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A Message From Our Editor In Chief Hello, Readers!

Being goofy with award winning artists Suzanne Duncan and Sharon Ross during our celebration the ATIM Masters Award Ceremony in Ferrara, Italy. More on Page 26! From left to right, Suzanne Duncan, Sharon Ross, Viviana Puello.

It's been a busy, eventful few months for ATIM! Our creative team have been seizing every chance they can to seek inspiration, so that we may bring you all the freshest, most unique pieces of work from the most inspiring masters operating today. This is a pursuit that has taken us around the world, which goes to show that we truly are dedicated to bringing awareness of international, contemporary art, and to spreading the love and passion we feel for it to the entire globe.

This past month we visited Ferrara, Italy! We had a great time celebrating our ATIM Masters Awards 2015 at the marvelous Castello Estense—it was such a magical night. You can read all about it and meet our awarded artists on page 26 of this issue. Our next stop? Miami! We're proud to announce our participation in the Red Dot Art Fair during Art Basel Miami 2015. We’re very excited about this adventure and the opportunity to meet our Florida readers and supporters. If you're in Miami December 1- 6, please stop by!

This edition of ATIM is packed with articles that focus on exposing the great work we've found around the world, both during our travels and during our collaborations with various galleries, artists, and curators. We have an exclusive interview with master artist Lorenzo Quinn from Spain, whose work makes the cover of our ArtTour International En Español 2015. If you speak Spanish, you'll be able to enjoy the article translated into your own language or to share it with someone who does.

I’m also very proud to present a photojournalism article by one of our own team members, photographer Marco Zanotti, who takes us on a tour to Ferrara and introduces us to his hometown through his lens, with an amazing selection of images from his book “This Land of Marks”. Don’t miss this article!

Our cover story features exclusive content: an interview with the brilliant fine art photographer, Suzanne Duncan, whose breathtaking work made the front cover of this issue. Suzanne is one of 2015 award-winning “Art isATIM’S a powerful tool.

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people around the world. believe in Speaking of inspire the ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art 2015, I thisstrongly sought-after, much-anticipated catalog, whichart amasses 60 modern artists and provides interviews, biographies, and essays on their work as a vehicle to inspire lives to a renewed collective and achievements, is still available at a store near you. You can find us at Barnes & Nobel, McNally consciousness.”

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We're also proud about the launch of a whole new season of “Art 2 Heart” interviews in our ATIMTV.COM channel. If you're reading our digital publication, all you need to do is click on the “Art 2 Heart” logo to view your favorite artists on video and get to know them better. We also bring you video presentations of our events, clips of the exhibitions, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the artists in action, exclusively from ATIM! Yes, it's an amazing time for us here at ATIM: the collaborations, the endeavors, the anticipation of the future and what's to come. We're glad you're here to share the journey with us!

Enjoy!

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EDITOR IN CHIEF VIVIANA PUELLO Founder of ArtTour International Magazine Creator of the ATIM TV Channel and the "ART 2 HEART" Interviews Email vp@arttourinternational.com.

ArtTour International Magazine “The Global Platform for the Artist of Today” Awarded the 2014 Medal of Honor by the National Academy of Fine Arts in Brazil

Colombo-American internationally-acclaimed artist, curator, writer and activist, Viviana Puello is an arts advocate, highly recognized for her active role promoting the arts globally. She has most recently receive the title of Honorary Member and the Medal of Honor by the National Academy of Fine Arts in Brazil, for her relevant contribution to fine arts and culture internationally with her work for ArtTour International Magazine and the Vivid Arts Network.

With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Puello is also the founder of the Vivid Arts Network, an international art organization that serves as a platform for professional and emerging artists looking to receive international exposure.

In 2011, Puello founded ArtTourInternational Magazine; with the help of her creative team, the first issue of the magazine was published in December 2011 and distributed to fifteen hundred readers. Today, ArtTour International Magazine has over 2 million readers and is present in over 120 countries.

Puello splits her time between Italy and New York, the city in which she gained experience while working for a notable TV Station. After founding ArtTour International Magazine and seeing its success, Viviana founded the ATIM web TV Channel where she uses her experience in journalism and communications to expose contemporary artists through the live broadcasting of events and the “Art 2 heart” interviews she does while traveling with her team.

