'New Era' | Exhibition I, Room I | April 2021

New Era: Part i 31st march - 21st april 2021

room I www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens

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GREGORY KOUKIS EUGENE TUMUSIIME ANN ROSE GAIA OZWYN NICK VERENA BAUER ROMULO GONCALVES FLEUR CARLIER KOSTAS ZIRIDES TRUUE

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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.

GREGORY KOUKIS

I was born in Athens, Greece and studied Graphic Arts and Painting .I grew up in the media generation, magazines, newspapers, cinema and television have always been my sources of inspiration. I am a pop artist who describes his art as Pop Nouveau. I mostly use mixed technique, handmade creations blending with digital images in order to make my social commentary on my ERA. The result of my art experiments as i like to call them is something between a photography a panting and a magazine, all in vivid colours. My art has been so far my personal diary and my "garish" answer to the development of the society, political and moral. My ultimate wish is to create artworks-like surreal advertisements - who can provoke people to think and react and at the same time who can operate as visual historical documents

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'Oxygen 1'|90 cm x 110 cm Giclee fine art print on canvas or Lambda c-print

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EUGENE TUMUSIIME @etvisuals

My name is Eugene Tumusiime and I am a London-based street photographer. I shoot at night and I use a post-processing style influenced by cyberpunk films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner to turn the capital into neon, one night at a time.

My freelance work includes the award-winning title sequence for UKTV’s We Hunt Together and photojournalism for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine on the secret economics of food delivery.

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'Night Shift '|17.3” x 11.5cm Photograph

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ANN ROSE @antigonypap

I am Antigoni Papatheodorou and I was born in Athens in 1979. My mentor has been my professor, Erato Averkiou, whom I met in the Athens School of Fine Arts. I continued my studies in Thessaloniki and delved into therapeutic art and art for children, hagiography and sculpture. At present, I remain an art tutor of children and adults and continue to further my art studies.

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'A Moment' |30x40 cm Oil on canvas

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GAIA OZWYN @gaia.ozwyn

I live in London and have been working with oils for a number of years now, mainly on canvas, though I do like to experiment with various materials to portray depth and texture. As I am originally from Devon, I take my inspiration from the natural beauty of the south west coast.

When I am not painting, I work full time as a doctor in the NHS!

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'Labyrinthine'|30.5 x 40.6cm Oil on canvas board

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TRUUE @truuu.e

I'm Truue! I'm a young artist who is based in Russia. I specialize in portraits, I think the human face is a very interesting object. I'm also a street artist. I studied design, but I didn't graduate. Favorite techniques are oil and coal

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“No name” | 60x80 cm, 2021 Mixed media on canvas

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NICK @city4art

I am a self-taught multidisciplinary artist working within a whole range of media to satisfy my creative nature. I get a great deal of satisfaction when my paintings evoke memories and feelings. I can’t help but be influenced by color, process, texture and narrative content to make this happen. I love it when my art makes people smile and stare, and can intrigue or challenge them. I love being able to create paintings that occupy people’s minds and unconscious. I invite my audience to look at my art and feel or remember something. My artwork says the things I want to say when I can’t find the words.

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'The Peace Seekers'| 40 x 50 x 2 cm, 2020 Acrylics on canvas

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VERENA BAUER @wvwerena

I am a 20-year-old Austrian artist and I have been painting my whole life. Although, I have never been to any art school, I have always been interested in culture and art. In fact, I attended a business college and in addition I am currently studying business consulting at university.

It was a hard journey for me to finally be confident enough to show my art in public. Through the years I learnt that my opinion is the most important in my life. I learnt that I don ́t need to hide my love for art. Above all, I learnt that trusting myself and having faith forms the basis for greater things to come . I am only at the beginning of my art journey and I am excited about where I am heading to.

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'Woman 2' | 30x90 cm Acrylic on canvas

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ROMULO GONCALVES @oromuloeye

I look at the outside and try to bring it in. Memory and its elusive quality transform everything from then on. While I do not do visual reproductions of my surrounding world I do want my images to look like they have lived there. Visually the work reconciles expressionism abstract with an instinctive form of figuration. In the end I hope it would be perceived as a tribute to humanity and Nature and a reminder of our connection with the Natural world.

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'Verge' |115x115cm Acrylic oil & paper on canvas

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FLEUR CARLIER @fleurcarlier

In my work I’m driven by an interest for the wordless, spiritual world and an urge to express this realm in a visual manner.

With my paintings I examine what it means to be human.

Indefinable human feelings, circumstances and stages are the topics that interest me. Examples of these are subjects like death and adolescence; stages of transition. I research the seeking and ‘asking’ human being. Mysticism and self oblivion plays a role, as well as themes like timelessness, nostalgia and a longing for the wordless.

I don’t strive to tell an unambiguous story, but look for something that touches a common human experience. This finds its visual translation in archetypal figures.

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'Angel ' |110x100cm Oil on canvas

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KOSTAS ZIRIDES @kostas_zirides_art

My name is Kostas Zirides, i am 22 years old. I was born in Greece but I live in Cyprus. I am studying Fine and Applied Arts at the university of Western Macedonia. My art work can be described as contemporary art and I usually work with oils on canvas. For this painting ( Parallel Universe) I decided to <<play>> with how time works and show different aspects of a same act in a parallel universe. For my second painting (Hope) I wanted to portray a man who had many plans for life but at last when you lose hope, you lose everything, even your own self.

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'Hope'| 50x70 cm Oil on canvas

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