NFT Official Catalogue by M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY SL

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Curated by Art Directors Carlo Greco and Alessandra Magni Critical texts by Art Curators

Alessia Domenichini Alessia Perone Alessia Procopio Alessia Ventola Angela Papa Benedetta Battaglini Camilla Gilardi Carola Antonioli Chiara Lezzi Chiara Rizzatti Elisabetta Eliotropio Erika Gravante Federica Acciarino Federica D’Avanzo Federica Schneck Francesca Brunello Francesca Catarinicchia Giorgia Massari Giulia Dellavalle Giulia Fontanesi

Ilaria Falchetti Karla Peralta Málaga Letizia Perrieri Lisa Galletti Lucrezia Perropane Manuela Fratar Mara Cipriano Maria Teresa Cafarelli Marina Maggiore Matilde Della Pina Matilde Grossi Marta Graziano Martina Lattuca Martina Stagi Martina Viesti Miriam Passoni Sara Giannini Sara Grasso Silvia Grassi Vanessa Viti

“Why do we have a mind if not to get our way?” (Fëdor Dostoevskij) The world changes every day, every hour: a constant revolution changes the life of man, his behaviour, the vision of what surrounds him. Reality and technology meet, and merge creating new universes to know and explore. Words and expressions acquire many more meanings than they were assigned in the past. Does buying a work of art mean buying a physical painting? Not anymore. NFT is the acronym for “Non-fungible token” and is identified with an original and inimitable virtual object. The person who buys an NFT, therefore, does not become the owner of a physical work, but comes into possession of the rights related to the digital work that can be transferable, but not duplicated. Interesting debates have arisen around the issue of the actual value of NFTs: is it worth investing a large share of money to become owners of “only" a digital work? In recent years, technology has allowed the reproduction of works without stopping, depriving them of important values such as uniqueness. The purchase of NFT faces this problem by giving the buyer an official certification, which certifies that the work has been transferred to him by the author. Until now, the record sale of an NFT is attributed to “Everydays: The First 5000 days”, a collage composed of 5000 images created by the famous American digital artist Beeple. We cannot forget to mention the CryptoPunks, the pixelated images representing faces of which ten thousand copies were created in 2017 and which are now worth a real fortune. The rarest category is "Covid Alien": nine faces with blue complexions, the only avatars with masks as a symbol of a complex historical moment that involved the whole world. Not only works of art, but NFTs also enter cinematic culture: Quentin Tarantino has decided to put the original screenplay including unpublished content from Pulp Fiction up for auction, a clear demonstration that this new trend is involving different realities. By playing with letters and word associations, NFT can become the acronym of new freedom think. No boundaries that cannot be crossed, no doors that cannot be opened: freedom to travel with one's mind towards new horizons ready to welcome us. Pre-established patterns, ancient conventions and preconceptions cancel out in the face of a new way of thinking: mind projected towards diversity, observation, but not towards judgment. The actual acronym and the acronym proposed by MADS, therefore, have several points in common. NFT becomes synonymous with contemporaneity and innovation. Art encounters technology: MADS, the first multimedia gallery with a permanent, digital, and unique display, has taken this step from a long time, proving itself to be an avant-garde institution from its origin. On this occasion MADS invites artists to bring themselves into play, to throw themselves into a surreal universe that has now become reality. "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" reads the quote from the famous and revolutionary American composer Frank Zappa. Looking to the past without forgetting to look to the future: appreciating normality but remembering that turning it around can mean progress and enrichment. Observe the revolution in progress and get involved in it: change means new beginning. Concept by Camilla Gilardi - Art Curator

Abby Deubler

The artist Abby Deubler participates for the first time in an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, on the occasion of “NFT New Freedom Think” during which she exhibits her “Mask”. The artwork, oil on canvas, in some way recalls the asymmetry of Picasso’s paintings. The face is decomposed, disproportionate, fragmented, swollen and at the same time yielding. There is no doubt that we are witnessing something constantly changing, perhaps an evolution or perhaps a degeneration. The nose breaks the painting, originating two opposite sections: one has an eye out of orbit and the teeth uncovered without the lips; the other depicts an almost half-closed eye placed in the place of the mouth that, purple and fleshy, seems to represent the only thing left really intact about that disaster. On this face things are not in their place, yet they manage to find a balance, a compromise that allows everyone to cohabit that space without destroying each other. Is it a face in pieces ready to decompose, or is it a face that has figured out how to survive without sabotaging itself? The brushstrokes are precise and the shades of the colors recall those of the figures printed on the anatomy books. Surrounding the subject, we find indefinite filaments that probably represent compound that comes out of our body: Abby’s idea of the human experience has expanded to something harder to contain within the finite shapes of the body. Each piece is a moment in time, a feeling or thought, indescribable except within the realm of a painting. The anatomical crisis of this face could be the physical and concrete consequence of an existential and emotional crisis unable to remain trapped in that interiority that has been granted to it. Probably this mask is nothing more than a more truthful representation of the human being, which is irrepressible. After all, in Latin person is called "maschera" (mask).

“I have moved beyond the simplicity of the human form and towards understanding myself in the abstract - as an experience moving through a complicated world.” (Abby Deubler) Art Curator Sara Grasso

Abby Deubler

Mask

ad.inf

Ad.inf works with digital deconstruction, mainly from photos of natural elements he takes himself. The final produced image is the result of superimpositions whose parts are then erased revealing new structures and aspects. This fusion of natural images sometimes composes patterns that have an almost psychedelic flavour. The repetition of geometric shapes easily captures the eye, forcing the viewer to a more attentive enjoyment of the work of art. A deep immersion that allows you to enjoy the revelation of new forms of communication between the parties, artist and public. Like lava among the rocks, the author's thought insinuates itself into the mind of the other. Ad. inf in this way hypnotises and captures us. The textures of the artist's images have a strong family feel, in front of these colours and shapes we feel in a comfortable and familiar zone. Nature as a starting point works out a new landscape with itself that is easy to assimilate. The bark of trees, like snowflakes, belong to human history and are often linked to childhood memories. Ad. inf in the moment of production of his art, finds a deep connection with his own childhood, as he declares, and thus sends its reverberation outwards. The time when we are only sons and daughters, where pleasure is intensely connected to the purity of the desire for happiness at hand. The immediacy of the feedback is what we can also find in these works of art, which thus superstructured become self-sustaining, generating a distant but attainable simplicity that is purely enjoyable. It is when someone is true to art that art can show its childlike glow.

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.” (Pablo Neruda)

Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

ad.inf

decaying skin of wood

ad.inf

foamy rings of snow

ad.inf

heart made of stone

Adam Konorot Adam Konorot is a graphic designer and 3D generalist based in Budapest. His journey started at the beginning of 2021, where he gained a lot of new experiences, through the creation of abstract things. The artist through his digital art is able to express his feelings by trying to arouse others to the public. For the exhibition “NFT New Freedom Think” helds by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Adam Konorot decided to exhibit three of his digital masterpieces: “Infinity”, “Manifestation” and “War of elements”. The artworks represent the fruit of a lively imagination. The infinite loop of the first echoes the title, making it hypnotic and at times therapeutic while observing the small two spheres entering into these striped corridors, with soft and accommodating features. The colors are clear and soft, while the spheres are amber, tracing a feeling of calm. On the other hand, in "Manifestation" we can again find a hypnotic sensation but with more threatening features. The pink filaments of this second artwork seem to move almost like molluscs, leaving the observer at times in tension and at times hypnotized. They enter and exit the main mirror sphere repeatedly as a contamination or by underlying the movement of the sphere, as if the latter has life. The visual, compared to the other two works, in this case moves, accentuating the dynamism and activism granted to the beholder. The background, with black and white streaks, underlines a hypnotic effect. Finally, in "War of elements" the meaning the title wants to give to the work is evident. Once again, a sphere in the center of the digital artwork is floating in the void. The latter rotates on itself, losing and gaining continuously small particles of itself. The elements are evoked by the colors used such as blue and red, which alternate and contrast in the movement of the central body in a continuous dance between fire and water.

Art Curator Angela Papa

Adam Konorot

Infinity

Adam Konorot

Manifestation

Adam Konorot

War of elements

Adina Ding "The imaginary solutions are living and ceasing to live. Existence is elsewhere." (Andrè Breton)

In the artistic imagination every existing current has brought with it totally new sensations that have made sure that nothing was the same as before. In the development of the surrealist current of the early 1900s we can find a need for artists of the time to want to express at all costs what were their thoughts, feelings and memories locked up in the unconscious. There remains a direct link between surrealism and the importance of dreams as it becomes important and necessary for the artists of this movement to give weight to the unconscious. In 1924 the poet Andrè Breton wrote in the Surrealism Manifesto «Pure psychic automatism, through which we propose to express, with words or writing or in another way, the real functioning of thought.

Adina Ding

Command of thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, beyond any aesthetic and moral concern. " to make it clear how much what remains in our dreams emerges even while we are awake and this can be transmitted through art. In her work, the contemporary artist Adina Ding manages to give us the sensations of her unconscious through the colors and subjects she represents. You manage very well to reconcile Breton's words through her way of making art and poetry and to accompany each other in a very precise and harmonious way. Her personal way of freeing thought is strong and present and through her talent she also involves us spectators in the journey of freedom.

Art Curator Letizia Perrieri

Adina Ding

Hero

Adina Ding

Hero

Aiopimuchi “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” (Thomas Merton)

Artist Aiopimuchi manages to express his personality and thoughts through painting. Being, from an early age, troubled by his appearance and never having recognized the ethnic and gender identity of himself, he found in painting the right medium to express his personality. Listening to the different personalities that animate his mind and reside in his heart, the artist began to transfer them onto the canvas, giving them form and colour. It is the images he creates that express his true imagination, thoughts and reflections. And it is precisely these elements that animate his drawings; using pencils and brushes, Aiopimuchi concentrates on drawing and representing reality, expressing what his heart suggests to him. In his paintings, a trace of reality always remains, although it tends to become a magical painting of multicolored fantastic shapes juxtaposed with each other. Exploring the forms of the world and of reality, the artist tells his essence, his imagination and his will through his paintings. It is in fact a profound pictorial exercise, which searches for the essence of the artist which then flows onto the canvas.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Aiopimuchi

Grim Reaper and a man

Aiopimuchi

Butterflies in the dark forest

Aiopimuchi

Rabbits' ball

Akira Terada There is something fascinating in those things that are not visible, in those elements that are not obvious, in the hidden, enigmatic circumstances. Human beings have a propensity for the hidden, the unspoken, for what is unseen but perceived. Perception is activated more by presentiment than by the senses. Sight, smell, touch and taste do not serve us in this game of impulses. We know that there is something lurking, even if it is not perceived by our body. We sense it in the air, we distinguish it among everyday elements, we sense it without knowing why, without knowing how. What is there? What is hiding in the crevices of our world? What entity is hiding between the cracks of our everyday life? It hides from the light of the sun and from our eyes, it makes itself impalpable to our touch, it is odorless and tasteless. And yet it is there. That something is here with us and its essence is infused in every element of this earth. We can call it background noise, something that behaves like cosmic radiation, tangible residue of the Big Bang explosion that still pervades the Universe. The cosmic background radiation is naturally unrecognizable by our senses and yet, it is enough to turn on the radio or an untuned television. We hear with our ears that white and constant noise so peculiar and we are astonished when we think that 1 or 2% of that noise is the ancient echo sprung from the creation of the universe. The cry of the explosion has reached us and pervades us constantly, creeping into our homes, our cells and our atoms. Reality then, is not always visible and Akira knows this well. "Noise", "Highway Reconstruction" and "Shibuya Inversion" tell of a world that is familiar yet unknown. These works tell of a reality that, although intuitable, is not recognizable. We intuit the bright colors and lights of the billboards spilling over the world's busiest intersection. We recognize the horizontal, sinuous lines of the highways intersecting with the sleek, straight, vertical figures of the city's skyscrapers. We recognize the sunset, the night as well as we are aware that Akira is depicting a traffic light. Yet, we can only guess and not recognize. In "Shibuya Inversion" the stained glass windows of the Café "L'Occitane" do not exist. We intuit their presence and remember that they face exactly the intersection. Yet, in Akira's work they are not there. In their place is noise, disturbance, dark, square elements that shatter our vision, rendering us helpless before a landscape we once knew. A little higher up, these strange shapes become more colorful: now they are mirrors, cutouts and photographs of elements that once coexisted in balance between the buildings overlooking the intersection. With a careful look we can catch a glimpse of the large golden windows of the Café in question. They are high up, they are applied to the image and are located almost on the top floor of an imaginary skyscraper in the middle of Shibuya. Akira with his works makes a distortion of reality, a reworking through glitch and disturbance of a reality that we know well. Extrapolates the essence of what we see and sublimate the colors and shapes to make us see the background noise that, daily, we can not perceive.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Akira Terada

Highway Reconstruction

Akira Terada

Noise

Akira Terada

SHIBUYA Inversion

Alberto Tamiazzo "Art challenges technology and technology inspires art. ” (John Lasseter)

Following the example of his father, who has been painting for as long as he can remember, the artist Alberto Tamiazzo has made technology a valid ally of his own artistic creation. Starting from traditional painting, the artist has slowly turned to a more conceptual and, above all, digital art: generative art, glitch art and Ai are all modalities that have led Alberto Tamiazzo to the generation of his own artistic poetics, which does not exclude the reference to the artistic tradition. In "Static times" innovation and tradition come together in a continuous dance where traditional classical iconology joins the digital reworking of the image itself. The woman's body, placed on a pedestal, is modified, altered, almost doubled, thanks to the skilful use of new technologies. The strength and originality of Alberto Tamiazzo's art lies in the desire to take up classical and traditional figures and put them at the service of technology, from which art draws inspiration and lets itself be involved.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Alberto Tamiazzo

Static times

Aleksandra Bukovskaya “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” (Lewis Carroll)

The imagination sometimes allows us to escape from the - sometimes tragic - reality in which we live. Art is a means of representing the world around us and therefore... Why represent only the beauty and not the truth, whether it be good or bad? Aleksandra Bukovskaya is a Ukrainian contemporary artist whose works have as absolute protagonists the emotions she wants to share with the viewers. "Anxiety attack" was created in 2022 with the acrylic on canvas technique. Man must live with cruelty, hypocrisy, and violence every day. How can he remain indifferent to all this? Every situation we live, every word that is addressed to us, every lie that is told causes reactions in us. The work aims to represent a state of mind that has involved each of us at least once in our life. Feeling disoriented without a point of reference, feeling hit by a real panic attack. Large brush strokes placed side by side make up a face with a terrified expression: the frightened eyes are looking towards us, and the wide-open mouth is emitting a cry of desperation. What just happened to the protagonist of the painting? The artist invites viewers to dialogue with him trying to discover the story behind him. Aleksandra's works are the mirror of her deep inner world, which she wants to make known and understood.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Aleksandra Bukovskaya

Anxiety attack

ALEKSANDRA MOREIRA FRANZINI

ALEKSANDRA MOREIRA FRANZINI presents “COSMIC SNAIL” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. Different layers form an outstanding space filled with the logic of one command, in order to satisfy the longing for a cosmic perfection. The artwork is rendered as a golden geometric force, which depicts a design inspired by nature. “The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs... and is... a part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.” - Guy Murchie. To follow an order by command is to trust that particular moment in which you just have to move forward, just to react without thinking thoroughly in the future implications. If we move forward by command, it is implied that eventually we will have to stop and gaze what we have achieved. “The pause, that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.” - Mark Twain. Silence is what we perceive after we have completed a task. “COSMIC SNAIL” invites us to take a pause to witness a geometric proposal brought by a command who is looking to achieve a cosmic perfection. The golden presence stands still so it can be admired as a geometrical statement of our inspiration. The golden presence carries a sequence to mesmerize you with so many different paths to follow.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

ALEKSANDRA MOREIRA FRANZINI

COSMIC SNAIL

Aliaksandra Tsesarskaya

"Colour above all, perhaps even more than drawing, is a liberation." Henri Matisse said, and in this work of Aliaksandra Tsesarskaya we can just read the multitude of colors used as a wish for the liberation of women and all the Ukrainian people from war. Through "Ukrainian girl power", in fact, the artist wants to express her support for these women and at the same time praise their strength. Although the protagonist of the canvas is definitely a woman, at the same time I think it can be said that there is actually another protagonist: color. The canvas is in fact a riot of colors such as to make envy to the works of the Fauvists and indeed, with due differences, Aliaksandra Tsesarskaya and the Fauvists share some principles. Like them, the artist currently living in Spain paints in relation to her own inner feeling, her painting is instinctive and immediate and the color appears detached from the reality it represents. The brushstrokes of color, some more dense, others less, appear as small spots and are juxtaposed only to the appearance without rhythm or reason. Actually, the artist, fully aware of the expressive power of color, is perfectly able in this way to convey the joy of living. The beautiful woman born of the artist’s imagination looks straight at the viewer, completely bewitching him. Like a goddess of Spring, her face is completely surrounded by flowers and leaves, while in the background some pastel shades mix with each other. The talented artist thus arouses strong and intriguing emotions in us, emphasizing "The uniqueness of every woman and her role in this world, about acceptance without stereotypes and boundaries, about women’s poetics as a form of self-knowledge and knowledge of the world around" as herself states.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Aliaksandra Tsesarskaya

Ukrainian girl power

Alicja Mielczarek

At a young age Alicja Mielczarek decided to dedicate her life to art, a love that was born at the age of 6 in her native land, Poland. Today she resides in England and creates her works filled with life in her own studio. Her works are figurative, often with animals, while her backgrounds are always abstract, made with fast and material brushstrokes. The work under examination is a bit of an exception; here, in fact, the background is white, little material, but we can still recognize the distinctive feature of the artist. "Vivaciousness" is an elegant work in which the face of the young painted woman certainly expresses vivaciousness, but at the same time we can read in her eyes pride, independence, desire for self-determination, characteristics that lead to freedom. The main features of this work are undoubtedly the lines - soft, curving, inspiring, the color - light, nuanced, delicate and a floral decorativism, apparently an end in itself, but that actually hides a deep meaning. With flowers blooming, Alicja Mielczarek intends to represent that hidden magic that exists in the world, a kind of force, a creative power that surrounds us and that affects both nature and human beings. In her works, the artist of Polish origins therefore invites us to pay attention to the wonder around us and to dream big. We have to blossom like these red and yellow petaled flowers, we have to fly like these evanescent butterflies, we have to face life with a straight head and determination in our eyes, just like in the beautiful artwork of Alicja Mielczarek. We must take inspiration from it, from this delicate and deep work.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Alicja Mielczarek

Vivaciousness

Alina Gane-Hurcomb Alina Gane-Hurcomb is an extremely talented emerging artist. Hailing from New Zealand, she draws inspiration from the world around her. She observes every detail, is fascinated by the magic of nature, life and the inevitable flow of events. She captures elements that today's man, often distracted, misses. She tells the world through colours and shapes in a sensitive and elegant way, contrasting different visual references. The protagonists of her creations are often tangible, recognisable but permeated by a strong symbolic sense. Nothing is left to chance, every detail is studied and contains a deeper message. In the work "Conquistare l'Apatia", Alina creates a direct contact between the canvas and the viewer, representing elements that are close to the viewer and that he is able to recognise. In this painting, the artist invites a profound reflection on her life and on our role as human beings. A flower with many bright yellow petals with the peace symbol in the centre and a turtle looking upwards. These two elements are set in a fairy-tale natural landscape. The sea, made with small brush strokes reminiscent of Impressionist paintings, shimmers in the moonlight. The colours are bright, full and vivid. The yellow of the petals contrasts gently with the blue of the background. Alina exudes hope and positivity in view of a future that must try to eliminate the apathy of every human being. The pigments are applied fluidly, the brushstrokes perceptible but at the same time homogeneous. Alina projects the spectator into a parallel universe, an imaginative and unreal world where peace triumphs and war does not exist. It is a utopian vision that must be a good omen for the human being. The bond that the observer establishes with the canvas is extremely strong and profound, built thanks to the call with nature that originates everything. Today's society is building the foundations for the future and the key to improvement is to start from the beginning. This artwork must lead the spectator to ask himself what he can do to improve reality? A change of point of view is therefore necessary. The protagonists of the perfectly structured composition are figurative elements realistically realised. Alina thus proves to be very skilful in combining naturalistic reproduction and abstract painting technique free of all constraints. Every centimetre of the artwork contributes to creating a visual stimulus for the viewer. The artist is therefore very skilful in combining several elements and impulses, creating works that are not only suggestive and fascinating but also extremely profound, sensitive and reflective.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Alina Gane-Hurcomb

Conquistare l'Apatia

Ami Otsuka

There is a moment, during the day, where time seems to stop. The quiet envelops the body, the breeze caresses the limbs like a cool embrace. It's that moment when the heartbeat returns to normal and the commitments of the day just gone are cancelled, annihilated to make room for a feeling of innate tranquility. Sunset is a magical moment. The blue of the sky gives way to fiery tones and the atmosphere is tinged with reds, pinks and oranges that warm our souls. But the setting sun is not something we just see. We also perceive it with our other senses: the coolness that increases, the noises that change as the birds stop singing. Perhaps in some places even the smells change. There are many aspects that are not only related to sight, because sight is made up of pure external spectacle. We can therefore speak of atmosphere in a multi-sensory sense, that is, something that involves all our senses. The setting of the sun occurs cyclically every day. The star in our sky never forgets to set and sinks into its cyclical sleep. Yet, we forget. Overwhelmed by our hectic daily lives, we don't notice that every evening above our skies a wonderful spectacle is staged. "Time goes by fast," "gee, it's getting dark fast." As animals inhibited of their natural instincts, as beings who have adapted their circadian rhythm to a hectic life, we humans have lost that strong connection with nature, the engine of all life on this planet. And that is precisely why when we see a beautiful sea sunset we get excited. We are no longer accustomed to observe such wonders, spectacles of pure color and pure atmosphere. Ami Otsuka in "Vesta" encloses all the multi-sensory atmosphere that can be perceived during the magical moment of sunset. The figure represented is flooded with warm and vibrant colors. Pink tones and orange elements cover the limbs of the individual and wrap them, as in a warm embrace. The line is soft, supple and relaxed and the shadows are delicate, built through gradients. The warmth and burst of the sunset is then contrasted with a blue outline. The line is bright and seems to illuminate the body and face of the person depicted. The contrast is very high and as we observe the blue contrasting with the pink, we can feel the coolness of the sea breeze rising from the sea. The air begins to become more balsamic and the night is about to peep over our heads. Vesta is the embodiment of the sunset as a multi-sensory experience. A sunset by the sea, a time when birds retreat to their nests, shadows lengthen and people can return to relax, to connect with the cycle of nature as they once knew how.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Ami Otsuka

Vesta

Anaid “My vision as an artist focuses on the preservation of the emotional.” (Anaid) Anaid is a self-taught painter with the experience behind several art fairs and art markets (2016present) in which she took part, by exhibiting in prominent places such as the NAVAS Y NAVAS gallery (Bogotá 2015). Furthermore, the artist ran her own restaurant-gallery (ANAID, 2016-2019) where she provided jobs to single mothers and opportunities for emerging artists to showcase their work. The works on display included paintings, sculptures, music, poetry, theater and illustration. Anaid prefers female subjects for her paintings that escape conventionalism and break taboos with explicit images. For the March exhibition helds by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, "NFT New Freedom Think", the artist decides to exhibit three artworks that express her creative experience and the message she wants to launch: "Fragmentos del albúm", "Julieta" and "Transformación". In all three paintings we are faced with determined women, though with soft features. If in "Fragmentos del albúm" and in "Transformación" the protagonists maintain a more austere attitude, the subject of "Julieta" still retains the delicacy of childhood. However, the details of the women's features are evident and placed in contrast in a more abstract frame. In fact, the subjects appear central in the perspective of the setting, as if they emerge predominantly in the haze of the work. Actually, in "Julieta" although the details of the subject's clothing are less detailed than those of the other two artworks, here we can almost see a more defined scenario. On the other hand, in "Fragmentos del albúm" and "Transformación" the subjects look in opposite directions, with a determined gaze. The minutiae of the dress of the first and of the plumage of the other, where the metamorphosis has already occurred, are very evident. The colors used, usually pastel ones, are decisive but soft tones accompanied by strong and soft brushstrokes, by highlighting a context that is on the border between dream and reality.

Art Curator Angela Papa

Anaid

Fragmentos del albúm

Anaid

Julieta

Anaid

Transformación

Andrea Puscasu "I thought Medusa had looked at you, and that you were turning to stone. Perhaps now you will ask how much you are worth?" (Charlotte Bronte) Andrea Puscasu is a young Finnish artist who uses art to tell her interpretation of the world around her. Everything can become a new source of inspiration for her, pushing her curiosity to constantly influence her creativity. For this reason, her artworks are very diverse and constantly evolving and exploring new meanings. In the work displayed at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, entitled "Demons Within", Andrea Puscasu exploits the symbolism linked to the myth of Medusa and Perseus to describe the demons hidden in each of us. Against a plum-coloured background, a grey figure stands out, very similar to a statue, whose body is immobilized. Its empty gaze remains fixed on one of the snakes moving around its head, as wonderful as they are hungry and disturbing in their bright colours. The myth tells us that Perseus was only able to decapitate the Gorgon thanks to the reflection of his shield, which allowed him to avoid eye contact and thus remain petrified at her gaze. The underlying message of this myth is that we must face our demons, our shadows, through profound reflection, without letting them petrify us and preventing us from freeing ourselves. The same is what the young artist wants to communicate here. The snakes are nothing other than the representation of the unconscious fears inherent in each one of us, which constantly feed on our minds, immobilizing us. Andrea Puscasu suggests we look at them through a new perspective, just as Perseus did with his shield, thus finding a way to achieve a new freedom.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Andrea Puscasu

Demons Within

Angela Thouless "Art is mysterious, yet definable. | Mysterious as an object. | Definable as a way." (Roy Lichenstein) In the street art scenario there are many factors that have had social importance throughout history, such as strong provocations with respect to certain socio-political situations. The contemporary artist Angela Thouless has already given us many times the gift of her talent and her art, but this time she manages to give us an even new aspect of her beautiful works. The pop art style proposed by the artist always speaks very directly to the heart, to the sensitivity of the viewer in the genuine way in which it shows a sort of pop art meta in which street art is shown through painting on canvas. An art journey into art in which for the first time we discover a new caricature aspect of the artist. When the pop movement develops in the 50s The main theme of art is the existential anguish of the consumer society, in which man represents the consumer. The artist's interest is aimed at images and depictions of the daily life of man and the artificial world in which he lives made up of infinite industrial products of common use and the means of mass communication. In her works a colorful world is shown, full of joy that actually hides the anxiety and anguish that is eclipsed behind the full and lively colors. The subject of representation becomes the urban environment, so we find images from television, cinema and advertising that are represented through painting and sculpture. In Angela Thouless's choice of subjects we find a strong representation of urban and street elements and the freedom of these subjects broaden the incredible scenario of representation that this talented artist can give to everyone.

Art Curator Letizia Perrieri

Angela Thouless

Bimi Monsters Langs De Spuistraat

Angela Thouless

Jonge Rolensteeg Steegje

Angela Thouless

Oude Liefde Roest Niet

Angela Thouless

Panter Op De Spuistraat

Angela Thouless

Wilde Kat Op De Spuistraat

Animal Waves “I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses.” (Arthur Rimbaud) The artistic research carried out by Joana Cruz, aka Animal Waves, a young Portuguese contemporary artist, is strongly influenced by performance art, which she delicately and intelligently blends with painting. In fact, her works are often the result of experiences in which the sound element is of fundamental importance in giving form to her thoughts. The need to bring the body into the creative process and to investigate its behavior also stems from the artist's deep interest in dreams and the world of the unconscious. In the video entitled "999" presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, Animal Waves immerses her body in the fluid of the subconscious in an attempt to give form to what she sees. Like the masters of Surrealism, she scatters the entire vision with symbols and details, inviting the viewer to reflect. This work is intensely inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's Lettre du Voyant and Freud, foregrounding the moods experienced in dreams, especially fears and desires. The film shows the artist herself in a spasmodic search for an impossible balance on a chair, while water continues to flow into the drain of a bathtub. The soundtrack accompanying the entire video is a reinterpretation of the Beatles' experimental music track 'Revolution 9'. "Revolution 9 was an unconscious image" says John Lennon, further underlining the young artist's research. Every element and every detail contributes to the definition of Animal Waves' work, emphazising precisely that indefinite and reciprocal influence between rational and unconscious.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Animal Waves

Frame from the video "999"

Animal Waves

Frame from the video "999"

Animal Waves

Frame from the video "999"

Anina Putzi

Anina Putzi exposes for the international exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery the work “Universe”, creating a mystical and balanced dimension of pure energy. This painting is part of the series “Winter Solstice”, where the artist emphasizes the passion for astrology and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, with a conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. The specificity of the series and therefore of this painting lies mainly in its structure, the use of specific colors and Fengshui details, focusing on the different elements of the earth. Her aesthetic conception and pictorial language allow to translate her emotions and share them thanks to a natural and bright chromatism. Anina abandons herself completely in her vision, with the will to free herself from perspective, which “immobilizes” spaces in a static and idealized way: in this way, she succeeds in depicting her imagination with greater spontaneity and freshness. The artist invites the viewer to dive into the pictorial surface: through the material so fullbodied and accentuated, an almost tangible mixture of colors such as brown, beige, sand, dove, ocher, gray and white is being created. Everything is a window that serves the observer to scan both the multitude of stars and to get in touch with the earth, being able to live a unique and heavenly experience. A great light radiates all over the canvas and a sweet warmth envelops it completely. Every emotion emerges in a completely spontaneous way, outside of any pre-established scheme: it is as if the artist left to the textures, to the chromatic gradations and the consistency of the material the task of expressing an art that goes beyond the traditional concept of painting. Anina Putzi's work is the interpretation of every facet of infinite space, from its beauty to its strangeness, up to its most hidden and mysterious parts.

“My art reminds you to turn your dreams into reality. My art reminds you to choose a path in life that makes you truly happy. My art reminds you to find the courage to change whatever you want to change. My art reminds you to create an active and independent life.” (Anina Putzi)

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Anina Putzi

Universe

Anna Abrahamian “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Sinuous lines run through the space of the artworks by Anna Abrahamian, an American-born contemporary artist, describing abstract imagery of unpredictable shapes. Disjointed faces, meticulously described details and characters with twisted features come to life in dynamically traced spaces. Linked to an expressiveness strongly connected to psychology and meditative experience, her works are the result of a stream of consciousness generated by intellectual readings and accompanying music. In the work entitled "ATLANTEAN RHAPSODY" displayed at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, composed of four pieces, Anna Abrahamian expresses her experience of readings by Andrey Belyi and Daniil Andreyev - both Russian poets and writers - while also allowing music by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Max Richter and raw Greek and Arabic popular music to play in the background. The artist's intention is to overload her mind with stimuli, letting them take shape solely through painting. Eyes closed within a world of introspection, alternating with others wide open to parallel universes. Swinging and psychedelic colours project the spectator into magnificent visions to be explored and interpreted, letting everyone arrange the pieces as they please. Like jigsaw puzzles made up of a myriad of shapes, Anna Abrahamian's works are perfectly interlocking blobs that move fluidly, generating a profound energy. An overwhelming energy full of information and codes to be deciphered that have manifested themselves on her canvases, only after having passed through her. The artist's body thus becomes a filter, a prism that refracts light, giving life to colours, a place of transition and evolution.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Anna Abrahamian

ATLANTEAN RHAPSODY

Anna Nightingale “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken’’ (Oscar Wilde)

There is a powerful sensibility in Anna Nightingale’s paintings: a sensibility towards human life, emotions and freedom. At the same time, this sensibility is guided by an acute sense of knowledge, according to which she decides which directions to choose and to follow. “I question our destiny, our earth walk, who walks with us here and on other dimensions, what power we have and how we can utilise this to grow”, Anna explains. The canvas becomes her personal diary, her words become paints and brushstrokes through which she keeps note of her journey on this earth, her emotions, feelings and experiences that are universal at the same time. Anna masters colours in an eclectic and heterogeneous way by creating beautiful abstract sceneries that allow her to express her personality and obtain an original and coherent result. There is a beautiful crescendo of colours composition in “2.30 p.m.”, “First kiss, again” and “Original source”, linked by the exploration and celebration of love. What strikes about “2.30 p.m.” is the eye-catching contrast between the gold background and the beautiful marriage of colours at the top right corner of the painting, described by Anna as “that sacred time when two souls unite in mutual love, respect and pleasure”. This explosion of love is reproduced in “First kiss, again”; here, the marriage of colours such as blues, pinks and yellow is even stronger and more impactful, creating a sensual movement that recalls the same intense and beautiful feeling of having ‘butterflies in your stomach’. Such abstract sceneries take the shape of slight, recognisable figures in “Original source”, where the explosion of colours is reduced to a red and black background with two human couples next to each other. We do not know who they are, but this is Anna’s aim. It is a romantic and amorous painting in the purest meaning of the words, where true love is celebrated. She describes the painting as “we all originate from an original source. We come into contact with people that are our destiny and give us something to assist in our growth”. Anna invites us to search, challenge and celebrate ourselves in her paintings, to discover our feelings and our innermost emotions, to understand what and who we need by our side. After all, her paintings are ours.

Art Curator Martina Lattuca

Anna Nightingale

2.30 p.m.

Anna Nightingale

First kiss, again

Anna Nightingale

Original source

Anna Perra -Tony Church

A balanced composition that seems to introduce a relational thought that will be continued: where do relationships between people lead? How can they contain so many feelings and not explode? The sweetness of this work of art can be felt at first glance, there are points where the friction of the two personalities makes itself felt with invasions and drippings but the result nevertheless brings a great sense of serene reality. The tenderness for which this painting is valuable is found in its most interesting element: the names of the two artists to the side of the main composition. Anna and Tony, like children's names engraved on a tree to leave a sign of love involving nature, in this case, art. Names, like tags in street art, where with a mark on a building or a train we say loudly: this is also mine.

“Our aim is to create a work of art of joy and beauty which we create for ourselves and our friends exactly as all true artists do. They always create a work of art for themselves first.” (Christo and Jeanne Claude) Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

Anna Perra

Rebellious

Anna Perra -Tony Church

Composition No.1

April Popko

April Popko found in art a means to overcome the language barriers and cultural differences she faced when she moved from America to the Czech Republic 17 years ago. In her works there is a great variety of themes because she is inspired by a great variety of things: from natural elements to human ones, from sounds to emotions. At the same time, however, all her canvases are united by an explosion of colors that leaves viewers amazed, catapulted into a dimension where color is the protagonist and that pervades them with a powerful energy. The American artist says, in fact, that her works communicate energetically and that when she makes them, she transfers on the canvas the energy she has at that moment. The works under examination are three perfect examples of the stylistic variety of the artist and therefore of her versatility; characteristic, in my opinion, fundamental for being a good artist. In "Dream Boat" the brushstrokes are flat, two-dimensional and a sense of calm and serenity prevails. The figurative subject touches on abstraction also because, in fact, we are in the sphere of dreams, where there is nothing certain and definite. In "Pink Wishing Tree" the tree is recognizable and yet the work seems to be seen from behind a golden veil that makes everything suggestive and transcendent. The brushstrokes are material, dense and inviting to the touch. "True Colors", finally, makes us remember the "dripping" of Jackson Pollock: his works, however, were often transformed into tangles and webs of colors, while here April Popko does not leave everything to chance. She lets drops of color fall on the canvas covered with gold, while choosing to make the colors pour vertically from the upper edge of the canvas. A waterfall of colors with lots of splashes opens before our eyes. Artist known internationally, April Popko shows in these three canvases all her skills and manages not only to attract the eyes of viewers, but also to enchant them and inspire them. The works express optimism and invite to live consciously, and through them, paraphrasing the words of the artist, she invites us to understand our purpose, our connection and our understanding of ourselves as an essential part of the universe.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

April Popko

Dream Boat

April Popko

Pink Wishing Tree

April Popko

True Colors

Aranka Székely

On the occasion of the International digital Exhibition organized by the M.A.D.S. gallery in Milan and Fuerteventura, which now also lives in the Metaverse, we present again the works of our dear artist Aranka Székely. Her artistic path is centered on the analysis of the female figure, of the woman as a physical representation of the ideal concept of beauty. In reality, the beauty that Aranka wants to communicate lies not only in the sweet and rounded shapes of the women she portrays, but in their strength and independence, in the dualism of their personality. Over the course of the history of art, the figure of the woman has changed in a meticulous way. Botticelli's representation between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is that of "the driving force of human nature". Infinite are the nuances and observations that lead to the end of the nineteenth century, where instead, the woman is locked up in patterns that see her as a source of strongly negativized perdition. Edvard Munch, expresses his discomfort towards the female figure, conceived as a "femme fatale", up to the works of Gustav Klimt who chooses to take the representation to extremes again, describing them as dangerous beings for man. The twentieth century undermines not only the traditional way of seeing women but, above all, her traditional position within the family. Evolution continues to be studied today, as a cultural and social topic of incredible complexity. Aranka's works contribute to the journey. They are feminine faces and bodies, refined women wrapped in vigorous and persuasive looks. They are weak but strong, independent but requiring affection. "Desire", "Seductive legs" and "Veiled nude" are hymns to women.

Art Curator Carola Antonioli

Aranka Székely

Desire

Aranka Székely

Seductive legs

Aranka Székely

Veiled nude

Astrid Krehan Astrid Krehan is a contemporary photo artist born in Nuremberg, Germany. On the occasion of the International Art Exhibition “NFT New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, she presents three works, titled “TRANSITION”, belonging to a series of photos. Her works convert everyday objects into abstract images characterized by a high saturation and bright colorous. Her photography is focused on capturing all the details of a surface and enhancing them showing texture, patterns or forms. All this is exalted thanks to the strong colours. The artist plays with the camera getting different combinations of light and colours with the result of creating abstract images. In fact, the visitor is in front of photos that look like a painting. The exaltation of the details leads to perceiving them as canvas and brushstrokes. Photography shows what the eye fails to take, sees more, but it also shows differently, it goes beyond what the human eyes can see. It breaks down objects or landscapes that do not exist in the external world but emerge from inner images. The results are abstract images that tell a story, raise questions or invite you to think. Even before shooting, the photography image can see what the unconscious of the artist sees. This personal view of the world is the key to reinterpreting and transforming what she sees. The objects change under our eys, like suggested by the title of these three works. The movement of the camera allows to transform the object of the real world into a mental image, which arises from the artist's interior. What the artist show us is a “transition” understood as a transition of material, colours but also a transformation of life and country as it happened to Astrid in her life, changing continent and go to live in Shangai, an important time in her personal and artistic life

“The camera is my magic tool to create my work, it enables me to reveal beauty that we otherwise would never see” (Astrid Krehan) Art Curator Federica Acciarino

Astrid Krehan

TRANSITION II

Astrid Krehan

TRANSITION VI

Astrid Krehan

TRANSITION VIII

Austin Van Allen Involve me and I learn. (Xunzi)

Austin Van Allen, an American contemporary artist, entrusts to his paintings the task to express what its creator feels on his skin. What characterizes the painter is his own inherent capacity to catch inside his soul and mind some images, life experiences and daily situations to be translated into something that could be understood by everyone and in which whoever could feel involved. He allows himself to be influenced by the world around him, analysing the combination of freedom and the need of control, that governs our life. As well as Austin Van Allen intends existence as dynamic, changeable, adaptable and unpredictable also Art must be understood according to this point of view. His passion for Art has led him to also undertake not only the profession of painter but also that of teacher: the main aim of Austin Van Allen in the guise of a professor is to give to his students new eyes to look at the world around them and to maintain a passionate curiosity throughout life, infusing and attributing a sense of change, imagination and creativity. To make this happen the artist relies on acrylic, hands, brushes, cups of water, ink pens and watercolours. Austin Van Allen sees Life and therefore Art as a labyrinth made of feelings, emotions and experiences and his artworks aim to be the realization of the depths of the human mind and soul.

