AVA MAGAZINE Annual 2019

DECEMBER 2019 10 €

MAGAZINE CONTEMPORARY ART 2019

Rio de Janeiro, Osaka, New York

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DECEMBER 2019 10€

MAGAZINE CONTEMPORARY ART 2019

Rio de Janeiro, Osaka, New York

AVA Magazine Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 17 B 8 00100 Helsinki FINLAND +358 9444876 www.avagalleria.com/index.php/fi/magazine Painotalo Kirjapaino Välikangas Tullikamarinkatu 3 67100 Kokkola www.valikangas.fi Aineisto Painovalmiin ilmoitusmateriaalin tiedostomuoto: pdf.

Resoluutio: 300 dpi.

Toimitus ja tilaukset: eeva.zwijnenburg@avagalleria.com 2/1 Sivu (42 x 59,4cm) 2 100 € 1/1 Sivu (21 x 29,7cm) 1 220 € 1/2 Sivu (10,5 x 29,7cm) 630 € 1/4 Sivu (10,5 x14,85cm) 430 € 2/1, 1/1 ja 1/2 ilmoitukset ulottuvat sivun ylälaidasta alalaitaan. 1/4 ilmoitukset sijoitetaan sivumarginaalin sisään ja erotetaan toisistaan 4mm marginaalilla.

Etu- tai takasisäkannenhintaan lisätään 10% sekä voimassa oleva ALV 24%.

TOIMITUS

Julkaisija pidättää oikeuden ilmoitushintojen muutoksiin.

Eeva Zwijnenburg Päätoimittaja, AD / Editor-in-chief, AD eeva.zwijnenburg@avagalleria.com +358 449 135 217 Sami Luoto Taitto / Layout sami.luoto@gmail.com Helena Cardoso Koordinaattori / Coordinator ava@avagalleria.com +358 504 430 276 Edson Cardoso Kuraattori / Curator edson.cardoso@avagalleria.com +358 400 765 576

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Osaka - AVA Art Festival

Pink

- Pink October is the month celebrated worldwide for collecting resources, particularly for breast cancer research and prevention.

CASA Art School (Centro de Assistencia Social e Artistica) was founded in August 2005

by Helena and Edson Cardoso. Art School is ment for underprivileged children living in the favela of Cidade de Deus - City of God, in Rio de Janeiro.

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www.belabiennial.org

Casa Franรงa Brasil

Centro Cultural Correios

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Participação especial dos artistas brasileiros: Special participation of Brazilian artists:

Gugu Liberato Ivald Granato Vera Goulart Neville de Almeida Sanagê Gê Orthof José Antônio de Lima Helena Manzan Osvaldo Gaia

Rio de Janeiro

BELA

Parabéns aos vencedores: Congratulations to the winners:

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O primeiro prêmio: Maija Närhinen da Finlândia The first prize: Maija Närhinen from Finland O segundo prêmio: Marcus Amaral do Brasil The second prize: Marcus Amaral from Brazil O terceiro prêmio: Rosa de Jesus do Brasil The third prize: Rosa de Jesus from Brazil

Artistas - Artists Brasil - Brazil

Arvin Widder Avi Neto Ana Clara Guinle Bete Esteves Carla Senna Carmen Thompson Cesar Gomes Claudiah Arantes Cristiane Maschietto Cristiano Preas Cuscua Daniel Laucas Deca Torres Deborah Netto Diego Mendonça Dorys Daher Du Flausino Eda Miranda Eduarda Clark Eliana Carvalho Elis Taves O’Sullivan Ewerton Domingos Favoretto Franklin Carreiro Gabriel Matheus Gabriel Omepp Glaucia Cupertino Gê Orthof Gisa Nogueira Goretti Gomide Gustavo Kuklinski Glória Chan Helena Manzan

Henrique Piantino Isabella Cesar Joseph Figorelle J. Vasconcellos Jefferson Carvalhaes João Duarte Kaiuca Waddington Juliana Tortorelli Juliana Bernabó Klaus Reis Lenice Pitanguy Lila Hamdan Lilian Reinhardt Lucas Ururahy Lu de Paula Luciana Abduche Malu Perlingeiro Marcelo Duprat Marcio Goldzweig Marcos Esteves Marco Rocha Marcus Ferrer Marcus Amaral Mario Ferrer Mariana Costa Marilou Andrasan Marlus Padovan Marcos Queiroz Marcos Rocha Miguel Sereno Milalonso Natalia Lage Nelma Camargo Osvaldo Gaia Patricia Figueiredo Paulette Gerecht Paulinho Marques Rachel Roscoe Rafael Agostin Rafael Meggetto Regina Moraes Raquel Signorelli Renato Rodyner Rodrigo Cid Rogerio Mariano Rosa de Jesus Rossana Cordeiro Rosi Araujo Ricardo Lemos Senagê Sérgio Barcellos Sonia Lima Teresa Asmar Teresa dos Anjos Thiago Tavares Tiago Cruz Umberto Nigi Vanessa Gerbelli Vera Goulart Vitor Fio Vitor Matos Wesley Monteiro Will Penavilla

Finlândia - Finland

Portugal

Aarne Kyröläinen Aino Ulmanen Anna Wilhemus Anna-Maija Rissanen Antti Raitala Angela Oker-Blom Anu Osva Eeva-Liisa Isomaa Eija Keskinen Helena Vaari Henry Wuorela-Stenberg Iria Čiekča Schmidt Kaisa Koljonen Leena Mäki-Patola Maija Närhinen Maj-Lis Tanner Mari Blomroos-Heininen Martti Vartia Nonna-Nina Mäki Raija Kuisma Saila Seppo Sirpa Heikkinen Timo Ala-Vähälä Ulla Karttunen

Alemanha - Germany

Daniel Schlemme Michael Müller Marta von Zeidler Jens Hanke Lilly Grote

Kamy Martins

Argentina - Argentina

Jantus

Suiça - Switzerland

Serge Gauya

França - France

Jacques Stemer

Holanda - Netherlands

Adriano Antoine

Dinamarca - Denmark Suécia - Sweden

Bo Alström Kerstin Svanberg Margareta Gelles Sackarias Luhanko

Ole Skovsmose

Irlanda - Ireland

Elis Taves O’Sullivan

Itália - Italy

Umberto Nigi

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Artists Heidi Hakkarainen Helena Vaari Johanna Mäkitalo Kaisa Koljonen Matti Hyyrynen Paula Mikkilä Piippa Mutikainen Raija Kuisma Riitta Rönkkö Seppo Väänänen Sirpa Heikkinen Suvi Mannonen Timo Ala-Vähälä Mari Heininen

Kerstin Svanberg

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Anita Chan So Mei Ben Wong Chu Pui Fung (Kitty) Clara Pang Emily Law Happy Sue Janet Chan John Wong Shirley Kwok Tony Chu

Alzira Chaloub Carmen Thompson Carla Senna Claudiah Arantes Cristiana Maschietto Cuscua Deborah Netto Diego Mendonça Eliana Carvalho Elis Taves O’Sullivan Ewerton Domingos Favoretto Goretti Gomide Gustavo Kuklinski Helena Manzan Isabella César J. Figorelle J. Vasconcellos Juliana Tortoreli Juliana Barnabó Klaus Reis Luciano Costa Márcio Goldzweig Marcus Amaral Milalonso Natalia Lage Paulette Gerecht Rosa de Jesus Rosi Araújo Sérgio Barcellos Teresa Asmar Teresa dos Anjos Wesley Monteiro Bere Lilian Reyhard Marlus Padovan Isabella Cesar Franklin Carreiro Alexandre Pena Mosa May Kamy Martins Rossana Cordeiro

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PINK OCTOBER

- Vaaleanpunainen lokakuu 25.10 - 10.11.2019 AVAjaiset 24.10. kello 18-20 Opening reception: October 24, at 6 pm - 8 pm Tervetuloa - Welcome

G A L L E R I A

Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 17 B 8 00100 Helsinki ti-pe 11-18, la-su 12-16 Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat-Sun 12am-4pm

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Taiteilijat - Artists: Aino-Kaarina Pajari Anna-Maija Rissanen Anu Eskelin Deng Jianjin Hanne Rokkanen Helena Vaari Hong Liu-Sertti Ilona Rytkönen Kaisa Koljonen Kerstin Svanberg Kristina Elo Maj-Lis Tanner Mari Blomroos-Heininen Maria Aamukaste Minna Maria Lenfeldova Mirja Jaamalahti Nonna-Nina Mäki Päivyt Niemeläinen Raija Kuisma Seppo Lagom Sirkka Laakkonen Sirpa Heikkinen Sofia Wilkman Timo Ala-Vähälä Tutte Nicolau Ulla-Maija Vaittinen Ursula Kianto

Pink October Pink October is the month celebrated worldwide for collecting resources, particularly for breast cancer research and prevention. In Finland, the Cancer Foundation’s objective is to promote scientific research into cancer and cancer prevention, as well as to disseminate information about the risk of cancer, designed for healthy living. The aim is also to ensure adequate support for cancer sufferers and their loved ones. AVA Galleria wants to participate in the campaign by dressing the art of pink.

Lokakuussa vietetään maailmanlaajuisesti vaaleanpunaista kuukautta keräten varoja etenkin rintasyövän tutkimukseen ja ehkäisyyn. Suomessa Syöpäsäätiön tavoitteena on edistää syöpätautien tieteellistä tutkimusta ja syövän ehkäisyä sekä levittää tietoa syöpäriskiä vähentävistä, terveellisistä elämäntavoista. Tavoitteena on myös taata riittävästi tukipalveluita syöpään sairastuneille ja heidän läheisilleen.

AVA Galleria haluaa osallistua kampanjaan pukemalla taiteen vaaleanpunaiseksi.

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Aino-Kaarina Pajari ”Aino-Kaarina Pajari was for a long time well known for her colourfull, painting-like, large size and more or less abstract carborundum works. In 2008 Pajari started to combine carborundum with woodcuts and then concentrated merely in woodcut.

Her themes are dealing with plants, vegetables and landscapes, espesially seashore, fjeld and field sceneries. She collects the themes of her works by taking photographa of things she sees in her trips, on roadsides or in her own garden. She prints her bright coloured woodcuts usually by etching press on thick etching paper, which makes the works three dimensional.”

”Aino-Kaarina Pajari oli pitkään tunnettu värikylläisistä, maalauksellisista, suurikokoisista ja enemmän tai vähemmän abstrakteista carborundum-teoksistaan. Vuonna 2008 Pajari alkoi yhdistää karborundumia puupiirroksiin ja sittemmin keskittyi vain puupiirrokseen.

Hänen teemansa käsittelevät kasveja, vihanneksia ja maisemia, varsinkin merenrantoja, peltoja ja peltomaisemia. Hän kerää aiheita teoksiinsa ottamalla kuvia asioista, joita hän näkee matkoillaan, teiden varsilla tai omassa puutarhassaan. Hän vedostaa moniväriset puupiirroksensa etsausprässillä käyttämällä yleensä paksua syväpainopaperia, mikä tekee teoksista kolmiulotteisia.”

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Flowers 1 40 x 60 cm puupiirros 2019

Flowers 2 40 x 60 cm puupiirros 2019

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Anita Chan I have more than 15 years‘ experience in Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese Ink painting and I started to have works exhibited in some ten years ago. I am now working as a Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese Ink painting tutor.

As a worshipper of nature, I feel touched by comfort and calm while painting or practising Chinese Calligraphy .

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Anna-Maija Rissanen www.annamaija-rissanen.com

Anna-Maija Rissanen on Belgian-suomalainen taidemaalari, jonka inspiraation lähteinä toimii luonto ja maisema. Hänen teoksensa ovat pääosin herkkiä, runollisia ja rauhoittavia mielenmaisemia, joissa länsimainen ja itämainen taide kohtaavat. Esittävän ja abstraktin taiteen rajamaastossa hän etsii herkkyyden ja voiman tasapainoja. Anna-Maija Rissasen työskentelee kerroksittain vesipohjaisilla maaleilla kuten vesiväreillä, akryyleillä, musteella ja liiduilla, sekä käyttää teosten pohjina grafiikan vedoksia ja kollaasia. Hänen teostensa koko ja värimaailma vaihtelevat teemoittain.

Anna-Maija Rissanen on syntynyt vuonna 1983 Järvenpäässä. Hän asui 14 vuotta Brysselissä ja valmistui vuonna 2009 kuvataiteiden maisteriksi ja taideopettajaksi Brysselin kuninkaallisesta taideakatemiasta.

Vuonna 2009 hän voitti Godecharle taidekilpailun ensimmäisen sijan ja stipendin, jonka turvin hän opiskeli vuonna 2012-2013 perinteistä kiinalaista maalaustaidetta Hangzhoun Kiinan Taideakatemiassa.

