Art Spring Festival - M.A.D. Gallery - Milano

M .A .D . G A L L E RY MODA ARTE DESIGN

ART SPRING FESTIVAL | MILANO | ITALIA |

M. A. D. Gallery Milano | present

ART SPRING FESTIVAL Curators | Alessandra Magni e Carlo Greco

CORSO SAN GOTTARDO 18 | MILANO | ITALIA WWW.MADGALLERYMILANO.COM

ARTISTS CATALOGUE

12 . 03 . 2016 - 26 . 03 . 2016

ARTISTS

ALENA KOZIOL ALEX T CRISTINA MAYA CAETANO DAVIDE FORDIANI ENAS ELSADIEK FABIO BELLONI FRANK VERREYKEN GREGORIO ALVAREZ ACEVEDO GUILLAUME FAILLE GUI FEDRIZZI

JANE GOTTLIEB JEANNE BOIVIN KATHLEEN CAMERON KICKIE BERGENGREN NAOYUKI ISHIGA RIKKE LINE ANDREASEN SEPIDEH SALBYARI TATIANA RIVERO SANZ TONY STUCKENS ZEINA BITTAR

ART SPRING FESTIVAL

Be prepared to taste new flavors

If you’ve ever been in an oriental market, not necessarily in Asia

but in any city of the world, you sure remember the fugacious fragrances, the exotic colors, flavors, characters and the fullness of it, so great it allows you to go back there any time you want by just closing your eyes. Some people love this feeling, others might not, but we agree it is an overwhelming experience. There are other places that can give you that same sensation and one of them is in the heart of the Italian city of Milan.

When you enter the fascinating court at Corso San Gottardo 18, you’ll be welcome by a warm hug at the M. A. D. Gallery, that will embraces you with its multicultural and joyful atmosphere; the location, in the Navigli area of Milano, just add a spicy touch being the renewed hot spot for fashion, art and design in the city.

M. A. D. Gallery is a project created by Alessandra Magni and Carlo Greco whom, with all their passion and love, believe that art is the best way to communicate without words and reach out everyone.

Artists from all over the globe have chosen to show their works in this elegant and exclusive place, creating with their art, a unique path between nations.

Danish artist Rikke Line Andreasen talks about homosexual discrimination in Russia while Alex T, from Moscow, represent the Renaissance capital in his “Florence Polyptych” where religion meets the everyday life; same devoutness is found in “Aphrodite Rising” of the Australian Kathleen Cameron; Iranian artist Sepideh Salbyari depict a busy African market with its strong contrasts, and from the African continent comes Enas Elsadiek presenting her questioning self-portrait “Seven Lizards”. A swirling plot of stories, emotions and cultures, as fine as the embroidery paper works of Japanese artist Naoyuki Ishiga. This is to name but a few; in the following pages our art critic Carlotta Biffi will guide you through each artist featured in the Art Spring Festival. Just be willing to sample the world becuase 20 are the artists on show, 16 the countries represented, 5 the continents, only one the spoken language: Art.

Andrea Massucco

Artworks on show

ALENA KOZIOL

Russia

A nude body, molded not by brushstrokes, but rather defined by the boundaries of darkness itself. Alena Koziol's expressive colours suggest an idea of melancholy, a sense of limpness balanced by the daring twist of the background. “Nude” is an extraordinary mix of meaningful tones and mazy textures, aimed to translate the artist's emotions into images.

NUDE collage and oil on canvas 40x85 cm

ALEX T

Russia

The fathomless force of time, which flows through History grooves and coagulates in moments of incredible beauty, is setted in here: Alex T's “Florence-polyptich”, saving the unwordly meaning of an altarpiece, blends falshes of past and contemporarity, even keeping all the emotional charge which features a tribute.

FLORENCE POLYPTYCH digital photography, framed triptych 120x60 cm

CRISTINA MAYA CAETANO

Portugal

Cristina, with her artwork “Superação Da Mente” creates a multi-sensory experience, where the colours flows like flames and define the features of faces. The expressiveness of tones and the neatness of forms increase the spirituality of composition, arousing an ancestral and familiar sense of unnatural which seems to be buried in our own mind.

รฃ DA MENTE SUPERAรงAO oil on canvas 50x70 cm

DF DAVIDE FORDIANI

Italy

DF highly tactile compositions, combining mixed techniques to quite a scenographic final effect, provide a brand new look on Abstract art. With “Memories” the artist seems to face a personal reflection, where emotional reactions coagulate on the forex backup like blood: his very specific style is revealed by the stratification of working steps, as well as by the intrusion of common objects, just like the Rolling Stones magazine, which becomes the composition core.

MEMORIES mixed technique on forex 50x50 cm

ENAS ELSADIEK

Egypt

Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist Enas Elsadiek gives us a soft meeting with a traditional art medium such as painting. “Seven Lizards” provides a sense of pacific coexistence between the human figure – treated with amazing realism – and lizards – which seem to get a symbolical meaning.

The use of colours and the extreme care for details such as the shirt folds or the window glass, resist to the immovable presence of lizards, giving to the whole composition a metaphorical effect.

SEVEN LIZARDS acrylic and gouache on canvas 100x70 cm

FABIO BELLONI

Italy

An extreme attention to details, the ability to exploit the manual mode of his Reflex, the care for the light effects, a deep connection with his subjects: these are the main features of Belloni's style, masterfully presented in his works. Reality, entirely free from filters and post-production effects, is displayed just the way it is, exalted in its most striking qualities by the passion of the artist's look.

CLASS DREAM digital photography 40x50 cm

FRANK VERREYKEN

Belgium

Frank Verreyken, Belgian photographer and artist, unlocks a new aesthetics of forms. Artworks like “On The Other Side Of The Curtain” or “The World Has Changed” suggest an interpretation based on a deep reflection about boundaries, the limitations of our own perspective: using a mainly monochromatic atmosphere and an extreme depuration of forms, Verreyken aims to represent the pure concept, the idea of something we can't fully explain.