Art Curator Manuela Fratar

Austin Van Allen

Phoenix of the Sea

B Love Kurisu Art Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. (Kahlil Gibran) Those who embrace art do so to satisfy an intimate and profound instinct, inscribed in the DNA. It is not a question of a choice, but of an awareness that leads to the use of the artistic medium as an expressive form, more eloquent and effective than any word. In the evocative works of B Love Kurisu Art we can admire all the genuineness of an authentic inspiration, which changes and develops continuously, giving rise to a kaleidoscopic and mesmerizing universe. The artistic training that took place between East and West allowed the artist to frame his own unique and personal style, which also embraces the world of music. The artworks presented for NFT highlight the great versatility of the artist, who proves to be a tireless experimenter of styles and techniques, while maintaining his distinctive characteristics. Be a Light, Splash presents itself as a composition with a geometric layout, in which the multicolored figures of two dancers stand out. The rigor of the black background and the white triangle (the reflector) is broken by the dynamic rhythm of the two bodies, crossed by a puzzle of colored segments, and above all by the unpredictable splash of color that culminates in the upper part of the work and captures the eye of the observer. Blue in Green projects the viewer into a more intimate but no less fascinating dimension. The work portrays the beautiful face of a young woman, digitally executed in shades of blue and fluorescent green. This effective chromatic contrast enhances her facial features to the maximum degree, and accentuates her seductive gaze crowned by long lashes, sculpted cheekbones and softly stroked lips. The fascination for the female body is a recurring element in the artist's works, and is declined in the soft shades of purple and pink of Pink Martini, which caress and outline the statuesque breast, maliciously uncovered to show the shimmering tops. The artist's ability to capture the essence of beauty is represented to the highest degree by Travertine, in which the artist outlines with a few quick hints of color the contours of a splendid naked woman, whose delicate beauty recalls of the ancient travertine statues. But not only. The work seems to float on an inner, almost spiritual level, which underlines a transcendent beauty of the soul.

B Love Kurisu Art

The work Got Your Back, executed in oil on canvas, is distinguished by an even more intimate, almost secret atmosphere. Like the silent shadows of the night, nuances of gray and black embrace the female figure, depicted from the back. The gaze is focused along the languid serpentine of the side and glutes, and induces the viewer not to limit himself to the contemplation of the work and to use his own fantasy to imagine the full-length woman, her eyes, her face full of mystery. The artist seems to convey an idea of beauty that transcends the visible limits of aesthetics, and leads to reflect on a more noble value, based on the interiority and sensation aroused by a representation. Based on this concept, we can observe Dancing In the Rain as a real visual metaphor: the external aspect of the representation is only the first approach for a deeper and more suggestive perception, in which everyone can find their own truth. The dynamism of the body in motion suggests a vitality that is the visible manifestation of an indomitable and disruptive inner strength. Likewise, Rainbow symbolically rises to a symbol of harmony with a universal gesture. The embrace between two individuals represents the resilience of a desire for brotherhood that goes beyond superficiality to welcome a shared feeling of love. The artist affirms the capacity of love to cancel all borders and differences of religion, race, gender and nation, and represents this ideal with a continuous flow of colors, which move unimpeded from one person to another. It is a message of communion between peoples, and which somehow anticipates United with Ukraine, Sunflower. The artwork, created on the chromatic range of the Ukrainian flag, is a strenuous invitation to solidarity with a people upset by the cruel reality of war. Although the sense of tragedy and loss are perceptible, the artist focuses attention on the feeling of closeness to the suffering people with a triumphal punch in the center of the sunflower. B Love Kurisu Art once again demonstrates an uncommon sensitivity in welcoming thoughts, feelings and suggestions and reworking them to make them accessible to others with a language that is sometimes delicate and sometimes raw, but with the same and extraordinary ability to excite and inspire.

The most beautiful thing on the black earth, I say is what one loves. (Sappho)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

B Love Kurisu Art

Be a Light, Splash

B Love Kurisu Art

Blue In Green

B Love Kurisu Art

Dancing In the Rain

B Love Kurisu Art

Got Your Back

B Love Kurisu Art

Pink Martini

B Love Kurisu Art

Rainbow

B Love Kurisu Art

Travertine

B Love Kurisu Art

United with Ukraine, Sunflower

Baba Kimika “The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.” (Vilayat Inayat Khan)

Every day is a good time to discover, explore and design something new. The Japanese artist Baba Kimika creates unique works of art with calligraphy as the protagonist. She pays homage to the writing of her country by spreading her culture internationally. The three works analysed were painted with the technique of ink and acrylic paint on a wooden panel and digital to conclude. "Love" (2022) is a symphony that speaks of the purest feeling that exists: love for a person, for nature, for music and art. "Peace" (2021) is a tribute to the serenity that each of us chases throughout his life. Living in harmony with yourself, with others and with the world around you. “Road” (2022): we have already covered part of our journey, but we still have a long way to go. What awaits us? What can we do to make our future better? The paintings are characterized by a perfect chromatic balance: red and black contrast with the brightness of white and gold. Baba Kimika's works give the idea for thought for those who look at them; the artist invites viewers to immerse themselves in them and let themselves be overwhelmed by the whirlwind of emotions. Look at the brush strokes, look at the colors and close your eyes: fly away, travel to other worlds.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Baba Kimika

Love

Baba Kimika

Peace

Baba Kimika

Road

Barbara Garaventa

Barbara Garaventa is an Italian artist, whose artistic expression allows her to create works that create atmospheres of ethereal freedom. Garaventa is again the guest of an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery and on the occasion of "NFT - New Freedom Think" she exhibits five art pieces that maintain the common thread of the universe and the stars. The reference to space is emblematic of Garaventa's works, from here, in fact, a link to the artist's studies in the Physics of Matter inevitably springs. The sky has always been observed with wonder by the human being, the large amount of mysteries it contains creates in the human soul a profound fascination that finds, in Garaventa's works, a natural consequence in the very representation of her. "Silent Explosion" is similar to the creations of Valentina Rech for the type of work of art, who creates paintings definitively combining astronomy with art, as does Garaventa. Also in "The Limit of Reality" the association to the stars is present, in fact the one represented could be the figurative reality of the Dragon Constellation, in this work a strong sense of concreteness and bond to reality is combined, but on the other hand a visceral need to escape, to move away from the dictates that reality imposes. "Mother Solae" is the representation of the sun as a woman, there is, therefore, a great link to the idea of Mother Nature, from an interpretative point of view the artist associates the sun with the Mother, with the one who gives life and, therefore, the reason why the earth, represented as very small next to the great sun, exists. "Signals From the Past" represents the phenomenon whereby the lights of the stars and the events that occur thousands, if not millions of light years from us, reach us after thousands or millions of years. It is a real journey through time that allows us to learn and experience what happened in the past. The last work on display is "Vision" is a figurative work of art whose interpretation does not require numerous hypotheses, the artist wants to express that sense of intuition that springs in the spirit of a living being and that is expressed thanks to the eyes. Ultimately, Barbara Garaventa's artistic production is full of elements that may appear to be contrasting, but in reality create a perfect balance between what is real, what is imagined and what is mystical.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Barbara Garaventa

Esplosione Silente

Barbara Garaventa

Il Limite della Realtà

Barbara Garaventa

Madre Solae

Barbara Garaventa

Segnali Dal Passato

Barbara Garaventa

Visione

BasBee The process of “making” art is like a therapy, a deeper connection between the artist’s mind and the medium (BasBee)

BasBee presents three masterpieces at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. Otherworldly palette and decisive brushstroke. The artist shows all his ability to create metaphysical spaces that go beyond earthly dimensions, while maintaining a close contact with materiality and movement. BasBee comes from an engineering background, he started his recent journey into painting in May 2021 in Dubai. His first motivation was simply to hang artwork on the walls of his home, but his talent has emerged. His art is a meeting of awareness and unconscious flow, automatism, movement. He manages to create an atmosphere of meditation and calm through her skillful choice of palette. BasBee works mostly with liquid acrylic and the "swoosh" technique to let the colors express themselves organically or sometimes using a pendulum to create hypnotic, therapeutic backgrounds. Deep sea encounter immerses us in an underwater atmosphere, tells of a life form nestled in the depths of the oceans, far from the clear water. Jungle rain is a tropical journey. The colors represent the elements of nature, the forest, the air. Project Europa goes beyond the terrestrial sphere: Europa is one of the four moons that gravitate around Jupiter, the work has a double soul, the artist says "turn off the light and let the pendulum hypnotize you".

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

BasBee

Deep sea encounter

BasBee

Jungle rain

BasBee

Project Europa

Birte Hella What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Henry David Thoreau)

The desolation of a parched landscape, torn by climatic conditions and the cruelty of man. This is the bleak scenario that animates Birte Hella's digital work, entitled Time - Earthwake - BlueYellow. The artist outlines the features of a dying natural world, whose resources have been exploited until they run out, giving rise to an unprecedented environmental crisis. The trees, once luxuriant and a symbol of the vital force of nature, are reduced to gaunt shapes, like skeletal simulacra. But the landscape element is only the first, disturbing symptom of an upheaval that also covers the humanitarian plan, and heralds an enormous devastation that will see the Earth itself succumb. The title of the work itself, "Earthwake", refers to the play on words between "earthquake" and the compound of "earth" and "wake", and alludes to a gloomy wake for our planet. The artist recognizes the crisis as so deep and rooted as to annihilate the very contours of reality, which are mixed in a swirl of colors and elements. Every rule, human and natural, seems to be subverted by a great evil of the contemporary world, war, which adorns the face of death with yellow and blue colors (the colors of the Ukrainian flag). In Birte Hella's work we perceive - without seeing it - a humanity that has forgotten itself and has thrown its surroundings into a spiral of ruin and destruction, in which it is difficult to find salvation. The work symbolizes a disillusioned gaze on contemporary society and the logic that animates it, increasingly turned to exploitation and greed, and blind to the point of setting up the conditions for its own end.

There is no salvation in war. (Virgil)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Birte Hella

Time – Earthwake – BlueYellow

Brianna Huth

Swirling memories are presented as a landscape created with different contrasted and bright colors. Brianna Huth presents “Pearlescent” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. On the left side of the artwork we see a bright path, which marks the completion of the artwork, at the right side an iridescent green flow follows green tones, which are the starting point of this landscape. “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions…You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? … This storm is you…There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up the sky like pulverized bones.” - Haruki Murakami. “Pearlescent” presents iridescence achieved with multiple layers of rainbow colors, which carry the responsibility to create a landscape of swirling memories changing direction because of how fate is in constant action. We are witnessing all the ingredients to create iridescence, layered colors are ready to contain all the possibilities of fate. The bright path of fate is marked on the left side, the completion of swirling memories filled with colors.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

Brianna Huth

Pearlescent

Byron Z. Tripp It is necessary to keep dreaming, otherwise our soul dies. (Paulo Coelho) Byron is an artist in residence at the Silicon Valley Museum of art. Currently he's a student under the famous Chinese brush calligraphy artist Zhaonan Duan. Byron has a professional background in architectural design and has worked in the field for over 25 years, constructing custom residential homes in the San Francisco area. His paintings, performed with oil colors, are able to bring out the details of his subjects and the well-defined colors of the backgrounds. Using a clean stroke is capable of immersing us in a dreamlike dimension where memory, reflection and love meet. The first painting called Note and Key is a tribute to one of the artist's dearest people. Her mother is depicted in a crystal paradise, dressed in red, while she's playing her diploma piano solo concert, missed in life. Now in this paradise her music will never ends. In the second paint called Soul the artist represented his personal prespective about the current years. By recreating a universe made of storms, broken rocks, eagles and fire, he represents a world where destruction and suffering reign. This feelings are very similar to the one we suffered during the pandemic. But after a destruction there is always something new ready to reborn with our souls emerging into something greater. The third paint, Swan Lake is about one love, precisely the love and happiness built by two people who have loved and respected each other for 60 years, like a couple of swans that stays together forever. Byron poetically portrayed in this three paints feelings and reflections creating worlds that we can only see in dreams. They remind us of a loved one, no longer present in this life, but that will always remain in our hearts. They made us reflect about a past dark moment that however gives us a feeling hope because after a destruction there is always something new ready to emerge and lastly they give us the feeling of love for a person who was there in any bad or beautiful moment whitout leaving, even when she has forgotten our gaze.

Art Curator Miriam Passoni

Byron Z. Tripp

Note and Key

Byron Z. Tripp

Soul

Byron Z. Tripp

Swan Lake

Carmela Rizzuti

Carmela Rizzuti is an Italian artist and photographer, with a career full of academic and artistic experiences, Rizzuti arrives at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, guest for the first time, on the occasion of the exhibition "NFT - NEW FREEDOM THINK" in which she exhibits "Nascita Papaveri". The work exhibited by the artist is an emblematic photograph, in which the atmosphere is frozen in time, immobile and ethereal. The lights are masterfully used and the colors are perfectly enhanced. The central element in this photographic work is the poppy, a flower represented numerous times in the history of art, by Claude Monet, passing through Vincent Van Gogh, up to Emil Nolde, Stanley Spencer and Georgia O'Keeffe. The poppy is, in fact, one of the most loved flowers and on a symbolic level it would seem to represent consolation, but also pride, pleasure and heart. The incredible balance that is created between the symbolism of the flower and its color allows those who observe it and who observe this work to feel completely inundated with those sensations and emotions that the flower itself conveys. The grandiose contrast between the red and the light skin of the subject allows the observer to focus deeply on the flowers resting on the model's back, the light highlights the veins of the petals, the inlets and the details that the flower presents. Carmela Rizzuti's photographic work emphasizes the protagonism of the flower, although the presence of the model, is evident that the main subject is the poppy.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Carmela Rizzuti

Nascita Papaveri

Carolin Nischwitz

Carolin Nischwitz is an artist from Essen, Germany who, pursuing her love of recycling, creates works of art using old 3.5-inch floppy disks. Made like large puzzles, her particular works, in addition to being a tribute to the act of recycling, exploit the first data carrier in the world to remind a whole generation how it started. Furthermore, the attraction of the works is that they have two sides: one story is told in daylight, the other when the black light (UV light) is turned on, revealing an ever-changing and surprising image from time to time. At "NFT - New Freedom Think" exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Carolin presents “Golden Cage 03/03”, an artwork from the “Golden Cage” series. On a background made of floppy disks, the face of a figure is portrayed who, with his mouth wide open and his hands clasped to his cheeks, utters a cry of pain so strong that it seems to hit us straight in the chest. Above it, a large "NOOOO" enshrines this scream. The person, flooded with suffering, is portrayed by Carolin dressed in many colors that increase its depth and intensity, accentuated even more when compared with the soft and delicate colors of the floppy disks that form the background. Under UV light, the image therefore acquires an even stronger and more powerful value, with the figure illuminated by phosphorescent colors that make its scream even more heartbreaking.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Carolin Nischwitz

Golden Cage 03/03

Cassandra Widayat

Cassandra Widayat presents “Future City”, “Self Portrait” and “Sunset Daze” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. The first artwork depicts a landscape with a direction towards evolution. “Self portrait” is a presence covered by green layers, which act as the landscape of the first artwork. At the bottom we see purple tones, which reminds us of ¨Sunset Daze¨, the last artwork. If you scroll these three art pieces you will witness a day in the life of a presence ready to pursue new paths. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt. A glitched future is composed with vibrant colors. A glitch is an opportunity for creation, where we cannot control all the possibilities we can only learn from them. Cassandra Widayat uses the third artwork to finish a day in the life of a presence whose tranquility is achieved by witnessing how beautiful her future can be. Purple tones are imperative to undertake the task of how vast are future possibilities, where glitches carry the responsibility to pursue a beautiful creativity.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

Cassandra Widayat

Future City

Cassandra Widayat

Self Portrait

Cassandra Widayat

Sunset Daze

Catarina Diaz

Catarina Diaz is an extremely dynamic and multifaceted artist living in London. Her works of art are a riot of colors, flowers and apparently contrasting subjects that create a balanced creation that is extremely rich in symbolism and pathos. Catarina is a resident artist at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery and on the occasion of the exhibition entitled "NFT-NEW FREEDOM THINK" she exhibits two works of art "Flying thoughts" and "Whispering". The first presents a greater contrast between the model used and the colors of the flowers and flamingos. Pink is a symbol of sweetness and femininity, it expresses delicate and light sensations. A different atmosphere is instead expressed by "Whispering" in which the palette is perfectly balanced and the nuances of each shade provide the opportunity to feel satisfied and complete.

Catarina Diaz

The brighter elements of the work, the different shades of yellow and orange, provide breath to the pressing sensation provided by purple and its shades. Catarina's works combine the reality provided by photography and the use of collage with the surrealist vision that is conveyed by the union of elements that literally replace real elements. As the artist herself explains, "Her vibrant color palette captures London's cosmopolitan life juxtaposed with wild nature motifs. The contrast alludes to the possibility of nature restoring tranquility to the chaos of the world. " On the one hand, Catarina Diaz's works of art call attention to the canons of beauty and aestheticism, central elements starting from the choice of colors and elements used by the artist, but on the other hand they express much deeper sensations which they must only be discovered by the observer.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Catarina Diaz

Flying thoughts

Catarina Diaz

Whispering

Christopher Michael Nosek

Christopher Michael Nosek is an American-born artist who currently lives and works in Brescia, Italy. Through his art he examines the experiences, conscious and unconscious, that form man. What gives life to our thoughts and defines our reality. Our culture is based on the culture of the Image, which generates particular emotions and sensations in us. It represents how we perceive the world and relate to it. Everyone perceives images differently, depending on their past experiences and each of them generates information that makes us grow and improve. Christopher Nosek in his work "Archetype of the self" represents the concept of the Self, the center of human awareness that includes the totality of the psychic sphere and at the same time detaches itself from it, moving away from any individual and cultural experience. The word Archetipo derives from the Greek and is composed of the words Arché which means "original" and Tipos which refers to "model or" specimen. "Usually it is used to indicate something that precedes, but it can also indicate something that is present in another reality. The archetype of the Self is the center of our psyche, a place where our personality is formed. According to Jung it is a place where the process of realization of the individual takes place. The artist represents it in the form of a large monolith in dark colors, backlit in the upper part by a warm light, which accentuates its importance. It is a work that transmits great power in its simplicity. These sensations influence the viewer's lighthouse in the night, initiating his self-actualization process.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Christopher Michael Nosek

Archetype of self

Claudia Castillo

Claudia Castillo is a Colombian artist whose artistic expression is aimed at spreading harmony and inner peace. The artist's work is a real extension of herself, in fact, as she explains, "I intend for my art to be a vehicle to communicate and make a special connection between the viewer and myself". Castillo therefore has the desire to come into deep contact with those who have the opportunity to observe her works, her intention is to create a real emotional connection. Claudia Castillo is again the guest of an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of "NFT - NEW FREEDOM THINK" she exhibits five works all different but with a very evident fil rouge, the development of the works takes place completely horizontally. This element recalls the works of Barnett Newman, who, on the contrary, developed his works vertically. The very bright and well-balanced colors stimulate extremely strong sensations that are consistent with the impact and feelings that the artist wants to convey. Very incisive, in this sense, is a quote from Matisse, which Castillo also takes up in his Artist Statement "Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate nature, it was given to us so that we can express our own emotions". This is the heart of Castillo's artistic expressiveness, everything she feels and experiences is transposed into her work, making the latter a clear proof of what the artist feels.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Claudia Castillo

Burning Desire

Claudia Castillo

Euphoria

Claudia Castillo

Into the Waters

Claudia Castillo

Nostalgia

Claudia Castillo

Reminiscence

Connie Garcia Sainz

The aim of the works of Connie Garcia Sainz, a multi-material Mexican artist, is to stir the consciences of the viewers. Before realizing her works, in fact, she meditates so that she can find the right concentration and the best way to express herself since through her works she always wants to send a message. "The Bee", for example, is part of a series called "Stingere" in which she deals with the danger of the extinction of some animals (bees, sharks, monarch butterfly etc.), in this case through toothpicks on plastic acrylic transparent. Connie Garcia Sainz has gone in search of an art form whose essence does not lie in what is represented, but rather in how to represent it, and it is somewhat the basis of all contemporary art, from Paul Cézanne onwards. The Mexican artist does not aspire to trespass into the spiritual, she does not privilege refined solutions, but on the contrary, approaching Dadaism with the necessary differences, she turns her gaze to everyday life. By using common materials such as thread, and objects without aesthetic value such as wood, Connie Garcia Sainz is perfectly able to create works so different from each other and at the same time so beautiful in terms of aesthetics as well as on a technical level. She combines together shapes, colors and materials with wisdom and especially with skill and harmony, ensuring that each of them is valued. We have already seen this in "The Bee", but we can admire it also in "Desfragmented", in the way she sews on the white canvas some colored pieces of paper with parts of the World: a perfectly balanced "patchwork". A joy for the sight is also "Open Minden" in which watercolors with warm tones seem to dance rhythmically with the threads that cross it dynamically. Connie Garcia Sainz proves to be an artist who definitely has in art a “new freedom of thought”.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Connie Garcia Sainz

Desfragmented

Connie Garcia Sainz

Open Minden

Connie Garcia Sainz

The Bee

Dabtida "Each person is an enigma. It is a puzzle not only for itself, but also for everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how to decipher this puzzle." (Theodore Zeldin)

Dabtida is an energetic, creative artist, who makes his strong point of bright and vibrant color, together with a fantastic and symbolic artistic imagination. Thanks to the explosion of the NFT world, the artist managed to take courage, launching himself in search of his own self through artistic creation, an act that makes him feel alive and brings him closer to people. The relationship that is created imposes itself as a fundamental step within Dabtida's artistic poetics: the observer can literally dive into his works, with a surreal tone, to discover the deep and, almost mystical, bonds that are hidden between the various elements represented. These bonds form a chain of sensations and emotions, which have been given a precise shape by the artist, in relation to his primary need to put together new ideas, to create new bonds with people and to hope for the arrival. of better days.

Dabtida

The Almighty

Daisy Hatwell

Daisy Hatwell, born in 2000, experiments with art around the age of 13 through digital collages and video montages. Her life undergoes a drastic change after the diagnosis of schizophrenia at the age of 15, followed by the metamorphosis of her art, no longer as a means of entertainment but as a method to control the psychic deconstruction induced by the disease and to regain control of her life. Through digital collages and thanks to her knowledge of graphics programs, she recount her experiences with psychosis. In "Seeking Yourself"she represent the concept of astral projection. The spirit hovers free in the air deprived of her physical form. In the work "Glow pink" she represents the contact of man with the divine.

Daisy Hatwell

The figure of the man is represented in motion as if he had suffered a small shock during the encounter with a power greater than him. The two collages are presented with neutral colors that do not arouse very strong emotions. Schizophrenia separates the individual from reality, distorting the relationship between person and the environment in which she lives, this gives life to cryptic works, impervious to the viewer if he doesn't know a detailed description. Works that very often do not have a precise meaning, but reflect what the artist sees and feels.The artist's intent in creating her works is not to concretize his own experience, but to create collages that can be appreciated even without context, through which people can better understand her illness and can break down the social gap between sick and "healthy" people.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Daisy Hatwell

Glow Pink

Daisy Hatwell

Seeking Yourself

Daniel Weber "Chance is the non-preordained, ie fortuitous, encounter of several independent random lines." (Aristotele)

The idyllic and almost untouched nature of Switzerland in which Daniel Weber grew up completely distances itself from his artistic world, focused on analyzing what surrounds us in a completely innovative way and making use of today's technology and, above all, of the Internet. What interests the artist most is his attention to the fleetingness, and in part also to the irony, of everyday life, which is often not perceived. Coincidences, errors, intimacy are captured, made their own and stored within the work of art "Around the world", a riot of simple and truthful reality in the form of still lifes. The transience and sometimes strangeness of life is immortalized and made his own by the artist, who managed to create a work of art thanks to the help of the Internet, who turned out to be a helper for the final realization. of the work. The viewer, intrigued by the originality of the creative choice, is induced to observe in silence the numerous oddities, coincidences that life offers us every day to which, often, we have never given the right importance.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Daniel Weber

Around the world

Daniella Puls “Creativity takes courage.” (Henri Matisse)

Daniella Puls is a contemporary visual artist of Hungarian origin. Her various life experiences, and in particular her illness, have led her towards an expressive research deeply linked with the need to give form to her emotions. Using a language very close to that of the masters of American Abstract Expressionism, her works are characterized by veils of colour arranged one on top of the other, whose nuances give an intense sense of vibration. An iridescent effect that seems to direct the light in different directions creates a sense of depth, which transports the viewer into a new dimension. In the three paintings ("Deception", "Lair", "The Wrath of the Lamb") presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition NFT New Freedom Think, although the choice of colours is very different, we recognize the artist's style. The first is emphasized by cool colours and thinner lines that move dynamically through space. Here, blues, whites and purples blend into each other, conveying the rage of powerlessness over the unknown. In the second work, built on warm tones, the flames of hell seem to devour the observer, enveloping him in a burning grip. Reds and oranges take over the entire surface, while vertical black lines rise up from below, recounting the delusion of a relationship now destroyed. The third work, on the other hand, is characterized by the presence of both warm and cold colours, as well as an apparent calm. Everything is more delicate and less impetuous and seems to speak of a passage from darkness to new light. Each of these paintings is a small piece of a large puzzle that Daniella Puls wants us to put together. Her works are like the pages of a diary in which she collects the emotions of her life. The artist offers a hand to the observer in an attempt to involve him in her own journey. For Daniella Puls, art becomes a safe place where she can open up to herself and to the world.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Daniella Puls

Deception

Daniella Puls

Lair

Daniella Puls

The Wrath of the Lamb

Danielle Widjaja Danielle Widjaja is a talented artist who lives and works in London. Evident in her artworks is her artistic taste for the combination of colours and the softness of the lines drawn on the canvas. Her works are graphic, visual and captivating. Art is a therapy for Danielle. It allows her to express herself and to embark on paths that aim to achieve peace and serenity. Indeed, her creations are balanced, sinuous and captivating, but at the same time they radiate positive energy and invite us to accept, love and respect ourselves. They trigger an intimate and profound journey that manages to create a close relationship between the work and the viewer. He is reflected in Danielle's colours and shapes. In "Love Thyself" the artist expresses a concept close to the female universe but also to the universal concept of loving oneself and one's body. Sitting sinuously on a deep green sofa, a naked young woman proudly and serenely shows off her beautiful form. Her body draws a sensual curved line that accompanies the shape of the sofa on which she is lying. The background is deep red, reminiscent of Matisse's expressionist paintings, where this colour is predominant and has an intrinsic symbolic meaning. Few colours but perfectly matched. Danielle has a very soft stroke, she is master of the mark she leaves on the canvas and structures each element in a balanced way in the canvas. She highlights and emphasises the beauty of the female body, without giving the woman a face, creating a symbolic model. Often, in the frenzy of the contemporary world, we forget how beautiful our bodies are and how accepting and loving them leads to greater awareness and confidence in ourselves. The process of accepting and loving ourselves is sometimes complicated and full of obstacles. It is not easy to feel at ease when we are constantly confronted with models that society considers 'perfect'. Danielle created the work to remind everyone, men and women, that the body is also the seat of our soul and that loving it is a right and a duty. There are clear references to Christina Quarles in the exaltation of the female body and the graphic line. There are clear references to Modigliani in the style and representation of the body and face. Danielle proves to be an extremely talented and introspective artist. She starts with historical artistic influences and seeks a style that is more contemporary and close to the present day, with extremely topical themes. Her artwork is a concentration of positivity that leads the viewer to re-evaluate themselves as a beautiful human being and encourages them to embark on a journey towards acceptance and love for their body and soul.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Danielle Widjaja

Love Thyself

Dasha Grechaninova Art is a spiritual act, creative, which allows artists to express themselves. Artworks socially engaged, paintings that explicate universal concepts, poignant landscape views evocating sensation of affect and familiarity can thus be born, as well as works strongly personal, which show us the inner nature of their creators, capable of linking us with their hidden world populated by emotions, sensation and feelings. Dasha Grechaninova’s artworks belong to the last category and through the various stages of her artistic path, a liberation journey that consolidates not only her artistic figure, but also her acceptance as a human being, with all her facets, contradictions and weaknesses. The focal point of her artworks is not by chance the female figure, topic that is linked with a very important moment in Dasha’s life: “One day – she says I caught on to the emotions that completely engulfed my consciousness and forced myself to sit down at a piece of paper, having a couple of pencils at hand. I drew a girl. I have always liked women’s body. This is art. Beauty created by nature”. To draw a female body marked her rebirth as an artist and became a leitmotif in her artwork, in which we can recognize the artist’s face and body in order to better understand her soul and aspirations. First of all, it’s very important to premise that in this journey of self-consciousness and self-understanding there are some steps identified by levels, where Dasha explores an aspect of her character and nature. Who I am is a self-portrait of the first level, dedicated to the introspective analysis of the artist; in it, Dasha show us her great passion for Russian icons and culture of her country by representing herself in divines garments, assuming the typical pose of the pantocrator and standing on the natural background where a beautiful orthodox church lies. This allegorical self-representation is functional to underline an important side of her consciousness, which is caring and unselfish. Our trip in Dasha’s world goes on with the second artwork where the concept of the transformation that the artist has experienced during her inner journey, got it through getting rid of all prejudices, social impositions and goes beyond all the boundaries and obstacles between herself and her self-affirmation. Go over: a brave act that allowed the artist to show herself for what she is, listening and complying with her needs without being influenced by everyday life patterns. This path of self-consciousness, however, may have downsides, such as to cause suffering in others: the last work selected for this exhibition is characterized by the word ‘sorry’, and reproduces a painful crying figure, well contextualized by the artist’s word: “I love people. They are unique. And I care. I am fighting against my demons […] if some shard bounces into someone who will be nearby, I am sorry”. Thanks to her NFT artworks, the Russian artist is able to explain to us her evolution and open us the door of her soul.

Art curator Alessia Domenichini

Dasha Grechaninova

Self portraits Level 1 Who I am 4

Dasha Grechaninova

Self portraits Level 3 Trasformation (LOVE)

Dasha Grechaninova

Self portraits Level 6

David Barnett "Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism". (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

David Barnett is a British artist who works with action, intervention and the documentation of it, producing beautiful photographic images. Following his previous project Skin and accompanied by his third novel, the author focuses his energies on the human condition and its true essence: love. Words painted on bodies as messages of kindness and union. The body as an instrument of art and as a work of art itself, a path that began in the Renaissance, with the presence of painters in the picture and consolidated with the 60s. Piero Manzoni, signed women's bodies transforming them into living sculptures, Vito Acconci with his performance Trademarks bites his body everywhere. In this way, the artists mentioned above use the body as a work on which to intervene in order to perhaps legitimise its existence.

David Barnett

Barnett uses the body as a messenger of his thoughts, the skin warms and keeps alive his communication with the outside world. His words are direct invitations to the viewer: kindness, love, unity. What would the world be like now if we all focused on these concepts? The beauty of the images helps to convey the artist's thoughts, but not only that, it gives us an insight into the harmony that will follow. The roughness of the leather, its natural chiaroscuro, combined with the delicate white or black lettering, make the image produced comforting, authentic. Looking at these photographs, one has the feeling of having to take action, to start living according to nature, to take care of oneself and others. Art suggests and invites us to live in harmony with the present for a better life.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

David Barnett

Diversity

David Barnett

Love

David Barnett

Caring

David Barnett

Kind

David Barnett

Unity

David Barnett

Authentic

Davide Gianese Davide Gianese is born in 1990 in Mestre, Venice. Like many other kids his age, he spent many hours in front of a computer screen, but not just video gaming. One of his first interests was computer graphics and photomanipulation, but he never thought it could become a proper job. So after graduating from Scuola Internazionale di Comics, he started working as a graphic designer to later shift to 3D animation and motion graphics. Lately, he started his NFT production asstronauts, which can be found on some of the most renowned marketplaces in the metaverse. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Davide presents three works belonging to “Asstronauts”, a series of rare NFT which pictures the surreal adventures of a non-human race with heads and butts swapped, lost in the deepness of the metaverse with still a gasp of human behaviours. They can be either still illustrations or loopable animation, but they all have a typical main character. Whether a still image or a video, all the pieces are crafted using Cinema 4D as basis software and postproduced with Adobe After Effects - and additional software. Through these fantastic and surreal works, Davide particularly enjoys playing on perceptive displacements, inserting his alien character in typically "human" everyday situations and thus inviting the viewer to take action in reading his bizarre works. In "Deep Reflection" the strange character is represented sitting on a sort of toilet in an intimate moment, just as in "Green Tea" Davide plays him inside a tub which then turns out to be a cup of tea, in turn holding himself dipped in another cup of tea and so on endlessly in an infinite loop. The result is therefore bizarre and ironic, but it can be also strong if we see "The Messiass", in which in fact the magical character is represented in a blessing act like Christ, with the difference that he holds in his hand the Ethereum blockchain logo.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Davide Gianese

Deep Reflection

Davide Gianese

Green Tea

Davide Gianese

The Messiass

Debbie Purdy

Debbie Purdy is a photographer that uses the camera as if it was a brush on the canvas. The three pieces that she presents on the international art exhibition NFT-New Freedom Think, want to represent the freedom she feels when she looks at something belonging to reality and the need to describe it. When we look at her work, we have the opportunity to see through her eyes and in this way understand what she has seen, not just the place or a specific subject. Her works are a mixture of emotions, feelings and images. Debbie's technique is reminiscent of the impressionist language. Like the impressionists, the will of the artist is to represent the place or a particular situation in their immediacy. Starting from the photo titled Light Maze we can see different shapes and lines of color that communicate the idea of movement, something that is in motion and is represented in its action. The subject beyond the composition that attracts the sensibility of the artist is the traffic at the same time the artist doesn’t want to represent this vision in its reality but in what she feels in the moment of watching. As she says : << This image came from a drive home in the car and seeing so much energy, glare and movement of traffic as we travelled. I wanted to emphasize the different bright colors of car brake lights, headlights, streetlights and traffic lights that can sometimes mingle into one crazy light maze>>. This means that the viewers can also understand the emotion of the artist and communicate with this vision through these emotions. In the same way the second work presented titled, The Green Light tells us about the vision of a tree decorated with lights. The camera of the artist describes this image in the fascination of the lights and colors, as if the only elements that communicate with the sensibility of the artist is the decoration of this tree. In fact in the composition we can distinguish the shape of the tree near the center of the photo and all around it the lines of the colored lights. The artist decomposes the image, highlighting the elements that fascinate her the most. In addition, in this case, her words are very meaningful to understand her way to create a photo: << I noticed this tree in an outside garden adorned with so many lights it really sparkled in the darkness. I did not want to be too abstract so was experimenting with trying to move my camera in such a way the camera actually paints the shape of the tree using the lights to join the dots and making the tree come alive.>> Her intention is to give a movement to the subject and in this way give it live. The third image titled Zippered reflection the vision on the bridge. Also on this occasion, the lights are the protagonist of the composition that seems to cut the image into two parts. << The Bridge and Quayside light reflections across the horizon on the river caught my eye looking like a zip so I moved my camera to make more of the lines of light which opened up at one end.>> The camera is the brush that describes the moment in which the sensibility of the artist is involved. The artist Debbie Purdy is able to describe to the viewers not just the vision in from of her but also what this vision communicate with the lights and the colors, and in this way give to this image movement and life.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Debbie Purdy

Light Maze

Debbie Purdy

The Green light Tree

Debbie Purdy

Zippered reflections

deboraa “Goobs” jordan

Deboraa “Goobs” jordan is an artist who works with painting, especially with bright and vibrant acrylics. Her harmonious compositions create spiral movements that almost constitute a visual embrace to cuddle the viewer in a moment of fragility. A painting that seems to be a drive to live, to continue on one's own path and perhaps, create new and unexpected ones. Art does this too, it advises us, invites us to unexplored places, sometimes helps us to go forward. The pastel colors that the artist chooses for this painting, are in such a balance that they seem to merge into each other without losing their chromatic identity, just like the most successful encounters in the path of life. Pure souls, find each other, listen to each other, influence each other, without ever confusing themselves, find in their meeting an enrichment that makes it possible to continue on their own path. This painting brings with it a sense of grace and pleasure, the eye in front of this work can rest and find peace, leaving space for the vibrations that the colors and lines chosen by Deboraa “Goobs” jordan emanate. Lines upon lines to form an emotional labyrinth from which, however, it is not difficult to find an exit, rather it is a pleasure to stay inside, as if this continuous beating of the same road could help to reach a moment of self-awareness. An embrace of lines and colors that cradles the soul of those who enter this visual labyrinth. Once the viewer has taken care of his or her feelings, he or she can move on excitedly.

“I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...” (David Bowie)

Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

deboraa “Goobs” jordan

excited

decentralize*

Each of us is used to our daily routine, our world, our objects, our reality. But how would you feel if one day you were suddenly catapulted into another reality? In a world not yours, with a different materiality, different rules, different perspectives. This day is actually not that far away, reality as we know it is slowly - indeed not quite so slowly - moving towards something new and completely different: the Metaverse, a virtual reality, the new virtual world that will guarantee users access to a new universe made up of experiences, films, concerts, events, meetings, games and everything that can be imagined in digital form. So, the time has come to think about our new reality, the new place to "live". From this comes from the ingenuity of the decentralize * artist, the work exhibited here: "Mermaid Chair". It is the symbol of a new vision, of new cultural models that will develop in the digital world. The shapes of the design object - I would define it as Meta-design - recall the sinuosity and elegance of the sirens, mythological creatures who, for Homer, are those who know everything that has happened and will happen on earth: they have therefore a look to the future, just like anyone who decides to inhabit this new reality, which will inevitably be part of the future of each of us. Furthermore, their song leads the listener to absolute knowledge: Man thus opens himself to the infinity of knowledge, to the infinite realities that we could thus create, to always go further, ever further away. Man could thus, like mermaids, merge two apparently distant worlds in him, which when united give life to a wonderful creature, to a new way of seeing.

Art Curator Silvia Grassi

decentralize*

Mermaid Chair

Decolorferoz Could, ethics, be a good approach for humanity to respect human rights above any other human law or belief? (Decolorferoz)

Welcome to the special universe created by Decolorferoz, we are honored to expose his works at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. A universe made of stories, each work is a story in itself, told in detail but with the innocence and spontaneity of a young approach to art. Each of his works tells a complete and different story, both emotional and descriptive, usually critical with a human outrage, or based on science, with the purpose of educating. The artist's storytelling is not a quiet melody of a steep tempo swimming in the wonder of the understandable. It is more like a tale in a beautiful way. Exactly like Blow of the dawn that describes the colors and sensations of the first minutes of the day, the artist manages to reproduce the dance between light and shadow and the colors that come with it but not only, he gives voice to the feelings, the sensations of the viewer, the artist states "Astonishment. The first time feeling. The joy of discovery and senses liking. The light fly and shadows descent. The smallness infinitude and the consciousness delight". The three works highlight three important focuses of Decolorferoz's art. As we have seen, the first is the astonishment and the story of nature. But Decolorferoz's art is also a denunciation of the boorishness of mankind: Last survivor is the representation of a human skeleton carrying money in its mouth, the message is strong, he says "Critique of pure Unreason. Not only power itself but also hypocrisy allows any assassin believing himself to be a victim, so that any end justify the means. What is the purpose of an action when no one wins? How many catastrophes are enough to avoid someone claiming for a new one?". Finally, the artist is passionate about science and ethics and presents Oblivion's path as a wake-up call regarding neuroglial astrocytes, stem neurons that could become a hope for neurodegenerative illness, like Alzheimer's disease.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Decolorferoz

Blow of the dawn

Decolorferoz

Last survivor

Decolorferoz

Oblivion's path

Devante NoCap "My approach to my art is to try to tell a story; if life has taught me anything in my 24 years of life it is that as people we have much more in common than we think." Devante NoCap

On the occasion of the International digital Exhibition organized by the M.A.D.S. gallery in Milan and Fuerteventura, which now also lives in the Metaverse, we meet Devin Saunders, aka "Devante NoCap". Devin is a 24-year-old first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona in the Department of Nutrition and Wellness Sciences, with infinite interests, passions and ambitions. When not busy with his he studies, he loves to dedicate his time to evolve his art skills by combining multiple art styles and pushing the limits to become a versatile artist. In his two years of creating digital art, he has created over 350 pieces. These are fast, dynamic and young works. They are digital works, incredibly in step with the times, but which in spite of everything, would be able to snatch glances and induce interest, even on a more adult audience accustomed to the artistic gesture. This is because Devin's works are rich in research, in particularities such as strong and bright colors, more or less highlighted outlines, "pop" subjects and shapes and small details that strike the observer only at a later time. In fact, "I like to capture the viewer's attention and use smaller details to make the viewer reflect on a hidden meaning", confesses the artist, as a declaration of creative maturity. For this exhibition, he has selected three digital works of art, created via "App Procreate" and titled "Mystical Gaze", "Mixed Personalities" and "Magic Blue Flower". They all deal with contemporary themes, with a fresh and interesting expressive imprint.

