All for Art
Group Exhibition Gallery 76, Dubai International Art Centre 11-23 October 2014
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All for Art
Interartex
Group Exhibition Dubai 2014
Text and layout: Elisa Bastiani, Erika Almgren
Publishing
Editorial: Kรถping, Sweden, October 2014 3
Edition
Photo at the front page: Wikipedia Photos in the catalogue: Erika Almgren and the artists Text: Elisa Bastiani, Erika Almgren Supervision: Riccardo Baldelli Š Interartex Publishing Torggatan 11 73133 KÖPING Sweden Printed at Atena.net in Grisignano di zocco (VI), Italy 2014
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Interartex
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Gallery 76
Gallery 76 is the oldest public art gallery in the UAE and occupies a special place in the history of Dubai's thriving art scene. Gallery 76 plays a key role at DIAC in facilitating 'Art for all'. The Gallery is housed in the Center and benefits from the Center's considerable footfall of students, artists and art appreciative public alike. Gallery 76 hosts a broad range of exhibits from established and renowned artists to the Center's own students. It therefore plays a key role in starting and nourishing artistic careers and offering art for all. Gallery76 has hosted high profile solo exhibitions by Amira Hanna, Mi Jong Yoo, Susan Kim, Mostafa Mehdizadeh, Jan Edwards, Omayma Soubra, Corbett Miteff Tauseef Al Mulla, Wafa Khazander, Carrie Robertson Wright, Nelda Gilliam, Ossacip Olbap (in retrospect), and Alan Meyburgh.
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Table of the contents
Page 5_________________Interartex Page 6 ________________Gallery 76 Page 9 ________________ Catalogue Page 45 _______________ Presentation of the Artists
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Dubai, view from Jumeirah
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Catalogue
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Gianluigi Alberio
Panter, oil on wood, 50x50 cm, 2012
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H책kan Degerstedt
Dance, mixed technique, 58x58 cm, 2013
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Håkan Degerstedt
Café, mixed technique 58x58 cm, 2013
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Nadja Djurovic Larsen
Sheherazade, mixed media on canvas, 75x75 cm, 2014
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Anna Engebrethsen
The owls are not what they seem, oil on canvas, 81x65 cm, 2014
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Anna Engebrethsen
Black as midnigh, oil on canvas, 80x60 cm, 2014
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Marie Hertzberg
New Regatta, glass (casting fusing), 38x26 cm, 2014 17
Ann-Greth Hilding
The Big, acrylic on canvas, 72x78 cm, 2013
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Lambarri
Dub14, acrylic and oil on MDF, 61x41 cm, 2014
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Margareta Lillieskรถld
Memory, mixed media, 90x90 cm, 2014
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Margareta Lillieskรถld
Golden Horse, oil on canvas, 62x91 cm, 2014
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Margareta Lillieskรถld
Golden Dust, oil on canvas, 62x91 cm, 2014
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Ulla Lodsten
Bear hug, acrylic on canvas, 70x70 cm, 2014
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Paola Mascherin
Under the sea, oil on canvas, 50x40 cm, 2012
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Harriet Morlin
Eternity, acrylic on canvas, 86x81 cm, 2013
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Domingo Parada
Recollection, acrylic on D´Archas 300 paper, 50x70,5 cm, 2014
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Erika Persson
Towards Freedom, acrylic on canvas, 70x90 cm, 2014
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Patrizia Poli
Cosmic Explosion-Nature Wonder, acrylic, 50x70 cm, 2013
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Patrizia Poli
Iris, acrylic on canvas, 50x60 cm, 2013
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Marketta Rokka
Message of love from Sweden to Dubai, oil on canvas, 60x50 cm, 2014
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Sara Theres Sandberg
A place on Earth... A moment of happiness, oil on canvas, 70x70 cm, 2014
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Sara Theres Sandberg
Embrace the soul, oil on canvas, 70x70 cm, 2014
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Sara Theres Sandberg
You will always find a way, oil on canvas, 70x70 cm, 2014
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Mikael Schmidt
No 017 ‖Be realistic, plan for a miracle‖, print on canvas, 35x35 cm, 2014
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Mikael Schmidt
