NEW ERA

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J A N U A R Y

GALLERY

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NODNOL EXHIBITIONS

INDEX 1. SARA BLACK 2. CHRISANTEM MACHACEK 3. TAMIKA SPENCER 4. CHRISTINA GSCHWANTNER 5. PANERAS STAVROS 6. STELLA WHALLEY 7. RIMA ALBASHIR 8. MAGALY DE SHO 9. NEENA 10. MISSBUBBLEBLISS 11. SHANG-YANG WU 12. KATRINA STAMATOPOULOS 13. VERA MARTYNOV 14. RAGHE FARAH 15. DAVID SACKS 16. TAMSIN SPARGO 17. MICHAL RAZ 18. CHRISTOS ZOGRAFOS 19. MAX ROXX 20. LUNA MALUNA GRI 21. EM KÄRKKÄINEN 22. LEA BAUER 23. MARIA CHRISTIDI 24. FERNANDO LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ

SARA BLACK IG: @sara_blaq SSarah Owusu-Ansah, widely known as Sara Black is an artist from Accra Ghana. She graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a First Class honours Degree in Painting and Sculpture. Her National Service was at the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale, Ghana. Her most recent exhibition was a feature in the group show “Monologue of Voices” in Takoradi, Ghana and “Contemporary II” at the Boomer Gallery, in London, United Kingdom Her vision is to create works that feel like safe dreams with a beautiful yet unusual interactions between humans and nature. Sara’s works become a sort of interpretation of her dreams. She tries to project how her dreams feel through the paintings she makes.

She reflects this by creating human-like creatures doing ordinary things. She questions what it takes to be human through the actions of these figures. She believes being human goes beyond what we do and how we do things. Being human transcends gender, race or religion.

To her, these figures are superior because they are not bound by the labels that have been a concern with us humans for a long time. They are simply living.

CHRISANTEM MACHACEK IG: @chrisantem.art

Chrisantem Machacek is a painter from Prague, Czech Republic. He studied photography at FAMU, Prague, 2007-2010. Later he expanded his focus into drawing and painting as an autodidact. His work is mainly auto-art therapeutic and cathartic, because of the profoundly unfortunate experiences.

When he paints a picture, he forgets everything that doesn't matter, that there is something else than the canvas in front of him which needs to be covered with the colors.

Only the Being itself, artist and God remain, and in the deepest state of creation, there is no more canvas, no thoughts, no Ego, no feelings, no God, no desire, no strange person who calls himself Chrisantem. The Great Void Fullness remains.

TAMIKA SPENCER IG: @tamikaspaperart Tamika Spencer is a paper artist, also a freelance photographer who specializes in doll photography. She studied photography under her Museum Studies major at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and briefly continued into fashion design at Moore College of Art and Design where she continued to build upon her artistic talents. Her work has been featured in various doll magazines such as Stand Magazine, FDQ (fashion doll quarterly) and Doll Magazine. Whenever she is asked what got her started on dolls she says when she was young she collected Barbie dolls and she also collected and created paper dolls. However; it was the collectors Barbie her husband got her that really rekindled her love for dolls.

CHRISTINA GSCHWANTNER IG: @christinagschwantner

Christina Gschwantner studied painting and graphics at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and lives there as a independent artist. In addition to her exhibition activities and residencies all over the world, she has been represented at various art fairs such as ART AUSTRIA, ART VIENNA, and Parallel Vienna. Her rigorous artistic methodology as a painter is based on a reconfiguration of form, a metamorphosis of the visible, a process of interpretation, and an approach of continual variation. Christina Gschwantner elevates something that long seemed to be frowned upon to a maxim: the principle of playfulness.

(Dr. Elisabeth Voggeneder)

STAVROS PANERAS IG: @stav_pane Stavros Paneras is a Greek contemporary artist born in Kallithea, Athens in 1989.

He has participated in several group exhibitions, symposiums and competitions with distinctions in Athens, Thessaloniki, London and the Czech Republic.

His works belong to private collections, NGOs, public bodies and cultural associations.

Paneras has also attended the Engraving and the Scenography department. He lives and works in his new studio in Vyronas, Attica. “I have studied Political and Economic Sciences, with a master's degree in Civil Protection, Crisis and Disaster from the University of Athens, but I always enjoyed the feeling I had when I looked at art. So I took some time to experiment with different styles of art, and finally came up with what I liked best. After studying Fine Arts, I tried to harmoniously integrate my pre-existing background with the visual language I was trying to communicate.”

