New Era: part II 28th February - 21st march 2021
room II www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens
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1.BIAGIO MASTROIANNI 3.VANDANA GULATI 5.CHRISTINA MITTERHUBER 7.TAWANIA ART 9.JOSHUA HOOPER 11.VIRGINIA TOZZI 13.OLGA KOUDI 15.TASSA BITSANI PETROU 17.KLEBER CIANNI 19.MARIA UNGUREANU 21.FLORA WITT 23.AI_NORN 25.AENEAS
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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.
BIAGIO MASTROIANNI
Biagio Mastroianni was born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1969. After his education as a photolithographer he studied visual communication at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and gaining a degree as an illustrator. His work, including painting, drawing and many kinds of printmaking has been shown in exhibitions not only in London, but as far afield as New York, Norway, Italy and Switzerland.
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'The death of Socrates' | 83 x 83 cm Oil on canvas
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VANDANA GULATI @passionista_vg21
Each painting is created with lots of passion, love, high quality professional materials and textures. They express either a thought, a state of mind or an emotion, but always open to more interpretations. I love playing with textures to create a bit of tangible 3D dimension to the painting. I also often accompany my paintings with some words which adds that extra bit intangible dimension to the piece. Examples of that can be seen on my Instagram Page.
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'Brexit' | 150X100cm acrylics Resi-Crete & Oil
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CHRISTINA MITTERHUBER ©christinamitterhuber
My painting "Earthquake" symbolize the importance of gratitude and appreciation of each and every moment we owe to life on our beautiful blue planet Earth. "One moment in time" "I want one moment in time When I´m more than I thought I could be When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away And the answers are all up to me Give me one moment in time When I´m racing with destiny Then in that one moment of time I will feel I will feel eternity" (Song by Whitney Houston)
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'Earthquake' | 200 cm × 200 cm , 2020 Oil pigments dried flowers glitter sand and stones on canvas
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TAWANIA ART @tawaniaartlife
I am a British artist of Caribbean heritage. My artworks are based on the thoughts of being unseen and unheard of yet having a lot to express. I take away the thing people rely on to judge another and replace it with nothingness. I wanted to explore combining the unknown with expression.
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'Expression' | 46x46cm Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
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JOSHUA HOOPER @joshuahoooper
oshua often uses found photographs as a vague reference point for his paintings. Using found imagery; the artist raises questions of identity and a detachment from the personal. Taking a once personal imprint and putting the figure in a domain designed by the artists choosing. The figures explore a playful intimacy and a gentle eroticism. Joshua’s work has attracted worldwide interest with paintings being held in private collections in North and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. He has been included in exhibitions at the Stanley Picker Gallery and Islington Arts Factory. Joshua has also been mentioned in Saatchiarts most prestigious publication ‘Invest in art’. '
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'On Her Knees' | 130 x 170 x 2cm, 2020 Acrylic spraypaint and watercolour on canvas
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VIRGINIA TOZZI @virginiatozziart
Virginia Tozzi was born in 1988. Originally from Florence, she is currently based in London. In 2012 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence specializing herself in painting and drawing. In the course of her artistic career, Virginia performed several solo and group exhibitions within Italy, United States, and the United Kingdom. My art fluctuates from conceptual to informal painting and drawing compositions. Nature is a recurrent topic, and it is used to explore three major concepts: alteration of reality, change of matter, and time lawlessness. In my artworks, I combine different techniques and raw elements, often mixed with material colors. The creative process sometimes starts with photography. This allows me to create an informal painting through reality's deconstruction.
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'If you can't find anymore deep in your eyes' | 42x59, 2021 Mix Media on Canvas
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OLGA KOUDI @koudi_depresurfer
Olga Koudi, digital artist. In my paintings, I create images of anxious women in ghostly spaces. I call them “Spiky heads”. These characters are a collective image of sensations: anxiety, constant suspense, mystical reality, the boundaries between sane and insane. For me, creating a picture is an unconscious process, and I would like the viewer to be in this state while watching.
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'Waiting' | 40 x 60 cm Digital
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TASSA BITSANI PETROU
She is particularly interested in depicting faces and persons, their inner lives and the thoughts reflecting on them, in expressing pictures of nature, either of microcosme and macrocosme; also she is extremely interested in women’s and children’s place in today world, and she is searching out possible ways to improve their quality of life by contribution of art. She uses mostly acrylic to express the vibrant quality of her favorite themes. She presented 21 solo exhibitions and also participated in several group exhibitions in Greece. There are several of her paintings in private and public collections in Greece and USA.
