BARCELONA OPEN ART 1 5 T H
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INDEX EUGENIA OTTONELLO ANIT FELIX ZILINSKAS ALESSIA BAYRO TATIANA MARZA NINA MICHAILIDOU JOSEPH BOU SALEH REGINA RAINSKAYA SEBASTIAN POLL EMILIANO RUGGERI VARTAN GHAZARIAN JAMES MARINA OGAI EAUDALIX
EUGENIA OTTONELLO IG: @eugeottonello.art Eugenia Ottonello was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is 26 years old and based in Barcelona. All her life she has been attracted by arts and crafts, but she never dedicated enough time or space to it. During the quarantine of 2020, she bought her first graphite pencils set and she started to draw. This initiates her career as an artist. Dominating her visual capacity, she recreates hyperealistic images with graphite, charcoal pencils and watercolor, creating a world of feelings by representing reality through its smallest details.
ANIT IG: @byanit_ Anit is an industrial artist and designer based in Barcelona. She graduated from Academy of Arts in Slovakia with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts in 2012. Her works are based on the use of industrial materials attached to canvas and painted with acrylic colors. Her industrial technique is a visual form of expression based on her experiment with different media shaped into visually distinctive mosaics. She seeks to create concepts with profound meaning to give voice to important issues within the society. Her works are translating a classical painting into painted industrial objects, deconstructing the visual foundation of the source of inspiration into a mosaic which uses steel nail-head as a color point.
FELIX ZILINSKAS IG: @fzilinskas Felix Zilinskas mixes a blatant handling of color, a unique stroke technique, and a deep level of human thought—a combination that hypnotizes his audience, creating what he calls "pause to think." This strange combination has allowed it to impact modern culture. "You don't choose art. Art chooses you. Felix thinks art is a personal need, done from the primitive essence of a being seeking a connection with something superior and transcendent to his reality. According to Felix, an artist is nothing more than a key capable of opening some doors that people can identify. Art and the artist are tools that come together to create an experience.
ALESSIA BAYRO IG: @alesbayro Alessia Bayro (1997) is a visual artist whose creative production revolves around hyperrealist figurative painting and analogue photography. Although her pictorial style is figurative, the focus is on the emotional content of the narratives and the creation of suggestive atmospheres. Using colour as a mechanism of exploring, she explores concepts such as duality, ecstasy, eroticism and self-deconstruction. She places the body at the centre of the plastic discourse and investigates the poetry of the nude presented in a contemporary style. Her treatment of the nostalgic character of analogue photography plays with intangible themes such as dream and memory. In this way her photography acquires a language and a postmodernist aesthetic, characterised by a return to abstraction with the fragmentation of the image, it is the result of an experimental creative process, where the material is left to act and react on its own.
TATIANA MARZA IG: pot.mot
The recipe behind the ceramic items contains: - Moldavian roots surrounded by nature - undesired studies in Economics in the Greek language - some architecture studies - a uniquely exciting and enjoyable BA in Graphic Design - motherhood experience with needs to design three typefaces for children’s books - re-engaging with playfulness while discovering clay possibilities - activating the hidden artistic door by exploring painting on walls, clothes, shoes and any surface available
NINA MICHAILIDOU IG: @nina.michailidou Artist from Greece, Michailidou Nina has graduated from School of Fine Arts and Art Sciences of University of Ioannina, with an Erasmus+ scholarship in Spain. She continued her studies in Interior Design and exhibition curation. Also, she is a member of Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, and she deals with various art forms, such as painting, engraving and photography. Nina has in her CV two individual exhibitions in Thessaloniki, the first one at Myro Gallery in 2017, with the title "Prosopia”, and the second at Govedarou Art Gallery, in 2020 with the title “Memory”. However, she has participated in many group exhibitions in Europe, such as Athens Video Art Festival in 2013, Art Thessaloniki an International Contemporary Art Fair in 2019 and 2021, Athens Open Art in Art Number 23 in 2021, “ (Im)Possibilities” at Galleria La Pigna, Rome in 2021, “ALDILA” at M.D.A.S. Art Gallery in Milan and Fuerteventura in 2021, “Visionary” in Gallery Biblioteca Angelica in Rome in 2021, Artbox Project World 1.0 & Swiss Art Expo in Zurich in 2021.
JOSEPH BOU SALEH IG: @josephbousaleh.art Joseph Bou Saleh is a surrealist artist, raised in conservative religious society in a village close to Beirut. At school, art classes were revered as a time for self-love and reconnection. It was a safe haven away from bullies. As a gifted 4-year-old boy who evolved into an artist, architect, urban designer, technologist, and performing artist, Joseph sees himself as the embodiment of "Art is Courage." The artist never thinks there exists one creative process, you just have to let your heart flow onto paper, canvas, screen or a wall. He recently realized how profoundly Dali has inspired him, particularly in his explorations of subconscious imagery. Joseph's artworks depict his dreamlike universe where he paints non-binary explorations for life's mysteries.
