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Editorial

It is with enormous pleasure that we present you with our first Winter Art Edition. Art is something very personal, something so magical, with incredible diversity in meaning to each and every one of us. In compiling our content, several topics seemed relevant. For one, the individuals whose livelihood is spent within this fascinating universe that can only be considered a Shangri-La. Then there was the multifariousness of location, changing the viewpoint of what is considered ‘trendy’.

And, of course, there was the question – what is Art? In an all-embracing sense, it is a form of communication. Based on the author’s imagination and technical skill, it is a transmission of beauty, emotional power, or knowledge.

The interaction between the elements of craftsmanship helps an artist to provide viewers with a framework to analyse and discuss aesthetic ideas.

A highly diverse range of human activities combines in creating auditory, performance, or visual ingenuity. Mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities characterise it.

What truthfully constitutes Art, however, is a constant topic of discussion; there is no single set of values or aesthetic traits. Renaissance works will not have much in common with contemporary performance pieces; Architecture and Decorative have a practical use rather than solely a visual one.

The principles of Art include balance, contrast, movement. They also encompass harmony, pattern, and proportion, variety, and unity. Colour, form, space, texture, and value constitute the elements of artistry.

In short, Art and its components, just like beauty, are in the eyes of the beholder. The one characteristic it holds in stock for all, however, is the fact that it allows us to slip into an alternate universe of dreams.

We hope that with our Winter Art Edition, we will manage to transport you to that faraway place. To Utopia and into a realm of diversity and pensiveness, where in fact, everything and anything goes.

With much love always,

Cover: Conor Mccreedy, Floating Skull

CONTRIBUTORS A big thank you for your time, your effort, your knowledge, and your imagination.

Daman Abram, writer at large Agnetta Bachmann, writer at large Clemetine Fitzgerald, writer at large Adam Jacot de Boinod, resident travel writer Elian Marzotto, writer at large Garance Massart-Blum, art advisory Nina Miller, proofreader Paolo Marchetti, Art Director Karina Valeron, H-Edition Director You are all invaluable!

Alexandra della Porta Rodiani, Editor Florentyna von Schöneberg​, Editor in Chief Roberto Pucciano, CEO H Fusion Media Group

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Anything but the Blues Conor Mccreedy

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Born an 'Art Junkie' Art speaks, words are unable to

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Côte d'Azur Savoir, penser, rêver. Tout et là.

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Winter Art 2020 What’s trending

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Fabian Oefner * Nick Veasey

René Staud * Massimo Listri

Vanessa Stelling * Susan Princess

Von Reuss * Johannes Weinsheimer Jay C.

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Momentous Arts Beejay Esber * Poh Siew Wah Jan Calleja

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Fondazione Mazzoleni Salvador Dalí * Manuel Bonfanti

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José Higuera

Iñaki Sánchez Barrado

Philip Karto

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Kamel Mennour Neïl Beloufa * Gina Pane

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Anyt Conor Mccreedy.

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eeting Conor Mccreedy is undoubtedly a source of delight. He is fun, albeit a bit stubborn at times. Quite crazy in just the right way, and incredibly charming. His blue eyes seem to stare right through trespassing the hidden, and his joyous persona, uplifting to any mood. And then there is that bit one could consider almost cheeky. He loves being funny as well as happy and does not take himself too seriously. He sees his world as being a serious one and thus finds it imperative to, at times, remain relaxed. His motto: “Life is too short for bad wine, slow cars, and ugly woman”. But taste and looks are in the eyes of the beholder.

Conor was born in Johannesburg (South Africa) on February 11th, 1987. Educated at Hilton College Boarding School, his path to becoming an artist began here.

Mathematics classes skipped. Punishment sessions (occurring more often than his parents had bargained for) often secretly replaced. All interchanged instead through numerous meetings with his more than cool art teacher. Sneaking out of the boarding school windows, he would meet up with him to paint – and to drink wine. They would depict African landscapes followed by compositions of Africa’s majestic trees. Stupefied by the light that Mccreedy was able to portray and create with colour, he declared him to be a ‘master of light’. A bit like Chiaroscuro, the Italian painter.

It was an enormous honour for the young Conor to have his cherished teacher compare him to the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt.

Artists that had developed their techniques using Chiaroscuro’s principles that the use of light may best achieve the solidity of a form.

It was a road, as most any that may lead to success for that matter, that was anything but easy. Mccreedy began as a street vending artist at Union Square in New York. Along with hundreds of other artists before the days when Mayor Bloomberg introduced a license to sell forcing artists to share their space with a thousand new ‘green carts’ for fruit and vegetable vendors.

At Union Square, he had his first real break: Somebody spent ten thousand dollars on their portrait. For him,

at only twenty-one years old, a moment of real success.

Simultaneously to his stints at Union Square, his first career – modelling. He cherishes this time as he was able to work with and meet fascinating individuals. Maybe it is this, a path crossing two professions that have given depth to someone as young.

When speaking to Conor about the modelling industry and his time amongst, he becomes pensive.

He looks upon that era of his life as the ‘good old days’ when male models were different. He regards it as a phase and not necessarily one he understands. The new world of social media and the use of apps to create different personages to the individuals portrayed is beyond him. He more than appreciates having travelled the days gone by where “everyone was still the real deal”. Those days have long come and gone, catapulting the human population into a completely different hemisphere. A world in which virtual reality so often replaces authenticity.

Today he has firmly established his roots in Zurich, Switzerland. His four-story building is located right along the river Limmat that flows into the lake surrounded by the town and its beautiful neighbouring villages. It is his home, his studio, and his gallery.

Having lived his life traveling (with friends and family dispersed throughout the world), he finds that Zurich provides him not only with a convenient time zone.

Privacy, efficiency, and an advantageous location are other positive by-products. While living and working in New York, he had one of his paintings stolen from a secure art storage unit located right next door to Jeff Koons’ studio. He thus views Zurich as private and safe. Safety, for Conor, seems to be one of life’s most significant essentials. He aspires to obtain it, maybe stemming from having grown up in South Africa and all the issues this may have brought with it.

And then there is peace. Conor likes his tranquillity, harmony, his privacy. His time alone to create and that of introspection. “Zurich is a beautiful medieval Opening, Conor Mccreedy, Final Butterfly Effect, Trio Below, Conor Mccreedy, Masked security guards of the Tiepolo ball Right, Conor Mccreedy, The Mask

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Blue colour is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

John Ruskin

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ful love, named colour of the year 2020 by Pantone, one of the ample colouring palettes most iconic creators. Conor’s history with Pantone goes back many years.

Fifteen years ago, the company became so enamoured with Mccreedy’s personally developed shade that they wanted to trademark and patent it. But they also wanted 60% in royalties. Artist at heart but with strong business acumen, Conor did not accept and decided to go at it alone. He continued to develop his blue ideals, and in a pioneering breakthrough and unique collaboration with the company behind Swiss watch brand Rolex’s methodology of fluorescence, he created a rarity. They combined phosphor salts with the liquidized pigment behind Mccreedy blue. His colour became infused with a glow that is charged by natural light. It is a rarity, and he only used it in a few of his paintings. Today he merely applies it to special commissions or uses it for experimental purposes.

As with anything in life, however, we grow, we develop, we learn. Sometimes things go full circle. A periphery that Conor is circumnavigating today. Evocative of his art teacher’s words back at boarding school, he is now moving on from the purity of merely the colour blue.

Strangely, for the first time this year, he has now decided to make it not solely about the colour, but rather about the light contained within.

town that allows me to do just that. I will always miss South Africa, and I try to go back at least three times a year (and go on Safari at least twice). Africa is in my blood, and it will always remain one of my most memorable places on this planet”.

Are you ever delighted with a work of art?

“Some of my artworks are never finished. It’s a tough, rigorous push and pull process, back and forth, trial and error. Like any person with a good job, an athlete, or a surgeon, one needs to keep training and training to get better and better. So, the more studio hours I put in, the better my art becomes”.

Thinking of Africa conjures images of many colours – yellow, orange, green, or brown – the hues of the earth. Blue may not necessarily be one of these unless one takes the sky or the oceans into consideration. So why, Conor, the colour blue?

“It is my favourite. It keeps me stable, balanced, invigorated. It is so special to me that I have been working in blue for over fifteen years. It disciplines me”.

Have you ever considered painting in another colour?

“I might choose to paint in another colour one day.

A lot of people want me to. Currently, I have scarce red works. But these are samples – a tasting so to speak, which only a few limited collectors have”.

His immediate plans are to prepare for his next exhibition. Once again, a venue (currently on the cards

Discipline. Something that Conor craves even though he seems to have so much of it. Blue. His faith-

Above, Conor Mccreedy, Wide Eyes Left, Conor Mccreedy, The Magnification of Chaos

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studio in Venice as Italy is one of my favourite places on this planet. In 20 years from now, I see myself licensing my iconic colour to some unique brand that treasures craftmanship and expands into something a bit more detailed than art. A path to allow people who cannot afford my paintings to purchase smaller, more iconic, limited products. It’s a thought...”

are Madrid or Los Angeles) is going to transform itself into a blue wonderland. Conor still strives to achieve giant solo museum shows, a retrospective to showcase his oeuvres created since his 19th Birthday. His aim simply to demonstrate how prolific he has been as a young artist: “I would love that to be displayed”.

Gerhard Richter has had a profound impact on him, so have Pablo Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning, and Twombly. Because from his point of view, “they were the real deal”. Their approach, their unleashed emotion... it all echoes through his works.

One product derived from his thoughts is the Mccreedy candle. Produced in Grasse, a village embedded in the hills of the South of France, these candles are the fruit of collaboration. Between experts that have formulated countless fragrances for some of the most renowned luxury brands and Conor. It is the marriage of noses, forging unique-

Where do you see yourself in the future?

“Ten years from now, I see myself having had three solo museum shows. I see myself opening up another

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ness. Its goal is to radiate the colour blue as seen and observed by Mccreedy. “It is supposed to smell like the fresh air of the Swiss Engadin mountains and the ocean breeze of Italian Capri. Like the floral essence of Italy’s Amalfi coast combined with the thick, salty air of the oceans where I was born. Cape Town, the Indian and Atlantic oceans. I tried to pull it all together. To create a candle whose perfume is the essence of my colour blue”.

The candles became an instant success. Conor currently does not retail them; they are gifts for his art collectors, family, and friends.

“I am just a little bit proud as I was around five years ahead of the times. Speaking about Pantone again… this year they have also created a candle”.

What does he wish for the world? He believes that our planet needs protection and that issues need the right form of handling. He is a big advocate of not just speaking about it but taking the bulls by the horn and being proactive.

“There is too much bullocks out there, and I take my hat off to proper operators”. His charity PAL (Protect African Lions) exists since 2015. He is proud of the fact that last year, they managed to capture seven poachers and remove over two hundred gin traps!

Previous page, Conor Mccreedy, My Blue Narrative Below, Conor Mccreedy, The Butterfly Profile Left, Conor Mccreedy, Palazzo Labia

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Born an ‘A Art speaks to me, whilst words are unable to explain

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or as long as I can remember, I have been an ‘art junkie’. I was born in the seventies, in Paris, as the daughter of the first female auctioneer of France. A legacy that gave me no choice but to accept my destiny and heritage. I embraced art with passion, and later on, in adulthood, it became my career path.

My mother was a workaholic who held auctions every weekend. For me, as a child, this meant that I ended up spending most of my weekends looking - with curious eyes - at beautiful antiquities, ancient books, stunning paintings, and rare gemstones. From a tender age, my eyes became trained to appreciate the more refined things found in this world. Beauty was always an essential part of my upbringing. On Wednesdays after school, when I was not at the auction house, I would be helping with the layout and colour mood of Parisian printing company Copytop catalogues. These vivid memories remain engraved in my brain, making my art upbringing so very special.

One of my favourite winter-pastimes was to go through the upcoming Impressionist and Modern Art auction catalogues from Sotheby’s or Christies. It was my entertainment when I was not visiting collectors, galleries, or museum exhibitions. To further amuse

myself, I would hide the description of the artwork on the left page. I would then try to guess from the image on the right, which artist it was, the year it was painted, and the price range estimate for that particular work.

Some may find this a strange hobby for a 10-year-old.

I found it fascinating as I immersed myself in a world of pure exquisiteness. Seeing all these artworks made me dream and taught my eye to recognise talent, styles, compositions, balance, and colours. In short, the ingredients that define a true masterpiece.

At the age of 11, we moved to London for my mother’s art career. It was the beginning of my fascination with Contemporary Art and the Tate Gallery. I remember spending many rainy Saturdays meeting artists, going to exhibitions, and gallery openings.

One year, at the Tate, the Gilbert and George show ‘blew me away’; there was honesty, and the ‘pictures’ of these two diverse characters came across as massive and bold. My true love, however, combined with a deep fascination, lies solely with Francis Bacon whom I deeply admire. His tormented soul and fleshy paintings confronted me in my world through deep thought and perplexity, such as I had never seen before. For once, art could no longer be considered beautiful. Instead, it was intense and dynamic.

Bacon’s work is often overwhelming to look at, yet equally and at the same time, absorbing. I once had the incredible opportunity to meet him at the Marlborough Gallery - what an honour for a teenager to encounter one of Britain’s most significant living artists (1909-1992). My peers at school dreamed of rendezvous with Madonna or Michael Jackson. Instead, I was excited to confront Francis Bacon. My other

Above, Rashid Johnson, Untitled Broken Man, 2018 Left, Katharina Grosse, o.T., 2017 Right, Günther Forg, Ohne Titel, 2007

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dream would have been to meet Pablo Picasso, but sadly, I was born too late for that encounter.

