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

New Era:part II 28th February - 21st march 2021

room I www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens

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CHRISTINA KYRIACOU JULIA KARL MARCOS ANZIANI TIA PHILLIPS АIDA SHANNON CATHERINE AMAKARS PATRICIA RAIN GIANNESCHI ZAENAB NAJEEB

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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.

CHRISTINA KYRIACOU @christinaky_official

Affected by modern architecture, I manifest my main concern, that of the integration of form with the outside world, how the two coexist and create an integrated composition. The identity of my paintings is influenced by modern architecture, modern buildings and their various geometric shapes, landscapes and geometric patterns, design, and digital art. The industrialization of nature and the human intervention in it, is my main concern, which is why my compositions consist of pieces of nature in combination with industrial spaces with flat geometrical forms that reveal the depth and dynamics of space. With the digital collage method, I combine two or more photographs, merging harmonically nature and industrial space, thereby creating a chaotic image on canvas that goes beyond logic, an image that I later develop and refine

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‘La Casa De Babel’ | 120X150cm, 2019 Acrylics on canvas

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JULIA KARL @by.julia.karl

Julia Karl is a new emerging visual artist currently living in London. Her art is visceral and organic, a mix of observations, ideas and materials.

She embraces different artistic mediums from drawing to watercolours to heavily textured paintings. All of her works share the same peculiarity of details, texture and complexity.

Julia's latest work 'Sculptural Hatching' investigates the intermediate state between drawing, painting and sculpture. Originated during lockdown 2020 as an attempt at meditation, the series explores lines and hatching patterns on a sculptural level. By applying numerous layers of modelling paste with a piping bag, Julia creates threedimensional textures. The result is a body of work that is intuitive, intricate and hypnotic.

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'Sculptural Hatching no.9 '|40 x 40 x 2cm, 2021 Acrylic paint and modelling paste on canvas

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MARCOS ANZIANI @marcosanziani

Marcos Anziani (b. 1984) is a young artist of Dominican descent, lives and works in Connecticut USA Anziani works in the style of lyrical abstraction with elements of expressionism. His artistic dialect is close to that of such artists as Willem de Kooning, Joan Miro and Jean Michel Basquiat. In each of paintings, Marcos aims to 'curb' the energy of color within the framework of a canvas. He combines abstract forms with primitivist images of people and objects done in simple lines.

Various, mostly warm, colors balance the artistic chaos of forms in Marcos' paintings. His compositions remind us of Kandinsky's abstractions. Marcos is actively evolving as an artist and seeks for an art that would continue the ways of the great artists of the XXth century.

Anziani understands painting as a means of expressing his emotions and thoughts. While working, he imagines himself being inside the painting and concentrates on one particular image or idea, finds a way to express them through painting and then develops the whole painting around them. He builds the composition from the inside, fully giving himself to it, and that produces actually sincere 'portraits' of the inner feelings of the artist, prints of the fly of his imagination.

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'Frida en la pared' | 160 x 140 cm, 2021 Acrylic and oil on canvas

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TIA PHILLIPS @tia.phillips_art

A lot of my most recent work has been inspired by insects, plants and nature and I have explored different ways of working through, drawing, printmaking and photography. Through experimenting I have found a love for creating scans and photos of different natural forms by manipulating the objects while they are on the scanner to create new and interesting images.

My interest in nature and natural form stems from being outside for a lot of my childhood, through being a girl guide and going away on camps and going away camping with family where we spent most summers visiting new places around the country.

I have completed a art and design college course and have gone on to do a BA fine art degree at university where I continue to experiment and focus on making new work.

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‘Butterfly’ | 21x29.7cm Photography

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АIDA @aida_art_concept

I embody all my thoughts in paintings. But the muse does not exist, she is already inside me.

