Sofia 2016

Sofia 2016/09 01-15 Art: The New Frontier

Index Interartex

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UBA Gallery

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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.

UNION OF BULGARIAN ARTISTS - UBA

The Union of Bulgarian Artists – UBA, is a creative non-profit association of professional artists and art critics.

3000 ARTISTS AND CRITICS

Currently there are over 3000 artists and art critics - members of the Union from all generations.

Membership is individual and the members are organized in 16 sections: Painting, Print and illustration, Sculpture, Art criticism, Advertising design, Stage design, Restoration, Monumental arts, Design, Ceramics, Graphic design, "13" – non-conventional forms, Wood carving, Jewelry, Textiles, Cartoon.

Country offices have been established, bringing together members of the Union according to the territorial principle. UBA in its activity supports the implementation of creative projects of its members to provide them information about significant events and events of national and international character and assists the creative contacts. Each artist, member of the Union, can benefit from social programs and opportunities for protection of his professional interests and copyrights. Each member has the opportunity to participate in various competitions, workshops, plain-airs.

UBA has the largest exhibition complex for classical and contemporary Bulgarian art - the halls of "Shipka" 6 Gallery and the hall of "Rayko Alexiev" Gallery on "G.S. Rakovski "str. № 125. The exhibition policy is opened to ideas and projects of different nature. The halls of UBA are host of different exhibitions - individual, collective, anniversaries, retrospective, visiting, prestigious international events and avant-garde. The UBA is a member of the following international organizations: AIAP, ICOMOS, IKOGRADA, AIKA

The Expert Council of the UBA

The Expert Council is a structure of the UBA, which, since its creation in 1992, provides expertise, prepare certificates for the authenticity, condition and quality of the artwork. It gives consultations, expertise and evaluations on different questions concerning the visual arts, design, restoration and synthesis forms at the request of state institutions, NGOs, enterprises, institutions, authorities and court investigators, individuals, etc. The Expert Council (EC) of the UBA works on the principle of the retribution.

The Art Critic Speaks As art critic is always my duty to explore new artistic markets. This is because in the art world not only is about the quality of what you exhibit, but also where you exhibit that. Unfortunately, the fashion and the money also affect art, the artistic expression that should have an eternal value and should be extrapolated from everyday reality. It is not like this. Art markets of great popularity as a for instance Berlin and Monaco have now given way to the new European border, where Russian tycoons spend cultural holidays and the new Eastern tourists are the patrons to artists and galleries. So European and American artists have to move and propose quality things and old art traditions in these new markets. In the exhibition in Sofia we have placed an emphasis on the difference, trying to propose several different materials and techniques. We wanted to understand and experiment with this new generation of lovers of quality but of taste often far from our own.

Catalogue

Vincenzo Armato

Caos, Oil and collage, 50x70 cm, 2014

Vincenzo Armato

Ciao, una vita fumata, Oil and collage, 50x70 cm, 2014

Aue Nana

Squares, red, Painted acrylic and metalcolours copper, 72x62cm, 2003

Paulino Cobian

In Exhibition Agui, Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm, 2013

Chula, Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm, 2013

Muchas, Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm, 2013

Lis Engel

Sacred moement, Acryl/oil on canvas, 65x73 cm, 2016

Jacopo Fo

Dio é nero, oil, 61,5x36,5 cm

Lisbeth Häljesgård

Light Falls, Watercolor,

40x30 cm, 2014

Nina Hagman Langman

The guardian angel, Oil on canvan, 90x115 cm, 2016

Margareta Lillieskรถld

Autunno, Acrylic, 70x100 cm, 2016

Hilde G. Ovesen

Pi in sunset,, Acrylic, 100x100 cm

Domingo Parada

In Exhibition Recollection, Acrylics on d’arches 300 paper, 22”x28”, 2014

Dawn Yoshimura

The Bue Hour, Dyptic watercolor, 50x50cm 50x50cm, 2016

The Artists’ presentation

Vincenzo Armato

Aue Nana Nana Aue, born in an international Italian rooted family, lives in Germany and Italy. She studied at Ruhr University Bochum History, German Literature and Linguistic and Psychology. This time Nana works as an artcritic author and artist. Nana is member of the Kunstforum International in Switzerland and took part of several art competitions like the “Seetal-Wettbewerb” in Switzerland, the Palm Art Award in Leipzig, Germany and the Trofeo G.B. Moroni in Bergamo, Italy. Nana works in several series in different technics. The line ”breath of the steppe” is created in work for a perfomance about prehistorical culture. The line ”Geometrische Farbfelder” or “coloured fields” is about different colours with limits or borders in harmony.

