New Era:part II 28th February - 21st march 2021
room I www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens
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1.GERALD NEZERKA 3.DIMITRIOS TSOURIS 5.LERKE NENNEMANN 7.JONATHAN ARMSTRONG 9.DOLORES MEPHISTOPHELES 11.GIVARA HAJI 13.SIGRID KOERNER 14.IGNAS PLĖDYS 16.DIMITRA JOANNA THEODORIDOU 18.KSENIYA GONCHARENKO
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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.
GERALD NEZERKA @nae.zerka
Nae Zerka, born 1969, lives and works in Salzburg, Austria. As a traveler of analog digital synthesis, talented visual artist Nae Zerka never stops exploring. The artist's inspiration for his work are from digitalization, along with graphic design and music. Himself he produced electronic music and became a techno DJ in legendary clubs. His work blends the design element with technology, graphic design with a painterly finish. His dynamic paintings represent opposites, they polarize and therefore they are rich in contrast. Things reflect each other and the explosive composition gives an expansive richness of shapes and forms. His work is a mixture of digital photography and painting, in conjunction with soft color gradients and gestural strokes and marks. Warmth, cool, frantic, quiet, dynamic lines and shapes are combined with colors and forms and finally merge into an overall explosive composition. His abstract works of art challenge the viewer, the respective thought building of the viewer counts. In his works, which is often first created in painting and then digitally processed, Nae creates a transformed atmosphere that should let the viewer feel, sense and discover a new reality. His explosive and dynamic approach create a kaleidoscopic reality.
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'ZERO DARK' | 100x100 cm Giclée print on hahnemühle fine art paper mounted on dibond Acrylic paint colored pencil
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DIMITRIOS TSOURIS @demetritsouris
Demetri Tsouris. Born Nicosia, Cyprus, is a full-time visual artist working in the style of abstract expressionism both in the UK and Cyprus. Dimitri’s work is often characterized by gestural brush-strokes with layers of colour, allowing the impression of spontaneity that evokes the aim to make work that while abstract was also expressive or emotional in its effect.
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'No. 7' |152x53cm Oils on canvas
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LERKE NENNEMANN @lerke.nennemann
Lerke Nennemann is a German artist, based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the dynamic relationship between form, colour, proportion, structure, and a diversification of techniques and materials.
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'Eleven' | 70 x 100cm, 2020 acrylic on cardboard
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JONATHAN ARMSTRONG @j_armstro
Born in 1964, Jonathan Armstrong completed his Master of Arts Degree in Fine Art in 2020 at Winchester School of Art under Programme Leader and artist Nick Steward. Influenced by Doris Salcedo, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Dion, Andy Warhol and the artworks of Robert Rauchenburg with his notion of the ready made or “Gifts from the Streets”, in making art. Old newspaper articles, abandoned mattresses and domestic relics become charged with significance and saturated with meaning in his art. The unwanted, redundant and obsolete have become his obsession, like fragments of time, measured, catalogued and immortalised. His photographs, collages, prints and schematic assemblages transform these obsolescent items into poignant and commanding testimonies of loss and remembrance. In cataloguing the things we throw away, Armstrong hopes to draw attention to the environment we live in, while prompting the viewer to reconstruct stories, that spark memories and question the fragility of their own life.
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'HANGING ON TO LIFE' | 59.4 x 42 cm Silk Screen Print (quantity 6 off )
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DOLORES MEPHISTOPHELES @dolores_mephistopheles
After pursuing careers in several different job directions, I decided to live life driven by the desire to express myself. My paintings are done on paper with colours red, blue black and white. These colours helped me identify and express myself on my journey of looking for freedom from limitations, found primarily in Berlin techno scene. I currently paint on paper that is in theory, not meant for painting and thus, symbolises vulnerability of the pieces. Inspired by life lessons, music and techno culture, I combine energy work with painting, where for some paintings, I use my whole body as a tool. The mission of my paintings is to connect viewers with parts of themselves they might not be connected to.
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'All the sex we didn’t have' | 141,5 cm x 98 cm Acrylic paints on paper
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GIVARA HAJI @givarahaji
I am Givara haji from Syria i live in Istanbul for 6 years i start doing art 4 years ago after Escaping from Syria because of the war I didn't get a secondary education I worked in many different fields since my childhood noon have anything to do with art . when i come to turkey I started discovering my love for expression and art But the surrounding circumstances did not allow me to study it academically or even get help but I tried to get a job in the graphic design field I worked there for three years but the need to express was stronger than just getting a job , So I stopped working and that left me without a home , Wandering around Istanbul and sleeping in the streets This allowed me to build a style Not trying to for fill expectations about panting but drawing for those on another plane i wish i can shear my work Through you to reach many different kinds of people .
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'The city someday' | 45x30cm paper and acrylic
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SIGRID KOERNER @sigridkoerner
My studies in the natural sciences made me very sensitive to nature, its laws and creativity, which uses simple principles to create diversity, opulence and abundance. Despite its irrepressible power, nature is subject to great fragility. For this, art bears a special responsibility, with its means and possibilities, to open up an extraordinary perspective on problems for people and to create an awareness of them in a striking and individual manner. As a qualified color chemist, I know the chemical, physical and physiological foundations of colors, their compositions, structures and optical mechanisms of action, but also their unconscious symbolic power. They offer us orientation, let us see and recognize the world in all its diversity and beauty, and they represent feelings and emotions.
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'THE POWER OF COLORS' | 100 x 100cm Oil on canvas
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IGNAS PLĖDYS @red.pandas.inflated.ego
Born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1991 I left the country when i was 17, currently I live in London. I have no formal arts education, I am interested in colour, shape, composition and texture. Taking inspiration from my past, conversations with my friends and my life in general. I work with anything I can get my hands on to try and reflect my mood and feelings into a piece of work.
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'You are not god' | 21.0 x 29.7cm Acrylic and chalk on Paper
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DIMITRA JOANNA THEODORIDOU @dimitra.theodoridou_art
Dimitra Joanna Theodoridou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1994 and entered the School of Fine and Applied Arts, AU.Th., in 2014. She attended the Painting field, studying the academic works on Still Life and Nude Models, using a variety of material such as Charcoal, Oil and Acrylics. At present, working on her diploma presentation shares with the spectator her interest focusing on objects’ weaving, the Microcosm and Anatomy. Forming a mixture of seemingly not related elements, represents them as a final concrete result, solidly connected with her concerns and beliefs about modern society , and her questioning about Life and our world.
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'Raw meat' | 70cm x 100 cm, 2019 acrylic on canvas
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KSENIYA GONCHARENKO @_kseniyaart
Born in 1997 ( Moscow, Russia). Live and work in Moscow. Since childhood, l was painting and studying ballet. My life has always been filled with art. In 2019- 2020 took part in different international group exhibitions in Moscow ( at the gallery EURASIUM). April- May 2021 - solo exhibition at The gallery Steiner in Vienna.
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''Are you ready to order, sir?' | 80х 60 cm Oil on canvas
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