Throughout my adolescence, my mother continued to busily travel the world, selling important Impressionist and Modern works of art. Some of these can still be viewed at various museums today.

In avoidance of unceasing globe-trotting, I enrolled in a Swiss boarding school for my A-Levels. Here, as part of my four subject choices, Art History and Art were, of course, included, with my main project being based on portraits by none other than naturally, Francis Bacon.

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Creativity and the close working relationships with artists, are incredibly fulfilling and undoubtedly, the most inspiring side of my job.

Garance Massart-Blum

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So as not to disappoint the ‘master’, I obtained an ‘A’ grade. My dissertation naturally continued down the same path as, at this point, I was living and breathing through Bacon’s work and his life. My college years in Boston were a continuance with a double major: in Art History and International Relations. This solely for reasons that I was not convinced of the possibilities to earn a living through only my passion. The International Relations bit was never actually used, but it looks good on paper. I spent my college years a little less artsy with a lot of socialising instead. My summer internships, however, were at various art galleries and museums.

My pre-destined US art career path changed as love conquered, and I moved to Germany to get married.

Luckily, we were based part-time in Cologne (the ‘art capital’ of Germany), permitting me to continue my passion, albeit this time, from a collector’s perspective. My husband and I took pride in attending art fairs. Beginning with Cologne Art Fair, then TEFAF Maastricht, and later, a must – Art Basel. We began purchasing art together, building on a collection that my mother had so generously started. For every important event in my life, she had gifted me with a work of art. By the age of 25, my art-buying addiction was going full throttle, with emerging artists becoming progressively attractive and valuable. Time moved on, and with the ever-increasing limit to our wall space, a moment for proactivity arrived. I decided the time had come to start using my eyes, my new talent spotting intuition, as well as my art history knowledge. Combining these with my valuable contacts in a world of closed networks, I began advising clients in Europe.

The life of a junkie art nerd, however, needs nurturing. Having relocated to the beautiful town of Zurich, I enrolled in the master’s program of Art Curating Zurich. I managed to attend classes over the weekends, all while taking care of my two young children, and, on a part-time basis, advising my Middle-Eastern clients on their art purchases. It was thus that my Swiss art advising career began to blossom.

During this time, I met my future business partner.

We wrote our master’s thesis on ‘airport art’ together.

Its content was an account of how art can communicate, transporting transit passengers into another, parallel world. At this point, we founded our Swiss-based company, with our initial client being one of Europe’s most notable airport providers. A tailor-made art program for their new corporate headquarters came to life. The theme resonated travel, time, space, and transit, amongst others. We worked with emerging artists from the regions and countries to which our client had strong ties and relationships, combining these with world-famous contemporary ones.

It was a fascinating time and a ‘full-on’ project that spanned two and a half years. It taught me an incredible amount about corporate collecting and the creation of complicated, monumental, site-specific artworks. Creativity and the close working relationships with artists, are incredibly fulfilling and undoubtedly, the most inspiring side of my job. Nevertheless, I also love to browse through multiple international fairs and gallery openings. In my attempts to create magnificent collections for my clients, visiting the world’s biggest auctions each year is an additional plus. I have never advertised my endeavours. Instead, the art advising has grown organically over time, from Dubai, where I began in the early 2000s to today, and Zurich, where my office is based.

My clients are situated throughout the world and collect anything from Contemporary to Modern, some even Impressionist masterpieces. It is an enriching life, to not only be surrounded by beauty but also, to sell it. Knowing that an artwork that I sourced has found a new home makes me smile. It is a happiness that stems from the knowledge that a works ‘spirit’ may live on at a collector’s residence. To have made my passion into my career makes me, without a doubt, the luckiest art junkie in the world!

Above, Francis Bacon, Three Studies of George Dyer, 1966.

Left, Gilbert & George, England, 1980

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CĂ´te d 'Azur

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Savoir, penser, rêver.

Tout et là.

Victor Hugo

by Adam Jacot de Boinod

The view from the Musée Picasso in Antibes

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owhere is there a region, not even in Italy, where there are as many collections, museums, houses, or studios entirely devoted to individual artists as in the South of France.

The great Henri Matisse once declared that “Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul”. It was in the Côte d'Azur or, if you prefer, the French Riviera that so many of the Impressionists and their descendants came to ply their trade.

To escape the second World War and the bombing of Nice, Matisse withdrew to the village of Vence.

It was an extraordinary experience to be allowed into his chapel. Here, between 1947 and 1951, ageing and unwell, he struck up a strong rapport with his nurse from the neighbouring Dominican nunnery. In return for her care, he offered to convert the garage into a chapel.

He considered it “despite all its imperfections my masterpiece”. It is sublime and heavenly, using the light from outside to influence the inside ambiance that consists of only three colours: green - to represent nature, blue - the sky, and yellow - the presence of God. The blue reflects through the stainedglass windows into purple and the green into a paler and more tranquil version, with only the yellow symbolically maintaining its ethereal constancy.

It defines his contribution to the reconciliation between the Catholic Church and modernism that he espoused along with Léger and Chagall.

The chapel has stayed ahead of its time as a wonderfully modern conception steeped in further symbolism. The altar, raised upon only one step, is made of local stone the colour of Eucharist bread and carries a simple, sinuous metal cross on which Christ hangs. Both it, as the simple wooden lectern, are set on a daring diagonal to address both congregations (one in the transept, the other the nave). The back wall is covered in ceramic tiles with mural sketches of the fourteen Stations of the Cross, reflecting the artist’s preoccupation with his mortality. The confessional is reduced to a simple radiator, a cushion-free wooden chair for the priest, and an arabesque door.

He believed that “a work of art should be a site of exchange and communication”. And I sensed strongly the stillness and light, the clarity and simplicity that give the chapel such a joyful and inspiring feeling.

The equally philosophical Alain Llorca told me to “savour the tranquillity and enjoy the passing of time” on the panoramic terrace of his eponymous restaurant. It looks down on the vineyards and up at the walled citadel of Saint Paul de Vence, made famous

by Le Colombe d’Or restaurant, which was frequented by most of the contemporary artists. It is also nearby the Fondation Maeght, an art connoisseur’s true delight that exhibits many a modern French master in its architectural feat that befits its wondrous sculpture park.

The road then meanders in its mazy motion down the valley,

Above, Henri Matisse in his studio with pole, 1951. Below, view of the Chapelle du Rosaire (Matisse chapel) located in the historic medieval village of Vence.

Right, Pablo Picasso, Ulysse et les Sirénes, 1947, Musée Picasso, Antibes

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at Antibes. The town’s famous local market, sheltering as it does beneath an old grilled canopy, offers the daily catch of fish, fruits, and vegetables. It is next door to the Musée Picasso, which is set impressively in a prime position right beside the sea with the snow-capped mountains of the Maritime Alps behind.

Housed in the Chateau Grimaldi, a magnificent seaside bastion, one is instantaneously made aware of the inspiration behind Picasso’s seagulls and sailing boats, his palm trees, and shapely gourds. Here he was granted a temporary ‘artist in residence’ after the war, and it offers an eclectic range, the stimulus behind his wider collection of ceramics, drawings, sculptures, and oil paintings.

In 1948 Picasso went to live further inland in Vallauris, and it was where he was to stay until 1955.

to Cagnes-sur-Mer, to where Renoir had his house.

It has been kept intact as a refreshing reminder of a bygone era, complete with selected works as well as the artist’s easel and wheelchair. On the grounds and preserved amongst a less inspiring town below are old sloping orchards of fabulously knotted olive trees.

Close by is the village of Biot, home to the Musée National Fernand Léger.

Here ‘abstract art leads to mural art’ as it contains a vast number of original artworks, drawings, oil paintings, stained-glass windows, and mosaics. It is only a short drive from the old town of Mougins, a classic pretty hilltop village with a small spiral of narrow passageways: the perfect traffic-free path for the local shepherd to nonchalantly follow his gaggle of six geese. Picasso discovered Mougins in 1936. It was, however, only during his last twelve years (ending in 1973), that he lived at ‘le Mas Notre-Dame de Vie’, in walking distance of a chapel and amongst uplifting birdsong.

Merely a half-hour descent to the coast brings into view the Riviera’s stunning teal-coloured water

Above, Pablo Picasso, Male and Female Bathers, 1920-1921, Musée Picasso, Antibes; interior of La Colombe d'Or restaurant in St. Paul de Vence Left, the Muséè National Fernand Léger, Biot

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Cannet that proudly celebrates its very own Musée Bonnard. It is home to an enjoyable but small selection of his works, reflecting his years living in the village, as he painted in his joyous and rich palette of colours.

Travel along the coast road and on to Eze (that like the villages of Biot and Peillon is one of the many so-called 'villages-perchés'). It is instantly recognisable perched, as the name implies, high up on a rocky crag. Close to St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the other significant promontory of the Riviera, situated between Beaulieu and Nice, it is the setting for the highly recommended Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild.

Very much a part of the artistic odyssey that is the region, this pink villa exemplifies the leisured life of days gone by. It is an eclectic mix � both inside and out � with its Islamic frontage, Renaissance objects, Chinese costumes, Meissen china, and Sévres porcelain. Cane roofs and travel cases indicate that it is a collection across eras. Not to mention the nine gardens, which include the Florentine and the

During his time there, he created many sculptures and paintings, including War and Peace, one of the periods most famous artworks. He also developed an intense fascination with ceramics; today abundantly displayed at Antibes.

To get a real feel for the unspoiled coastlines that existed during the first half of the 20th Century and the artists’ lifetimes, a trip around the Garoupe is more than recommended. This bit of land is the peninsula that divides Antibes from Juan-les-Pins. If you happen to travel along the corniche (littoral road), the healthy sea air and the bursts of evergreens will accompany you past the Eden Roc and Les Belles Rives. These two hotels will conjure up the glory days of the Riviera. I personally loved the Villa Bacon, one of the older villas dotted alongside the contemporary, a range that is both smart and shabby.

Visible from the bustling suburb of Cannes is the impressive setting of Le

Above, Pierre Bonnard as an Odalisque in Matisse's Studio, 1929. Left, Vincent van Gogh., Terrace of a café at night. Arles.

1888. Next page, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, St. Jean Cap Ferrat.

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Pierre Bonnard, Paysage Le Cannet, 1924

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Colour is all. When colour is right, form is right. Colour is everything, colour is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Marc Chagall

Spanish, the Provençal, and the Exotic: the last resplendent with its healthy green cacti.

Across the nine, there are columns, waterfalls, ornamental ponds, flowerbeds, and rare species of trees.

I then continued on into Nice and up the Cimiez Hill north of the city to the Musée Marc Chagall, a painter of Russian origin, who offered his beautiful seventeen Biblical masterpieces as a gift to the nation. He even participated in the museum's design, helping the building to honour his talent fully.

Close by, and also in Cimiez, is the Musée Matisse. Healthy in size it reflects the artists’ entire oeuvre, with some of his earlier works not typical or instantly recognisable. I learned about his time in, and influence from, the Algerian town of Biskra, before covering the familiar ‘Jazz’ cut-outs of his later period. To my surprise, the final room showed his plans for the chapel in Vence. The paintings and collages tell the story of how he put it all together, and my walking into the room acted as the classic top and tail to my Riviera visit.

There is also the Musée Fragonard in Grasse, the home of perfume. Travelling across the Luberon, one reaches the town of Arles, where van Gogh lived his fraught years with Gauguin, before visiting Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue, and then entering the nearby St. Paul asylum in Saint-Rémyde-Provence. Further afield is Aix-en-Provence, with the Mont Sainte-Victoire towering in the distance, a real pilgrimage for art historians. The location

of Cézanne’s studio has been left mercifully and tastefully intact, complete with his apples, bowls, and figurines. Right across the South of France, one finds beautiful and well-kept reminders of an artistic golden age. It is truly as Matisse declared of Nice: “Most people come here for the light and the picturesque scenery. Me, I’m from the north. What fixed me on this place were the reflections of coloured light in January and the radiance of the day”.

The best time to go is naturally in the off-season: January even. Indeed, you don’t get to lie on a beach nor experience the glamour of resorts such as Saint-Tropez and Cannes, the latter with its film festival. It is a time that is still too cold to dip in the pool or the Mediterranean Sea. However, in this highly famous holiday region, the sun is always intense, and the light still pure. In fact, there are many advantages: there is none of that deadlocked traffic notorious in August and the service in restaurants and shops is far more attentive. Tourists are a rarity. So much so that I was often the only visitor, giving me the chance to get fully immersed in the French vernacular with the locals free from the constraints of the tourist trade. And of course, the museums are virtually empty and the queues non-existent - an ideal way to inspect the art and summon up the lives of a bygone era.!

Adam Jacot de Boinod is an international travel journalist and the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World, published by Penguin Books.