Vuosien 2009 ja 2019 välillä Anna-Maija Rissasella on ollut Suomessa ja ulkomailla 19 omaa näyttelyä, sekä osallistunut yli 40 ryhmä- ja yhteisnäyttelyyn, johon sisältyy myös taidemessuja ja taidekilpailuja niin Suomessa kuin ulkomailla.

Anna-Maija Rissanen is a Belgian-Finnish painter who finds her inspiration in nature. She focuses mainly on painting poetic inner meditative landscapes of water and rock, between western and eastern representation, between abstract and figurative. In her works she concentrates on searching a balance between fragility and power through mixed perspectives and layers. She uses mainly mixed media that includes among others watercolour, acrylics, ink, print and collage. She poses thin layers of colours and creates different kinds of textures to give depth to the works. Her works vary in sizes and in colours.

She was born 1983, in Järvenpää, Finland. She lived from 1995 to 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated in 2009 with an MA in Fine Arts from the Royal Fine-Arts Academy of Brussels and also qualified as an art teacher. In 2009 she won the first prize of Godecharle of 5,000 € awarded by the Godecharle foundation that gave her the opportunity to continue her studies in China. During 2012-2013 she studied techniques of traditional Chinese painting at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou.

Between 2009 and 2019 she has had 19 solo exhibitions and taken part in more than 40 group shows that include also art fairs and competitions both international and Finnish.

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Towards the Shore

21 x 14,5 cm

mixed media on paper (watercolour, acrylics, pencil, ink)

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Anu Eskelin A German sculptor, a friend of mine, describes my paintings: Through the movement with which Eskelin applies paint to the canvas she consciously lets herself be led into the depth of oblivion, into the realm of the subconscious.

Memories emerge, want to surface along with her.

These are traces of landscapes, figures and architectural fragments, which are revealed to us in the interaction of shapes forming and dissolving. It is a to and fro, a hesitant revealing and concealing of the emerging images.

“Through the application of individual coats of paint the themes that seeks visualization gradually reveals itself,” explains the artist. The images come to her. During the painting process she effectively moves between the two worlds. She ventures on the experience of the abyss.

Our eyes glide as if in dance across Anu Eskelin’s paintings, repeatedly pausing, finding rest. At a place that seems to be both paradisiacal and past, lost. We might sense what is portrayed but we cannot grasp it.

As if we were in a dream-like Arcadia, the place associated with man’s longings. But there are breaks. It is a reflected longing we are dealing with. Elegiac subjects contrast with the often vibrant colors on the canvas.

The contemplative encounters the dynamic, the unconscious meets the conscious. When we look at the paintings we move between what are seemingly opposites.

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How Big Is This Flower 60 x 50 cm acrylic on canvas 2016 37

Ben Wong, Yun Nam Ben Wong is a very productive painter who is expressing his feeling and thoughts about the things that touches his mind. He is interested in watercolor painting, pastel artwork, as well as Chinese ink painting and Chinese calligraphy. His watercolor works includes landscapes of the country side, the cityscapes in Hong Kong and in other countries. He enjoys painting still life, flowers, portraits and other themes. His Chinese ink paintings includes the landscapes in China and the still life in his daily life. His Chinese calligraphy works are created based on poems which he wrote as well as the inspiration of poems from ancient poets.

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BERE A 3x4 photography is needed in official documents such as the Identity Card. It is as if this photo represents everything that this individual is.

It attests and materializes the birth of the human being for humanity.

I'm a graduated architect and also a self-taught visual artist. I started painting as if by chance and along the years I started to create characters always in a rigid pose, as if they were posing for a 3x4 photograph.

The characters are like us: they have a name and personal characteristics that are expressed through color, traits and details inserted in each canvas. It is as if the painted image was the profile photograph of each character, creating a connection with the world today, where people get to know each other through the network and only reveal what is convenient. Illusory masks of an unreal life are created, where the worlds are mixed and self-deceived.

My paintings are like my children. They were born through me and are part of my history and my passage through this world. So after being conceived they will be presented to society and will be judged. I like the reaction of people when they see my canvas; each person identifies more with a particular canvas, just as in personal relationships, we create an empathy with certain people and sometimes we also do not like them, for many and sometimes unexplainable reasons.

The spectator feels the power of the strong features and delicacy exposed, creating immediately a relationship between the being and the canvas. In this way, the figures portray a mixture of feelings and masks used in our human nature, they portray life and personal relationships.

A fotografia 3x4 é necessária em documentos oficiais, como a carteira de identidade. É como se esta foto representasse tudo o que este indivíduo é; ela atesta e materializa o nascimento do ser humano para a humanidade.

Sou arquiteto por formação e Artista visual autodidata por inclinação. Comecei na pintura como que por acaso, e ao longo do percurso comecei a criar personagens sempre numa pose rígida, como se estivessem posando para uma fotografia 3x4.

Os personagens são como nós: eles possuem nomes e características de personalidade que são expressas através dos traços, cores e detalhes inseridos em cada obra. É como se a imagem pintada fosse a fotografia do perfil de cada personagem, criando uma ligação com o mundo de hoje; onde as pessoas se conhecem através da rede e só deixam transparecer o que lhe é conveniente. São criadas máscaras ilusórias de uma vida não real, onde os mundos se misturam e se auto iludem.

Minhas pinturas são como meus filhos: eles nasceram através de mim e fazem parte da minha história e da minha passagem por este mundo. Assim, depois de criados, serão apresentados a sociedade e julgados. Gosto da reação das pessoas ao se depararem com minha obra; cada pessoa se identifica mais com determinada obra. Assim como nas relações pessoais, criamos uma empatia com determinadas pessoas e às vezes também não gostamos, por motivos diversos e por hora inexplicáveis.

O espectador sente o poder dos fortes traços e delicadeza exposta, criando imediatamente uma relação entre o ser e a obra. Desta forma, as figuras retratam uma mistura de sentimentos e máscaras usadas em nossa natureza humana. Retratam a vida e as relações pessoais.

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Chu Pui Fung (Kitty Chu) Kitty’s childhood was influenced by her father, Chu Cheong who cultivated her interest in art. Kitty is distinguished in painting butterflies. The dancing butterflies under her brush look vivid & real.

Kitty is now Chairman of the Eternity Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association, Director of Yi Yuan Painting & Calligraphy Association, Executive Members of Hong Kong Ink Association. Member of Xiang Gang Mei Xie (Hong Kong Artists Association). Kitty’s works have been shown in many exhibitions in Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Elegance Colored wash painting on paper 27,5 x 27,5 cm 2019

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Vitality Colored wash painting on paper 27,5 x 27,5 cm 2019

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Clara Pang Clara Pang, born in China but raised in Hong Kong, is passionate about nature, sports and the arts.

She is an prominent member of the Hong Kong Watercolour Society, being an administrator of the 花花少女, Flowers Group, a very active body with numerous member artists around the world. She participates in many of the Group's outdoor painting activities.

Clara Pang is a watercolour painter who plays with colours, which she often turns into flowers, landscapes and happenings. She likes to express freedom, spontaneity and emotions through her paintings. She hopes that her art will convey a positive message and bring happiness and promise to people.

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Claudiah Arantes claudia.mea@globo.com http://claudiah-arantes.com

Claudiah Arantes - Rio de Janeiro - born 1956 Graduated in Architecture from Santa Ursula University in 1980 and post-graduated in Urbanism from University of Estate of Rio de Janeiro in 1982. She entered the art world quite early through drawings and different types of materials, always having the use of color as the foundation of her work. Going to several known artists studios, has improved her techiniques which contribuited in the search of new journeys. She is currently attending group and individual exhibitions, exploring the figurative combined with abstract, making use of collages with recycle materials and textures.

Claudiah Arantes - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 1956 Arquiteta graduada pela Universidade Santa Úrsula (1980), pós-graduada em Urbanismo (UERJ, 1982). Sua incursão nas artes deu-se bem cedo através do desenho e das experimentações com materiais diversos, tendo a cor sempre como alicerce de suas obras. Tendo frequentado vários ateliers de artistas renomados, aprimorou técnicas que contribuíram na sua busca por novos caminhos. Participa de exposições coletivas e individuais, atualmente, explora o figurativo aliado ao abstrato, fazendo uso de colagens com materiais por vezes reciclados e de texturas.

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O Olhar 95 x 150 cm acrylic on canvas, with mixed techniques of texture and collage on canvas 2017

Retrato em Vermelho 95 x 150 cm acrylic on canvas, with mixed techniques of texture and collage on canvas 2017 47

Cristiane Maschietto The work of the artist aims to draw attention to the preservation of the environment. Developing and putting into practice ideas for the development of society, in a way that does not harm nature, through sustainability, without compromising future generations.

O trabalho da artista tem o intuito de chamar atenção para a preservação do meio ambiente.

Elaborando e colocando em prática ideias para o desenvolvimento da sociedade, de forma que não prejudique a natureza, através da sustentabilidade, sem comprometer as gerações futuras.

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Cuscua Artista plástica Cris Costa nasceu na cidade de São Paulo e desde criança demonstrava interesse pela arte. Grande parte de sua vida adulta foi vivida na Itália. Em Roma residiu ao lado do Museu de Arte Moderna e pôde enriquecer ainda mais sua bagagem cultural, com as influências artísticas do país. Autodidata e artista de personalidade inspiradora, Cris identifica-se artisticamente como Cuscua. A artista pinta “de alma” e sua arte questiona os padrões e injustiças. Principalmente, as injustiças às mulheres. Não se considera feminista, apenas defensora da justiça ao ser humano, em especial às mulheres. Quanto aos padrões, suas obras não seguem repetições.

Cada tela é uma arte única, genuína e desprogramada, que exibe ritmo e gestualismo, convidando o observador a olhar para dentro de si mesmo. Assim, questiona e rompe os padrões. Busca mexer mentalmente e emocionalmente com as pessoas, levando sua energia da alma. Sua arte busca transmitir a mensagem que as pessoas devam ser elas mesmas, assumindo o próprio eu e alcançando a liberdade.

Seu estilo artístico é o expressionismo abstrato, tendo como base o action painting e dripping. Utiliza técnica mista com tinta acrílica e grafite. Suas primeiras telas surgiram em 2005, mas escondia suas obras, até serem descobertas pelo seu então companheiro, em 2014. Daí em diante, volta a pintar com mais dedicação. Cuscua encontra em suas telas o espaço ideal para despir sua alma e transbordar seus mais profundos sentimentos.

Cuscua, além da paixão pela arte, dedica a educação e criação de seus três filhos. Sua vida é um conjunto de emoções, onde a artista se entrega de alma na arte, em uma eterna montanha russa de emoções artísticas e familiares. Sempre buscando questionamentos e mudanças. Cuscua alimenta sua própria existência, como assinatura de seu alter ego espiritual.

A artista realizou sua primeira exposição individual, em São Paulo, no ano de 2016. Desde então participou de mais nove exposições, sendo cinco no Brasil e quatro no exterior (USA e Europa). Além das exposições tem participação em livro publicado e doações de obras para leilões beneficentes. Suas telas emocionam colecionadores de diversos lugares do mundo, pois tem obras vendidas em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Roma, New York, Miami, Lisboa, Helsinki e Montevidéu. Para 2019, a artista tem programada diversas exposições em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Helsinki, Paris, Berlim e Osaka.

Sua identidade artística está no improviso da alma, estimulando o questionamento, justiça e a criatividade espiritualizada. Enxerga a arte como expressão da essência e estimula o olhar para dentro de si. Por fim, outra característica marcante na sua identidade artística está a sinergia da afirmação 1+1>2. Acredita que a conta é crescente e infinita. Assim como tem sido sua carreira e reconhecimento artístico.

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Deng Jianjin Deng Jianjin was born in 1961 in Guangdong. Now he is the professor of the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Works in the domestic art museum or gallery, and the United States, Finland, Russia, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Spain, France, Australia, Portugal were on display and collection.

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Diego Mendonça Diego Mendonça, nasceu no ano de 1982, em São João del Rei/MG. Advogado que largou a profissão para dedicar-se às artes, sua grande paixão, atualmente é mestrando em Artes pela Universidade Federal de São João del Rei. Foi aluno do grande pintor Quaglia e atualmente é discípulo de Yara Tupynambá.

O artista já foi premiado em diversos salões de arte. Entre as premiações recebeu Ouro na Bienal Européia Latino Americana de Arte Contemporânea, no Centro Cultural dos Correios – Rio de Janeiro, que foi promovida pela AVA Galerie – da Finlândia. Também Ouro no 42º Salon Premier of International Association of Artists, realizado em Portugal, em junho deste ano; Medalha de Bronze no Triatlon das Artes do Principado de Liechtenstein, Bronze no voto popular no Salão de Arte Contemporânea realizado no Carrousel Du Louvre Museum em outubro de 2015, entre outros com medalhas de ouro, prata, bronze e Menção Especial do Júri.

