M.A.D. INSPIRATION International Contemporary Art Exhibition 14-28 May 2016
Mad Gallery celebrates the collective exhibition which have been presented in May and whose leitmotiv is the inspiration, the dream, the emotion.
Artists: SCHWERY- JAGALOPOPOLO- GARULPHVIRGE- BELLONI- WILKEVAN DEN AKKERCOWLES- GOTTLIEBMACHYTKOVA- TAMAURALESZJA- MABOCARLSSON- OTTEBYZOLLER- BOUCHARDGSCHWIND- ART MUTAHELI- BOUVIER- BALIANTANA- STUCKENSNISHIHARA- JASENKAITE'HERBIN
Dott.ssa Marika Lerna Laureata in Lettere e Filosofia
GARULPH
Borderline
Essential lines, pure shapes and vivid colors characterize Garulph's world, a world made by digital instruments but deeply connected to men's mind. The strong contrast between the black background and the vivid colors – self-evidents in the artwork Borderline – emphasizes images having a double meaning through the different perception of the observer, Elevata ambiguità visiva e semantica is a perfect example.
DIMA VIRGE
C.H.E.t
Observing Virge's artworks you can have the impression that portaits are enlarged through a loupe; using such a simple device, infact, Virge's eyes filter the reality represented through famous icons: Marilyn Monroe, Amy Winehouse, Micheal Jackson, Dostoevskji; but the filter release us a different world made of black and white tonality, giving the impression of an old and ancient world.
FABIO BELLONI Borderline people populate the strange landscapes of Belloni's photos. His portraits are realistic, detailed but at the same time they remind us to an artificial world where zombies are alive and elf queens wear red dresses. Details have been put in evidence through the use of real colors, without any filter. Zombie
GODE WILKE The big size of Wilke's artwork and the energy of colors carry us into a parallel dimension and let us immerge in a world made of vertical lines, where the movement is deeply perceived through the deformation of objectivity and reality. Wilke creates a particular work that isn't fixed to a unique style. Locked love
JANE GOTTLIEB The impression that you have by observing Jane Gottlieb's artworks is to be into the negative of a photography where colors are not realistic but inverted and create a deep distorsion of reality. The world created by Jane Gottlieb's colors transmits a sensation of placidity and calm.
Daydream
JANE COWLES Through a nuanced and delicated abstract composition Jane Cowles combines digital media and natural world, putting in evidence a inner meaning present into images. Poetry is the key-word to understand Jane Cowles's artwork. Petaled heart
KATHY TAMAURA A parallel universe studded with colors, combined and mixed, gives life to a flowing composition. The observer has the impression to be into a colorful ocean, where the water is moved by an imaginary energy: is it fantasy? What we know is that Katy Tamaura opens the door to her fascinating imagination.
Brote
LESZJA GASZTANY Leszja Gasztany uses traditional subject to express her point of view. Brushstrokes are intense and materic on defining sunflowers and sun, giving sense of nearness to the observer, while the backgroung is more nuanced. We have almost the impression to be into the sunflowers's field, listening to the wind and admiring the sunset.
Sunflowers
The
Sping is coming
ANDREA SCHWERY Zentangle is an abstract painting realized following a pattern, letting the unconscious flows through the cardboard. Andrea Schwery found her artistic practice on this kind of paint, creating a colorful world where is quiet evident her mood of happiness and life joy, where butterflies and flowers are emphasized through strong colors
JAGA Jaga's portraits are characterized by defined brushstrokes which provide refined volumes to the artworks. John Paul II, Liz Taylror and Bob Marley are sudden flashes, inspirations of the artist, and their visage are emphasized through the background, studded with color spray. Liz Taylor
GREETJE VAN DEN AKKER The peculiarity of Greetje van den Akker's artwork is the use of materials: by coffee and golden acrylic paint the artist creates a big-size painting on biblepages where the main element is the face emerging through the darkness and just hinted by golden brush strokes. The whole face painted into The word remind us gothic or sacred portraits, and so a deep reflection on the meaning of life, characterised by a strong contrast between light and darkness.
The word
TALINE BALIAN The title of the artwork Dance expresses quiet clearly the movement inside this work and more generaly inside the artistic technique of Taline Balian. Brushstrokes flow gently on the canvas, but following a rythm that creates different tunes and an allusion to reality.