STELLA WHALLEY IG: @stellawhalley Stella Whalley is a Fine Artist from London. Her practice covers a variety of medium, applications and materials with particular interest in drawing, printmaking and painting processes and site-specific installation. Whalley studied at Central St Martins and worked professionally at various publishing intaglio studios.

She pursues ideas from her personal experience and from a feminist point of view.

Inspiration has come from experiencing different cultures on residencies in Japan, Italy and Portugal.

Notable shows include the EMPIRE 11 at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017, which travelled to the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca Mexico 2019. The Nakanojo Biennale Japan 2015, Wilson Gallery Cheltenham 2014. ’Digital Responses’ Victoria & Albert Museum 2002, book launch ‘Tokyo Tales’ the Whitechapel Gallery 2007.

RIMA ALBASHIR IG: @rimaalbashir Rima albashir is a jordanian artist who aim to engage people to her artworks to an artist extent.

Her recent interest in Greek mythology, allowed her to use it as a tool to break through the classic academic methods and produce a contemporary way to present her work using mixed mediums.

Holding a BA in Visual Arts from the University of jordan2012. She also collaborated with local institutions involving in social issues. As well as, exhibiting with group exhibitions throughout Amman.

MAGALY DE SHO IG: @magalydesho Magaly de Sho is currently studying a Master in Photography and Post Production in Spain and one of the areas that catches her attention is author photography.

She found in long exposure photography a new vision of reality.

Her work goes hand in hand with another important language in her life that has helped her to know herself and to have a different perception of life, which is Zen meditation.

What interests her is to combine these two languages, her goal is to exercise photography in a professional way and thus be able to transmit effective messages that move something in the viewer, that give way to their own interpretation, that disturb them, that make them think and feel.

NEENA IG: @neenakumar.art Neena is an emerging artist on the path of discovery to find and unleash her inner creative soul. She aspires to be a mix master artist, one who does not conform, but entwines the different techniques and mediums she is exploring on this journey of hers.

Her muses range from figurative work to still life, flora and fauna to architecture, all of which influenced by her first-hand experience both plein-air and in the studio experimenting with colour and a range of mediums.

Neena’s art is bold, vibrant and brazen and as she likes to say, with it comes “a touch of naughty and nice”.

“MISSBUBBLEBLISS” IG: @miss.bubblebliss working as performance artist: “MissBubblebliss”, Cultural and social anthropologist. Soap & Bubble Geek. Since 2014 she has been researching, performing, photographing and filming (with) soap bubble creatures. Since 2018 she has been participating regularly in international soap bubble art conventions to share and expand her knowledge and skills. In addition to the technical aspect, she is interested in telling stories with the soap. She performs in public spaces, on a smaller scale up to Bubblemania (Europe's largest soap bubble festival) with the icon Tom Noddy (2019), and the Paris Fashion Week with the Collective Ebullitions (2019). The last three years she has also been working increasingly at the interface between science and art. In 2020/21 she took the time to conduct macro studies of soap bubbles and soap film. Stephanie Krawinkler produces her own soap mixes and also makes many props for material manipulation herself.

WU, SHANG-YANG IG: @shangyang.w.u Wu, Shang-Yang, was born in 1992 in Taipei, He obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree from Taipei National University of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan and studied project arts, film and new media during the semester exchange at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany.

Wu uses multiple media, inclusive of projection installation, video, performance and painting, to process the relationship between body, object, machine and space. He presents the re-disposition and reflection of the power relationship in the objecthood under the influence of his life experience, shaping a state of uncertainty that is both classical and ill.

KATRINA STAMATOPOULOS IG: @katrinaastamatopoulos Katrina is an Artist based in London.

Her interests are located amongst meanings of agency and subject, what we consider real, scientific and surreal, and how we consistently misperceive through Photography.

She is particularly intrigued by connections made with ways we digest food and images, and how they are entwined as a daily process.

Katrina has participated in various group exhibitions such as Altered States, St John’s Crypt, London, Surge, The Courtauld East Wing Biennial at Somerset House, London, Manpower, Lisbon, Real/ Unreal, held at Bath Photography Festival, and After Eden, LATARKA (in Correspondence with the Annual Degrowth Festival) Budapest.

In 2021, she presented her first Solo Exhibition Preying For Modesty (Meatheads), at PhotoAccess in Canberra, and opened the Project Space Equivalentbehaviour, with Wojciech Kawczyk from StorqueStudios.

