15-29 July 2016
CAPRI Classico Italiano
Index Interartex
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Sunshine Gallery
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Henri Matisse
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Andy Warhol
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The art critic speaks
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Catalogue
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The artists’ presentation
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The group exhibitions organized by Interartex were born from the purpose to facilitate the collectors in their search for the safest investments on the art market. The success of an author in the art market is often based on the opinion (or arbitrary decision) of gallery owners and agents who function as art brokers, negotiating with collectors and museum curators. Interartex's challenge is to search for the essence and the meaning of art, and find this potential in each and every artwork. Always with responsibility and integrity, the personnel of Interartex tries to understand each artwork and to mediate the importance of this artwork to possible buyers. The quality maintance of each artwork is the main reason to why Interartex choose to work with small numbers of artworks. After ten years in the art market, Interartex feels the necessity to look closely at every artist in an exhibition, because the art cannot possible be a consumerism issue, with a lot of products on the wall struggling to find an identity in the chaos of a huge exhibition. The tendency today, among other companies, is to organize huge art fairs, with an incredible amount of visitors. This strategy does not guarantee that all the visitors are art buyers. It does not guarantee that each artwork gets the attention it deserves. Therefore Interartex thinks one step ahead. Interartex knows exactly who the right art buyer is: it is a person who searchs for the spiritual, eternal beauty in art, a person who also is an investor who desires to transmit this beauty for future generations. For this kind of person, time to observe the art, as well as competent people in the gallery to speak with, is essential. The buyer needs silence to think about the choice of artwork, he or she needs more than one visit in the gallery, and naturally, a respect for his or her opinions. Small numbers of artworks offer the buyer the precise environment to reflect about each artwork, something which is impossible where there are big numbers of artworks and numerous visitors. Interartex is a company which works systematically to find the right space, light and merchandising solution for each artwork. The personnel of Interartex cares for every artwork, for each artist behind the artwork, as well as for the real progress of the art market.
The island of Capri has been a tourist destination since Roman times. The rich families of ancient Rome, senators and emperors used to build villas along the Neapolitan coast and in the wonderful island that looked to the Gulf of Naples, precisely Capri. In the modern era Queen Victoria I of Sweden was used to spend her summers in the villa of his friend, the doctor Axel Munther and in the early twentieth century flourished on the island luxury hotels for the rich international society that passed unique summer vacation in the cool of the Aeolian islands´ winds. Yet the island is now home to the international jet set. Models and designers, actors and footballers, politicians and the rich businessmen walk the small streets of Capri and Anacapri. The Anacapri Sunshine Gallery Art gallery is located in the highest part of the island, in the center of the town of Anacapri. The town houses, in addition to modern villas financial magnates and to luxurious hotels, is also an important tourist destinations with the famous "Red House" and the villa Axel Munther. The gallery is also must for those who wish to visit the Baroque church of St. Michael or see night shows in Piazza S. Michele. The opening times of the gallery are therefore afternoon and evening and there are many who have been here just after evening aperitif looking for the perfect work of art for his own residence.
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Henri Matisse
Henri-Émile-BenoÎt Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.
Henri Matisse
"Nu en bleu", Lithographie, 37x50 cm, Plein papier.
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Andy Warhol American artist of Slovak origins, he was born in Pittsburgh in 1928. Warhol is a key figure of the American avant-garde, leader of The Pop Art movement since 1960's. He graduated from Fine-Arts in 1949, and settled in New York to begin a career in advertising, using his draughtsman and illustrator's skills. Also creator of theater costumes, he chose an androgynous look and wore a platinum blonde wig and picked his name after his birth name: Andrew Warhola. He realized his first works drawing inspiration from comics (Popeye, 1961) or labels of common consummation products (Del Monte Peach Halves, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup). In 1962, Warhol took part in the « nouveaux réalistes » exhibition in New York, with Roy Lichtenstein and Yves Klein, which introduced Pop Art as an artistic movement. Through silkscreen printing, he elaborated series about celebrities (Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy or Elvis). He also used them to revisit Mona Lisa's myth and proceeded to a study about flowers. Warhol's art is close to cinema, in which he worked starting from 1963. He considerably inspired cinematographic avant-garde. Appearing often in magazines, he was considered as an marginal icon. He opened his workshopstudio The « Factory » in 1963, which became one of the trendiest places of New York's life. The band The Velvet Underground, settled in it in its early stages. Warhol shot several experimental films there. He met Keith Haring in 1983, became his mentor, and was then joined Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1986 to contribute to the renewal of expressionist figuration. The artist died in New York in 1987.