«Non-cellular" is all about me. Each of them is a whole cycle from conception birth to death, and back. These birds lived in cages and were gradually released, one by one. And this process is uninterrupted, it still continues, I still catch them and release them outside. Freedom has become my main drug, which gives everything one can dream of. I learned to love this life, which mutilated my consciousness and thereby opened it. I can joke about what gives me the maximum pain and I still know how to feel, although this ability should have died out first as the brightest and most unsafe.

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'The Lamb of God' | 100x100 cm Oil on canvas

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SHANNON

Shannon incorporates elements of occult symbolism and iconography in her work. She explores Earth's forgotten beauty while imitating natural imperfections. The use of watercolor and India ink create beauty within flaws. Allowing ink to flow unconfined produces an ominous burnt feeling attributing to a worn allure seen throughout her work.

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'Rainbow' | 22 x 22 cm Watercolor and Ink on Paper

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CATHERINE AMAKARS @catherineamakars

Catherine Amakars is an East London based artist with a strong focus on exploring female sexuality and disturbances, related to emotional suppression and neglect.

Within her pieces, she uses the human form to explore femininity in its various manifestations on a social and personal level. Fascination with the human body, notably the female body, has always been at the core centre of her artistic work. For Catherine Amakars, the body is a pure source of strength and divinity; it is subject and object at the same time.

It serves as a tool for her to examine and address internal states of mind behind the visible “façade”.

Catherine Amakars aspires to create work that strongholds gender equality and celebrates authentic self and questions whether it is possible to find beauty in the violence created against one's self and the effects it leaves on body and mind.

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'Flight vs Fight'| 122 x 152cm Oil and acrylic paint on canvas

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PATRICIA RAIN GIANNESCHI @patti_rain As a mullti-media artist using paint, words, and music as a portal for imagination and spirit, I am involved with the process of Becoming and Creating. Secret messages are hidden in the textures and shapes of my work. My desire is to bring the viewer into a space to become open to the forces of imagination and spirit. I believe Art can transform us and take us to a new awareness, create new sensations, and form. For me, the act of painting is an act of spiritual practice. I enter the painting with body and mind, searching for the images as I wander through the canvas, or pick up a pen, or my guitar, or sit down and touch the keys on my piano. I am an artist.

In the newer work, I begin to un-paint the paintings, creating work that is more minimal, and monochromatic. I begin adding texture, using collaged papers and hidden text to the work. These secret messages, these hidden words, parallel the silencing of our histories. In my desire to elicit a response from the viewer, I employ the basic compositional elements of narrative, in abstraction, inviting the viewer to breath in color, image and texture, and to form their own narrative. “Prayer Protest and Peace in Paint” is a homage to Max Roach, Oscar Brown Jr, and Abbey Lincoln for their creation of the jazz protest album “WE INSIST” and the dichotomy of their relationship, and approach to the same social issues. And to Safiya Bukhari, “The War Before” the true story of the Black Panther Movement. I am multi-media artist. I am a painter, musician, poet, writer, & performance artist. I am interested in the process, the process of Becoming, the process of Creating.

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'Orion's Belt' | 2018 Mixed media Collage, Oil on canvas

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ZAENAB NAJEEB @farashah_arts

artist. Feelings like anger, frustration and fear may not be seen by the eye. As an artist, I tried to show some of these feelings in my paintings, which may be an emotional movement rather than an abstract. As hard as it is to print the feelings on the paintings, the soul may be more difficult, so I created my series “The Spirit of Life” as a start to express only the invisible and away from the sensual and deep into what is intuitive. I believe in expressive art and perhaps drawing a painting that expresses the invisible is a real challenge for the artist.

Feelings like anger, frustration and fear may not be seen by the eye. As an artist, I tried to show some of these feelings in my paintings, which may be an emotional movement rather than an abstract. As hard as it is to print the feelings on the paintings, the soul may be more difficult, so I created my series “The Spirit of Life” as a start to express only the invisible and away from the sensual and deep into what is intuitive.

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'The First Face: Woman & Tulip'|46 X 36 cm, 2015 Water mixable oil on canvas

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