VIDEO/GRAPHIC DIRECTOR ATIM WEB TV ALAN GRIMANDI Director of the ATIM Web TV Channel Email alan.grimandi@arttourinternational.com

You can find ArtTour International Magazine in all Barnes & Noble Stores in USA, McNally Robinson Booksellers in Canada and over 1200 Independent Bookstores and Newsstands Worldwide!

Director and co-founder of ATIM Web TV, the online broadcasting channel for ArtTourInternational Magazine. With over 15 years of experience in the graphic design and art industry and art industries, Grimandi brings to his work not just the excellent technique and performance of a professional graphic and video producer but also a deep understanding of the art world, with expertise on the broadcast of art events, celebrity interviews, artists and video shooting of artworks. As the video and graphic director of ArtTour International Magazine, Alan keeps on top of the latest technology to create professional state-of-the-art productions and broadcasts of the best quality with the help of his team.

WEB DEVELOPER Humberto José Orozco CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND EDITORS: Cody LaVada, Susan Peters, Joseph Buchanan, Disha Sanghvi PHOTOGRAPHY On this issue: Alan Grimandi, Marco Zanotti, Delphine Conedera, Durga Garcia

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On The Cover: Photography by Suzanne Duncan Model: Stephanie Guy Makeup Artist: Ilona Kish

CONTENTS FALL 2015 Issue

CRISTOBAL VALECILLOS

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER The ATIM Masters Award Ceremony Page 26

“A Cardboard Life” Page 11

ALZANDO EL VUELO “The Unveiling Of The ATIM Masters Award” Page 24

Cover Story!

SUZANNE DUNCAN

LORENZO QUINN

Carving Humanity Page 18

The Art Of Natural Beauty Page 38

New 2015 Release!

ATIM’S TOP 60 MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY ART Page 46

MICHAEL LAM

Spontaneous Strokes With A New York Line

by Viviana Puello Page 48

THE COLLABORATIVE ART OF KARLY ET ANNE V

by Jully Two Page 52 Page 70

A SACRED PLACE DOWN UNDER

Inside The Cathedral Of Salt In Zipaquirá

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THIS LAND OF MARKS

by Marco Zanotti Page 54

YAYOI KUSAMA

Between A Dot And An Art Place

by Cody LaVada Page 60

RESILIENT YOU

Master The Fear of failure and reach success

by Emily Stroia Page 68

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family Roomâ&#x20AC;?

Photography Cristobal Valecillos Š 2013. All rights reserved

by Viviana Puello

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Photography Courtesy of Quinn Creations S.L. © Copyright 2015. All Rights Reserved.

“Life is a wonderful endless journey… if you know how to live it.”

Lorenzo Quinn’s work focuses on humanity and life’s energy. For Quinn, sculpture is primarily an art of communication; he enjoys making his work’s meaning clear, so it can sometimes be months until his finished product is revealed. His masterful sculptures are visually symbolic pieces that represent our journey through life, filled with joy, fear, insecurities and a wide array of emotions.

Calling Lorenzo Quinn an accomplished sculptor and artist would be an understatement. His masterful sculptures are visually symbolic pieces that represent our journey through life, filled with joy, fear, insecurities and a wide array of emotions, they evoke in the viewer the need to search beyond the physical realm and into the spiritual. Born from the union of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn and his wife Lolanda Addolori, Lorenzo belonged to a world that stretched from the United States to Italy. His love for art was fostered by his father as a child and he

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followed that path into adulthood when he attended the American Academy of Fine Arts. It was there that he realized his passion for a specific art form, sculpture. He decided that sculpting allowed him to better display his originality and energy.

In 1988, Quinn married Giovanna Cicutto; shortly after that, he and his wife decided to leave the hardened city of New York and move to Spain, because Quinn felt Spain's family values would better benefit his growing family. The spirit of artists could

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LORENZO QUINN

“Carving Humanity”

by Viviana Puello

also be felt in the city to which so many other artists of Spanish heritage had come before him.

Despite a brief stint as an actor in his twenties, Quinn decided to focus solely on sculpting. His work focuses on everyday emotions and life’s energy. For Quinn, sculpture is primarily an art of communication; he enjoys making his work’s meaning clear, so it can sometimes be months until his finished product is revealed. Quinn has a unique way of working, preferring to find inspiration by writing poetry. He begins with a poem whenever he makes his sculptures.

By doing so, he creates a three-dimensional poem about, for example, a flower growing, instead of a model of a flower.