Com várias exposições individuais e coletivas, já expôs seus trabalhos na sede da ONU (Organização das Nações Unidas) e no Consulado do Brasil em New York e também em Hight Point (EUA). Foi selecionado e participou da VII Bienal de Pequenos Formatos em Moita (Portugal). Teve seus trabalhos expostos no Salon International d’Art Contemporain no Carrousel Du Louvre em Paris (França) e na Galerie Koko em Viena (Áustria), em Figueira da Foz e Cidade do Porto (Portugal), Miami (EUA), Vaduz (Principado de Liechtenstein), Florença (Itália), Osaka (Japão), Roma (Itália), além de várias capitais brasileiras como Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Belém e Brasília.

Entre os trabalhos do artista, recentemente fez ilustrações e capas de livros para editoras importantes, como as capas dos livros “Mulheres de Aço e de Flores” e também “Mulheres cheias de graça” do Pe Fábio de Melo.

Seus quadros já foram catalogados e fazem parte de coleções de renome e de celebridades.

O artista traz em seu currículo mais de 50 exposições (individuais e coletivas), além de salões de arte.

Inspiradas em cenas do cotidiano, na natureza, na música e na literatura, suas obras levam o espectador a refletir sobre a vida, sobre a necessidade humana e sobretudo faz com que o admirador entre em seu mundo pictórico.

Segundo Carlos Perktold (2012), “Diego Mendonça, tão jovem e já humanista (...) Bom de desenho, bem orientado e influenciado pelo mestre Guaglia, de quem foi discípulo, Diego faz de seu oficio sua paixão pessoal, mostrando que se seu presente é bom, seu futuro é brilhante.. Sua pintura tem o claro-escuro desenvolvida pelos grandes mestres e com o qual ele começa a lidar. O resultado é surpreendentemente bom para quem é tão jovem. Diego Mendonça não pode ficar restrito à sua bela cidade. Merece um lugar à sombra nas grandes cidades e galerias de Minas e do Brasil (...)”. Perktold é analista e crítico de arte, mora em Belo Horizonte / MG (integra a ABCA e AICA).

Para Yara Tupynambá “(...) Diego Mendonça, que foca seu olhar especialmente nos músicos, captando seus gestos característicos, transportados para suas telas, construídas em composições sintéticas e emprego sutil de cores, que nos lembram a herança técnica que recebeu do grande pintor Quaglia, que foi seu mestre.

Entre quadros e música Diego caminha, em um crescendo, com calma, como o próprio clima da cidade, em busca de seu estilo próprio, que o colocará, certamente, entre os bons artistas mineiros.” Yara Tupynambá, pintora, foi aluna de Guignard e Goeldi, estudou no Pratt Institute de New York. Foi tema de uma Sala Especial na Bienal de São Paulo. Foi professora e diretora da Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG. (integra a ABCA e AICA).

Já Fernando Pacheco afirma “... essas pinturas de Diego Mendonça. Recheadas de belezas do cotidiano e de mistérios que despertam nossa sensibilidade. Secretas cartas impressas sobre consistente estrutura plástico - construtiva, além de técnica irrepreensível (apreendida através do convívio com o saudoso Quaglia), com que trata o realismo das figuras centrais, nos coloca em diálogo vivo (apesar desse mundo globalizado e computadorizado) com a mais fundamental cereja da vida: ARTE!” Fernando Pacheco, artista plástico, em sua

trajetória constam os principais museus de todo o país (MAM, MAC e Pinacoteca – São Paulo; MAM e Museu Nacional de Belas Artes – Rio de Janeiro; MAP – Belo Horizonte; etc.).

Morgan Motta afima que “ (...) Diego Mendonça, artista contemporâneo que vive e cria em São João Del Rei (...) demonstra antes de tudo, desdobrar coerente e maturidade ainda jovem. (...)”

Morgan Motta (2014), é jornalista, cineasta, crítico de arte, membro da ABCA e da AICA.

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Eliana Carvalho The plastic artist Eliana Carvalho with her aesthetic, ecological and social commitment creates a unique artistic language.

Self-taught, she gets carried away by her anxieties, seeking inspiration in bucolic lyricism, in the dialogues of the birds and in personal dreams. In her works the essence of nature and mutation merge into a combination of curves, rhythms and forms giving life to a dead trunk, to an abandoned window or door. With her tool in hand turns the log into art giving him back his life.

Animals and birds are a recurring theme in the work of the artist who also uses her works as a form of alertness and protest.

A artista plástica Eliana Carvalho com seu engajamento estético, ecológico e social cria uma linguagem artística única.

Autodidata, deixa-se levar pelas suas inquietações, buscando inspiração no lirismo bucólico, nos diálogos dos pássaros e em sonhos pessoais. Em suas obras a essência da natureza e da mutação fundem-se em uma combinação de curvas, ritmos, formas dando vida à um falecido tronco, à uma janela ou porta abandonada. Com o torques em mãos transforma a tora em arte lhe devolvendo a vida.

Animais e pássaros são um tema recorrente no trabalho da artista que também utiliza suas obras como forma de alerta e protesto.

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Pรกssaro Azul 31 x 55 cm madeira e ferro

Revoada 40 x 60 cm madeira e ferro

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Emily Law Siu Ting Emily Law Siu Ting, born in China, living in Hong Kong, graduated from the Engineering Faculty of City University of Hong Kong and later completed the Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She like different medias and forms of art, oil painting, acrylic, water colour, dry media, sculpture, Chinese ink painting and so on. In recent years, she concentrate on the Chinese paintings. She has trained both in western and Chinese art and made the best use of both skill sets to depict with brush stroke and paint. Emily Law has planned & joined a number of group exhibitions and her solo exhibitions from 2010. In 2018, she established her art studio at Fotan, HK. She is one of the founding members and the secretary of the charity art group "Serendipity" form in 2015.

Emily’s artworks have been published in newspapers and found in a number of personal collection.

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Treasure Food

35 x 46 cm

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Franklin Carreiro A pintura de Franklin Carreiro se caracteriza pela intensidade de suas cores vivas, multicamadas, e a total ausência de idéias e esboços pré concebidos na criação de suas obras. O artista, como em catarse, começa e termina suas obras de uma só vez,compulsivamente. Não usa títulos ou denominações, pois, na sua percepção, cada olhar verá uma imagem diferente.

The painting of Franklin Carreiro is characterized by the intensity of their vivid colors, multilayered and the total absence of ideas and preconceived sketches on the creation of his works of arts. The artist, as in catharsis, begins and ends his works at once, compulsively. Do not use titles or designations, because, in his perception, each eye sees a diffrent image.

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Hanne Rokkanen Olen espoolainen luontoaktivisti ja selkäinvalidi ja tehnyt taidetta täyspäiväisesti vuodesta 1995. Maalaamisen lisäksi teen grafiikkaa jota myös jatkuvasti opetan. Säiden salliessa työni alkavat keskellä luontoa mutta lopullinen ulkoasu syntyy työhuoneessani. Maalaukseni syntyvät hitaasti, työstän useita töitä yhtä aikaa. Käytän töissäni akryyliä, akryylitussia ja öljyväriä. Työni kertovat ajatuksista ja tunteista, joita syntyy luontokokemuksista.

I'm a nature activist from Espoo and an invalid due to my back. I have been an full time artist since 1995. As well as painting I make graphic arts and also teach it constantly. If the weather permits my works starts in the nature but the final results are made in my atelier. My paintings are made with time, I paint several artwork at the same time. I use acrylicpaint, acryl ink and oilcolors. My artworks express my thoughs and feelings which are composed from my nature expirience.

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Summer Play, Act I

60 x 40 cm

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Summer Play, Act II 60 x 40 cm acrylic on canvas

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Happy Sue Happy Sue, a Malaysian Certified Public Accountant cum Artist, started her career with painting and creativity workshops after inspired by the caveman painting in Altamira, Spain. She strongly believes that everyone can paint.

Starry Night, Maldives 10th April 2019 I'm wishing on a star, To follow where you are...

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Heidi Hakkarainen www.heidihakkarainen.com heidimariahakkarainen@gmail.com

Teokseni ovat päiväkirjamerkintöjä; kuvia subjektiivisista kokemuksista. Teema kulkee maalauksissa eri paikkoina, joissa olen käynyt, viettänyt aikaa ja, jotka ovat jollain erityisellä tavalla koskettaneet minua.

Abstraktin esityksen, rikkaan värimaailman ja intuitiivisen työskentelymetodin avulla pääsen lähelle kokemuksieni perimmäistä tuntua.

Kokemukset säilyvät mielessäni ja luonnoskirjassa muistoina, joihin palaan työhuoneella. Ne muodostuvat mieleeni väreinä, muotoina, viivoina, rytminä ja liikkeenä. Taiteilijana pyrin saavuttamaan kokemuksien ainutlaatuisuuden mahdollisimman rehellisellä kuvaamisella. Maalaus ei koostu ainoastaan kauniista ja harmonisista elementeistä, vaan niitä rikkoo jännite, hetkessä oleva särö.

My paintings are as a journal; pictures from subjective experiences. I paint places and moments which have been touched me very special way. Abstract and colourful presentation and intuitive working method leads me close to my unique experience.

I collect experiences in my mind and on sketchbook as memories. At the studio I return to those and cultivate them to colors, forms, lines, rhythms and moves. As an artist I try to reach unique experiences with the most honest way. That means not to represent only aesthetic or harmonic element but a tension which might be as a crack in the moment.

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Helena Vaari www.helenavaari.fi

Textile Artist Helena Vaari designs and sews works of textile art for both private residence and public premises. Textiles for Churches are her specialities. Vaari takes part on group exhibitions and has ones of her own.

The artist´s techniques are application, free machine embroidery and textile collage. Vaari calls it painting by sewing machine. The yarns are her colours and the needle is her brush. The tiny yarns have special power. The yarn is threedimensional, it has the twist and the beautiful shine. When Vaari sews hundreds of tiny twisted yarns together, the power and the threedimensional effect of the yarns will strengthen.

The picture is very lively, when the light reflects from the yarns and gives power to the whole works.

Helena Vaari is very interested in folds of the clothes, shadows and lights. She wants to represent fabric by fabric; to sew pictures where human is wearing shirts and coats and to see the three-dimensional movement of the fabrics by painting sewing machine.

A artista têxtil Helena Vaari projeta e costura obras de arte têxtil tanto para residências particulares quanto para instalações públicas. Têxteis para igrejas são suas especialidades. Vaari participa de exposições coletivas e individuais.

As técnicas do artista são aplicação, bordado livre de máquinas e colagem de têxteis. Vaari chama de pintura por máquina de costura. Os fios são as cores e a agulha é o pincel. Os minúsculos fios têm poder especial. O fio é tridimensional, tem a torção e o lindo brilho. Quando Vaari costura centenas de minúsculos fios torcidos juntos, o poder e o tridimensional faz o efeito dos fios se fortalecer. A imagem é muito animada, quando a luz reflete os fios e dá poder a toda a obra.

Helena Vaari está muito interessada em dobras das roupas, sombras e luzes. Ela quer representar tecido por tecido; costurar quadros onde o humano está vestindo camisas e casacos e ver o movimento tridimensional dos tecidos pintando a máquina de costura.

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Hong Liu-Sertti hong.liu-sertt@hlsart.fi www.hlsart.fi

- Finnish artist rooted from China.

- BFA guaduated in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.

- Artworks exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa.

Example: Gallery of Forssa Art museum Finland, Satellite Art Fair of Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Salon in Louvre Museum and Ning Nan Fine Arts Museum in China -Theme: freedom achieved from harmony of mankind and mankind with nature. Key element: birds as metaphor of freedom, universal love and unity. “Her artwork appears in a tactile interplay of spaces and forms using a meditative symphony of brush strokes in elegant compositions�. ( Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, Art Historian)

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Let the Dream Fly 1

50 x 40 cm

mixed media

2019

Let the Dream Fly 2

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Ilona Rytkönen www.ilonas.fi Ilona Rytkönen (b.1962, lives and works in Jämsänkoski) Even if my painting is landscape-oriented, there is a human being involved in it: the person is there as a spectator, experiencer, encounter, thinker or just observer.

My expression as an artist is often mysterious or symbolic. You can see the inner feelings or the impression of a certain moment. This is more important to me than documentary or portrait painting.

In my color palette, I have pursued a minor color scale. Occasionally, the surprising colors that appear in the painting process will amaze and confuse myself. Whether they can remain in the final work or hide or delete them, are the most interesting moments in my painting process.