No 019 ‖Everything I do, I do for Love... and improved outlook on casual sex‖, print on canvas, 35x35 cm, 2014
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Margareta Skogsberg
The Lost City, acrylic, 90x90 cm, 2014
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Marina Stoponja
Anima, marble and bronze, 45x45 cm, 2013
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Marina Stoponja
Eastern dream, acrylic 90x90 cm, 2014
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Magnus S채ker
Untitled, mixed technique, 80x80 cm, 2014
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Magnus S채ker
Untitled, mixed technique, 80x80 cm, 2014
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John Ă–vinge
Can't let you go, watercolour, 80x57 cm, 2012
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Bente Ă˜y
Summer in the mountains, watercolour, 47x57 cm, 2013
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Dawn Yoshimura
Fall Coffee Break, watercolour, 28x35 cm, 2014
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Presentations of the artists
Gianluigi Alberio, born in 1951 in Rovello Porro (CO), Italy. Passionate about art from an early age. In 1969 he got the diploma at the School of Art of Como and in 1971 at the "Scuola Politecnica di Design" in Novara. Teachers of that school were the famous painter Nino Salvatore, as well as talented graphic designers and architects such as Max Hubert, Bruno Munari, Gio Ponti, Rossetti, Conti and many other artists who have made the history of advertising in Italy. In 2003 he discovered the ―Wildlife Art‖ and was intrigued by it.He decided that this would be his own ―Art‖, and thus he begun studying animals in order to make his paintings realistic. He has appeared on tv as an artist of Wild Life Art and has lectured on Animal Art. He was awarded the prestigious ―Environmental Award‖, like Oliviero Toscani, Umberto Veronesi, Amanda Lear and other personalities from the world of culture and art. He is lecturer in ―Wildlife Painting Art‖ workshops in public and private institutions. In 2013 he participated in the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice, in the exhibition ―Symphonie de couleurs‖. He was selected and exhibited his works at the ―THREE-YEAR EXPOSURE OF VISUAL ARTS ROMA 2014” along with Schifano, Calabrese, Kostaby and other international artists. His paintings have been exhibited in major Italian and foreign cities such as Milan, Rome, Treviso, Como, Torino, Bologna, Venice, Paris, New York, Beijing, Dakar, Osaka, Berlin, Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Stockholm, Oslo, Barcelona, etc., always receiving wide acclaim from critics and audiences.
Maurizio Caruso was born on September 23th 1957 in a tiny hamlet of Montalto Uffugo, Parantoro to be precise, a town at the piedmont of the coastal mountain range in Cosenza province‘s countryside , Italy. Since 2000, he authors, as a designer, the frontpage of the poetry magazine ―Parole‖, featuring the poets group ―Laboratorio di Parole‖ (the words workshop) . Some of his poems are found in the ―laboratorio di parole‖ anthology published by Pendragon, Bologna, December 2005. He have participated in many personnal and collective exhibitions , he authors design pages, books and phamphlets covers, posters for other artists as well as for cultural events. He is continuing his work searching for new painting themes, an endeavour that have brougth quite a number of reviews from highflying names in Bologna‘s and Italy‘s cultural arena. (Picture non in the catalogue, just in exhibition).
Håkan Degerstedt is born 1946 in Filipstad and have always lived in Filipstad in Sweden. He has one daughter and five sons and he is married to Sabrina. Their children are all grown up and have moved out a few years ago, so it is now only Håkan, his wife, their Pyreneérdog Marilyn and himself living in Storstensudden, which is around 6 km north of Filipstad. There he also has his studio. Since he was a little boy he has been interested in painting. He has met painters earlier in his life who taught him to paint with oil colours and how to use them. He has painted since he was 7 years old, but he has never attented a school to teach him. His father had a building firm and there he began to work but in his free time and in the evenings he would paint. Later on in life he took over the firm. Now their sons and his son in law work there. He wanted to paint more and more and painting is his main interest after his wife, children and grandchildren. He loves using a lot of colour in his paintings and he uses a range of techniques from watercolours, acrylics and ink to oil. He paints how he is feeling at the moment and the picture can be very cold or it can be on fire. He has attended many exhibitions in Sweden and all over the world by now and he thinks it is amazing how many people he has met.