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'The great Goddess' | 100x80cm, 2017 Acrylic
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KLEBER CIANNI @klebercianni
I like to observe and collect objects that are discarded because they awaken in me creativity and imagination, provoking deep reflection about what community lives there, what it consumes, what it cares for, from the garbage it produces. I offer myself as an instrument for the transformation and reframing of this material that is no longer useful, a channel to relive and tell its story, through my art. That's how I communicate with the world, with my own dialect that I call "Kleberês", my way of talking about the things that worry or enchant me. I don't really understand the universe of words or numbers, that's why I use my art - language to access a space without time, where I can play whatever I want, without barriers or borders. In this place I feel in the body the light present in everything, in everyone, a dip in nothing. A living inspiration in some part of the universe decides to be born right here, in me. Right now I'm a brush, color, art and artist, all together making room for the idea to take shape. I dance the emotion of those who know nothing, just feel. Focused on the process, I let my body free to tell the images of the ancestral stories that arrive like breaths in my ears. Here I exist - I belong - I am art.
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'Brinca comigo?' | 30x19cm stencil on pallet wood
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MARIA UNGUREANU @catalinaa_u
Ideas of religion, existentialism and dictatorship dominate the iconography of my pieces, conveying layers of personal experience towards the subject matter. My practice is informed by different sources, from literature, film and my own cultural background. Growing up in Romania enforced experiences upon me that resonate within my work, particularly the strong presence of religion and the phantom of the communist regime. The visual identity of my practice carries the themes employed to a sense of parody and absurdism, exploring the uncanny and a state of visceral uncertainty that is aimed towards the viewer. It explores a juxtaposition of different styles and the tension between the organic and mechanical, reflected in the use of painting and printmaking.
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'Language Has Failed Me' | 120x160 cm, 2020 Screenprint and oil/acrylic painting on canvas panel
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FLORA WITT @fleurdepompom
Fleur is a young traditional and digital artist from Germany also referred to as fleurdepompom. She discovered her passion for art early on in her life and exhibited in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg when she was just 14 years old. Fleur graduated from school with her major in arts. During her career, she has worked with other artists, like the Berlin-based artist Christian Awe, and won multiple art contests. Today Fleur mainly draws female portraits traditionally with alcohol-based markers and watercolor, or digitally.
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'Lavandula angustifolia' | 10,3 x 14,7 cm alcohol ink on paper
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AI_NORN @ai_norn
AI_NORN is the Robot that learns to paint. The Union of Human and Artificial Intelligence in painting. Our program helps a human artist to express the idea in colors by transforming it into robot movements. The program gets an image as an input (it can be a photograph or any other digital image), analyzes colors and shapes, puts them into strokes, mixes paints on its own, and applies them to the canvas in different techniques with a robotic arm and a platform. AI_NORN style of painting was designed as something distant from photographic repeating. We name it neuroimpressionism. The idea of neuroimpressionism is to underline the main thing of a picture through artificial intelligence perception, not a human perception mood, energy, and reflect them on canvas with brushstroke form and colors.
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'Streaming. Mowgli death' | 20x30 Created by Artificial Intelligence - canvas on cardboard Acrylic
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AENEAS @julia.kirilova369
Once I realized that it is not necessary to wear jewelry on myself, because the walls of the house also want jewelry to be applied on themselves. In this picture, I depicted a butterfly as a piece of jewelry. There are a common symbols between butterfly and gold of wealth, transformation and immortallity. I have been drawing and painting since I was 4 years. This is my favorite hobby. Inspired by the beauty of the world, I paint pictures that my subconscious mind shows me. My mission is to give people beauty and surprise them. Through my paintings I convey the deep meaning of life. For 17 years I have been working in beauty salons as a hair-stylist. Then I wanted to develop in other directions: I worked with children in China, after that I returned to my homeland and, inspired by children, illustrated 2 children's books, one of which I'm the author. After that I studied as a TV presenter, now I'm a beginner video maker and klip maker. I create video clips with my paintings.
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'Wealth of the subconscious' | 50x70 cm canvas Photoshop Acrylic
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