“It feels like a little melancholy and yet the ability to sense beauty is mixed in delicate scratching strokes: like a crack in the feeling that mixes for a moment. What the picture represents is realism: the street after the rain, but the way the picture looks like it is sentimentalism.

The subject, philosophy and technique of making art make Rytkönen a special artist. Subjects are often used to something: a person, a face or a landscape. Their everydayness is realism, while painting technique approaches art as abstract expressionism under impressionistic appeal. Rytkönen looks inwards and outwards in her art. But the inner gives you the tone, the movement and the feeling.”

Author: Saara Heikkilä, Master's Degree in Art History and Freelance Artist (25.9.2019).

The full text of the article is at the end of the artist's homepage Biography: www.ilonas.fi/biografia.html My art techniques are oil painting on canvas and soft pastel painting on paper.

I started as a full-time painter and contemporary artist in 2004 after graduating from the Orivesi College of Fine Arts. Ihave also studied at the Open University of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (Taik), the Free Art School, the Pekka Halonen Academy and several other art courses since 1978, most recently the Finnish Cultural Foundation's portrait painting course in Turku in 2011.

I have had several domestic solo exhibitions since 2003, as well as joint and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad such as Rio de Janeiro, Osaka, New York, and Florida (and Berlin in November 2019).

I have been a member of the Jyväskylä Artists 'Association since 2011 and I was a member of its Board of Directors from 2015 to 2016. I am a member of the Finnish Painters' Association since 2012. In 2016 and 2017 I have been a member of the Finnish Artists' Association (STS) as an elected representative of the Association of Finnish Fine Art Organizations (SKjL).

In 2018, I received a grant from the Central Finland Arts Council for the Arts Promotion Center (Taike).

Vaikka maalaukseni olisi maisema-aiheinen, on siinä ihminenkin mukana: katsojan osassa, kokemassa, kohtaamassa, miettimässä, toteamassa. Mystinen, symbolinen, sisäisellä tunteella ladattu ilmaisu tai jonkin vaikutelman luominen tietystä hetkestä on minulle tärkeämpää kuin dokumentinomainen luonto- tai muotokuvamaalaus. Olen pyrkinyt väripaletissani kohti niukkoja värivalintoja. Toisinaan taas maalausprosessissa esiin tulevat yllättävät värit hämmästyttävät ja hämmentävät itseäni. Saavatko ne jäädä lopulliseen teokseen, piilotetaanko vai poistetaanko, ovat mielenkiintoisimpia hetkiä maalausprosessissa. ”Tuntuu kuin pieni melankolia ja kuitenkin kyky aistia kauneutta sekoittuisivat herkissä raapivissa vedoissa: kuin tunteen säröjä, jotka sekoittuvat hetkeen. Se mitä kuva esittää on realismia: sateen jälkeinen katu, mutta se, miten kuva sen näyttää, on sentimentalismia. Aihe, taiteen tekemisen filosofia ja tekniikka tekevät Rytkösestä erikoisen taiteilijan. Aiheet ovat usein jotakin totuttua: ihminen, kasvot tai maisema. Niiden arkisuus on realismia, tekniikka taas lähestyy taidetta kuin abstraktia ekspressionismia impressionistisin vedoin. Rytkönen katsoo taiteessaan sekä sisäänpäin että ulospäin. Mutta sisäinen antaa näkyvälle sävyn, liikkeen ja tunteen.”

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Kirjoittaja: Saara Heikkilä,taidehistorian maisteriopiskelija sekä vapaa taidekirjoittaja (25.9.2019).

Kirjoitus on kokonaisuudessaan taiteilijan kotisivujen Biografia -sivun lopussa: www.ilonas.fi/biografia.html

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Isabella Cesar A artista plástica Isabella Cesar, explora os acidentes do tempo para extrair o belo. Suas referências vêm do inacabado, vêm da vida, do tempo. As pesquisas da artista estão focadas na “pintura a calce“ encontrada nas paredes toscanas, no stucco veneziano, na rusticidade das paredes antigas. Outras referências vêm da pintura caiada, que viu por onde passou e conviveu. Presente na rusticidade da ruínas, dos monumentos, vêm do inverno, da neve. A inspiração vem dos países nórdicos, da elegância e simplicidade dessa atmosfera. Vêm do estilo Hygge de ser e de viver.

Visual artist Isabella Cesar, explores the accidents of time to extract the beautiful. Her references come from the unfinished, from life and the passage of time. The artist's researches are focused on "painting chalk" found in Tuscan villa walls, Venetian stucco, and the general rusticity of old walls. Other references come from whitewashed paint, from places she passed by and lived. Present in the rusticity of ruins and monuments, it comes from winter and snow. Her inspiration comes from the Nordic countries, with its atmosphere of elegance and simplicity. They come from the “Hygge” way of being and living.

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Janet Chan My name is Janet Chan, a great patron of arts and a painting lover since as a child.

In 2015, I started to create acrylic abstract paintings and joined a few exhibitions.

My paintings have been exhibited in Hong Kong CaiMer Arts Exhibition in 2018 and Asia Invitation Art Exhibition in Seoul 2018 and 2019. I hope to create more beautiful and splendid art to the world.

-- Janet Chan, 2019

Spring 37,5 cm x 28 cm acrylic 2018

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Johanna Mäkitalo

https://johannamakitalo66.wixsite.com/mysite Olen taidemaalari Jyväskylästä. Tekniikkani on öljyväri. Ympäröivä luonto ja maisema ovat kiinnostukseni kohteita. Asun aiheideni ääressä. Maalausteni lähtökohtana on olemassa oleva tila, paikka, kohtaaminen. Maisema on myös mielenmaisema ja tunnekokemus; läsnäolo sekä luonnossa että maalatessa on tärkeää. Luonto on alati muuttuva, virtaava, järjestyksessä ja sattumalta. Myös maalaukseni saavat virrata. Irtaudun luonnon todellisuudesta luodakseni uuden, kuvan todellisuuden. Tarinan kertoo katsoja. Maalausteni maailma on kaunis, mutta jotain uhkaavaa on leviämässä: pimenee, pilvet kasaantuvat, varjot liikkuvat. Katsoja/ ihminen etsii suojaa, polkua, väylää katoavassa paratiisissaan.

I am a painter in Central Finland, Jyväskylä. My technique is oil painting. I paint the surrounding landscapes and nature in all into my paintings. The nature is for me a mystic and beautiful place of soul and presence. The landscape is my home. The world in my paintings is beautiful but something threatening is about to happen. The sky is getting darker, clouds are gathering and shadows are moving. Viewers/ people are seeking shelter or path through the landscape in their disappearing paradise.

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John Wong Born in Hong Kong, I have been studied under great Chinese ink art masters, namely Ho Choi On, Hung Hoi, Wong Ling Yu, and contemporary ink painting masters, Chui Tsz Hong, Wong Hao Kuai and Fung Wing Kei to learn traditional and modern ink art. I have received a diploma in Chinese landscape painting after attending the University of Hong Kong SPACE. Devoting to ink art for over 30 years, I would love to sketch with ink and rice paper. Through abstract and semi-abstract techniques, those shining moments and slice of lives are likely to be captured. I believe painting is a form of inner world and a reflection of subconsciousness.

Lingering charm, emotion and unique style are all indispensable for a piece of art. I have participated in various exhibitions and my works were collected by the Shek King Yi Museum and a personal collector.

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Impression of Tuen Mun Harbour, 海灣系列一屯門海港印象, 48 x 36 cm, contemporary ink painting, 2019 Sunset Rhythm of Fishermen Harbour, 海灣系列一漁歌晚唱, 36 x 48 cm, contemporary ink painting, 2019 81

Joseph Figorelle Passages Beyond presenting us a sculptural set of intense density and greatness, the artist Joseph Figorelle leads us to consider that in such circunstances between the organic material and the artistic project the human existence is also registered, which is related to the time finity. The time aspect has a strong paradox that we should consider, it means, the humanes produce dates objects beyond their own time and, in this case, the objects replace their desappearance.

Percursos " ... Para além de nos apresentar um conjunto escultório de intensa densidade e grandeza, o artista Joseph Figorelle nos conduz ao raciocínio de que nessas circunstâncias entre o material orgânico e o fazer artístico está registrado, também, a fragilidade da existência humana que se relaciona com a finitude no tempo. O aspecto temporal possui um forte paradoxo que devemos considerar, isto é, o de que o homem produz objetos datados para além do seu próprio tempo e, nesse caso, os objetos suprem o seu desaparecimento."

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Kaisa Koljonen I'm a 27 year old visual artist from Jyväskylä, central Finland. My emphasis is on printmaking and painting.

Visually my works mix surreal, abstract and symbolic elements, creating imagery that invokes the human subconscious with its archetypal elements. I use a lot of imagery of human anatomy in my art, and mix that with other visual elements creating an impression of a distorted surreal anatomy book. The use of symmetry appears naturally in my art - I feel that it reflects the fractal structures of nature. In printmaking my works are built of groups of small organic lines, which finally form the artwork. The motivation for my art is to experience what it is to be human, and to let the viewers reflect themselves from my art. Currently my work is strongly influenced by the theme that a human is at the same time a physical and a psychological creature, and those two forms of excistence are bound together. In my art I strive towards the higher purpose of being human.

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Kamy Martins The PHOTOGRAPHER Cláudia Marina Figueiredo Martins (KAMY MARTINS) was born in the city, by the sea, of Lobito, of the district of Benguela, in the Portuguese Colony, ANGOLA, the 8th of February of 1968.

Graduated in Mathematic and with a Course of Photography and Cinema at the University of Coimbra (PT), Master´s degree in English Language by the University of Cambridge (UK) and Cinema Critic, she belonged to the newspaper "IMPROP" of Science Faculty of University of Lisbon, among others. Published a book of Photography entitled "Cascais by Kamy´s Lens" where we can see a litle of her work as a photographer and Artist that is part of Artistic Expressionism movement. Kamy lives in Cascais since 1996.

A FOTÓGRAFA Cláudia Marina Figueiredo Martins (KAMY MARTINS) nasceu na cidade do Lobito, à beira-mar, do distrito de Benguela, na Província Portuguesa Ultramarina, Angola, em 8 de Fevereiro de 1968. Graduada em Matemática com formação em Fotografia e Cinema na Universidade de Coimbra (PT), Mestre em Língua Inglesa pela Universidade de Cambridge (UK) e Crítica de Cinema, escreveu para o Jornal "IMPROP" da Associação dos Estudantes da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, entre outros. Publicou em 2016 o livro de Fotografia intitulado "Cascais pela Lente da Kamy" onde apresenta um pouco do seu trabalho como fotógrafa e artista. Ela desenvolve a sua arte através do seu "olhar fotográfico". Kamy vive em Cascais, desde 1996.

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Kerstin Svanberg www.kerstinsvanberg.se kerstinsvanberg@hotmail.com

I am a Swedish artist working with handmade paper. For Pink October I have combined my paper works with archival digital prints. The photos of the women used in my collage are my relatives born in the middle 1800s.

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We Can't Be Hidden 60 x 40 x 3 cm Handformed linenpaper, pigments, digital archival print 2019

Hidden But Still There 60 x 40 x 4 cm Handformed linenpaper, pigments, digital print 2019

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Kristina Elo syntynyt / född / born 1963 www.kristinaelo.com

Vuosien 2007-2011 täysiaikainen opiskelu Repin-instituutin kuvataidekoulutuksessa Kotkassa Pietarin Taideakatemian professoroiden ja pedagogien ohjauksessa toi valmiuden kehittää omaa taidetta yhdistämällä hankittu vahva klassinen taito ja mielikuvitus laatukuvanaivismiksi. Kristinan mukaan laatukuvanaivismi on taidesuuntaus, jossa naivismi ja realistinen maalaustaide lyövät reilusti keskenään kättä ammentaen toisensa parhaita puolia. Kristina on pitänyt näyttelyitä Suomessa sekä ulkomailla vuodesta 1991.

Heltidsstudierna år 2007-2011 vid Repin-institutets bildkonstskola i Kotka, under ledning av St. Peterburgs bildkonstakademis professorer och pedagoger, gav färdigheten att förnya den egna konsten. Med hjälp av det goda kunnandet i realistiskt måleri samt sin fantasi skapades den naivistiska genremålningen. Enligt Kristina är naivistisk genremålning en konstinriktning som kombinerar den klassiska realismens teknik och naivismens humor. Kristina har ställt ut sina målningar i Finland samt utomlands sedan år 1991.