Anyone wanting to see Quinn's works would be able to find plenty of pieces in private collections around the

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world, but some have also been featured in international exhibits and monumental installations within the past 20 years. His work, “The Tree of Life,” produced for the United Nations, was published on a stamp issued by the organization in 1993, and in 1994, the Vatican commissioned him to create a sculpture of Saint Anthony that was blessed by the Pope in St Peter’s Square, Rome, in front of a crowd of 35,000. The sculpture resides in the Basilica del Santo in the city of Padova.

If you want to see some of his public art, try looking across from the Museum of Modern Art in Palma de Mallorca, Spain for his piece “Encounters” (2003), a massive globe enclosing a pointing hand, or in Birmingham, you can find the “Tree of Life,” which the stamp was modeled on. On display at King Cont. Next page

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by Brook Basil Art Tour International Magazine (ATIM), is proud to present “Alzando El Vuelo” the official sculpture for the ATIM Masters Awards. The award recipients are chosen each year from ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art, a yearly publication that features 60 incredible artists and highlights the best of the best in the contemporary art world. Curated by the internationally acclaimed art personality Viviana Puello, founder and editor-in-chief of ATIM, the publication spotlights top talents from a vast array of artistic forms.

The top 60 artists each year receive a master’s certificate, and selected artists receive the ATIM Masters Award. In addition, the artists’ works are featured in the magazine and several other projects.

The winners of the ATIM Masters Award. receive reproductions of a beautiful sculpture created by Puello. The elegant, stunning sculpture entitled “Alzando el Vuelo.”, it is a 25-cm angel-like figure with magnificent open wings and extended ar ms. A famous Italian porcelain company located in Nove, Italy creates the reproductions in porcelain and then plate them with 24-carat gold. This unique, spectacular sculpture embodies everything ATIM stands for.

Viviana Puello grew up in Cartagena, Colombia, where she began painting at the young age of 12. After working for 20 years as a successful artist and curator, Puello started ATIM with the goal of introducing exceptional talents and creating a longlasting impact in the world of fine arts. With the help of her team, she published the first issue in December 2011. Over the past four and a half years, the magazine has gained immense popularity, and it now reaches over two million readers in 135 nations.

Puello splits her time between Italy and New York, the city in which she gained experience while working for a notable TV Station. After founding ArtTour International Magazine and seeing its great success, she founded the ATIM Web TV Channel where she uses her past experience in journalism and communications to expose contemporary artists through the live broadcasting of events and interviews artists on the program “Art 2 Heart.” She recently received the Grand Medal of Honor from the National Academy of Fine Arts of Brazil.

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“A Night To Remember”

The ATIM MASTERS AWARD CEREMONY

Enclosed in the spectacular walls of one of the most incredible monumental beauties of the Italian tourist itinerary, ArtTour International Magazine celebrated one of the most expected events of the year.

by Brook Basil On the eve of the fourth anniversary, ArtTour International Magazine organized a spectacular award ceremony, the ATIM Masters Award, to celebrate both upcoming and mature talents of the industry. A numbers of awards were given to artists from different genres. The high-energy show was a clear hit.

No better place could have hosted this year’s ATIM Masters Award ceremony than the magnificent Castello Estense in Ferrara. Enclosed in the spectacular walls of one of the most incredible monumental beauties of the Italian tourist

itinerary, the 2015 ATIM Masters Award was one of the most expected events of this year. It took place on August 23, halfway through the “Rise” international exhibition organized by ArtTour International Magazine and Vivid Arts Network, which ran from August 22 to August 29. Viviana Puello, editor-in-chief of ArtTour International Magazine, personally presented the ATIM Masters Awards to selected artists to honor their achievements, celebrate the excellence of their work, and recognize their contributions to the arts. Nothing could make these marvels of modern art stand out

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Artist Cheefali Asija, UK/India, recipient of the ATIM Masters Award 2015.

more than the beautiful Renaissance atmosphere of the Castello Estense, an incredible castle built by Bartolino da Novara in 1385.

The award recipients were chosen from ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art, a yearly publication that features 60 incredible artists and highlights the best of the best in the contemporary art world. The publication is curated by the internationally acclaimed art personality Viviana Puello, founder and editor-in-chief of ArtTour International Magazine, and graphic direction is provided by recognized video producer Alan Grimandi, director of ATIMTV.COM, the wellknown web TV channel of ArtTour International. It spotlights top talents from a vast array of artistic

forms. The top 60 artists each year receive a master’s certificate, and the top five artists receive the ATIM’s Masters Award. In addition, the artists’ works are featured in the magazine and several other projects.

