New Era | January 2021 | Room 3

New Era 10th January - 31st January

room III www.artnumber23.uk | London - Athens

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1.MARIA EVSEEVA 2. ANASTASIA MASTILOVIC 3. ALEJANDRO PANTIN GIL 4. TIIA HENRIKSSON 5. ЮЛИЯ БАРЯТИНСКАЯ 6. STÉPHANE VEREECKEN 7. ANELIYA ALEKSANDROVA-AYA 8. SYLWIA WENSKA

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art number 23 London • Athens

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

MARIA EVSEEVA @maevseeva

I am amateur, I have been taking classes of drawing in Barcelona from 2008, I participated in group exhibitions in Barcelona, Moscow, St Petersburg, Genova, Milan.Member of The International Association of Visual Artist IAVA Awards of 2020 year: Exhibition centre of St. Petersburg Union of Artists, “All seasons” Diplom of 1st place Gallery “Eurasium” Moscow, International festival and competition of modern art “Peaple and Feeling” Diplom – 3 rd placeMoscow Art week Danilovsky Congress Hall - Diplom of 3rd place

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'Meditation with Katakamuna' | 50x61 cm, Acrilic on Canvas

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ANASTASIA MASTILOVIC @a_mastilovic

Anastasia Mastilovic was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow Academic Art College, majoring in Art Conservation of icons and paintings. Almost all of the conservation and restoration work was carried out on original works from the museum collections, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Also she was accepted at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute, named after V.I.Surikov, at the Russian Academy of Arts, specializing in Graphic Arts. She studied different techniques and materials, such as lithography, etching and engraving.

Anastasia’s paintings have been exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Historical Museum, the Moscow Union of Artists, the Central House of Artists, and other exhibition halls in Moscow. She now lives in the USA.

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'Young Rosa' | 43 x 35,5 cm , 2020 Ink, Acrylic, Oil pastel, tracing paper

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TIIA HENRIKSSON @tiia.henriksson.art

I am a self-taught artist who started painting as a therapy recommendation by a friend, after a sudden death of a dear family member.

I have never held a paint brush on my hand before - and my latest touch to painting was finger paint as a child.

After my first paint stroke on the canvas, I just could not stop.At first I was painting all around the clock. I was just so amazed of what I could create by just using these hands and I had no idea.

Because art is by mostly therapy for me and a way to channel my feelings - my every piece involves huge emotions.

I have cried, laughed, been excited of making each and every piece. I believe it can be seen from these pieces.

My art is painted abstract pieces.

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'Her infinite soul Size' | 100 x 150 x 4 cm Acrylic

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ЮЛИЯ БАРЯТИНСКАЯ @ribetki

This piece of work is a representation of how short one’s life is and the importance of pursuing what is fulfilling within the internal self. In experimenting with various plastic forms, I manifested an expression of my thoughts regarding the value of life. For it is in my conviction that we do not value our lives the way in which we should, wasting our previous time on meaningless things which do not further our spiritual growth in any way. Therefore, it is in this sense whereby a person becomes as inanimate as a stone and lifeless in the soul. We have placed the superficial above the natural, hence why we are conditioned in seeing less and less nature in our physical surroundings. Our materialistic pursuits have placed the individual self above the other, in turn not valuing neither other peoples lives nor our own.

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'Bones' | 60 x 41 cm Gypsum, epoxy resin

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STÉPHANE VEREECKEN @stephanevereecken

Photography is the basis of my work.

My classic studies in several academies of arts and in several artistic disciplines trained me in a multidisciplinary vision.

I started making Polaroids. I started exhibiting in galleries very young and exhibiting with artists like Araki, Dolores Marat, Paul Mc Carthy in Brussels at the Damasquine Art Gallery in Brussels. Since then I have exhibited in Europe ( Greece, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain ... ) and the United States to New York. My photographic work has been published in many art magazines. I explore the relationship between human beings and their sociological condition.

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'Work 8' | 50x60 cm Photography

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ANELIYA ALEKSANDROVA AYA @AnelAleksa

In Paris & Beauty I present a modern-day Paris, whom I took from Ancient Greek mythology and put in a new conceptual environment.

Paris, who has to give the golden apple to the most beautiful goddess of the three, decides to give it to Aphrodite (goddess of love), because she promised him the beautiful Helen of Troy, which later caused the fall of the city. This reference is the reason for the golden apple to turn to the Apple of Discord. Here we see Paris juggling with three apples, where each one has it symbolic meaning: the green one represents a young woman, the red one – mature woman and the golden one is the most beautiful woman of all. Paris is a reflection of the modern - day womanizer, who’s constantly seeking the perfect woman, but hasn’t found it yet. Behind him we see apple leftovers and some of them have been transformed into woman bodies. They symbolize all those women, who paved his way to maturity, but remained in the past as just „ options “. Some of them have even turned into mere shadows of null leftovers.

The project "An apple of discord" was realized with the financial support of the programme "CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP FOR ASSISTING OF YOUNG AND EMINENT CREATIVE ARTISTS AND OTHER YOUNG SPECIALISTS IN THE AREA OF CULTURE" of the National Culture Fund Bulgaria.

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'Apple of Discord' | 120 x100 cm Mix Media on Canvas

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SYLWIA WENSKA @sylwiaw2

All works come from a series The Icons. It presents all my reflection on the condition of our faith and Christian symbols nowadays.

Traditional portrait composition and halo are confronted with a plastic color, acompanied by animalistic symbolism not belonging to Christian portrait tradition.

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'Icons Holy Spirit' | 100x125 cm Acrylic on Canvas

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