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Nadja Djurovic Larsen was born in Belgrade by Montenegrin parents in the former Yugoslavia, and she has been living in Denmark since 1967. Her tree of life is firmly planted in the Balkans with the crown unfolding in Scandinavia – childhood in Belgrade and adult life in Denmark. It is her anticipation that you, the viewer, will take part in the forces which she feels discharge through her art. When hot and cold air meet, lightning and thunder are very likely to occur. This is also true in her life. Art is her lightning rod. It protects her tree of life from the raging elements. In addition to her training as an art teacher NDL has had private lessons with a number of famous Danish and Serbian artists. NDL has exhibited numerous places in Denmark since 1980, where she has also done some decoration and illustration work. NDL's international breakthrough as an assemblage artist happened in Berlin in 2005, where she was the only Nordic artist who was admitted to the International juried Assemblage Artist Exhibition 2005. NDL has also had several solo exhibitions in Denmark, Berlin, Belgrade and New York. NDL has participated in several juried exhibitions in Denmark, Germany, Serbia and the United States. Art can stir debates and touch our lives, but in a different way. NDL does this by using objects from reality in her assemblages, the unusual combinations giving rise to our reflection. Her works of art resemble optical expressions with a symbolic content. Like many other artists NDL also rounds off her works of art by leaving a distinctive mark in them. Each painting entails a small red dot symbolizing her love for art. Art critic Lise-Lotte Blom, who has known the artist for many years, has written many articles and has given lectures about NDL in Denmark and abroad. In October 2007, Lise-Lotte Blom conducted a lecture on NDL in connection with her solo exhibition in New York. Enjoy and welcome to the artistic universe of Nadja Djurovic Larsen.
Born in a little coastal town in Sweden called Falkenberg, Anna Engebrethsen is a well-traveled artist. At only 27 years old, she has already exhibited her paintings in great places around the world. With her muses the hare, the sparrow, the deer and the eagle, she has participated in exhibitions at the Grand Louvre in Paris, Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, New York and Barcelona, to name a few. With thick layers of oil, she tells the story of the often forgotten world, the world that keeps all the forest creatures and contains the spirit of life. With her unique technique she takes advantage of the Scandinavian color scheme and let the abstract structure on the canvas create clear pictures of a flourished nature in our minds. She lets us feel the heartbeat of the majestic deer, the wind that swirls around the hare's wet paws and without words or sounds she lets us hear how the eagle's great wings break the silence. Doc. Riccardo Baldelli wrote in an art critical review ‖Artists like Anna Engebrethsen could be the bridge between nature and humans that we have lost and that only a young soul like Anna can give us back.‖ As a child, Anna was fascinated by nature and the mysterious creatures that you could only have a glimpse of with a great amount of patience. Hand in hand with her grandfather, she explored the forest and collected memories in her heart that years later became her way of painting.
The glass artist Marie Hertzberg, born 1961, comes frome Sweden. Hertzberg has been a working artist for 25 years in mixed media with acrylic, texil and materials from the nature. For 8 years Hertzberg has been creating in media glass. Hertzberg is working from cold glass and uses techniques like fusing, casting and imagen in glass. Hertzberg lives and works close to nature. Nature is a great source of recovery and inspiration for Hertzberg. Hertzberg likes the sea and lakes in nature, which is often reflected in her art. Hertzberg lives near the largest lake in Sweden. She has donated an artwork to the organization ‖save the lake Vättern‖ which wants to maintain a fresh water. Marie Hertzberg has participated in about forty exhibition in Sweden, but also some international ones. For example: Artexpo New York Manhattan, Art Monaco Grimaldi forum, Casino Maltese Valetta Malt, Spirit of Vienna Moya museum of yong art Vienna. Hertzberg will participate in Bienale Palermo in 2015 .Hertzberg has been awarded trophies such as ”Artistic trophy Knights of Malta‖ and ‖Gold palm‖ in Monte Carlo Monaco. Hertzberg has participated in art catalogs such as Art Monaco 2014, Effetto Arte in Italy, Spirit of art Vienna 2014 and Bildkonstnären Sweden. Hertzberg is also renowned for her glass art in various newspapers in Sweden. 46
Impulsive, surprising, and full of verve, Ann-Greth Hilding’s paintings marry subtle surrealism and dramatic abstract technique. Hilding works with a variety of media, including silk paper and gold leaf on canvas, to provide extra texture underneath her acrylic paint, and both the combination of these materials and the subjects of the works changes in every piece, a reflection of the artist herself, her constantly developing nature, and her awareness that the act of painting is not merely a question of putting colors on a canvas. Hilding‘s body of work is appealingly spontaneous, with clean lines and a vivid palette coming together to express something powerful – often something the artist has seen in a dream, though it may have taken her years to understand how to express it. She paints women as opposed to men, for their soft shapes. Her compositions are skillfully designed to make the eye dance, being neither cluttered nor minimalist. Hilding has put on several exhibitions in her home country of Sweden, as well as shows in Austria and Malaysia. She describes her artistic aim as ―being able to delight the viewer‖.
