'New Era' | Exhibition I - Room II • February 2021

New Era 3rd February - 24th February 2021

room II www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens

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1.LEA FUCHS 2.ANASTASIA FRANK 3.NATALIE PAULL 4.CHIMEZIE ANORUE 5.EMMA KÄRKKÄINEN 6.KADER OZTURKMEN 7.MARIELLA BILITSA 8.DARKO ĐUROVIĆ 9.PAVEL KLIMOV

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art number 23 London • Athens

Art Number 23 is a London based organisation with two physical Gallery spaces in London and 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.

LEA FUCHS @lea_fuchs_artist

In 2012 I have graduated in arts at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania. I am a multidisciplinary artist, best known for high-contrast, strong, vibrant and balanced colorful paintings. Driving creative forces behind my work are Post-Impressionism, Pop-Art, Japanese art, a remarkable sense of color and the fascination about the beauty of the things I see and feel every day. I don’t paint objects, but the emotions they produce on me.My paintings are windows to the imagination. In a stressful, frantic world, my art strive to create a calming retreat for the soul.

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Rave, 120x100 , 2018 mixed media

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ANASTASIA FRANK @anastasia_frank_art

I would not want to describe my paintings, as their names speak for themseves.

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The Beginning, 90 x 120 cm Oil on canvas

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NATALIE PAULL @natalie.paull_art

I graduated in 1997 with a degree in Art History at Goldsmiths College, London. After a spell working the National Gallery Publications Department, I returned to Goldsmiths and qualified as a Secondary Art Teacher in 2003. I have had spells of practice and of teaching, as well as going back to academia to gain an MA in Art History in 2018. I now live in France where I practice and teach.

My work is concerned with the disquieting marriage between markmaking and the imaginary. Art historical research has given me a theoretical understanding of the visual and if any of that has fed into my creative practice, it is the idea that we engage with pictures in different ways and on different levels. Paintings can evoke intellectual, intuitive or emotional responses. The relationship between picture and viewer, engendered by such responses, is what fascinates me. I endeavour to make abstract pictures that communicate deeply and personally and differently to each of their viewers.

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'Tor Leisure', 61 x 61 cm Acrylic and charcoal on woodmatt-varnished

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CHIMEZIE ANORUE @paschalmezie

Being able to express myself to the fullest, is what I have craved for a long time and art has given me that ability, which is quite fulfilling.My work, Gay Visions, is a reflection of moments when I'm most happy.

I am Chimezie Anorue and I am inspired by my personal experiences and my environment in general. I have previously been a part of Life In My City Art Festival in Enugu, Nigeria 2018 and I had a collaboration with I Love Ugly for the Black Lives Matter movement and other charitable deeds in New Zealand, 2020.I currently pursue a Diploma in Painting at the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Nigeria.

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Gay Visions 002, 59 x 76 cm 1Mixed Media on Canvas

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EMMA KÄRKKÄINEN @oilpaintem Being a self taught artist, one of my biggest influences for my art is my own queernes and the queer women around me. With my work, I want to uplift women and show the world how beautiful they are, while simultaneously bringing the hardships they experience out in the open. We tend to bottle up all the negative feelings inside us, so with my art I want the viewer so realize it’s okay to release them in order to grow. I look at my art as a way to heal. Every piece is a lesson I have to learn. Art for me is a way to self reflect and actually see the problem infront of me. I want people to learn something from my pieces, and everytime they look at my art, they’ll be reminded to keep going, keep growing.

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"Don’t look behind you", 50cm X 61cm, 2020 Oil on stretchedprimed canvas

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KADER OZTURKMEN @loya_art

The artist, born in 1990 in Denizli, took the exam secretly in the city where he lived, despite all the pressures of his environment, and in 2009, he won the Art Teaching at Pamukkale University Faculty of Education. He was appointed as a teacher in Istanbul in 2015 and started to work. He has participated in many domestic and international group exhibitions, fairs, international symposiums and different projects until today. He still continues to teach in Istanbul and to paint in his workshop.

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"Struggle- Boğuşma’’, 184x144 cm Mixed Media on Canvas

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MARIELLA BILITSA @mariella.bilitsa

Mariella Bilitsa is an Athens,GR based artist. In 2016 she graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of Florina. Her work is a mixture of personal experiences and associative thoughts. Inspired by her everyday life, the natural environment, the connection between humans and animals, her works result in a set of complex narratives. The materials she uses usually depend on the portraiture of the artwork. Collages, acrylics, watercolors, oil paints, will be found very often in her work.

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Portrait with striped red neck, 41 x 29 cm Fabric Collage On Paper

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DARKO ĐUROVIĆ

Darko Đurović was born on October 10, 1982 in Podgorica. He graduated from the High School of Fine Arts "Petar Lubarda" in Cetinje and the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje in the class of Professor Marko Musović. He has been a member of ULUCG since 2006. He lives and works in Podgorica. He enjoys the status of an independent artist.

In his works he shows the irrational behavior of a man. Dejan Đorić, art critic from Belgrade, said that Darko is one of the greatest Balkan, European and even world fiction painters. , Zagreb, Mostar ... and he had several group exhibitions. He lives and works in Podgorica.

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Iracionalno ponašanje 2, 250x150cm

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PAVEL KLIMOV @phtt_PK

In my artistic practice, I study the aesthetic potential of modernization and its possible inclusion in the metamodern state of culture. One of the main methods of work is the use of the surrealist practices of the early 20th century, in particular, automatic writing. I find a starting point on the canvas, which eventually grows into the final piece. The work is usually one session lasting 3-4 hours.

Referring to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I am addressing the issue of selfawareness, “the contact of human consciousness with itself,” trying to note the presence of the “inexpressible”. The "logic of the world" known to our body remains unknown to our consciousness.

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'Lunch with four verbal turnovers', 120 x 90 , 2020 Oil on canvas

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