Art Curator Carola Antonioli

Devante NoCap

Magic Blue Flower

Devante NoCap

Mixed Personalities

Devante NoCap

Mystical Gaze

DILARA Color is a power that directly affects the soul. (Wassily Kandinsky) Dilara Sahin, in art DILARA was born by Turkish-German parents in Brighton, in England but currently lives in Germany where she dabbles in classical music, her greatest passion and digital art. For her art, each collection is inspired by a personal experience. Her series of digital paintings called ASC (Alterade States of Consciousness) is a visual representation of a journey through space and time. The collection consists of three works. Take off, In the Clouds and Landing. The main subject of these three creations is the spiral, an omnipresent element in nature possessing an extraordinary power being at the center of existence. However, the spiral is not all the same and each represents something different. In Take Off there are more spirals immersed in an explosion of warm colors that they represents unconditional love which is the most powerful force in the whole universe. The artwork In The Clouds represents the spirals immersed in purple and green shades but unlike the first we can see other two elements, a small brown house and a mushroom just above it. The house represents the temple of our mind and our mental state and the mushroom is the symbol of spiritual enlightenment, the connecting force between life and death. In Landing, the softs spirals take us to the sweetest place inside us, a place of deep stillness and tranquility. The light colors make these comfortable sensations shine through and blending with the background recreating a unique atmosphere . The artist with the ASC collection is able to make us go on an introspective and sensational journey. As the composer Antonio Vivaldi did on his time, bringing the changing of the seasons to music, DILARA realizes a succession of reflective changes passing from the strongest and most energetic atmosphere, to the more introspective to finish then with the quieter and sweet one, but instead of using musical notes she does it with shades and colors.

Art Curator Miriam Passoni

DILARA

ASC N.1 Take Off

DILARA

ASC N.2 In The Clouds

DILARA

ASC N.3 Landing

Dipannyta Chatterjee

Dipannyta Chatterjee is a Canadian artist whose artistic production prefers the use of materials such as: Acrylic, Kohl, Resin, Oil. The artist's works of art are perfectly consistent with the artistic techniques of contemporary art. Great importance is given to the different layers of color that form a unique and unmistakable texture. Dipannyta is, for the first time, a guest of an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery and on the occasion of "NFT - New Freedom Think" she exhibits a work that tells the journey, from the past to the future, "NFT Freedom of mind- Change is the new beginning" tells how every change leads to the creation of a new road, a new beginning. But that's not all, the artist expresses a sense of hope that occurs in moments and situations of chaos and confusion, this hope is represented by the use of the green emblem of the symbolism of hope. The different levels create different blocks, each detail leads to new perspectives and new freedoms of interpretation. As the artist herself explains, "The various Colors depicts the cycle of Mother Nature and the texture shows a pattern of stages. Each block pattern represents 'Freedom of Mind'. " The artist represents all the elements that create and which are part of nature, water, sky, earth, but there is also a hand, yellow in color, the hand from a symbolic point of view represents on the one hand the divine hand which structures the world, on the other it would represent Grace, this depends on which hand it was represented, but in this work both could be represented depending on the perspective used to observe the work.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Dipannyta Chatterjee

NFT Freedom of mind- Change is the new beginning

Distressed Design “The world is my representation”: this is a truth valid for every living and thinking being." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

The passion for art that guides Distressed Design is the result of numerous and complex influences, which have nevertheless made him aware of the need to keep alive and show the world his own artistic identity. Personalities such as El Lissitzky, Andy Warhol and Peter Saville have positively influenced the artist, who has made compositional freedom and surrealist reference his stylistic code. His NFTs are real collages, expertly constructed with a precise minimalist logic and following a pre-established harmony. What animates the works of art are the fruit of the artist's interest, of what manages to attract his attention the most, and all are linked to the theme of the human head. Head as a symbol of knowledge, home of imagination, experiences and interpretations. The head takes on the appearance of the artist's unconscious and projects all the vastness of thoughts to the observer. Three simple words accompany the artwork, but nothing more. The observer is taken by the hand, but not conditioned. Freedom of creation and thought, of identification, of interpretation.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Distressed Design

MIXED. BLIND. SPECTRUM.

Distressed Design

RAFAEL.NINJA.TURTLES.

Distressed Design

THE.NEON.GIMP.

Dora Vrhoci

Dora Vrhoci is a game designer, specializing in narrative design and game writing. Suffering from visual synaesthesia, she has found in the digital collage technique a way to document the colors that populate her mind and accompany her in daily life. The word synaesthesia derives from the ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together" and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation", a sensorial-perceptive phenomenon in which an individual is able to perceive sensory stimuli of a different nature from the normal one. A synaesthete can see a sound or hear a color, sounds can have smells and so on. The artist Kandinsky, for example, could see the music, as demonstrated by the work "Composition VII" of 1913, made after a concert by Arnold Schönberg. Dota Vrhoci's artistic process is also influenced by music, listening to post-rock songs she is able to perceive their colors. Colors that manage to evoke a certain mood and a certain image, giving life to unique collages. For the "Breathe" collage she was inspired by The Contortionist's songs: Reimagined, Absolve and Return to Earth. They are songs about someone who has fallen, who has made mistakes and is looking for the strength to get up, a hope that everything will be resolved. The artist chooses to represent two mountain ranges from which a flock of birds emerges and the sea can be glimpsed, symbols of hope and rebirth. It is a distant hope, however, to conquer it you have to fight with your own demons, represented by the mountains. Dora's art explores macabre or dark themes, the relationship between the mind and the heart, or, as in this case, the relationship that everyone has with the inner demons, with the mistakes that we are not being able to overcome. An art that draws inspiration from the collages of Max Ernst and the poetics of ugliness by Charles Baudelaire. In this work, however, we perceive something sweet, a positive feeling that is not part of the mood of the songs she was inspired by, Something unconscious, which art has managed to convey.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Dora Vrhoci

Breathe_

Dorothea Van De Winkel "The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound". (Jacques Derrida) Dorothea's artwork comes from traditional tapestry craftsmanship. Images of great elegance that appear thanks to the skillful and refined interweaving of the threads that, like pencil drawings, are nourished by pleasant softness. The lines turn in a spiral, the spaces are filled delicately leaving to discover a center of light, a core protected by this refined tangle of signs. The light background in contrast with the grey and black recalls the refined paintings of Jannis Kounellis. A circular movement, broken, that fills and gives relevance to the empty spaces. Shells like seashells or eggs, perhaps ancient fossils bearing witness to the passing of time.

Dorothea Van De Winkel

The use of fabric adds a tactile aspect to the work, you can feel the warmth that is there to indeed warm up the memories. Dorothea Van De Winkel's research is based on the archetypal sensitive needs of the human being. These works of art lie in that thin space between the present and the past that determine the foundation on which to move into the future. The image that comes to mind when looking at these works is that of a caress, the feeling of the fabric on the skin, its bumps and ripples. A fleeting but intense encounter where touch and sight travel in unison to fully enjoy the ideal moment. A familiar image, an immersion in the memories of a child and then a mother, a lulling limbo where to stay and put down roots. A place where the circle closes giving life to a timeless movement.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

Dorothea Van De Winkel

Moving Circle I

Dorothea Van De Winkel

Moving Circle II

Draehins Even when art sometimes make me feel scared it also makes me happy. Art is a good way to be creative and get a better self-understanding. (Draehins)

This is how Draehins tells her feelings about art. Through the use of acrylic technique on canvas, the German artist creates "Victiam 6.1”, a representation of physical and psychological violence. The artist paints the foreground of a swollen and bruised face, marked by bright coloured lines that highlight the wounds. The face emerges from a background with alternating reddish and blue tones and is surrounded by undefined red lines giving a dynamic touch to the work, indicators of the movement of the subject’s head. Yellow and red lines overlap the contours of the face with reddened tones without matching each other, indicators of a swelling altering the contours of the face. The yellow line of the curve of the nose leans against the swollen and closed eye of the subject, while the other eye is marked by yellow and red contours on the part of the dark eye, and black on the upper part of the eyelid. The eye is slightly open and moist, full of tears, mirror of dark, deep and resigned thoughts. Thoughts of a victim, someone who has been abused. Both eyes are connected by a red line, a cut that crosses the face just above the swollen nose. Despite being deformed, the face of the subject is very expressive, and the artist chooses to represent in an explicit manner the signs of violence. The face is not the only part marked by violence: the chest of the subject, barely visible in the frame, is covered with deep and dark cuts that lead us to think that the body of the person is crossed by holes, by grooves reaching to the soul, penetrating and injuring the body and spirit. Through her realistic, dynamic and expressive painting, Draehins chooses a very delicate theme and uses her extraordinary talent to denounce a phenomenon from which our society is unfortunately still afflicted today: physical and psychological violence.

Art Curator Sara Giannini

Draehins

Victiam 6.1

Dulika Silva

Anyone observing the works of the artist Dulika Silva feels like dreaming. The artist uses a changing style: to paint some works representing landscapes or animals, she uses realistic and precise brushstrokes, whereas to paint other things she uses an imaginative style, rich in details. The artist paints colourful works, rich in colours and bright shades. "Floating Ideas" represents two subjects having the features of animals but behaving like human beings. The noblewoman wears an evening dress and is intent on smoking, sitting on a sofa while taking off her shoes after spending a pleasant evening, while the duck is serving her breakfast. Both characters seem relaxed and convey cheerfulness, surrounded by a very particular background. The only element that clearly stands out is a flower vase in the shape of a frog resting on a coffee table. Behind it, the viewer can observe what looks like coloured veils, probably curtains of the room or fumes. But the real protagonists of the work are the small pink rectangles rising from the ground to the ceiling: here are the floating ideas that give the title to the work. The small rectangles look like flying lanterns in vesak, lanterns that silently and joyfully float, symbol of tradition and hope. Through her painting, Dulika Silva takes us into a magical dimension, rich in fantasy and colours.

Art Curator Sara Giannini

Dulika Silva

Floating Ideas

Elena Zelenina

Surrounded by manufactured structures stands Nature. The latter is the protagonist of "Urban Fresh", the painting that the artist Elena Zelenina - who participates for the first time in an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery - exhibits on the occasion of "NFT New Freedom Think". The Nature, placed in the center of the painting, looks like a bouquet of beautiful flowers whose shape resembles a ballerina on tiptoe: her warm colors stand out on the cold ones of the background, full of tall buildings that, however, fail to extinguish and stifle her deep force. Here is a primordial duo, always perceived as a clash: on the one hand the origin, the Nature, the Earth; on the other hand progress, modernity, evolution. We live in a society accustomed to dividing the world into black and white, right and wrong, into appropriate and undignified. But really, with the passing of time and the advancing - increasingly impetuous - of technology, have we humans become incapable of reconciling the two things that allow us to live better? As the artist claims in the description of her artwork, it seems that the New is the enemy of Nature, yet in reality it is not forbidden that both exist harmoniously. But this is possible only if we can transform this obsession for the New into something compatible with the preservation of Nature: we can be and love both, we must not necessarily give up one of the two. The talent of the painter, whose paintings consist of multiple lines and hidden images within them, manages to create two semantic fields overlapping but well delineated: the background is moved, fluid, fast, reminiscent of the typical dynamism of Futurism; the central subject is stable, steady, in perfect balance, does not seem to give in to the gust that could sweep it away at any moment like a precarious house of cards. Maybe it is true, nature is in danger: but Elena Zelenina manages to impress on canvas her deep desire for pacification, for the interruption of the atavistic conflict whose only imperative is to destroy and annihilate. "Urban fresh" is not an oxymoron, but it is a wish that we hope will become a prophecy.

“Listening to the Line is much more important for me than guiding it because painting is a direct way of communicating with the unseen. ” (Elena Zelenina) Art Curator Sara Grasso

Elena Zelenina

Urban Fresh

Elena Elena is an artist born in Madrid but who has lived in Tokyo. Japan and its culture have profoundly influenced the young artist. At the basis of her artistic process there is certainly a study of painting techniques. Her ability to create striking images with captivating colours and a very personal style is evident. Her artworks are unique, original and creative. They project the viewer into different worlds of imagination that take him back to playful childhood atmospheres. Characteristic of her art are the Chibichan, small creatures with a white profile that Elena inserts in her works and that contribute to making them unique. They are small characters from her mind, remnants of her childhood, created with a thin stroke of white colour that outlines the shape of the body. Elena prefers acrylic painting, but it is not unusual for her to use a mixed technique at times. In "The beginning of the world", the artist emphasises a concept that she has repeatedly brought out in her art, namely the close relationship between the characters of her imagination, the Chibi-chan, and the birth of the world. In this work he paints an imaginary landscape, with voluminous waters lit by the glow of a night sun, giving off light. The colours are unrealistic but highlight the different textures. The sea is material, full-bodied and the waves are soft. The sky, on the other hand, is jagged with stars and luminous celestial bodies that bathe it in light. The colour shades are cold and hypnotic. He plays with purples, blues, blues. The Chibi-chan emerge and sometimes hide in the waves of the sea and are perceptible if you look at the work carefully. If you look at the work from a distance, they blend in with the sea waves. This effect is deliberate because it emphasises the essence of these beings, namely how their presence is deceptive to the human eye. In "Chibi-chan on Hokusai wave" Elena takes up one of the most famous images of Japanese art in the world. It is the work of the great master Hokusai, revisited in this case, with the addition of the Chibi-chan. They camouflage themselves in the sea foam and hide among the jagged waters. The graphic sign is clean, the colours evenly spread. A reference to oriental art with a contemporary addition that creates a relationship between the present and the past. The colours of the sky are watercoloured, with soft, watery, muted shades, contrasting with the blue and white hues of the sea waves. In the background is Mount Fuji, which Elena also portrays in the work "Chibi-chan with red Mt.Fuji". It is therefore clear that the artist is referring to the great Japanese master Hokusai, who imported original techniques and themes to the West. This painting features the immense Mount Fuji in a bright red colour. The Chibi-chan are hiding in the clouds, and it is impossible to notice them if you look at the artwork from afar. Elena creates works that are halfway between fantasy and reality, referring to the history of art and adding a personal style that identifies her creations. Very interesting is the see-through game of the Chibi-chan that challenges the viewer to look more closely at the artwork.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Elena

Chibi-chan on Hokusai wave

Elena

The beginning of the world

Elena

Chibi-chan with red Mt.Fuji

Eleni Denart

The fluid art of the Greek artist Eleni Denart is a breath of fresh air since her large canvases emanate a strong energy and spread us a sense of pure vitality. Internationally known, the artist is guided in the realization of her works by the exploration of the power of art in psychology and everyday life. The title of the work under examination, "Ionio", is the name of the Sea that bathes the coasts of Albania, Greece and southern Italy. According to legend, the name of the sea comes from the Greek girl Io. Zeus fell in love with her, but once Hera discovered this, she began to persecute the girl. To try to escape to the goddess, Io swim across the sea which then will be named in her honor “Ionio”. We can interpret the work both as if we were looking at the surface of the water while we are underwater, and as if we were looking at it from above. In both cases the golden touch perfectly represents the bright rays of the Sun is touching the surface of the water, while the different shades of blue can be read both as the ripples of the water, and as its different depths. In the realization of this work, Eleni Denart used gold and blue, the two colors that in the Middle Ages were placed at the highest levels because close to the light and therefore to the divine nature. They, moreover, were the most precious colors also because of their cost; for their realization was in fact necessary gold powder and lapis lazuli dust. By choosing these colors, the artist then embellishes the work and makes it express brightness and intensity. The colors are applied with a strong saturation, without shades and half tones, thus emphasizing their expressive power. The Greek artist thus demonstrates great artistic awareness and an excellent ability to match colors. "Ionio" is an impeccable work in every aspect.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Eleni Denart

Ionio

Eli

Eli is an Indian artist who has decided not to pursue a career in public administration or politics, thanks to her masters in political science, to devote herself completely to art. Digital art is for her the means to give vent to her imagination, exploring and experimenting, in search of new artistic expressions. Through the digital she manages to evoke the deepest part of her mind, giving life to images that escape reality, manifesting her creativity starting from any form of art, such as photography, painting or cutting of a magazine. Since childhood she has always been attracted to fantasy and science fiction, which will become the main element in all her works. Taking inspiration from nature and space, she creates surreal and dreamlike images. In "Glimmer" the viewer is catapulted into a dream. A fairytale atmosphere in which small fireflies donate a soft and delicate light, giving feelings of calm and security. The painting represents the feat of a man who tries to get out of a glass jar. The artist, through the digital manipulation of images, represents a metaphor from our life, that impulse that grows within us to break the monotony and get out of the daily routine, in search of a new adventure, towards something new that pushes to move forward. The use of technology, thanks to its verasility and multidemiality, gives life to sublime images that tickle the viewer's imagination, attracting him to unknown worlds.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Eli

Glimmer

Emily McKenzie “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.” (Oscar de la Renta)

Feeling good in your body is essential: the goal to reach is not to please others, but to please yourself. The contemporary artist Emily McKenzie, through the work "Footballer Haircuts", wanted to represent - as the title itself says - the different trends that sportsmen have followed over the years. The work was created in 2021 with the digital collage technique. The protagonists are Australian football stars who, showing us their profile, reveal their curious haircuts: hair that touches the shoulders; long hair and shaved at the sides; short hair that reveals the entire face. Through the collage, Emily compares different players from different generations who represent the passage of time, fashions, and the change of personal tastes. Those represented as well as being famous footballers have also identified themselves as style icons from which ordinary people drew inspiration. In addition to the players, Emily has painted other famous characters as models, making understand her great interest in fashion. Through many of her works, Emily goes back in time and plunged viewers back into the past by reminding events, fashions and characters who have left their mark on history.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Emily McKenzie

Footballer Haircuts

Emma Stålvik In the artwork of Swedish artist Emma Stålvik, to paint itself is an act of joy that is not only the gesture of putting colours on canvas, but it becomes the way to show us her feelings mostly through abstract subjects. Her artworks, in fact, are the result of an inner contact, the concretization of a unique moment, which the artist try to depict as soon as possible, in order not to lose the creative impulse. What characterizes Emma’s art is the path that leads to the realization of the painting: the artist, who loves art since she was child, considers her artworks as the supreme act of externalization of her inner ego and follows the urgent need to express herself. Art thus becomes synonymous with authenticity, genuineness, freedom: it is the culmination of a spiritual process that comes after a period of creative stasis and emotional malaise. For this reason, the titles of his works are evocative and recall the essence of a path that winds through her emotions, suggesting that there will always be a subsequent stage or that what is below the surface does not correspond to it. Emma’s words are functional to explain her creative process and they refer to Kackel, to whom she is very close to: “This painting emerged in a very special setting. Painting in an old worn barn surrounded with birds and countryside summer atmosphere. The full palette of life was so present. And so was I. In this barn, I was literally standing in the midst of the beautiful and painful contrasts of life – birth and death. It became deeply striking to me, so immediate, the experience that there is really only this moment. Life is almost intrusive. In that moment, something within me breaks open. As so does something in my painting expression. Felt like I was giving birth to a freshness, a new touch of my expression as an artist. Feeling so authentic and true. Stronger than before, I was involved in the dance with chaos and impulse. Trusting in the unfolding of something in the total messy canvas. The courage to bring contrast and bold marks to my work. Persist valuing anything as ugly. To bear the totally unstructured and not knowing. Totally no agenda. Simply trusting the moment-to-moment journey. It is so wonderful, the almost childlike joy, when all of a sudden form is emerging out of the formless. Shapes reveal other shapes and so it continues. Until the recently unsorted actions come into harmony. Wholeness appears on the canvas. The unspoken, the unknown, of my inner life, suddenly appears visible on the outside. The unseen being seen. That moment is pure joy. This painting is to me a dynamic harmony. Touching into an expression of me that feels very true and fresh. More bold. Stronger contrasts. More courageous. Patience and trust to bear with total chaos. The appearance of form. Birds singing the freedom of staying true – to be true is to be free”.

Art Curator Alessia Domenichini

Emma Stålvik

Kackel

Emma Stålvik

The journey goes on

Emma Stålvik

Under the surface

Eric Lee

Eric Lee is an American digital artist living in Northbrook, Illinois. Extremely known for his digital works of art that perfectly embody contemporary abstract and surreal design with vibrant color. In some cases it is possible to associate Eric Lee's artistic production with Street Art, thanks to the use of digital tools that allow a simulation of real artistic techniques. Eric Lee is a guest, for the first time, at an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, on the occasion of "NFT - New Freedom Think" he exhibits three works of art that find inspiration in what the artist knows and loves. "Abstract David" combines a classic work of art, the embodiment of tradition, Eric's artistic key, however, is more transgressive, the extremely bright colors make it almost electronic as if you could perceive the sounds that the colors could express, going to touch that famous philosophy of Kandinskji according to which each color conveys a different sound and therefore a different emotion. What Eric Lee's works express is a completely new symphony, alternative and full of different influences. "Buckingham Fountain of Dream" is the abstract and surreal representation of an iconic place in Chicago, the real Buckingham Fountain; in fact it is possible to see a skyline of the city rendered stylized, the fountain almost fades into the background thanks to all the contrasting elements that the 'artist has inserted, rubber ducks, golden swans, the Discobolus, Nike and the David with an animal brim; therefore there are many elements inserted by the artist to create a surreal and parallel reality. "Flully Steampunk", on the other hand, combines digital art with a fantastic and sci-fi narrative, this work could turn out to be a real illustration of a fictional character. Starting from this, it is possible to recognize the artist's ability to not only create works of art with a great visual and symbolic impact, but also the ability to create real realities, settings and imaginary characters.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Eric Lee

Abstract David

Eric Lee

Buckingham Fountain of Dream

Eric Lee

Fluffy Steampunk

Erika Asphodel Di Paolo

With these two illustrations the artist Erika Asphodel Di Paolo joins M.A.D.S. Art Gallery during the NTF exhibition. The artist’s subjects and main characters seem to be very close to the concept and the theme of this important and innovative event symbolizing the freedom of thinking: starting from the titles themselves ‘5th Dimension’ and ‘Twin Stars’ and its characters, the representation of the future. In this piece, in fact, we look at two subjects, precisely two monstrous twins holding a luminous star that highlights the centre of the piece. Almost confounding with the background representing the celestial landscape, the two main characters are depicted in their skeletal essence, like two rocks. What is significant here is the presence of the holes in their belly through which a ray passes directly from a body to another.

Erika Asphodel Di Paolo

The scene assumes a sort of hot atmosphere thanks to the presence of the red hearts that the artist has positioned at the centre of the two figures’ heads, as to symbolize that sometimes, reason and feelings can communicate. The piece hides a lot of sentimental values and characteristics that are in contradiction with the features and the aspects of the two stars. The second piece, ‘5th Dimension’ is, on the contrary, a less defined scene but always so symbolic and rich of hidden meanings, starting from the presence of the black cat with a skeletal face or the owl crown with a flowers’ crown. Opposite elements and subjects fill up the scene governed by the presence of a red-haired girl controlling her beasts. Chaos and symbols are what call the viewers’ attention to a deep gaze into the scene. Significant of Erika’s artistic characteristics is the fact to insert all her characters into a special background that will remind us of the new NFT world.

Art Curator Martina Stagi

Erika Asphodel Di Paolo

Twin Stars

Erika Asphodel Di Paolo

5th Dimension

Eris Bushati

Eris Bushati is an Albanian artist. Born in Shkodra in 1990, she moved to Tirana to complete her studies at the University of Fine Arts. During her career she increased her skills in the field of visual arts, working as a teacher for six years at the World Academy of Art. of Tirana and actively participating in numerous exhibitions around the world. The world of visual arts embraces all disciplines that have as their element the representation of a visual content. An art that has been completely transformed with the advent of the avant-gardes, focusing on expressive freedom, until it almost reaches a cryptic language, which pushes the viewer to interact with the work, communicating with the most hidden part of him, his subconscious. The works of Eris are abstract works focused on the dissolution of forms. Her paintings take us back to a primitive era, where everything is reduced in liquid form, to a primordial soup full of life. The colors are bright, skilfully combined with each other, to arouse different reactions for each spectator. In "The Heart" the artist uses shades of blue and green that convey feelings of melancholy. The color is placed on the canvas in a compact way, without showing the sign of the brush strokes, causing a feeling of restlessness in the viewer. In "The spread" and "The touch" the colors are placed more fluidly. Dark colors, such as blue, purple, red and fuchsia, are flanked by a neutral color that lightens the image and makes it more dynamic at the same time. The artist, through aesthetic criteria of harmony, color, movement and rhythm, guides the viewer towards a particular emotional participation, and makes us better understand ourselves and the world around us.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Eris Bushati

The Heart

Eris Bushati

The Spread

Eris Bushati

The Touch

Esartinu

Esartinu is a digital artist that through digital tools tells us his personal way to intend reality and the artistic creation. The piece that was presented on the occasion of the international art exhibition NFT New Freedom Think is titled Salamandre and wants to represent a specific moment belonging to the nature effects and what produces this moment in the sensibility of the artist. In the video, we can see a range of colours that attracts the attention of the viewers. The observer seems to be involved and captured by this vision in front of him, and in this way, he feels disoriented and confused. This kind of feeling refers to the emotion that the artist feels when he stands in front of natural events like the Aurora Borealis. In fact, the video wants to reproduce this event as a pretext to talk about the uselessness of human life in front of natural events of this magnitude. As if the beauty of these shapes and colours erase the presence of humans. As he affirms to describe his work: << It is a warm flow of presence, an escaping world . It has been designed like an Aurora Borealis, gushing out reality, reminding us of our pointless subjectivity.>> This means that we need to come out frome our reality, let us get carried away by this flow and realize in this way our real meaning in the world. As if to lose contact with reality and the world around us is useful to understand who we really are.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Esartinu

Salamandre

Eszter

Eszter is an artist from Belgium who creates contemporary, modern and digital art. She gets inspired by interesting faces, shapes, poses, people and techniques, always challenge herself by playing around with different colors and techniques. In her work, she channels her worldview in: colorful, cultural and sensual and even a bit weird. Furthermore, in addition to using classic mediums like watercolors, acrylic, markers, charcoal, etc, Eszter also uses organic materials like coffee, tea and wine, because as she says: “Art is everything and everything is art”. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Eszter presents “ICU”, a digital painting on a dibond plate representing two purple eyes looking straight at us, whose beauty is enhanced by the fact that they emerge from two bands of all colored stripes. Traces of color also appear on the sides of his eyes and in the corners of his nose, making her gaze even deeper and more hypnotic. ICU is therefore the short version of “I see you”.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Eszter

ICU

Ethan Ramsawmy Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Sometimes the incorporation of technology into art is unfairly hindered. It is easier to remain anchored to what is "classic", to what is known and familiar, and to reject the crisp breeze of novelty. But art does not reside in the form, it is the expression of a way of feeling, of an idea, of a personality that wishes to communicate with others at a higher level. Ethan Ramsawmy fully sums up the union between the purest essence of art and graphic innovations, and creates works of great value, not only stylistic and technical, but also semantic. The Violinist - presented for the NFT exhibition embodies this dualism in a harmonious and visually suggestive whole. In the dreamlike and hazy scenery of a digitally created mountain lake, the figure of a woman standing on a boat stands out. She is illuminated from above by the moonlight which - like a spotlight - invests her as the worthy protagonist of the natural stage in which it is located. She holds a violin in one hand, and she seems to be turning to the mountains, almost waiting for a thunderous applause. Ethan mixes the graphic element with the photographic one, focusing even more attention on the woman, swathed in a fiery scarlet dress. The chromatic contrast is a cornerstone of the work, also from a symbolic point of view. In an uncertain and indefinite dimension, bright red seems to be an emblem of vital, disruptive and absolute force, which spreads around its source. The energy emanating from the woman becomes the prerequisite for facing the roughness represented by the violin, notoriously a difficult instrument to play. But the artist seems to suggest that just as practicing with the violin can give life to an amazing melody, so it is necessary to train the mind and heart in passion and joy, in order to fully embrace them. And it almost seems to hear the poignant notes of the violin vibrate in the air.

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Ethan Ramsawmy

The Violinist

Eugenio Tocchet Painting and photography can seem two worlds so distant, so different, with different purposes. In reality, painting and photography are both a means through which to represent reality, however, filtered by our emotions, by our way of seeing and feeling the world. Have you ever thought of photography as the act of painting with light and reality? This is exactly what the artist Eugenio Tocchet does with his works of art. His is a new way of thinking about photography, a new way of making art through it. Reality is shaped through his camera: he thus gives life to an abstract vision of the world, trying to investigate what is invisible to the eye, not only physically, but, above all, internally, because in the deepest part of each of us. As Eugenio himself states, only by looking with other eyes, with a deep and inquiring gaze, can one really see what lies beyond, what can be observed beyond objective vision. The works presented here by the artist are part of the collection entitled "Crystal souls", in which light and color paint indefinite forms, abstract places, but at the same time so real. Observing these works we really seem to immerse ourselves in light and color, we are literally overwhelmed. In the work "Yellostone", for example, it seems to float in a real, concrete, terrestrial world, but at the same time also to float in the universe, amidst explosions of stars. The magic of this work really lies in letting us enter another world. In the work "Senso di libertà" (Sense of freedom), on the other hand, observing it, it seems to feel the flapping of the wings, to see their vibrating in the air, so something vibrates in us too. Two realities meet, because through the light, we can perceive and see the movement of freedom. Finally, in the work entitled "Identità" (Identity) everyone can be recognized in the fusion of two opposites, which give life to something new and unique. Yes, because in each person there coexist character aspects that are sometimes in contrast with each other, but which by merging give life to our identity and above all to our uniqueness, which gradually takes shape in our daily life.

Art Curator Silvia Grassi

Eugenio Tocchet

L’identità

Eugenio Tocchet

Yellowstone

Eugenio Tocchet

Senso di libertà

Eungyo Jo “It is thought art, and thought art only, that we can realize our perfection.” (Oscar Wild)

Colours, materials, contrasts and dimensions allow artist Eungyo Jo to develop a new language for the conception of space. A space that lets us think, wander with the mind and gives us tranquillity. Everything stops in front of the artist's paintings. The context of the compositions can be imagined as a primitive force that protects the whole universe and reveals it to us through a peaceful and tranquil environment, where everything is imagination. Eungyo Jo has a remarkable expressive power, she has the power to create a parallel world that opens the door to our feelings and emotions. These are original paintings, described in simple colours, to best represent feelings through the power of colour. In this way, the paintings become a universe of colours and matter that make immaculate universes and accompany us as a first step towards imagination. Looking at Eungyo Jo's compositions we get an instantaneous idea of the world, broken down into its different parts but at the same time a gentle movement of infinity. Through the doors that the artist creates to access a new universe, a sense of chromatic continuity is created, merging and confusing all the parts of the composition, unified by the fluidity of the pictorial material. In Eungyo Jo's works, the viewer's eyes are led to wander, without focusing on a precise point. As a result of the artist's experience, the essential data of reality can be grasped, demonstrated with a great and vital expressive force that makes the works intense and moving.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Eungyo Jo

Wind

Eungyo Jo

Time to think_red

Eungyo Jo

Looking at sky_red

Eva Dahlgren “My life my choice” (Eva Dahlgren)

Eva comes from Sweden, her art is shown at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. The purely abstract art of this wonderful artist with a pure and deep soul is the representation of the motions of the soul and nature. The artist declares herself a free soul, in the same way it is evident that her art is the maximum expression of freedom, the rules are those that derive from the full expression of his unconscious side that communicates for a moment with his conscious side. The colors and shapes are subject to selection that comes from the inspiration of the moment. The subject she prefers is the representation of nature outside the self and the nature of the self, in its truest, most authentic being. In fact, as the artist herself says "Deep inside deep within It's about the nature and the richness of it, Soulexplosion and Two souls is about soul power and the greatness in spirit". Nature and spirit mix and create wonderful representations that we can fortunately admire. Eva plays with colors, with their contrasts, she plays wisely with lights and shadows and with a particular feature that makes her work unique and recognizable: Eva combines colors and lines.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Eva Dahlgren

Deep inside deep within

Eva Dahlgren

Soulexplosion

Eva Dahlgren

Two souls

FabFab69 Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. (Claude Monet) The search for luministic rendering through colour, pure and dense, was one of the peculiarities of impressionist artists, such as Monet and Degas. Bright colors, lively, juxtaposed in a free way, able to recreate the idea and a feeling experienced by the artist, in that precise moment. Colors that close, knew perfectly project us in the moment of that artistic creation, whether it was the dawn, with vivid and vibrant tones, bright, or the sunset, with brushstrokes of warm and intense colors. The French artist FabFab69 prefers digital art to recreate intense coloristic effects, and like the impressionists, loves to investigate the shadow that a certain color leaves behind. Light and shadow, games of contrasts, are the elements that characterize the work "Psychsdelic Fenec puzzle", a work focused on the creation of a real mosaic of colored tiles, which seem to merge with each other to create a real continuous flow of colors. A puzzle that, however, is surrounded by shadow, black, darkness, which conveys a sense of suspension, and at the same time mystery. The adjective "psychedelic" is also not accidental: also in the works "Rainbow Chameleon" and "Flowers smile", FabFab69’s desire to create the idea of a transfigured image emerges, of "imaginative visions" with bright and contrasting colors that help to bring out an unreal and magical atmosphere. The art of FabFab69 wants to penetrate the boundary between reality and fantasy. A thin border from which images come to life with incredible visual effects, extremely contrasting colors, irrepressible energy.

Art Curator Matilde Grossi

FabFab69

Flowers Smile

FabFab69

Psychedelic fenec puzzle

FabFab69

Rainbow Chameleon

FaeryDesign “Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.” (Buddha) FaeryDesign is an Italian artist, specialized in illustration, digital painting and 3D modeling. She participates in the digital art exhibition organized by M.A.D.S Art Gallery and entitled "NFT New Freedom Think" with a NFT entitled "Angel of Death". NFT stands for "Non-fungible token" and is identified with an original and inimitable virtual object. The distinct construction of each NFT has the potential for multiple use cases. For example, they are an ideal vehicle to digitally represent physical assets such as real estate and artwork.Because they are blockchain-based, NFTs can also work to remove middlemen and connect artists with audiences and create new markets. This shows how the world is changing: a constant revolution modifies human lives, behaviors, and views towards their surroundings. Reality and technology meet and merge creating new universes to know and explore. MADS transforms this acronym into "New Freedom Think" and invites artists to get involved, to catapult themselves into a surreal universe that has now become reality. The work created by FaeryDesign is a visual representation of the continuous change that takes place in the world and the attitude used by most to survive the changes. Adapting to change means not being discouraged by change but learning from every single experience and developing a particular strength of reaction to adversity. There is no boundary that cannot be crossed. Change is the overcoming of established models, old conventions and preconceptions. "New Freedom Think” means thinking differently and acting outside the box. The revolution is in our minds. Only in this way can we find effective solutions even in times of crisis. The angel of death comes when one of the two combatants dies. The past goes away and leaves its place to the present, to innovation, to digital. The artist in fact uses a Latin expression "Mors tua vita mea": this phrase is used in a competition or when, in the attempt to reach a goal, there can only be one winner. In other words, the quote indicates that the failure of one is a prerequisite for the success of another. There can be no progress unless we first free ourselves from ancient conventions and preconceptions. The artist uses ivory to make the face of the angel. He is white and sweet, but suddenly the skin is torn off by the demon of death that slowly takes possession of the angel. Death has the appearance of a golden skeleton. The transformation into a demon should not be seen in a negative sense. Gold suggests the preciousness of change. It glows with freshness and new hope. But above all, change is a process, not an event. So we should be more inclined to change, because this is never painful. Only those who oppose change are hurting themselves, because they stay behind and slowly die.

Art Curator Alessia Ventola

FaeryDesign

Angel of Death

Familyarttess “What is done in love, is done well.” (Vincent Van Gogh)

Artistic productions are not the reflection of individual artistic inclinations but the shared ensemble of a passion, and it is this passion that is the starting point and creation of Familyarttess’ artworks. Familyarttess is a family of four who have fallen in love with the creation of painting. Driven by an irrepressible sense of creation, they have started to create works of art that are the perfect combination of a family. The different characters are expressed and take shape and substance in the flowing lines on the canvas. Thanks to the support and personal imprint of each member, the artists' paintings have different points of view and are mutually supportive. If consciousness and awareness of what is going on inside facilitate the emotional exchange, creativity plays a key role. For this reason, the creativity of each family member is important and interesting and is then translated on canvas into a compact and harmonious whole of lines and colours, shapes and allegories. Through these works it is possible to capture the character and passion of a family that spends time together painting and creating a very personal and special space for an activity that requires creativity and passion at the same time. The artists' paintings have a particular lyrical composition whereby there is no central point, no ordered presence of elements, but each part of the painting supports itself in a balanced equality of meaning.

Familyarttess

The juxtapositions of colours defile a light that is invigorating, strong, intense, energetic and vigorous, as if it dominates everything. The brushstrokes represent spears full of strength that reach the eyes of the observer, with a vigorous tone full of insatiable happiness. It is in fact a magnificent allegory of the family that becomes perfect when united and on the same creative page. Indeed, the different personalities encompassing different states of mind are expressed through the colours, sketches and different brushstrokes that take on fluid shapes in defined contours on the canvas. The paintings of Familyarttess, with intense colours and soft shapes, convey the enchantment of a fairy tale, giving the viewer expressive happiness and serenity so that, looking at them, we let ourselves be carried away by the emotions we feel admiring the canvas, we get lost in the shades of colour and we let ourselves be carried away by the whirlwind of feelings that envelops us simply by standing still and admiring.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Familyarttess

Sharpener

Familyarttess

Blu

Feel Drippy “I don’t need to think when I paint” (Feel Drippy )

“What if the ego was dead? what if we lived our lives in oneness? The natives live their lives in peace with nature, through ayahuasca experiences and the spiritual journey. The western society needs to learn something from that, we do not see hate and greed in the shamanic/native culture. Big ego`s is the enemy of freedom” These are the words the artist, Feel Drippy, uses to describe his artwork. We find Peace in fear is the masterpiece at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. Interesting words are chosen by the artist to name his work, emblematic. A work that is a great warning, an important message. The icon of a culture, of a lifestyle, completely different from ours is skillfully reproduced, with a significant chromatic choice. The grandeur and austerity of the figure that appears before us makes us think of a lost spirituality. Feel Drippy denounces a world, the capitalist one, which is based on a single hinge, selfishness. Today's social construction distances us from contact with nature and with our souls, and this can be seen in the gaze of the protagonist of the work that passes through us but looks beyond, far away.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Feel Drippy

We find Peace in fear

Flagga “I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.” (Gustave Flaubert) Joakim Karlsson, aka Flagga, is a Swedish contemporary visual artist. His artistic research is strongly intertwined with the life that surrounds him, letting the people around him become the main source of inspiration in the creation of his works. The characters he portrays are described with meticulousness and wrapped in an expressive pop-realistic language that, through bright colours meticulously spread, show a stylistic influence also coming from illustration. In the work entitled 'The Fisherman', exhibited at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, Flagga depicts a fisherman in a thick white beard, smoking a pipe. Every detail contributes to telling the story of his deep connection with the sea, especially the choice of colours. The whole canvas is covered in blue, azure and white backgrounds, while a rivulet of smoke rises from the pipe, whose shape recalls the movement of the water. The fisherman's ice-coloured eyes observe us, conveying an abysmal calm. They seem to tell of life on the open sea, made up of hard work and patience, and closely linked to nature and its rhythms. Wrapped in his blue raincoat, the subject links not only with the sea, but also with the sky, always above his head. Inspired by the famous portrait of the sailor by the German artist Harry Haerendel, Flagga identifies with the experience of a dear friend who is passionate about fishing, in order to communicate what fascinates him most about this work: solitude, ancestral reconnection with the world, silence, and deep spirituality with oneself.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Flagga

The Fisherman

Flora “From the moment I started cutting and pasting I found joy for my soul.” (Flora)

Flora is a self-taught collagist, always moved by photography, design and nature. Her approach to the world of collage began in 2019, as love at first sight. Through her artworks, she transmits her own way of seeing and perceiving the world around. The media used are mainly sheets and flowers, fresh or dry, underlining the strong inspiration of the world of nature in her work. The author manages through her art to harmoniously mix the various elements that she places on the media used. The favorite pictures used are mostly vintage, with explicit colors and images of the message that Flora wants to convey. For the “NFT New Freedom Think” exhibition, helds by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, the artist decides to exhibit three artworks. "Changed energy", as the title suggests, is a tribute to the regeneration of the mood, to the rebirth. The elements of nature surround the central subject which is in motion, as if to invite the interlocutor to be followed. The colors are explosive, like how the cutouts that come out of the box. The other artworks exhibited are more static although always maintaining a certain vitality between colors and in the message transmitted to the observer. If in "Listen", where once again the image explicitly refers to the title of the work, we find ourselves in front of a more static image, it is with "Connect" that the artwork acquires greater depth and vitality. The use of the true flowers outside of the setting goes to underline the appeal to connect with the world and with the nature that surrounds us. Also in this case, the central subject is presented in black and white, bringing out the floral colors through a stimulation of the visual senses.