VERA MARTYNOV IG: @veramartynov Vera Martynov is a Russian visual artist and director. She has served as curator of the experimental theatre (New Space Moscow 2016-18, TO STAGE/2 Stage 2018-19) and worked as an independent artist, collaborating with various theatres, museums, and galleries. From 2012 to 2015, she was the artistic director at the Gogol Center and assisted its chief director, Kirill Serebrennikov, in the renovation of the theatre.She is the co-founder of Dmitry Krymov Laboratory, where she worked as a scenographer, costume designer, and performative artist from 2004 to 2013. Martynov was also a resident at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in 2012 and 2013.

She has garnered numerous awards for her work, including the Innovation, State Award in the field of contemporary art (Project of the Year), the Golden Triga of the Prague Quadrennial, Edinburgh International Art Festival award (with the Dmitry Krymov Laboratory), and the Golden Mask Award for Best Set Designer. Martynov taught at Moscow Art Theatre School, the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, and the British Higher School of Design in Moscow and Higher School of Economics (HSE). She graduated from the Scenography Department of the Russian Academy of Theater Art in 2008.

RAGHE FARAH IG: @reggq_ Raghe Farah is a Canadian film photographer. He draws influence from across a range of visual art disciplines of film, photography and design. Kazumasa Nagai, Jamel Shabazz and Alfonso Cuarón are some of his inspirations. He thinks of each image as a piece of cinema.

A scene from a film told through single image.

Color is his strongest motif. Each piece of work having a particular tone used to communicate the intended emotion and mood of the image.

DAVID SACKS IG: @davidsacksdavid David Sacks is a South African (1986) self-taught artist and virologist living in England. Sacks works with an alternative darkroom method called chemigram. These are made on photographic paper with darkroom chemicals, without film or an enlarger. Different hues, forms and textures are produced as these chemicals are brushed, dripped or splashed onto the paper. Through the use of resists (such as varnish), the action of the chemicals can be controlled, allowing intricate patterns and compositions to develop. Deeply influenced by classical art, Sacks also produces master copies of Greek and Roman statues. The chemigrams on display here, printed with archival materials, are the result of his synthesis of experimental darkroom methods and Classical Realism.

TAMSIN SPARGO IG: @tamsinspargo Tamsin Spargo’s interdisciplinary work focuses on performative and conceptual drawing, exploring themes of time and movement. Making use of repetition, iteration, and a variety of drawing methods, Spargo examines the process and purpose of drawing, questioning what exactly a drawing is. Is the work on paper a final result or a side effect? Her work includes drawing, sonic art, film, and performance and has been exhibited and sold internationally. She studied Fine Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University and recently gained a postgraduate degree in Fine Art from London Metropolitan University.

MICHAL RAZ IG: @michalraz Michal Raz was born in Jerusalem, Israel and is currently a London based artist. In 2013 she completed her B.A. at Hamidrasha School of Art and Education in Israel with high honors, and her MFA in 2018 at the Slade School of Fine Art London with distinction. Her work has been exhibited in Israel, UK, Europe, South America and India including the Weizmann Institute of Science Art Gallery and Mane Katz Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel, Fold Gallery, No20 and Unit1 Gallery, London, and Tao Art Gallery in Mumbai. Michal was also a finalist for the Concord Art Prize.

CHRISTOS ZOGRAFOS zografos_chris@hotmail.com Ο εικαστικός Χρήστος Ζωγράφος γεννήθηκε το 1980 στην Λάρισα. Καλλιτεχνικά είναι αυτοδίδακτος και δραστηριοποιείται ως mixed media artist. Επηρεασμένος από ζωγράφους όπως ο Kandinsky, Klee, Albers, Pollock, Dali, Van Gogh,

Mondrian, τον συναρπάζουν τα γεωμετρικά σχήματα, οι συμμετρίες, οι συμβολισμοί μέσα από ένα χρώμα, μια κίνηση, ένα σχήμα, μια ελεύθερη φόρμα. Το ύφος του εχει έντονα στοιχεία της σχόλης Bauhaus και της αφηρημένης εξπρεσιονιστικής τάσης. Η θεματολογία βασίζεται στην ψυχοσύνθεση του ανθρώπου, τον χωρόχρονο, το υποσυνείδητο και φυσικά τα βιώματα του καλλιτέχνη. Έχει λάβει μέρος σε ατομικές και ομαδικές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα ενώ τοιχογραφίες και πίνακές του κοσμούν διάφορα δημόσια κτίρια και καταστήματα της Λάρισας καθώς και ιδιωτικές συλλογές της Αθήνας, της Θεσσαλονίκης και του Λονδίνου.

