24th of February | Barcelona Open Art

LYDIA NEWMAN

ANDREA CASSADY

THOMAS FALKNER

CAROLINA RIBERA

SKETCH DUDE

SOFIA LEPORI

MARGARIDA PINA MENDES

SUSANA FAUSTINO

MONIKA ŽELEZNÁ

TANIA PALOMEQUE PHOTOGRAPHY

EVGENIYA DOVGALYUK

AMBER B

ANTIPOVA ANASTASIA

DANIELLE ACHKAR

FILIP GYURKOVSKÝ

IG: @ladedum

www.lydianewman.com

Lydia, a first-class MA in Performance Making graduate from Goldsmiths UCL (2021), creates autobiographical work exploring the impact of her personal and ancestral past. She employs visual art, installation, soundscaping, and movement, prioritizing authentic and vulnerable personal narratives that invite viewers to reflect on their own experiences and emotions Her pieces touch on relatable topics such as love, loss, and family dynamics, encouraging audiences to delve into their personal histories Lydia creates a safe space for people to connect with their vulnerabilities and share experiences, cultivating a sense of community

TANIA PALOMEQUE PHOTOGRAPHY

IG: @taniatefaniakatzouraki

YouTube: @taniastefaniakatzouraki8579

https://Tania-stefania-katzouraki pixels com

(1) Stefania Katz (@Stefaniakatz) / Twitter

Tania Stefania Katzouraki exhibited her artwork at the Accorsi Arte in conjunction with the Biennial Venice 2022 from 24th September to 2nd October 2022 Tania Stefania won twice in 2021, the public choice award from the Biafarin art platform and the Gold award from the World Association of Artists 2022 Tania Stefania received three times the certification of the Luxembourg Art Prize to continue in this art direction The video presents the painting under warm red; the pupils of the eyes get more significant, whereas the eyes' pupils get smaller when it is under cold green and blue light A million colours can show a million versions of the same painting Tania Stefania is a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics

ANTIPOVA ANASTASIA

IG:@antipovaanastasia

Anastasia is a contemporary artist, whose main themes are loneliness, time, internal and physical transformation of a person. I create graphic on fabrics, staged photos and objects from different materials.

Personal Exhibitions:

DAYPYAT GALLERY «Believe/Unbelieve», Curator: Misha

Gudvin,Yan Posadskiy,Voronezh, Russia

NII SREDA «In the House of Heroes», Curator: Anya

Kubanova, Moscow, Russia

MASTERS BOOKSTORE «We are one», Curator: Lera

Novitzkaya, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Group Exhibitions:

The “Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art” (ACCEA or “NPAK”),

Final exhibition Art Residence «MIR24», Curator: Bela

Phoghosyan, Yerevan, Armenia

The “Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art” (ACCEA or “NPAK”), Armenia

SUSANA FAUSTINO IG:

@smac.home

Susana is a portuguese art teacher who born in Lisbon in 1968 but lives and work in Oporto city. She has a master s degree in Art and Design Education from university of Surrey/IPVC and currently teaching arts in the 3rd cycle of basic education. She also has academic training in ceramics and pottery, having formed, together with three other potters, the ceramics studio “Ocre” in the early 90s. Painting is, for her, an intrinsic motivational need. It is through painting that she relaxes, free herself from the tension of everyday life, and fulfill herself. She is usually inspired by nature, spaces and objects worn down by time or traditions from her country Her artistic work starts from a concept, but rarely from a project or sketch It gives her me more pleasure to work in an intuitive way Most of her paintings are abstract, allowing a wide interpretation to the observer She often uses the mixed technique and the materials that she essentially applies in her work are, pigments, cement, plaster and sand With her work she hopes to sensitize the viewer to the appreciation of everything that inspires her, such as old objects and buildings and the natural environment that surrounds us

MARGARIDA PINA MENDES

IG. @margarida pinamendes

Website: https://www margaridapinamendes com/

Margarida Pina Mendes' work is expressive and emotional

An impulsive free movement, characterized by an experimental and authentic gesture "I paint because it is my way of communicating my deepest thoughts, it is quite liberating for me I hope you see my paintings, and feel emotions that's define certain moments in life"