Art Curator Angela Papa

Flora

Changed energy

Flora

Connect

Flora

Listen

Gabriele Gracine

For the international exhibition “NFT – New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Gabriele Gracine exposes three works (“A Long Way To Go”, “Aloof” and “Hight Street”), through which she wants to express at her best a perceptive process aiming to infinity. The artist immediately captures the viewer's attention: what fascinates her is the set of innovative contents, where the three dimensions merge with a fourth one, the infinite and mysterious one, representing a space-time continuum that manifests itself in a very concrete way. By crossing the boundaries among subjectivity and objectivity, material and immaterial, Gabriele projects the concepts and images that she wants to express in a well-defined space, leaving aside the superstructures that she feels so far away from her thought. Her artistic conception aims at a surreal dimension, without following schemes and rules, giving free rein to her creativity through the use of multimedia tools. She extrapolates numerous sensations and moods, emphasizing a bold technique: this allows her to make her works exceptional. Gabriele represents dynamic figures and lines in motion, as in a continuous swaying that gives rise to other new forms that merge into each other. This characteristic emerges clearly in “A Long Way To Go”, where the colors convey a sense of calm and serenity, taking up every shade of a rainbow in an increasingly vivid and electrifying way. Those who admire this work can let themselves go completely, joining the energetic flow released by all these chromatic contrasts. In “Aloof” the different abstract shapes make the observer immerse himself/herself in a purely abstract dimension: everything emerges from a black background, making the optical-perceptual experience unforgettable. The artist alternates the various colors to create a spatial relationship between them and the very essence of the work. While in “High Street” Gabriele helps the viewer to absorb all the imagination and fantasy of the place. The numerous dynamic strokes branch out in every direction, playing on the visual superimposition of changing surfaces, both in tone and shape, creating a three-dimensional vertical effect. The whole captures the viewer's gaze in this continuous illusion of perspective, which derives from a projected and multiplied vision of depth, up to a fluctuating dimension in space and time. Gabriele Gracine's works shine with a light of their own: they succeed in highlighting the harmonic dynamism, multimediality, versatility and transversality of the artist's artistic practice, allowing a greater dialogue with the viewer, making him/her more active in the communication process.

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Gabriele Gracine

A Long Way To Go

Gabriele Gracine

Aloof

Gabriele Gracine

High Street

Gayatri Ghorpade Gayatri Ghorpade is a Bangalore based self-taught artist who considers her journey as an artist as a “inner revelation”. Most of her works are inspired by her experiences, feelings and emotions, depicting creative self expression through various colours, patterns, movements, textures, flow and energy. Avoiding conscious thought and allowing a free flow of ideas, Gayatri paints on a creative impulse using her own organic forms and textured surfaces to create her art which is mainly abstract: in fact, the freedom that can be accessed through abstraction is liberating to her. With her pieces, the artist looks for forms and meaning within herself that would evoke the same emotion and feeling that she experienced during the actual act of painting itself, trying to include the viewer in this artistic process. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Gayatri Ghorpade presents 5 powerful vibrant works of art that are chaotic yet display harmonious compositions on the canvas, leaving an extremely exuberant and meditative result at the same time. In search for adequate means to express her emotional sensitiveness, she has created these paintings with non objective patterns which can be viewed and understood aesthetically but does not lend itself to verbal interpretations. However, keeping their communicative and aesthetic potential alive. “Disruption” was created in a state of pure psychic automatism, avoiding conscious thought and allowing her emotions to flow freely, not lending itself to verbal interpretations. However, the work represents strength and the ability to channel one’s emotions when the world around you as you imagined it to be starts falling apart. “Illusions” was made at the beginning of the pandemic when uncertainty and fear loomed over all of us: reality as we know it was questioned and our concepts about what really mattered were challenged. The artist then chose to live in her inner, hopeful and bright imaginary world by emerging herself in her creative process and embracing the uncertainty around her. In “Inner Child”, bright colors and bold shapes cover the entire canvas. Avoiding conscious thought and allowing a free flow of ideas, the curves and organic strokes evoke a feeling of an adult (the artist) channeling her inner child at the same time not losing the control that comes with maturity, striking a perfect balance . “La gran ciudad de Barcelona” was painted by the artist while she was living in Barcelona in 2016. It reflects the vibrant cosmopolitan coastal city of Barcelona, represented with bright vibrant colours in a sort of structured and unstructured abstract form. This work evokes a feeling of joy, happiness, freedom and excitement that the artist felt during that period, in contrast to the challenges she faces in her own country. “No.20”, This painting is a vibrant yet tranquil work of art. The artist’s inspiration comes from her inner world of thoughts feelings, emotions and experiences. The raw brush strokes and organic forms in this work evoke a feeling of this inner peace despite the fears and inner chaos.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Gayatri Ghorpade

Disruption

Gayatri Ghorpade

Illusions

Gayatri Ghorpade

Inner child

Gayatri Ghorpade

La gran ciudad de Barcelona

Gayatri Ghorpade

No.20

Gianluca Pellerano Never back down (Gianluca Pellerano)

For the second time with us, Gianluca Pellerano. The super talented abstract artist presents three works at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. Once again his works wonderfully outline his artistic personality. Gianluca began as a music producer of electronic music: Listen is an obvious homage to the work of the music producer. Gianluca says "The golden ear represents for me the research and being a music producer, the sketches are the sounds to choose to complete the track, the green center represents Ableton the program that I use to produce". The artist's unconscious takes a well-defined form, to which he himself is able to give a sense: the lines, the color palette, the shapes immediately refer to the young artist. His artistic production is recognizable and his shapes and colors are his trademark. Energy, vigor, passion emerge from his canvases and create a deep contact with the observer. His memories, his experiences are wonderfully given to the world. The artist gives us his experience on the canvas, which for us observers becomes a stimulus. For this presents Occhi indiscreti, he says "there will always be people ready to criticize and discriminate against you, but the important thing is to follow your own path. Living in a small town there are always prying eyes, but in more crowded places there may be many more" Gianluca Pellerano comes from a small town, Rapallo, where he was born and where he currently lives, last year he founded his new vinyl label CMDRPX (Cime di Rapax). Rapax is a youthful pseudonym for Rapallo. The side project is CMDRPXART where the artist shares his work, that of his girlfriend and friends. The work presents interesting forms, reminiscent of a strand of deconstructed abstract art, in this creation his art appears more anchored to visible reality, probably because it is about life experiences that belong to the strand of concreteness. Meteorite is of an entirely different kind, here Gianluca reveals his fear of the unknown and the end, a fear that surely belongs to our time. "A fiery ball in the sky, how everything can change in an moment...."

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Gianluca Pellerano

Listen

Gianluca Pellerano

Meteorite

Gianluca Pellerano

Occhi indiscreti

Giulia Baita

A digital and Mobile art is the one exhibited at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery by the Italian artist Giulia Baita. Concerning the concept of the exhibition, looking at the theme of the NFT and its new freedom of thinking, the artist has decided to join with a particular piece that, on a monochrome background, shows the profile of a wood lady. ‘Green Lady’ - this is the title of the artwork – is a significant and symbolic piece that puts near two important concepts: the one of nature and the new technologies and their distance. The dynamic effect created by the wood, the natural element that constitutes the lady’s essence, reminds the viewers of the futuristic voyage; a sort of vortex that arrives and reaches the centre of the scene, that corresponds with the lady’s throat. Static is, on the contrary, the external essence of the lady, just as a tree trunk appears. Everything, every single element that adorns the piece, seems to have been adjoined later and this is important for the effect that it creates. Above all, the artist has been able to give to the piece a sort of sentimental value, thanks to the presence of the little bird on the lady’s head, as to remain anchored to nature in a new technological era.

Art Curator Martina Stagi

Giulia Baita

Green Lady

GiveMeSomeMood "Pain almost always gives you courage. It is his way to be forgiven." (Fabrizio Caramagna)

The art of GiveMeSomeMood, a young and talented Thai artist, reveals all the suffering and darkness that a person can feel as a result of severe suffering. Specialized in digital painting, the artist plays with black and darkness to bring out, as if they were shadows, the elements of her works, appointed to tell a story, a personal story linked to the delicate theme of depression. The works of GiveMeSomeMood are deep, touching and, at times, disturbing: they scream all the discomfort of living in depression and, above all, show the observer what it feels like when those who live in this situation are not understood and helped. With a surrealist tone, she has managed to create a personal artistic imagination using a few simple elements that are easy to understand, which are nevertheless inserted into an indefinite, dark and distant universe.

GiveMeSomeMood

The artist's intent goes beyond simply representing depression and the suffering that derives from it in all its nuances, as there is a more noble and sincere goal, that is to generate awareness among people about the various disorders psychiatric. Today these problems are never faced with the right sensitivity and understanding, and it is precisely by taking this situation into account that his works of art are born, develop and live. GiveMeSomeMood relies on art as a safe haven to show all its interiority, its difficulties. It creates art to redeem its existence as a human being aware of who he is and how much courage he acquires every day, to fight with his demons. GiveMeSomeMood creates art to make us more aware and its indefinite faces, laughing mouths and darkness that surrounds his works impose themselves as a warning to remind you that derision, distancing and exclusion will never be the wisest choices to make.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

GiveMeSomeMood

Emotionally Unstable

GiveMeSomeMood

Escaping from my mind

GiveMeSomeMood

Hate Speech

GiveMeSomeMood

You Ruined Me

Gosselin

Gosselin is a painter from Montreal, trained at Studio Art Color in Montreal where she had the opportunity to learned the techniques of oil painting with professional artists. She works mostly in acrylic with fluid paint on canvas. For the exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at the M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, the artist presents one amazing work, “Fleur exéburante”. On a black background stands out a big flower that animates the scene. The flower is created with shining colours that explode on the canvas. It’s created with the fluid art technique and born from the creativity and the feeling of the artist. Gosselin was inspired by the dream of rediscovering spring and its colors, a return to the nature that came back to life. And like the spring comes suddenly with colors, shades and new life that is reborn, as well as the flower on the canvas explodes in all its vibrant and wonderful colous. The painting evokes old memories and a feeling of a distant memory that comes to mind of springs spent playing outdoors with the promise of summer and seems to smell a strong scent of flowers. A creation that only a sincere soul can create.

"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration." (Claude Monet)

Art Curator Federica Acciarino

Gosselin

Fleur exéburante

Graeme Johnston The works of Graeme Johnston, Scottish artist, transmit strength, energy and vitality. The artist, through the technique of acrylic on canvas, paints explosive and colourful shapes that resemble the forms of cells analysed under a microscope. The use of complementary and bright colours is the protagonist, in the case of "Boom" the viewer who observes the painting feels the spectator of a real explosion suggested not only by the title but also by the circular green and yellow halo of the background. It seems to witness an explosion in space, the dark background and the drops of yellow and red paint suggest the space scenario, witness to spectacular explosions. The body of the explosion, the main subject of the painting, is formed by contrasting tones of yellow, orange and blue, splashes of colour that convey the force and power of the impact. A different kind of explosion is represented in the artist's second work, "Implode" is characterized by different colours. The background this time is a warm colour, brown tones favour the prominence of the bright colours of the implosion. This time the colours used are multiple throughout the sketch. Blue mixes with yellow giving rise to a light green tone, red and purple alternate giving rise to a colourful form. Graeme's third work is "Organic", a work with duller background tones, greyish in which the protagonist is no longer an explosion but rather what seems almost a river seen from above. The stroke of predominantly dark colours seems to open and branch out into lighter parts with colours similar to those of the flames of fire. Graeme Johnston through these three works shows us this new phase of his painting, the abstract phase in which experimentation and total abandonment to imagination and spontaneity are the masters.

Art Curator Sara Giannini

Graeme Johnston

Boom

Graeme Johnston

Implode

Graeme Johnston

Organic

Gregory Logan Dunn “The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.” (Willem De Kooning) Unexpected layers of colour, stains, densities and splits in constant movement are the common elements in the artistic research of Gregory Logan Dunn, a contemporary American artist. Often influenced by the political events in his country, he transfers his emotions and channels his feelings into his paintings, creating magnificent canvases with an intense, acidic flavour. The choice of colours contributes to the rough, peeling graphics and intensifies the corrosive feeling of the surfaces. Like seething magma, his paintings melt the viewer's gaze, leading us into a deep sea of intertwined emotions. In the work entitled "Ambush", one of the five works presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT exhibition New Freedom Think, reds, yellows and blacks are distributed throughout the space. The colour, spread in different densities, creates fascinating chiaroscuros. The canvas seems to be torn vertically, opening up a passage to an undefined world. With this work, the artist expresses his concern for a threatened democracy and the consequent reflections and questions that arise in his mind when faced with man's blackmail of himself. Anger at impotence, the desire to shout, fearing not to be heard, the need to wake up from a bad dream. These are key elements in Gregory Logan Dunn's work, inspiring concepts to be transferred onto his canvases. Deeply influenced by Informal Art - an artistic trend born at the end of the 1940s in which artists, devastated by the Second World War, needed a new way of communicating that would reject forms in order to devote themselves directly to the material through spontaneous and expressive gestures -, he lets his emotions flow through the material which, absorbing his energy, always takes on new meanings.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Gregory Logan Dunn

Ambush

Gregory Logan Dunn

Augur and Recoil

Gregory Logan Dunn

Constance Undawning

Gregory Logan Dunn

Gates of the West

Gregory Logan Dunn

Scarab

Greta Schnall

The artist Greta Schnall has behind her a path as a photographer that leads her to take an interest in the digital process of images. In this sense, she continues her research accompanying them to the architectural photography. The digital process and the photography combine to create unique works of art that bear her signature. Observing her works, in particular the two exhibited at the M.A.D.S. art gallery, entitled "Pink Balconies" and "Purple Lighted Village", it is possible to see how the artist is particularly influenced by Cubism and at the same time by Surrealism. The compositions she created offer the viewer a distorted vision of reality, surreal in fact, that follows the geometric shapes. It is possible to deepen this vision through the words of the artist herself "My favorite themes are front facades of modern buildings or parts of them, which I’m digitally editing and finally changing it into an abstract digital creation."

Greta Schnall

The artist shows us how a simple photograph of a simple facade of a building can become, through a creative process, a work completely out of the box. Another observation concerns the point of view of the viewer: in front of this work you feel disoriented and almost sucked by the illusionistic effect that the artist is able to create. In this sense, the artist tackles a theme that has always afflicted humanity and of which Plato spoke in his famous "Myth of the Cave": what we see is really reality? Greta Schnall makes a distortion of what is commonly accepted as the "true reality" but what if it really isn’t? If we wore broken glasses, Greta’s works would probably be closer to reality than they appear to us.

Art Curator Giorgia Massari

Greta Schnall

Pink Balconies

Greta Schnall

Purple Lighted Village

Gustaf Elias & Jenny Esbjörnsson “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” (Albert Einstein) Gustaf Elias and Jenny Esbjörnsson, young Swedish contemporary artists, after a long journey that has led them both to connect with art in all its facets, meet to begin a close collaboration. Both coming from studies in visual arts and architecture, they now give life to complex projects, such as "A Public Space of One's Own", where artistic forms intertwine with each other, creating imagery that is as surreal as it is linked to the reality of feelings. In the photographic triptych belonging to this project ("My Pretty Rose Tree", "The Angel", "The Sick Rose"), presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, Gustaf Elias and Jenny Esbjörnsson show an installation with strong references to performance art. The entire space, set up with pink and blue neon lights and suspended sheets of glass, is inhabited by three people: two women and a man. The subjects interact with each other, transmitting a passion that is icy and individualistic to the eye. The bodies that occupy the space touch but are distant, their gazes do not meet and what emerges is a profound solitude. The project is inspired by the poem "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" by the famous poet William Blake and the book "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf, to narrate the exhausting struggle to define the sexes. Gustaf Elias and Jenny Esbjörnsson insert themselves in an extremely contemporary debate, choosing to tell their vision with elegance and refinement. This installation is intended to be "a comment on society’s norms, hierarchies and preconceptions". The choice of colours - pink and blue -, accompanied by the transparency of the glass and the absence of walls, are nothing more than symbols aimed at telling of the need for change.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Gustaf Elias & Jenny Esbjörnsson

My Pretty Rose Tree

Gustaf Elias & Jenny Esbjörnsson

The Angel

Gustaf Elias & Jenny Esbjörnsson

The Sick Rose

Gyuri Heart

Although red and blue are not two complementary colors, their matching in art is always a winning choice and Gyuri Heart has perfectly understood it as well as Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko, and in fact, we can admire their wonderful combinations in “Red Tree” and in “Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray”, for example. Red and blue are primary colors and both are of strong visual impact: red arouses strength, while blue refers to infinity. In "Blue Rose" and in "Fleur de Lune (Moon’s Flower)" we can see these two colors playing with each other in perfect harmony and in perfect symbiosis. To them, the artist adds only a light pink that often flows into white; these 3 colors, alone, form the chromatic vocabulary of these well-thought works of Gyuri Heart. The latter is the name chosen by the artist after a year spent in South Korea during which her desire to be an artist began to take concrete form.

Gyuri Heart

In her works, Gyuri Heart speaks of femininity and the protagonists of the works are two women with closed eyes, as in meditation, and with long red hair left free to fly with the wind or beautifully braided. The works under examination were conceived as part of a series called "BLUE ROSES", and however, at the same time, they remain two independent works in all respects. The two works are however very similar at a technical level: the brushstrokes are flat, there is a simplification of the surfaces, of the volumes, of the prospective, there are no contour lines that confer drama, but on the contrary a sense of balance prevails, a sense of elegance translated into contemporary art. They are therefore so similar, but still different at the same time. A painter self-taught, Gyuri Heart is now an artist who has found her way to communicate concepts, ideas and feelings through art.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Gyuri Heart

Blue Rose

Gyuri Heart

Fleure de Lune (Moon's Flower)

Hae Jin, KIM “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” (Joan Miró)

Colors are magic, strength and hope. They have the power to change your mood, make you smile or make you melancholy. Colors are the pulsating soul of a painting; they are energy and emotion. The South Korean contemporary artist Hae Jin, KIM - aka Yulli - creates abstract works of which color is the absolute protagonist. “Welcoming spring” was made in 2022 with mixed media on canvas technique. As the title itself says, the painting represents the moment when spring enters our lives. Each year it arrives bringing all its beauty: warm sun, flowering trees, enchanting atmosphere. Small brush strokes juxtaposed to each other create a harmonic movement; red, white, and blue alternate creating a pleasant chromatic contrast. In the world, people meet and know each other; sometimes they are completely intertwined, sometimes diversity pushes them away. Why? Let the differences increase our knowledge and our inner riches. This is how we welcome spring: we are confident in ourselves, in others and in the future that awaits us. While painting, the artist escapes from reality reaching a magical world: thoughts, emotions and sensations come together during the creative process. Look at Yulli's works, talk to them, give your interpretations: art is free, art is universal.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Hae Jin, KIM

Welcoming spring

Halfdan Wardemann Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. (Seneca) It is said that every artist is a child of his era, and that his art represents a personal vision of the world in which he is inscribed. Although sometimes this assumption may seem questionable, at times it turns out to be more true and fitting than ever. Halfdan Wardemann's artistic career is a clear proof of this and underlines the incredible fascination towards new forms of expression that can also be developed into suggestive art forms. Halfdan's art, in fact, is the result of different inspirations and experiences, including the deepening of graphic art and the activity of a surgeon. These vocations - apparently so discordant - have been able to merge into the DGA (digital graphic art), also exploring the possibilities of NFTs. In this type of technique Halfdan has found the privileged dimension to give free rein to his creative flair, developing visually captivating works with a marked symbolic value. We are all made of stars - the work presented on the occasion of the NFT exhibition - is a perfect example of this, and projects the observer onto a metaphorical level of great depth. On a pink shaded background, the bust of a man emerges, of which only the clothes are defined. His face partially merges with the background, and the few features of his face are sketched by fleeting black "brushstrokes". The black silhouettes of birds in flight almost seem to continuously aggregate and disrupt the lines of the eyes and nose, forehead and mouth, giving the whole a mesmerizing dynamism. In this incessant whirling, the eye ends up concentrating on the flash of small lights that can be seen in the lower part of the face. With a closer look, we can see that those diffuse sparkles are actually a multitude of stars, which also cover the figure of a flying bird. The artist creates a suggestive visual composition to induce a reflection on the very nature of life, which despite its perennial cycle of renewal keeps its essence unaltered, as eternal and immutable as the stars of the firmament.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Halfdan Wardemann

we_are_all_made_of_stars

Haubi Haubner “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” (E.M. Forster) Art makes you think, it questions the rules of life. Art makes us feel small, but at the same time gives us strength and a great charge of energy. The contemporary artist Haubi Haubner’s works are the result of a long creative process during which the artist combines thoughts, research, instinct, and emotions. These are complex works that invite viewers to grasp the message that lies behind simple shapes and strong color contrasts. “ICONdata” and “ICONtalktalk” were created in 2022 and share the message they want to convey. ICON represents a modern-day Yin and Yang. The diversities that populate the world are identified with a skull on one side and a gritty face on the other; the second averted face is interrogated. Can I be both at the same time? Or can I be first one way and then the other? Life confronts us with choices, but sometimes it is the world around us that chooses for us. ICON is the hallmark in which the artist sees himself and the contemporary world; ICON is an element to be examined and from which to draw inspiration for future reflections. With "METAMORPHOSIS - NICE TO MEET YOU" (2021) the artist meditates on the authenticity of people: are they really who they show or wear a mask? And if they wear it, what is behind it? Each of us during our journey experiences a metamorphosis: it changes, grows, and changes again. We welcome what life brings us again without forgetting what the past has given us and made us learn. We are always ourselves and feel free to show our every facet. Seize the essence of Haubi's works and take their message with you.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Haubi Haubner

ICONdata

Haubi Haubner

ICONtalktalk

Haubi Haubner

METAMORPHOSIS - NICE TO MEET YOU

Heidi Lee Mannes "Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world". (Edward Hopper) Can 10000 hours of practice move an artist's work to a professional level? That's the challenge Heidi Lee Mannes sets herself. Of course, daily practice is part of that idea of the lonely artist absorbed and focused on bringing her visions to fruition. The professional level is also reached through these kinds of exercises, the repeated movement of the brush, becoming familiar with materials and surfaces helps to leave the practical dimension to finally enter the sublime. How does an artist find herself raising her work from Sunday painting to a work of research and important presence? Lee Mannes' answer seems to be just as easy as it gets: with work.

Heidi Lee Mannes

Her paintings have an important body structure, the acrylic colors are full and bright, and the artist's choices of composition are impactful. Unpretentious scenes of popular life seem to enter our environments as a grotesque force, a photograph of the contemporary landscape, careful and specific. The self care of which so much is talked about and with which we are bombarded every day, a must do that is giving more anxiety than taking the good care of it; the contrasting images of those national television programs, quiz shows or games of chance, where the winner is who perhaps, has just tried and the looser is who does not even try? Withe her works the artist seems to be showing us this unjustice. A glimpse of denunciation on today, that's what 8000 hours of practice start to bring and what contemporary art is about.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

Heidi Lee Mannes

Self Help

Heidi Lee Mannes

Girl with ballon

Heidi Lee Mannes

Curch tourism

Heidi Lee Mannes

Vampire game show host

Hiroki In Hiroki's works there is something ancestral. It is as if, among the nuances and explosions of color that characterize his works, we can feel the deflagration of the Big Bang. It is as if, through the shaded stains, we could glimpse the complexity of reality that unfolds before our eyes. Once again, Hiroki's works are bearers of deep and atavistic meanings, meanings elaborated through the use of rather acid and extremely vivid colors that break into the space of representation taking all the space - and time - that they need to be represented. Untitled I is characterized by an enormous deflagration. In the last occasion we talked about supernova deflagrations. In this case too, the subject is repeated and, observing the work we remain enchanted looking at the explosion that is taking place. A red nucleus, surrounded by yellow and orange halos, is the fulcrum of the composition. The expressive power of these warm tones irretrievably captures our gaze. We can perceive the shock wave, the powerful displacement of the particles, the violence of an enormous explosion, so great that it cannot be imagined. Beyond the boiling orange cloud, concentric elements with extremely cold and acid tones unravel. A turquoise halo contrasts with the orange of the hottest parts of the explosion. It looks like a dense cloud of matter that is slowly moving away from the fulcrum of the stellar explosion to expand to the edge of space. Next to the turquoise cloud we find in fact a blue space, a space in some ways "empty" compared to the rest of the composition. A space that is about to be invested by the exploded matter but that still retains its peculiarities. The executive simplicity of this window of the universe contrasts with the complexity of the remaining space. Heterogeneous fluo green and bright purple spots follow one another, one inside the other, a symptom that part of the matter has already reached the boundaries of the deepest space. We remain fascinated by this chromatic deflagration, we recognize Hiroki's formal signature and we are inspired by this form of representation that has the ability to tell of worlds and universes outside of reality. Yet, there is something new, something extremely small peeps out from the space of the work. A stylized human figure. The presence of this element changes everything. Now we are no longer in a universe beyond space and time, something so ancient that it can be imagined. Now reality is tangible, and what is represented is part of our world and our universe. The presence of man makes the work fit into the grid of space-time acquiring, through the introduction of the elements into reality, a new and more powerful expressiveness.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Hiroki

Untitled I

Hiroki

Untitled II

Hiroki

Untitled III

Hiromu Konno Hiromu Konno's art dwells in the middle. Its nature lies exactly between the real world and virtual reality. Its connotations are revealed to the touch, to the eye and also to the amazement one feels when observing the inherent dichotomy within them. Hiromu Konno's art eradicates the typical connotations of art and art places. The museum, the gallery, the painting framed by a beautiful antique and gilded frame no longer make sense. The artist has gone further and for years has been committed to creating artistic experiments that go beyond the established, the comfort zone and the common element. But how can it, a work of art be both real and tangible and ephemeral? Unlike the more recent and traditional slogan "Content is the king" that stands out as the golden rule of Inbound Marketing, McLuhan's thinking places media at the center of his studies as the main actor when communicating. McLuhan's thought in this regard is often summarized behind the phrase "The Medium is the message", that is, the medium itself is the communication assuming greater importance than the message you want to convey. At the time, McLuhan spoke mainly about television, press and radio - the most widespread means of communication at the time - but his thought is perfectly adaptable to the hyper-connected society in which we live. Man is driven to communicate because he has the means to do so, which is why it is the medium that takes on more importance than the message. Currently, updating or perhaps reformulating McLuhan's concept, the means of communication is fundamental because it allows the connection, therefore overlooking - if used in a superficial way - the message that you want to transmit. Hiromu Konno feeds on this definition and exploits it, embracing its meaning completely. The artist's works fit into a dual reality because of the particular use of a medium, a mode of communication. A QR Code as a key to enter a new world, another world that literally presents the reverse of reality. The QR Code used as a vehicle becomes the message itself. The artist succeeds, in the space of a few seconds, in making us see, in making us taste the double reality of things by essentially using "the medium". And so it is that "Real Image of Color" and "Memory of Color" take us on a journey between the world of matter and virtual reality. In these chromatic experiments the power of the "Nexus Paintings" resonates, of their dichotomous meaning and of their environmental and temporal ambivalence. These experiments act as a tribute to the time the artist used to experiment with color, with chromatic inversion and with the rediscovered beauty of pure color. Not surprisingly, the two examples of "Real Image of Color" illustrate two beautiful flowers. A yellow Iris and a blooming Clematis are the protagonists of the works. In all their vitality it is possible to breathe the vibrant force of the original color, of the pure color that, through Hiromu's art, is shaped every time as he likes. It is the awareness of the origin, both of the color and of his art.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Hiromu Konno

Memory of color II

Hiromu Konno

Real image of color I

Hiromu Konno

Real image of color IV

honeyloveclub

honeyloveclub is a women-led digital fashion collective. Their purpose is to promote gender diversity in the industry, building a safe metaverse for future generations. For the exhibition “NFT New Freedom Think”, the collective presents a digital animated work titled “DIGIGENIX”. In this video work, we see a digital woman that changes her clothes as if it were a skin. So the viewer is catapulted in front of two opposite worlds: the real one and the digital one. In real life people can change their clothes according to their feelings and no one will understand the others mood. But in the digital world we are free to do things that seemed impossible to us in the real one. In the digital world we can express ourselves like we want, we can even change our clothes in a few seconds based on our emotions. If we’re happy or sad we can transform color or shape of our bodies and be who we want to be in that moment of our life or also of the day. Important in this work is also the particular relationship of the video with the sound dimension: music helps to increase the feeling of freedom while watching the woman's transformation.

“I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.” (Yayoi Kusama)

Art Curator Federica Acciarino

honeyloveclub

DIGIGENIX

Ian Deatrick

The artist Ian Detrick presents on the international art exhibition NFT-New Freedom Think the work titled New Omen. This digital work is divided into two parts. In fact, on a dark background we can see a composition created with geometrical shapes. This kind of composition is called fractal. A Fractal is a geometric object that repeated in the same way on different scales creates a figure similar to the original. This kind of representation is something that reminds the loop system with the difference that in this case the representation and the composition change in the time. In fact, in the work made by the artist it is as if the vision is composed by singular similar shapes to create one's biggest and coherent in its making. The composition is very complex and particular; zooming on some points is like discovering new shapes that compose new little compositions, as if the image is changing in front of us. This technique created by math formulas is capable of giving the viewer the opportunity to discover a new geometrical shape that reminds them of the abstract technique. At the same time in this case the freedom of the inspiration is conditioned by specific rules. In this way this work fits really well with the concept of this exhibition, that is the freedom of representation in a new way.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Ian Deatrick

New Omen

Ian Dewar

Ian Dewar is a visual artist who manages to capture, through his works, the interaction of invisible systems that make up the world around us and define our reality. Drawing inspiration from nature, science and the virtual world, he combines the visible and the invisible, giving life to works that overstep the concept of reality, going beyond matter and the concrete. Digital art allows the artist to express these concepts with ease by combining real works, such as paintings, sculptures and photographs with data points and algorithms. The works he presents for this exhibition represent abstract sculptural portraits (spherenebs) presented as two-dimensional images. The realization of these portraits does not start from the physical form of the subject, but from his data, such as age and date of birth. The colors of the portrait derive from an ink painting linked to the sculpture thanks to an algorithm. Computer and artist work together to develop an innovative work that, for the first time, does not start from something real, but from personal information. The first digital work, created thanks to the work of the computer, was created by Benjamin Francis Laposky in 1950, and combined mathematical functions with the work of an oscilloscope, to create distortions. Nowadays, digital, thanks to the use of a wide range of software, creates new creative dimensions that have allowed the artist to give life to the images in his mind in a much more accurate way, also creating a greater psychosensory involvement of the viewer.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Ian Dewar

WideNEBULA (1)

Ian Dewar

WideNEBULA (4)

Ian Dewar

WideNEBULA (5)

Ifigenia Christodoulidou “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” (Salvador Dali)

Ifigenia Christodoulidou is a contemporary Greek artist who develops her artistic research around the theme of time and the marks it leaves behind. Attracted by everything that is worn and considered old, her artworks are rich in details that are not only descriptive, but also tactile, emphasizing the importance of the texture and consistency of the materials. Weathered walls, broken layers of paint and rough textures are of great inspiration to the artist. Indeed, her paintings often conceal a distant past that re-emerges from the cracks in the dry paint. Experimenting with different techniques and materials, her works are characterized by a multiplicity of layers that find, through painting, a new harmony. In the work entitled 'Summer', exhibited at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT exhibition New Freedom Think, part of the series 'The 4 Seasons', Ifigenia Christodoulidou leads the viewer into a completely abstract summer landscape. A deep light accompanies the vision of the work, where the cool and warm environment at the same time, tells about Greece and the crystalline water that has always surrounded its lands. Blue, purple and gold spread across the canvas, blending delicately into one another, while the dense colour splits in places, making the surface irregular and fascinating. Faithful to the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-sabi, based on the acceptance of the transience and imperfection of things, Ifigenia Christodoulidou transforms her works into places where time condenses. Where "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete beauty" is analyzed in its transience and brought back to new beauty, in an infinite cycle of creation and destruction.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Ifigenia Christodoulidou

Summer

Ingo Lindmeier The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. (Léon Blum) Ingo Lindmeier is a great artist born in 1969 who lives in Lörrach, in southern Germany. He has been active since 2008 under the pseudonym spiel-sinn, a German play on words that indicates the sense of playing to immerse into the creative process. With a past as a graphic artist and web designer, but also writer, musician, designer, in 2016 he started, initially just for fun and curiosity, with the digital art. He uses Adobe Photoshop and Stock programs and with the ability to draw directly on the screen using a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24, countless ideas are still waiting to be implemented. The inspiration for his creations comes from his reflection on life but his strength is the freedom to create, expressing himself fully and making people think and have fun. In the creations an enigmatic process is often created thanks to the imagination of Ingo. This is the case of "Alice was here", the first work presented in the exhibition "NFT New Freedom Think" and inspired by Alice in Wonderland's story. In an unreal and degraded room we can see two animals and a doll, on a chair, with her head cut off and replaced with an orange; on the ground we read "Alice was here". It is a mysterious game that leads the viewers to their free interpretation. Another feature of the German artist is the play on words, through which the meaning is changed. "Earchestra" is the title of the second artwork: it is based on a German pun (Orchester=orchestra+h=Ohrchester=Earchestra). Thanks to the change of meaning, the artist presents four orchestral players, placed in front of the viewer, with big ears instead of heads. It is a funny image, but it triggers deductive thoughts also because ears are the symbol of the physical mean for receive the stimuli of music. In the creations of spiel-sinn, we can also grasp a basic humor that often intersects with social criticism, regarding the world around us. As in the last artwork presented in the exhibition,"Evolution". On an orange background stands out what should be the figure of a man holding a phone: but is a man with a phone screen-shaped head that grabs a miniature of himself. It is an image that arouses hilarity, but provocative for the message that it reveal. We are slaves to technology, so much that it takes possession of us and conditions our lives as if we were its puppets..is it a real evolution? From the way of posing, the defined and eclectic style, the creative process based on intuition, we understand that Ingo Lindmeier is an artist with a great desire to get involved, show his personality with extravagance, intelligence, freedom. He wants to entice people into a new way of thinking, free thinking.

Art Curator Giulia Dellavalle

Ingo Lindmeier

Alice was here

Ingo Lindmeier

Earchestra

Ingo Lindmeier

Evolution

Ingvar Thor Gylfason

Ingvar Thor Gylfason is an Icelandic artist. After having experimented in all kinds of mediums and artforms throughout his life, in 2016 he felt in love with the beautiful duo of oil paint and the art brush and he has never stopped since. At "ALDILA’ "exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Ingvar presents two works, both of them representing two beautiful birds.

Ingvar Thor Gylfason

Although the subject is the same, they are placed in two different landscapes: "Keeper of Secrets" is set in a daytime environment whose light colors highlight the wonderful nuances and peculiarities of the bird's feathers, while "King of Darkness" in one nocturnal, much more sinister and ghostly that almost merges with the subject. Both oils on canvas, the artist uses the dripping technique to give greater relief and magic to the paintings, which for this reason almost seem to emerge from the canvas with a three-dimensional effect.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Ingvar Thor Gylfason

Keeper of Secrets

Ingvar Thor Gylfason

King Of Darkness

Inna Perkas Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Soren Kierkegaard)

Aristotle said that man is a political animal (πολιτικὸν ζῷον), a being with intelligence and the ability to socialize, an essential trait of his character. This concept also seems to be the basis of the works of Inna Perkas, who with Work 802 - the work presented on the occasion of the NFT exhibition - creates a composition on the space of nine canvases that induces reflection on the most characterizing essence of the human being. Just as each man exists as an individual in his own right and at the same time as a member of a community, so each section of the work exists separately, but expresses its true potential when it is framed within the other elements. Inna succeeds in the intent to translate this thought while maintaining the same basic chromatic notes in every part, in which soft shades of gray prevail that develop in almost marble motifs. The apparent similarity between each painting makes the finding of actual diversity even more surprising. In some cases dark and oppressive nuances dominate, which seem to wrap themselves in a swirling embrace, in others we can admire delicate pastel colors, and in still others more essential lines that almost seem to suggest figurative representations. With this composite and complex work, the artist summarizes the effects of human communication, so essential and inherent in the nature of individuals that it constantly affects everyone and in any way possible. And in fact, the swirls of color in the paintings almost seem to "react" to proximity to the others, giving the whole an impression of vital dynamism. Just as the interaction between people is based on the reaction to a stimulus, similarly acrylics react with an unpredictable and unique ripple effect, recalling the infinite facets of social behavior.

The greatest pleasure of life is love. (Euripides)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Inna Perkas

Work 802

Itona Written testimonies are elements that testify to man's desire to preserve a memory of what has been. They are the symptom of Humanity's awareness of the passing of time and of its being in front of History. Man, the only being aware of the passage of time and endowed with intellect, deliberately leaves a memory of his having been; it is not by chance that Heidegger will define him as a shepherd of being, and in this sense he also defines the meaning of the word "epoch", understood in the Greek meaning of "suspension" of an entity, a thing that is, in being, that is, in existence. Writing and the creation of artifacts - art - are ultimately what makes man "different" from other living beings. Many beings can leave traces of their passage, but only man can do so to a "higher" and conscious degree. After all, when does man become such for Western philosophy? When does history begin? Certainly, when man begins to give himself written laws, but especially when, thanks to these, he "emancipates himself from the State of nature". The creation of testimonies is the final proof of man's exit from the instinctive state that governs the other beasts, makes him unique and separates History, the great epic of humanity, from Prehistory. In other words, the History begins when the man takes awareness of his place in the time and in the world because in that moment the biology gives way to the culture. Itona in his work shows us this complex discourse through images. A black backdrop welcomes within it a silhouette characterized by a color palette that varies from deep red to blue to white. It seems to observe something moved, disturbed, something that is doubling or even tripling. It is the essence of man that leaves traces on this earth. Inevitable traces of his existence. We all come from the past and we are children of the past. We develop in the present and in this time we become aware of ourselves and our choices. And what about the future? The future is inexorably the beloved child of our choices, whether right or wrong. It is not possible to enclose the existence of a man only in the moment of the present. We are much more and we go far beyond. From that moment in history when we realized that we are a transitory life within the flow of time, the human being has created writing, has created laws and has created that thing that only man is capable of doing. It is something that has no material purpose, it is not for life or even survival. Yet, its presence in our lives has endured for millennia: art.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Itona

Residual Thoughts

Itsumi Naito "Every new morning, I will go out into the streets looking for colours" (Cesare Pavese)

The artist Itsumi in creating her works follows her instinct, she lets herself be guided by the emotions that find concrete form in the various shades of colour. The fluidity of the colour on the paper creates unique weaves and details, the viewer lets himself be carried away by the flows of colour that move in a delineated and harmonious way. In front of Itsumi's artistic work, the viewer finds himself observing an intertwining of streets and paths lined with emotions and sensations. The colours chase each other on the canvas, intertwine and mix, creating unique and unrepeatable shades, Itsumi's works become a metaphor for life with its ups and downs, joys and sorrows. Colour is the main and undisputed protagonist, through colour the artist tells a story, in an incessant encounter and clash, one that rejects the other, the colours move in total freedom within Itsumi's works. Itsumi's works are not static at all, on the contrary they are in continuous movement, the observer is totally captured by the colours that move, run and flow in a continuous motion. Itsumi's entire artistic work is alive, possesses great dynamism and exudes a strong energy. The artist's works are made in full abstract style so they are totally free, the only protagonist is colour. There are some figures that in some way recall the reality, some figures that seem flowers, there are no signs or lines, there are no constraints, the colour moves within the paper with total freedom. In the same way, the artist's emotions are free from all constraints to create works of great visual and aesthetic impact. The entire artistic work of Itsumi is imbued with emotions and energy, positive sensations pervade the works emerging from them and "infecting" the observer. In fact, Itsumi gives us the opportunity to discover new emotions and bring dormant memories to the surface.