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.

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.

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.

Lisbeth Häljesgård Lisbeth Häjesgåd is a self-taught watercolor artist from Sweden, born in 1952.

She has participated in many exhibitions in Sweden and in different countries, as in Iceland, Austria, Monaco, France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Hungary and some of the exhibitions are juried.

Lisbeth Häljesgård has been awarded by three prizes for her paintings and her artistic merit, all in 2015.

“Sandro Botticelli Prize”in Firenze, Italy “Prize International Rome Imperial” Rome, Italy “International Prize Marco Polo- Art Ambassador” Venice, Italy Watercolor is for her a fantastic means of expression. She paints mostly nature and landscape.

It is her inner feeling that usually determines most of the subjects, by suggesting motives and sentiments, she wants to make the viewer complicit.

Website: www.gallerikyllingekvarn.se Facebook: Art by Lisbeth Häjesgåd, Sweden

Nina Hagman Langman

Nina Langmann Hagman was born in Sweden, Stockholm and grow up near a beautiful lake.

The landscape, nature and the light and her early interest of angels and the spiritual view of the world has influenced her art and life. On daily bases she work with children at school and she love to inspire the artist skills and make a possibility to bloom. As an artist she prefers to paint in oil and express her inner pictures of angels and mythological creatures. Exhibitions in Sweden, Stockholm 2012-2016. ninalangmannhagman.com

Margareta Lilliesköld Margareta was born in Stockholm / Sweden, has lived abroad half her life; Paris, Copenhagen, London and since 9years in the hills of Apennine west of Bologna south of Parma.Her background is in textil and fashion design; she spent 2 years in Paris, where she worked at the fashion house Chanel for 1 year and after that did a 1-year course at Chamber Syndical de la Haute Couture. Back in Sweden she was accepted at A.Beckmans Design School and following that , together with a fellow student, started a design company.

They worked for IKEA, Rörstrand . Boda Shop, Borås textil and several foreign customers.

During Margaretas time in London she studied at Froebel College and took life drawing an portrait classes at Putney School of Art. With her great respect for painting she wanted to develop her drawing before taking a paintbrush. Back to the present, in her studio overlooking the valley, she sees more deer and wild boar than people and has therefore changed motives.

Now she paints big, abstract pictures in oil or small still life. She starts off by mixing the colours without an idea’ , puts on the paint and as she says, the the painting takes over, “gets its own life “. Sometimes she is happy with the result, sometimes not, then she scrapes off the paint and continues.

She has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Stockholm, Dubai, Budapest and local exhibitions in Emiliga Romagna.

Hilde G. Ovesen Norwegian artist Hilde Gustava creates dynamic pieces through the use of vibrant colors and textures. The opposite of the typical minimalist and ‘dark’ Norwegian artists (by her own description), Hilde is daring with color and her multiple-layering technique makes the structure and depth of her paintings rich and exciting. Her artistic style was what won her the University degrees: as a High School Teacher and Visual Artist.

The symbols for Pi and infinity are prominently featured in her works, emphasizing the idea of endlessness and man’s continuous need to explore. Humanity will forever investigate and experiment to find new ways of living and doing things, just as the artist will always find new ways to create. “I feel that creating art and the process is eternal, like the decimals in Pi,” says Gustava. “The opportunities in color, rhythm, and composition are endless…it’s overwhelming and beautiful. I find the process of art making is mysterious and unlimited.”

Domingo Parada Domingo Parada Farjat, Bolivian-american artist born in Sucre, Bolivia, considered one of the most important figures in contemporary art in Latin-america and his native country, with extensive

exhibitions

in

Bolivia,

Argentina,

Brazil,Paraguay,Chile,Portugal,United

States,Dubai,England, Mexico, Italy, Spain and Sweden. Has won several prizes and distinctions in different events in different countries. His work is part of the collection in several museums, cultural institutions and private collections.

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.

Interartex Publishing Layout Francesca Filippi 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, 9 September 2016