Dance
MARIE OTTEBY The blue used by Marie Otteby in this artwork reminds us eternity and sense of deep meditation on life and death. It's a mystic blue, where white and golden colors, dripped on canvas, represent male energy. These three colors allude to grace.
Mystic blue
KATERINA MACHYTKOVA
Indigo dream
A windy dawn, caught between reality and dream, a sudden epiphany where something is going to be revealed, but maybe it is still too to be understood. Indigo dream tell us about a dreamlike atmosphere where it is still necessary to lose yourself, where figures are faded into undefined structures. Katerina Machytkova creates a beautiful justapposition of nuanced tunes.
MABO Mabo's painting is the result of a deeply free use of color. Brushstrokes are fast and overlapped, and he has not a preliminary project. Colors are mixed in abstrac composition. The title refers to a light, representing a new possibility.
Luz al final del tunel
MELANIE BOUCHARD Inner voice of Melanie Bouchard emerges through this painting, Bourrasque, inviting the observer to enter inside this space, made of just two colors black and white - but deeply exciting for the power of brushstrokes on the canvas. The composition reflects a vertical construction, such as ,through the painting, the artist makes a cathartic action.
Bourrasque
ART MUTA
Apple seller
Apple seller, Muta's artwork, is a still life scene, filtered by a personal point of view. Forms are deconstructed and colors are matched in a very peculiar way: complementary tunes are combined following an aesthetic juxtaposition of warm and cold colors, aimed to give volume to the composition.It's quiet interesting the reference to Cezanne and Picasso.
MARCUS CARLSSON
Out of the city no. 4
Black, red and cyan colors became medium of Carlsson's artistic process in this artwork, Out of the city no. 4, where it's quiet evident the influence of informal art. Gestuality transmitted by brushstrokes creates depth into the painting. Black brushstrokes are stronger than the others and organize the abstract composition, while red and cyan brushstrokes give sense of movement.
TONY STUCKENS This artwork, Le coq au combat, is a perfect example of Tony Stuckens's technique: he impresses color in the most pure way. The composition is a combination of colors, mixed through a decontstruction of lines, which give sense of movement to the painting. Differents tunes expresses emotions of the artist and they are justapposed to create volume.
Le coq au combat
ANNA LOPOPOLO Through the word, Anna Lopopolo creates her portaits of famous people. The main element of her artistic process is the connection between life of the celebrity and their words, between images and words. The sovrapposition of letters creates volumes and contrasts. Jean Michel Basquiat
URTÉ JASENKAITÈ Love is a beautiful example of Urtè Jasenkaitè's graphic. The most interesting element of this artwork is the semplicity. Pen and ink lines are defined, creating a simmetric composition where love is expressed through the happiness of the two figures and the others elements. Love
SANDRA HELI Sandra Heli's artworks are deeply connected to her homeland: Mexico. She uses elements from that country, such as stone of this artwork, Yo en Ti. Another important feature of her artistic process is the color, which is always vivid.
Yo en Ti
MICHELE GSCHWIND The girl painted by Michele Gschwind is deep melancholic, her eyes are looking for something or someone. She is painted mainly through grey tunes, remind us sadness; the color of her hair and her dress is similar to the landscape on the background, an isolated desert. The most interesting feature of this figutative composition is put into the foreground: a charm representing heart.
Heartbeat
TOYOKO NISHIHARA Toyoko Nishihara, just using ink on paper, creates a wonderful world with clowns, flowers, plants and dolls. It seems to be into a circus tent, where everything became something else and it's connected to other things. The composition it is on the whole paper and shows a very particular use of ink.
Arabesque
TANA
Arms raise
Tana uses photography to express her-self. Her artworks grow from an elaborated process beginning in her studio. Sometime she is the object of the artworks, sometimes she chooses other subjects, such as little girls, sculptures. Tana has a poetic approach to photography, she uses frames to tell stories, to write poems based on experience, realizing a nuanced world.
VALERIE HERBIN Valerie Herbin is a french artist, her artworks are based on emotion and inner world. This artwork, Mes sable amouvants, is a rare look on the heart, in particular on african desert where the artist lived. The artwork is based in warm color and light which compose the desertic dunes.
Mes sable emouvants
STEPHANIE BOUVIER The most interesting element in Stephanie Bouvier's artwork To Umberto & George is the material: she uses a soft cloth, expressing elegance, infact what catches the observer attention is the color of this soft cloth,that seems to hide a secret.
To Umberto & George