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RANKIN F. C. GUNDLACH FABIAN OEFNER NICK VEASEY RENÉ STAUD MASSIMO LISTRI VANESSA STELLING SUSAN PRINCESS VON REUSS JOHANNES WEINSHEIMER JAY C. BEEJAY ESBER POH SIEW WAH JAN CALLEJA SALVADOR DALÍ MANUEL BONFANTI NEÏL BELOUFA GINA PANE JOSÉ HIGUERA IÑAKI SÁNCHEZ BARRADO PHILIP KARTO

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ve always been obsessed with people. I want to get to know everyone and know everything about them. I think this is why I love portraits as I get to spend one-on-one time with the great and the good and really find out what makes them. Disruption is the first time I’ve had a show that is really all about the emotional connection. The works show sadness, happiness, nervousness, and confidence. Just like my portrait and beauty photography, this exhibition is all about a connection and a feeling”. Rankin Rankin may best be known as the co-founder of Dazed and Confused magazine with Jefferson Hack. He has photographed models such as Kate Moss and Heidi Klum amongst others as well as celebrities like Madonna, David Bowie, and even Queen Elizabeth II. His exhibition, in collaboration with Petra Gut Gallery in Zurich explores his boldest portraiture. Disruption is a unique tour through the emotion, intimacy, and humour evident in Rankin’s portrait and beauty work.

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Rankin, Spiky Alys, Andrew Gallimore, 2014

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Fashion Photography F.C. GUNDLACH

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oco Chanel once stated that “fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Fashion is in the sky, the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening”.

The ‘happening’ is precisely what German photographer F.C. Gundlach achieved. He staged fashion – and in doing so, wrote fashion history. His oeuvres became true works of art. Gundlach reflected upon what was presented to him. He took into consideration the ideals of beauty as they changed and integrated the social phenomenon of the day. He reflected upon the spirit of the given time, from the optimism of the post-war era to the dynamic days of post-modernism.

Born in Hessen (Germany) in 1926, Gundlach is one of the most celebrated fashion photographers of the 20th Century. His work combines stunning natural settings with iconic designs from some of Europe’s largest fashion houses, as well as intimate portraits of some of the biggest names of the day – Romy Schneider, Hildegard Knef, Jean-Luc Godard… His fashion photographs from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, have found their way into private and corporate collections as well as museums. Gundlach himself owns one of the biggest photography collections in the world, and he started the Hamburg Photofestival – Triennale der Photographie Hamburg - in 1999.

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F.C. Gundlach, Astrid Schiller, Coiffure Alexandre, Paris 1967

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F.C. Gundlach, "Das kleine Schwarze", Romy Schneider, Hamburg 1961

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F.C. Gundlach, Mirella Peteni, Jumpsuit aus Saga-Nerz, Helsinki 1964

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F.C. Gundlach, Esther Haase, Portrait, Hamburg 2016

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F.C. Gundlach, "Ins rechte Licht gerĂźckt" (Flamingo-Man), Pierre Hogarth, Hamburg 1960

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F.C. Gundlach, "Slow", Karin Mossberg, Nairobi, Kenia 1966

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F.C. Gundlach, Christa Vogel, Bademode von Goldfisch, Sylt 1958

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Alexander Calder, BMW Art Car, the 3.0 CSL, 1975

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Art

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By definition, a car is “a motored vehicle used for transport. Its primary use is to carry one to eight persons (rather than goods). Typically found on the road, a car is just like the animal-drawn carts and carriages it replaced; it most commonly has four wheels”.

Many of our developed economies depend on the production of cars that came into global use during the 20th Century. German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886, making this the year of origin.

Art, on the other hand, is defined by Merriam Webster dictionary as “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects”.

It is thus only a natural conclusion that cars are art and that art can arise from vehicles. Andy Warhol thought so. So did Alexander Calder, Tracey Emin, and Damien Hirst. Nick Veasey manages to put it all into perspective:

“We all know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover; that beauty is more than skin deep.

By revealing the inside, the quintessential element of my art speculates upon what the manufactured and natural world really consists of”.

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Layered Illusions

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Fabian Oefner, Disintegrating No. 6

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orn in Switzerland in 1984, Fabian has already had numerous exhibitions around the world. His art is colourful, exploiting the scientific properties of an object to bring the beauty of our natural world and its workings, the attention they deserve.

Oefner’s work explores the boundaries between time, space, and reality. He creates fictional moments and areas that look and feel real; yet aren’t. Through this, Oefner manages to dissect the different components of reality to give a clearer understanding of how they are perceived and defined. Inspired by science, Fabian’s approach to art is highly systematic and, at the same time, playful. As though the unexpected is just around the corner and anticipated. He creates carefully orchestrated works, planning these down to the last detail. He then combines them with individual pieces, using a loose framework that expects art to simply happen.

In his highly acclaimed ‘Disintegrating’ series, Oefner portrays performance cars that seem to blow apart. He creates artificial moments in time by photographing every piece of the dismantled car individually to then arrange them digitally into one photograph. In his latest series ‘Exploding Collages’ and ‘Bildersturm’, Fabian seemingly shoots through pictures and paintings, creating a layered illusion of reality. Each work (photo or painting) depicts a portrait that is torn apart by a gunshot or an explosion. What seems to be an accurate image of a fleeting moment is, in fact, just an illusion.

His photographs become hyper-realistic renditions of a single moment in time that de facto never existed.

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X-Ray Art

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Nick Veasey, 1972 Corvette LT-1

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ick was born in London in 1962. His career path was an interesting one, a life filled with a potpourri of facets.

He began in the advertising and design industries before working as a photographer and designer for a UK Television show. Here he was assigned the more than monotonous task of X-raying Pepsi soda cans to determine which contained the winning code for a contestant. Three days in without a winner and more than bored, Veasey x-rayed his sneaker as amusement: “It was a great image, and I thought there’s something to this”. And as they say, the rest is history.

Nick spent three months working with x-ray scientists to perfect his technique. He experimented with various materials such as flowers, metals, even people – the result: an art that led to assignments for Bloomberg, IB, Nike, Porsche… Diasec is his chosen method of production, providing the x-rays with the most impact and detail. Museum-quality Archival Chromogenic prints are bonded directly and permanently to the acrylic sheet. The artworks thus elegantly appear to be floating off the wall in a modern frameless style. Many people think these artworks are back-lit, but it is just the high-quality gloss deep black background and detailed x-ray that makes the art pop. This method of production is also known as ‘Plexi face-mount’.

Nick also collaborated with London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to create beguilingly beautiful and serene x-rays of the garments in their fashion collection. Some of these even dated back to the 1600s while others, to the late 20th Century. To achieve this partnership, Nick constructed the world’s first mobile x-ray studio. The vast and varied x-rays that were shot in his portable x-ray lab reveal the nuances of fashion. The Victoria & Albert Museum described Nick’s work as “Forensic Investigation as an art form”.

His works have been exhibited all over the world.

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ené Staud is a German photographer, born in 1951 in Stuttgart.

His enthusiasm for photography started when he was young.

While still in elementary school, he visited several photography courses to obtain the necessary expertise to partake in photo contests. He managed to win his first photo competition at the tender age of only 12 years. Aged 14, Staud was able to buy his first single-lens reflex camera. However, his passion for photography did not stop here. He worked hard and sold countless photographs of souvenirs, as well as portraits. Soon, he was able to open his first photo studio for black and white photography. In 1966, just 15 years of age, Staud started with wedding photography.

After Staud finished school, he scored an apprenticeship at a portrait studio, which functioned simultaneously as a photoshop. Not even his recruitment to the military could dampen his passion for photography. He kept working partnered with another photographer as a freelancer while In Support of completing his service.

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The world through a camera lens

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conic and unexpected, Listri views his native Italy and the world through his camera lens. He frames ancient castles, cathedrals, and convents. He passes through gardens, the ornate halls of Versailles, libraries, and monasteries. The treasure-laden galleries of the Vatican. Some of the world’s most iconic architectural sites.

Listri usually focuses on all that may be considered grand, inviting his viewers to step into often symmetrically composed spaces, capturing the invisible. His works frame empty pictorial spaces that celebrate intricacy, capturing the essence of bygone days. Almost as though humanity has ceased to exist with only a vociferate silence remaining. He portrays life and passion, art, and culture, by uncovering the hidden beauIn Support of are that available ty behind Tickets spaces areforperfectly balanced in light, Reception Lecture for theOnce price in a rare while, Protecting African Lions colour, shape, and &perspective. of 39.-CHF per person he concentrates his focus on sculpted physiognomies.

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Art & Printed Composition

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anessa Stelling holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rodhe Island School of Design as well as a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.

Vanessa grew up in rural Switzerland, where she was able to spend endless hours surrounded by nature. She vividly remembers getting to know the plants and trees of the surrounding forests and becoming familiar with their life cycles. However, unbeknownst to her at the time, it also taught Stelling to examine and observe her environment: At her own speed and on her own terms.

Today Stelling still draws all her inspiration from nature, specifically the abundant forests and clear lakes of her home country. Yet there have been many artists that have inspired her along the way to becoming a painter. When she attended the Rhode Island School of Design, her biggest inspiration derived from the works of Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler.

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Her path changed in 1985 when she moved to Germany. Here, she quickly gained her foothold and began working independently.

Her consummate interest in alternative healing methods induced her to continue her studies; she trained as a certified alternative professional. From 1994 onwards, Susan practiced her newfound profession as a non-medical practitioner in various private practices in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Inquisitive since birth, she conIn Support of are available path for tinued down herTickets investigative and added medically certified & Lecture for the price Protecting Africannutritionist Lions andReception trained natural beautician to her repertoire.

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Diversification of Visual Perpection

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Weinsheimer’s passion for art began right at the beginning, during his childhood. Growing up in a family of artists, it became a continuous exposal to a universe of colour, imagery, and design. He allocated much of his free time to master the art of painting, and as a young adult, he studied design at HDK in Berlin.

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He began drawing and spray painting as a teenager, and today is honing his skills. He has made his passion into his livelihood.

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Jay C. Foster, Yellow Basquiat, in my kitchen corner!

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Atypically Eclectic BEEJAY ESBER

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alabon-based painter Beejay Esber was born on September 15th, 1980, and graduated with a Fine Arts major in Advertising at the Technological University of the Philippines in 2005.

He is known for his canvases that weave dreamlike figures, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, in a myriad of colours. They are a visual spectrum, from sombre shades to neon-bright hues. Enthusiasts describe his works as an eclectic and phantasmagoric abstraction.

Through his continuous exploration of both his consciousness as his history, Esber’s imagined landscapes feel vaguely familiar, yet ultimately unknown.

Beejay creates intuitive composite abstractions, incorporating atypical details from objects and his surrounding environment alike. His cartoonish and candy-coated oil paintings provide moments of lightness against the problematic nature of an abstract background. His is a fresh outlook that infuses his works with the diverse possibilities of art and painting and its relationship with the surface material.

Esber’s appetite for album covers, psychedelia, science-fiction (robots, UFOs, and analogue synthesiser sounds), comics, and wasteland / post-apocalyptic movies nurture his creativity. His paintings thus resemble cerebral fragments of our contemporary society in an abstract expressionist form.

Beejay Esber works have been exhibited in the Philippines, Singapore, and New York.

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Numerous Accolades POH SIEW WAH

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orn in Singapore in 1948, Poh Siew Wah is a second-generation Singaporean artist. His early works depicted scenes of Singapore and its people, predominantly in watercolour and oil.

Poh has evolved immensely and is today an established fine abstract artist with highly successful exhibitions both locally as abroad (notably at the Court of Justice Hall, Flensburg, Germany 1995). He is a prolific artist who works across a range of mediums and styles, from landscapes infused with a cubist influence to Chinese ink paintings and watercolours. As an artist, Poh finds diversity more than rewarding creatively, as for him, each medium or style will inform the other.

Self-taught, Poh has been awarded a travel grant by the National Art Council and the 1994 Overseas Art sponsorship award by the Singapore International Foundation. He received the Tan Tsze Chor Art award in both 1987 and 2003, as well as a Distinction in Art Creation from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1984, 1987, and 1988. Furthermore, the United Overseas Bank bestowed upon him the Highly Commended award in 1984 and 1989. “Poh is an accomplished draughtsman, who has a strong grasp of line and colour� (Bridget TracyTan, Director - Gallery & Theatre - at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts).

His works are in private and corporate collections, both locally and overseas.

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Toy Art JAN CALLEJA

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alleja was born in 1973 and graduated with a degree in Visual Communication from the Philippines College of Fine Arts.

As a child, tinkering was what he loved most. He would build airplanes from illustration boards, folders, or other available objects. At university, this aptitude was not only recognised but also encouraged. Calleja participated in a variety of design work – prototypes, design adaptation, and murals. Upon graduation, Jan began his career in production techniques such as merchandising design, set design (ABS-CBN were his clients), as well as various play productions at the Meralco theatres. In 2002 he ventured off into digital graphic design where he remained until Ogilvy & Mather Redworks Philippines hired him in 2007. Here he learned the process of idealisation and how to execute it effectively.

His first break as a toy-customizer came when he joined a vinyl toy contest in which he earned second place. A toymaker exhibition (15 individuals participated) followed. Thriving, to say the least, his winning entry made it to the Toy Art Gallery in the United States. The owner liked his work so much that commissions soon followed.

Since then, he has been recognized both in the Philippines and abroad. For two successive years, New York’s Clutter Magazine nominated Jan as Best Toy Customiser. It seems that he is well on his way to achieving his dream: Toy art is not necessarily lowbrow, and it can level up to mainstream art.

Calleja has participated in multiple solo- and group shows, and there is a waitlist for individual commissions.

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versatile genius, he is the most original and brilliant interpreter of Surrealism. Dalí left significant evidence of himself, not only as a painter and sculptor but also as an illustrator.

In 1950, on the occasion of Dante Alighieri’s 700th anniversary, the Italian government commissioned Salvador Dalí to illustrate the greatest masterpiece of Italian literature: The Divine Comedy. Through one hundred watercolour woodcuts illustrating the most famous of Alighieri’s manuscripts, Dalí meets Dante, and Dante meets Dalí.