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED (since we last met) digital photography 100x70 cm

GREGORIO ALVAREZ ACEVEDO

Chile

The connection between physics and aesthetics laws is, with Gregorio Alvarez Acevedo, completely settled: “Parto En El Cerro” sums up the critical approach he promotes of his own perspective of art, meaning an incessant experimentation of nature, space, evolution and universal constructions. Working on the different ways and levels matter joins up to produce our own reality, the artist offers us an overview in order to arouse our sleeping minds.

PARTO EN EL CERRO acrylic on canvas 100x100 cm

GUILLAUME FAILLE

Canada

Elegance finds a new way to express itself through chaos. “Glacier”, by the Quebecois young artist Guillaume Faille, conveys all the beauty and the mystery of an icy landscape, featured by the evocative tones and the highly tactile treatment of acrylics: his style, mainly abstract, aims to evoke a sensation, the impression of a place suggested by fast brushstrokes.

GLACIER acrylic on canvas 60x90 cm

GUI FEDRIZZI

Brazil

The voices of the old masters of Modernism, such as Matisse, Picasso or André Derain, are now awakened by the interpretation of young Brazilian artist Gui Fedrizzi: the highly expressive use of colours recalls the early experimentations of French Fauvism, connected to an almost primitive simpleness of lines. The emotional charge of “Smile Eddy” and “Lovely Hope” is as intense as spontaneous, deeply human.

SMILE EDDY acrylic on canvas 80x120 cm

JANE GOTTLIEB

USA

Saturated colours and altered perspective changing common points of view into something different: this is Jane Gottlieb, introducing us to a contemporary Wonderland with her strongly theatrical effects. “Hotel Splendido Portofino”, “Bridge Of Dreams” and “Checkerboard Square” show how a classical composition can be turned into a visual challenge, incited by colours.

BRIDGE OF DREAMS digital photography on aluminium 50x75 cm

JEANNE BOIVIN

France

The quiet look of “Blanche (La Jeune Fille Et Le Vieux Canapé)”, by Jeanne Boivin, strikes with her calm realism, with the refined care for details displayed by the artist: the classical composition, combined with an emphasized treatment of light and with the vintage decor of the background, beautifully contrasts with the childish freshness of the subject.

BLANCHE oil on canvas 55,5x46 cm

KATHLEEN CAMERON

Australia

Eclectic artist Kathleen Cameron offers us, with her artwork “Aphrodite Rising”, a vision laden with spiritual references, provided both by the title and by the unconventional composition: the digital effects meet the female body, merging with it and creating a dreamlike apparition not entirely traditional mentions free.

APHRODITE RISING digital photographic composite 40x60 cm

KICKIE BERGENGREN

Sweden

The hazy atmosphere of Swedish artist Kickie Bergengren artwork, “Something To Believe In”, strikes with its suggestive composition, emphasized by soft colours and barely defined human figures. Ordinary life flashes – a road, a stairway, a lovers meeting – melt, in order to create something unspeakable, something known, something to believe in.

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN acrylic on canvas 100x100 cm

NAOYUKI ISHIGA

Japan

Naoyuki Ishiga is an expert of the Japanese art of kirie, the art of cut out and combine paper in order to create pictures. Ishiga reads this ancient tradition with a new purpose, which is to create delicate patterns in order to play with light, passing through the paper diaphragms and producing a new ďŹ ne graphic experimentation.

PILES (details) Kirie “paper and Gold Leaf Paper cut art” 30x40 cm

RIKKE LINE ANDREASEN

Denmark

Visual artist Rikke Line Andreasen experiences a specific style, balanced between pop and realism. The two sides of her art - featured by clean contrasts and blending of nature and artificial objects - are provided by the choice of subjects, combining realistic themes such as “Seaview With Waste” and social issues, as we can see in “Forbidden Love”.

FORBIDDEN LOVE acrylic on canvas 150x120 cm

SEPIDEH SALBYARI

Iran

Misty and complex atmospheres, warm colors, the almost complete lack of human ďŹ gure: these are the main features of Iranian visual artist Sepideh Salbyari, who introduces us to her heart-breaking landscapes, pervaded by a ceaseless sense of movement born by her strong brushstrokes.

AFRICAN MARKET oil on canvas 50x70 cm

TANA

TATIANA RIVERO SANZ

Canada

The sophistication of Tana's photo shoots, which often requires a whole installation, has the richness and the emotional involvement of a narrative structure. Black and white atmospheres combined with the meeting, the melting, sometimes the overlap of forms provide a delicate composition, full of movement and riddles to solve.

LIGHT DISPERSES HER GAZE digital painting 107x71 cm

TONY STUCKENS

Belgium

Belgian artist Tony Stuckens investigates the formal wonders born from shapes and colours encounter. Artworks such as “Le Coq au Combat” and “Mikado Oil” are streams of pure colour, flowing through the canvas surfaces, molding forms and reviving familiar perception in order to gently drive the observer beyond the Formalistic restrictions.

LE COQ AU COMBAT oil on canvas 100x120 cm

ZEINA BITTAR

Syria

The sense of mercy involved in Zeina Bittar's “Compassion Is Indivisible� is quite moving, it strikes with its bitterness: her art, featured by an extremely realistic style, faces tricky subjects such as human compassion, aroused by the direct meeting with death in all its brutal truth.

COMPASSION IN INDIVISIBLE digital photography 40x50 cm

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ALESSANDRA MAGNI & CARLO GRECO

ANDREA MASSUCCO

CARLOTTA BIFFI

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