Kristina has studied fine arts at the Repin Institute in Kotka, full-time between 2007-2011. The studies under the guidance of professors and teachers of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts gave her the tools to renew her own practice. By combining strong classical skills with her imagination, genre painting of naive art was created. According to Kristina naive genre painting is an art genre which combines the technique of classic realism with the humor of naive art. Kristina has exhibited her paintings in Finland and abroad since 1991.

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Maj-Lis Tanner maj-lis@tanner.fi I am a Finnish visual artist living in Espoo near Helsinki. My last works of art have been painted with expressionist style on plexiglass because in this way I can reach the most of the colors I love.

This method of painting and acrylics give me a sense of photographing, too.

In my paintings I wage a battle on behalf of nature. My love of nature can be seen in colors that occur in nature. The four seasons of Finland seem to guide my color spectrum so much that sometimes resistance is futile. During the last years my paintings have described memories of my wanderings high in the North of Finland. Still I can see reindeers walking slowly on hills, eating lichen and teasing wanderers they meet. Some memories remind me of heavy and menacing morning mist.

With acrylics I can also be playful and mix reality with imagination.

Minha natureza Nas minhas pinturas, travo uma batalha em nome da natureza. Meu amor pela natureza pode ser visto nas cores que ocorrem na natureza. As quatro estações da Finlândia parecem guiar tanto meu espectro de cores que às vezes a resistência é fútil. A mais bela variedade de cores está relacionada às cores outonais da Lapônia, na Finlândia, quando o solo brilha com marrons e vermelhos, e todos os tipos de sombras escuras, no meio das quais se destacam a laranja e a turquesa.

Eu sou uma artista finlandesa que vive em Espoo, perto da Helsínquia, a capital da Finlândia. Durante os últimos anos, minhas pinturas descreveram a Lapônia e as lembranças de minhas peregrinações por lá, no norte da Finlândia. Ainda consigo ver renas andando devagar nas colinas, comendo líquens e provocando andarilhos que encontram. Às vezes, eles podem ficar bastante enfurecidos e defender seu território. Às vezes eles ignoram os errantes, inclusive eu. Eles vão me deixar fazer esboços para minhas pinturas futuras.

Durante as noites eu posso ouvi-los andando na minha tenda, me aceitando, me deixando sozinha.

Minhas últimas obras de arte foram pintadas com acrílico em plexiglass. O resultado desse método de pintura me dá uma sensação de fotografia.

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Marcio Goldzweig

http://marciogoldzweig.com http://fb.com/xilogravuras.woodcuts http://fb.com/marcio.goldzweig http://fb.com/figurinhas.carimbadas Marcio Goldzweig simboliza em seu trabalho um agregado de culturas. Um brasileiro de ascendência judaica, palestina, americana e do leste europeu, ele é atraído por formas que nos trazem de volta ao Oriente.

Especialmente através do uso de antigas técnicas de caligrafia que evocam, à primeira vista, os estilos hebraico, islâmico e japonês que ligam essas culturas ao mundo contemporâneo, fabricando suas próprias ferramentas de escrita - os Qalames Orientais ou as canetas de bambu que revelaram ao mundo a escrita.

O Qalam foi descrito como o símbolo da sabedoria e com ele o artista transforma elementos da caligrafia em arte abstrata -, ou como o artista define, “Abstrações Caligráficas”.

Tomando algum tipo de ascetismo de sua herança judaica, referências islâmicas, com fortes conexões com a arte japonesa do Shodō e uma vida no Brasil, Goldzweig cria imagens que transcendem as ideologias culturais, agregando um meticuloso trabalho de xilogravura em suas criações.

Marcio Goldzweig symbolizes in his work an aggregate of cultures. A Brazilian of Jewish, Palestinian, American, and Eastern European descent, he is drawn to ways that bring us back to the East.

Especially through the use of ancient calligraphy techniques that evoke, at first glance, the Hebrew, Islamic, and Japanese styles that link these cultures to the contemporary world, making his own writing tools - the Oriental Qalams or the bamboo pens that have revealed to the world the writing.

Qalam has been described as the symbol of wisdom and with it, the artist transforms elements of calligraphy into abstract art - or as the artist defines, "Calligraphic Abstractions."

Taking some kind of asceticism from his Jewish heritage, Islamic references, with strong connections to Shodō's Japanese art and a life in Brazil, Goldzweig creates images that transcend cultural ideologies, adding meticulous woodcut work to his creations.

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Kane 30 x 42 cm Fineart Print on Rives Tradition 270g/m2 2018 95

Marcus Amaral In the wake of my youth I realized a need to produce something that could express my emotions and feelings. Life was demanding answers to the feelings it caused on me. My involvement with art happened in a pragmatic way when in 1982 I started the course of Fine Arts at the University. Even without completing the course, it gave me the exact dimension of what it meant to embrace an artistic career. The two years I spent in College were very important, but my work was done outside school, experimenting and developing non academic techniques.

Over the years this process has gone through several phases. Today I could say that my work consists in extracting of materials and objects their hidden essence. I have the need to expose the reverse, I'm always looking for the unfinished perfection. This proposal is a constant challenge, bringing close to me the possibility of error and frustration, demanding always a fresh start. My work is like mining, always trying to find the unlikely beauty, something that will allow me to call it Art. These findings, which were the fruit of work and debugging, produced from mashed matter, kneaded as bread and brewed by intimate feelings are like food to me. Show my work is like exposing myself and through the eyes and interpretation of others seek a better understanding of the universe of creation.

No despertar de minha juventude percebi uma grande necessidade de produzir algo que pudesse externar as minhas emoções e sentimentos. Era a vida me cobrando respostas das sensações que ela própria me causava.

Meu envolvimento com a arte aconteceu de uma forma pragmática quando em 1982 iniciei o curso de Belas Artes na UFMG. Mesmo sem concluir o curso, esse fato me deu a dimensão exata do que significava buscar uma carreira artística. Os dois anos que permaneci na escola foram muito importantes, mas o meu trabalho foi desenvolvido fora da escola, fazendo experimentos e desenvolvendo técnicas não acadêmicas. Ao longo desses anos esse processo já passou por várias fases.

Hoje posso dizer que o meu trabalho consiste em extrair de materiais e objetos uma essência oculta. Tenho a necessidade de expor o avesso, estou sempre à procura do inacabado perfeito.

Essa proposta é um desafio constante, trazendo para perto de mim a possibilidade do erro e da frustração, exigindo sempre um recomeço. Esse trabalho é um garimpo, sempre acreditando na possibilidade de encontrar o improvável sutilmente belo, algo que me classifique como artista, me permitindo chamar de arte as minhas descobertas. Essas descobertas trabalhadas e depuradas são para mim alimento, produzida de matéria amassada e esmurrada como se faz o pão. Fermentada por sentimentos íntimos às vezes desconhecidos e organizada por uma razão vacilante. Mostrar o meu trabalho é de certa forma me expor, busco através do olhar e interpretação do outro melhor entendimento desse universo da criação.

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Mari Blomroos-Heininen Life is - Art - is Life!

The nordic nature is a dialog between contrasting elements. These processes and phenomena repeat all over the living world and other contexts. It's not irrevelant which question do you ask and which answer do you accept. Is light's journey into darkness long or short? Is the wind blowing, or is it just the movement of my mind? What is this Is it cold or am I just lonely? I have the surging mind of sea and wind, like the heart and soul of seagrass. I swim deep in life holding on to my dreams. Beauty is allowed in art, too.

"Mari Blomroos-Heininen's oil paintings portray flowers as objects of creation, like human beings, expressing their feelings and demonstrating the infinite vitality of life. Everything is presented with a keen touch of a female artist. The works raise a question about the perception of the existence of life. They take us into a soft and floating imaginary world with relaxed brush strokes, lively tones and fantastic picture atmosphere. The paintings reflect the Nordic human feelings and experience, and are made with a heartily expressed artistic character."

Vida é - Arte - é Vida!

A natureza nórdica é um diálogo entre elementos contrastantes. Estes processos e fenômenos repetem todo o mundo vivo e outros contextos. Não é irrelevante qual pergunta você realiza e qual resposta você aceita.

A jornada da luz na escuridão é longa ou curta? O vento está soprando ou é apenas o movimento da minha mente? O que é isso? Está frio ou estou sozinho? Eu tenho a mente crescente do mar e do vento, como o coração e a alma das ervas marinhas. Eu nado profundamente na vida segurando meus sonhos. A beleza é permitida na arte também.

"As pinturas a óleo de Mari Blomroos-Heininen retratam as flores como objetos de criação, como os seres humanos, expressando seus sentimentos e demonstrando a vitalidade infinita da vida. Tudo é apresentado com um toque aguçado de uma artista feminina. Os trabalhos levantam uma questão sobre a percepção da existência da vida. Eles nos levam a um imaginário suave e flutuante mundo com pinceladas descontraídas, tons vivos e atmosfera fantástica. As pinturas refletem o nórdico sentimentos humanos e experiência, e são feitos com um carácter artístico expressado cordialmente ".

—by / por: Dr. Guohui Chen Associate Professor of Art History in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Professor Associado de História da Arte na Academia de Belas Artes de Guangzhou

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Orchestra of Nature 120 x 90 cm oil on canvas 2018 99

Maria Aamukaste maria.ruot@hotmail.com Olen suomalainen taiteilija. Saan voimaa Suomen rikkaasta ja monipuolisesta luonnosta: Järvet, metsät, tunturit, saaret, joet, meret.

Suomen luonto tarjoaa ainutlaatuista rauhaa ja hiljaisuutta. Suomen kesä tarjoaa yöttömiä valoisia öitä ja talvi pimeyttä ja mystisyyttä.

Mystisyys korostuu Suomen Lapissa. Kesällä valo valtaa maisemaan katsojan ihmeteltäväksi. Kesällä aurinko ei laske.

Talvella lumi peittää luonnon, pimeys ja hämäryys korostuvat. Pimeä taivas synnyttää revontulet, loistavan valojen leikin.

I am a Finnish artist. I get strength of Finland´s rich and varied nature: Lakes, forests, fells, rivers, seas.

Nature in Finland offers unique peace and quiet. Finnish summer offers bright nights and winter darkness and mystery.

Mysticism is emphasized in Finnish Lapland. In summer, the sun never sets, and the light empowers the landscape.

In winter, snow covers the nature. Darkness and obscurity are emphasized. The dark sky gives birth to the aurora borealis, the brilliant play of lights.

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What a Morning / Mikä aamu 40 x 50 cm oil on canvas / öljy kankaalle

I Will Dance All The Night / Haluan tanssia koko yön 50 x 40 cm oil on canvas / öljy kankaalle 2019

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Maria Teresa Anjos Born and lives in Rio de Janeiro where she produces her acrylic paintings on canvas.

Her works reflects the interest in the contemporary world and aims to connect it with the observer.

It is the observer the one to find the meaning out of her works, the one that explains it.

Searching for references, the observer will obtain its own understanding of the work.

The painter tells it, but it is the observer who listens to it, the observer is free to build its own interpretation up.

"I don't look for a visible world, I don't try to re-create the world around us, I escape from figurative structures".

"On canvas, I merely aim painting, I don't look for a concrete representation, but to reveal what may be hidden to the observer".

The color spectrum with an important presence of dark shades and black is directly linked to the abstract expressionism. The forms, when they exist, have a tendency to spontaneous vertical traces with high dramatic contents.

Nasceu e vive no Rio de Janeiro onde produz trabalhos de pintura em acrílica.

Seu trabalho reflete seu interesse pelo mundo contemporâneo e procura estabelecer a conexão entre ela e o observador É o observador que vai dar significado e explicar. É ele que vai encontrar suas referências. Sua busca pelas referências vai multiplicar a significância da obra e sua mensagem. Não é a autora quem diz é ele que ouve, ele que exerce sua liberdade para construir a representação.

“Eu busco o não significado, a oposição à mediação da realidade ou do mundo visível, não me proponho a produzir uma obra que seja a recriação do que está no mundo visual através da minha vivência ou do meu entendimento, fujo definitivamente do repertório figurativo. O que está na tela é pintura pura, não é minha representação do que existe objetivamente ou do onírico, meu objetivo é retirar senão todas, o máximo das referências claras e impositivas do antecedente (a artista) para que surjam as ocultas, as obscuras e as desconhecidas do conseqüente (o observador)”.

A paleta apresenta cores contrastantes com presença importante de cores escuras e do negro e a pintura tem forte ligação com o expressionismo abstrato, com formas, quando existentes, tendendo à verticalidade, mas sempre marcadas pela imprecisão e gestualidade espontânea, carregadas de tensão dramática.

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Underwater 62 x 130 cm Acrylic on canvas / AcrĂ­lica sobre tela

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Photo: Dennis Chan

Matti Hyyrynen Photographer I want to tell my feelings with my photos of the world around me.

I wish everybody can step in there to discover my reality and my emotions.