Lambarri, with a unique vision and approach about our role in life and the drama of loosing reality´s compass, express himself with the simple argument allowed by substances and colors. Lambarri enters into the Arts in a committed and total way, after strolling through the different techniques and themes that suggest him a fertile ground, finds the way or try to understand the presence of being at this physical plane, so complex as thought and its programming and so simple and infinite as unconditional love. It is therefore a journey in the sensations and emotions, more than in the intellectual interpretation. In society like in the human body, actions and movements are in full performance, these are part of the organism to which they belong; artistic expressions are nothing but a way to understand our Universe and the elements comprising it. No subject is outside the interest of people , curious , proud and arrogant in addition to a long list. Entering the field that interests him , the emotions , and trying to find shortcuts to get directly to the sensations, in order to avoid the dangers of being received by prejudice and its complex system of knowledge, it is not easy to get out of the path of methodical programming systems caused by cultural, family and religious beliefs. The adventure is well worth the risk of being rejected, criticized, accused and even worse, not being able to demolded. We did not realize how insensitive we become the more we intellectualize. He wonders if there is anything that human beings provide or influence on the great social movements of a humanity that could act under the influence of a planet that generates changes according to their own needs. This leads him to wonder if perhaps the human being is an actor with a script. Are we actors or writers? Do we write a script or so we think? Do we just move? It seems that even in our annoyance and disapproval changes occur, the course of history continues to progress, we keep filling libraries , museums and galleries, the works still, the creators disappear, time is responsible for cataloging a piece either as trash, decorative object or a piece of art.
Margareta Lillisköld, born i Stockholm (Sweden), now living in the Tuscan-Emilian Appennine mountains in Italy. She paints abstract and still life, using oil on canvas. A member of Circolo degli Artisti Reggio Emilia and contracted with Art&Co/Parma. www.margaretalillieskold.eu
Ulla Lodesten, born 1947, is living in Västerås. Educated in Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm 1967-1969. She has worked in her own company as an art director and a photographer with private customers and publishing houses 1976-2011. Art exibitions: Tidö Castle 2001, Gallery Persåsen 2003, Gallery Milrök 2012, Strömsholm Castle 2012, 2013, 2014, Sigtuna 2013, Älvkarleö Castle 2013, 2014, Gallery Quirinus 2013, Gallery Engleson Stockholm 2014. 47
Paola Mascherin was born in 1976. She lives and works in Pordenone, North-East of Italy. In 1999, after graduating in Venice at the famous "Ca 'Foscari" University ,she decided to embark on a personal journey to the Far East where she attended a course in calligraphy. In these recent years, Paola matures the passion for drawing and painting and starts as self-taught person. In 2010, she began to exhibit and since the first exposure her masterpieces are soon appreciated by the public. In 2012 she won the First Prize at Artilia Public's Prize in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine. In December 2012 Paola Mascherin exhibits in Venice, Italy where she participated to Amalfi Prize. In January 2013 she is present with her masterpieces in Genova, Italy at Mu.Ma where her works are soon mentioned in the main Italian newspapers: the Press, the Corriere della Sera, Milan finance etc. She consequently continues to expose mainly in the North-East of Italy but soon also in an European context. In February 2013 she exhibited in Berlin, Germany with some of her works originally part of of pop inspiration. In Koping, Sweden during the same period she takes place in the Italian Koping weeks. In her paintings take shape harmonics female figures alternating with sweet faces of women. Paola Mascherin prefers oil as well as acrylic painting. Some of her private works have gone to private collections and to public places in northern Italy. On her painting says: "What intrigues in Paola Mascherin's painting, is the extreme variety of languages, techniques, moods and athmospheres which build up an ever-changing program of expressions.The undeniable appeal to Pop Art with the uniformity of her works act as a counterbalance with the works of more material matrix; the mocking and ironic vision dissolves into sweetness and this sort of opposition of styles has its own internal continuity and at the end testifies to a rich heritage of creativity and technical mastery". (Beppe Palomba, Art Critic) Paola Mascherin is married and has a 6 year-old-