Margarida Pina Mendes lives in Lisbon, Portugal

ANDREA CASSADY

IG: @andreacassady

Models: @fortunalatuya / @blamejean

Contemporary photography is made up of irreverent factors that are part of the microworld we live in every day Andrea Cassady and her personal style are on a search for values, sexualities, genders, and micro-worlds that exist on the periphery of our minds, but to which she constantly lives next door Her lively style and her brilliant look through the lens, make up two important factors that she distinguishes with classic settings where the model and the light merge into new universes.This photographer based in Barcelona (Spain), trained in Madrid, Prague, and with photos exhibited under the baton of Instant Photographers in Barcelona, or ISO600 in Bologna, say everything and more about her.

Cassady is not just life, she is a creator, and her tools are the order of the day to change the norms established in art.

Irreverence? no, normalities are here to stay, and she is one of the best representatives of this new wave

SILVIA BARDANI

IG: @silvia bardani

There is a strong narrative running through Silvia Bardani's work that references her personal background, and her career path in ecommerce, Artificial Intelligence and in the fashion industry.

She was born on 27 July 1988 in Assisi (Italy), the city where art and spirituality meet. Her childhood is made up of frequent visits to her aunt, Stella, a retired hairdresser, who dedicated her life to paintings. Stella also invented an innovative glass painting technique that represented for Silvia Bardani an incredible source of inspiration and an encouragement to dare and experiment new things This artistic influence led her to experiment with various techniques of decoupage, decoration, painting, and sculpture since she was 4 years old, arriving in adulthood to find her own style and the best form of expression of her feelings “Turning feelings and thoughts into art” means to Silvia Bardani that she can leverage on art to put all her life pieces together, from her expertise of AI to her love for nature She has been the Founder and the Managing Director of Viume, an AI based platform for fashion brands

THOMAS FALKNER

IG: @thofalkner

Web: https://thomasfalkner art/

Thomas has been artistically active since the early 2000s; initially with photomontages Since the mid-2010s, he has been developing his own unique style:

highly reduced and processed photographs in which structures, contexts and perspectives become clearer. The highlight in 2019/20 was the double exhibition "Der zweite Blick. Berlin - the City" with his patron and role model, the Berlin painter Horst Dietzel at the "Helle Panke" gallery in Prenzlauer Berg. Some of the paintings presented there, as well as more recent works, have since been shown in Athens, London, Venice, Amsterdam, Zug, Salzburg, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Los Angeles and Miami. Further exhibitions are in preparation. Falkner is artistically self-taught. He was born in 1957 in (East) Berlin. After studying and earning his doctorate in Leipzig, he first worked as a political journalist in Berlin and Bonn, and later as a political consultant and publicist He has been retired since 2021 Falkner is the author of several books

SKETCH DUDEE

IG @sketchdudee

WEBSITE : https://thesketchdude.bigcartel.com

Sketch Dude is an artist raised and living in Lisbon, Portugal

Having born in Dakar, Senegal, he carries both worlds in his creative work, his genetic heritage and his environment growing up in Europe

He is a self thought artist, which means he searched and studied by himself many different techniques until he reached his own creative process and way of expression His sketches are created in blue with strong lines that will accentuate the most important parts of the drawing of the person or object he is representing.

The quick lines will provide you a sense of movement that will make you see the moment he is capturing happen.

You can find him at markets in Lisbon and hopefully soon in many other countries.

As an artist Sketch Dude believes he will always be learning and evolving and the main inspiration he finds in the world is connecting with other creatives and finding motivation in their works that are different from his

SOFIA LEPORI

IG:@cosefattemie

OpenSea profile: https://opensea io/collection/untitled-collection513099766

Sofia Lepori is a swiss Artist and Graphic Designer Born and raised in Lugano, after living in Zurich and Rome she actually lives and works in Madrid

AMBER MB

IG: @amber mb scholten

Website:

www amber-mb com

https://youtube.com/@ambermbscholten

https://www facebook com/amber scholten 56

Born Amsterdam 1973 Visual artist, painter and certified goldsmith and fashion designer She has a ‘creating crave ’ and practices music, photography and poetry– one form inspires the other

Her technique is intuitive, raw and fast She uses unusual tools like spatulas & squeegees Creating a unique perspective makes her work very accessible and internationally appreciated Sky – Earth –Water are always present

