New Era - Room 3 - December 2020

New Era 15th December - 5th January

room III www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens

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1. PIA NICOTRA 3. DENITSA MIHAYLOVA 5. JAN BRAUER 7.ELISABETH BAEZA 9. MARIANNA SKARTSARI 11. PASCAL 13. JESÚS CRESPO 15. RECLUSERDARK ALBA GASSET 17. LAURA ASMARANDUCA 19. PETR HYLDEBRANT 21. RAJI JAGADEESAN 23. IVAYLO STOIMENOV

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art number 23 London • Athens

Art Number 23 is a London based organisation with two physical Gallery spaces in Londonand in Athens and also a Virtual Gallery! We are organising art exhibitions in all our Galleries and we invite artists from all over the world to share their work with us and participate in our shows!

The aim is to create opportunities, in order to encourage and support artists to exhibit and promote their work.

PIA NICOTRA Born in 1986 in Argentina, lives and works in Florence, Italy.

She studied fashion design at Universidad Empresarial Siglo21, graduating in 2011 with a final project about wearable sculptures. She has worked in the fashion industry in Argentina and in Italy for 12 years.

In 2018 she started her studies in visual arts at Accademia d'Arte Ad'A (Florence), completing her education with a Master's course (2019/2020).

Connecting with inner consciousness is what drives her to create. Her artistic practice is an expression of a spiritual journey, and reflects her interests in Kabbalah, meditation, metaphysics and cosmological theories.

"Snapshots of an Inner Journey": This project runs through certain moments and aspects of my spiritual journey, involving concepts taken from Kabbalah, Buddism and Christianism, and also visions and intuitions experienced during my meditation and Reiki practices. Through the paintings of this series I try to give visible shape to my spiritual beliefs and their changes throughout time, asking myself where I place the idea of divinity and transcendence. The quest for salvation, the continuous flow of cycles and the desire of Oneness are the initial ideas that inspired these compositions.

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PIA NICOTRA Inner Journey III 50 x 70 x 2 cm (h x w x d) Oil on board

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DENITSA MIHAYLOVA

Denitsa Mihaylova is a painter based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

She has several solo exhibitions and participations in group exhibitions and projects in Bulgaria and Europe. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists.

Education: - 2018 - Institute for Therapy and Expressive Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, Art Therapy, Postgraduate classification - 2014 - University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Creative Photography, Postgraduate classification - 1998 - 2004 - National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, Faculty of Applied Arts, Master degree - 1993 -1998 - 151 High School, Sofia, Bulgaria, Specialties: Interior Design / Painting Through my eyes painting is an emotion and special state of the spirit that connects the inner world with the real life. Through my art I express one world that is outside the boundaries of the realm, world full of fantasies and imagination, a world where your spirit is free and unrestricted to fly higher and higher. My art represent a journey to a fairytale filled with abstracts figures and colorful emotions that are trying to touch and to provoke the spectators.

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DENITSA MIHAYLOVA Sea Mood 80 x 60 x 2 cm (h x w x d) acrylic painting on canvas

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DIANA NOUR

MEET DIANA NOUR Artist. Creator. Visionary.

I have been thinking about a story to tell you, the story is not to tell but to imagine. It is already there, in the paintings. I haven’t created art; I have created a language, through times when I didn’t have the words. I did, however, have reds, and blues, and all the bright colours in the world, and they spoke for me. Language is just a tool.

For years now, I have been thinking about what I would want the audience to see in my work – my story. And every time I told the story, it could never express what I truly meant. What is an artist? I don’t even know. I can’t find myself in such definitions/concepts. I am, rather, a passenger or a learner. I grew up searching for answers -- thinking that I should be aiming for an ultimate goal which could be met through creation. But, I was in fact searching for answers all the way through and I was just communicating through visuals. IMAGINE...A Visual Journey

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DIANA NOUR Tropical islands view 80 x 230 cm (h x w) Oils on canvas

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ELISABETH BAEZA

Borders between art and design, Elisabeth Baeza uses common raw materials like wood, foam, aluminium, plaster, paper ... inspired by the 21st century, cities, urbanism, digital, consumption, she creates clean, graphic and minimal forms and valued the signs of everyday life, the pre sent moment and locked down history that we live.

E ach piece is handmade, laser cut or 3D printed.

Elisabeth Baeza was born in 1977 in Clermont - Ferrand (France). F rom 1998 to 2003, she studied at School of Fine Arts of Saint - E tienne (ESADSE) and graduated from th e design section. Installed in Paris in 2003, she joined the MG Stand design office and used ephemeral manufacturing techniques and collaborated in various exhibition fairs until 2008. Today, she lives in Belgium, in Brussels urban periphery where she develops an experimental artistic activity.

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ELISABETH BAEZA Whey 28 x 23.5 x 20 cm (h x w x d)

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MARIANNA SKARTSARI

My name is Marianna Skartsari and I live in Greece. I mostly love life, journeys, colors, sea, painting and sculpture. I want my artworks to be full of energy, bright colors, passion and joy for life. My inspiration starts from the sea, the wonderful landscapes, and countless other things.