Art Curator Vanessa Viti

Itsumi Naito

Blue marine plant

Itsumi Naito

Red flower

Itsumi Naito

Yellow flowers

Jana Alexa “I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.” (Pablo Picasso)

The brush follows instinct, creating abstract paintings full of meanings and emotions. Jana Alexa is a young Swiss contemporary artist who believes in the enormous power of art: it is universal, it is free. Everyone looking at it can set off on magical journeys that lead them to destinations never explored before. In "11/10 chaos" (2022) thin and curved lines and broken lines follow different paths, sometimes meeting and sometimes avoiding each other. The title itself explains what the artist wanted to represent, that is, confusion and total disorder. Sometimes life catches us unprepared, the situations that happen around us disorient us and make our balance falter. The important thing is not to lose sight of the goal and continue your own path. In “Bloody tears” (2022) the protagonist is a woman whose eyes are watering blood. What is she hiding from the whole world? What are her pains, her insecurities, and her fears? Each of us can see himself in her, each of us has demons within him with which he struggles. Jana through this work invites you to find the courage to defeat them. “lalala weirdo” (2022) is a rock song that releases energy, a concert of colors that together create magical contrasts. The painting speaks of the present, it represents a dip in the contemporary world in which we live. For Jana, painting means escaping from reality and representing in color what she cannot say with words. Jana belongs to art as art belongs to her.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Jana Alexa

11/10 chaos

Jana Alexa

Bloody tears

Jana Alexa

lalala weirdo

Jarret Kusick "Overcoming the war, today as yesterday, will continue to be the noblest of our goals." (Hermann Hesse)

Jarret Kusick is a multifaceted and dynamic artist who combines a purely surreal and at times fantastic style with the need to intervene on reality, through the resumption and questioning of today's events. The series of three works created reflects on today's war in Ukraine and pays homage to its roots, linked to the nation hit by the Russian attacks. Fantastic elements, twisted silhouettes and even the face of President Vladimir Putin populate his works, which recall the pop style for the choice of strong and vibrant colors. But the artist's intentionality goes beyond the compositional fantasy and colors, as it aims to involve the viewer, to question what he sees and to rethink the ugly as a possible message of hope. The works, so violent but at the same time direct, lead us to reflect on how sudden and violent changes can be over time and what the consequences of violent acts can be for a country. Through the use of modern techniques of digital painting, Jarret Kusick manages to give life to modern and personal works, following a welldefined design line that combines, to the choice of colors in reference to the Ukrainian flag, a style that, for the choice of precise representations is close to Salvador Dalì's artistic poetics.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Jarret Kusick

Art Not War

Jarret Kusick

We See Everything

Jarret Kusick

99 Pee-ew-tins

Ji-won Hyun

Combination of media and waste materials to give life to a work of complex simplicity and singular charm. Hypnotic, innovative and avant-garde. These are the adjectives that best describe the work of the artist Jiwon Hyun who with boldness and mastery has managed to create an original work not only for the uniqueness but also for the design methods. The artist uses upcycling to create banners with waste fabrics, artistic objects to which she gives new life, consequently also increasing their value as new products with singular characteristics. With this production process, materials apparently without quality are transformed into products of exclusive value. The work "Some yard: The Wall Paper" was conceived by its creator as a denunciation of a consumerist society, which too often does not pay attention to the continuous waste of resources and the consequent damage that doing causes to nature. In the depiction the symbol of the denunciation lies in the creation of a digitized nature, built thanks to the combination of waste fabrics and technology, to emphasize the lack of natural resources capable of praising nature itself in its purest and most real form. The combination of materials and the colors chosen, load the work with emphasis, making it dynamic and creating an optical effect that deceives the perception of a continuous movement of the material. Nature takes shape in an unconventional way, leaving room for different visions of work, which precisely because of its particularity wants to leave its mark as a teaching for those who will come and will be masters of a future that if it is not carefully preserved will not be our witness. A praise to the spectacularity of nature but at the same time a warning to reflect on the theme of excessive waste and communicate it, to remember not only the greatness of nature but also its unpredictability that contrasts with the fragility and smallness of the human being when it is placed in his presence.

Art Curator Benedetta Battaglini

Ji-won Hyun

Some yard: The Wall Paper

Jill Krutick

Jill Krutick is an American abstract artist. Her work is an expression of her joyful path of self-discovery and creative exploration. With a style that combines abstract expressionism with impressionist luminosity and a variety of mediums ranging from watercolour, oil and acrylic paint to plastic and paper collage, her work captures the constant flow of nature. Initially interpreted by the artist as an imaginary universe in which to take refuge, nature has become in her latest works a means of drawing attention to the ecological challenges facing the world. Environmental themes are expressed through a refined compositional technique that combines the luminosity of colour with the materiality of paper and plastic collage, creating structured surfaces in which light and shadow are perfectly balanced. Her Coral Reef series, to which the three works she is presenting in this exhibition belong, recounts the impact of climate change on a structure as essential to the marine ecosystem as coral. Water Tiger 1 & 2 skilfully blends shades of blue and green, evoking the hues and reflections of the deep sea, with a material texture reminiscent of the debris cluttering the seabed. Thalassa captures the changing beauty of the sea, celebrating in its title the goddess who, according to Greek mythology, is its female personification. The materials used (paper and plastic collage together with watercolour, oil and acrylic paint) are layered on the surface creating a movement on the canvas that suggests the idea of rising sea levels and prompts reflection on the threats to our waters. In Maelstrom, the layering of elements on the canvas reaches an almost sculptural level. The choice of materials, some of which are obtained by special drying techniques, is further proof of the artist's interest in protecting the environment. As an "ecological warrior", Jill Krutick looks at the world through the lens of the marine ecosystem, using the shapes, colours and movement of her works to raise awareness of the threats to this natural wonder.

Art Curator Marta Graziano

Jill Krutick

Maelstrom

Jill Krutick

Thalassa

Jill Krutick

Water Tiger 1 & 2

Joanna Beckett

“I believe that art touches the soul and creates the landscape for growth and connection.” says Joanna Beckett, an artist of Polish origin, currently living in America. She found her artistic language in abstract oil art, synthesis of her knowledge of the ancient masters of art and her studies in psychology. Her art is, moreover, not instinctive and immediate, but on the contrary her process of creation is slow and meditated; the result are well-thought canvases, perfect just because "good things as to those who wait". Although at first, seeing the "monochrome" of " Walk as if you own your story. It's yours.", our mind could take us back to the Color Field, in reality we would be wrong. This last one is characterized by flat, uniform and liquid brushstrokes; nothing more different from what we have here. Here Joanna Beckett uses oil color as a dense paste, so the work appears material, and furthermore she traces the surface by intersecting signs, free expression of her inner world. If we wanted to ascribe the work of Joanna Beckett to an artistic current, it would be more correct to associate it to the Informal European at the end of the Second World War, more precisely to the Materic Art. The dominant color chosen by the artist is green, in its bright and darker variants. It, through overlaps and very calculated combinations makes by Joanna Beckett, releases all its suggestive power accredited to it over the centuries. In iconographic art, green was a symbol of hope, rebirth and transformation, and in the work of Joanna Beckett it takes on an important meaning. The canvas, in fact, "is a call for action. A reminder that we own everything that happens to us.”. The work is therefore a hymn to self-determination, an invitation from the artist to inspect within us and to read the reality of our soul.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Joanna Beckett

Walk as if you own your story. It's yours.

Joe Stublick American artist Joe Stublick exhibits at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery five works on the occasion of the exhibition entitled "NFT New Freedom Think". The works are titled "Body Rising", "Can Jam", "Parasite", "Sky Came Falling" and "Stoned". They all have a vertical gait, except for "Body Rising" which is horizontal. The style is fluid, typical of Stublick, which differentiates it and makes it immediately recognizable. Joe Stublick’s works, though abstract and lacking in "real" forms, play an important role in the observers' imagination. This freedom that they transmit is reflected in the freedom of interpretation. Everyone is free to imagine and create voluntary and involuntary mental associations during observation. For example, in "Body rising" the artist informs us to see a body getting up, mainly because of his interest in zombies and horror movies, but the reality is that everyone can see what their mind suggests to them. The composition is free, there is a balance between the white of the canvas and the subject that is placed in the center, where the color is concentrated and where it is released. Of similar setting is "Sky Came Falling": an energy flow is placed in the center, on the white canvas. The colors are soft and converge a sense of peace. The other three works are more colorful. What differs most in stylistic terms is "Can Jam": unlike the classic works of Stublick, this work sees a heavy mass placed in the center of the canvas, up to occupy almost the entire surface. The artist probably uses a spatula to make "curves" of orange that mix and alternate with other colors, including blue and gold. This work contains a dualism between perfection and imperfection. What is smooth and perfect and what melts, decomposes. What is certain is that Joe Stublick imprints on every canvas emotions, instant feelings, memories, concepts that come from his personality, but at the same time it leaves freedom to the users to travel with the mind and imagine worlds and universes through his works.

Art Curator Giorgia Massari

Joe Stublick

Body Rising

Joe Stublick

Can Jam

Joe Stublick

Parasite

Joe Stublick

Sky Came Falling

Joe Stublick

Stoned

Johann Darcel Johann Darcel is an original and creative artist working in Paris. His creations may seem minimal at first glance but they encapsulate a deep and thoughtful stylistic and visual research. Johann's style and approach to the artistic world is closely linked to graphic design and photography. These two elements blend and give rise to original and unique works of art. Often his artworks are produced in series. He therefore takes the same subject matter but varies the colours, graphic patterns, textures and backgrounds. The artist likes to experiment, is bold and very creative. Closely linked to environmental issues, he also recycles materials to create innovative and sustainable works. The use of works produced in series is a clear element that underlines Johann's artistic studies and refers to a revisited and innovative concept adapted to today's times of pop art. In the "Hand" series, he creates several digital artworks that present the same subject, a hand of 3\4 on monochrome or monotone backgrounds. These are captivating and enigmatic creations where the viewer is led to explore every inch of the depicted hand and is invited to grasp the intrinsic meanings. Light is fundamental and gives three-dimensionality and reality to the subject. The latter is fixed in time, ethereal but at the same time crossing different worlds and eras, with no space/time boundaries. The hand stands out from the background and has a material, tangible presence. In "Hand #5" the colour tones are cold, icy and tending towards blue/grey. The hand has a white base and is decorated with fanciful motifs reminiscent of the marine, dreamlike world. It is a decorative motif with invented, mythological and graphic subjects. The line is fundamental. The details are meticulous and follow the curves of the fingers and palm. Light and shadow create soft contrasts and contribute to the solidity of the hand, which is projected into a new dimension. Johann is an artist who is able to keep up with the times, adapt to changes and experiment. Through new trends he creates a personal and original style. Colour, light and form are the key elements for him. It is impossible not to be enchanted by his creations that remove the space-time barrier and allow the viewer to have a unique visual experience, projected into the future.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Johann Darcel

Hand #5

Julia Floth “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” (Virginia Woolf)

The artworks by Julia Floth, a young contemporary visual artist from Munich, tell us about distant universes populated above all by beautiful, sinuous faces and bodies. The artist experiments with different techniques, also introducing digital painting into her research on physical supports with more traditional materials. In the work entitled "Creature in the Dark" presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, we see a young woman in a relaxed pose. Her face is turned upwards, illuminated by a light that gently touches her face and shoulders. Her body is barely visible, shrouded in a blue and purple mist, while in the foreground red bands suddenly attract our attention. The entire surface of the work is enveloped in a texture that contributes to a more indefinite and intriguing vision. This digitally designed work conveys an almost idyllic, fairytale-like imagery. The subject emerges in a fusion of languages, between the dreamlike and the realistic, leading the observer to a silent and peaceful place. The young woman's dreamy gaze contributes to conveying harmony and, together with the bright red brushstrokes, a desire to re-emerge from the darkness to let the imagination run wild. With this work, Julia Floth investigates the human soul in order to reawaken that light which is suffocated by the shadows and fears of everyday life. She extends a hand towards the observer, to help him look upwards and finally rediscover complicity with himself.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Julia Floth

Creature in the Dark

Julian Kievit

The work presented by the artist Julian Kievit, on the international art exhibition NFTNewFreedom Think is titled Last Breath. In this video, we can see a composition that seems to becreated in front of us in the moment of watching. In fact from the dark background, we cansee differentd lines and shapes in movement that are involved to create other lines and othershapes. This technique reminds the idea of the generation of something as if the artist wants tosay with this vision to the viewer that even if the reality seems to be dark there is alwayssomething that is created to attract our attention and engage our positive energies. For theviewer it is easy to feel hypnotized by this composition and in this way to be involved in thismovement. And maybe in this way leave the thoughts free and feeling blessed by this LastBreath.

Art Elisabetta Eliotropio

Julian Kievit

Last Breath

Jung-Chih Chang “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” (Oscar Wilde) Jung-Chih Chang is a contemporary visual artist from Taiwan, whose artistic research is rooted in the philosophy of eternal return and the cyclical nature of life and things. Her works are characterized by the presence of various animals, whose behaviour the artist observes to give life to her visions. Her language is linked to a figurative expressiveness partly influenced by Robert Delaunay's Orphic Cubism, breaking down the vision into swirling segments of colour. Felines and mammals of all species are caught hovering between these colourful bands in motion, leading the observer into a light world full of vitality. In particular, in the three works ("It's raining cats and dogs", "Spring flowers bloom", "Years") presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, dogs, cats, monkeys and foxes accompany our vision. The space is punctuated by circles that intersect without stopping, defined by bright colours, sometimes colder and sometimes warmer, which fade into each other to create a strong visual rhythm. For example, in "Spring flowers bloom", a fox is depicted from several points of view, while red circles form around its paws, overlapping each other and fading into deeper reds, purples or veils of pink, giving a strong sense of depth and dynamism. Each of Jung-Chih Chang's paintings is meant to show us life, in its beauty and complexity, in a continuous rotation to be appreciated and enjoyed in a light-hearted way.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Jung-Chih Chang

It’s raining cats and dogs

Jung-Chih Chang

Spring flowers bloom

Jung-Chih Chang

Years

K.P. Nordmann

Arte povera is an artistic movement that arose in Italy in the second half of the sixties and is manifested essentially in reducing to the minimum terms, in impoverishing the signs, to reduce them to their archetypes. This is the concept that inspires the research of K.P. Nordmann, get rid of everything that is not essential, which is pure decoration. The artists ask themselves what is really necessary to think of a work of art and so they choose operate starting from a first choice on the materials, which must be precisely poor, easy to find. Abandoning the futile allows to deal only with what is essential and on this thought follows the work of Nordmann. Refined prints on hand-made paper, intricate and subtle lines that are formed starting from a first place and arriving at a nucleoid center that becomes a magnet or a black hole. These lines have the three-dimensional appearance of frottage and form zones of continuous reverberation that leads to momentary confusion. This feeling of disorientation finds a peaceful solution in the non-color of light, like a natural lighthouse that indicates where to rest the soul. Reflection is a concept that is repeated in the artist's works, not only through the undulating and wavy shapes but also through the choice of support material such as aluminum. All the elements of the visual research of the author kidnap the viewer and lead him to the rocking waters. Immersive works of art, which, with the absence of complicated structures and the few components, direct the thought towards an intense journey inside the water.

“Leaving the system means revolution. So the artist, a new jester, satisfies refined consumption, produces objects for cultured palates.” (Germano Celant) Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

K.P. Nordmann

BETWEEN NOTHING AND EVERYTHING

K.P. Nordmann

THE CRACK

K.P. Nordmann

TRUST

Karolina Birger Karolina Birger is a young and creative artist of Polish origin who is able to create enigmatic and fascinating works. The play of light and shadow, colours perfected in post production, places her creations in parallel universes. She represents elements of the real world and decontextualises them, immersing them in imaginative and playful worlds. The viewer is captivated by these surreal images, stylistically so different from reality but at the same time so close to everyday life. Karolina allows herself to be inspired by the world around her, by everyday life, which she transforms into extraordinariness. Among her favourite subjects are the living creatures of the marine and underwater world: crustaceans, fish, molluscs. Extremely interesting subjects, with a variety of shapes and colours that perfectly suit the artist's concept. Beauty is contained in the small everyday things that each of us has before our eyes. The interplay of colour and light contrasts that Karolina creates in each of her works is intriguing. The black background enhances the protagonists of her creations, also allowing her to emphasise certain elements and the different textures. In her work. In her work "Élan vital" the protagonists are crustaceans whose carapace is pink/orange in colour, contrasting with the background and the green reflection. Thanks to the play of superimpositions and reflections, the subjects seem multiplied and three-dimensional, arranged as if they were expanding beyond the available space. The composition is harmonious and it is extremely interesting how Karolina manages to turn such an everyday and simple subject into art. The artist is able to capture the beauty in everything and in her hands, everything is potentially art. The artwork appears enigmatic and the close contact between the realistic subject and the viewer leads the viewer to question challenging questions of consumption. What Karolina does with her work is to bring people closer to art through the representation of elements close to them, so as to facilitate the understanding of challenging messages behind her brilliant artworks. The artist is very skilful in composing her works, enhancing their details by creating movement, three-dimensionality and arousing curiosity.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Karolina Birger

Élan vital

Kasia Kay

Kasia Kay is a Polish American Chicago-based multi-media artist and an independent art curator. Kasia's artistic production, in addition to taking into consideration the tools and means used, is deeply focused on the theme and message that the artist intends to express through his artistic expression. Kasia Kay is a guest, for the first time, at an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery and on the occasion of "NFT-New Freedom Think" she exhibits three works of art that have at the center the theme of the human being, considered from different points of view as: union, commitment, self realization and self reflection. "Celestial Week (white)", made of bronze and painted white, sees the representation of seven women, united in a circle and all with their backs to each other, the figures are united, close and carry a great weight above the boss, this work has different interpretations in it, but what is striking is the way in which the women have a safe position and keep their arms wide as if inside the circle there was something to protect and keep at safe. “Human Race, Only” sees racism as its central theme. The work, made of Bronze beads, acrylic paint and aircraft cable, induces a thought of union, each ball could represent a human being, an individual, who is connected to the others in an indissoluble way. What the artist wants to tell us is "There is no such thing as race, none, there is just a human race, scientifically, anthropologically.". Finally, "Skepsis", an emblematic work of art that tells the great human abilities contained in a palm of the hand, in fact the arm holds up many laces to whose head is attached a plate showing different actions and abilities, for example: "Waiting", “Pursuit”, “Accepting”, “Deciding” and so on. What the artist wants to tell us is that we are the result of our actions, that we can be and achieve what we want if we only stop being skeptical about our abilities.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Kasia Kay

Celestial Week (white)

Kasia Kay

Human Race, Only

Kasia Kay

Skepsis

Katria Lee "To all the fish, big or small. May a wave carry you to the top of a tree some day. And from that summit, may you contemplate the immensity of the ocean". (Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh) Katria Lee's inspiration for these paintings came from a place in Hong Kong called Goldfish Street, which is full of aquarium stores, where whenever visitors stand behind the bags and the fish bowls, it looks as if their heads have been replaced by those bowls. This image generates in the artist a reflection on people's dreams, how they are often much bigger than what is imaginable even by themselves, so as an allegory, heads as big as balloons, containing much more than what they were built for. Lee sometimes uses an aesthetic that can be traced back to Vapowave, a microgenre of electronic music, and visual art style, with an ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and pop culture, characterised by a general nostalgic mood, given by the use of old aesthetic dictates such as anachronistic computer programs and the combination with an intense pastel colour palette. Fish bowls replace the heads of the subjects of these works, but the vision inside them is not distorted. This may trivially suggest an idea of muffling of thought, as if free and imaginative thought would still find itself locked in a hospitable but limiting environment, to the point of not preparing ideas to encounter the world. Although the obvious way out is never disguised, the thinking-fish is not interested in leaving its comfort zone, its womb, it navigates in these comforting waters in the hope of not growing too big and being forced out. The artist allows us to reflect on this human condition through his works and invites us to raise our awareness.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

Katria Lee

Bloom

Katria Lee

Cyberdream

Katria Lee

Heal

Katria Lee

Moonwalker

Katria Lee

Vulnerability

Katrina Koltes Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) Katrina Koltes is a talented artist residing in Italy. Her artistic career is full of numerous participations in national and international exhibitions, in which she has distinguished herself for a unique style, with dreamy and inspired features. In fact, Katrina's art can be defined as a perfect synthesis between technique and content, in which stylistic ability is combined with a genuine and personal vision of the external and above all intimate world. The work Build a Bridge to your Dreams - presented on the occasion of the NFT exhibition - is a clear example of an ideal communion between these two factors. The painting is configured as a stunning composition of mixed media and gold leaf, played on intriguing chromatic contrasts, which outline the skyline of a city in the background, with a bridge in the center. From this hazy scenery, dominated by shades of green, blue and white, emerges a female figure - perhaps the artist's alter ego - resting on her hands and feet. What immediately catches the attention is the unconventionality of the compositional choice, which pushes the observer not to stop at the external aspect of the painting, and to seek a deeper interpretation. In fact, it is difficult not to admire the dynamism of the limbs, the realism of the body tense in physical effort, the enchanting face of the woman, who turns her hopeful gaze upwards. But there is more to it than that. The artist creates a real visual metaphor, which seems to allude to the human capacity to rise above difficulties, to face even the most bitter failures with courage and determination. However immaterial, simple will has the power to transcend the limits of what is possible and impossible, and to demonstrate that it can have a foundation that is firmer than metal and stronger than concrete. The artist gracefully indicates a teaching with a universal and formative value, an authentic invitation to life and to be "architects of one's own destiny".

Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on. (Virgil)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Katrina Koltes

Build a Bridge to your Dreams

Kazuno Ataka A distinctly vertical movement characterizes the composition. Its trend, from top to bottom pervades our senses and drags us, with it, in its dizzying motion. Although in "Naked Falling Tears" there is a peculiar flow, a displacement of the elements that drags even our limbs, everything is resolved without force and without violence. Like placid waters of a stream on a hot summer's noon, these rivulets of color are slow, calm and cool. Looking at them, the sensation is pleasant: the ethereal blue soul is revealed on the card and gives us an impression of calm. The blue color is delicate, sometimes transparent. It slowly and inexorably flows down from above until it wets the rough paper. Delicate nuances overlap one another. They look like the tentacles of a jellyfish moving softly in the watery space. Light blue, ethereal blue, transparent blue. Kazuno plays with color, modulating it at will. Spots of darker color overlap with barely noticeable chromatic elements in a chromatic dance that hovers freely over the sheet of paper. A little further down, obscured by the cerulean pigment, are large yellowish spots that are almost transparent. They look like golden sunbeams breaking through the blue sky. Although the color is very diluted, the expressive power is very high. At the bottom of the representation, straw-colored spots capture our attention. Their brightness and jagged edges are a symptom of the uncontrollable force of nature. They are pictorial representations of the constant, universal life force infused into our world. The blue pigment bathes the candid white and this powerful yellow, superimposing its molecules on those of these two elements. It descends slowly, in rivulets, in drops. Just like tears. And so it is that the placid and tranquil blue river turns into a copious expanse of tears. A calm, liberating cry that does not present, in its nature, instincts of anger, fear or dread. They are sweet tears that carry the emotions of the human spirit. Kazuno's art is inspired by and openly and fully sublimates Buddhist thought and doctrine through images. "Never Feel Tormented" and "Shimmering Wind" are two other splendid works characterized by a delicate yet energetic expressive power that are inspired by Buddhism. They are works that, taking as reference the world and the natural element, speak through images of that relationship with spirituality, peace and reflection that should accompany the life of all of us. Living our busy daily lives we forget to think and dwell on our thoughts and small things. Kazuno invites us to do this and find a sense of continuity with what surrounds us.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Kazuno Ataka

Never Feel Tormented

Kazuno Ataka

Naked Falling Tears

Kazuno Ataka

Shimmering Wind

Kerstin Kager

Kerstin Kager was born in Graz in Austria in 1966. The works of art on display fit perfectly into the artistic current of expressionism, in particular "Lets pray" and "Madonna" which recall the works of Alexei von Jawlenski, apart from the religious iconography. "Lets pray" in addition to the classical and religious representation of the Madonna praying, sees an extremely contrasting element, that is the heart, which brings us back to the culture of tattooing, the dagger that pierces the heart, in fact, is one of the most represented images on the skin. This image, on a symbolic level, represents the end of a love which, combined with religious iconography, embodies the pain Mary felt for the loss of her son. The other works on display see the light with a simpler and more stylized representation, on the one hand the celebration of the woman, the female body and the care with which it must be treated, covered with flowers. This symbolism also represents the rebirth that brings the spring, emblem of the new and of the joy brought by the blossoming of flowers. The lines are safe, delicate, but precise to indicate that the artist knew very well in which direction she wanted to go and what result she wanted to achieve. The ability to create works of art that are so simple but so impactful is typical of Kerstin Kager who unites herself with the work and thus allows for a unique and balanced result.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Kerstin Kager

Floral pink

Kerstin Kager

Floral

Kerstin Kager

Lets pray

Kerstin Kager

Madonna

Kerstin Kager

White dream

Kira Yunusova

Kira, the photographer who paints with light: for her the exact reproduction of reality is no longer important, but the exploration of the creative possibilities of the self. Kira used the photograph by breaking it down in order to guide it on as yet unknown terrain. Her works, permeated by a hypnotic gaze, are capable of reinventing an absurd reality and transfiguring everything, opening the doors to a mysterious world. The final image thus appears partially inverted in tones, enveloped in a glow that evokes the metaphysical idea of aura suggestively. Poetic and desecrating, in her works Kira explores the sensuality of bodies, the symbols and the dreamy effects of art, through a style that never remains constant and that thrives on the search for ever new forms of communication. We find a common nuanced effect, that kind of luminescent dust which in her photographs indiscriminately envelops things and figures. In this way it ends up blurring the reality itself, so as to propose it not as a reality "as it is" but as an aesthetically insensitive reality, a dream, in fact.

Kira Yunusova

Celestial light effects appear readable as a conceptual and non-formal intervention, as an opportunity to detach from a modest and predictable everyday life, as a key to access a suspended and different dimension. For Kira, the lens acts like a brush on the canvas. Her photography is dreamlike and surreal, deliberately out of context and consciously unsettling. Each photograph is a painting or a sculpture. There is no improvisation in Kira's art, but a study of the subject and a subversive message to be conveyed each time through an image that amazes. The choice of place also emphasizes the dream dimension: Kira prefers orderly spaces and undefined places, perfect for expressing an ethereal and out-of-this-world presence.

Art Curator Chiara Lezzi

Kira Yunusova

Kepler 10b

Kira Yunusova

Earth

Kira Yunusova

What do you see?

Kira Yunusova

Form of art

Kiwi “Art is not what you see but what you make others see.” (Degas)

The abstract artist, under his artistic name Kiwi, uses painting to convey and express his creativity. From a hobby he started as a way of calming himself down, painting has become a means of expression and creation for him. Through his vivid drawings, created by flowing lines and a mix of bright colours, all the joy and power of painting is conveyed, which attracts the viewer. Kiwi's painting, made in January 2022, is inspired by a photo of a young couple dancing. Looking at the image, our mind starts to wander as we try to give a context to the protagonists; we don't know if the people know each other, if they are lovers, a happy married couple or simply two people performing in a show. Our minds are stimulated and guided by the sinuosity of the lines, the brilliance of the colours and the corporeity of the shapes in motion. Our attention lingers particularly on the dancers' eyes, which have been deliberately left in black to hide the emotion the two might have for each other, leaving us free to imagine. An abstract painting is like a poem written in a language that only the author knows, and the Kiwi artist captures the viewer by taking him into his world of poetry and sensitivity. The composition reflects the principle of dance, the lines of the dancers move in a gesture reminiscent of the pose of a ballet, through the juxtaposition of the figures forming an interweaving of bodies and movements. The colours are pure, contrasting with each other, without shading, a magical energy propels the movement of the couple.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Kiwi

Dancing Duo

Klaus Nyqvist

The work presented at the international art exhibition by the artist Klaus Nyqvist, is titled Meduza.The video is a mixture of different shapes and colours in movement, accompanied by the music. We can see a spot of blue colours that come in a loop coming from the bottom and sways up to the art part of the space. This kind of movement reminds that of the jellyfish. As if the artist in the composition of this piece finds inspiration by this particular animal and represents with lights and color the movement of it. The observer feels fascinated and hypnotized by the action of the shapes, and in this way is able to free the mind and let the thoughts free. This is the deepest message of the concept of the exhibition, find with the art a place where one is able to not think of anything, and feel free and relaxed.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Klaus Nyqvist

Meduza

Kojiroya Yokito “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” (Walt Disney)

In the darkest moments when the light never seems to shine, it is possible to find in something the strength to continue. For the contemporary Japanese artist Kojiroya Yokito, painting proved to be a sheet anchor to cling to in a difficult period. After experimenting with different techniques, she is currently focusing on depicting blue flowers with the gansai technique. The flower is a delicate being that must be taken care of as if it were a faithful friend; blue is the color that symbolizes tranquillity and balance. In the blue sky above the clouds absolute peace reigns, in the depths of the ocean the master is profound silence. “Unleashed” was created in 2022 with the gansai technique. The protagonist is an apparently fragile flower that has within itself the incredible strength to live in a cruel world in which the weak are the first to be excluded. The flower can be the metaphor of a lonely and insecure man who does not want to live in a corner, but who runs around the world showing everyone who he is. We often expect others to give us strength, but we should understand that the first thing to do would be to look for it within ourselves. Kojiroya Yokito's flowers are the expression of her thoughts and feelings; look at her works, get to know her world and the whirlwind of emotions will enrapture you.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Kojiroya Yokito

Unleashed

KonKa (Konstantina Katsela)

Konstantina Katsela is a Greek-Swedish artist, known as Konka, whose artistic production focuses mainly on the body, in particular the female one and on its forms, its details and its uniqueness, as she herself explains "'our bodies are temples, individual temples, and they connect us universally; no matter our age, shape, color, or gender, the body is an exquisite masterpiece. Everything in life and in death leads to the urge to create. " "Caryatid" is the digital realization of the most classic column sculpture typical of the classical-Hellenistic period, this appropriation allowed the artist to create something totally new and avant-garde that perfectly embodies the theme of the exhibition, looking to the past for go into the future. The colors, shapes and lines allow the observer to always find himself in front of new details to observe and discover, the one created by the artist looks like a real map that leads to new and impactful emotions and sensations. "Express your heart" has a totally different connotation, the artist with this work recounted a journey within herself. Apparently very simple, what the work expresses is much deeper, the neck left uncovered underlines the sense of vulnerability that involves letting go and deeply expressing oneself. The line is thick, decisive and the black conveys a sense of mystery and security that leaves the observer in contemplation. The last work on show exhibited by Konstantina Katsela is, again, a digital work, which expresses informal elegance, "Pose" denies the identity due to the non-presence of the face, but despite this absence it is possible for the observer to empathize the works with the depicted figure and above all the artist leads the viewer to wonder what the mood is of the represented figure.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

KonKa (Konstantina Katsela)

Caryatid

KonKa (Konstantina Katsela)

Express your heart

KonKa (Konstantina Katsela)

Pose

Kuruniko A splash of color has the potential to express many things. It can be a lightning gesture or the result of a studied, well-thought-out movement. A splash of color can come from an impulse or be the result of contemplation of oneself and the world. Color is malleable and malleable according to need. It becomes darker and then becomes almost ethereal; sometimes it is solid and compact, other times it takes on the appearance of a silk veil. The strength of color lies precisely here: in its versatile and ductile existence. Impetus, understanding, slow or fast gesture, studied or instinctive movement. They are all elements, emotions and sensations that contribute to the creation of the single spot of pigment. And the beautiful thing is that none of these elements excludes the other. A stain is all this and more. It is the story of a person and his ideas, it is the representation through a medium of the spark of creativity, a flame so subtle and lightning fast that it must be grasped with both hands and developed, when it reveals itself. Kuruniko knows this and her art is pure expressive gestures. "Be Yourself" is nothing but the graphic transposition by spots and signs of the artist's essence. The title says it, says the color, the true protagonist of the representation. And it is there, in all its splendid vivacity and expressiveness. It is there, lying on the canvas as if the narrow mesh of fabric were its natural space, its place of origin. We can almost see that color moving, making serpentine movements that spread like wildfire. And our eye is in rapture. It is captured by the expressive power of those yellow touches which, tenacious and opaque, are inserted into the compositional space. They act as pillars for all the stains that inhabit the work and, as such, have an unprecedented vigor. A little further on, our gaze finds quietness again. It is bewitched by bluish tones that blend in unison. That green bottle tranquilizes us, reconnecting us to a calm and infinite time. That deep blue transports us to a new universe where there is no noise, no time and no matter. A total void thanks to which our mind can listen and dialogue with our soul. And those fuchsia elements? They are flashes that wake us up from our state of torpor. They mix with the blue and yellow spots in a game of superimpositions that give spatiality to the work. Playful and restless, they are placed almost everywhere in the representative space and infuse the work with fresh vivacity. Kuruniko elaborates through color and stain her emotions, her feelings and the most hidden parts of her soul. She throws the non-visible on the canvas making it visible to our eyes. The stain is a vehicle of meaning, the color is a channel for the release of feelings, the artistic expression is the mirror of the soul of Kuruniko.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Kuruniko

Be Yourself

Kuruniko

Dance

Kuruniko

KAZA-HANA

L’art de Cologne

L’art de Cologne presents “No. 77” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. A dynamic composition with a silent space on the right side, left after turmoil has passed. Freedom is depicted in living colors as a force ready to pursue new directions. “If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.” - Mel Brooks. The variety of colors is imperative to understand how many different paths we can take. Each color is a decision. “What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.” - Vincent van Gogh. The artist starts from the left with light warm tones, which are contrasted with the cool tones of the right side, in order to find a silent space. How can we fulfill our lives if we stand still? A pause next to an extreme dynamic force, is just a moment to reflect on how fast paths can present themselves. Take the opportunity with “No. 77” to witness the different paths of freedom carried by the enthusiasm of living colors. L’art de Cologne by D. Faßbender invites you to connect with “No. 77” to pursue the ecstasy of life.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

L’art de Cologne

No. 77

Leandro Moya "Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." (Leo Burnett) Leandro Moya is an extremely original artist. His artworks are true explosions of colour and reflect emotions and moods. His work is predominantly abstract, pervaded by a mysterious and enveloping atmosphere that intrigues the viewer. Leandro's gestures on the canvas are spontaneous and energetic. The colour is unleashed on the canvas in all its power, mixing with different coloured hues and creating unusual plays of superimposition. A colourful whirlwind of emotions, contrasting sensations. In the painting "Determination Radio Spectrum" the acrylic colour is spread without a predefined pattern. There is a clear reference to action painting, expressionism and contemporary artistic currents. The artist's movement is recorded in space in the form of a disruptive rhythm. Against an intense blue background, strokes of blue, pink, green and red follow one another. A contrast of pigments gives dynamism to the work. The chaos of signs unconsciously creates a harmonious melody, a balanced result. In some passages the colours seem material, three-dimensional. This effect is achieved by the superimposition of several layers and sometimes by the excessive use of pigment. Leandro gives vent to his emotions without setting limits or boundaries. He unleashes himself on the canvas, throwing out his emotions and inviting the viewer to do the same, to free himself. Art is therapeutic, a release valve that opens up new horizons, far from the frenzy of contemporary life. Art is passion, energy, and Leandro demonstrates this very accurately with his works. The creative explosion reflects an inner process. The viewer is led to create a close relationship with the canvas because he sees himself in that whirlwind of contrasting feelings and sees in that multitude of brushstrokes a representation of his inner state. Leandro is able to empathise with the viewer. He listens to his fears, his joys, his desires and translates them into a material gesture on the canvas. The nonchalance with which the artist moves around tracing multicoloured marks underlines his extreme ability to control the different stimuli that intervene during the artistic process. Everyone gets involved and overwhelmed by these artworks.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Leandro Moya

Determination Radio Spectrum

LeiKa “Art is a line around your thoughts.” (Gustav Klimt)

The very young and talented artist LeiKa painted pictures like cartoons since childhood. Later, influenced by various cultures and traditional arts such as ceramics, lacquer, furniture, interiors, clothes, accessories, she started to draw only with a mechanical pencil. And it is with this medium that LeiKa is able to express her whole personality. In a vision of the world that combines tradition and modernity, the artist is able to create new worlds and new empires, where we can immerse ourselves and imagine. If art is provocation, challenge and joy, LeiKa allows us to see the world with different eyes. Her paintings reveal what she sees, tell us how she feels, open a window on a world we did not know before and take us to places we had never imagined. The method the artist uses allows her to express different states of mind and build a choreography of action that takes on a direct vision on the canvas. Art must communicate a precise meaning and reveal a content, in a quest for meaning. And LeiKa's works contain a meaning full of tradition, history, imagination, new horizons and a world yet to be discovered. In her works, nothing is dictated by chance but is the result of a complicated creative process, a synthesis of experience, inner research and externalization of emotions. In LeiKa's paintings, dissolutions and lines alternate to form an overall graphic design that leaves room for colour nuances and determines the line that creates the shapes in space. In fact, warm and cold colours are mixed, always very much held with soft lines, followed by a swirling composition that transpires from the backgrounds. It is in fact a dialogue that the artist is engaging in with the viewer and that makes us perceive the strength and depth of the image.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

LeiKa

And the world goes on

LeiKa

GAIA

LeiKa

Orient

Lika Ramati The revolution is the harmony of form and colour and everything exists and moves under one law: life. (Frida Kahlo)

Life in all its forms, with all its nuances, is a gift to be preserved and protected. A gift to love, to defend with teeth and nails. Lika perfectly expresses this attachment to life in her work "Biophilia Goddess", that literally alludes to the protective divinity of vital beings, processes that involve the whole of existence. The magnetic gaze of the cerulean goddess calls us into question, attracts us, warns us at the same time, imposing, with a crown of precious and luminous stones, dressed in a turf, green. Lika’s women are powerful subjects, full of vitality, capable of inspiring fear, with their piercing eyes. And it is they who are the carriers of universal messages, to dominate the scene. The importance of the female figure marks a link with the poetics of Frida Kahlo, the passionate Mexican artist who fought to defend her life, marked by accidents and tragedies, and used art to reflect on pain and transform it into beauty and a desire for freedom and independence. So also for Lika, woman is an emblem of strength, of rebellion, of the will to affirm her own self, her own thought. The woman is incredibly creative, is full of nuances, is light in the night, as evidenced by "Baby Breath", girl dressed in gold, surrounded by bright stars in the sky. The woman is the warrior of "No more war", who struggles to assert her thoughts. A thought that especially today, in the context of war that surrounds and oppresses us, is silenced, silenced. Lika Ramati expresses through her art, the desire to stop every gesture of confrontation to return to the beauty and purity primary, to bring back the sense of love and brotherhood between men and women, as testified by "The NFT Twins". Love and compassion are fundamental ingredients to add to our lives for the artist. Love for others, which is expressed in closeness and respect, for nature and for the world we inhabit. "The Universe" is for Lika the emblem of the rediscovered harmony of man towards creation, symbolized by a colorful lotus flower, symbol of rebirth and spiritual elevation. Lika invites us to reflect on the importance, today, of being reborn from the rubble and to be pure in the soul, just like the beautiful lotus flower, born from the mud to become a symbol of harmony and spiritual perfection.

Art Curator Matilde Grossi

Lika Ramati

Baby Breath

Lika Ramati

Biophilia Goddess

Lika Ramati

No more war

Lika Ramati

The NFT Twins

Lika Ramati

The Universe

Lila Maroun Frem

Art has the extraordinary power to open the mind, to make people reflect, to convey emotions, to communicate a message in the most transparent and immediate way possible. The fastest and most explanatory messenger in transporting the emotion from the artist to the canvas and from the canvas to the viewer is color. Each color is able to convey an emotion and the combination of multiple colors, the composition with lines and shapes can instead tell a story. The artist Lila (Liliane) Maroun Frem in the creation of her works is carried away by her most spontaneous emotions and lets lines and colors be free to express themselves through her on the canvas. Her feelings guide her, they are her true source of inspiration. All life is guided by feelings, by what we feel towards us and towards others, so Lila's art is the mirror of hers. The work presented here "Different couples" deals with one of the aspects of life on which the artist reflects more in her works: the relationships between all types of creatures, focusing above all on the female figure. In this work, as in life, different people, different creatures, each with specific characteristics that make it unique, interact with each other, confront each other. The bright and vivid colors give the work a unique energy. Just as art brings joy into the artist's life, she transports joy into her works and transmits it to those who observe them.