It is a fantastic journey from the depths of Hell to the splendour of Paradise, passing through Purgatory’s purification. The result is a unique masterpiece that is suspended somewhere between dream and reality.

Three differently coloured areas differentiate the three books, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise – designed to symbolise Dante’s path in his most famous masterpiece. Three books with thirty-three poems. Each of Dalí’s woodcuts represents a character or an event corresponding to every lyric in Dante’s text.

In the representation of Hell and Purgatory, each figuration is often flippant, ironic, and grotesque. Dante and Beatrice in Paradise, on the other hand, are symbolised delicately and heavenly. The signs elegance combines with a masterful and innovative use of colour in which the artist’s pictorial research finds its expression in the originality, freshness, and genius of the inspiration. In his illustrations, Dalí tells the story of Dante’s work through Surreal and dreamlike perspectives. They perfectly camouflage the author’s symbolic universe and the characterising signs of his poetic – desolate landscapes and flabby figures. Dalí manages to maintain Dante’s dreamy atmosphere by adding his personal touch through characteristic symbols. The supernatural is mixed with a bold exploration of spirituality, creating a unique vision of The Divine Comedy.

Salvador Dalí interprets Dante’s journey with metaphysical and mystical research. He represents the high humanity of The Divine Comedy with an inevitable psychoanalytic gaze that explores the unconscious of the contemporary man – lost and confused like Dante at the beginning of the 1300s.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Doménec Jacint Dalí (1904-1989) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, photographer, filmmaker, designer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most significant exponents of the Surrealist movement. His creation of dreamlike worlds makes the name Dalí synonymous with magic. He is an icon.

His works cover the twentieth century almost in its entirety, sowing indelible traces that have become ‘black and white’ symbols of the century. His extremely complex personality represents a cocktail of assorted genius and delirium capable in all aspects of telling a story through hypnagogic imagination, muffled, and therefore Surreal. He lived an extraordinary life sashaying a continuous balance between reality and fiction, transforming its very existence into one of the dreamlike worlds that his works characterise to perfection. It is a universe in which clocks melt in the sun, cats fly, and animals have long legs as thin as his moustache.

Early on, on a pictorial level, his attention was drawn to reproductions of other authorities; Max Ernst, Miró, and Tanguy, maestros in translating the unconscious onto canvases. In 1929 he joined the Surrealist group, and in 1931, together with Breton, he elaborated ‘Surrealist objects’ into a symbolic function, affirming the importance of the unconscious in the creative process, as opposed to the domain of reasoning.

Salvador Dalí’s Surrealism is nonetheless highly personalised. De Chirico inspired him, and he became imbued with Freudian psychoanalysis references. Meticulous, smooth, and cold techniques characterise his works. They take on a robust individualistic character that, at times, comes across as ironic and provocative. Strong references to Classicism and the great masters of the Renaissance mark his artistic production.

A fact that, however, leaves room for the exploration and representation of the human minds’ many drawers. The world of psyche finds a free rein within Dalí’s art. It is thanks to his remarkable artistic talent that he has given birth to masterpieces in which there is a constant balance between dreams, fiction, and reality.

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Pop Art meets Spirituality MANUEL BONFANTI

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anuel was born in Bergamo in 1974. Today, he lives and works between Bergamo (Italy) and Kazan (Russia).

A student of the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, he also attended the Erasmus program studying clothing design in Finland. He examined, in-depth, the architectural feats of Alvar AAlto as well as the symbolism of Nordic Art. While in Milan, he worked as an assistant at the Monica de Cardenas Gallery. His time there was the beginning of his fascination with Pop Art. His paintings seek the aesthetic relationship between the Sublime, the space, and light of musical arias atmospheres. He is interested in the immateriality of objects, searching to represent spirituality in his works. Although these aspects, when combined with Pop Art, seem contradictory, for Manuel, they are two sides of the same coin.

For him, “an object is not only material, but it also has an invisible world around it as well”. In essence, his is a search for the imperceptibility of spiritual environments. He is looking for new limits of animistic understanding. At the core of Bonfanti’s artistic research are the atmospheres created through the unperceivable space between an object and a person.

His are large canvases of informal painting. They border somewhere between the tangible and the place where the spirit chooses if it wishes to manifest itself and start communicating through pictures.

Public and private collections throughout the world feature his works, and Bonfanti additionally curates collective exhibitions.

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The Moral of the Story NEÏL BELOUFA

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his is the story of a post-capitalist dehydrated camel who gets some young, dynamic fennecs to build a wall at the expense of the worker ants…

Like the fable that accompanies it (a text that is at once a literary object, a fictional story, and an allegory), Neïl Beloufa’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Kamel Mennour is a stratified choose-your-own-adventure... In this do-it-yourself Disneyland, the visitor finds himself at once at a fairground, in a gallery, and in the artist’s studio. The allegorical camel becomes the mascot who ‘immortalises the dream in the viewers’ gaze”. (Miriam Ben Salah) Neïl Beloufa (born in Paris in 1985) is a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. He was a student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); at Cooper Union, New York and Fresnoy–National Contemporary Arts Studio, Tourcoing (France).

Neïl was awarded the Agnès B. Studio Collector award in 2010, the Audi Talents Award in 2011, and the Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art in 2013. In 2015, Boufa was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, followed by the Artes Mundi (Cardiff, UK) and Nam June Paik (Essen, Germany) prizes in 2016.

His work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at K11 in Shanghai and at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, in 2016. Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, 2015, at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, 2014, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2013, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012and 2018 as well as the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2018.

Neïl Beloufa also took part in the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Shanghai in 2014, the 55th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2013, the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Lyon in 2013 and the 58th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2019.

His work is present in numerous prestigious collections, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Collection Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Sammlung Goetz Collection, and Julia Stoschek.

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Terre protégée GINA PANE

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ina (1939 – 1990) was a French artist of Italian origin. From 1960 to 1965, Pane studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She was also a member of the ‘Art Corporel’ movement in France.

Although she was a painter and sculptor for much of her life, she became most famous for her performance art. By subjecting herself to intense physical trials, she distinguished herself from most other female body artists of the 1970s. Her works questioned the role of ethics in aesthetics. Beginning with her body and its vulnerability, she managed to create a precise and rigorous language that expressed compassion and social contradiction. She pierced her body with thorns, cut her tongue with glass, and scorched her skin. In Marina Abramović’s ‘The Conditioning’, Gina lay on a metal bed frame over an area of burning candles.

Her exhibition ‘Terre protégée’ at Kamel Mennour Gallery in Paris focuses on the first period of her production as an artist, particularly the late 1960s. It is a period that is often unexplored as it is the foreshadow of her emblematic performances. It shows Gina Pane’s political engagement concerning the world she lived in: “… An enchanted, nourishing, inhabited, protected, loved, remembered but also threatened, exploited, devastated, dirtied, polluted, drowned earth...” (Emma-Charlotte Gobry-Laurencin).

From 1976 to 1989, Gina taught at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans. In 1978, she created and ran a performance workshop at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work is included in significant private and public collections – Guggenheim, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, amongst others – and has been exhibited throughout the world.

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Realist with a twist JOSÉ HIGUERA

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iguera was born in Cologne in 1966 to Spanish parents. His family moved back to Spain when José was just two years old. From a young age, he demonstrated the most defined and refined interest in the art of drawing and painting. His teachers at school immediately recognised this virtue, and they strongly encouraged him. In combination with the support of his family (especially his maternal grandmother), José grew up surrounded by and provided with all the necessary elements required to pursue his artistic talent. At the age of merely ten years old, he produced his first oil painting. Today, José’s passion has remained and turned into his livelihood.

He was tutored technically by some of the local landscape artists whom his grandmother introduced to him. Soaking up all the information he could from these mentors, José managed to combine the knowledge to develop an approach that essentially, is selftaught. His style has evolved into very much his own, albeit based upon the masters of realism. His works are nevertheless, also combined, with the inevitable influences of some of the world’s most creative movements.

Today Higuera lives and works in Cantabria in northern Spain. Numerous galleries and museums throughout Asia, Spain, and the United States have exhibited his artworks.

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Man of the Earth IÑAKI SÁNCHEZ BARRADO

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n the end, it is the land that makes him. The golden hues of the earth and the shimmering greens of morning dew. Or the translucent tincture of the horizon where sea and sky meet in that instant before the sun sets. To him it is this, and tradition, and life…

Barrado’s ‘Ignem Terrae’ series shows the aggressiveness and strength of our earth. There are recovery and courage, smoke, colour, and texture. The counterpoints of whites and blacks – because that is who he is – his two faces, his roots, the time he has lived full of decisions and indecisions, filled with obstacles. The expressiveness that clay can hold has always fascinated him. Combined with his love for art, the only possible result was to turn his hobby and passion into his profession.

Iñaki enrolled in the Centro de Cultura Tradicional under master potter Bernardo Pérez. Two years later, he attended the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Salamanca. He studied under Quintín Torrecilla, and he studied with Professor Fernando Pascual. He completed his training with monographic courses – María Bofill, Jota Sáez de Ocariz.

Iñaki has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Spain.

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are stripped bare. Once wholly taken apart, they are hand-painted. After that, suede handles, exotic leather, and 925 silver detail add a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ after their reassembling. A one-of-a-kind process, straight from the beginning, results in the productions of unique items. Leathers are particularly durable so that they may last a lifetime if taken care of properly. His Alligator line, exclusively fabricated in Florida, uses only hides with unique patterns – tiles or scales. He employs premium acrylic leather paints to achieve his long-lasting designs.

100% authenticity is the basis of his Louis Vuitton artistic conversions. Their journey from vintage to new begins with their disassembly and thorough cleaning.

The bags then receive their unique touches, creating 100% hand-painted individualistic artistic objects that are ready for their next journey in life. Only this time, as ‘Vintage Louis Vuitton by Philip Karto’.

On average, Philip’s atelier produces three bags per day.

hilip Karto is an artist. His admiration for Fashion, Art, and Aesthetic entice him to use multiple mediums to convey his messages. His passion lies in the transformation of already existing objects, creating something new and unique. From collages to fashion, jewellery to sculptures, Karto reconstructs new or used, trendy, or forgotten articles by providing them with words. He infuses them with a new life. That in itself is challenging.

He was born in Cannes in the South of France, and today, Miami has become his home and workplace.

In his atelier, expert artisans produce his handcrafted merchandise. A variety of items are customised, resulting in the creation of an eponymous brand. All without fail, are inspired by what he loves most: Motorcycles, Pop Culture, and Rock & Roll. His messages become loud and clear - subversive, inflammatory, or feather-ruffling topics are of no concern to him.

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Contributors Artology Mr. Mark Robinow Pienzenauerstrasse 16 81679 München Germany Contact: +49 152 0612 6910 Website: www.artology-gallery.com Instagram: @artology.mag.gallery Fondazione Mazzoleni Mr. Mario Mazzoleni Via Locatelli 1 24022 Alzano Italy Contact: +39 035 511 784 Website: www.fondazionemazzoleni.com Instagram: @fondazione.mazzoleni Iñaki Sánchez Barrado Mrs. Isabel Robledo Contact: +34 639 913 007 José Higuera Mrs. Isabel Robledo Contact: +34 639 913 007 Website: www.josehiguera.com Instagram: @josehiguerafineart Kamel Mennour Mrs. Jeanne Barral Paris 6, France 47 rue Saint-André des arts 6 rue du Pont de Lodi Paris 8, France 28 avenue Matignon London W1, United Kingdom Contact: +33 1 5624 0363 / +44 207 495 3200 Website: www.kamelmennour.com Instagram: @kamelmennour

Gallery Index Massart Brendle Art Mrs. Garance Massart-Blum Wiesenrain 8 8704 Herrliberg Switzerland Contact: +41 44 915 0717 Website: www.massartbrendle-art.com Instagram: @artbygarance McCreedy Studio Mr. Conor Mccreedy Schipfe 2/8 8001 Zürich Switzerland Contact: +41 44 221 9338 Website: www.conormccreedy.com Instagram: @conormccreedy Momentous Arts Mr. Allan Teo 03-27 1557 Keppel Road Singapore 089066 Singapore Contact: +65 9641 3235 Website: www.momentousarts.com Instagram: @momentousarts Petra Gut Contemporary Mrs. Petra Gut Nüschelerstrasse 31 8001 Zürich Switzerland Contact: +41 44 422 4069 Website: www.petragut.com Instagram: @petragutcontemporary X-Ray Art Rupert Roth Contact: +49 170 784 4377 Website: www.rupert-roth.de

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WINTER ART 2020

Henri Matisse, Icarus is a paper cutout, 1945

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Editorial

It is with enormous pleasure that we present you with our first Winter Art Edition. Art is something very personal, something so magical, with incredible diversity in meaning to each and every one of us. In compiling our content, several topics seemed relevant. For one, the individuals whose livelihood is spent within this fascinating universe that can only be considered a Shangri-La. Then there was the multifariousness of location, changing the viewpoint of what is considered ‘trendy’.

And, of course, there was the question – what is Art? In an all-embracing sense, it is a form of communication. Based on the author’s imagination and technical skill, it is a transmission of beauty, emotional power, or knowledge.

The interaction between the elements of craftsmanship helps an artist to provide viewers with a framework to analyse and discuss aesthetic ideas.

A highly diverse range of human activities combines in creating auditory, performance, or visual ingenuity. Mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities characterise it.