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MARIANNA SKARTSARI Navagio 100 x 80 cm (h x w) Resin on Wood, acrylics

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PASCAL

Visual & electrosound composer , my artistic work is about surrealist photos from Spain.

The inspiration comes from natural background and Catalunya environment . Deformation , perspective, volumes , thus creating finally kind of avant garde atmosphere trying to link as well music with pictures and performance art.

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PASCAL Tossa Surrealista 70 x 100 x 2 cm (h x w x d) Carton laminated photo impression

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JESÚS CRESPO

Jesús Crespo’s painting experiments with the relationships between metamorphosis, dissolution and extrapolation of images. His pictorial reasoning develops a work that combines different visions and creates a new meeting space between effect and discovery.

Ambiguity is a common place for his creations, in this territory his painting transcends the limits of the painting and it is the viewers who complete the work contributing their own interpretation to the symbolic game of his work.

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JESĂšS CRESPO False Totem N3 110 x 200 (h x w) Oil on canvas without frame

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RECLUSERDARK ALBA GASSET

Alba Gasset Sales is a photographer and digital artist born in Barcelona in 1982.Since many years she has been captivated by industrial landscapes, cemeteries, old architecture, forests and abandoned places. All those places evoke a mixture of nostalgic and peaceful feelings probably transmitted by all those anonymous people who created them. Her will to revive those emotions led her to the necessity to capture those moments coining them with her personal flavour.

Alba is a self-taught photographer being time, life experiences and several trips around Europe her only universities. Each single picture of Alba is a moment in time, a world by itself in which the beauty, desolation, calmness, hope or sadness has been trapped in a timeless portrait.

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RECLUSERDARK ALBA GASSET Deconstruction of the modern world 30 x 40 x 2 cm (h x w x d) Photomanipulation

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LAURA ASMARANDUCA

Laura is a Romanian visual artist, presently a student at the Bucharest National University of Arts, whose work focuses on the relationship between meditation and materiality. An ongoing theme that constantly explores its dualism or the idea that comprehension of a subject is impossible unless its opposite is known.

Laura`s series show interest in converting the photographic and geographic medium into a meditation regarding the connection existent between image and reality. The coexistence of antagonist natural elements makes the viewer question about a way to transcend the conscious way of looking. Earth, Light and Water are elements constant used in her works, as mediums that interfere with the photographic process and the understanding of natural phenomenon.

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LAURA ASMARANDUCA ILuminescence 110 x 125 x 2 cm (h x w x d) Digital Photography

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PETR HYLDEBRANT

Born 1985. Czech Republic.

Many solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic. Big cities. Pilsen, Mladรก Boleslav, Klatovy, etc. Virtual gallery in england. Sponsorship for ARC salon (only 7 painters in the world).

My art and exhibitions are unique. Great, epic paintings. Often 3 meters. Each of my paintings has music and lyrics. At the opening I play live my music and recite lyrics.

Recently, my paintings were ranked among the best surrealists in the world (according to one Russian expert)

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PETR HYLDEBRANT MINOTAURIUM 170 x 240 x 4 cm (h x w x d) Acrylic on Board

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RAJI JAGADEESAN

I am an interdisciplinary artist who works in still and moving image, sculpture, and installation. Instead of seeking out specific materials for a predetermined project, I use what is available to me in a particular situation, instinctively reacting within a given place and time. When I encounter new equipment or materials in a location, I experiment and collaborate with these tools to discover their potential.

I have a Renaissance-era commitment to the value of beauty; I believe that form, composition, and color, can create moments of intense reflection and power, even if fleeting. As such, I make my artwork accessible in the spaces of daily life. My photography and moving-image work are available online, where viewers can encounter it on their own devices. Much of my dimensional work is site-specific and designed for public places, where it is unmediated by the gatekeeping of traditional museums and galleries.

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RAJI JAGADEESAN Plague video art

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IVAYLO STOIMENOV

“With the 'Meditation through photography' project you are assigned a visual guide. Ivaylo Stoimenov’s work stems from the analog medium, managing to penetrate the objects of his depictions in a way that seems as if the two-dimensional is trying to turn itself ‘inside out’ in the viewer’s perception. The direct composition of the photographs fully captivates the senses, while the perfectly calculated formatting brings peace to the mind. Every image has a strong focal point which increases concentration. These three immutable constructs guide the viewer into a conscious deprivation of the materiality of the outside world. While the relation to the visual concentration of Mark Rothko’s pieces is clearly apparent, Ivaylo’s work is also reminiscent of the minimalist style. The author himself has taken an ascetic direction, freeing his work from even the slightest hint of logorrhea. In the "Meditation through photography" project the visual language translates the meditative practice in a simple and efficient manner” Pavlina Obretenova

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IVAYLO STOIMENOV C2 90 x 90 x 2 cm (h x w x d) Analog photographic image, digitally printed, mounted on wood

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