Andy Warhol
Marylin, 10 screenprints on paper, Set of 10 portraits of Marylin Monroe, Signature on the back: «SBM, Art Club», 91x91 cm
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The Art Critic Speaks
In 2015 it has been offered the chance to manage Anacapri gallery. After a period of reflection, I felt it was an excellent opportunity for me as art critic and for my artists to explore a kind of very exclusive market. The choice of artists that could expose in the gallery has been made primarily by our Art Curators Alice Tamburini and Flavia Pellegrini. The artists selected by our Art Curators competently joined by a number of my personal choice. We kept the number of participants deliberately restricted, so it will result in a very essential and lightweight exhibition, which would give the best in the bright sunlight of Naples and would allow the visitors to full enjoy. I believe that we have succeeded in our effort and that visitors were able to enjoy an unforgettable experience.
Catalogue
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Paulino Cobian
In Exhibition Agui, Oil on Canvas, 102x92 cm, 2013 Chula, Oil on Canvas, 102x92 cm, 2013 Muchas, Oil on Canvas, 102x92 cm, 2013
Lis Engel
Sacred moement, Acryl/oil on canvas, 65x73 cm, 2016
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Jacopo Fo
Dio è nero,61,5 x 46,5 cm e "Eva è nera" 50 x 40 cm
Monica Johansson
The Goal Keeper Spraycan, Acrylic, ink, 80x80 cm, 2016
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Jean Paul Pallard
Skriet, Acrylic/Aquarelle on paper, 70x90 cm, 2015
Maria Luisa Persson
MÃ¥s, Oil, 80x80 cm, 2016
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Marketta Rokka
Spring dreams, Diptych, Digital Design photography on canvas, 90x90 cm, 2015
Dawn Yoshimura
Blue Hour , Aquarelle, Diptych, 50x50 cm + 50x50 cm, 2016
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The Artists’ Presentations
Paulino Cobian In 1945, Jean Dubuffet coined the term art brut to refer to art created by people who have no academic training. Later, the Critic Roger Cardinal expanded the idea and called it outsider art, applied to those who develop their creativity outside the classrooms that are motivated by a strong desire for expression and use materials and unconventional techniques. The work of Paulino Cobian - born in Jalisco, Mexico and United States - based fits into one of two types of art, not because he is a social outcast, but because being self-taught working in voluntary isolation, expresses himself through painting with delivery and total freedom. The same paints on canvas than on surfaces or various objects that awaken you imagination. As mestizo peasant, has an innate quality to combine colors and develop extensive ranges of tones vibrating in their constant interaction. His work has the charm of the candor and freshness; but not the naive candor, but which arises from their need to communicate through shapes and colours and is guided by his natural sense of rhythm and composition which speaks of his inner world. Javier Ramirez* *Critico de arte. Revista Proceso Jalisco Guadalajara, Mexico, Junio de 2016
Lis Engel Lis Engel is a wonderful self-taught abstract painter. Her work is made of purely gestural brushstrokes, capturing the viewer from the very first moment and transporting him or her directly into a sublime reality, reminding of the British abstract painter Howard Hodgkin and the Australian expressionist Arthur Boyd. The lines are basic and essential and offer an almost childlike quality to the subjects, although her ability to depict her figures are outstandingly expressive. The reduction of form and simplicity of outlines highlight her explicit allegorical and poetic nature. The use of colors is stunning and her compositions are fascinating and superbly charming, absolutely unique and highly talented. Her pure spirit of art is a true and joyful gift to the world of modern abstract painting." Chianciano Art Museum, ICAC Art Critic Karen Appel.
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Jacopo Fo Since Jacopo Fo was 18 he published comics and cartoons in magazines: “bc” “inus” “osso” “e Nudo” “’spresso” “’rcibraccio”the italian edition of “harlie Hebdo”“ttovolante” “reezer” “l Clandestino” “ango” He draws animated jingles for shows by Dario Fo and Franca Rame. He works at the newspaper “otta Continua”and “’vventurista” He was one of the founders of “l Male”a satirical magazine of great success. In 1981 he founded the Free University of Alcatraz where he teaches comics and drawing classes with Pazienza, Manara, Liberatore, Angese, Vincino. During the years he realizes sets and costumes for theatral shows. He founded “acao”the official magazine of the Free University of Alcatraz. He published 45 books full of illustrations. On web, he created “a CittàSegreta” a traveling exhibition in 300 tables. On his blog, he publishes paintings and comics. He has written text, realized direction, sets and costumes for a theatral show represented in Mozambique. He has made drawings for a web series “l teatro fa bene” published in the Corriere della Sera. Between 2015 and 2016 he exhibited at the National Exhibition “alsi d'autore” He participates in three editions of “ran Canale della Pace”at the Venice Arts Festival and Villa Pamphilj and Macro Testaccio in Rome.