People can also watch interviews with the artists on ATIMTV.COM. The recipients of the ATIM Masters Awards received reproductions of a beautiful sculpture created by Puello. The elegant, stunning sculpture is entitled “Alzando el Vuelo” (Taking Off). It is a 25-cm angel-like figure with magnificent open wings and extended arms. A famous Italian porcelain company located in Nove, Italy created the reproductions in porcelain which were then plated with 24-carat gold. This Cont. Next Page

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SUZANNE DUNCAN

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of Natural Beautyâ&#x20AC;?

by Joseph Buchanan

Photographer and creative director, Suzanne Duncan, has made the world her studio, capturing stunning, imaginative photographs on nearly every continent of the planet. Growing up in New Castle, Australia, she did not always want to be a fashion photographer. Starting out as a makeup artist, Suzanne became interested in fashion photography after a clash with a male photographer. Six months later she set out to become a fashion photographer by enrolling in a class to learn the technical side of the craft. After only two lessons her career as a fashion photographer was launched when she was asked to do a photo shoot for Corston Couture. Six months 38

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In 2015 she was chosen as one of just five artists to receive the prestigious ATIM Masters Award by ArtTour International Magazine. Her work entitled "Timeless Beauty" helped to launch her international fame when it was named a finalist in the Black and White Spider Awards. From the very beginning of her career, Duncan has been recognized for her www.arttourinternational.com

unique style and ability to capture sensuality and emotion in her photographs. Possessing a vivid imagination, Duncan has built a reputation for capturing strong, powerful, inspirational images of women without losing their sensuality. Her goal is to create timeless images that combine her unique vision and the latest photographic techniques.

In the following interview, Suzanne retraces her journey from a wedding coordinator and makeup artist to the top of the fashion photography world.

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she has learned about creativity and the art of capturing images on film.

So firstly, for those who are not familiar with your work can you please introduce yourself and name some of the publications where we may have seen your work?

My name is Suzanne Duncan. I am a fashion, fine art and travel photographer. I am from Sydney, Australia.

My work has been published in numerous publications ranging from Elle, Cosmopolitan, Vogue Italia, and ArtTour International Magazine.

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Michael Lam Spontaneous Strokes With A New York Line

by Viviana Puello

Michael Lam elevates the human spirit through simple yet powerful images and compositions that evoke feelings of peaceful harmony, spiritual simplicity, and freedom.

As a small child, Lam was enchanted by ancient calligraphy characters he discovered in a Chinese herbal medicine book. His present works reflect that experience. Each painting is infused with both motion and emotion as he explores the nature of the individual and of life. Rather than a realistic representation of what he sees, his works are an emotional self-expression in which the brush strokes correspond with the complexity of the physical world, allowing the spontaneity of the ink to flow with the nature of the universe.

A common theme in Lam’s work is the interplay of light and dark, through which he explores concepts of opposites such as good and evil and balancing the yin and the yang.

Though Lam’s paintings generally tend to be monochromatic, he creates texture with varying concentrations of ink. The result is a fluid image that guides viewers through his story.

As a skilled, self-taught artist, Lam has been acclaimed as a master of single stroke painting, a technique in which an entire painting is created with a single brush stroke, he has devoted many years of his life to the development of a good understanding of the properties of paper, ink and brush, and the application of pressure and speed. As his works have evolved and become more complex, he continues mastering this technique, inspiring viewers as he illuminates the emotional elements of his subjects.

Lam’s art has often been referred to as representing a “New York Line” due to his strong line technique; however, to appreciate Lam’s work, one must transcend beyond the superficial manifestation of his

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excellent technical skills to understand the spiritual freedom of his art, which focuses on the spontaneous nature of the universe. Two important messages in his works are that everything in the world has a natural state and that one should strive to attain a state of complete spontaneity in order to become what nature intended.

During his creative process, Lam’s masterful skills allow the ink to take on a natural life of its own, emphasizing the unity of the self and nature, implying a freedom from worldly complications, and providing inspiration, enlightenment, and the consciousness of spiritual liberation.