Art Curator Silvia Grassi

Lila Maroun Frem

Different couples

Linayo

Linayo is a self-taught contemporary art artist. Born in Ghent, she moved to Antwerp, where she still lives and works. Her artistic path begins with the study of oil painting, to then try her hand at the art of nuno-felt and encaustic. Linayo is a multi-media artist. She work using two or more different media integrating them with digital art. she is drawn to the textures of reality, to the fractal nature of society, which she represents through the superimposition of many layers of color and texture. Her main works are three-dimensional multimedia collages made from the union of fractal art paintings created by the use of crystals of all kinds. Fractals are patterns whose geometric motif is repeated in all directions. There are fractals in nature, like the branches of a fir tree or in snowflakes and in our body. We can find them in the circulatory system, in DNA and in the structure of neurons. Fractal patterns are all around us in social organization, music and art and can have an influence on any individual. Fractal art is a living art, which releases unique energies and vibrations, which will have an effect on the viewer. The artist's work is driven by emotions, she places each piece of her collage carefully, experiments with colors until her message appears, creating a work full of complexity. Her works have the ability to heal the soul of the beholder.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Linayo

Copper Woodlands

Linayo

Ayaya

Linayo

Blue Destination

Linda Nemeh “A woman should be two things: who and what she wants.” (Coco Chanel)

The absolute protagonist of Linda Nemeh’s artworks is the Woman. In I AM Woman a pearl gray background embraces her subject represented in profile with a slender neck, closed eyes, long lashes and carmine red lips. The skin complexion is characterized by small strokes of the spatula that seem to give shape to a delicate and elegant embroidery while crowns of pure white flowers decorate the jet-black hair. In the other two artworks the technique remains unchanged but the support changes: them become digital works. In I AM… the graceful woman stands out three-dimensionally thanks to a bright and passionate red background. The figure gives to the viewer a feeling of fragility and security at the same time. What characterizes women is precisely this: being as delicate as flowers and being strong as rocks. Colorful yellow and pink petals decorate black hair in a romantic hairstyle while a sweet colorful texture dyes the skin. The peculiarity of the long necks of these two works are reminiscent of the sensual women of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani such as the Portrait of Lunia Czechowska from 1919. In the last artwork I AM…DigiDiva the artist Linda Nemeh creates a frontal close-up where big and deep blue eyes observe the viewer. Decisive brush strokes color the protagonist's dress and voluminous flowers in polychrome hues outline the forehead. This detail seems to remember the band of bows intertwined with colored ribbons always present in the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo: an extraordinary Mexican artist who has become one of the most loved female icons of the 20th century.

Art Curator Marina Maggiore

Linda Nemeh

I AM Woman

Linda Nemeh

I AM...

Linda Nemeh

I AM...DigiDiva

Lize Krüger "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape". (William S. Burroughs) A South African artist, Lize Krüger's research deals with mental health, speaking openly through her artwork about trauma as part of the human experience. For the author, the traumatic event can bring a lesson that would otherwise not have arrived, a gift to be analysed as a collective and not just a personal event. She uses known and personal symbols to express her thoughts and convey her message.His paintings are therefore full of symbologies, dense and complex. In Collaborating with the Secretkeepers, we are faced with an image of strong emotional impact. Classical symbols abound: the angelic statue of a woman with her arms outstretched and open as if to spread knowledge and predict hard changes. The raven as an image repeated in pattern, in a static position but not resting anywhere. The raven, an alchemic symbol of metamorphosis and change, is thus almost distributed towards a hypothetical follla represented by the red cloth at the bottom of the image. In On your Behalf we find the raven again as a symbolic presence that perhaps accompanies the end of a life that has not seen the light. Another white drape delimits the spaces between inside and outside. Barbed wire to protect the earthly but heavenly presence represented by the foetal position of the figure at the bottom. In Retrospection is a series the artist is currently working on and here we see the first work. It is a series that investigates a past period in which Krüger has had to deal with many challenges in her life and thanks to this work she can recognise the potential in what has been, art in this and in many cases allows us to stop and appreciate what we have in front of us.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

Lize Krüger

COLLABORATING WITH THE SECRETKEEPERS I

Lize Krüger

RETROSPECTION I

Lize Krüger

ON YOUR BEHALF

Loretta Pena “The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.” (Leonardo da Vinci)

Self-taught artist Loretta Pena's painting is both a liberating gesture and a creative act that expresses her love of art and humanity. The artist plays with geometric lines, colours and shapes, creating images full of expressive power and vibrant energy. The artist's compositions are able to unite imagination with intuition, to mix the rational sphere with the more personal one. The works overwhelm us like an explosion of shapes and colours, freed from any objective representation. Shapes, lines and swirls of colour entangle on a canvas and become instruments of emotional expression. Loretta Pena, by painting, transmits a part of herself, she transfers her emotions on a canvas that takes shape and colour, that captures the observer and immerses him in an abstract and emotional world at the same time. The artist uses different techniques, pasty brushstrokes that follow one another, highlighting the figures or undulating the contours to accentuate the structure of the forms, managing to express both the feelings received from the outside and those deeper and more internal. All Loretta's works have an insistent symbolic connotation in the depiction, through lines, shapes and abstract colours, the artist is able to create a parallel world in which we can find ourselves stopped to look and discover, curiosity among the shapes and get lost among the pasty brushstrokes, full of bright colours. A colourful world of positivity, good deeds and spirit, where we lose ourselves in the shades of colour that capture us and make us feel free and full of life. And it is life that transpires from the paintings of Loretta, a vibrant soul.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Loretta Pena

Candy Shop

Loretta Pena

The Sisterhood

Loretta Pena

The World Through My Lens

Lucia Boaghe

Lucia Boaghe is an artist who ranges from sculpture to painting with equal skill and passion, as she is moved by the desire to express, through these means, the excitement and the fear of an emigrant introduced in a new cultural environment. Feelings that she felt personally when she emigrated from Moldova to England, a melting pot of peoples par excellence. Although the work under examination seems at first glance to move away from this theme, in reality it is also connected. The work was made during the lockdown of 2021 which prevented the artist from leaving London. As a result, we see the lockdown from another point of view, from that of the emigrants and the impact it had on them. Yet this work is much more than that. "Spring in lockdown" is a strong, powerful work that manages to represent Spring both as a season of the year, both as a rebirth, a fresh start. This is exactly what emigrants feel when they arrive in a new place: a new beginning, a metaphorical Spring. Lucia Boaghe manages to express all this by placing on the face of the central character some beautiful purple flowers surrounded by lush green leaves. Spring is born within the woman in the portrait. Her features are inspired by the artist’s daughter, who is also an artist. The face is represented in a realistic and well-detailed way, without a clear outline that defines with violence the parts. The green eye of the woman is fixed towards the viewer and is full of pathos. We are far from the idealization of the Greek and neoclassical faces, those with serene and detached expression; here, instead, with fast brushstrokes, Lucia Boaghe manages to bring on the canvas an intense expression. In the background we do not see any representations, but the artist skilfully plays with abstract shapes and colors. "Spring in lockdown" is a mature work, well balanced in all its parts.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Lucia Boaghe

Spring in lockdown

Luis Prada “Colors come together, relate to each other, change, just like personal relationships. Human beings also relate and change depending on our relationship with others. And this is what I try to reflect and look for: emotions” (Luis Prada) Luis Prada is an artist with a purpose: to capture the emotions of the human being and turn them into art. He has tried to achieve this goal throughout his artistic career, which is why you can see an artistic evolution. Only the greats of art, those who have truly understood it, have understood that change is not only positive but necessary. Necessary to be consistent with oneself and with the evolving world. Luis has been a lawyer for 35 years without ever stopping painting and exhibiting in several group shows over the years. During this time he has done, basically, realistic painting, much influenced by impressionists, pop art and sometimes expressionists. A few years ago he changed the form and concept of his painting. Today it is geometric, conceptual, constructivist: this way of expressing himself derives from the awareness that in order to grasp emotions it is necessary to go beyond the visual perception of reality. The creative freedom of the artist consists in the free use of color and geometric shapes that only hint at the figurative aspect. Luis presents Lunas de mar at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. Luis says "The moons of the sea are the sharpest, the most loved and those that generate the most positive and nostalgic emotions", the artist is able to capture the reality and emotions related to it and brings them back on canvas.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Luis Prada

Lunas de mar

Luz Amanda Lanzini

Luz Amanda lives art, breathes it, it is the filter through which she reads the reality around her. Making art is a passion that cultivates since she was a child and led her to study it and learn the techniques at high school, understanding its events at university. Her art is a cultured art, rich in illustrious references where we can grasp links with big names in art history, such as Michelangelo, Klimt, Magritte, and Chagall. Her artistic language is constantly evolving: she does not prefer specific techniques, but she loves to experiment different materials and combinations to better express her artistic credo. The presented artwork, entitled Il Risveglio (The Awakening) is a picture where her familiarity in working with acrylics strongly emerges. To represent the main character of her painting, Luz Amanda took inspiration by the famous Fountain of Neptune in Florence, known as the “Biancone”, of which she reproduces the face; she is able to recall the classical and renaissance statuary with well-rounded traits and the modulation of chiaroscuro. The titanism of the figure, depicted with various shades of grey, and touches of black and white that accentuates its immobility and physicality, is however damped by colours that become the focal point of the picture. In her painting, in fact, the artist imagines the awakening of the statue when it realizes that it no longer wants to be unanimated by watching the moon. Her protagonist thus present crescent moon reflected on its pupils, and a pair of butterflies, placed gently on the figure, releasing on it their wings colours, symbolize the awakening of its soul. Through the union between magic element and realistic representation, Luz Amanda is able to concretize a symbolic artwork, whose concept is very close to her: the painting thus becomes a metaphor of Art awakening in the artist’s soul, so sudden and overwhelming as in the story just been told.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself (Paul Cezanne)

Art Curator Alessia Domenichini

Luz Amanda Lanzini

Il risveglio

Maki Amemori

In the works of art of Maki Amemori is evident a search for light as the bearer of calm in a world full of chaos.The symmetries of her images give peace and balance, immediately at first glance. The gradients of color bring us closer to the condition of daydreaming. A loop generated by this continuous movement that is formed thanks to the multiple axes that the artist chooses to develop her work. Seemingly instinctive, the image produced by Amemori is constructed with delicate but skillful planning. The lines that compose the picture have a double function: the thought turned inward and the thought turned outward. Coming and going, continually moving and changing, the perpetual movement of the soul. The meeting perhaps between times, past and future that only in dreams meets fertile ground for its revelation. Here are images that seem to appear as simple, concealing a deeper and more refined connection with contemporary collective issues. The artist works starting from photographs that she herself takes and elaborating collages that lead to surprising results. The dream dimension is reached through collage by Magritte and Matisse, where everyone changes and remains static depending on how you look at the work. Collage by definition stops, glues precisely, blocks something that otherwise would have a different life. The paradox of collage is that the result almost always has a very lively aesthetic aspect that contrasts with the gesture of its technique. It is thanks to these opposing ideas that we can enjoy a non-time that comes true in front of Maki Amemori's work.

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist” (René Magritte)

Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

Maki Amemori

Vortex

Maki Amemori

Symmetrical

Maki Amemori

Gradient

Manuela Ghidini “I paint… simply… and every time the picture takes shape it is as if it was giving one to me” (Manuela Ghidini)

At the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. we find Manuela Ghidini's red, white and black. This time the very talented artist manages to go beyond the canonical idea of painting. Manuela is an artist who leaves a trace, she is recognizable, this is for the choice of colors, for the lines and shapes, for the movement. Her technique takes shape from the legacy that the surrealist art of the forties, which practices a kind of "automatic writing" and more specifically follows in the footsteps of Pollock's dripping. Manuela, also this time decides to use different materials with the intention of combining the most refined strand of art to the rawest, most material, which as the great master Burri teaches, through art acquires dignity. Manuela decides to make a next step, to insert the frame inside the work, the artist says "I have always wondered why there was a need to delimit the works with edges of wood or metal and suffocate them with sheets of glass, depriving them of their original beauty. With this work of mine I would like to overturn the idea that we have of the frame. The M.A.D.S. Art Gallery gave me the opportunity to try to change the order of things, asking myself: What if the painting defined the frame? The wood does not define the painting, but is part of it, the wall does not support the painting, but explodes from the frame, and everything that surrounds us as we look at a work is now in the work itself.... Now it is my work that admires us. It's always a matter of point of view. Change is the key to looking at the future, diving into it and letting the past leave its lessons behind. Cambia-menti....is this the title of my work. Let yourself be admired: our emotions are a masterpiece".

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Manuela Ghidini

Cambia-menti

Marek Silka For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. (Albert Einstein) One of the traits that makes Marek Silka's art unique is the ability to make the ordinary extraordinary in a perspective that reveals a decisive distance from the dictates of current trends. The artist remains strongly faithful to his artistic muse, who reveals himself in the absolute creative anarchy, a freedom beyond any standardization. In this way, Marek gives vent to his irrepressible inspiration with unusual materials and equally curious subjects, which become bearers of a real artistic manifesto. -Owl, the artwork that enriches the NFT exhibition - is the concrete demonstration of this assumption starting from the title, since the symbol is an immediate reference to the anarchic principle in art that Marek boasts. And in fact the representation of the little owl may seem less than canonical, starting with the blue color to continue with the "mechanical" body which, instead of feathers and feathers, is made up of metal elements, such as pipes and bolts. However, despite the bizarre combination, the little owl appears more vital than ever because of the fresh and innovative accent that the artist chooses to use for the representation of the animal. Marek's subversive streak is striking for the effectiveness of his expressive capacity, capable of conveying a heartfelt message of artistic and intellectual autonomy in an immediate and shrewd way. Could it be a coincidence that this depiction of the owl recalls the Greek iconography of the owl of Athena, a symbol of intelligence and cunning?

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. (C. S. Lewis)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Marek Silka

Ⓐ-Owl

Maria Christidi "You don’t take a photograph, you make it." (Ansel Adams)

Maria Christidi is a promising young artist who is able to capture details invisible to the human eye, creating works of art of extraordinary beauty. Her creations always seek a balance between the past and the present, between history and mythology. There are also clear references in the titles of his works, which focus on these subjects. A continuous reference to something that is past but continues to live in the present, to influence modern society. This intriguing and curious mix allows Maria to develop works that lie somewhere between the figurative and the abstract. Ethereal, timeless and spaceless photographs that become a symbol of time passing but leaving a mark behind. What makes her works intriguing is this constant reference to history and the artist's personal experiences, her emotions and personal feelings. What happens in her life influences her way of seeing things and interpreting reality. The themes of epic mythology metaphorically echo contemporary events in that the behaviour of men is constantly repeated in history. This is what makes his works contemporary, a common thread linking human behaviour over time. The viewer, in front of her works, is struck by a series of visual stimuli relating to different communicative and artistic worlds. In 'Hedone', Maria's artistic process is evident. She photographs a detail, dwells on a gesture, a hand grasping the skin. The play of light and shadow highlights the pressure of the hand and contributes to the materiality of the subjects. The volumes are well defined. Hedone is the goddess of pleasure, daughter of Eros and represents excessive enjoyment. There is a clear reference to this divinity in this series of images in which a male subject poses in a sexual manner. The work is somewhere between a photograph and a work of art, recalling the soft grips of sculptures such as those by Canova. The chiaro-scuro, on the other hand, recalls the wonderful works of Caravaggio. A myriad of references to the history and art of the past are reproposed in a modern way by Maria who intends to reincarnate Hedone through a series of photographic shots. The artist impersonates the gods, giving them life through human behaviour. She proves to be a skilled artist because she is able to immortalise details that man does not understand, does not see. The viewer is captivated by the beauty of the bodies, the softness of the forms, the anatomy so magnificently enhanced.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Maria Christidi

Hedone

Mariko Kumon

Mariko Kumon is a Japanese artist based in Barcelona, she is an extremely dynamic and eclectic artist with a predilection for sculpture, which she recognizes as her highest form of expression. With an extremely large and dynamic artistic career, her production focuses on the form and lines that express her personal language. The spontaneity of the works of art created by Kumon is also evident in the works on display at "NFT - NEW FREEDOM THINK", in fact the artist does not focus on a specific theme, but on the contrary lets herself be carried away by ideas and from the sensations that these ideas arouse in her. Her works exhibited by her seem to come from another era, "Aislado en su mundo" sees a bust of a woman surrounded by wires that keep her safe on one side and imprisoned with herself on the other. "Little women" is a work composed of four sculptures, four faces of women facing upwards as if they were receiving pleasant sensations from the sky. “Nube de idea” is the emblematic representation of an individual with a mind full of thoughts and ideas, these thoughts and elements are represented by the many threads that are found around the top of the sculpture. "Paz" and "Péndulo" are two very similar works, in fact both are half busts, but one represents the completeness and tranquility of the soul (Paz) the other, instead it has as a deeper interpretation the difficulty of making a decision. Mariko Kumon transports us to a new world, a reality made of self-analysis, the search for one's self; in addition to the artist's evident aesthetic taste, there are elements that lead to a deeper analysis of what the world transmits to her.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Mariko Kumon

Aislado en su mundo

Mariko Kumon

Little women

Mariko Kumon

Nube de idea

Mariko Kumon

Paz

Mariko Kumon

Péndulo

Mariko Mariko expresses her sensitive, sweet and delicate soul through the creation of digital artwork depicting female characters.The element that Mariko's women have in common is the depiction of the eyes. Each of her subjects is presented with the right eye covered by hair or, in the case of "Don't Touch Me" by foliage. The left eye of Mariko's subjects is depicted wide open, large and alert. The colour of the eye changes in each painting but in all of her works Mariko depicts it with a brighter tip inside, a variation of colour that denotes the depth of the subjects' soul. The eye is bright and looks at the viewer: it is an eye that speaks. Whoever looks into the eye of Mariko's women is involved in their thoughts and feelings and feels immersed in a sea of thoughts. "Don't Touch Me" depicts a subject in a vase, perhaps a nymph similar to Daphne, a nymph loved by Apollo who, to escape his love, turns into a tree. The subject is covered by leaves and flowers, an integral part of the body of the female spirit. The nymph is touched by a human hand from which she seems to withdraw, not desirous of that contact. This is the representation of a wild soul, sometimes rebellious but at the same time very sweet. "Her Freedom" represents a proud and peaceful woman who seems to be a representation of Aphrodite, the goddess of love in the Greek Pantheon. She is surrounded by beautiful flowers that seem to dress her body and she looks at us, proud and heedless of her nakedness. The colour of the blue drops in the pink background echoes the slightly darker tone of the subject's eye. The goddess of love turns her gaze towards the viewer and hints at a smile drawn with a thin, straight line, a particular line that makes the softness of the lips and that is taken up in the third painting "Me and Me". In this last work the artist depicts two women who are the same person. We see a sophisticated and elegant woman walking among vases that hold plants and flowers. Next to her we see another woman: this time her left eye is closed and she is not smiling. Mariko thus shows us the two faces of the same person, in contradiction and at the same time in harmony with each other. Mariko uses her personal artistic style to push us to look inside the souls of her subjects through the left eye, which has been attributed for centuries and in different cultures as the seat of instinct and feelings.

Art Curator Sara Giannini

Mariko

Don't Touch Me

Mariko

Her Freedom

Mariko

Me and Me

Mariona Illas Sanz

Mariona has the ability through photography to evoke the life of the subjects and to estrange their personality even more. In this way the vital and revealing elements of her images are precisely the poses, hairstyles, clothes and accessories that differentiate and characterize the subject himself. In her photographic shots she brings out the soul and character of the subject, gives expressiveness to the models, who do not have the role of hangers, but become human beings in flesh and blood, alive, full of emotions. In her photographic style we understand that she is a lover of strong emotions and the extreme, a style that is identified in his triptych. The goal seems to be to show the true essence of the person posing, his weaknesses, his imperfections and his inner truth. The outward appearance is like the reflection of the inner reality and therefore the nature of someone or something. In other words, Mariona's approach to photography is essential, innovative and passionate but at the same time theatrical and transgressive: she tries to emphasize the contrast between stillness and motion. She creates a fascinating world giving life a patina of elegance, she manages to photograph them with detachment, helping to create beautiful images. She is capable of selling dreams with her photos of her and after all life must be a bit like a fairy tale. Her images are pervaded by a pinch of aggression, just that much more than the usual codes, mixed with the spontaneous naturalness and innocence of the models.

Art Curator Chiara Lezzi

Mariona Illas Sanz

Distorted dreams

Mariona Illas Sanz

A random visit

Mariona Illas Sanz

Newstalgia

MariX MariX is an original and creative Spanish artist who makes art her main means of communication. She is self-taught and loves to express her feelings, emotions, opinions and points of view through artistic means. MariX takes inspiration from various references. Her artworks are therefore a mix of contemporary and modern styles mixed with an extremely personal touch that makes her creations unique. For MariX, art has contributed to a process of rebirth that has allowed her to get more in touch with the world and has given her the opportunity to express her sensitivity beyond mere words. MariX likes to experiment and use a mixed technique in her works, not excluding any artistic material that can somehow contribute to the final result. She often uses spray paint with newspaper pages, sand and rope. Each of his creations is therefore a unique, inimitable piece that encapsulates the energy and passion of the moment. The artist lets herself be overwhelmed by the life that flows around her, becoming, with her art, an integral part of the process of innovation and growth. Her concept is evident in her work "Sonorité". Created to celebrate 8 March, Women's Day, the work is already very strong and expressive at first glance. The mixed technique used somehow reflects the female universe, studded with different women, with sometimes discordant and sometimes peculiar characteristics, but which, if united together, are stronger than adversity. The title, as well as the words written in the work, refer to the famous French revolutionary motto "Libertè, Egalitè, Fraternitè". An invitation to all women to unite, support and love each other, without rivalry. Sonoritè is the key word to read the whole work and replaces the masculine connotation of the French motto. MariX does something innovative, using art to celebrate women, but without representing them graphically, using a communicative and expressive language closer to their way of being. Free and spontaneous brushstrokes of green and purple contrast with lighter strokes that create a play of light and movement. The marks left on the canvas create a dance and give dynamism. The reference to action painting and American abstract currents is evident. The artist moves on the canvas giving vent to her emotions, stimulated by the contemporary climate. Informal art is recalled by the essentiality of the elements and their intrinsic strength, by the clearly written and well emphasised words. MariX is an extremely talented artist, capable of encapsulating deep and thoughtful messages in a few meaningful elements and colours. She is able to create an indissoluble bond between the world around us, the pictorial medium and the viewer. It is impossible not to be captivated by the strength, power and energy of her creations.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

MariX

Sonorité

Marleen Stan Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle)

The artistic vocation is not something that can be easily ignored. Sometimes it emerges after years, when it forcefully reaffirms its desire to emerge, to show itself, to express itself. The artistic path of Marleen Stan is inscribed in this perspective, and testifies to the ardor of a creative and original personality, who lets herself be guided by the pure intuition of the most spontaneous emotions. Despite the instinctive nature of her creations, Marleen always manages to combine her most visceral side with thoughts of great depth, which dialogue with the observer and induce equally substantial reflections. Nature Symphony, in fact, stands out as a work that recalls the importance of nature even - and above all - in the frenzy of the contemporary world. The mellow chromatic notes of blue, green and yellow blend with geometric and phytomorphic elements, which chase each other on the canvas in an ensemble of considerable compositional value. This unusual harmony recalls the tendency of modernity to observe nature only in small portions, for example thanks to what we can see from the confined space of a window or from the tiny prism of a microsope. Marleen seems to invite us to re-embrace the grandiose opulence of nature, moving away from a polluted universe of social media that leaves no room for the beauty of the surrounding environment. The work Red sun is inspired by a similar logic, and lingers on the majestic grandeur of the shades of red, yellow and orange that color the sky at every sunset and every sunrise. The variety of lines and textures contributes to giving the whole a dynamic rhythm, which develops diagonally as if to allude to the direction of the sun's rays. Once again, the subject of the work is only a starting point for a broader meditation, and which recalls the human tendency to underestimate what is always before our eyes. Even if it is the brightest star, on which life itself depends. Finally, A view of space projects the viewer directly into a cosmic dimension, placing them in front of a suggestive contemplation of the Milky Way. The work, painted on a circular canvas, shows a section of the sky dotted with myriads of luminous stars that offer a spectacle of rare magnificence. Once again, the artist does not limit herself to a canonical representation of a natural phenomenon, however surprising, and elaborates a real metaphor on canvas. She reminds everyone to let oneself be pervaded by the amazement of a daily event, no matter how obvious it may seem, because in it you can always find a beauty and a joy that is always new, which changes at every glance.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain) Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Marleen Stan

A view of space

Marleen Stan

Nature Symphony

Marleen Stan

Red Sun

Marta Carceller Marta Carceller is an innovative and original Spanish artist. In her artworks we can read different references to the history of art in terms of choice of subjects and technique. These elements are combined with the unmistakable style of the artist. Colour plays a fundamental role for Marta, as does the use of light, which makes the subjects tangible and three-dimensional. She captures different emotions and sensations, combining them in artistic works capable of arousing a myriad of visual and communicative stimuli. Sometimes her creations are quite subjective, open to multiple points of view and interpretations. Art is therapeutic for Marta, it opens up horizons and changes points of view, leading people to open their minds and hearts to new perspectives. Everyone's inner self must be preserved and explored in order to learn about ourselves and understand what makes us special. This is the artist's intention, to take the viewer into a dimension where he can connect with art through his works. In the artwork 'BOHEMIAN LESS ONE', Marta experiments with the subject, superimposing different dimensions and eliminating space-time. Three mannequins dressed in futuristic metallic armour are placed in the centre of the canvas. The bodies are well defined but the lower part is blurred and blended with the background, underlining the evanescent dimension of the work. The three characters are well studied in their symmetrical positions and perfectly inserted into the space. The colours of the background are applied in a less rigid, more spontaneous way and recall those of the mannequins. The atmosphere is reminiscent of DeChirico's metaphysical works, as is the use of mannequins and essentiality. Dream and reality collide in a new dimension projected into the future. Marta describes her inner feelings through energetic brushstrokes, often tracing horizontal and vertical marks creating a grid. Marta is able to enter human psychology and create suggestive, sometimes enigmatic and surprising artworks.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Marta Carceller

BOHEMINA LESS ONE

Masaki Hirokawa

Masaki Hirokawa is a Japanese artist whose wide range of activities includes graphic design, smartphone app development, interactive movie production and website development. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” Masaki presents two artworks. “A Regenerated World" depicts a girl represented in pink, with glitter and rhinestones that makes her beautiful and bright. She is reproduced several times in three different positions that enhance her grace and elegance. This work was created with hope for a new coming age. The world is evolving at a tremendous pace, changing its face, and we can glimpse various aspects of the process and results. Anxiety, bewilderment, anticipation, and repose in the new era. All of these things are incorporated in the design of this plane”.

Masaki Hirokawa

The second work presented in the exhibition, "The Justice of Equality”, depicts a woman with a face painted in black and gold, which for this reason almost merges with the equally black background and some hands that surround her to enhance its beauty. The Japanese title of this work is ‘Peace’ and as the title suggests, it was created with a wish for peace. All people are equal, and all beings have value. Regardless of country of birth, language, color, wealth or poverty, all life is precious and irreplaceable. Great scholars and sinners, good and bad, all are equally blessed by God and born. There is not a single life in this world that is lost in vain.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Masaki Hirokawa

A Regenerated World

Masaki Hirokawa

The Justice of Equality

Matjaz Fikfak

The work presented at the international art exhibition NFT-New freedom by the artist Matjaz Fikfak is a game of shapes capable of hypnotizing and completely hypnotizing the attention of the viewer. Titled The first Souldrop, we can see on a dark background a composition that is concentrated on the centre of the image. As if the artist wants to tell us:<> and in this way capturing our attention. A series of circles with swaying outlines move in front of us to create a sort of eye or iris that appears to be looking at us. In this game of shapes the viewer seems to be attracted and curious to understand the deepest meaning of this composition. As the artist says:<< Souldrops stand as a visual representation of the journey of our souls, and the light within every single one of us. In an increasingly dark and seemingly hopeless world, the Souldrops are a small and unique reminder that although the world outside may seem cold and bleak, there is always something to live for, and to continue striving and channelling our energy towards.>> So this is the message sent to us from the eye. That although difficult moment of the reality, we have to research always something positive in which involve our energies and our soul.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Matjaz Fikfak

The first Souldrop

Mattia Mura

The work presented at the international art exhibition NFT-New Freedom Think, by the artist Mattia Mura is titled SCREAM OF MUNCH. This digital work is a mention of the great artwork of the artist Munch. In fact in the centre of the composition we can see the screen framed in a picture card. This kind of formal choice reminds of the will of the artist Mattia Mura to associate one great work made by one of the most important artists in the history of the art, with the idea of the game. This association creates in the viewer a sense of estrangement in which the importance of the vision is delivered to the artwork of Munch, the viewer is invited to analyse the message sent by this great artwork. At the same time the artist invites the viewer to play with this vision. To use this most important artwork in a playful and entertaining situation. As the artist Mattia Mura says about the intention beyond this composition: << Make them affordable for everyone, including children, and that is why I decided to include them inside stickers.>> In this way the work SCREAM OF MUNCH becomes the perfect representation of a new way to intend and use the art. Or just a perfect representation of a thing that has to be free and playful.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Mattia Mura

290299 SCREAM OF MUNCH

Mayr Volker Color, sign, gesture. These are the three connotations that outline the pictorial genre of abstract expressionism, developed in the mid-twentieth century, also known as "Action Painting", given the dynamism of the action with which the works of this artistic trend were created. The term "abstract expressionism" comes from the Latin words "exprimĕre" and "abstrahĕre", respectively "express" and "move away from", which describe the intrinsic meaning of the current itself, which sees artists follow their creative impulses to express themselves on the canvas and detach themselves from the now outdated tradition. Artists reinvent the way of making art by getting involved, taking the risk of acting on the canvas in an impulsive way, without having a pre-established project to follow, but acting for the need to do so, to be masters of their art. Mayr Volker, becomes a messenger of this artistic thought, making emotions and colors embrace in a silent dialogue. “What composers do with music, poets with words, I wish with my paintings: inspire people and create emotions. “It is with these words that the artist expresses his intimate relationship with art and describes in an emblematic way what leads him to produce works full of pathos, generated by creative impulses inspired by emotions and perceptions able to communicate silently through the use of pure and effectively juxtaposed colors. Already in "Celebration of Colors", the first of the three works in the series, made thanks to oil painting, one perceives the adherence to the current of abstract expressionism by the artist, who with pure and bright colors and impetuosity of gestures, composes a work that pays tribute to the purity of color. The work develops on lines arranged in a vertical way that give order to the whole, helped by the white color that stands out, as if to encourage the compositional and emotional order. In the second work "Face the future and act now", thanks to the use of complementary but also opposite colors, the artist's emotions are expressed through the pictorial action, which with the use of the black color transmits a restless sense of existential anguish for a future compromised by a precarious present, combined with the white color that gives hope and incites to a new beginning, possible if you act now. In the latest artistic production of the series "Abstract Statement No.2" a background with shades of blue, is preparing to welcome an explosion of yellow color, accompanied timidly by drops of red. The choice of yellow color gives dynamism and liveliness to the composition that recalls the autumn atmosphere, juxtaposed with the blue that seems to embody the sky of the first mild days. The emotional intensity and the non-figurative aesthetics are embraced in a dance with unconventional music, which recognizes in these works something unresolved, an unrevealed detail, that the artist during the composition of his productions wanted to keep in the mystery to leave free interpretation to the viewer.

Art Curator Benedetta Battaglini

Mayr Volker

Celebration Of Colors

Mayr Volker

Face The Future And Act Now

Mayr Volker

Abstract Statement No.2

Mehak Mittal "When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about". (Haruki Murakami) Mehak Mittal depicts our ability to adapt in a direct and clear way, to change when needed, to recognise the moment when the shift must take place. This concept is expressed through the image of the cuttle fish that is able to change the colour and texture of its skin suddenly and quickly according to need. The artist reflects on how our lives have changed radically in the last two years and how humanity has adapted to this new version of us. Just like the cuttlefish we didn't have time to adapt to the idea, it just happened and we went with the flow. Not much questioning, just action. We can find beauty in adapting to external forces.

Mehak Mittal

A simple image, like that of a watercolour animal, confronts us with the nature of man as an animal being, our being able to change radically if necessary and maybe to find happiness in this amazing ability. With his paintings, Mittal is describing his hope in the evolution into beings in harmony with their own nature and with that of their surroundings. Interwoven with the elements of flora and fauna, in a sort of vital exchange of essences stretched by an innate predisposition to change. For the artist, to give back is as important as to take, keeping this relationship alive and balanced represents the path to redemption. In these years of pandemic we often find ourselves thinking about the unpredictable paths our lives could take, and surrounding ourselves with serene beauty is the best way to begin our own personal shift and emerge.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

Mehak Mittal

The Shift

Mehak Mittal

Merge

Mia Molander

For the international exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Mia Molander exposes three works (“Unicorn Brave and Beauty”, “Women Hope”, “Women Roses”) with a strong visual and emotional impact. Using the digital medium to extrapolate her visions from her imagination, the artist expresses at her best a perceptive process that points to the infinite, emphasizing and connecting numerous elements such as shape, color and female beauty. Mia materializes authentic works of art on the screen, which are the result of a convergence of her internal and external influences. Great emotionality emerges in her visual language with the aim of making it available to the world and capturing a sensory development within the viewer. In this way the artist modifies the process of conception and fruition of the image. As far as the use of colors is concerned, thanks to black Mia managed to bring out each profile of the women represented as well as the other shades present in the works: this contrast among the nuances strengthens the chromatic effect on the surface. This is shown in “Unicorn Brave and Beauty”, where the artist uses yellow to stage a strong symbolism: in fact, as a sign of light and creativity, this color expresses positivity, vitality and freedom. The young woman depicted is thus in perfect harmony, both with the fantastic animal and with the whole magical and chromatic setting created by Mia. While in “Women Hope”, the artist emphasizes the thick hair of the woman, representing her with many bright green leaves: in fact, this shade is a symbol of hope and uncontaminated nature. As if she was Mother Nature, all the beauty of the young woman is highlighted thanks to her sinuous profile and her leafy hair that lightly touches her shoulders. Finally, in “Women Roses”, the artist gives the girl a lot of sensuality through the use of a large rose in her hair. Here, the color contrast is more visible: black, white and red create a pleasant combination and emphasize the woman's passion and carefree attitude. Mia Molander wants to immerse the viewer in the female universe, but not only: in fact, it is possible to admire dynamic works in which a transfer of visual perceptions is highlighted. In this way, the observer can make the most of their feelings and emotions, achieving a completely personalized satisfaction.

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Mia Molander

Unicorn Brave and Beauty

Mia Molander

Women Hope

Mia Molander

Women Roses

Michael Angle Oh! The artist Michael Angle Oh! presents his work "Mortal Transition" during the exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, entitled "NFT New Freedom Think". The work reflects and crowns what is the creative path of Michael Angle Oh! that is a multifaceted artist. He is in fact musician, poet, photographer…definable a "creative" 360 degrees. The work is in fact a combination between photography and digital post production in which the colors and the subjects are skillfully balanced. The visual focus is at the center: a sort of drop formed by pixels is suspended in the air and, if we observe it carefully, it is possible to glimpse a female face. Immediately above it is the crescent of the moon, a fundamental element for Michael who has always articulated his emotions and with whom he is strongly connected. Around this central focus, a sort of concentric echo is created, forming ever larger circles, like the effect that is created when a drop falls into a pool of water. In this regard it is easy to reconnect with the famous work of Edvard Munch "The Scream" in which the echo of the voice is amplified by the concentric brushstrokes that are released throughout the canvas. From the chromatic point of view, the work is composed mainly of violet and red that are in strong contrast with black, creating an ethereal effect. In the foreground, a flower is placed on the right, a photographic element left in black and white. The same type of flower is present in the left part of the work: one white and one black, placed behind the "portal". The work of Michael Angle Oh! is complex and is built on various levels, with different techniques and elements. What is striking is the poetic nature that is inevitably transmitted to the spectators who seek inner balance within the work.

Art Curator Giorgia Massari

Michael Angle Oh!

Mortal Transition

Mikie

Self-expression through art is an atavistic and millenary impulse. The representation of the soul and experiences is an action born before the great civilizations, prior to the development of human society. Art, in its meaning of expressing something through a tool or a pigment has always been part of the human experience. In those days, man had not yet invented the wheel, could not write - the alphabet did not yet exist - and did not live in houses. But art was there. To experience art is to experience life. Through the aesthetic experience, art puts our senses into action and touches some inner chords, allowing us to understand ourselves and the reality around us or to know new ones. Mikie creates art using the ancient technique of dyeing on fabric. So what happens when two potentially different human artifacts come together? Art has no useful purpose, while fabric has accompanied the history of man and his progress throughout the centuries. Combining art and craftsmanship with an ancient flavor creates a work of art that is a synthesis of human flair and genius. There is something fascinating about the process used by Mikie. She dyes the fabric using the technique of Batik. In fact, the procedure involves the application of waterproofing material on the fabric to be dyed. This allows, once the color has been applied and the residues of rice glue or wax have been washed off, to have a beautifully embroidered and ornate fabric. "Konpaku I", literally "soul", "spirit" is an agglomeration of marks, spots and ink backgrounds that stand out on the fabric. The elaboration and overlapping of elements is impressive and the eye is confused trying to follow all the lines and shapes that make up the work. A wonderful butterfly larva emerging from its pupa. This is the inspiration that inflamed Mikie's soul during the creation of the work. A mysterious moment, so imbued with delicate fragility and the deep meaning of the cycle of life. The beautiful butterfly is born, you can catch a glimpse of its wings, still crumpled, beginning to emerge from the pupa, once its warm and sweet home. The colors are electrifying, the veins on the wings give an intrinsically sensual and vital character to the life that has just been transformed. Now the butterfly is free to fly, it has awakened from its sweet and comfortable sleep.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Mikie

Konpaku I

Mikkel Westrup / Kid Areezy Mikkel Westrup / Kid Areezy (born 1981) has a background in graphic design and graffiti. He has been tattooing since 2009 and owns “Thank You Tattoo” in Copenhagen Denmark. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Mikkel presents three artworks. “AREEZILLA”, the first piece showed, is done digital as part of Mikkel new NFT project “Kid Areezy”, a story about a martian told in chapters of 1/1 NFTs. The alien is portrayed while looking straight at us, covered entirely by highly refined tattoos reproduced in great detail, naturally paying homage to Mikkel's work. The writings on the sides of the Martian, “Kid Areezy / Paradise”, are reproduced in oriental style, as well as some orientalderived tattoos on his body - dragons, lotus flowers, clouds. "BPPP 1 & 2", the other two works presented by the artist on display, no longer portray the alien, but two human bodies, respectively that of a man and a woman. Made both with blue ballpoint pens in Chicano tattoo style - which took approximately 150 hours to finish each piece to Mikkel", in “BPPP 1” a male bust is portrayed with splendid tattoos. Enclosed in a barbed wire that crosses the four corners of delicate roses, the body emerges in all its beauty, as well as that of the woman, the protagonist of "BPPP 2" who, in underwear, boldly shows the tattoos with which it is entirely covered. In place of the wire, there is a chain here, which meets butterflies, a symbol of femininity, and four lotus flowers that inevitably recall the love that Mikkel has for the East.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Mikkel Westrup / Kid Areezy

AREEZILLA

Mikkel Westrup / Kid Areezy

BPPP 1

Mikkel Westrup / Kid Areezy

BPPP 2

Miren Galdona

Miren Galdona is a Spanish digital artist. She has always been attracted by the use of all kinds of media to create her art but in the last few years, she decided to focus her artworks on digital art. For the “NFT New Freedom Think” exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Miren exhibits three deep and psychological works. In “Open-minded” and “Anxiety” we see a face that reflects very well the work’s titles: in the first one the man's face is surrounded by bright colours. Blue, green, red, pink and orange are exploding from the man's mind. In the second digital painting, we must not be fooled by the bright and happy colors. The figure that we see has a light blue face, he’s confused and transmits to us the discomfort he is experiencing. When Miren paints, she doesn’t think about what she is going to do but she prefers to rely on the spontaneity of his artistic gesture, so what we see in these paintings is the state of mind of the artist at the moment of the creation of her works. In the third artwork “Kiss me” there are two figures kissing on a white background. She uses the colours to underline the salient points of the painting: the lips of the two figures who are about to touch. Miren’s work speaks to us about the different emotions that we can feel in our lives. She decides to show her sensitivity through funny and nice works but where, in reality, the emotionality of the artist pours out on the screen.