I like to tell stories with my photos, for everyone to see, to feel.

Sometimes I add a poem to tell more.

I have everything here My own thinking, to those who can see it, to those who can find it.

My thoughts to be found.

My own.

Only mine.

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Soundscape in Nightwish Concert 40 x 60 cm Digital photo Photographic print, Kapa foamboard 2015 2/5

She is singing so high.

He is playing organ so low.

Drums, guitars and...

Even a bagpipe.

When I heard it, A soundscape for you to see it.

To the Light 40 x 40 cm Digital photo Photographic print, Kapa foamboard 2016 2/5

When the darkness is overcome by the light.

The light comes sparkling.

Until you can feel the warmness.

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Milalonso Born in Rio de Janeiro, Milalonso revealed her passion for colors and the art world as a child, starting to draw at the age of 7 and painting at age 11. Her keen curiosity led her to perfect traditional techniques and develop new forms of artistic expression, valuing the infinite possibilities that the recycling and the reutilization of materials allow.

Graduated in Fine Arts from Bennet Methodist University and former resident of the Bhering Factory cultural center, she participated in several projects and collective exhibitions. With the series "Shards," Milalonso seeks to express the process of self-discovery of those who have overcome a serious illness and is reborn in art, contemplating each trait of life and reinventing each piece of himself as a reflection of the beautiful imperfection of the human trajectory on Earth.

Using the acrylic technique on canvas with mirrors and glass shards, appropriates recycling as one of the main tools of expression, showing that everything that apparently loses its beauty due to the action of time or wear from usage can return to the singularity of the beautiful when it returns to our hands to be reborn as sustainable art. The apparent fragility of the glass and the reflection of the mirror bring the force of colors as a representation of the fruit and gall of nature refracted on each one.

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in” (Schopenhauer).

Natural do Rio de Janeiro, Milalonso revelou sua paixão pelas cores e pelo mundo da arte já na infância, começando a desenhar aos 7 anos e a pintar aos 11. Sua curiosidade aguçada levou-a a aperfeiçoar técnicas tradicionais e a desenvolver novas formas de expressão artística, valorizando as infinitas possibilidades que a reciclagem e o reaproveitamento de materiais permitem. Formada em Belas Artes pela Universidade Metodista Bennet e ex-residente do pólo cultural Fábrica Bhering, participou de diversos projetos e exposições coletivas. Com a série “Estilhaços”, Milalonso procura expressar o processo de autodescobrimento de quem venceu uma grave doença e renasceu na arte, contemplando cada traço de vivência e reinventando cada pedaço de si mesmo como um reflexo da bela imperfeição da trajetória humana na Terra. Utilizando a técnica de acrílico sobre tela com espelhos e estilhaços de vidro, apropria-se da reciclagem como uma das principais ferramentas de expressão, mostrando que tudo que aparentemente perde a beleza pela ação do tempo ou desgaste do uso pode retornar à singularidade do belo quando retorna a nossas mãos para renascer como arte sustentável. A fragilidade aparente do vidro e o reflexo do espelho trazem a força das cores como uma representação do fruto e do fel da natureza refratada cada um.

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in” (Schopenhauer).

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Minna Freija AphRodItE Eira Alaluusua www.minnaalaluusua.org Minna Alaluusua on monipuolinen ja monilahjakas taiteilija, joka pyrkii yhdistämään innovatiivisuuden, hyvät ideat ja omaperäisyyden sekä teostensa sisällössä että muodossa. Minna haluaa myös auttaa ihmisiä näkemään yhtäläisyyksiä eri ihmisryhmien välillä erovaisuuksien sijaan.

Japanin pääuskonnot ovat shintolaisuus ja buddhalaisuus, ja shintolaisuuden pääjumala on auringon jumala, Amaterasu. Shintolaisessa perinteessä pyöreää, pyhää peiliä, Yata no Kagamia on käytetty ulkona Amaterasun esiin houkuttelemiseksi.

Minna huomasi, että oli tehnyt itse lähes samaa juhannuksena 2017 omassa performanssissaan, minkä vuoksi hän valitsi Japanissa esitettäviksi juuri nämä valokuvat.

Minna Alaluusua on rakastanut aurinkoa niin paljon, että hänen on ollut hankala pysytellä poissa suorasta auringonvalosta kun aurinko on paistanut.

Minnalle juhannus on vuoden tärkein juhla ja vuoden rakkain, pyhä aika auringonvalomaksimin ja luonnon kukoistuksen vuoksi. Minna on tehnyt taidetta joka juhannus vuodesta 1995 alkaen.

Vuoden 2017 juhannusaattona Minna keksi heijastaa ulkona auringonvalomaksimia erilaisilla valoa heijastavilla materiaaleilla peilipallosta alkaen, pukeutuen erilaisiin kiiltäviin materiaaleihin. Minna toteutti silloin valoa heijastavissa vaatteissaan, peilipallon kanssa performanssin ja teetti siitä valokuvasarjan, josta kaksi valokuvaa on esillä Osakassa. Minnan valokuvat on tulostettu kiiltävälle alumiinille muistuttamaan kiiltävistä, itämaisista ja länsimaisista esineistä joita on mahdollista käyttää auringon palvomiseen.

Minna Alaluusua is a versatile and multitalented artist, who aims to combine innovation, good ideas and originality both in the content and the form of her work. Minna also wants to help people see similarities between groups of people, instead of differences.

The main religions of Japan are Shintoism and Buddhism, and the main god of Shintoism is Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun. In the Shintoist tradition, the round, sacred mirror, Yata no Kagami has been used outside to lure Amaterasu out. Minna noticed that she had done almost the same in a performance of hers during the summer solstice of 2017. That is why she chose these photographs to be shown in Japan.

Minna Alaluusua has loved the sun so much, it has been difficult for her to stay out of direct sunlight when it has been available. For Minna, the summer solstice is the most important holiday of the year, and the dearest, sacred time because of the sunlight maximum and the blooming of nature. Minna has made art every summer solstice since 1995. On the eve of the 2017 summer solstice, Minna had the idea of reflecting the sunlight maximum with different reflecting materials, such as the mirror ball, and shiny clothes. Then, wearing her shiny clothes and with the disco ball, Minna realized the performance and made a series of photographs, of which two are displayed in Osaka. The photographs are printed on glossy aluminium to be reminiscent of shiny, oriental and occidental objects which can be used to worship the sun. ”According to the testimony of Eusebius of Alexandria, Christians, too shared in the worship of the rising sun until well into the fifth century… Not a few traces of sun-worship are preserved in ecclesiastical art, for instance the nimbus round the head of Christ, and the haloes of the saints.”

– Carl G. Jung: Collected Works 5, page 107 “In mysticism the inwardly perceived vision of the Divine is often nothing but sun or light, and is rarely, if ever, personified.” – Carl G. Jung: Collected Works 5, page 90

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For the Sun – My Sun Adoration With My Sacred Mirror 60 x 40 cm photographs on aluminium / valokuvia alumiinilla 2017

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Minna Maria Lenfeldova lenfeldova.art@gmail.com lenfeldovaart.wix.com/site

The emotion in my paintings is build on colors, layers and shapes. I am passionate to capture the gap between narrative and abstract art. The painting reveals hints of the emotions behind the story but part of it is hidden underneath the layers. This way the viewer can experience and solve the rest of the story in one’s own perspective.

I see, feel and interpret life through visual art. Painting is a lifestyle I am not willing to give up. Things in life mature through renunciation, and a fully lived life can lead seizing the moment. These are the motif for my art.

I want to stay humble, grateful and ready to learn more in order to maintain the passion for painting.

Steps to Heaven 40 x 50 cm oil on canvas / Ăśljy kankaalle 2019 110

Pinky Rain 40 x 50 cm oil on canvas / รถljy kankaalle 2019 111

Mirja Jaamalahti I am Finnish 55-year-old visual artist. I paint spontaneously with an expressive touch. My colors are dark. Subjects for paintings are in my thoughts. With the power of your imagination, the brush can travel and show direction.

When the painting is finished, I wonder about the result.

I’ve created my own ism, it is darkism.

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Up 60 x 40 cm akryyli 2019

Go 66 x 49 cm akryyli 2019 113

Nonna-Nina Mäki https://kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/taiteilija/nonna-nina-maki Nonna-Nina Mäki is an artist from Tampere, Finland. She has graduated from the Lahti Fine Art Institution.

Her paintings have been shown throughout the world. She also writes and makes art for children's books.

Her book A Foamy Sea was released in April 2018. A Foamy Sea has been translated to English, while a Tamili translation is still in the works.

Nonna-Nina paints symbolic, naivistic and very colorful paintings with intuition, where she covers life's different phenomenona with multiple levels of meaning. She has got inspiration from the nature, different cultures and from the worlds of subconsciousness.

Nonna-Nina Mäki é uma artista de Tampere, na Finlândia. Ela se formou na Instituição de Belas Artes de Lahti. Suas pinturas foram mostradas em todo o mundo. Ela também escreve e faz arte para livros infantis.

Seu livro A Foamy Sea foi lançado em abril de 2018. A Foamy Sea foi traduzido para o inglês, enquanto uma tradução de Tamili ainda está em andamento.

Nonna-Nina pinta com intuição a pintura simbólica, ingênua e muito colorida, onde ela cobre diferentes fenomenos da vida com múltiplos níveis de significado. Ela tem inspiração da natureza, culturas diferentes e dos mundos do subconsciente.

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Portinvartija / Gatekeeper

190 x 123 cm

acryl / mixed media

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Paula Mikkilä Tampere, Finland

paulak.mikkila@gmail.com www.paulamikkila.fi www.instagram.com/paulakyllikkimikkila I have been a full-time visual artist for some years now. Before that I worked as a primary school teacher for some forty years. That means I shared a great deal of my creative moments with children and teenagers.

Alongside my work I travelled on art trips, painted, and in particular in the last years immersed myself in the art of sculpture.

My bronze sculptures have featured in a number of juried joined exhibitions as well as in individual exhibitions in Finland. I was also active in art societies for about a decade – of which two years as the chair. But now I direct all my creative energy exclusively towards my art.

Bronze casting has a number of steps, which means that you can only produce a few sculptures a year.

Working on bronze is hard but rewarding, like the material itself. My art work is inspired by the home, nature, people, and animals. My sculptures bring about stories and fairly-tales that take on an imaginative life of their own. For an artist, time flies. Perhaps that is also why many of my bronze figures have acquired wings.

In my latest individual exhibition, I merged old photographs with my sculptures. Glass and bronze go very nicely together. A lacy surface gives a light touch even to the heaviest of sculptures.

You can learn more about my art on Instagram (@paulakyllikkimikkila) or on my home page where you can also find my CV.

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Kahdestaan / Two Of Us 22/22/14 cm / 4,3 kg pronssi / bronze 2016 117

Paulette Gerecht Burning Memories series Born in São Paulo-Brazil, where she lives and works, Paulette Gerecht holds a degree in Architeture and Urbanism from the University Center of Fine Arts - SP. From 2000 she started to work with visual arts, participating, since then, in numerous exhibitions, having won several prizes. Currently, her interests are focused on the study of symbologies and archetypes, by seeking self-knowledge through the art.

The work here exposed belongs to the acrylic series Memórias Ardentes (Burning Memories). In the combustion of oxygen, there is the impermanence of matter. In the intense liberation of energy in the form of light and heat, one perceives the fragility and the impotence of the human being before the force of the elements of nature.

Série Memórias Ardentes Natural se São Paulo, onde vive e trabalha, Paulette Gerecht graduou-se em arquitetura e Urbanismo pelo Centro Universitário Belas Artes - SP. A partir de 2000 ela começou a trabalhar com Artes Visuais, participando desde então de inúmeras exposições, tendo recebido diversos prêmios. Atualmente seus interesses estão voltados para o estudo das simbologias e dos arquétipos, numa visão da arte direcionada ao autoconhecimento.

A obra aqui exposta pertence à série de acrílicas Memórias ardentes. Na combustão do oxigênio há a impermanência da matéria. Na intensa liberação de energia em forma de luz e calor, percebe-se a fragilidade e a impotência do ser humano diante da força dos elementos da natureza.

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Memória Ardente VI 60 x 80 cm Acrílica s/ Tela 2017

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Päivyt Niemeläinen Visual artist, MA Päivyt Niemeläinen is living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her studies in art, art history, ethnology, archelogy and pedagogy give a rich back ground for her artistic conception and expression.

She has developed her own technique, reliefpainting. SUNSET AT HARVEST is made using this three- dimensional relief process, and painted by oil. Also watercolor, like in artwork GLIMPSE, is one of her techniques.

Oil paintings and mixed media techniques are her main methods.