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YAYOI KUSAMA: Between A Dot And An Art Place

by Cody LaVadaWith a career that has spanned nearly six decades and continues to stretch onward into the future - and which has certainly inspired some of the most well-known artists of our time - the Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama has been referenced multiple times as,quite possibly,the most influential living female artist ever. In a arena typically dominated by men such as Van Gogh, Warhol, Picasso and the like, Kusama stands out as an epic keystone – the very foundations atop which so many modern artists built their creations. Her successes spread across many fields, including film, performance art, literature, fashion, sculpture and installations. With such a burgeoning repertoire, she holds many accolades and accomplishments that also help her to stand out as a giant among artists.

Born on March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan, Kusama was the fourth child in a wealthy merchant family that made its living selling seedling nurseries. Her childhood was rife with complications, including physical abuse at the hands of her mother, witnessing the infidelities of her father, and severe mental health complications, such as visual and aural hallucinations, severe obsessive and suicidal thoughts, and fixations that Freud would have a field day with.

In 1948, Kusama took up senior classes at Kyoto Municipal School of Arts & Crafts to hone her life-long love of art and creating, which she claims helped her to erase the misery of her early years by transporting her to a happier place. Despite having graduated the following year, she explains that she felt great disdain toward the rigid structure of the Nihonga style of painting that she was taught. The “master-disciple” tradition by which students develop their talents through close work with the sensei was not for her, and she sought to expose the world to her originality. When asked about her time in Kyoto, she claims that she feels like vomiting.

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Over time, Kusama taught herself the arts of cubism, abstraction and surrealism, incorporating her own unique spins on the classic styles, implementing the obscuring polka dots that had been an integral part of her artistic works since her childhood years. The oldest example of this motif of Kusama's is a drawing from when the artist was ten which depicts a Japanese woman, presumed to be her own mother, nearly obliterated by the enormous polka dots. Even all of these years, this particular style still finds its way into her pieces, and has since become her trademark.

Capitalizing on both her love of art and her ability to churn out fascinating pieces with surprising speed, Kusama began exhibiting her works in Japan and receiving critical acclaim and interest from the public.

However, her wanderlust drew her

to the teeming metropolis of New York City; with its bohemian ideals and artistic freedom, it seemed to be an antithesis to her strict native Japan. Following a long correspondence with Georgia O'Keeffe, which Kusama had initiated after buying and being inspired by a book of O'Keeffe's artwork, Kusama set out for the Big Apple to continue her career,where she would spend over 15 years. At the age of 27, in 1958, she began her American endeavors.

Due to severe political stringency, Japanese travelers had many restrictions, including the amount of currency they were allowed to bring out of the country, to dissuade them from leaving. Always the ingenious opportunist, Kusama sewed bills into the lining of her clothes and conquered the city, convincing a small gallery to stage an exhibition of her work. However, she soon fell on hard times: her meager apartment was unheated, and she describes winters as being brutal – “a living hell,” though she stayed up all night sometimes, painting to keep warm and to exorcise the demons of her mind and expel the creative fervor raging inside.

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Kusama explains that she has no individual favorite Yayoi Kusama during the Kusamatrix piece of her own work – that, once created, it Exhibition,Tokyo 2005.

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“A Sacred Place Down Under”

Inside The Cathedral Of Salt In Zipaquirá

by Disha Sanghvi

Within the unassuming little city of Zipaquirá lies one of the most enthralling marvels of Colombian architecture - the Salt Cathedral. However, many literature lovers are attracted due to its connection with the world famous author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The university there was once frequented by him, and today allows his admirers to get a glimpse of his past. However, it is still the Cathedral that steals the show. Salt deposits in Zipaquirá were formed 250 million years ago, and were raised above sea level during the late Tertiary period, when the Andes were formed. The Salt Cathedral is considered one of the most notable achievements of Colombian architecture.[3] Also it has been denominated as "Jewel of Modern Architecture". The cathedral represents for the Colombian people a valuable cultural, environmental and religious patrimony.

The cathedral is part of a larger complex including "Parque de la Sal" (Salt Park),and a Museum of mining, mineralogy, Geology and natural resources.

The complex is located in Zipaquira, town of Cundinamarca Department (49 km (30 mi) north of Bogota), at 2.652 m Altitude. The travel can be done by train from Bogota, in the Tren Turistico De La Sabana (Savanna tourist train). The town is recognized, not only for the Cathedral, but for being near one of the oldest human settlements in the Americas, El Abra archaeological place.

The halite mines were exploited already by the preColombian Muisca culture since the 5th century BCE. Being one of their most important economic activities. The traditional halite mining was described

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