Monica Johansson Her name is Monica Johansson and her signature is JIM. Her whole life has been in the service of painting and drawing. At least since the time she first discovered what is possible to do with a pencil. She love to do paintings who made the viewer relax and also give them some adventure when they find out that there is often more in the painting that it seemed to be at the first glance. The Goalkeeper is one example of this kind of painting. The discovery of spray can painting she has done is exactly what is needed to make those “more than one motives in one painting” she loves to do. Earlier she mostly worked with aquarelles. With that teqnicue she loves to do portraits of family and friends! Enjoy her painting and have fun to find out what more it might be there.
Jean Paul Pallard Jean Paul Pallard was born 1951 in the South of France and now he lives both in the French Catalonia and in Barcelona. He was educated in art via Drouot in Paris and worked many years in the art and the antiquity businesses. In the beginning of his career he expressed his imagination in touche drawings (Incre de Chine - Chinese touche) but during the last years he has made his colour revolution! Together with its roots in the French-Catalan surrealism he has continued the ideas of the South French Fauvism inspired by Dufy, Derain, Matisse and the Spanish great painters in surrealism, Dali and Miro, who all were creating in the same part of the world. Jean Paul Pallard also express himself inspired of Munch (Skriet - Le Cri), Warhol and Max Walter Svanberg. Jean Paul Pallard has exhibited in the South of France and in Sweden; Stockholm, Västervik and Bäckaskog Castle. He is now current for an introduction in the Barcelona and New York markets.
Maria Luisa Persson Maria Luisa Persson was born in 1945 in a small town in northeastern Brazil, but has mostly lived Sweden. Already in the age of 22 she had her first solo exhibition. Since then, she alone or together with other artists has participated in 60 exhibitions. In addition Brazil and Sweden, she has exhibited in Germany, Denmark, France, USA, England and Switzerland.
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Marketta Rokka Marketta loves art and photographs. Marketta thinks that the way to inner peace is, to create beauty by drawing inspiration from nature and these artistic creations. 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. She is 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 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 changed oil colors to water colors and it was a very positive experience. Marketta began to take courses in watercolor painting by the artist Thomas Niklasson in 1999, with the artist Marion Gustavsson and the artist Ingrid Graminsky. E-mail: marketta.rokka@telia.com Exhibitions: Art for All, Budapest, Hungary, 2016 Toscana Nordic, Italia, 2015. Paris, 2015, Galerie THUILLIER, PARIS. Only Women, Art Gallery Quirinus Köping, 2015. Gallery 76, Dubai International art center, 2014. Art Gallery Quirinus, Köping, 2014.
Dawn Yoshimura Simone Weil wrote, ‘‘The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us.’’ Dawn’s artistic vision is based on a belief that experiencing art can prompt spiritual response with glimpses of Man in Nature as she once was and will be—a supernatural vision of life. She states, ‘I want to share the experience of natural divine beauty and living aloha through my work’ Dawn earned a B.F.A. in Interdisplinary Design from the California College of Arts. Settling in Sweden in 2002, she has travelled to all continents for work and pleasure, and returns regularly to her childhood home in Hawai’i. Dawn’s watercolours combine Asian aethetics and Western process to create unique visual music and melody that satisfy the intellect and the heart. Her landscapes are her direct emotional response to her environment. Her colors are unique and unlike any other Scandinavian watercolorist working today, as she sees the world through optimistic filters with her signature greens and purples. Her compositions draw instinctively from classical Japanese proportions creating fields of vision that invite the viewer to contemplate their environment. Her landscapes explore how exoticism relates to one’s cultural experience in nature. From her perspective, the Scandanavian landscape is exotic and mysterious while Oceania and Asia are familiar and profane.
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Interartex Publishing Layout Elisa Bastiani Text The presentations are written by the artists themselves. The texts are monitored by Jenny Holmstrรถm and Elisa Bastiani Supervision Riccardo Baldelli Editorial: Kรถping, Sweden, 4 July 2016