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ALEXANDER SOFIANOS REGO LILI NIESE MICHAEL CLANCY FRANCESCO MANETTI OSCAR NALEWAJK DANA JEY MARTA DIORTIZ SURDESFONDSPEINTS INDEX
Alexander is a photographer and mechanical engineer from Greece, currently exploring the world of analogue photography Born in the late 90s, was always fascinated when his parents would hand him over a disposable little camera to play with while enjoying on the summertime coastline of his hometown, Corfu It wasn't until the age of sixteen, when he got his hands on a DSLR and started this photographic journey But as years passed by and studied more about the art of photography, he realized that something maybe was missing from his aesthetic as an artist Then he placed his old camera on the shelf and got an even older SLR from ebay It was from the first roll of film, the first sound of the mechanical shutter release when his "tail of undiscovered perspectives", as he likes to call it, really kicked off
IG: @we35mm
ALEXANDER SOFIANOS
REGO IG: @regoimages David Rego was born in 1987 in Madrid, where he studied art and later specialized in photography He currently lives in Berlin and takes inspiration to develop his style In a search of beauty, he leans towards abstraction, playing with combinations of reflections and potent colors Diverse objects are used to create a direct dialogue with the viewer a their emotions Rego's well rounded practice also includes still life and editorial photography. Website: www d rego com
LILI NIESE IG: @lilini paintings
Lili is a figurative artist living between Hamburg and Barcelona She paints people who inspire her, constantly striving for an honest depiction from an outside perspective By focusing on elements such as composition, colours, and shapes, she strives to exclude her own subjective perspective on the person, following the approach of the painters of the New Objectivity. On the other hand, she is fully aware of the impossibility of painting completely objectively, being fascinated and observing how inevitably personal traits constantly turn up in her work. Thus, she finds her own style in the process of constant interference between objective approach and subjective expression.
MIKE CLANCY IG: @clancyworkshop
Francesco Manetti has started composing his own works strongly inspired by contemporary masters such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Jean Dubuffet and Cy Twombly to name just a few He started studying visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, developing a combination of techniques that characterized his own artistic path, summed up by him through the abstract painting. In his artworks
Francesco Manetti brings together everything that he assimilates in everyday life, both in visual, auditory and emotional terms This constant tangle of elements is abstractly translated and visually synthesized by him into images that are deliberately not figurative, but visually poetic. Codes and mappings of the surrounding world summarized in layered emotions that become gesture and color
FRANCESCO MANETTI IG: @francescomanetti paintings
Oscar Nalewajk is a visual artist based in Madrid that born in 1996 He studied plastic arts at the Taller del Prado school although much of his knowledge has been obtained in a self taught way Oscar Nalewajk's curiosity is aroused by the use of mixed media on raw canvases. He usually uses acrylic paint, oil sticks and sprays, but also he has come to introduce materials such as shower curtains or used washcloths. His approach to painting is emotional, with a sensitive, particular and intuitive look and with an attitude of "letting do". His personal objective is the development of his own language, moving away from the traditional discourse of painting, creating a new narrative
OSCAR NALEWAJK IG: @oscar nalewajk
DANA JEY IG: @daanajey Dana Jey is a 23 year old German artist based in Barcelona Her paintings are big, bright, colorful, and the more of everything the better After painting realism for several years she moved to a more open expressive style. She found inspiration in nature and the way that nature gave her the freedom to create perfectly imperfect scenarios. One of her big inspirations will always be the work of Cecily Brown.
Flores Gérard and the 22nd Odyssey. Flores Gérard is a project of 56 flowers made by Marta Diortiz.
MARTA DIORITZ IG: @mdiozz
Set on an island somewhere in time, that has been struck by a natural phenomenon. After years, the island has finally started to flourish. Flores Gérard are all the new breeds that fill the Island, and it is now open for you to see and we will see All the flowers are collages that have been made from photographs taken around Spain and England
IG: @Surdesfondspeints
Giulia Mellace, in art Surdesfondspeints, is a self taught Italian artist born in 1997. Originally from Catanzaro, she moved to Milan in 2016 to undertake studies in Architecture. Always passionate about art, she started painting in 2020, driven by her encounter with the 'Amatoriarte' group, a reality of young artists with no academic training. Through this project, she began to explore various themes including the search for the self, existence, transformations, dystopias and reconnection with the past. Her preferred techniques are acrylic and oil painting alongside hand and digital drawing Uma noite de Luz draws inspiration from the Lisbon landscape and its surroundings, where the artist lived in 2021 2022 Under the light of night, in a magnetic jungle, the co participation of the represented elements in an initiation rite takes place An unknown figure in the background, a ‘master alchemist’, uses the gift of music to transform the features of his surroundings: trees take on bone or animal forms, moving vinyls evolve into electric snakes and human figures emerge from the waters All the characters take part in a liberating cosmic dance ”
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BARCELONA OPEN ART 26th August