What truthfully constitutes Art, however, is a constant topic of discussion; there is no single set of values or aesthetic traits. Renaissance works will not have much in common with contemporary performance pieces; Architecture and Decorative have a practical use rather than solely a visual one.

The principles of Art include balance, contrast, movement. They also encompass harmony, pattern, and proportion, variety, and unity. Colour, form, space, texture, and value constitute the elements of artistry.

In short, Art and its components, just like beauty, are in the eyes of the beholder. The one characteristic it holds in stock for all, however, is the fact that it allows us to slip into an alternate universe of dreams.

We hope that with our Winter Art Edition, we will manage to transport you to that faraway place. To Utopia and into a realm of diversity and pensiveness, where in fact, everything and anything goes.

With much love always,

Cover: Conor Mccreedy, Floating Skull

CONTRIBUTORS A big thank you for your time, your effort, your knowledge, and your imagination.

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Winter Art 2020 What’s trending

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Fabian Oefner * Nick Veasey

René Staud * Massimo Listri

Vanessa Stelling * Susan Princess

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eeting Conor Mccreedy is undoubtedly a source of delight. He is fun, albeit a bit stubborn at times. Quite crazy in just the right way, and incredibly charming. His blue eyes seem to stare right through trespassing the hidden, and his joyous persona, uplifting to any mood. And then there is that bit one could consider almost cheeky. He loves being funny as well as happy and does not take himself too seriously. He sees his world as being a serious one and thus finds it imperative to, at times, remain relaxed. His motto: “Life is too short for bad wine, slow cars, and ugly woman”. But taste and looks are in the eyes of the beholder.

Conor was born in Johannesburg (South Africa) on February 11th, 1987. Educated at Hilton College Boarding School, his path to becoming an artist began here.

Mathematics classes skipped. Punishment sessions (occurring more often than his parents had bargained for) often secretly replaced. All interchanged instead through numerous meetings with his more than cool art teacher. Sneaking out of the boarding school windows, he would meet up with him to paint – and to drink wine. They would depict African landscapes followed by compositions of Africa’s majestic trees. Stupefied by the light that Mccreedy was able to portray and create with colour, he declared him to be a ‘master of light’. A bit like Chiaroscuro, the Italian painter.

It was an enormous honour for the young Conor to have his cherished teacher compare him to the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt.

Artists that had developed their techniques using Chiaroscuro’s principles that the use of light may best achieve the solidity of a form.

It was a road, as most any that may lead to success for that matter, that was anything but easy. Mccreedy began as a street vending artist at Union Square in New York. Along with hundreds of other artists before the days when Mayor Bloomberg introduced a license to sell forcing artists to share their space with a thousand new ‘green carts’ for fruit and vegetable vendors.

At Union Square, he had his first real break: Somebody spent ten thousand dollars on their portrait. For him,

at only twenty-one years old, a moment of real success.

Simultaneously to his stints at Union Square, his first career – modelling. He cherishes this time as he was able to work with and meet fascinating individuals. Maybe it is this, a path crossing two professions that have given depth to someone as young.

When speaking to Conor about the modelling industry and his time amongst, he becomes pensive.

He looks upon that era of his life as the ‘good old days’ when male models were different. He regards it as a phase and not necessarily one he understands. The new world of social media and the use of apps to create different personages to the individuals portrayed is beyond him. He more than appreciates having travelled the days gone by where “everyone was still the real deal”. Those days have long come and gone, catapulting the human population into a completely different hemisphere. A world in which virtual reality so often replaces authenticity.

Today he has firmly established his roots in Zurich, Switzerland. His four-story building is located right along the river Limmat that flows into the lake surrounded by the town and its beautiful neighbouring villages. It is his home, his studio, and his gallery.

Having lived his life traveling (with friends and family dispersed throughout the world), he finds that Zurich provides him not only with a convenient time zone.

Privacy, efficiency, and an advantageous location are other positive by-products. While living and working in New York, he had one of his paintings stolen from a secure art storage unit located right next door to Jeff Koons’ studio. He thus views Zurich as private and safe. Safety, for Conor, seems to be one of life’s most significant essentials. He aspires to obtain it, maybe stemming from having grown up in South Africa and all the issues this may have brought with it.

And then there is peace. Conor likes his tranquillity, harmony, his privacy. His time alone to create and that of introspection. “Zurich is a beautiful medieval Opening, Conor Mccreedy, Final Butterfly Effect, Trio Below, Conor Mccreedy, Masked security guards of the Tiepolo ball Right, Conor Mccreedy, The Mask

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ful love, named colour of the year 2020 by Pantone, one of the ample colouring palettes most iconic creators. Conor’s history with Pantone goes back many years.

Fifteen years ago, the company became so enamoured with Mccreedy’s personally developed shade that they wanted to trademark and patent it. But they also wanted 60% in royalties. Artist at heart but with strong business acumen, Conor did not accept and decided to go at it alone. He continued to develop his blue ideals, and in a pioneering breakthrough and unique collaboration with the company behind Swiss watch brand Rolex’s methodology of fluorescence, he created a rarity. They combined phosphor salts with the liquidized pigment behind Mccreedy blue. His colour became infused with a glow that is charged by natural light. It is a rarity, and he only used it in a few of his paintings. Today he merely applies it to special commissions or uses it for experimental purposes.

As with anything in life, however, we grow, we develop, we learn. Sometimes things go full circle. A periphery that Conor is circumnavigating today. Evocative of his art teacher’s words back at boarding school, he is now moving on from the purity of merely the colour blue.

Strangely, for the first time this year, he has now decided to make it not solely about the colour, but rather about the light contained within.

town that allows me to do just that. I will always miss South Africa, and I try to go back at least three times a year (and go on Safari at least twice). Africa is in my blood, and it will always remain one of my most memorable places on this planet”.

Are you ever delighted with a work of art?

“Some of my artworks are never finished. It’s a tough, rigorous push and pull process, back and forth, trial and error. Like any person with a good job, an athlete, or a surgeon, one needs to keep training and training to get better and better. So, the more studio hours I put in, the better my art becomes”.

Thinking of Africa conjures images of many colours – yellow, orange, green, or brown – the hues of the earth. Blue may not necessarily be one of these unless one takes the sky or the oceans into consideration. So why, Conor, the colour blue?

“It is my favourite. It keeps me stable, balanced, invigorated. It is so special to me that I have been working in blue for over fifteen years. It disciplines me”.

Have you ever considered painting in another colour?

“I might choose to paint in another colour one day.

A lot of people want me to. Currently, I have scarce red works. But these are samples – a tasting so to speak, which only a few limited collectors have”.

His immediate plans are to prepare for his next exhibition. Once again, a venue (currently on the cards

Discipline. Something that Conor craves even though he seems to have so much of it. Blue. His faith-

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studio in Venice as Italy is one of my favourite places on this planet. In 20 years from now, I see myself licensing my iconic colour to some unique brand that treasures craftmanship and expands into something a bit more detailed than art. A path to allow people who cannot afford my paintings to purchase smaller, more iconic, limited products. It’s a thought...”

are Madrid or Los Angeles) is going to transform itself into a blue wonderland. Conor still strives to achieve giant solo museum shows, a retrospective to showcase his oeuvres created since his 19th Birthday. His aim simply to demonstrate how prolific he has been as a young artist: “I would love that to be displayed”.

Gerhard Richter has had a profound impact on him, so have Pablo Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning, and Twombly. Because from his point of view, “they were the real deal”. Their approach, their unleashed emotion... it all echoes through his works.

One product derived from his thoughts is the Mccreedy candle. Produced in Grasse, a village embedded in the hills of the South of France, these candles are the fruit of collaboration. Between experts that have formulated countless fragrances for some of the most renowned luxury brands and Conor. It is the marriage of noses, forging unique-

Where do you see yourself in the future?

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ness. Its goal is to radiate the colour blue as seen and observed by Mccreedy. “It is supposed to smell like the fresh air of the Swiss Engadin mountains and the ocean breeze of Italian Capri. Like the floral essence of Italy’s Amalfi coast combined with the thick, salty air of the oceans where I was born. Cape Town, the Indian and Atlantic oceans. I tried to pull it all together. To create a candle whose perfume is the essence of my colour blue”.

The candles became an instant success. Conor currently does not retail them; they are gifts for his art collectors, family, and friends.

“I am just a little bit proud as I was around five years ahead of the times. Speaking about Pantone again… this year they have also created a candle”.

What does he wish for the world? He believes that our planet needs protection and that issues need the right form of handling. He is a big advocate of not just speaking about it but taking the bulls by the horn and being proactive.

“There is too much bullocks out there, and I take my hat off to proper operators”. His charity PAL (Protect African Lions) exists since 2015. He is proud of the fact that last year, they managed to capture seven poachers and remove over two hundred gin traps!

Previous page, Conor Mccreedy, My Blue Narrative Below, Conor Mccreedy, The Butterfly Profile Left, Conor Mccreedy, Palazzo Labia

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Born an ‘A Art speaks to me, whilst words are unable to explain

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or as long as I can remember, I have been an ‘art junkie’. I was born in the seventies, in Paris, as the daughter of the first female auctioneer of France. A legacy that gave me no choice but to accept my destiny and heritage. I embraced art with passion, and later on, in adulthood, it became my career path.

My mother was a workaholic who held auctions every weekend. For me, as a child, this meant that I ended up spending most of my weekends looking - with curious eyes - at beautiful antiquities, ancient books, stunning paintings, and rare gemstones. From a tender age, my eyes became trained to appreciate the more refined things found in this world. Beauty was always an essential part of my upbringing. On Wednesdays after school, when I was not at the auction house, I would be helping with the layout and colour mood of Parisian printing company Copytop catalogues. These vivid memories remain engraved in my brain, making my art upbringing so very special.

One of my favourite winter-pastimes was to go through the upcoming Impressionist and Modern Art auction catalogues from Sotheby’s or Christies. It was my entertainment when I was not visiting collectors, galleries, or museum exhibitions. To further amuse

myself, I would hide the description of the artwork on the left page. I would then try to guess from the image on the right, which artist it was, the year it was painted, and the price range estimate for that particular work.

Some may find this a strange hobby for a 10-year-old.

I found it fascinating as I immersed myself in a world of pure exquisiteness. Seeing all these artworks made me dream and taught my eye to recognise talent, styles, compositions, balance, and colours. In short, the ingredients that define a true masterpiece.

At the age of 11, we moved to London for my mother’s art career. It was the beginning of my fascination with Contemporary Art and the Tate Gallery. I remember spending many rainy Saturdays meeting artists, going to exhibitions, and gallery openings.

One year, at the Tate, the Gilbert and George show ‘blew me away’; there was honesty, and the ‘pictures’ of these two diverse characters came across as massive and bold. My true love, however, combined with a deep fascination, lies solely with Francis Bacon whom I deeply admire. His tormented soul and fleshy paintings confronted me in my world through deep thought and perplexity, such as I had never seen before. For once, art could no longer be considered beautiful. Instead, it was intense and dynamic.

Bacon’s work is often overwhelming to look at, yet equally and at the same time, absorbing. I once had the incredible opportunity to meet him at the Marlborough Gallery - what an honour for a teenager to encounter one of Britain’s most significant living artists (1909-1992). My peers at school dreamed of rendezvous with Madonna or Michael Jackson. Instead, I was excited to confront Francis Bacon. My other

Above, Rashid Johnson, Untitled Broken Man, 2018 Left, Katharina Grosse, o.T., 2017 Right, Günther Forg, Ohne Titel, 2007

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dream would have been to meet Pablo Picasso, but sadly, I was born too late for that encounter.

Throughout my adolescence, my mother continued to busily travel the world, selling important Impressionist and Modern works of art. Some of these can still be viewed at various museums today.

In avoidance of unceasing globe-trotting, I enrolled in a Swiss boarding school for my A-Levels. Here, as part of my four subject choices, Art History and Art were, of course, included, with my main project being based on portraits by none other than naturally, Francis Bacon.

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Creativity and the close working relationships with artists, are incredibly fulfilling and undoubtedly, the most inspiring side of my job.

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So as not to disappoint the ‘master’, I obtained an ‘A’ grade. My dissertation naturally continued down the same path as, at this point, I was living and breathing through Bacon’s work and his life. My college years in Boston were a continuance with a double major: in Art History and International Relations. This solely for reasons that I was not convinced of the possibilities to earn a living through only my passion. The International Relations bit was never actually used, but it looks good on paper. I spent my college years a little less artsy with a lot of socialising instead. My summer internships, however, were at various art galleries and museums.

My pre-destined US art career path changed as love conquered, and I moved to Germany to get married.

Luckily, we were based part-time in Cologne (the ‘art capital’ of Germany), permitting me to continue my passion, albeit this time, from a collector’s perspective. My husband and I took pride in attending art fairs. Beginning with Cologne Art Fair, then TEFAF Maastricht, and later, a must – Art Basel. We began purchasing art together, building on a collection that my mother had so generously started. For every important event in my life, she had gifted me with a work of art. By the age of 25, my art-buying addiction was going full throttle, with emerging artists becoming progressively attractive and valuable. Time moved on, and with the ever-increasing limit to our wall space, a moment for proactivity arrived. I decided the time had come to start using my eyes, my new talent spotting intuition, as well as my art history knowledge. Combining these with my valuable contacts in a world of closed networks, I began advising clients in Europe.

The life of a junkie art nerd, however, needs nurturing. Having relocated to the beautiful town of Zurich, I enrolled in the master’s program of Art Curating Zurich. I managed to attend classes over the weekends, all while taking care of my two young children, and, on a part-time basis, advising my Middle-Eastern clients on their art purchases. It was thus that my Swiss art advising career began to blossom.