Finland’s varied nature, old great stories in the history, and human life – in good and bad - is in the focus of her art. Over the past 15 years she has made current anti-war art against greediness for money and violent oppression. Recently money has become winner, and human life is looser.

Her works have been shown in 21 countries. Solo exhibitions in Finland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the USA. Photos of her artworks have been publishes in many international art books.

Sunset at Harvest / Viljapelto auringon laskiessa 32 x 49 cm mixed media on board, painted by oil / sekatekniikka levylle, öljymaalaus 2019

Glimpse / Vilahdus 30 x 40 cm (framed / kehystettynä 44 x 54 cm) watercolor on paper / akvarelli paperille 2019 120

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Rafael Agostini Voice of forest When if listen the song’s uirapuru bird, where the sun light no penetrate fully still, but only where the forest consents, there’s hope of the Amazon forest purity. The multicolored jungle, of rich biodiversity, that’s science and wisdom can bring studies about medicines and vaccines for diseases that ravage humanity, can not prevent the greedness, that devastes and exchange forest for ground and pasture fields. The life listen to the imperor’s song, but can not prevent the greed of chaser.

Like the cacique in indigenous legend, in ambush melindres, waiting the moment for get down your devastation light in the mysterious world. And uirapuru, before protected for shadows of forest, sing sadly, but resign against the threatening light.

And your song is the forest voice as the voice of resistance.

Voz da Floresta Quando se ouve o canto do uirapuru, onde a luz ainda não penetra completamente, mas somente onde a floresta consente, há esperança da pureza da mata amazônica. A selva multicolorida, de sua rica biodiversidade, que é ciência e sabedoria, pode trazer estudos sobre medicamentos e vacinas e tratar doenças que assolam a humanidade. Não pode evitar a ganância, que devasta e troca florestas por campos de terra e pastagens. A vida ouve a música do imperador, mas não pode impedir a cobiça do caçador, como a do cacique na lenda indígena, que à espreita maliciosa aguarda o momento propício para descer a sua luz ao mundo misterioso. E o uirapuru, antes protegido pelas sombras da floresta, ecoa um canto triste, mas resigna-se contra a luz ameaçadora. E sua música é a voz da floresta, a voz da resistência.

Territories The young woman outside society, that listen a seductive song of uirapuru bird, from the distant Amazon, and your people, see in reflexes of modern buildings, your destiny like how to see yourself in the mirror.

The orange walls in yours improvides bricks, contrast with Carioca’s blue summer. The empires ride up like a pyramids that touch the sky to be noticed. The possession of suburbs without social and environmental commitments, grow a damages consequences to both sides interests. There’s irregular trash discard, sewer and lifes. Recycling is necessary! Make people aware about sustainable use of resources. A people put society margin, retired of your origen, removed from his environment is as an abortation and grow more segregation and tend to be discarded on asphalt.

Territórios A jovem à margem, que ouve o canto sedutor, do uirapuru, da Amazônia distante, e de seu povo, vê nos reflexos do prédio moderno o seu destino como a se olhar no espelho. As paredes alaranjadas dos tijolos improvisados, contrastam com o azul do verão carioca. Os impérios crescem como pirâmides que tocam o céu para serem notadas. A ocupação dos morros, sem compromissos sociais ou ambientais, gerou uma série de consequências danosas em ambos os aspectos. O descarte irregular do lixo, do esgoto, de vidas .Reciclar é preciso, a conscientização do uso sustentável e a sustentabilidade consciente dos recursos deve ser investida.

Um povo posto à margem, retirado de seu meio, como das entranhas um feto, gera mais segregação e tende a ser lançado no asfalto.

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Territories

Voice of Forest

Lenda indĂ­gena O Canto do uirapuru Territorios

Voz da Floresta

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Raija Kuisma http://www.raijakuisma.fi

http://www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/fi/taiteilijat/3156 http://www.finnishdesigners.fi/portfolio/raija.kuisma https://www.findartglobally.com/fi/taiteilijat/art/228 https://taiko.fi/artists/raijakuisma?lang=fi Raija Kuisma lives and works in Pori, on the western coast of Finland. Closeness of the Baltic Sea, the four seasons in Finland, the diversity of flora and fauna are essential to Kuisma’s art. Raija Kuisma´s art is based on the photos she has taken around the world. She combines and layers her photos, transforming colors and textures in order to approach a visually pleasing result.

Kuisma´s art is printed directly on glass, acrylic, metal or fabric using uv-printing technique. Kuisma also uses recycled materials, metal or clay in her art. Her works have been displayed vastly in museums and galleries around the world.

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Vaaleanpunainen hetki 40 x 40 cm uv-tasotulostettu valokuva Alu-Dibondille, editio 1/1 2015

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Riitta Rönkkö riittaronkko.net Beauty Box-sarjassa käytän omintakeista tekniikkaa jossa kutistettu muoto kasvoistani sekä valokuva yhdistetään. Tuloksena on 3-ulotteinen valokuvapohjainen paperivalos ja henkilökuvia joiden kautta kuvaan tunnetiloja ja identiteetin skaaloja eksistenssin näyttämöllä. Viittaukset myytteihin, tarinoihin ja taidehistoriaan sekoittuvat ja kerronta tulee esiin performanssin kaltaisessa tilanteessa kameran edessä. Olen alustana kuvitteellisille henkilöhahmoille joihin samastun.

In Beauty Box I use an original technique where the shrunken form of my face and photopotrait are combined. The result is a series of three dimensional photo based papercasts and characters that descibes scales of identity, emotions and existens. References to myths, tales and art history are mixed together and the narrative comes out as a performance in front of the camera. I use myself as a base for the fictive characters with whom I identify.

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Beauty Box 1, 2, 3, 4 37 x 28 x 11 cm paperivalos, kiinnitetty alustalevyyn, pleksilaatikossa photograph on 3-D papercast, gouache, hair in plexibox 1996

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Rosa de Jesus Rosa de Jesus nasceu em Portugal, na cidade do Porto, no ano de 1929, formou-se em designer de moda, e imigrou com a família para o Brasil em 1957, fixando residência no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Em 1981 mudou-se para a cidade de Niterói, também no RJ. Na juventude dedicou-se ao desenho de moda, até que sua inquietude e sensibilidade levaram-na aos caminhos da pintura como forma de expressar seus sentimentos.

São muitas as referencias, e ao mesmo tempo nenhuma. Tece estruturas sobre as quais se expande a imaginação. Ponto de encontro e tensão são ambos compatíveis com a atitude solitária e reflexiva da artista.

Mas Rosa não se detém na atitude formalista, e expressa a vontade de pôr sua pintura como afirmação inequívoca da simbiose entre arte e vida, justamente por promover aproximação sensível com experiências vividas por quem ultrapassou obstáculos.

Suas obras têm a dimensão do sentimento que as cores expressam, ora cinza, opacas e indeterminadas, sinais claros de opressão e angustia, ora o sentido lírico é reforçado pelo uso do vermelho, do preto, do amarelo, do azul, enfim, da alegria e da presença afetiva da amorozidade, pondo em evidencia o que o teor simbólico pode resgatar de uma realidade.

Rosa de Jesus was born in Portugal, in the city of Porto, in the year 1929, graduated in fashion designer, and immigrated with the family to Brazil in 1957, establishing residence in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In 1981 she moved to the city of Niterói, also in RJ. In her youth she devoted herself to fashion design, until her restlessness and sensitivity led her to the ways of painting as a way of expressing her feelings.

There are many references, and at the same time none. She weaves structures on which the imagination expands. Meeting point and tension are both compatible with the solitary and reflective attitude of the artist.

But Rosa does not stop at the formalistic attitude and expresses the desire to put her painting as an unequivocal affirmation of the symbiosis between art and life, precisely because it promotes a sensitive approach to experiences lived by those who have overcome obstacles.

Her works have the dimension of the feeling that colors express, sometimes gray, opaque and indeterminate, clear signs of oppression and anguish, sometimes the lyrical sense is reinforced by the use of red, black, yellow, blue, finally, joy and the affective presence of amorousness, highlighting what the symbolic content can rescue from a reality.

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Seppo Lagom Käsittelen maalauksissani luontoa ja sen monimuotoisuutta. Aihemaailmani nousee varsinaissuomalaisesta maisemasta, jonne muutin kahdeksan vuotta sitten, vanhaan taloon rytmikkäiden maisemien äärelle. Pidän kovasti näistä näkymistä. Näiden maisemien ja avarien näkymien kauneus innostaa minua tulkitsemaan niitä omien sisäisten tunteitteni kautta. Näissä maisemissa on samanmoinen henki kuin Toscanan näkymissä, joita olen saanut maalata useilla reissuillani. Teoksissani värit ja valo ovat tärkeät. Teokseni maalaan öljyväreillä kankaalle. Piirtämistä ei saa unohtaa, se on työssäni ehdoton tuki.

In my paintings I deal with nature and its diversity. My subject rises from the Southwestern Finnish landscape, where I moved eight years ago to the old house near rhythmic landscapes. I like these views very much. The beauty of these landscapes and open-air views inspires me to interpret them through my own feelings. These landscapes have the same spirit as the Tuscan views, which I have been allowed to paint on many of my trips.

In my works, colours and light are important. I paint my paintings with oil on canvas. Drawings should not be forgotten; it is an absolute support for my work.

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Seppo Väänänen Context of my art The natural environment has played a paramount role in my art. I am interested in natural phenomena in their purest forms as well as the human imprints on nature. The instances when nature overtakes human cultures over time by consuming and rotting old structures and borders fascinate me. I have lived all my life on lakeshores. I ponder over different forms of water in my works of art. Water, snow, and ice are elements which constantly reshape the northern landscape. Our ability to read nature is slowly disappearing as we live less and less on its terms. For me art allows a consideration of my own relationship with nature. Sometimes I get so near to its true essence, it is nearly within reach. Nature however still riddles me as I have lost my ability to sense it instinctively. I am not a bear, a fish, or a bird.

Taiteeni Taustaa Taiteessani luonto ja ympäristö merkitsevät minulle paljon. Minua kiinnostaa puhdas luonto ja luonnon ilmiöt sekä luonnossa näkyvät ihmisen tekemät jäljet. Tilanne jossa luonto valtaa takaisin ihmisen tekemää kulttuuria ja aika joka lahottaa rakenteita ja rajoja. Olen koko ikäni asunut vesistöjen rannalla. Tekosissani pohdin veden erimuotoja vesi, lumi, jää ovat pohjolan maisemassa jatkuvasti maisemaa muokkaavia visuaalisia elementtejä.

Koska ihminen ei enää elä luonnon ehdoilla ihmisen taidot lukea luontoa ovat katoamassa. Taide on minulle väline pohtia omaa luontosuhdettani. Joskus pääsen lähelle luontoa ja melkein ymmärrän sen olemuksen, mutta aina se on minullekin jatkuvasti muuttuva arvoitus. En ole karhu, kala tai lintu.

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www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/fi/taiteilijat/2727 Miten maalaan Maalaamiseen liittyy aina riski siitä, miten onnistuu saamaan jotain konkreettista hyvää tyhjästä.

Lähtökohtana saattaa olla jokin, mitä on nähnyt tai pelkkä ajatus jostain.

Maalaamista voi verrata kirjoittamiseen tai säveltämiseen, kertomista asiasta jollekin toiselle omalla ilmaisullaan, omalla kielellään, maalaamisen kielellä. Onnistumisen tunne on aina jokaisella kerralla hieno ja uusia ideoita synnyttävä. Taide on kansainvälinen kieli, se yhdistää riippumatta siitä, mistä päin maailmaa on kotoisin.

How I paint There is always a risk when trying to create something out of nothing. The needed inspiration for painting may come from something one has experienced, seen or only dreamed.

The process of painting can be be compared to writing a book or composing music. Telling stories with my own medium, own language, the language of canvas and colours. If and when the result is ok it makes me happy and new ideas continue to flow. Art is an international language, it connects people no matter where they come from.

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Kaalin kukka 46 x 38 cm oil on canvas 2019

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Sirkka Laakkonen

on taidemaalari, jonka ilmiselvä lahjakkuus koostuu tietämyksestä ja opituista taidoista, joista hän on halunnut koota yhteen tekniikat inspiraation kanssa ja tuoda niihin sielun innoituksen, jonka kaikki taiteilijat hyvin tuntevat. Hän maalaa vahvoin värivalinnoin kukka-aiheita, ihmisiä ja kotitalouskäyttöön tarkoitettuja elementtejä, joiden tarkoitus ei ole olla vain koristelua vaan käsitellä sellaisia merkityksiä, jotka tuovat näkyväksi näkymättömät katoavat tunteet, tunteiden voimakkuuden. Siksi Sirkka Laakkonen ei ole vain lahjakkuus, hänellä on lahja, joka harvoin löytyy taiteilijalta, armolahja.

