in an artistic and bodily frenzy : “I love applying the colour with my hand or my foot and feel my creation with my whole being”.
The canvas lays on the floor for Fatma Lootah never paints vertically. She paints fast for her paintings are emotions, feelings, impulsiveness. She does not fear colours and mixes them in unthinkable harmonies, contrasting hot and cold, red, yellow, blue, purple.
The artist does not impose her painting, she lets the amateur appreciate and interprete, yet precising it is her “inner fire” she lays on the canvas, for the public’s joy seeing furtive figures, underwater landscapes or lagoons at sunset, desert visions and mirages of the Orient.

It is in the Galerie Art 3, at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower, that she has chosen to hang up some paintings of her previous exhibition at UNESCO. The four themes, Light, Veils Dance, Blue Extasy and Song of Colours, are a fantasy of coloured richness, reflecting her “painting in action” in blurred shadows, furious waves, multicoloured breakings over unreal landscapes.
According to Hussein Ghubash, Ambassador Permanent Delegate of the United Arab Emirates to UNESCO, expressing his will to further cultural exchanges with France, Fatma Lootah, renowned artist in the whole Arab world, “represents the Arab female artists ; she shows another face of Islam. Our country supports all the artists and women represent 70% of our students”.
Fatma Lootah affirms that Dubai is still in her heart, she will be travelling there next summer. “I like all the big cities for I can watch people. I wander and make the most beautiful encounters”. And when asked what message she would like to tell French people, she sighs with a charming smile “love”.


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