During this time, I met my future business partner.

We wrote our master’s thesis on ‘airport art’ together.

Its content was an account of how art can communicate, transporting transit passengers into another, parallel world. At this point, we founded our Swiss-based company, with our initial client being one of Europe’s most notable airport providers. A tailor-made art program for their new corporate headquarters came to life. The theme resonated travel, time, space, and transit, amongst others. We worked with emerging artists from the regions and countries to which our client had strong ties and relationships, combining these with world-famous contemporary ones.

It was a fascinating time and a ‘full-on’ project that spanned two and a half years. It taught me an incredible amount about corporate collecting and the creation of complicated, monumental, site-specific artworks. Creativity and the close working relationships with artists, are incredibly fulfilling and undoubtedly, the most inspiring side of my job. Nevertheless, I also love to browse through multiple international fairs and gallery openings. In my attempts to create magnificent collections for my clients, visiting the world’s biggest auctions each year is an additional plus. I have never advertised my endeavours. Instead, the art advising has grown organically over time, from Dubai, where I began in the early 2000s to today, and Zurich, where my office is based.

My clients are situated throughout the world and collect anything from Contemporary to Modern, some even Impressionist masterpieces. It is an enriching life, to not only be surrounded by beauty but also, to sell it. Knowing that an artwork that I sourced has found a new home makes me smile. It is a happiness that stems from the knowledge that a works ‘spirit’ may live on at a collector’s residence. To have made my passion into my career makes me, without a doubt, the luckiest art junkie in the world!

Above, Francis Bacon, Three Studies of George Dyer, 1966.

Left, Gilbert & George, England, 1980

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CĂ´te d 'Azur

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Savoir, penser, rêver.

Tout et là.

Victor Hugo

by Adam Jacot de Boinod

The view from the Musée Picasso in Antibes

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owhere is there a region, not even in Italy, where there are as many collections, museums, houses, or studios entirely devoted to individual artists as in the South of France.

The great Henri Matisse once declared that “Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul”. It was in the Côte d'Azur or, if you prefer, the French Riviera that so many of the Impressionists and their descendants came to ply their trade.

To escape the second World War and the bombing of Nice, Matisse withdrew to the village of Vence.

It was an extraordinary experience to be allowed into his chapel. Here, between 1947 and 1951, ageing and unwell, he struck up a strong rapport with his nurse from the neighbouring Dominican nunnery. In return for her care, he offered to convert the garage into a chapel.

He considered it “despite all its imperfections my masterpiece”. It is sublime and heavenly, using the light from outside to influence the inside ambiance that consists of only three colours: green - to represent nature, blue - the sky, and yellow - the presence of God. The blue reflects through the stainedglass windows into purple and the green into a paler and more tranquil version, with only the yellow symbolically maintaining its ethereal constancy.

It defines his contribution to the reconciliation between the Catholic Church and modernism that he espoused along with Léger and Chagall.

The chapel has stayed ahead of its time as a wonderfully modern conception steeped in further symbolism. The altar, raised upon only one step, is made of local stone the colour of Eucharist bread and carries a simple, sinuous metal cross on which Christ hangs. Both it, as the simple wooden lectern, are set on a daring diagonal to address both congregations (one in the transept, the other the nave). The back wall is covered in ceramic tiles with mural sketches of the fourteen Stations of the Cross, reflecting the artist’s preoccupation with his mortality. The confessional is reduced to a simple radiator, a cushion-free wooden chair for the priest, and an arabesque door.

He believed that “a work of art should be a site of exchange and communication”. And I sensed strongly the stillness and light, the clarity and simplicity that give the chapel such a joyful and inspiring feeling.

The equally philosophical Alain Llorca told me to “savour the tranquillity and enjoy the passing of time” on the panoramic terrace of his eponymous restaurant. It looks down on the vineyards and up at the walled citadel of Saint Paul de Vence, made famous

by Le Colombe d’Or restaurant, which was frequented by most of the contemporary artists. It is also nearby the Fondation Maeght, an art connoisseur’s true delight that exhibits many a modern French master in its architectural feat that befits its wondrous sculpture park.

The road then meanders in its mazy motion down the valley,

Above, Henri Matisse in his studio with pole, 1951. Below, view of the Chapelle du Rosaire (Matisse chapel) located in the historic medieval village of Vence.

Right, Pablo Picasso, Ulysse et les Sirénes, 1947, Musée Picasso, Antibes

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at Antibes. The town’s famous local market, sheltering as it does beneath an old grilled canopy, offers the daily catch of fish, fruits, and vegetables. It is next door to the Musée Picasso, which is set impressively in a prime position right beside the sea with the snow-capped mountains of the Maritime Alps behind.

Housed in the Chateau Grimaldi, a magnificent seaside bastion, one is instantaneously made aware of the inspiration behind Picasso’s seagulls and sailing boats, his palm trees, and shapely gourds. Here he was granted a temporary ‘artist in residence’ after the war, and it offers an eclectic range, the stimulus behind his wider collection of ceramics, drawings, sculptures, and oil paintings.

In 1948 Picasso went to live further inland in Vallauris, and it was where he was to stay until 1955.

to Cagnes-sur-Mer, to where Renoir had his house.

It has been kept intact as a refreshing reminder of a bygone era, complete with selected works as well as the artist’s easel and wheelchair. On the grounds and preserved amongst a less inspiring town below are old sloping orchards of fabulously knotted olive trees.

Close by is the village of Biot, home to the Musée National Fernand Léger.

Here ‘abstract art leads to mural art’ as it contains a vast number of original artworks, drawings, oil paintings, stained-glass windows, and mosaics. It is only a short drive from the old town of Mougins, a classic pretty hilltop village with a small spiral of narrow passageways: the perfect traffic-free path for the local shepherd to nonchalantly follow his gaggle of six geese. Picasso discovered Mougins in 1936. It was, however, only during his last twelve years (ending in 1973), that he lived at ‘le Mas Notre-Dame de Vie’, in walking distance of a chapel and amongst uplifting birdsong.

Merely a half-hour descent to the coast brings into view the Riviera’s stunning teal-coloured water

Above, Pablo Picasso, Male and Female Bathers, 1920-1921, Musée Picasso, Antibes; interior of La Colombe d'Or restaurant in St. Paul de Vence Left, the Muséè National Fernand Léger, Biot

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Cannet that proudly celebrates its very own Musée Bonnard. It is home to an enjoyable but small selection of his works, reflecting his years living in the village, as he painted in his joyous and rich palette of colours.

Travel along the coast road and on to Eze (that like the villages of Biot and Peillon is one of the many so-called 'villages-perchés'). It is instantly recognisable perched, as the name implies, high up on a rocky crag. Close to St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the other significant promontory of the Riviera, situated between Beaulieu and Nice, it is the setting for the highly recommended Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild.

Very much a part of the artistic odyssey that is the region, this pink villa exemplifies the leisured life of days gone by. It is an eclectic mix � both inside and out � with its Islamic frontage, Renaissance objects, Chinese costumes, Meissen china, and Sévres porcelain. Cane roofs and travel cases indicate that it is a collection across eras. Not to mention the nine gardens, which include the Florentine and the

During his time there, he created many sculptures and paintings, including War and Peace, one of the periods most famous artworks. He also developed an intense fascination with ceramics; today abundantly displayed at Antibes.

To get a real feel for the unspoiled coastlines that existed during the first half of the 20th Century and the artists’ lifetimes, a trip around the Garoupe is more than recommended. This bit of land is the peninsula that divides Antibes from Juan-les-Pins. If you happen to travel along the corniche (littoral road), the healthy sea air and the bursts of evergreens will accompany you past the Eden Roc and Les Belles Rives. These two hotels will conjure up the glory days of the Riviera. I personally loved the Villa Bacon, one of the older villas dotted alongside the contemporary, a range that is both smart and shabby.

Visible from the bustling suburb of Cannes is the impressive setting of Le

Above, Pierre Bonnard as an Odalisque in Matisse's Studio, 1929. Left, Vincent van Gogh., Terrace of a café at night. Arles.

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Pierre Bonnard, Paysage Le Cannet, 1924

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Colour is all. When colour is right, form is right. Colour is everything, colour is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Marc Chagall

Spanish, the Provençal, and the Exotic: the last resplendent with its healthy green cacti.

Across the nine, there are columns, waterfalls, ornamental ponds, flowerbeds, and rare species of trees.

I then continued on into Nice and up the Cimiez Hill north of the city to the Musée Marc Chagall, a painter of Russian origin, who offered his beautiful seventeen Biblical masterpieces as a gift to the nation. He even participated in the museum's design, helping the building to honour his talent fully.

Close by, and also in Cimiez, is the Musée Matisse. Healthy in size it reflects the artists’ entire oeuvre, with some of his earlier works not typical or instantly recognisable. I learned about his time in, and influence from, the Algerian town of Biskra, before covering the familiar ‘Jazz’ cut-outs of his later period. To my surprise, the final room showed his plans for the chapel in Vence. The paintings and collages tell the story of how he put it all together, and my walking into the room acted as the classic top and tail to my Riviera visit.

There is also the Musée Fragonard in Grasse, the home of perfume. Travelling across the Luberon, one reaches the town of Arles, where van Gogh lived his fraught years with Gauguin, before visiting Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue, and then entering the nearby St. Paul asylum in Saint-Rémyde-Provence. Further afield is Aix-en-Provence, with the Mont Sainte-Victoire towering in the distance, a real pilgrimage for art historians. The location

of Cézanne’s studio has been left mercifully and tastefully intact, complete with his apples, bowls, and figurines. Right across the South of France, one finds beautiful and well-kept reminders of an artistic golden age. It is truly as Matisse declared of Nice: “Most people come here for the light and the picturesque scenery. Me, I’m from the north. What fixed me on this place were the reflections of coloured light in January and the radiance of the day”.

The best time to go is naturally in the off-season: January even. Indeed, you don’t get to lie on a beach nor experience the glamour of resorts such as Saint-Tropez and Cannes, the latter with its film festival. It is a time that is still too cold to dip in the pool or the Mediterranean Sea. However, in this highly famous holiday region, the sun is always intense, and the light still pure. In fact, there are many advantages: there is none of that deadlocked traffic notorious in August and the service in restaurants and shops is far more attentive. Tourists are a rarity. So much so that I was often the only visitor, giving me the chance to get fully immersed in the French vernacular with the locals free from the constraints of the tourist trade. And of course, the museums are virtually empty and the queues non-existent - an ideal way to inspect the art and summon up the lives of a bygone era.!

Adam Jacot de Boinod is an international travel journalist and the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World, published by Penguin Books.

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ve always been obsessed with people. I want to get to know everyone and know everything about them. I think this is why I love portraits as I get to spend one-on-one time with the great and the good and really find out what makes them. Disruption is the first time I’ve had a show that is really all about the emotional connection. The works show sadness, happiness, nervousness, and confidence. Just like my portrait and beauty photography, this exhibition is all about a connection and a feeling”. Rankin Rankin may best be known as the co-founder of Dazed and Confused magazine with Jefferson Hack. He has photographed models such as Kate Moss and Heidi Klum amongst others as well as celebrities like Madonna, David Bowie, and even Queen Elizabeth II. His exhibition, in collaboration with Petra Gut Gallery in Zurich explores his boldest portraiture. Disruption is a unique tour through the emotion, intimacy, and humour evident in Rankin’s portrait and beauty work.

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Rankin, Spiky Alys, Andrew Gallimore, 2014

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Above, Rankin, Sparkle Sycha, Spirit of Ecstasy, 2011 Right, Rankin, Purple Couture, Hot:Holy, The Fashionable Lampoon, 2018

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Above, Rankin, Heart Face, #NoFilter, Hunger, Issue 13, 2017 Right, Rankin, Bowie Bites His Nails, The Changing Faces of... Dazed & Confused, Issue 14, 1995

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oco Chanel once stated that “fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Fashion is in the sky, the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening”.

The ‘happening’ is precisely what German photographer F.C. Gundlach achieved. He staged fashion – and in doing so, wrote fashion history. His oeuvres became true works of art. Gundlach reflected upon what was presented to him. He took into consideration the ideals of beauty as they changed and integrated the social phenomenon of the day. He reflected upon the spirit of the given time, from the optimism of the post-war era to the dynamic days of post-modernism.

Born in Hessen (Germany) in 1926, Gundlach is one of the most celebrated fashion photographers of the 20th Century. His work combines stunning natural settings with iconic designs from some of Europe’s largest fashion houses, as well as intimate portraits of some of the biggest names of the day – Romy Schneider, Hildegard Knef, Jean-Luc Godard… His fashion photographs from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, have found their way into private and corporate collections as well as museums. Gundlach himself owns one of the biggest photography collections in the world, and he started the Hamburg Photofestival – Triennale der Photographie Hamburg - in 1999.

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F.C. Gundlach, Astrid Schiller, Coiffure Alexandre, Paris 1967

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F.C. Gundlach, "Das kleine Schwarze", Romy Schneider, Hamburg 1961

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F.C. Gundlach, Mirella Peteni, Jumpsuit aus Saga-Nerz, Helsinki 1964

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F.C. Gundlach, Esther Haase, Portrait, Hamburg 2016

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F.C. Gundlach, "Ins rechte Licht gerĂźckt" (Flamingo-Man), Pierre Hogarth, Hamburg 1960

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F.C. Gundlach, "Slow", Karin Mossberg, Nairobi, Kenia 1966

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F.C. Gundlach, Christa Vogel, Bademode von Goldfisch, Sylt 1958

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Alexander Calder, BMW Art Car, the 3.0 CSL, 1975

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Art

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By definition, a car is “a motored vehicle used for transport. Its primary use is to carry one to eight persons (rather than goods). Typically found on the road, a car is just like the animal-drawn carts and carriages it replaced; it most commonly has four wheels”.