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Shirley Kwok S L Shirley Kwok S L who is from Hong Kong and has been started painting in different media as hobby after leaving school, joined different exhibitions in Hong Kong recently.

The introduction to Chinese painting came few years ago after seeing the art pieces of “Qi Basishi“ (18611957), a famous Chinese painter.

She sets out to produce painting about one specific media or another. She draws and sometimes the drawings are left in the sketch status and few are developed into complete paintings.

The work tends to focus on the nature, the nature in recapturing the beauty of life.

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Omakuva, digital Self-Potrait 2018

LinkedIn Sirpa Heikkinen

Olen pohjoissuomalaisessa kaupungissa, Oulussa, asuva independent artist. Yhdistelen menetelmiä ja työskentelytapoja. Takanani on monikymmenvuotinen toimittajan/kriitikon ura.

Kerrannainen kuuluu sarjaan teoksia, jotka syntyivät vuoden 2018 Pinky Noise -näyttelyyni. Se oli huuto naisten puolesta kaikenlaista ylivaltaa vastaan. Kerrannainen voi tarkoittaa Suomen kielessä esim. monikerroksellista. Teoksen nimi yhdistää sanat kerran ja nainen.

Pinky Noiseni toteuttamisalusta oli oululaisen kulttuuritalon kahvila-ravintola. Kokonaisuuteen mahtui niin keskusteluja kuin syötäviä kuvia, serigrafiaa niin paperilla kuin kankaalla, jalanjäljin maalattu kolmiopurje yläilmoissa sekä monokromaattisia valokuvatulosteita kartongille kuin myös neljän eri aikakauden naistaiteilijan elämästä sarjakuvamaisesti työstetty pöytäliina ja video.

Kerrannainen edusti Pinky Noisessa teosjoukkoa, jonka toteuttamistapaa kutsutaan valokuva-akvarelliksi.

Grafiikan termein toteuttamistapa on monotypia – vedostus käsiprässillä.

I am an independent artist, living in Oulu, a city in Northern Finland. In my works I combine different methods. I have a background of several decades in journalism and critcs.

Kerrannainen is a part of series of works that were born for my 2018 exhibition Pinky Noise. It was a cry on behalf of women, against all forms of dominance. In Finnish Kerrannainen can mean for example multilayerd.

The title combines the Finnish words kerran (once) and nainen (woman).

Pinky Noise exhibition’s platform was a restaurant-café in a culture center. The exhibition consisted of discussions, edible pictures, serigraphs both on paper and on canvas, a high hanging triangular sail painted with footprints and monochromatic photoprints on cardboard, as well as a tablecloth and a video composed in the style of a cartoon depicting the lives of four different women artists from different periods.

In Pinky Noise Kerrannainen was part of the works in which the method is called a photographic aquarelle. In terms of printmaking: a monotype, printed with a manually operated press.

Title: Kerrannainen (kerran=once, nainen=woman) Size: 97,5 x 173,5 cm (paper), image area aprox. 90 x 167,5 cm Technique: photographic aquarelle – monotype Paper: Chinese wenzhou 30 g/m² Year: 2018 Signature: Artist’s stamp 138

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Sofia Wilkman Sofia Wilkman is a painter living in Espoo, southern Finland. Her works deal with subjects related to nature, relationships, space, traces. Layers of colors interact with graphic signs creating a visual world evoking both intellectual and emotional inspiration.

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Suvi Mannonen Finland

www.suvimannonen.com www.suvimannonen@icloud.com

Minusta tuli taiteilija, vaikka se ei ollut suunnitelmissani. Ensimmäisen lapsemme syntymän jälkeen löysin isäni tekemän hienon akvarellimaalauksen. Hän oli ilmeisen lahjakas, mutta ei kiinnostunut taidostaan. Tämä pisti miettimään; osaisinkohan minäkin maalata yhtä hyvin? Päätin kokeilla. Olen siis pääosin itseoppinut taiteilija, mikä on kyllä joskus haasteellista, mutta joka päivä studiolle mennessäni tunnen yhä sen ”liekin” sydämessäni ja se saa minut jatkamaan… Tällä hetkellä pidän työskentelystä vanerin kanssa ja erityisesti vanhojen kirjan kansien ja vanhan puun ajan patinoima pinta ja rouheus kiehtoo kovasti. Käytän usein akryyliä, pastellia ja hiiltä. Pidän myös pitsistä, decoupagesta ja kaikista romanttisista materiaaleista!

I became an artist, even thoug it was not in my plans. After our first baby was born, I found excellent watercolour painting made by my father, who obviously had talent but no interest. That made me wonder could I also paint so well? I decided to try. So, I´m mainly self-thought astist, it can be challenging sometimes but every day when I go to my studio I still feel that ”flame” in my heart and that keeps me going… At the moment I like to work with plywood and especially with old book covers and old wood. I´m very fascinated with their roughness and time patinated surface. I often use acrylic, pastel and charcoal. I also like lace, decoupage and all those romantic materials as well!

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Timo Ala-Vähälä Timo Ala-Vähälä (b. 1958) is a writer and visual artist. He has given solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions since 2015. His main medium is drawing but he has also done installations and makes photographs. In addition to his own art, he has given drawing classes since 2016.

“Drawing is a part of my ordinary life like moving, eating, sleeping. I do not eat healthy, sleep randomly and my artistic goals are looming. Nevertheless, each day leaves some traces to my body, mind and to the storage of my calligraphic drawings.”

Timo Ala-Vähälä (nascido em 1958) é escritor e artista visual. Ele já participou de exposições individuais e coletivas desde 2015. Sua principal mídia é o desenho, mas ele também fez instalações e fotografias. Além de sua própria arte, ele ministrou aulas de desenho desde 2016.

"Desenhar é uma parte da minha vida cotidiana como se mover, comer, dormir. Eu não como saudável, durmo aleatoriamente e meus objetivos artísticos estão se aproximando. No entanto, cada dia deixa alguns traços para o meu corpo, mente e para o armazenamento dos meus desenhos caligráficos."

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Tony Chu Artist (1949~)

I worked in art industry from 1970 to 2010. In this 40 years, I have been a designer, sculptor and painter. After retirement, I focus on my art and yoga teaching. I enjoy plein air palette knife painting with oils. As I found that is a very good way to appreciate nature.

Delighted 50 x 50 cm oil 2019 Easter Choy (1933-), a famous painter in Hong Kong.

She is delighted to see a young artist is working hard on his works.

Sharing oil 50 x 40 cm 2017 Auyeung Nai-Chim (1931-), a famous painter in Hong Kong.

He is sharing some insights on how to paint good portrait and landscape painting.

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Ulla-Maija Vaittinen ullamaija.vaittinen@gmail.com www.ulla-maijavaittinen.fi

EMPTY SWINGS Photographic collage prints My current works reflect on the position of children in this violent and chaotic world. Around the world abandoned swings swing away in light as well as in shadow as symbols of both dark and sacred memories. These images of empty swings symbolise the lives of our children in the world of today. Will they ever be used again or will they remain abandoned? Ulla-Maija Vaittinen first exhibited at the National Youth Exhibition in 1972. Since then she has participated in several group and solo exhibitions. Her techniques vary from works in bronze, graphics, painting, installations, videos, frottage technique, readymade and enviromental works. Her most recent works have been videos and photograph collages. Ulla-Maijas motto is: Art may not change the world, but it can impact people´s emotions and their way of thinking and arise discussion. Vaittinen has studied at Art Industrial High School of Helsinki, now called Aalto University. She has taught visual arts in many sectors since year 1979. Vaittinen is a member of many Art societies. Ulla-Maija Vaittinen lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

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Our Yard 41 x 56 cm valokuvakollaasivedos metallilevylle / photo collage print on metal 2017

Do Not Forget Me 41 x 56 cm photo collage print on metal / valokuvakollaasivedos metalille 2019

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Ursula Kianto www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/artists/1848 Taidemaalari Ursula Kianto asuu Helsingissä ja on suorittanut taideopintonsa vuosina 1985 – 1989 Vapaan Taidekoulun ammatillisella linjalla. Sen jälkeen on jatkunut tiivis näyttelytoiminta niin kotimaassa kuin ulkomailla maamme rajojen ulkopuolella.Ursula Kianto kertoo: Maalaaminen on minulle intohimo, alitajuinen matka jonnekin ja jossakin. Maalausteni lähtökohta on yhteys luontoon. Värien kerrostumiin sisältyy aika, muutos ja kaiken virtaaminen.

Photo taken by Tapio Lötjönen

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Ursula Kianto lives and works in Helsinki where she graduated from The Free Art School as professional painter year 1989. The paintings of Ursula Kianto are inspired by images, reflections and associations. One layer leaves some separate fragment on the painting, the next layer brings another to its side, and little by little the painting manifests itself. In most cases, the completed painting, is an abstract state of mind, where – in the middle of desolation and silence- appears to be nature and buildings. Opposing to the paintings` tranquility are the joyful and happy colors, which actually seem to be holding back their playfulness.

Vanishing decorations 40 x 35 cm รถljy MDF-levylle 2019

Greens and pinks 40 x 35 cm รถljy MDF-levylle 2019

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Yolanda Marchante Serra Yolanda Marchante Serra was born in Spain, Madrid 1964, training as a child at Amadeo Roca Gisbert workshop who was a friend of her grandfather. She was graduated in the Complutense Fine Art University in 1987. She continued with merit studies ranging from restoring the Renaissance altarpiece in Pedrosa with a scholarship granted by Burgos City Hall to Studying Graphics Design. In 1991, she was awarded Prizes as a painter and also, is awarded honorable mention in Drawing Penagos Prize organized by Mapfre in 2005 and 2007. She has had some National exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, Córdoba, Albacete, Granada, Asturias, Segovia. She was preset at International Art Fairs exhibitions in Miami, Paris, Brusells, Bidart, Frankfurt and Jaén. Her artwork belongs to more than a dozen museums and public and private collections such us: National Library in Madrid, CasaPalacio Santa Ana Museum in Córdoba, Casa de Los Tiros Museum in Granada, Villaseñor Museum in Ciudad Real, The Albacete Provincial Council, National Auditorium of Music in León, City Hall of Valdegangas and Andújar, Bullfighting Affairs Center in Ventas, Madrid.

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Paseo Azul 49 x 22 cm oil on wood 56 x 28 with frame

Calema 49 x 18 cm oil on wood 54 x 25 with frame

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Wesley Monteiro The soul of Brazil Thank you The forest is our place!

What is our resistance?

The struggle for the preservation of nature.

Inheritance of indigenous peoples ...

It's not just a movement painting on canvas ...

It's a slow one!

To be free like a macaw, to perch on the trees of hope ... To be a child!

Hunt, fish, get food!

Curumin Indian Woman .... free Bird! Just looking for peace!

Free, india, curumim, girl woman

.... thought to be free.

He dreams of running through the woods ... free from malicious glances.

Once ... Time that is gone. ____________ * ____________ "In thy bosom, O freedom!

I challenge our hearts to death itself!

Of the children of this, you are a gentle mother! beloved homeland Brazil! "

A alma do Brasil

text: Déia Sineiro

Obrigado A floresta é nosso lugar!

Qual é a nossa resistência.

A luta pela preservação da natureza.

Herança de povos indígenas …

Não é só um movimento pintando em tela... É uma lento!

Ser livre como arara, pousar nas árvores da esperança... Ser criança!

Caçar, pescar, buscar o alimento!

Curumim,... Mulher índia…. pássaro livre! Só buscam encontrar a paz!

Livre, índia, curumim, menina mulher…. pensou ser livre.

Sonha correr pelas matas….livre de olhares maliciosos.

Outrora...Tempo que já se foi. ____________*____________ “Em teu seio ó liberdade!

Desafio nosso peito à própria morte!

Dos filhos deste, solo és mãe gentil! pátria amada Brasil!” texto: Déia Sineiro

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Art School Casa

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CASA, THE ART SCHOOL FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN Art school CASA (Centro de Assistencia Social e Artistica) was founded in August 2005 by Helena and Edson Cardoso. Art School is ment for underprivileged children living in the favela of Cidade de Deus - City of God, in Rio de Janeiro. The school’s aim is to help these children fulfil their dreams of a better future through the power of art and to give them a constructive hobby and direction in their lives.

There are currently 15 children in the school, ranging in age from 4-15 years. We hope that our work will help to prevent these children from ending up on the streets. The Finnish organization, Arte Vida Arte ry, funds CASA. The Finnish artists from our organization have been visiting Cidade de Deus and working with the children. You can also be a part or this valuable project and help give these children a better future.

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