Harriet Morlin ”HARIM” is undergraduate education in the arts is Dalarö People’s University Stockholm, Goetes color theory and Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy Florence Italy, Vedic Art Stockholm etc. The people who influenced her as an Artist and human being is Artist Curt Källman Founder to Vedic Art. Since childhood, she has had the insight she is an artist‘s soul, but other parts of her life meant that she had to wait to take the step to become a professional Artist. She paints her pictures from inside their heart and soul ―ART FROM HEART‖ and shows her awareness in all aspects of life. She paints according to Vedic Art, it‘s a painting method which helps one to achieve a higher state of consciousness through creativity, beyond the limitations of the intellect and the demands of technique. Her painting ―Power in Love‖ represents her as an artist, and human being, the painting is filled with her strong inner energy. She held her solo exhibition at Gallery Knight Stockholm 2012, group exhibition at the Royal Garden Stockholm 2013, Gallery Quirinius Köping 2014. Harriet explores heals herself through her art, and inspired by all the meetings with new people. Her plans for the future of art is to give her paintings around the world, to touch people on a deeper level, and also to spread harmony and peace between all cultures on mother earth. She is open to all that is positive and can please other people.
DOMINGO PARADA FARJAT, Bolivian-American Artist born in Sucre,Bolivia. Graduated from the Universidad de San Francisco Xavier of Sucre, Bolivia. Attended classes with Ivan Serpa at the Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. One of the most important figures in contemporary art in Bolivia and Latin America, he moved to the U.S in 1966. He has exhibited his work more than seventy times in several countries of South America and in many States of United States. His paintings are part of several private collections and Cultural Institutions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Domingo received several Prizes and Honors in South and North America. He represented his country of birth in the ‖III Bienal de Arte Americano‖, Cordoba, Argentina in 1966. He also represented the U.S. in the ―Lisboa International Contemporary Exhibition‖ in 2013 in Portugal, and in 2014 a the ―Downtown Chiado 14‖ also in Lisboa, Portugal. Domingo believes that his creative work is fruit of his awareness of the world which surrounds us. That the world is not only a visual world, but also the immensurable world of our interior mind, its landscape of emotions, imagination and fantasy. All that exists in the Universe is constantly created by energy. and this energy manifests itself in billions of vibrations, among this is light. Light is color. The infinite colors of the spectrum together with the geometric forms that are the essence of the Universe give him a palette that he can use to express moments of conscious experience. His work can be interpreted by consciously or un-consciously grasping the vibrations of the light in all of its forms and colors as if they were a form of pure music. 48
Erika Persson from Sweden, born in 1983. She has a three-year college education in decorative painting and design and she have studied courses in sketching and drawing techniques at University West in Trollhättan, Sweden. Since then, Erika has had several art exhibitions on a regular basis in Sweden, and has participated in both solo and group exhibitions across the country. She has also participated in an exhibition in Italy. Her artistry, according to herself, includes imaginative and crafty motifs with great variety. It comprehends both naturalistic and surrealistic inspired features. In many cases, the paintings are figurative, but she also paints abstract art. Sometimes, her work of art is trivial and naive, sometimes it's more expressive and suggestive. The artistic products can also be of a more romantic and sportive nature. Erika work with different materials such as oil, tempera, acrylic paint, aquarelle paint and with charcoal pencils. Primarily, she has focused doing products in acrylic and aquarelle paint. Generally, she does drawings on canvas, but she even makes murals and paint furniture. Erika is devoted to work in art techniques such as faux marble and wood grain paintings but also grisaille paintings and trompe l'oeil. Erika obtains inspiration from both nature and from her surroundings. That is a huge source to her flowing creativity. The inspiration may come from scenic and colorful landscapes, different objects or inspiring meetings with people. It can also come from different situations or occurrences which made an impact on her or from ordinary daily activities. The illustrations are a way for of expressing thoughts, reflections and different frames of mind. It is also a way for her to portray different observations Erika has made. The creating process is very important and it is the core of her artistry. Often, she has a vision, a thought or a special mood she want to express and convey. Her curiosity for new forms of artistically expressions allows her to constantly be looking for new challenges and projects. She often work with several paintings or projects parallelly which all are under development. The paintings compiles concurrently in a pleasant creative chaos of thoughts and moods. For more information about Erika and her work of art, please visit her website http://yeka.se or contact her at erika.persson@yeka.se