Many of our developed economies depend on the production of cars that came into global use during the 20th Century. German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886, making this the year of origin.

Art, on the other hand, is defined by Merriam Webster dictionary as “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects”.

It is thus only a natural conclusion that cars are art and that art can arise from vehicles. Andy Warhol thought so. So did Alexander Calder, Tracey Emin, and Damien Hirst. Nick Veasey manages to put it all into perspective:

“We all know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover; that beauty is more than skin deep.

By revealing the inside, the quintessential element of my art speculates upon what the manufactured and natural world really consists of”.

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Layered Illusions

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Fabian Oefner, Disintegrating No. 6

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orn in Switzerland in 1984, Fabian has already had numerous exhibitions around the world. His art is colourful, exploiting the scientific properties of an object to bring the beauty of our natural world and its workings, the attention they deserve.

Oefner’s work explores the boundaries between time, space, and reality. He creates fictional moments and areas that look and feel real; yet aren’t. Through this, Oefner manages to dissect the different components of reality to give a clearer understanding of how they are perceived and defined. Inspired by science, Fabian’s approach to art is highly systematic and, at the same time, playful. As though the unexpected is just around the corner and anticipated. He creates carefully orchestrated works, planning these down to the last detail. He then combines them with individual pieces, using a loose framework that expects art to simply happen.

In his highly acclaimed ‘Disintegrating’ series, Oefner portrays performance cars that seem to blow apart. He creates artificial moments in time by photographing every piece of the dismantled car individually to then arrange them digitally into one photograph. In his latest series ‘Exploding Collages’ and ‘Bildersturm’, Fabian seemingly shoots through pictures and paintings, creating a layered illusion of reality. Each work (photo or painting) depicts a portrait that is torn apart by a gunshot or an explosion. What seems to be an accurate image of a fleeting moment is, in fact, just an illusion.

His photographs become hyper-realistic renditions of a single moment in time that de facto never existed.

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Fabian Oefner, Disintegrating No. 5

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Fabian Oefner, Disintegrating No. 8

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Nick Veasey, 1972 Corvette LT-1

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ick was born in London in 1962. His career path was an interesting one, a life filled with a potpourri of facets.

He began in the advertising and design industries before working as a photographer and designer for a UK Television show. Here he was assigned the more than monotonous task of X-raying Pepsi soda cans to determine which contained the winning code for a contestant. Three days in without a winner and more than bored, Veasey x-rayed his sneaker as amusement: “It was a great image, and I thought there’s something to this”. And as they say, the rest is history.

Nick spent three months working with x-ray scientists to perfect his technique. He experimented with various materials such as flowers, metals, even people – the result: an art that led to assignments for Bloomberg, IB, Nike, Porsche… Diasec is his chosen method of production, providing the x-rays with the most impact and detail. Museum-quality Archival Chromogenic prints are bonded directly and permanently to the acrylic sheet. The artworks thus elegantly appear to be floating off the wall in a modern frameless style. Many people think these artworks are back-lit, but it is just the high-quality gloss deep black background and detailed x-ray that makes the art pop. This method of production is also known as ‘Plexi face-mount’.

Nick also collaborated with London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to create beguilingly beautiful and serene x-rays of the garments in their fashion collection. Some of these even dated back to the 1600s while others, to the late 20th Century. To achieve this partnership, Nick constructed the world’s first mobile x-ray studio. The vast and varied x-rays that were shot in his portable x-ray lab reveal the nuances of fashion. The Victoria & Albert Museum described Nick’s work as “Forensic Investigation as an art form”.

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ené Staud is a German photographer, born in 1951 in Stuttgart.

His enthusiasm for photography started when he was young.

While still in elementary school, he visited several photography courses to obtain the necessary expertise to partake in photo contests. He managed to win his first photo competition at the tender age of only 12 years. Aged 14, Staud was able to buy his first single-lens reflex camera. However, his passion for photography did not stop here. He worked hard and sold countless photographs of souvenirs, as well as portraits. Soon, he was able to open his first photo studio for black and white photography. In 1966, just 15 years of age, Staud started with wedding photography.

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The world through a camera lens

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conic and unexpected, Listri views his native Italy and the world through his camera lens. He frames ancient castles, cathedrals, and convents. He passes through gardens, the ornate halls of Versailles, libraries, and monasteries. The treasure-laden galleries of the Vatican. Some of the world’s most iconic architectural sites.

Listri usually focuses on all that may be considered grand, inviting his viewers to step into often symmetrically composed spaces, capturing the invisible. His works frame empty pictorial spaces that celebrate intricacy, capturing the essence of bygone days. Almost as though humanity has ceased to exist with only a vociferate silence remaining. He portrays life and passion, art, and culture, by uncovering the hidden beauIn Support of are that available ty behind Tickets spaces areforperfectly balanced in light, Reception Lecture for theOnce price in a rare while, Protecting African Lions colour, shape, and &perspective. of 39.-CHF per person he concentrates his focus on sculpted physiognomies.

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Mark Robinow pression of his photographic essays. Throughout his career, he has published over 70 books: Palaces of Rome, Hosting Committee Villas Versailles, Italian Palaces, Sweden Luca De Ambrosis, Jay C Foster,of Tuscany, Thank you! Casa Mexicana, New Asian InteriInteriors, Alhambra, Bella Haas, Fabian Herdieckerlookhave forward your ors, … His We works beentoexhibited in New York, Bohoff, Christian Reinhardt, Yantra attendance on Thursday Lewis, Sabine Rauhenbusch and gota, the Vatican, Buenos Aires, amongst others.

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Art & Printed Composition

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anessa Stelling holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rodhe Island School of Design as well as a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.

Vanessa grew up in rural Switzerland, where she was able to spend endless hours surrounded by nature. She vividly remembers getting to know the plants and trees of the surrounding forests and becoming familiar with their life cycles. However, unbeknownst to her at the time, it also taught Stelling to examine and observe her environment: At her own speed and on her own terms.

Today Stelling still draws all her inspiration from nature, specifically the abundant forests and clear lakes of her home country. Yet there have been many artists that have inspired her along the way to becoming a painter. When she attended the Rhode Island School of Design, her biggest inspiration derived from the works of Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler.

Jointly, with their monolithic paintings, they persuaded her to work on a largIn Support of er scale and embraceTickets are availableFollowing for abstraction. art school, she lived in Munich Reception & Lecture forin thegroup price exhibitions and painted exProtecting African Lions years, where for several she participated 39.-CHF As perher person tensively with oils onofcanvas. works evolved, so did her curiosity for expanding her style. Drawn back to the United States, she attended New York Reception & Lecture & 4 Course University and earned a master’s in for painting.

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Her path changed in 1985 when she moved to Germany. Here, she quickly gained her foothold and began working independently.

Her consummate interest in alternative healing methods induced her to continue her studies; she trained as a certified alternative professional. From 1994 onwards, Susan practiced her newfound profession as a non-medical practitioner in various private practices in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Inquisitive since birth, she conIn Support of are available path for tinued down herTickets investigative and added medically certified & Lecture for the price Protecting Africannutritionist Lions andReception trained natural beautician to her repertoire.

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Diversification of Visual Perpection

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orn in Berlin in 1968, Johannes now lives and works in Munich. His ambition is to find the world’s most appealing aspects, allowing him to: “perceive my environment mostly through colour. Reality blurs into soft abstract shapes that merge into one another. Objects partially lose their significance, and my mind creates images that are soft shapes combined with clear and intensive colours. For those who view my work, I wish to transfer feelings and moments of relaxation and ease”.

Weinsheimer’s passion for art began right at the beginning, during his childhood. Growing up in a family of artists, it became a continuous exposal to a universe of colour, imagery, and design. He allocated much of his free time to master the art of painting, and as a young adult, he studied design at HDK in Berlin.

It did not take Johannes long to realise that photography was his calling.

Fellow artist Vanessa Stelling describes Johannes and his works as follows: “He is a perfectionist at heart, and this manifests itself in every photo he meticuIn Support of lously selects and edits Tickets are exhibitions available for and catalogues. Each arresting image for his Reception & Lecture for the price them with a vast array of Protecting African reflectsLions his keen ability to capture details, charging of 39.-CHF visual information. Yet he does per notperson get lost in detail. Indeed, it is his objective to depict the immensity and grandeur of both urban and natural landscapes, Reception & Lecture & 4 Course of architecture and machines.

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ay C. was born in Blythe, California, in 1986. He studied communication design in Switzerland and Germany to then work for five years as a freelancer in graphics and digital communication. Since childhood, he was always fascinated by the colourful images found alongside train tracks, in alleys, and on buildings and soon realised that his true calling was art. But not any art – street art.

He began drawing and spray painting as a teenager, and today is honing his skills. He has made his passion into his livelihood.

Colourful and full of expression, the playful compositions of Jay C. carry us back in time. He works at night as he finds it more peaceful. Using the time to reflect upon what is happening in the world around him, Jay creates emotional works. They are snippets of current events that affect him emotionally, and he uses In Support of Tickets arethe available for his work to stimulate thoughts of the viewer to bring social Reception Lecture for theart, price Protecting African Lions awareness. Speaking to &Jay C. about he tells about his fasof 39.-CHF per personand colours. They need to be cination with letters, calligraphy, bright and playful, creating images that tell the stories of world Reception & Lecture & 4 Course events with humour. is important Charity It Dinner & Auctionto forhim the that the viewer sees not solely the image also the meaning price ofbut 215.CHF per person behind each work.

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Hosting Committee C. had his first solo exhibition in 2018. That same year he Luca De Ambrosis, JayJay C Foster, Thank you! collaborated with BoConcept to create a unique limited ediBella Haas, Fabianalso HerdieckerWe look forward to your tion ofYantra their iconic Imola chair, sold charitably to raise awareness hoff, Christian Reinhardt, attendance on Thursday Lewis, Sabine Rauhenbusch and for the homeless. He has exhibited in various galleries and group Andrea Rinderknecht 20.02.2020 shows in Geneva, London, Munich, and St. Moritz.

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Atypically Eclectic BEEJAY ESBER

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alabon-based painter Beejay Esber was born on September 15th, 1980, and graduated with a Fine Arts major in Advertising at the Technological University of the Philippines in 2005.

He is known for his canvases that weave dreamlike figures, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, in a myriad of colours. They are a visual spectrum, from sombre shades to neon-bright hues. Enthusiasts describe his works as an eclectic and phantasmagoric abstraction.

Through his continuous exploration of both his consciousness as his history, Esber’s imagined landscapes feel vaguely familiar, yet ultimately unknown.

Beejay creates intuitive composite abstractions, incorporating atypical details from objects and his surrounding environment alike. His cartoonish and candy-coated oil paintings provide moments of lightness against the problematic nature of an abstract background. His is a fresh outlook that infuses his works with the diverse possibilities of art and painting and its relationship with the surface material.

Esber’s appetite for album covers, psychedelia, science-fiction (robots, UFOs, and analogue synthesiser sounds), comics, and wasteland / post-apocalyptic movies nurture his creativity. His paintings thus resemble cerebral fragments of our contemporary society in an abstract expressionist form.

Beejay Esber works have been exhibited in the Philippines, Singapore, and New York.

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orn in Singapore in 1948, Poh Siew Wah is a second-generation Singaporean artist. His early works depicted scenes of Singapore and its people, predominantly in watercolour and oil.

Poh has evolved immensely and is today an established fine abstract artist with highly successful exhibitions both locally as abroad (notably at the Court of Justice Hall, Flensburg, Germany 1995). He is a prolific artist who works across a range of mediums and styles, from landscapes infused with a cubist influence to Chinese ink paintings and watercolours. As an artist, Poh finds diversity more than rewarding creatively, as for him, each medium or style will inform the other.

Self-taught, Poh has been awarded a travel grant by the National Art Council and the 1994 Overseas Art sponsorship award by the Singapore International Foundation. He received the Tan Tsze Chor Art award in both 1987 and 2003, as well as a Distinction in Art Creation from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1984, 1987, and 1988. Furthermore, the United Overseas Bank bestowed upon him the Highly Commended award in 1984 and 1989. “Poh is an accomplished draughtsman, who has a strong grasp of line and colour� (Bridget TracyTan, Director - Gallery & Theatre - at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts).

His works are in private and corporate collections, both locally and overseas.

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Toy Art JAN CALLEJA

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alleja was born in 1973 and graduated with a degree in Visual Communication from the Philippines College of Fine Arts.

As a child, tinkering was what he loved most. He would build airplanes from illustration boards, folders, or other available objects. At university, this aptitude was not only recognised but also encouraged. Calleja participated in a variety of design work – prototypes, design adaptation, and murals. Upon graduation, Jan began his career in production techniques such as merchandising design, set design (ABS-CBN were his clients), as well as various play productions at the Meralco theatres. In 2002 he ventured off into digital graphic design where he remained until Ogilvy & Mather Redworks Philippines hired him in 2007. Here he learned the process of idealisation and how to execute it effectively.