REGINA RAINSKAYA IG: regina_rainskaya Artist, Yoga Teacher, Writer. Regina was born in Dnipro, Ukraine. She has been passionate about art from the youngest age. She studied philosophy at the National University of Dnipro where her research was focused on yoga and mystical traditions. She was in her Ph.D. studies when she made the decision to change directions and moved to an eco-village where she dedicated her time to art, yoga and local crafts. In 2016 she had her first art exhibition in Lviv, Ukraine where she had 21 pictures represented. All of them were sold. In that same year she published her book "Yoga Asanas". For many years Regina has traveled around Asia and Europe leading art yoga retreats. She currently lives in Barcelona with her husband.
SEBASTIAN POLL IG: @litmus_sheep Sebastian Poll is a Chilean born, now resident in Barcelona. The Artist has been working on the collage technique to evoque and portray in shapes and colour from the abstract to geometric a message of human rights empowerment. Poll has participated in the first publication of collage magazine in Chile ‘Horror Vacui’ with two striking Works. His prints are listed from limited copies. The works characterised themselves for the detailed and perspective of the artist’s ideas with complex and intriguing concepts of discovery. Influenced by Susana Blasco a great collague artist in spain. Chef by trade always experimenting new sensations with his food and now through collage works. The hidden messages in his works can be interpreted endlessly, there’s irony, protest and a powerful message of Live Now. Poll gathers his materials from charity shops, houseclearances, stores and skips. Sebastian uses his fingers, scissors and paper cutters to assemblage his collages.
EMILIANO RUGGERI IG: @emi.street.art Emiliano Ruggeri (b.1986) is a Argentine artist who has lived in Spain since 2019. His work is influenced by street art, in many of them he uses various materials, the Catalans recycle giving him a new identity and harmony with the environment.
VARTAN GHAZARIAN IG: @vartan1278 Vartan Ghazarian is an Armenian/Cypriot artist born in 1978 in Cyprus. A self taught painting artist with studies in interior design who is driven by the constant passion to create. The main media he uses are oil paints on canvas. He expresses through realism, his surrealistic point of view of society and the emotions that emerge. Today he works at his studio in Larnaca, Cyprus on his exhibition collections and custom orders, as well as various collaborations and projects.
JAMES ORMISTON IG: @j.p.ormiston James Ormiston is a kiwi artist now living and working in Barcelona. His work typically falls under the umbrella of disrupted realism. More than the faithful representation, his portraits are distorted into anonymity through abstraction, and the push and pull of rigidity and play, order and chaos. Portraiture acts as a gateway of the familiar to the viewer, and provides constraints to push against as an artist; a necessary structure in which to explore materials and techniques, without the painting descending into pure abstraction. Each piece acts as a record of its own creation. Every layer scratched back to provide a window to the last. Every decision, every mistake, is on display.
MARINA OGAI IG: @3sides.ru She was born on April 3, 1993. Originally from Moscow, Russia, and currently living and working in Gwangju, South Korea). Drawing has always been a passion of Marina's for a big part of her life. She began with oil painting technique at the age of 15. Being an artist had been her dream since childhood. Marina Ogai is a Koryo Saram (also known as Goryeoin or Koryoin), one of the descendants of Koreans who emigrated by and large from the northern part of the Korean Peninsula to eastern Russia between the late 19th and the early 20th century. In 1937, such ethnic Koreans were forcibly relocated by the Stalin regime en masse to present-day Central Asia. That is why the theme of her work is korean woman in all his beauty. She is inspired by strong woman, Korean culture, flowers and nature. Marina is a sincerely believer that there's an deep bond between a woman and nature. The main idea behind Marina's paintings is to show asian people inner beauty and character.
EAUDALIX IG: @eaudalix Eaudalix is a self-taught French female artist established in Barcelona since 2015. She is currently working on a series of women’s portraits. “Haute Couture”, fashion industry, the folklore, art, cinema, literature or the memory of a smell are all sources of inspiration for her artwork. Above all, she seeks to celebrate all the "particular and plural" beauties of women. Meanwhile, this is also a search for her inner self through all these women as an introspection. “Are those women a reflection of myself ?” Eaudalix invites the viewer to "feel" the works as one chooses a perfume, that is to say, with one's senses. She proposes a collection of paintings as a fragrance of art with women’s natural extracts!
BARCELONA OPEN ART 15th July