Patrizia Poli’s artistic expression is a highly poetic quest of extraordinary sensibility. In her subjects she catches all their spontaneity and contemplation with the result of an analysis of great ability and vast resources where the truth of the image and its content constantly increases. The softness and fluency of her stroke and the well calibrated measure of colours give her pictorial way a formal rhythm of wise and learned construction resounding in her work with all its might. The female figures, the landscape foreshortening and the natural details fix on her canvas an elegant schematism of remarkable suggestion with the result of a painting gifted with a great ability of interpretation and managed with a strong and severe engagement as a sign of an expressive, figurative and never casual achievement. Patrizia Poli digs up the inwardness of her female characters, thus displaying a precise and concise inquiry dealing with a recurring psychological penetration and flowing towards immediate moods. Her painting is a carefully balanced work where the fluency of a valuable and significant matter weaves a brilliant pictorial tissue standing out of any conventional rule. The colour shade fullness, the elegance of her drawing and the peculiar structure of her work give her paintings a strong vivid rare aesthetic impact. Always attentive to sentiments, to the naturalness and liveliness of her portraits, Patrizia Poli works out her own regular true pictorial language, fully mastering the acrylic painting materials and technique. She is always seeking dialogue with both pictures and observers, which allows her to widen her art and make it able to respect the human dignity. Her art is always rich of sensations whose aim is giving expression, with a passionate and experienced interpretation, to those lost values that can be found in her work. The constant dialogue she sets up with her paintings is free from anxiety and apprehension and it is rich of love and sentiments, especially where and when her characters‘ eyes are conveying their true emotions to the observer.
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Marketta Rokka was born and raised in Lammi, Finland. She moved to Trollhättan in Sweden in 1976 with her husband Jukka. Together they have a son named Tim. Marketta has an education in design from Helsinki, Finland and has worked in the Finnish textile industry and the Swedish car industry, Saab Automobile AB. Marketta is a member of the Artists Association in Trollhättan and part of the association‘s election committee. She is also a member of the Nordic Watercolor Society. Marketta has always loved to paint and draw. Her main interest has always been to create with fabrics and colors. Marketta love to design and sew home textiles, patchworks and applications. Marketta began to take courses in painting with oil paints in 1983 by the artist Hans von Groothest and then painted oil paintings for 15 years. In 1999, Marketta wanted to go into herself and just releasing the feelings she had. She also wanted to try something new. Marketta changed oil colors to water colors and it was a very positive experience. Marketta love painting watercolors. Marketta began to take courses in watercolor painting by the artist Thomas Niklasson in 1999. Later, she also took courses in watercolor painting with the artist Marion Gustavsson and the artist Ingrid Graminsky in Gothenburg in Sweden for several years. From 2010 Marketta paints in both oil- and watercolor. The artist has had many group exhibitions and solo exhibitions. Here are some of the solo exhibitions: Art Gallery Quirinus Köping 2014, Fuxerna sommarkyrka Lilla Edet 2012, Några målare i Vänersborg 2009. Contact Marketta Rokka: Phone: +46 76 16 52 550, Website: www.marketta.rokka.dinstudio.se, Email: marketta.5142 @ mac.com
Sara Theres Sandberg, born in Sweden 1971. A countrygirl who grew up on a small farm with her family, youngest of four children. Early in life she learn to work hard. In her childhood, she made a portrait of an older man and she realized what a pen in her hand could do on a piece of paper.To her it was magic.The art was in her life to stay. And she bought watercolours. But she wanted more. And at the age of seventeen she made herself familiar with oilpaint. She began to paint on canvas with her fingers directly in the paint to get to know the colours soul. When they found each other and became friends, she begun to use brushes. She got good response from others and started to show art at Art exhibitions. Nowadays,she paints mostly with painting knife and again,she also paint with her fingers. Sara Theres expresses her feelings in a dynamic and powerful expression that tells the viewer a unique story. Often layers of thick paint on the canvas and sometimes on the same artwork there could also be small parts of unpainted canvas. Sketching and drawing has allways been close to her since that magic moment. She paint from her deepest memories and emotions and everything that makes an impression on her shows in her art. Sara Theres showed her art on a international Art exhibition for the first time in Grimaldiforum in Monaco 2013 and later same year at Louvren in Paris. Sara Theres has also participated in Art exhibitions in New York,Manhattan and Italy 2014. Website: saratheres.se Member in Swedish Art Assosiation and BUS.