His first break as a toy-customizer came when he joined a vinyl toy contest in which he earned second place. A toymaker exhibition (15 individuals participated) followed. Thriving, to say the least, his winning entry made it to the Toy Art Gallery in the United States. The owner liked his work so much that commissions soon followed.

Since then, he has been recognized both in the Philippines and abroad. For two successive years, New York’s Clutter Magazine nominated Jan as Best Toy Customiser. It seems that he is well on his way to achieving his dream: Toy art is not necessarily lowbrow, and it can level up to mainstream art.

Calleja has participated in multiple solo- and group shows, and there is a waitlist for individual commissions.

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In 1950, on the occasion of Dante Alighieri’s 700th anniversary, the Italian government commissioned Salvador Dalí to illustrate the greatest masterpiece of Italian literature: The Divine Comedy. Through one hundred watercolour woodcuts illustrating the most famous of Alighieri’s manuscripts, Dalí meets Dante, and Dante meets Dalí.

It is a fantastic journey from the depths of Hell to the splendour of Paradise, passing through Purgatory’s purification. The result is a unique masterpiece that is suspended somewhere between dream and reality.

Three differently coloured areas differentiate the three books, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise – designed to symbolise Dante’s path in his most famous masterpiece. Three books with thirty-three poems. Each of Dalí’s woodcuts represents a character or an event corresponding to every lyric in Dante’s text.

In the representation of Hell and Purgatory, each figuration is often flippant, ironic, and grotesque. Dante and Beatrice in Paradise, on the other hand, are symbolised delicately and heavenly. The signs elegance combines with a masterful and innovative use of colour in which the artist’s pictorial research finds its expression in the originality, freshness, and genius of the inspiration. In his illustrations, Dalí tells the story of Dante’s work through Surreal and dreamlike perspectives. They perfectly camouflage the author’s symbolic universe and the characterising signs of his poetic – desolate landscapes and flabby figures. Dalí manages to maintain Dante’s dreamy atmosphere by adding his personal touch through characteristic symbols. The supernatural is mixed with a bold exploration of spirituality, creating a unique vision of The Divine Comedy.

Salvador Dalí interprets Dante’s journey with metaphysical and mystical research. He represents the high humanity of The Divine Comedy with an inevitable psychoanalytic gaze that explores the unconscious of the contemporary man – lost and confused like Dante at the beginning of the 1300s.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Doménec Jacint Dalí (1904-1989) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, photographer, filmmaker, designer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most significant exponents of the Surrealist movement. His creation of dreamlike worlds makes the name Dalí synonymous with magic. He is an icon.

His works cover the twentieth century almost in its entirety, sowing indelible traces that have become ‘black and white’ symbols of the century. His extremely complex personality represents a cocktail of assorted genius and delirium capable in all aspects of telling a story through hypnagogic imagination, muffled, and therefore Surreal. He lived an extraordinary life sashaying a continuous balance between reality and fiction, transforming its very existence into one of the dreamlike worlds that his works characterise to perfection. It is a universe in which clocks melt in the sun, cats fly, and animals have long legs as thin as his moustache.

Early on, on a pictorial level, his attention was drawn to reproductions of other authorities; Max Ernst, Miró, and Tanguy, maestros in translating the unconscious onto canvases. In 1929 he joined the Surrealist group, and in 1931, together with Breton, he elaborated ‘Surrealist objects’ into a symbolic function, affirming the importance of the unconscious in the creative process, as opposed to the domain of reasoning.

Salvador Dalí’s Surrealism is nonetheless highly personalised. De Chirico inspired him, and he became imbued with Freudian psychoanalysis references. Meticulous, smooth, and cold techniques characterise his works. They take on a robust individualistic character that, at times, comes across as ironic and provocative. Strong references to Classicism and the great masters of the Renaissance mark his artistic production.

A fact that, however, leaves room for the exploration and representation of the human minds’ many drawers. The world of psyche finds a free rein within Dalí’s art. It is thanks to his remarkable artistic talent that he has given birth to masterpieces in which there is a constant balance between dreams, fiction, and reality.

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anuel was born in Bergamo in 1974. Today, he lives and works between Bergamo (Italy) and Kazan (Russia).

A student of the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, he also attended the Erasmus program studying clothing design in Finland. He examined, in-depth, the architectural feats of Alvar AAlto as well as the symbolism of Nordic Art. While in Milan, he worked as an assistant at the Monica de Cardenas Gallery. His time there was the beginning of his fascination with Pop Art. His paintings seek the aesthetic relationship between the Sublime, the space, and light of musical arias atmospheres. He is interested in the immateriality of objects, searching to represent spirituality in his works. Although these aspects, when combined with Pop Art, seem contradictory, for Manuel, they are two sides of the same coin.

For him, “an object is not only material, but it also has an invisible world around it as well”. In essence, his is a search for the imperceptibility of spiritual environments. He is looking for new limits of animistic understanding. At the core of Bonfanti’s artistic research are the atmospheres created through the unperceivable space between an object and a person.

His are large canvases of informal painting. They border somewhere between the tangible and the place where the spirit chooses if it wishes to manifest itself and start communicating through pictures.

Public and private collections throughout the world feature his works, and Bonfanti additionally curates collective exhibitions.

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his is the story of a post-capitalist dehydrated camel who gets some young, dynamic fennecs to build a wall at the expense of the worker ants…

Like the fable that accompanies it (a text that is at once a literary object, a fictional story, and an allegory), Neïl Beloufa’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Kamel Mennour is a stratified choose-your-own-adventure... In this do-it-yourself Disneyland, the visitor finds himself at once at a fairground, in a gallery, and in the artist’s studio. The allegorical camel becomes the mascot who ‘immortalises the dream in the viewers’ gaze”. (Miriam Ben Salah) Neïl Beloufa (born in Paris in 1985) is a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. He was a student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); at Cooper Union, New York and Fresnoy–National Contemporary Arts Studio, Tourcoing (France).

Neïl was awarded the Agnès B. Studio Collector award in 2010, the Audi Talents Award in 2011, and the Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art in 2013. In 2015, Boufa was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, followed by the Artes Mundi (Cardiff, UK) and Nam June Paik (Essen, Germany) prizes in 2016.

His work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at K11 in Shanghai and at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, in 2016. Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, 2015, at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, 2014, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2013, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012and 2018 as well as the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2018.

Neïl Beloufa also took part in the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Shanghai in 2014, the 55th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2013, the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Lyon in 2013 and the 58th International Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2019.

His work is present in numerous prestigious collections, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Collection Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Sammlung Goetz Collection, and Julia Stoschek.

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Terre protégée GINA PANE

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ina (1939 – 1990) was a French artist of Italian origin. From 1960 to 1965, Pane studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She was also a member of the ‘Art Corporel’ movement in France.

Although she was a painter and sculptor for much of her life, she became most famous for her performance art. By subjecting herself to intense physical trials, she distinguished herself from most other female body artists of the 1970s. Her works questioned the role of ethics in aesthetics. Beginning with her body and its vulnerability, she managed to create a precise and rigorous language that expressed compassion and social contradiction. She pierced her body with thorns, cut her tongue with glass, and scorched her skin. In Marina Abramović’s ‘The Conditioning’, Gina lay on a metal bed frame over an area of burning candles.

Her exhibition ‘Terre protégée’ at Kamel Mennour Gallery in Paris focuses on the first period of her production as an artist, particularly the late 1960s. It is a period that is often unexplored as it is the foreshadow of her emblematic performances. It shows Gina Pane’s political engagement concerning the world she lived in: “… An enchanted, nourishing, inhabited, protected, loved, remembered but also threatened, exploited, devastated, dirtied, polluted, drowned earth...” (Emma-Charlotte Gobry-Laurencin).

From 1976 to 1989, Gina taught at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans. In 1978, she created and ran a performance workshop at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work is included in significant private and public collections – Guggenheim, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, amongst others – and has been exhibited throughout the world.

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Realist with a twist JOSÉ HIGUERA

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iguera was born in Cologne in 1966 to Spanish parents. His family moved back to Spain when José was just two years old. From a young age, he demonstrated the most defined and refined interest in the art of drawing and painting. His teachers at school immediately recognised this virtue, and they strongly encouraged him. In combination with the support of his family (especially his maternal grandmother), José grew up surrounded by and provided with all the necessary elements required to pursue his artistic talent. At the age of merely ten years old, he produced his first oil painting. Today, José’s passion has remained and turned into his livelihood.

He was tutored technically by some of the local landscape artists whom his grandmother introduced to him. Soaking up all the information he could from these mentors, José managed to combine the knowledge to develop an approach that essentially, is selftaught. His style has evolved into very much his own, albeit based upon the masters of realism. His works are nevertheless, also combined, with the inevitable influences of some of the world’s most creative movements.

Today Higuera lives and works in Cantabria in northern Spain. Numerous galleries and museums throughout Asia, Spain, and the United States have exhibited his artworks.

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José Higuera, La volontad

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JosĂŠ Higuera, Descanso

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Above, José Higuera, Siesta

Right, José Higuera, Mediterraneo José Higuera, Nostalgia

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Man of the Earth IÑAKI SÁNCHEZ BARRADO

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n the end, it is the land that makes him. The golden hues of the earth and the shimmering greens of morning dew. Or the translucent tincture of the horizon where sea and sky meet in that instant before the sun sets. To him it is this, and tradition, and life…

Barrado’s ‘Ignem Terrae’ series shows the aggressiveness and strength of our earth. There are recovery and courage, smoke, colour, and texture. The counterpoints of whites and blacks – because that is who he is – his two faces, his roots, the time he has lived full of decisions and indecisions, filled with obstacles. The expressiveness that clay can hold has always fascinated him. Combined with his love for art, the only possible result was to turn his hobby and passion into his profession.

Iñaki enrolled in the Centro de Cultura Tradicional under master potter Bernardo Pérez. Two years later, he attended the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Salamanca. He studied under Quintín Torrecilla, and he studied with Professor Fernando Pascual. He completed his training with monographic courses – María Bofill, Jota Sáez de Ocariz.

Iñaki has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Spain.

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Philip

Karto

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are stripped bare. Once wholly taken apart, they are hand-painted. After that, suede handles, exotic leather, and 925 silver detail add a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ after their reassembling. A one-of-a-kind process, straight from the beginning, results in the productions of unique items. Leathers are particularly durable so that they may last a lifetime if taken care of properly. His Alligator line, exclusively fabricated in Florida, uses only hides with unique patterns – tiles or scales. He employs premium acrylic leather paints to achieve his long-lasting designs.

100% authenticity is the basis of his Louis Vuitton artistic conversions. Their journey from vintage to new begins with their disassembly and thorough cleaning.

The bags then receive their unique touches, creating 100% hand-painted individualistic artistic objects that are ready for their next journey in life. Only this time, as ‘Vintage Louis Vuitton by Philip Karto’.

On average, Philip’s atelier produces three bags per day.

hilip Karto is an artist. His admiration for Fashion, Art, and Aesthetic entice him to use multiple mediums to convey his messages. His passion lies in the transformation of already existing objects, creating something new and unique. From collages to fashion, jewellery to sculptures, Karto reconstructs new or used, trendy, or forgotten articles by providing them with words. He infuses them with a new life. That in itself is challenging.

He was born in Cannes in the South of France, and today, Miami has become his home and workplace.

In his atelier, expert artisans produce his handcrafted merchandise. A variety of items are customised, resulting in the creation of an eponymous brand. All without fail, are inspired by what he loves most: Motorcycles, Pop Culture, and Rock & Roll. His messages become loud and clear - subversive, inflammatory, or feather-ruffling topics are of no concern to him.

From motorcycle helmets to handbags, all objects

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Contributors Artology Mr. Mark Robinow Pienzenauerstrasse 16 81679 München Germany Contact: +49 152 0612 6910 Website: www.artology-gallery.com Instagram: @artology.mag.gallery Fondazione Mazzoleni Mr. Mario Mazzoleni Via Locatelli 1 24022 Alzano Italy Contact: +39 035 511 784 Website: www.fondazionemazzoleni.com Instagram: @fondazione.mazzoleni Iñaki Sánchez Barrado Mrs. Isabel Robledo Contact: +34 639 913 007 José Higuera Mrs. Isabel Robledo Contact: +34 639 913 007 Website: www.josehiguera.com Instagram: @josehiguerafineart Kamel Mennour Mrs. Jeanne Barral Paris 6, France 47 rue Saint-André des arts 6 rue du Pont de Lodi Paris 8, France 28 avenue Matignon London W1, United Kingdom Contact: +33 1 5624 0363 / +44 207 495 3200 Website: www.kamelmennour.com Instagram: @kamelmennour

Gallery Index Massart Brendle Art Mrs. Garance Massart-Blum Wiesenrain 8 8704 Herrliberg Switzerland Contact: +41 44 915 0717 Website: www.massartbrendle-art.com Instagram: @artbygarance McCreedy Studio Mr. Conor Mccreedy Schipfe 2/8 8001 Zürich Switzerland Contact: +41 44 221 9338 Website: www.conormccreedy.com Instagram: @conormccreedy Momentous Arts Mr. Allan Teo 03-27 1557 Keppel Road Singapore 089066 Singapore Contact: +65 9641 3235 Website: www.momentousarts.com Instagram: @momentousarts Petra Gut Contemporary Mrs. Petra Gut Nüschelerstrasse 31 8001 Zürich Switzerland Contact: +41 44 422 4069 Website: www.petragut.com Instagram: @petragutcontemporary X-Ray Art Rupert Roth Contact: +49 170 784 4377 Website: www.rupert-roth.de

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