MAX ROXX IG: @ross_massimo Max Roxx has used various mix-media in his work to reflect his creative moods filtering through current feelings, impressions and stimulations.

Political Art and art for propaganda has had an influence on Max Roxx recent artwork.

Combining abstract art and work by Rothko has also been an influence.

He has shown works in group shows in the past mainly in London (including Artnumber 23), and solos in Berlin and Italy.

Max Roxx is a creative with an unconditional art training. He has delved into artistic creativity using mix media, photography and video.

The political climate in the USA in recent years with populist parties speculating on the patriotic ideology that bring to the surface dark forces intent in destabilising a democratic process that is still evolving.

LUNA MALUNA GRI IG: @lunamalunagri Luna Maluna Gri is an Austrian multimedia artist, who was born and lives in Vienna.

Through her artwork she expresses herself and her emotions. Her goal is it to make people feel, make them think and scrutinize the believes they were taught. To broaden their minds and stretch their way of thinking. Solo and group exhibitions in London, Los Angeles, Athens, Hanover, Vienna and Salzburg and several poetry performances (among others 'VorstellBar' - Burgtheater Vienna, Global Earth Strike 2019, Kunstkomplett Art Festival, 'Hear me roar' women artists festival, Volkstimmefest Vienna).

EM KÄRKKÄINEN IG: @oilpaintem Em Kärkkäinen is a finnish Non-Binary Queer artist with synesthesia, and mostly works with oil paints to create colorful and soul touching art works, ultimately wanting their audience to self reflect and feel their beautiful, complex emotions.

Kärkkäinen is highly inspired by extraterrestrial life, energy of nature & humans, sexuality and love.

Their meaning in art is to connect people to themselves and others, all Kärkkäinen’s pieces are meant to bring their viewer peace and calmness through bright colors and a touch of magic.

LEA BAUER IG: @photo_athelea Lea Bauer (*1983 Germany) studied Informationsdesign at the Stuttgart Media University.

She worked for several years as an editorial manager for art, design and architecture books (including teNeues, av edition, daab, tectum, Art Directors Club für Deutschland) and currently as a graphic designer and photographer.

Inspired by natural light and shadow, architecture and landscape, her photographic works show the remarkable in the simple. The hidden is made visible. Sometimes new things arise.

MARIA CHRISTIDI mariachristidiart.com Hailing from Cyprus, much of her work explores aspects of Greek history and mythology.

She is particularly interested in the relationships between the ancient and the contemporary – how the ancient cultures of the region have evolved and what insights we can gain from their study.

Although she considers herself an artist who works across a range of media and processes she has recently been focusing on lens based media‐and in particular photography and video. Her recent works include a series of photographs and films that each focus upon a figure from Greek Mythology such as Charon, Hypnos and Nymph. In these works she has attempted to distil the essence of these characters through contemporary media and settings to create ambiguous images and videos that straddle the ancient and the modern worlds.

In each of the works she has attempted to connect these representations, on a personal level, with situations or events from her own life‐as a kind of metaphor for her experiences‐ that also link into the epic themes from Greek mythology.

FERNANDO LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ lrparrafernando.com

(Madrid, 1990). He is a flamenco dancer, choreographer and philosopher from Madrid. He has a PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts (Speciality in Dance and Arts of the Gestures) in Paris VIII University (France).

He has also studied a Master in “Philosophy and contemporary Critics of the Culture” and other one in “Dance research”, both in Paris VIII University, where he has also been a teacher between 2017 and 2019.

He has won the 1st Dance Research Award of the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España. He has been also awarded with the Best Dancer Award in the 19th Muestra de Danza El Álamo and the DanceWeb Scholarship in Impulstanz Festival of Vienna.

He has his own dance company since 2009.

He is author of few papers, chapters of books (see the complete bibliography here: www.lrparrafernando.com) and three books: “Espejismos de la identidad coreográfica: estética y transformaciones de la farruca”, “De puertas para adentro: disidencia sexual y disconformidad de género en la tradición flamenca” (Egales, 2017) and “Historia queer del flamenco” (Egales, 2020).

Since 2020 he is a Member of the Performing Arts Academy of Spain.

Nowadays he is teaching as ATER in the Dance Department of Lille 3 University (France).

NEW ERA 10th January