"I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love" (Edvard Munch)

Art Curator Federica Acciarino

Miren Galdona

Open-minded

Miren Galdona

Anxiety

Miren Galdona

Kiss me

Mona Hecker

Mona Hecker is a professional artist from Lebanon. For her, each work of art is an opportunity to portray her outlook on the world, her worries, her involvement in global issues: in fact, for some years now they have been part of the series "Call to Earth" which have as their subject species risking extinction because of human lack of responsibility, pollution and destroying nature. At "NFT - New Freedom Think" exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery Mona takes part with with one piece belonging to this series. The painting is a repetition of Hummingbirds silhouettes covering the whole canvas all colored and shot in different positions. By interacting with each other, they create an extremely harmonious lively effect, further enhancing the reason why Mona created this work: to sensitize the viewer on the environmental issue, making aware of his/her enormous responsibility towards Nature and what surrounds him/her.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Mona Hecker

Hummingbirds Awakening

Mounia Dadi "I seek the eternal in the transitory, the glory in the chaotic. I am a manichean torn by this unbearable duality." Mounia Dadi

On the occasion of the International digital Exhibition organized by the M.A.D.S. gallery in Milan and Fuerteventura, which now also lives in the Metaverse, we are pleased to present the work of Mounia Dadi. The young and beautiful artist faces a social, political and artistic discourse. The contemporaneity lies not only in the date of execution, but in the identity of the events we are experiencing in this cultural period. In particular, as we can deduce from the explanatory title "Humanrace", Mounia's work embodies the expression of the human condition in all its facets. The artist defines herself as a "pessimist with optimistic dreams" and she strongly believes in destiny, in the fact that our lives are written as an unfinished novel, an architectural narrative. The work that you are presenting to us, of rather significant dimensions, is a composition of individuals of different shades, colors and positions. They share a masterful pictorial technical execution and their deprivation of physiognomic characters, which makes the painting readable by any interlocutor. The differentiation of colors and the shades play a fundamental role in dealing with a social discourse of this type: they indicate the cultural diversity and the origin of each of us. At the same time it is the element that creates dynamism in the work, what attracts us and pushes the eye to wander around the pictorial surface to discover and get to know each one of the subjects portrayed. We live in a world full of dualities to explore and it is precisely this awareness that has allowed Mounia's production to be exhibited in numerous art galleries in New York, Seattle, Dubai, Ottawa, Montreal and in many European cities as well as in Morocco, where he now lives and works.

Art Curator Carola Antonioli

Mounia Dadi

Humanrace

Muneeba Zeeshan “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” (Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi) The artist Muneeba Zeeshan, who was born in Pakistan and grew up in the Middle East, has had the opportunity to travel the world and draw influences and inspirations for her artistic journey. It is indeed a mixture of cultures, also influenced by her most recent residence in the sunny San Francisco Bay Area from which she derives inspirations of diverse art and culture. Muneeba Zeeshan's painting takes shape through the inspiration of everything around her, from the simplest things to world events. The artist Muneeba Zeeshan succeeds in rekindling joy, life and hope through her art. Through spiritual and emotional research, she manages to transport her feelings and inner journeys onto canvas. The artist succeeds in creating works with a variety of shapes, from organic to fluid, which give rise to lively compositions that convey happiness and joy. The artist lets himself be inspired by reality, by what strikes him, giving shape to the wonder that this represents for him, almost with the same amazement and simplicity of a child. Everything is done with simplicity and synthesis, with a great sense of proportion. It is a spontaneous but precise painting with every brushstroke, capable of giving comfort and calm to the observer who can lose himself in the lines and shapes of the paintings.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Muneeba Zeeshan

The One

Muneeba Zeeshan

Ocean meets Sun

Muneeba Zeeshan

Float like a butterfly Sting like Jelly

Nat Flaming

The artist Nat Flaming presents on the international art exhibition NFT-New freedom think, the work titled Strands of Life. Before starting with the analysis of the work, it could be interesting to understand the deepest message of the concept NFT. On this occasion, the artists are called to talk about a new way to intend the art and in how many ways the mind can take them out of a comfortable situation, in how many ways the mind can be free. The answer that gives us the artist Nat Flaming is closed into the photography Strands of life. What emerges by watching this work? First, we can see a composition that is concentrated on the centre of the space. The black lines seem to cut the space into two parts. In addition, in the background these lines become dimmer and less perceptible as they were shadows. As if the artist with this technique wants to tell us that there’s a depth beneath the surface of things. In this way the lines that emerge can remind allegorically to something that belongs to the sensibility of the artist. As it was technique taken by the ready-made art, the artist Nat Flaming took something from his reality and connected these things to his life, giving them a specific artistic meaning. As he says:<< When walking a few days ago I was capturing this image, my thoughts while I was taking them is how the twigs and branches look like different strands of life, and that each branch represents a good or bad time in your life>>. That is the answer to the question at the beginning of the review. The freedom of the mind happens when one is able to let the thoughts go free to use the elements of reality, and give them a specific meaning to understand better who we really are.

Art Curator Elisabetta Eliotropio

Nat Flaming

Strands of Life

Natoo

Natoo presents “Rêve d’Azur”, “Spacy” and “Pamela” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. Three artworks, which represent tranquility, silence and desire. The first artwork depicts a character gazing into a peaceful horizon created by blue tones which are reflected on the character´s face. “Spacy” is a pause, it is a long wait for something to happen after turmoil has passed. The composition is mainly achieved by green forms all over the artwork to showcase a powerful gaze during a silent moment. “Pamela” depicts a brave woman ready to pursue a new path with the boldness required to do so. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” - Frida Kahlo. Life presents itself with different paths to pursue. Freedom after turmoil is sublime. We cherish poetry after difficult transitions and it is imperative to understand the final result after turmoil has passed. “Sometimes you have to forget what you feel to remember what you deserve” - Frida Kahlo. Freedom is what you deserve. The artist creates to enjoy the tranquility, the silence and the desire of moments in our lives as a sublime experience. “Rêve d’Azur”, “Spacy” and “Pamela” are showcased as an opportunity for freedom portrayed with blueness, gazes and so much strength.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

Natoo

Rêve d’Azur

Natoo

Spacy

Natoo

Pamela

Nele Rosseels "Life is a huge canvas: pour all the colours you can on it" (Danny Kaye)

In Nele's entire artistic work, the protagonists are the colours that come to life and move within the space and sometimes emerge from it invading the surrounding space. In fact, the artist's works are extremely vivid and lively. Nele has the ability to surprise, she is able to create works that collide with the soul of the one who observes them. The viewer is totally captured by the splashes of colour, by the movements they create, by the lines that like scratches are thrown on the works, decisive lines that end their path outside the works. Nele's artistic work is changeable, sometimes the splashes of colour are still and motionless, nothing and no one would be able to move them, other times they seem in constant motion, they break through the boundaries of the work and seem to run towards infinity space. Somehow the observer is called to fantasize and fly beyond borders, taking a journey into dreams and imagination. All the entire artistic work of Nele is of great visual impact, a true concentration of sensations mixed with colours and thoughts, the viewer's attention is reminiscent of the colours that sometimes meet and collide, with completely different shades and other times they seem to accompany each other, as if they were taking each other gently by the hand. If colour is the main element of the works, in the same way a co-protagonist is emotion, in fact every work transmits emotions, each one different from the other. The observer in front of Nele's work is pervaded by unique feelings and sensations, the artist gives us a real sensory experience, in fact the viewer can discover beauty, emotions, dormant or forgotten memories and dreams. Nele is able to make the viewer go on a journey, which begins in her works and ends in the observer's heart, passing through the discovery of oneself, in fact the entire artistic work of Nele is a real journey. Nele's works are a true concentrate of energy and possess a strong evocative power, ethereal works that have the ability to illuminate the space and soul of the observer.

Art Curator Vanessa Viti

Nele Rosseels

The ball people 7

Nele Rosseels

The ball people 8

Nele Rosseels

The ball people 9

Nicholas P. Kozis

For the exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at the M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Nicholas P. Kozis exposes six works (“Ella 4”, “Harvest 3”, “Lilian 5”, “Sirsdarkstar”, “Vibrant 1”, “Who Watches The Watchers 2”) where he enhances the contrast between the ethereal figures of the women and the surrounding environment. The artist emphasizes the beauty and grace of each character, placing the representation in a mystical and magical setting, by making the young girls emerge from it as light as feathers, while a light source radiates from the inside to the outside of the painting. Through their poses, a vertical scansion of the artistic composition is emphasized, so that the viewer can fully admire their silhouettes, absorbing a vital and positive lymph, becoming an integral part of those idyllic dimensions. Everything overwhelms the observer, both perceptually and sensorially. The juxtaposition between image and language is strong and the artist wisely succeeds in emphasizing both aspects, succeeding in making the women so real, as if they were concretely in front of the viewer.

Nicholas P. Kozis

It is possible to notice a slight dynamism in every background: all the elements, colors, shades and sinuous lines emerge indissolubly with a strong energy that amplifies the vision of those who admire the works. Each stroke executed by the artist becomes a symbol capable of conveying emotions, giving his technique an aesthetic function and a strong stylistic imprint. Nicholas takes the viewer on a journey through art, imagination and spirituality, creating a unique and inimitable experience. He investigates the true essence of the image, reaching out and exploring the crucial part of the composition: the woman. Through his works, Nicholas P. Kozis arouses deep feelings, enveloping both women and the viewer in an intimate, passionate and dreamy atmosphere.

“Woman is poetry. Woman is love. Woman is life.” (Charles Bukowski)

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Nicholas P. Kozis

Ella 4

Nicholas P. Kozis

Harvest 3

Nicholas P. Kozis

Lilian 5

Nicholas P. Kozis

Sirsdarkstar

Nicholas P. Kozis

Vibrant 1

Nicholas P. Kozis

Who Watches The Watchers 2

Nicholaus Proskur “I love trees, frogs and universe, I love to love and create something - I don't want anything, I just indulge. All my life I have been engaged in art - and my main work will be my life after it is completed” (Nicholaus Proskur) Nicholaus Proskur shows his original art at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedoom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. His work is called New freedom think. It is composed by several supports: firstly it was painted on canvas with acrylic and oil, then the second part was created using digital tools. The artist reflects on the advent of NFTs in the art field and says “After "death" the physical object ceased to exist in "reality", but it will always be in the digital space, it will exist forever - as long as our world exists, and thanks to the NFT system, yes, it can be copied, but only this one will be authentic”. The work itself is proposed as a reflection on evolution. The masterpiece is completely innovative and son of the new millennium: for the chosen subject (in fact, one can glimpse the binary coding), for the supports used, for the way in which it was chosen to be exhibited. “Everything flows and transforms - the artist says - we will walk together in the metaverse and laugh with meta-irony”. It is more than a reflection about new technologies, it is a reflection about men, how they react to progress, how it influences our lives with risks and benefits.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Nicholaus Proskur

New freedom think

Nick Morgan

Nick Morgan is an American young artist specialized in contemporary creative abstract artwork. What emerges from Nick's artistic path is the genuine spontaneity of the ability of his technique and what he feels with dynamism and vitality, constant elements of his paintings. For the “NFT New Freedom Think'' exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, the artist decided to exhibit one of his works: an untitled acrylic painting. He decided not to name his works to allow the viewers to interpret the work with an open mind and based on the feelings it can inspire for each person. The painting that the spectator has in front of him is a constellation, a galaxy of colours. Yellow, blue, white, orange, black: there is an explosion of colors on the canvas with drops of paint that give dynamism and immediacy to the work. He plays with colors to create a unique world that distinguishes his art. The painting is happy and charming. The joyfulness conveyed is revealed in the colors of the acrylics he used. The agglomeration of colors is an agglomeration of feelings: Nick wants to capture the emotions of the viewer but also he wants to push it to use its own imagination, to dig into the endless details of his work.

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see" (Edgar Degas)

Art Curator Federica Acciarino

Nick Morgan

Untitled

Nikita Belovs Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Søren Kierkegaard) We often hear about how experiencing a certain thing can help us grow. Experience seems to be closely linked to the concept of error. To get involved and experiment means to change course with respect to the comforting and safe way of our daily life, of our daily routine. Repetition, programming give us comfort, and they hold us in a tighter grip of a few unshakeable certainties. In fact, the young artist Nikita Belovs starts from his personal and transformative experiences, and from how these have been able to offer him new but incredible keys to reading. For Nikita, art becomes a means to reason about people, situations, the unshakeable certainties that inhabit his daily life, reaching surprising interpretations. This is witnessed by "Rebirth", a work with a sacred title, which alludes to the possibility of returning to the origins, to the primary state, to rise and be reborn as totally different people. The sense of experience is something intimate for the artist: it coincides with radical changes in lifestyle, such as the transfer to another continent, which allowed him to reason and rethink his affections, his home, his nest. A nest on which hovers, however, the imminent danger of the storm, of a traumatic event that can actually disturb the balance. "Stormy Days" is the representation of this sense of precariousness, obtained through the technique of "deconstructed" photography. Nature, as well as the self, becomes for Nikita a field of investigation: as "Stormy Days", also "Into the woods reflects" on the possibility of finding oneself in a disturbing situation, in which trees seem to lose consistency, until they become ghostly beings. The artist’s research focuses on this double track: on the one hand the desire to go beyond the simple appearance of things, but on the other hand this research can lead to unexpected results, sometimes surprising and mysterious. A mystery to which, however, only art can concretely give shape.

Art Curator Matilde Grossi

Nikita Belovs

Into the woods

Nikita Belovs

Rebirth

Nikita Belovs

Stormy Days

Noa Boucquillon

Noa is a skilled architect of the image, a refined "metteur en scène" who, on the one hand, proves to be very sensitive to the geometric-minimalist lesson, on the other, measures, with equal passion, the recovery of the classical ideal. In her photos, nullifying the referential dimension, she truly seems to be in front of a Mondrian painting, well composed and capable of reflecting the soul of the individual. She thus creates an extraordinary balance all played on the surface, without any breakthrough towards depth and with a more spectacular and dramatic use of light. The image is immediately ready to be translated into imaginary, because those figures, harmoniously floating in the void, emblematically occupy a sort of modern earthly paradise. A place abstracted from space but also from passions, a place of pure and absolute beauty. Noa creates in her shots a mixture of classical greek art and the surrealist movement, a harmonious fusion of past and future with an aura of mystery, charm and ambiguity. She express this fusion with great elegance and the refinement and harmony of proportions and lines are absolutely her hallmark.

Art Curator Chiara Lezzi

Noa Boucquillon

That's life

Noa Boucquillon

Remember to smile

Noa Boucquillon

Strati di cipria

Noonie

Saudi National Noura Alangari (goes by her nickname Noonie), born and raised in Riyadh and now living in Europe is a self-taught digital artist, sculptor, photographer and painter and one of the first Saudi and GCC NFT artists. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Noonie presents "Cloud 9”, the first work of a large series still in progress with fantastic and dreamlike subjects and themes. The protagonist of the work is a woman with very long pink hair who is ecstatic - her eyes literally come to heart - in front of an ice cream cone in the foreground. The girl is placed on a dreamy background made of clouds, bunnies and hearts: the result is extremely dreamlike but at the same time delicate and almost funny effect.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Noonie

Cloud 9

Olivia Alynn Armendariz “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” (Stella Adler)

Artist Olivia Alynn Armendariz has had the dream of becoming a world-famous artist since she was a child, and has dedicated her entire life to painting. After attending VVC to study fine arts, she moved on from abstractionism to expressionism, continuing her education at the Art Institute in Milan, where she learned to work with oils. These studies resulted in the creation of beautiful portraits that have a common bond of beauty. The women depicted are in fact surrounded by elements of dreams, reflecting the spirit of the artist and the hearts that surround her. Looking at Olivia Alynn Armendariz's paintings we see her way of seeing the world, through her lens, we can perceive the artist's intention to show love. The beauty of the drawing and the delicacy of the colours allow a peaceful contemplation of the work in which warm colours contrast with cold ones in a delicate chromatic balance full of beauty. A taste for vivid colours and a sense of the fantastic is evident in the work. The artist does not represent visible reality but uses an increasingly marked style. The colours and the shapes becomes the protagonist of the painting, the consistency and the repeated brushstrokes allow the artist to rework the compactness of the forms. Beauty is always at the centre of Olivia Alynn Armendariz's artistic creation. The representation of women, in their different forms and pictorial techniques, are created by frank brushstrokes and vibrant colours, light and soft, on preparations that blend with the decorative objects in the background. The whole is adorned with flowers that give the image a precious nature and make the protagonist aware of her charm and femininity.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Olivia Alynn Armendariz

A blooming dream

Orimi

There are works of art that have the ability to transport the viewer to distant places while standing still. Art has the ability to tell about things, to express feelings and emotions, but the quality of making the mind of the viewer wander towards distant places is perhaps one of its most interesting qualities. A stain, a mixture of chromatic tones, straight or sinuous lines and shades become a real alphabet of symbols to reach those places that only the mind can imagine. Orimi knows it well and her works are a crosssection of these imaginary worlds that smell of reality. And so it is that we find ourselves catapulted into the air. The atmosphere is completely clear and the ground is clearly visible. We are flying, we don't know if with our bodies or our minds, yet we can see the earth below us. The entire surface is dotted with large yellow blobs rising out of black space in a rather pronounced fashion. Tiny cells? Puddles of water? Abstract elements rising from the ground? No, none of the above. In "Forest" we are literally flying over a lush forest. The high contrast between yellow and black allows for an extremely clear view of our surroundings during this journey. In fact, yellowish glows of a rather circular shape emerge from the darkness. The edges are jagged and within them the yellow hue gently fades, flooding the spherical shape we are observing with color. At the center of each element there is also a tangle. They look like threads, or branches that support the yellowish foliage that makes up each tree. There are so many plants and the eye is lost at the sight of all these trees. Yet there is a sense of peace, a sense of newfound stability. In some ways you can hear the faint rustling of the leaves of the trees. In some moments you have the sensation of smelling the pungent, fresh sylvan scent. But remember, the journey is in our mind and in the space of the work, not in reality. Orimi creates works that are real patterns within which the repeated element is functional to the perception of meaning. Repetition as an amplifier of meaning. "Nest" is a clear example of this. Pattern of dark clouds dissected by yellow linear elements dominate the composition. Their physiognomy is particularly expressive and they act as a curtain to the representation. However, there is another function, this time more hidden: that of emphasizing an element of the work: the girl's eyes. The girl's irises are made of exactly the same material as the background. The gaze is enveloped in sweetness and luminous elements. The pupils no longer exist and in their place are born splendid stars.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Orimi

Eggs

Orimi

Forest

Orimi

Nest

Oriol Paré Soldevila "Art is continuous research, assimilation of past experiences, addition of new experiences, in form, content, material, technique, means". (Bruno Munari)

Oriol perfectly embodies Munari's idea, he is first of all a researcher, his art is the result of the connection between technology and creative genius. After all, in the 21st century one cannot think of talking about art without including new techniques. The artist Oriol implements a method of artistic expression, not only new, but also of great impact. The artistic work of the young artist is a complete immersion in a sea of vibrant figures, the viewer is completely transported by the current of these dynamic forms, as in a shipwreck one is catapulted into a whirlwind of emotions. The movement, the static but fluid images that appear in a continuous motion, play the role of protagonists on the digital stage, light tones that contrast with dark backgrounds, contrasts of tones, light and shadow, are characteristics that make Oriol's works strongly evocative and suggestive. The Oriol artist is able to create totally new images, elements and shapes never seen before but which somehow dig into the memory of the user, they evoke figures already seen or elements of nature. Oriol's work is research and amazement, each line created is the result of research and experimentation, each figure that comes out is always surrounded by a halo of magic and mystery. In fact, the work of the artist Oriol could be defined as a "romantic abstract", there is no presence of real forms, only figures free from any constraint, therefore abstract, and it is at the same time romantic because it arouses deep feelings. Quoting Pollock who said: "The modern artist, it seems to me, works to express an inner world, in other words he expresses movement, energy and other inner forces", in the same way Oriol's work appears, expression of a movement interior, of one's own strengths and energies, in fact art should always be the freest way to express one's inner worlds. Oriol's artistic work is an opportunity for the user to get lost in the maze of memories, dreams and to be amazed and welcome new adventures and emotions.

Art Curator Vanessa Viti

Oriol Paré Soldevila

Found mathematical microorganism based on silicon. Non-euclidean transpiration. Transmission 3

Oriol Paré Soldevila

Non-Newtonian Fluid

Paloma Mungia "A glass mirror is used to look at the face; and works of art are used to look at one's soul." (George Bernard Shaw)

Thanks to the numerous studies conducted, Paloma Mungia discovered a deep and true love for ceramic sculpture, drawing and collage, which joined the incessant need to create an art that could fully express itself and what it he tries. Studies on the human figure, on movement and on the plot are prefigured as the key elements of his artistic poetics. But what is truly fundamental for the artist is the belief that art can heal and save human lives. When she creates art, Paloma Mungia comes into direct contact with her inner self, understanding her difficulties, her wounds and acting so that her artistic inspiration is transformed into a real medicine. Understanding of the self and overcoming one's limits. "Black Swirl" is foreshadowed as a black vortex of emotions, thoughts and sensations, which intertwine, dance, hug each other incessantly. A personal tornado that, sooner or later, will be destined to stop, welcoming the will of the artist. Improving oneself through art, through the diffusion of shapes and colors in reference to one's own experience.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Paloma Mungia

Black Swirl

Parth Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully you will find this to be so. (Marcus Aurelius) Approaching Parth's art means plunging headlong into a multiform and changing universe, in which bold color combinations are the absolute protagonists. What drives the artist's creative flair is the desire to give shape and color to his inner world, and in particular to his most intimate thoughts and feelings. To do this, Parth takes inspiration from spirituality, as in Tunnel To Blissful Realm, a composition on acrylic in which swirling brushstrokes of black, purple and red dominate. With this effective depiction in dark tones, the artist seems to underline the asperities - apparently insurmountable - that meet to reach an ideal and sacred place, but which help to ennoble the intent of one's mission. From a spiritual level, we move to a cosmic dimension with Opus - (He's The Master Of Nebula Creation In Multiverses) and Uleka - (A Creature From An Exoplanet, Made Up Of Cosmic Dark Power). If on the one hand Uleka strikes the observer for the sharp contrast between the vermilion background and the dense black brushstrokes in the center, the bright purple of Opus - branched out in sinuous "cobwebs" that run down the sides of the work - immediately brings to mind the cosmic nebulae, which ignite the imagination due to their impenetrable remoteness.

Parth

The journey into Parth's varied artistic world continues with An Insight of War, which differs from other works in the choice of light, almost fluorescent colors. Streaks of green, orange, pink and electric blue move on a soft blue background, and seem to communicate to the viewer a feeling of great dynamism. This is combined with an effective narrative ability, of extraordinary visual impact. With Formation of Lava Rocks the artist embraces an inspiration coming from the natural and scientific world, and "illustrates" on the canvas the moment of the formation of lava. The warm chromatic notes of orange, red and yellow are so realistic that they are almost "burning" and forcefully shake the attention of the beholder. Art, therefore, also becomes a perfect lens for Parth to contemplate the powerful and sublime manifestations of nature, fueling a creative flair that goes hand in hand with an interest in the environment. With The Mysterious Ribbon, the artist takes us to a more intimate and suffused level, animated by material colors. The canvas is covered with a soft carpet of blue and induces the mind to linger on it, until it is carried away by the enigma of the composition, which seems to hide something from our eyes. In each of his works, Parth succeeds in communicating an extraordinary plurality of feelings and emotions, investigating himself and enriching the interiority of the beholder with an unparalleled experience.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. (Edgar Degas)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Parth

An Insight of War

Parth

Formation Of Lava Rocks

Parth

Opus - (He’s The Master Of Nebula Creation In Multiverses)

Parth

The Mysterious Ribbon

Parth

Tunnel To Blissful Realm

Parth

Uleka - (A Creature From An Exoplanet, Made Up Of Cosmic Dark Power)

Patricia RAIN Gianneschi Patricia RAIN Gianneschi is a professional Visual Artist, Musician and Teacher born and raised in Chicago, working across Poetics. In her multimedia work, whether music or visual art, the intersection of social justice and spirituality is a thread that runs through all the disciplines of her work. Her paintings, prints and drawings going back over 35+ years represent an artistic practice rich in ideas, content, creativity and authenticity. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, RAIN presents two paintings and a video. In the first painting called “Fallen Nation”, an abstract world is represented, made of soft and shaded colors and some geometric figures including spheres and squared elements that are reminiscent of celestial stars and that take us to another dimension. As a multi-media artist using paint, words and music as a portal for imagination and spirit, RAIN is involved with the process of Becoming and Creating. Her goal is therefore to bring the viewer into a space where they become open to the forces of imagination and spirit, since she truly believes Art can transform us and take us to a new awareness, create new sensations and form. RAIN’s desire is to elicit a response from the viewer, allowing him/her to breath in color, image and texture and to form their own narrative. "Palmyra" is also an abstract painting, in which two curved white shapes emerge from an orange background, which seem to walk towards an unknown destination. With this work, the artist wanted to remember the destruction of the ancient temples in Syria by Isis: at the base of the painting we see in fact some rubble on which the two figures walk disconsolately. Lastly, in the video “Out There In The Sky” RAIN combines images that portray stars and glass galaxies belonging to the American artist Josiah McEleny with a music she composed and played, accompanied by a poem she recites. The poetry is a reflection on the Universe and on our ephemeral presence in the world, as short as it is important to build small pieces that then become part of a wall, which is the wall of history. But despite our differences and the fleetingness of our experience, what unites all people of every age is Art, which we cannot help but produce as the supreme expression of the human being. As RAIN writes: “Traces of lives lived and lost to time (…) And the Art / Everywhere / In every culture / Revealing something… / Out there / In the Sky”.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Patricia RAIN Gianneschi

Fallen Nation

Patricia RAIN Gianneschi

Out There In The Sky

Patricia RAIN Gianneschi

Palmyra

Peter Sutton

Strength of the brushstrokes, straight to the light. Peter Sutton presents “Here comes the night” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. The artist states “By the fading light, my true beauty and form is revealed as I welcome the darkness”, with this statement we can appreciate sincerity and strength to choose his own destiny. Peter Sutton suggests a waiting presence surrounded by dark red tones. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” - Leonardo da Vinci. The presence wears a triangular shape, a garment, a cloak of blue and green tones, which are also used to create a frame around the central image. Above the cloak, a satellite is presented, which is ready to search for the rightful light. We witness a glimpse of light on the right side of the artwork. We understand a rightful path, only if we have experienced the complete opposite. “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths…” - William Shakespeare. The artist welcomes the truth of what freedom means. To embrace darkness is to own our story and create a rightful path. Red will lead the way. “Here comes the night”. Strength of the brushstrokes, straight to the light.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

Peter Sutton

Here comes the night

Pien de Haas “Love for the beauty of life is the main driving force of painting. Also, the wonder of life. The quiet of the study during the creative process gives a pleasant slowness to existence that is already too fast ". (From head to heart, Pien de Haas) A painter, in front of his canvas, feels really free to be himself, to be able to express his feelings, his emotions, his thoughts without filters, without blocks or constraints, no boundaries to respect, no rules, only the most intimate of themselves that can manifest itself and transform itself into shapes and colors. The beauty of life, the love, the wonder, the joy we can feel are the oxygen that feeds the flame of artistic creativity. First of all, colors: they are able to be the immediate representation of a feeling, of a state of mind. In the works of the artist Pien de Haas, in fact, the colors and the energy with which they dance on the canvas represent all the love that the artist feels towards life. Her works are a riot of vitality, of movement of emotions and joy that reach from the canvas to whoever is observing it. In the works presented here, the artist shows us her most personal way of thinking, of seeing the world and life. The colors and their dance on the canvas, which creates lines, abstract shapes, movement, are telling us emotions. Whoever observes these works is as if overwhelmed by the joy of living that Pien has instilled in them and that now kidnaps us, transports us into her world. As Pien also states, existence travels too fast, so we need to take time for ourselves, to experience a bit of tranquility. For the artist this is given by the creation of her works and we perceive it through her creations, because they make us escape, even for a few seconds, from the frenzy and noise of everyday life.

Art Curator Silvia Grassi

Pien de Haas

Creative Destruction

Pien de Haas

Flirting Blossom

Pien de Haas

The News is Blue

Polina UNDRBLCK

Dedicated to art as long as she can remember, the artist Polina UNDRBLK focused during her adolescence on sculpture, then became internationally famous for her innovative style of tattoos and finally, during the lockdown of 2020, she discovered painting and completely devoted herself to it. The painting of the Russian artist is a black and white painting that allows us to focus more on the subject that she represented in her work, without the distraction of color. The painting in black and white in general, but especially that of Polina UNDRBLCK, reveals the infinite relationships that white, black and gray entertain each other, but also with light, with shadows and with darkness; opposing the chromatic system, but becoming themselves color at the same time. The drastic reduction of the chromatic palette exalts and pushes to the limits the painter’s ability in rendering the three-dimensionality and in fact, thanks to this, we can see all the skill of the Russian artist. Polina UNDRBLCK portrays faces so impeccable that they appear at the same time as photographs and sculptures, so much is the precision, the accuracy of the details, the luminous rendering. The works are realized with plastic vigor through accurate brushstrokes that accentuate the chiaroscuro and through the grazing light that comes down from above, a light that blocks the images, fixing them for eternity. In "LUCIFER” and "STORM" the canvas space is entirely occupied by two faces. Both have fleshy lips, long eyelashes, straight noses and in both we can see piercings. The latter place the works in the contemporary and strike the viewers, especially if associated with the title "LUCIFER" since we are not accustomed to see him represented in this way. A contemporary reinterpretation can also be seen in "RHA". Even here we can see a piercing, and as for "LUCIFER" also Rha has his head surrounded by a crown of leaves. In a wonderful dance of light and darkness, Polina UNDRBLCK interprets these figures as she prefers, she plays with art, using all the poetic license that art allows her, in total freedom.

Art Curator Francesca Catarinicchia

Polina UNDRBLCK

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STORM

Push The digital universe of the Italian artist Iacopo Zanzi, known as Push, is inhabited by enchanting forms and sublime colors that combine to evoke, releasing it, a sense of spiritual calm and breathe life to dreamy futuristic creatures shrouded in a mystical aura. In his day-to-day creative process, Push employs digital technologies as the medium of his artistic expression: using mouse and keyboard, the artist sculpts natural landscapes, he builds dreamscapes that magically take on concreteness in the eye of the beholder, thanks also to the use of virtual language, unlimited and indefinite. The imaginative visions that Push digitizes and delivers to us, are his emotional suitcase, an expression of his time, hic et nunc. Merging reality and dreams and conjugating art and innovation, the artist juxtaposes virtual hyper-realities with fairy-tale atmospheres, creating fantastic suggestions, actual visual escapes, devoid of the borders of the real world Against the backdrop of a oneiric scenario, dominated by bright and sloping shades of pink, orange and blue, Push makes harmonious figures appear cloaked in a mythical-legendary halo: the artist shapes dazzling naked bodies, dressed in fluctuating rocky fragments and clothed in flowers that seem to sprout from the skin, poetic and alienating. The artist explores the intangible dimension of the dream, his shimmering iconographies seem to erupt from the sky, hover in the air and sway suspended, waiting to declaim a prophecy. In his artistic-visual construction, Push draws his emotional maps, captures what flows and surrounds him, filtering it through his multidimensional imagery: the artist pushes us towards a future that knocks on the doors of the present. By letting us enter his digital underworld, Push connects us with his utopian oasis, makes us browse his virtual reality made up of a multiverse of surreal and parallel worlds..

Art Curator Maria Teresa Cafarelli

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RaccoonDesign RaccoonDesign is a self-taught Italian artist, specialized in 3D. He states that "publishing the first artworks as NFTs was done to understand the potential and opportunities given by the blockchain. The proof of authenticity is what makes these works truly unique: although they are simply bits, they remain immutable even over time and cannot be modified, nor can they be corrupted." The artist participates in the exhibition organized by M.A.D.S and entitled "NFT New Freedom Think" with three NFT of exceptional workmanship. These works are the result of a study that RaccoonDesign began back in 2016 and continues to this day. NFT stands for "Non-fungible token" and is identified with an original and inimitable virtual object. He who buys a NFT, therefore, does not become the owner of a physical work, but comes into possession of the rights connected to the digital work that can be transferred, but not duplicated. Playing with letters and word associations, NFT can become the acronym for “New Freedom Think”. No border that cannot be crossed, no door that cannot be opened: RaccoonDesign travels with his stunning mind and, through his works, takes us to places never seen before. The first NFT, entitled "Left Behind - Time" is a description of a cathartic moment. The artist invites us to retrieve from memory moments experienced without any expectation and which risk running away and not remaining in our memory. As memories are very liquid, dynamic and subject to change, the more we rework them, the more they change. According to RaccoonDesign these "break the soul into fragments and expose the heart and mind" to something that is pure thought and imagination and therefore still mouldable. We thus risk losing the originality of the actions and emotions experienced. The stone statue is the medium through which we remember: it is a treasure chest in which we can enclose the moments of our lives and ensure that they are no longer without space or time. Every time we look at the statue," says the artist, "we lose our concentration on the cold present and find ourselves fantasizing about the past that could have come true". The bluish veins we observe under the skin of the body are fractures that draw the map of memories and feelings.We waste too much time thinking 'what would have happened if I had done...' and 'what would have happened if I had said...'. We often delude ourselves that we have infinite time in this world, but when we take off the masks we wear, we realize that time is only a vague illusion. In the second work entitled "Abstinence" the theme of free will is addressed. The desire for freedom has existed since primordial times. Man and woman were condemned for not respecting the imposed prohibition: this is the original sin. "The illusion of free will is the drug with which we sit our desire for freedom, completely detaching ourselves from reality" - says RaccoonDesign. The subject of the work is a visual representation of the condition of continuous dissatisfaction that lives in man. He would like more than what he has. And since no dose is sufficient to appease this desire, our body slowly dies, taking the form of a skeleton in the grip of damnation. The gaping jaw cries out for one more dose. "That dose is just enough" - the artist writes - "to experience the state of complete hallucination, in the hope that it will be enough." Once again it is hope that keeps the abstinent spirit alive. The third NFT, entitled "Last Roman Hero" represents the end of an era. The fall of the eternal city: Rome and its people. In the foreground, a man stands in defense of the ruins of his civilization. The work is a skilful still image of a moment full of Pathos. A spear pierces the body of the last Roman hero, who died defending his homeland from the atrocious enemy. The feelings that push man to fight are noble and not corrupt. But this is not enough to not fail against a page of history that seems to have already been written. RaccoonDesign states: "Common men, called to defend the greatness of Rome against the course of history, cannot win a war against Fate itself." All that remains of Rome is a legacy of glory and blood, but also of drama. If it is true that man can travel with the mind, then the last Roman hero closes his eyes and imagines a different ending. Our time on Earth is not unlimited, so we must learn to live every second as if it were the last. New Freedom Think is the last chance we have to change the pages of our life. What we have to do is take from the mind the moments lived superficially and live them fully to give them the right value.

Art Curator Alessia Ventola

RaccoonDesign

Left Behind - Time

RaccoonDesign

Abstinence

RaccoonDesign

Last Roman Hero

Rachie Campbell Rachie Campbell is a professional artist and a graphic designer from New Zealand who studied painting at Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London. After completing her thesis on everyday mainstream sexist advertising in public spaces, she became interested in producing work that portrays woman’s perspectives and desires considering they are often not the dominant viewpoint: her work therefore focuses on ideas of the male form, the female mind and how social and cultural constructs influence both. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Rachie presents “High Heels Heaven”, an oil on canvas that portrays two naked men on a wooden floor that opens onto an infinite fleshy space, both wearing a pair of very towery high heels. Through her work, Rachie likes to challenge sexual and gender norms, playing with erotic surrealism. Where the male Surrealists, such as Salvador Dalí and René Magritte created imagery that, in its sexual abandon, often objectified women, they chopped off female arms and legs, replaced their faces with genitalia or rendered them headless. Rachie’s art work “High Heels Heaven" is more sensual and celebratory of the male form by entering the subjects dream and gender fluid fantasy, his naked subconscious dreamland where he is living his fantasy in giant heels, being a reflection of his own private sexual invention.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Rachie Campbell

High heels Heaven

Rafaella Christoforou Rafaella Christoforou is a professional artist and curator from Cyprus, who exhibits and curates group and solo exhibitions internationally and whose artworks manages to create a dialogue between conceptual, abstract and surreal art. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Rafaella presents “Inside the Shadow”, an oil on canvas painting. The poetic artwork is truly made out of Rafaella’s inimitable alphabet baptized as Alfarale. The artist represents harmonically her own organic letters, lines and geometric shapes accompanied with different colors that intertwine and blend together giving life to complex compositions in which the viewer can get lost at times and see what his instinct communicates to him/her. This work aims to be a reason for reflection and exploration for Rafaella of the textual language in art both written and metaphorically: in both content and process of her art, she is in fact interested in the trouble and misunderstanding of language. For this reason, she defines herself , “ as the painter of writing and as the writer of painting” making her artworks 2D and 3D on which to investigate the complexity of the sign track, giving it full freedom.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Rafaella Christoforou

Inside the Shadow

Rana Hatem Slim Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso)

In the contemporary world, sharing is the watchword. We share experiences, thoughts and memories, yet it is difficult to conceive a sharing that leads to dialogue. On the contrary, we have progressively closed ourselves in the vain solitude of the ego. To break this circle, the artist Rana Hatem Slim proposes her own vision of the world, which manages to scratch the walls of individualism to convey a contagious joie de vivre. The Lebanese artist creates with the specific intent of transcending the limits of different cultures and languages, to touch the deepest chords of the soul of the observer. Furthermore, the spontaneity of the creative moment allows the artist not to hide her emotions under the veil of rationality, but to use the space of the canvas to enclose an unrepeatable feeling and inspiration. ANOTHER WORLD transports into a dreamlike and meditative dimension, in which the shades of red, blue and orange blend softly with each other in the background thanks to the pouring technique. The soft contours lead the eye to linger on the central lines of the palette knife technique, which recall the sinuous trend of Arabic calligraphy. With FANTASY Rana manages to summarize the essence of a daydream with mesmerizing efficacy. As a glimpse into the monotony of conventionality, a variegated chromatic parabola tears the rigor of the white canvas, creating a real window of access to the inner world of the artist. The viewer can only be fascinated by the brilliance of the colors, which chase each other quickly, as if to visually render the speed of a thought, the ineffability of a fantasy. In this whirling, however, we can glimpse the personality of the artist, who finds her ideal dimension here, so much so as to define the light contours of a female figure. In this way the artist makes visible the beauty that lies behind a creative mind, and the need to demonstrate that this beauty can be understood on an emotional level, even before a rational level. JOURNEY is dominated by golden hues, reminiscent of the seductive facets of a desert landscape. Furthermore, the luster of gold refers to a more noble, almost hieratic dimension, which is well suited to the idea of an inner journey, at the end of which a high, spiritual awareness is obtained. But once again, Rana does not limit herself to leading this path alone, and she shares it with anyone who approaches her work. To individuality to prefer otherness, to silence dialogue, to indifference a manifest optimism. This is the teaching of Rana Hatam Slim, and we can only fully welcome it.