MIKAEL SCHMIDT - ROARING SILENCE. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1961. Mikael Schmidt is working out of Malaga, Spain and his studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Mikael is autodidact, working mainly in Oil on Canvas 100 x 100 cm or larger (US 36 x 36 in), mixing his own fluorescent colors. Thick layers of Oil applied with aggressive strokes of kitchen tools and knives. Mikael paints mainly his counseling clients as well as animals who he thinks reflects human behavior. The penetrating eyes of his figures, both humans and animals mirror the viewer, creating a lasting impression and energy. ―In my art I want to express the colors of being authentic. The color of being true to yourself, and how beautiful and peaceful it is underneath the desire to be loved and to seek approval from others.‖ 50
Artist Margareta Skogsberg is an artist who lives and works in a small town named Arboga in Sweden. Today she works mainly as an artist and also as a light- and colour therapist. She has been painting for 25 years. Mostly in oil colour. Three years ago she changed to acrylic, and let go of the control over the painting, mixes different materials into the paint for structure and chooses colours and shapes by impulse. She has had many exhibitions in Sweden and for the last two years also several international exhibitions. In 2014 she has been selected for three international awards:Throphy ‗‘Knights of Malta‘‘ , ‗‘La Palma d‘ Oro‘‘, Monaco, ‗‘Arte Catania‘‘, Sicily. www.margaretaskogsberg.com Annette MA Stocker is a Swedish painter living in Västerås, Sweden. Her art is influenced by the art form of Vedic Art, where it is about opening the vision and the joy of creating. In the Vedic Art course, she has found her way of painting, no strings attached and inspiring her own inner expression. After several courses she is also teaching Vedic art. Her painting Autumn symphony is one of several paintings from the collection Patterns of Nature. Techniques are acrylic and mixed media. (Picture of the artworks not in catalogue, just in exhibition).
Marina Stoponja was born 10th Nov 1959 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated in 1999 in The Academy of Fine Arts in the sculpting department. Member of HDLU / IAA since 1999, member of HZSU since 2001. Attending the postgraduate study in the Academy of fine Arts in Zagreb. Participated in numerous group exhibitions and organized numerous individual exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. Author of dozen public works in Croatia and abroad. Participated in numerous sculpting symposiums in Croatia and international, like Slovenia, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Norway, UAE, Korea. Winner of numerous prizes along with the Special Head of University prize in 1997. In her sculptural and painting projects she works on themes that describe life, in its physical, artistic and sociological aspects. Besides the interpretation, trough the three dimensional shape that she thinks came out of nature that made all shapes long time ago, she also explains the theme of human relationships. Material that she uses is mostly marble or marble in combination with bronze or some other material. Her sculptures and paintings are often self-portraits in phylosofical and biographical descriptions. Her bright character comes out through precise technical production in material. Her work takes part of many private collections and museums. Lives and works in Zagreb, Plešivica and Dubai. Marina Stoponja, Vrbani 17, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. 091/ 654 2 070, 095/ 566 02 93, marinastoponja@gmail.com, www.marinastoponja.com
Magnus Säker's art comes from his inner lustful SOUL. Over the years this has shaped his art from drawing to contemporary and unbridled creativity in color and shape. Education: 100 % AUTODIDACT. During his willful progress he has tested many techniques and used different materials and thereby found a base in his way of working that he primarily uses today. He works a lot with the combination of acrylic wet paint and spray paint. Time has taught him to handle these different techniques in his own way and to make them into ONE. He paints everything from abstract to somewhat figurative. In the abstract paintings he often works with depth at different levels, providing a large space of contemplation. The more figurative paintings always have an emotional theme, often love and intimacy either with a single form filled woman or with a joyful couple. And sometimes with a cocky and feminine sexiness without slipping over the edge and becoming pornographic.