2023 Exhibition ArtNumber23 Barcelona

2023 Exhibition Rotterdam Art Week

2022 Exhibition Art Gallery PlayRoom

2022 Winner Plein-Air painting contest

2022 Exhibition Tengel

2022 Live Art shows at galleries and exhibitions

FILIP GURKOVSKY

IG: @filip gyurk

Born in the mid-90s in the Czech Republic, Filip Gyurkovský started his artistic journey at a very early age After graduating from an art-related high school in Prague, he obtained a Bachelor's in Fine Arts at the University of Ostrava

In 2017 he moved to Barcelona and started working on his personal artistic career, focusing on the exploration of ephemeral and mortality

Using expressive realism as a basis, his work is a continuous exercise of experimentation through realism and anatomical drawing rules Through deformation, concealment, and the use of expressive strokes, Filip attempts to let the essence of the unknown and the mysterious emanate from his portraits He uses a wide variety of materials to achieve more complex and texture-rich compositions

CAROLINA RIBERA

IG: @carolribera

WEBSITE: www.carolinaribera.com

Carolina Ribera, an accomplished businesswoman and emerging artist, has had a career in PR that has brought her to both London, New York, Madrid and Barcelona

After an incident, whilst on a safari journey in Zimbawbe gave her more time to create, Carolina found herself exploring her artistic spirit She had always dreamed of getting her hands and feet dirty, to fill a blank canvas with colourful dreams, and now she finally had the opportunity to experiment. She rummaged through her house, finding furniture paints, stamps and old spray paints, and with these simple tools she made her first paintings. Her little romantic and bohemian studio in Costa Brava that used to be her fathers physics garage filled with tools and inventions, is now filled with paint, canvases, experiences and memories. Carolina Ribera’s pieces are a mixture of photography, mixed media, collage, acrylic, pop art, graffiti, textures, music and words

Some of Carolina Ribera’s previous exhibitions:

- Mrs Toolip Gallery, July 2022

- MiSonny Art Festival Mas Sorrer, August 2022

- MiSonny Art Festival Catalina Gavà Mar, September 2022

MONIKA ŽELEZNÁ

IG:

facebook.com/Monika-Železná-109058851903613

https://monikazelezna cz/

Monika Železná is a Czech painter originally from Slovakia, currently living in Prague In 2022, she finished her studies at the Art and Design Institute in Prague in the field of painting and graphics The painting "Iceberg" is one of a series of paintings of the final bachelor's thesis, where each of the paintings depicts one of the many ecological problems of our time Each painting combines a realistic oil painting representation of a specific environmental problem with a more abstract representation using a palette knife and metal plates that represents its artistic solution, like a kind of utopia.

DANIELLE ACHKAR

IG: @danielle achkar

Born and raised in Beirut in a war-torn country, Art was not easily accessible, but I always had a deep appeciation and sensitivity to it

Even though I did not follow any formal education, I spent over a decade studying drawing and painting techniques with different art masters

Working with a variety of mediums including pastel, acrylic, and oil

My abilities were further honed, and I eventually mastered the iconographic Art, which has always captivated me I get inspiration from life's experiences, I'm fascinated by the female body and the everyday world

I am fortunate to have worked on commission for foreign collectors and take part in a number of group exhibitions throughout the years

EVGENIYA DOVGALYUK

IG: @zhenya dovgalyuk

WEBSITE: https://evgeniya-dovgalyuk com

Evgeniya Dovgalyuk is a photographer who works with digital photography

Photography takes up most of her life Having started shooting on film at 18 she fell in love with the process of photography, and continues to do so now, but with a digital camera. Evgeniya is self-taught. She studied photography from books and online courses.

At the beginning of her photographic journey, Evgeniya often took a camera and walked alone in her native city. She was fascinated by the emptiness, and silence of the distant streets, and the feeling of unity with the camera and the city. Now the feeling of emptiness and melancholy also inspire Evgeniya and are the main themes in her work.

In March 2022 Evgeniya left her native country because of the war In her works, she explores the topic of emigration and her own attitude toward it She attempts to convey what she feels having lost her home, through photography

PH Alissa Gianotti