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"At a certain time in life, something that has already taken place arises and needs to be expressed. John Övinge’s images are a trip to the past, a return, a longing for something that is both unattainable and concrete. This longing that all humans carry is represented in John Övinge‘s paintings, in his love for a city that evokes memories and feelings." John Övinge was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1959, and came to Sweden when he was 11 years old. He has become well known for his poetic descriptions of Vadstena. His paintings are lyrically appealing and full of symbolism. John has studied color and shape with several artists over the years 1980-85. The work of Zachari Dimitrov in Sweden has made the strongest impression on John, both as an artist and a person. John Övinge is an active artist and his artwork is part of several public and private collections. He is also a social worker and has studied music at the University of Örebro. Review: John Övinge experiments with watercolor in different image sequences, and then combines them in aesthetically graceful and original compositions. His treatment of color is sober and sensitive, providing an effective and reminiscent impression. A playful innocence inhabits his paintings and, despite the various elements meticulously held together in a carefully structured diagram, concreteness and poetry are also present. Motala newspaper, Sven Slotter
Bente Øy is from Norway, born in 1966. She's from a small place called Øvre Årdal, with a lot of mountains and fjords. The technique she works with is watercolor. She has attended a number of courses in Norway and abroad. She is a member of NFUK (Norwegian society of independent artists). Painting with watercolor has become a lifestyle and a passion. Bente is inspired by the nature and loves the four seasons. She creates that with plenty of water, pigment and nasphere in her paintings. You are welcome to visit her homepage www.utlatrolla.com
I, Dawn Yoshimura, come from the Hawaiian Islands where Western and Asian cultures combined into a unique cosmopolitan culture. The Islander‘s point of view, together with my Japanese heritage informs my work, and can be seen in my preference for off-center composition and a deep appreciation for Japanese aesthetics. When you come from a remote island, no matter how beautiful, you are always compelled to look out to sea both in anticipation as well as a longing to see past the horizon and make contact. I suppose that is why I like to paint mountains and the sea— mountains offers the comfort of the anchor and water offers possibilities. The familiar and the unfamiliar. I could easily paint every morning for the next 10 years my beloved Ko‘olau Mountains and Kane‘ohe Bay where I grew up. Yet, I get excited when I travel and can capture the feel and sense of a place in a plein air painting. I return home every winter but while I am in Sweden, my current home, I love to walk the Scandavian West Coast landscape and capture the light that Anders Zorn was known for. My process is one of observation and reflection upon my spontaneous reaction to a place. I try to try to capture that feeling or sensation in my paintings of the landscape. As the islander stands on the shore waiting for some sign—I hope viewers of my work feel the same sense of the familiar or, alternatively, the sense of promise that particular landscape conjurs up in me, because, then the communication is complete and we have connected. I have always drawn from nature and real life, and enjoy exploring textures in painting. I moved to San Francisco to study at Rudolph Schaeffer‘s School of Design on a scholarship, eventually earning a Bachelor‘s from the California School of Art. Although formally trained, I am a self-taught watercolourist and plein air painter. I enjoy watercolour because it suits my temperment and process. It forces me to make choices and to be honest. It also helps me to be brave, by throwing away pieces that don‘t work. I also work in encaustic, casein and oils. Just now I am fascinated by trees in all seasons and am exploring its form in different media. If mountains and water are symbolic for the mind, trees are symbols for our individuality and character. 52
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