Happiness consists in powering what you want, and greatness of mind in wanting what you can. (Pliny the Younger)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Rana Hatem Slim

ANOTHER WORLD

Rana Hatem Slim

FANTASY

Rana Hatem Slim

JOURNEY

Regula Huber "You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star". (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Swiss artist Regula Huber has expressed herself through painting since her childhood. The time devoted to her paintings is a cathartic moment, where there is no planning or rules but only the pleasure of being in the present. Being, being there, concentrating all yourself in what you are doing, almost disavowing the context in which you find yourself and the norms of space and time. An explosion of life, concentrated and enclosed in a limited, framed space. This last phrase seems to be an oxymoron, but instead we are talking about what art represents, an ideal space/non-space that contains the irrepressible. Regula Huber paints emotional landscapes that come unfiltered directly from her essence. Who am I and where am I going, she seems to ask herself through these works of art. The choice of bright colours, neon even, convey a sense of vitality and liveliness, the passage of a clear summer sky for which even the most intense explosion is a firework of joy. Even when the thought thickens, the artist creates moments of deeper but always vibrant introspection.The gold leaf and the written element intensify the desire for communication and refinement. The author tells us that she was inspired by the works of Sebastian Merk, a contemporary German painter, who makes extensive use of neon colours in his abstract and expressionist paintings. Compared to Merk's work, however, we can say that with Regula Huber the colour is applied more fully and the brushstrokes are more subtle, as if to indicate a more intimate and perhaps less shared thought. These paintings reveal themselves little by little and reflect a personal climate of slow assimilation.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

Regula Huber

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paradise

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René Daniel Binot The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. (Paul Cézanne) René Daniel Binot's artistic vocation is an integral part of his personality. However, art as an expressive form came to his life in adulthood, thanks to the acrylic painting paired with digital editing. In this versatile and innovative technique, René has found the space to give shape and color to his inspiration, with compositions in bright and vibrant tones, which enchant the observer with their vividness. The works presented for the NFT exhibition are a perfect example of the chromatic and compositional harmony achieved by the artist, starting with Falling faces. From a black background, "dripping" colored lines emerge, giving the impression of having just been erased by a swipe of a sponge. Only a few quick strokes of their original form are recognizable, which become a metaphor for an illusory and transient reality, ready to inevitably fall in front of the truth. In No name cause brand new we can perceive the dense brushstrokes of acrylic, made brighter and more voluminous by the digital montage. The work projects the observer into a sumptuous vortex of metallic colors, which converge towards the center. The gaze follows their sinuous and soft course, and is surprised by the details hidden by the artist (such as the appearance of a face in profile), which make the whole extremely fascinating. Finally, Retro Magazine represents René's reworking of the magazine covers of the 1970s. The work also contains a real artistic manifesto, expressed by the expression "No colors. No light. No music. No art". The artist strongly affirms his own conception of art, which is not limited to visual art, but also embraces artistic expressions such as music. This powerful personal statement of the artist is combined with the features of the face, which come to life from two gray lines and stand out against the backdrop of the "cover" in an almost playful way, recalling the geometries of the notes on the score. All that remains is to welcome the message of René Daniel Binot, and be surprised by every aspect of the multifaceted artistic universe.

One eye sees, the other feels. (Paul Klee)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

René Daniel Binot

Falling faces

René Daniel Binot

No name cause brand new

René Daniel Binot

Retro magazine

Retrosyn Arts Retrosyn Arts is a German mixed media artist from Munich, Germany. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Retrosyn Arts presents three artworks, all deeply influenced by the 80s for the colors and vibes that the artist uses to portray the subjects of her pieces. “Amitola” depicts a half-length woman looking towards us, surrounded by a wonderful red headdress that not only enhances her beauty but embellishes the whole canvas. On her face and in the lower part of the painting there are also golden fragments, which make everything magical, as if the woman were an apparition. This technical trick is given by the fact that the artist really likes to mix different materials such as sprays and digital effects with acrylic and oil paint on canvas, to create depth, movement and magic to her works. In “Inner Balance”, which develops horizontally, Retrosyn Arts portrays an expanse of flowers in greenish colors, each of them engraved with gold details to make them more realistic and deep. The flowers, despite the different sizes, overlap one another, guaranteeing, as the title itself says, a profound visual balance. Lastly, "Zora" depicts a woman too shot in profile on the right side of the canvas and placed on a background of light and shaded colors: with oriental features and a beautiful flowery diadem on her head, she is immortalized in a moment of reflection which allows us to enjoy all her beauty. In fact, as Retrosyn herself says, her highest goal is spreading the message that we are all unique and that everything in this beautiful universe is a question of perspective.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Retrosyn Arts

Amitola

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Inner Balance

Retrosyn Arts

Zora

Rina Horikawa An art that enters powerfully into our contemporary world, welcoming within it a millenary tradition. Pop and ancient imagery come together in the works of Rina creating new and extremely fascinating results. The works of the artist possess in fact a bewitching charm that invests the viewer. There is no precise reason. Probably the dark tonalities induce the gaze to dwell on the different details present in the works. Or this sense of attraction is due to the highly aesthetic image that the artist manages to achieve. Or again, the mixture of ancient and present, tradition and pop culture can create a work so magnetic to attract the viewer overwhelmingly. And that's how we dive into POP JAPAN. The color palette is rather dark, there are few light colors and the colors are rather subdued. The tones are well balanced between them and create a beautiful chromatic harmony. Inside the work then, an entire universe opens up. The representative methodology is very similar to that of collage. Heterogeneous elements with different meanings are superimposed on each other to create the final and completed work. Yet in this case, that character of multiple differentiation of the elements present in collage does not persist. Here, the protagonists of the representation form a homogeneous setting. Past and present in this case are united and seem like two inseparable moments of time. Why does this happen? Because Rina Horikawa draws her inspiration from the tradition of collage but distorts its nature. There is no glue and no application of elements. All the inhabitants of the work are made in digital art using the same chromatic tones, the same stylistic approach, the same graphic sign. Uniformity is the key point of Rina's art. A homogeneity that unites past and present without detachment, cancelling temporal and spatial distances. And so the splendid and elegant figure of a woman in traditional dress rises from the composition. The back of her neck uncovered, her hairstyle and the kiseru held between her fingertips transports us to seductive distant times. A little further behind her, an exuberant strip of fabric with a typically Japanese flavor peeps out from the backdrop and partially hides two large foamy waves that are about to break on the shore. We are simultaneously transported into an Ukiyo-e print. But before we know it, we are transported back to the present with Japan in large letters. Its soft shapes and glossy font lead us to think of something new, something closely related to our contemporary times. Rina's game is actually all here. Creating continuity between past and present by literally eliminating the time that separates us from the secular Japanese culture.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Rina Horikawa

POP JAPAN

Rüdiger Carius “The source of art is being” (Rüdiger Carius)

Original, innovative, intuitive is the art of Rüdiger Carius, the artist exhibits Split panorama, Split laguna and The activity at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. Three works daughters of our time, three works free from traditional figurative patterns, but rather are linked to a young trend of art that provides for the deconstruction of images. Reality goes beyond the visible and Rüdiger fully succeeds in capturing a dimension outside of time and space that belongs to reality itself. The human mind is complex and the artist captures this truth in depth. For this reason, in 2020 he invented his own artistic style called Split Art (a mix of colors related to psychology and neurobiology in combination with "destroyed" shapes). Born in 1987 in Gera (Germany), Rüdiger grew up in the countryside (small village called Endschütz) and developed interest in art at the age of 12 (music, simple drawings). He created his first "artwork" on the computer at the age of 18. Rüdiger studied biology and theology and worked as a teacher. His motivation is primarily intrinsic. He is self-taught, reads books and watches videos with the following topics: Color Psychology, Colors and Shapes, Neuropsychology.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Rüdiger Carius

Split laguna

Rüdiger Carius

Split panorama

Rüdiger Carius

The activity

Sakurako

With her digital work, the emergent artist Sakurako joins the “NFT New Freedom Think” exhibition for her very first time participation at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery. Her art is focused on nature and light with an approach to art therapy. “The roots of light” is a complex and intense artwork. The artist shows us growing seeds that give off light, giving birth to the roots of light of the title, ready to invade the world with their light and clarity. The seeds are still in the ground but already bright. This work speaks to us about the connections that there are among us humans. We are the seeds of the painting that can grow and welcome the different opportunities that life offers us, as well as the various people we will meet creating bonds with them. This amazing artwork is a metaphor of the connections between men: connections that can break with the passing of the years or that can create infinite relationships that can give birth not to a single tree but an entire forest. Sakurako chose to use bright and contrasting colours: yellow of course, but also pink, green and blue, giving solid balance to the composition. So, in this artwork, the strength of her subject is caught with a pictorial technique used to harmonize the scene, but it sticks to the expressive needs of a refined artist.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for" (Georgia O'Keeffe)

Art Curator Federica Acciarino

Sakurako

The roots of light

Sang Hwa Kim

Observing the works of Sang Hwa Kim, a Korean digital artist, we immerse ourselves in a dreamlike atmosphere in which real and unreal merge, Photographs of cities and natural landscapes wrapped in a brightly colored starry sky with a large moon that surrounds everything. The artist wants to express the beauty of free and welcoming nature in a dimension that is independent of space and time. A utopian world of universal harmony in which everything is in balance and generates feelings of peace, which we all feel the need and which we should enjoy. In the digital work "Full Moon", a small town appears to float in the air. White clouds surround it and a big moon shines in the sky. The colors of the sky vary from purple to bright blue, giving the work a dream setting. The big moon is also present in the work "Harmony". In this work we can better observe the harmony between nature, the city and the space above us. The colors of the autumn leaves of the trees, complementary to the colors of the sky, harmonize perfectly, creating a continuous line between the landscape and the space. A continuity that transmits feelings of well-being to the viewer. In the work "In the forest" we can observe a completely different landscape, almost fairytale, with centuries-old trees whith doors leading to secret worlds and small lamps in the shape of lotus flowers hanging from the branches. All is quiet a tiger sleeps blissfully on the rock. A warm light illuminate the the entire work, radiating feelings of calm and serenity. Sang Hwa Kim's works do not come from the experiential-emotional baggage, they do not give voice to the deepest Self. They are works in which the artist represents his vision of reality and the beauty that surrounds us and that's all we need.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Sang Hwa Kim

Full Moon

Sang Hwa Kim

Harmony

Sang Hwa Kim

In the forest

Seosungkeun

Wassily Kandinsky compared his vibrant and expressive painting to music, being abstract by nature. His works on paper have that fleeting aspect of improvisations, some of which he even destroyed because they were impure. We are talking about the artist who wrote "Spiritual in Art", a text of enormous importance for the history of art, where Wassily declares that he seeks contact with the soul of the spectator through the triumph of pure forms and colours. Also on paper are some of Joan Mirò's works of art, such as "La Poétesse", an enigmatic painting whose orderly explosion of light suggests a thought of the celestial constellations towards which the artist turned his gaze as he fled the war. And as artists always live in their own time, so Seosungkeun paints his own escape route, his own explosion and starry night. The abstract painting follows and composes a musical rhythm, made up of breaks and solos, a tight handclap, a sudden kettledrum and a chorus in tune. The gold leaf adds the idea of an intruder in the final image and composition, like a disturbing intervention that in its own way finds its space and time to tune in to the pre-existing musical basis. The paper for this work of art provides the secure base for building a three-dimensional, velvety painting whose brushstrokes are like fine embroidery. There is an overwhelming desire to touch and caress this painting. Although the artist's vision seems to be offered to the public from a distant point of view, the painting invites and attracts, finding a direct contact with the soul of the person in front of it, as Kandinsky hoped.

"I felt a deep desire to escape. The night, the music and the stars started to play an important role in suggesting my paintings.” (Joan Mirò) Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

Seosungkeun

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Seosungkeun

joy of life…chaos

Serce Kolibra "It is a joy without why to discover a pure soul. They are souls that resemble the first children's books: they contain few words and are full of colors" (Christian Bobin)

Almost surreal, dreamlike, colourful images come from the purity and sensitivity of the artist Serce. Feelings and imagination are the characteristics that make the human being special. In Serce's work we witness the perfect combination of these elements, the great sensitivity of the artist transpires from it. The undisputed protagonist of all Serce's artistic work is colour, the observer finds himself in front of real colour palettes, where the various colours are placed side by side, giving life to fluid and dynamic figures, which move within the work. A whirlwind of colours, distributed in an intense way, become part of the figures themselves, sometimes giving them a certain corporeality and materiality. Real or imaginary figures come to life within Serce's work, it is there to remind us of the importance of observing, of moving and understanding each other. In fact, the figure that Serce represents is overflowing with vitality and emotions, it seems to be shouting at life and wanting to live it fully. The great ability that the artist possesses to use colours and to draw freely without any constraints, the gift that Serce has to follow instinct and feelings make her entire artistic work imbued with emotion. The observer is totally pervaded by the emotions that come out of the work, the figure that the artist portrays seem to want to come out of the work, it wants to touch us and tell us something, it has a certain thickness, it has a soul. Encountering Serce's work means meeting the artist's sensitivity, she gives us the opportunity to see through her eyes and to experience unique emotions. Through Serce's work dormant memories and forgotten feelings peek out, the observer is able to enjoy moments of pure harmony, vitality and joy.

Art Curator Vanessa Viti

Serce Kolibra

Beauty in you

Shannon Egan

Shannon Egan is an intuitive and expressive artist. Her art accompanies her life from a young age. She begins to paint in elementary school by taking private lessons, experimenting with oil painting and other mediums. Fascinated by intuitive art, she sees in the latter a way to feels free to express her thoughts, exploring feelings and emotions hidden deep inside and discovering parts of her being still unknown. She paints freely, letting go of control, relying on her own feelings and intuition. In this way she manages to bypass the conscious part of her, letting the most authentic part emerge. With the help of colors she brings back to the canvas what she cannot express in words. She has no preference for a specific medium, the work she present for this exhibition "The Stangest Thing" was made with acrylic colors. The artist uses primary colors, red, yellow and blue, playing with various textures and painting techniques to give life to a living work that generates a different experience depending on who observes it. This is the magic of the artist's works: being able to arouse different sensations to several people, even to the same person at different times. According to the artist, art can be a therapeutic tool, a means to heal from physical or emotional pain, to create a connection with one's ego, being able to better understand ourselves and find our place in the world. Shannon through her art wants to encourage all to be creative, to heal our emotional blocks and express ourselves to the fullest.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Shannon Egan

The Strangest Thing

Shunichi Yoshizumi Broken line, thin and aggressive. Nervous in its development on the white support, incisive in the modulation of volumes. Full, opaque, extremely drastic forms and backgrounds follow one another in the work, elaborating, piece after piece, the indistinguishable physiognomy of people who have marked the history of music. The incisiveness and the emotional character of the representation succeed in narrating through images what the notes and the sung words have told through music. Two different mediums, painting and melody, to describe the same emotions, the same sensations. When we speak of music, it is hard not to think of the common thread that binds it to the art of painting. From its very beginnings, society has been characterized by empirical attempts to correlate the auditory sensation of music with the visual sensation of painting and colors. The reason? Perhaps the assonance of certain expressions such as "timbral color of instruments" or "vibration of colors"; perhaps more simply because both of these art forms tend toward an abstract and highly spiritual representation. "Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and.... stop thinking!" wrote Vasily Kandinsky. Music and painting, consecrated muses of artistic representation, are destined to serve the expression of the human soul. And so it is that Shunichi Yoshizumi uses art, gesture and color to tell through images the melodies, sounds and voices of those great artists who will remain forever in the history of music. A reddish flame pervades the entire compositional space. The burning color tries to stay within the boundaries of the nervous contour line but fails, its expressiveness is too strong. And so it is that, between signs and backgrounds, the physiognomy of David Bowie is outlined, intent on playing the electric guitar. The face is portrayed from the side, the gaze is absorbed and you can feel all the tension, the emotional passion that the artist transmits with his music. The colors are certainly not accidental. The red that pervades Bowie's limbs and clothes and the bright blue that characterizes the electric guitar are two recurring colors in the imagination linked to the artist. The bluish eye shadow, the light blue men's suit he frequently wore, the hair dyed a vibrant orange shade resonate in Shunichi's painting, calling to mind the eternal deeds and melodies that the musical genius was able to give us. Shunichi's is an art that pays homage to those who, with their music, have carried an idea forward, have been an example for generations to come and continue to be so, even as the years go by. It is a painting of instinct that uses the digital medium as a ductile and malleable tool for the construction of infinite and eternal pictorial melodies.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Shunichi Yoshizumi

Bowie

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Siegmund Angyal "The unconscious is a very important element of modern art and I think that the drives of the unconscious have great significance for those who look at a painting." (Jackson Pollok)

The multifaceted ability of a talented artist to play with the techniques and subjects of his works is a great source of surprises in the art world where everything is in constant motion and evolution.In the vast panorama of abstract expressionism we find the contemporary artist Siegmund Angyal who has so far shown us works capable of captivating the eye and transporting the viewer into fantastic worlds. Once again the colorful world of the artist is offered to the public in a new and dynamic way while remaining faithful to his unmistakable style.

Siegmund Angyal

Abstract expressionism has some common characteristics, such as a predilection for large hemp canvases, an emphasis on particularly flat surfaces, and an all-out approach, in which every area of the canvas is treated equally. As the first original school of painting in America, Abstract Expressionism demonstrated the country's vitality and creativity in the postwar years, as well as its need to develop an aesthetic sense that was not restricted by European standards of beauty. The total freedom of Siegmund Angyal explodes in the colors of his works and in the completeness of the spaces that he fills with every ingredient of his imagination, always offering fantastic scenarios.

Art Curator Letizia Perrieri

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SIM_Moby

Sim Jaeseung, in art Sim Moby, is a Korean car designer for Toyota in Japan, but he is also a famous NFT artist. His digital paintings are full of colors and movements that remind us of a metaphysical scenario where clouds, shapes and colors meet recreating dreamlike atmospheres. These paintings are digitally rendered, a desired choice made because digital paintings can never be destroyed. In these three artworks called Sim Scenery, we can see his representation of the Purgatory. In the first one, called 024 with the subtitle Cloud, Bridge & Footprint, we can see a cloudy landscape realized with light and matt colors. The clouds and the landscape are rendered with a strong but detailed stroke. The viewer wanders in this dreamlike environment that represents the child memories of the artist that cross the "bridge of nowhere". It's possible to feel the nostalgia of the artist's childhood memories that desappear crossing that bridge. In the second work 025, Blue Sabbath the artist was inspired by the song of the heavy metal group: The Black Sabbath entitled Heaven and Hell. The rhythm and the words of the song are perceived through the shades and blue figures that, mixing with green and light blue shades, generate an almost kaleidoscopic atmosphere. The last painting in the series is 028. With no subtitle the work is made with bright colors that outline the figures of the purgatory, as imaged by the artist. This place was created starting from images of the world around us but in this case the purgatory reflects the fusion and the dissolution of reality. Purgatory is the protagonist of these works, a space in the afterlife between heaven and hell and according to Dante Alighieri it has the function of atonement, reflection, and repentance and only through this journey the souls can be free. Here the one who admires these three works makes a journey in three different purgatories.

Now I shall sing the second kingdom / there where the soul of man is cleansed,/ made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (Dante Alighieri, Purgatory I, 4-6) Art Curator Miriam Passoni

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Sindy Glory Sindy Glory is a Korean artist trained at College of Arts and earned a Master of Arts in Psychological Counseling and Coaching at graduate school. She works as a psychological counselor that helps her to improve her artistic purpose: create a therapist art that can help people's mind to get better and healthier. An art that is good for mind, soul and eyes. Thanks to her studies, she decided to focus her work on the abstract art with a transcendental meaning that goes beyond consciousness and the real world to enter in the inside one. So the artist shows us the world inside her that can be connected to the visitor's world. On the occasion of the exhibition "NFT New Freedom Think" at the MADS Art Gallery, Sindy presents three intense paintings, part of a series named “Unconscious series”. All of them are a trip in our mind and unconsciousness, that invite the spectator to look into oneself and into one's inner world. In the first painting “Ascension Day”, the artist used dark and contrasting colors, gold against black, light of the soul against bad thoughts and anything that can discourage in everyday life. The brushstrokes are energetic and agitated on the canvas. With this piece, she wants to encourage people to fight in the difficulties of life: there is always some gold that can prevail over the black of adversity. In the other two works, “Sweet Love” and “Dreaming Sky”, totally change the emotions that the artist wants to communicate. In the first one, pink prevails over all the others colours. It gives energy and positive vibes of happiness and love. In the last one there is a prevalence of the blue color but we can also notice tones of pink and yellow: all the shadows of a soul at peace. In both, the brushstrokes are calm and relaxing to watch. Sindy shows the ability of her technique and the familiarity in the use of colours, her strength shines through her works to get straight to the viewer who is dazzled by so many emotions put on canvas. The transfer of emotions from the artist to the viewer is reached thanks to a communion experience of a mental world. Sindy’s art is the perfect example of how art can be of comfort and support to the soul and mind of the beholder, something that only a sensitive soul can do.

Art Curator Federica Acciarino

Sindy Glory

Ascension Day

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Sweet Love

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Dreaming Sky

Skyolet “I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon than the year by blossoms than by blight.” (Donald G. Mitchell)

On a spring day, in a sunlit path, the bright green lawn surrounds the viewer's view crowned in the foreground by a magnolia branch. The three blossoming flowers with reddish shades almost seem to be able to get out of the photographic two-dimensionality to emanate a delicate floral fragrance. The artist Skyolet manipulates the work creating a meticulous effect in the foreground and a blurred effect in the background. The evocative grainy vision of the image transports the viewer into a surreal, colorful and energetic world that creates a sense of wonder and serenity. The artwork represents spring as a metaphor for an inner human condition: after negative, winter, gray and blurry days, there always comes that period characterized by positivity, light, colors and lightheartedness. Thus, the artist Skyolet manages to create this contrast: the underlying gray makes room for bright, cheerful colors, such as green, white, violet, yellow and red. And here is spring.

Art Curator Marina Maggiore

Skyolet

Sense of Wonder

Someta There is magic in the air. A magic that does not feed on spells and invoices. In fact, what we are going to analyze is an enchanted atmosphere more in form than in purpose. Violet tones, soft and calm, are combined with pink elements and calm dark blue tones in an extremely fascinating, enchanting play of light and color. More than magic then, we could speak of a spell. These colors and these soft shapes transport us into a universe of blurred and indefinite contours. A universe in which the reality represented is similar to that of our world but has something different. Although the elements of the composition are recognizable, there is something that escapes our understanding, something outside our usual perception of everyday life. A girl is portrayed in a halflength pose in the center of the representation. The chromatic palette is rather uniform: what we see is in fact played on all shades of pink and purple. This chromatic choice illuminates the girl with an ethereal light, a brightness that is reflected on her and that recalls the colors of dawn. The hues are restrained and the backgrounds, enclosed within well-defined boundaries, are opaque and well-structured. Looking at "Flowering", what jumps to the eye after being enchanted by the sweet chromatic tones, are the girl's eyes. Her gaze, pure and direct, exudes a sense of sweetness and benevolence. The half-closed eyelids, the relaxed eyebrows, the small nose accompanied by a pink and fleshy mouth, make the girl's face characterized by a sensual but calm sweetness. The girl seems to be dreaming, she seems to be hovering between the reality of everyday life and another reality. Perhaps she is the messenger of a new world. Above her head, in fact, there is something strange. On a formal level, the latter is an element that stands out from the rest of the composition: we find a different conformation of the contour line and the uniformity of the color palette is interrupted by welcoming among its shades also the green. From the girl's head sprouts a rose with pink petals enclosed in yellowish contour lines. It is the proof that what we see does not belong to this world. Is it a dream? A parallel reality? We cannot know. Indeed, the surrealist character is a constant to be sought in Someta's painting, an art poised between everyday pop and the representation of another reality. "Melt" and "More" are two more examples of this mysterious and enchanted representational mode. In the first case, the girl literally melts with the backdrop joining the soft shapes of her hair, sweater and face to those of the landscape that, slowly, is melting liquefying down. In the second case, the pop vein is extremely accentuated: the girl swims among a myriad of writings that recall billboards and commercials. The protagonist seems to literally navigate in the ether, in the sea of information that bombards us every day. Someta represents precisely these worlds: the transparent worlds, those that are not seen at first glance, magical and enchanted worlds that approach the real one. Worlds that take formal characteristics from reality and rework them, infusing the common element with sweet enchantment.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

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Sota

Art has always been the bearer of meaning. It is the means to express an idea, an ideal or an ideology. It is the moldable tool par excellence that changes and transforms according to the sensitivity of the artist and what he wants to express. It is therefore a privileged expressive medium, a sort of primordial material that can be shaped according to one's needs. It transforms over time. Mineral pigments, dry tempera, oil color and acrylic color have characterized art for centuries and continue to do so today. Digital art, which has recently arrived in the artistic universe, is a wonderful epiphany to bring anyone's eyes closer to the concept of art. The possibilities of representation are infinite as are the meanings that the artist can try to achieve. Sota's is a creativity that springs directly from the instinct of creation within the artist's soul. The color is shaped, literally takes shape and acquires identity within the representative space: a chromatic dance sensitive to sensation, to perception. The impulse to create, to give origin to something is too strong to be suppressed. Creative intuition takes over in Sota's soul and thoughts are transformed into matter overflowing with vitality and meaning. The chromatic palette used by the artist is rather dark and characterized by strong contrasts. The eye is inevitably attracted by this representative methodology and scrutinizes the works to know something more. What are those elements that are introduced into the composition? Is it digital painting?

Sota

Is it collage? And what about the writing? These and many more are the questions that wander through the viewer's head. "Liquor" is the perfect example to explain how Sota's art is imbued with meaning both in the moment of creation and in the end result, the work itself. The images are layered on top of each other in a vivid chromatic dance that makes the viewer's eye vibrate. There is a road sign for a crosswalk, there is a motorcycle with a large luminous headlight, there is a sort of golden mechanical arm and then beer cans that follow one after the other. And then we read the words Liquor. Liquor, Liquor and Liquor again. These six letters echo in our heads and we can't stop the sound. Liquor, Liquor, Liquor, our mind is now blurred, in the grip of the sensory confusion that these images layered on top of each other manage to instill in the viewer. Sota succeeds in transferring the meaning of the work into the surfaces of color, into the elements placed on top of each other, into the extremely vivid and bright chromatic palette. One can perceive the pleasant sense of lightness after a good alcoholic drink, one can foresee the danger of driving under the influence of alcohol. It is enough to look at the image to get an idea of how the journey home from your favorite bar can be transformed. Objects blur, senses are slowed down. "Liquor" is the graphic transposition of a state of mind and body that leads those who are looking at the work to complete identification, even when sober.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Sota

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Liquor

Spen As disenchanted as we are, it is impossible for us to live without any hope. We always keep one, unbeknownst to us, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the others, explicit, that we have rejected or exhausted. (Emil Cioran) Today more than ever we are connected. We feel on our skin the repercussions of what happens within the context that surrounds us and that at the same time we live. We are able to listen, to be empathetic, to fully understand the other. And these incredible abilities, which for a long time we thought were of secondary importance, proved to be fundamental in the pandemic and post-pandemic environment that we are now experiencing.We have perhaps learned to extend our hand, to offer gestures of protection and care to others who were in difficulty. We have proven to be compassionate. Spen reflects on this strong relationship that indissolubly binds all of us, creating digital works that reflect the full awareness of each of us to be a piece of primary importance within the relational puzzle that, together with others, we compose. A puzzle that suffers from the tragic events that have struck us, and that today affect us closely. "Being Within, Being Between" effectively expresses the metaphor of the puzzle, of the mosaic, where each of us is a special piece, different from the others, that finds its completeness in relation to the other. A relationship that obviously, with the rampant virus, has changed its way of being. A long-distance relationship, a connection of quick words exchanged over the phone, which, however, allowed us to continue to feel alive. And even in the darkest days, closing our eyes, we often imagined to return to running, free. A sense of hope that Spen interprets in his work "Hopeful Visions", where he recreates, with the use of bright colors, an indefinite landscape, but incredibly serene. Serenity is a feeling we are constantly looking for, given by the perfect balance of senses and emotions. An ephemeral balance, often momentary, as witnessed by "Slightly Haunted Tendrils", where some sharp thorns threaten to sting us, to cause us pain. For Spen art is in fact just this: a way to express our incessant sway between hope, love and pain.

Art Curator Matilde Grossi

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Being Within and Being Between

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Hopeful Visions

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Slightly Haunted Tendrils

Stéphanie Laur Stéphanie Laur was born in 1970 in Toulouse (France) and currently lives in Hérault, near the Mediterranean. In 2020 she embarked on the practice of painting. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Stéphanie presents “L'invitation au voyage”. The canvas, developed horizontally, presents on the right an amalgamated set of colors, which seem to be traces and reminiscences of something ancient. The peculiarity of the work consists in the fact that it is divided into two parts by a dark and marked line right in the center. On the left, from what appears to be a white cloud of color, the image of a Greek temple emerges, whose antiquity seems to be linked to the spot of color on the right as if this were the rest of an excavation, the faded image of a figure no longer present. As the artist herself says, the composition does not follow a preconceived idea, but comes from her instinct, from conceiving the canvas as a testing ground, where she can express things without the cerebral getting involved too much. It's an exercise in letting go, which often starts with a desire for a color, giving a good place to chance, to start a dialogue with it. Her art is an inner journey, from her origins, the rational, the mastered classic, a past that is crumbling while remaining clear and beautiful. A memory that arises and that Stéphanie can let go to go without fear towards the unknown, more blurred but certainly full of colors.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Stéphanie Laur

L'invitation au voyage

Stephen Linhart “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle) Stephen Linhart is a contemporary American artist whose artistic research revolves around the digital landscape, fusing photography with mathematical algorithms. His works are combinations of reworked, resampled and modified images, with the intention of altering what the eye sees and leading the observer in new, unexplored directions. Pop colours and impossible visions become the constant nourishment of the artist's mind, eager to discover what mathematics can produce in combination with art. In the three works ("Hermit", "Sea Creature", "Time") presented at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, three different styles tell of a complex femininity. We often encounter female figures in the images by Stephen Linhart, who shows us bodies and shapes that are always different and often linked to a disturbing and bewitching beauty. In these artworks, we notice an elegance and delicacy wrapped in the grip of time. Unable to react, these young women allow themselves to be corroded by their surroundings. In "Hermit", femininity is expressed through the gentle gestures of a body immersed in a setting with undefined boundaries, where the colours and the consistency of the atmosphere make everything incomprehensible. Acid tones that seem to scratch the surface, blend into each other, violently enveloping the subject. Time passes, leaving its marks, changing skins and faces, modifying beauty, altering colours. Stephen Linhart's analysis and research also seem to turn their attention to the chemical interaction of the elements, opening the observer's gaze to a world made up of particles and details that compose each of his images. His every piece becomes a set of macrocosms and microcosms, where everything can be observed at different distances and at different times.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Stephen Linhart

Hermit

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Sea Creatures

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Time

Steven White

Three art pieces are presented as a natural order to create a cosmos. An explosion leads the way towards a change, which often means the rebirth of creation itself. Steven White, a recognized photographer, presents three sublime creations, which are “Anchors Away”, “Solar Cyclone” and “Electric Goddess” for the “N.F.T. New Freedom Think” Mixed Reality art exhibition at M.A.D.S. Art gallery. The first artwork is the creation of a new path in a cosmos, which is depicted with strong warm red and orange tones. The strength of the composition is due to the bright red diagonal in the middle. “Solar Cyclone” announces the change that is happening, where dark purple tones surround swirling orange ones. The third artwork is portrayed as natural glitches in an underwater cosmos, where an Electric Goddess might be waiting to emerge. “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ” - Carl Gustav Jung. To create our own cosmos is to innovate our reality towards freedom, which brings us infinite possibilities. Creation stops when a decision is taken, we follow its process and then we create again and so on. “The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us.” - Galileo Galilei. To fear our created cosmos is to deny our freedom of infinite evolution. Steven White reinvents his own cosmos with infinite freedom.

Art Curator Karla Peralta Málaga

Steven White

Anchors Away

Steven White

Solar Cyclone

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Electric Goddess

Svein Ivar Ulrichsen "The sublime is what produces the strongest emotion that the soul is able to feel" (Edmund Burke)

Svein is the artist of dynamism, he manages to shape works that move and that recall the elements of nature. In each of his works you can see the energy of nature and human feelings. All Svein's brushstrokes move in an almost swirling way, the colours and lines find space next to each other, everything appears as a huge puzzle of sensations and emotions. Svein's work is an explosion of life, vivid colours take up space and totally invade it, from the cold tones of blue to the warm ones of red. A deep bond exists between man and nature, often forgotten, but when man rediscovers it he is pervaded by great wonder and strong emotion. Svein's artistic work is a continuous discovery, it is a continuous alternation and meeting, his figures refer to the mind of forms that belong to the natural elements, only in nature do we find perfect circular figures, spirals that become real hugs. The artist Svein lets himself be guided by his personal instinct and creativity, taking the path that leads to the discovery of the most intimate self.

Svein Ivar Ulrichsen

Giving life to works of art means expressing yourself, but above all it is an opportunity to discover yourself and bring out your skills and emotions. Svein succeeds well in this work, his work appears as a great intersection, where colours, shades, lights and shadows meet and sometimes collide. The viewer looks through those streets traced by colors, letting himself be carried away by a continuous succession of sensations: now calm, now passion, or even joy, but also melancholy. For the artist, producing art also means being able to dialogue with the user, it is the way to express himself and his interiority without setting limits. Svein, through the production of his works, travels a path of growth, he reaches both personal and artistic maturity, his artistic work is therefore the means to improve himself, and why not, improve all of us who come into contact with it. Ultimately, Svein gives us the opportunity to take a journey within ourselves, digging into the most intimate memories and emotions, giving us the flavor of discovery and wonder.

Art Curator Vanessa Viti

Svein Ivar Ulrichsen

The Big Emptiness (Burn-out )

Svein Ivar Ulrichsen

The great self-examination

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The thought of the thought(when you look at life)

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The thought of the thought, integrated

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To pretend charizma, but not feeling present

Svein Ivar Ulrichsen

When past holds back energy

Sylwia Smoron For the international exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery Sylwia Smoron exposes the artwork “Rising Hope”, through which the artist wants to attract the attention of the viewer, creating a perceptual and emotional shock. Painted in the aftermath of the first wave of Covid19, Sylwia's intention is to search and impress on the canvas positive feelings, such as lightness, hope and freedom: in this way, the viewer can feel fulfilled and still full of energy after the pandemic situation. Within the pictorial surface, the artist uses different elements and textures, such as rough modeling paste for the dark areas of the work, giving the painting a remarkable texture and material imprint. It is possible to notice a clear chromatic contrast between these stains and the light and soft colors of the rest of the painting: Sylwia depicts in the best way the historical and global period we are experiencing now, wishing for recovery and newfound joy. Everything seems to be in continuous movement: between diagonal brushstrokes crossing the surface in every direction and the white paint splashes typical of Action Painting and Pollock's dripping technique, Sylwia makes this dynamism strongly visible, almost as if she wanted to give the observer a new electric impulse. For this reason, we can notice a radical change in the perception of the various elements that characterize the work: the artist defines movement and her development as a new vision of the world. Her artistic and aesthetic conception accelerates the states of mind and perceptions in the viewer, who becomes a participating subject by being actively involved in the canvas. The use of white emphasizes an intense harmony and a strong luminosity that radiates throughout the surface. By expressing all her energy, Sylwia Smoron gives life to an explosion, both of chromatic nuances and of contrasting feelings in the viewer. Without the boundary of the frame, but rather beyond that boundary. The dynamic action and the different sensations have generated a powerful and expressive language, through which the viewer is taken into that impetuous atmosphere.

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Sylwia Smoron

Rising Hope

Sylwia Żółkiewska I consider art and the creative process unlimited spaces of possibilities, so I continue to experiment with new media and new means of expression, never stopping in my search for new forms and inspirations (Sylwia Żółkiewska) Sylwia Żółkiewska brings the aesthetic appeal of digital at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. The artist allows us to enjoy a completely innovative, extremely elegant and very well thought out art. The quality and originality are recognized and rewarded internationally, not surprisingly Sylwia has presented her works in numerous exhibitions and art venues in Poland, USA, Switzerland, Spain and Slovakia. In 2007 she received an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, before that she studied Media Arts in Turku, Finland. It is evident from her works how open to experimentation and informed the artist is, knowledge and awareness is her trademark, for a type of art that is recognizable and attributable exclusively to her. 'Screens & mirrors', Collage no.2, 2021 is a moving image that investigates the relationship between digitality and the human component. The artist states "I believe that the non-obviousness of my works can speak to the viewer on a subconscious level and help reveal unknown thoughts and emotions. I have always been fascinated by how the digital world and its aesthetics influence perceptions of the real world and generate new practices and forms of coexistence. How digital space gives us freedom and enslaves us, how interfaces and screens capture our attention." Sylwia explores the digital through art, in this way bringing it closer to the human experience, capturing the emotional side through abstract representation. 'Screens & mirrors' is a research-based art series that explores digital screens and their unique aesthetics, influence and visual language from different angles and perspectives. The series consists of 48 artworks released to the public in the form of NFTs. Collage #2 explores the idea of screens as portals, connecting past and future or doors between distant places separated by spacetime.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Sylwia Żółkiewska

'Screens & mirrors', Collage no.2, 2021

Tadashi Nishida

Tadashi Nishida is a Japanese professional artist. Reworking images taken with his phone, he creates his artworks by adjusting color tone, lightness, darkness, etc. from what is already there, confronting the phenomena born from the dirt and scratches created by nature. When Tadashi increases the brightness and saturation and distort the shape a little, an impression is born: he considers the work complete when it is in perfect harmony with his sensibilities. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Tadashi presents two artworks.

Tadashi Nishida

"Move" is characterized by the presence of orange and purple colors, with a large "brushstroke" in the center of the canvas that gives movement and depth to the whole. When approaching this, unexpected colors, shapes and a landscape emerge: it is the presence of a distorted space-time. "Trace" instead represents a detail of a beach at sunset, of which Tadashi captures a wide shade of colors ranging from yellow to green to blue. His interest is in fact to focus the viewer's attention on details on which he never dwells: what he does in his work is therefore to immortalize a moment, an instant, to stop time, capturing the trace of a past that does not there's more.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Tadashi Nishida

Move

Tadashi Nishida

Trace

Taki Kawai Taki Kawai is a young artist who creates energetic, colourful and positive works. His aim is to bring the viewer a sense of calm, projecting them into imaginary worlds where fantasy reigns. His paintings are abstract, expressive and evocative. Like the artwork "The earth" where colour becomes the absolute protagonist. Material strips of pigment pour onto the canvas, creating a harmonious texture and an animated rhythm. The vertical marks are three-dimensional, well-defined, and create a contrast with the background, which is more homogeneous and blurred. Two stylised birds in flight interrupt the rhythm of the lines and insinuate themselves between the coloured marks. It is a work that encapsulates the fragility and difficulty of human relationships, the confrontation with what is different from us and with which we are inevitably confronted. Taki invites the spectator to throw himself headlong into ita, to live fully in all its colours. He invites the viewer to spread his wings and go further afield, towards his goals, not being afraid of confrontation with other people but at the same time preserving and taking care of himself. The naturalistic element is also present in the painting 'The ground'. A red spiral is painted in the centre of the canvas, contrasting with the softer background of green/blue hues. Taki is inspired by a perfume, an aroma and transforms his emotions into colour and form. The artist manages to describe moods and emotions through her art and oil painting. He creates abstract images that relate to concrete sensations he experiences in everyday life. The spiral symbolises development, the growth that never ends but undauntedly continues its course. The energy that emanates from this composition is perceptible and admirable. It captures the viewer's attention as he loses himself in these material brushstrokes. With "The migratory whale", we enter an imaginative universe of shapes and colours. The colours are bright and striking. The variety of brushstrokes and shapes creates an engaging rhythm and distinctive textures. A wave of positive feelings and hope for the future that aims to cheer up the viewer. Taki breaks down the barriers of time and space, trying to give the viewer a positive message amidst the chaos of the world. The artworks emphasise gestures and empathy. A sunny break on a rainy day, which is life.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Taki Kawai

The migratory whale

Taki Kawai

The earth

Taki Kawai

The ground

Tamaki Nagakubo Tamaki's art is something dazzling. It is chromatic deflagration in the purest sense of the word. The eye moves excitedly following those lines of color, those shapes that are repeated over and over again. We are faced with a creative kaleidoscope that exploits the overwhelming power of color in all its aspects. Tamaki tells of sensations, emotions; she tells of primordial instincts and archetypal ideas; she describes relationships and impressions in a direct, effective and fascinating way. At first glance, the artist's works take us unawares. The multitude of colors and shapes could make us afraid, could instill a certain awe. What are we looking at? What do all these vibrant colors mean? What about the shapes? Why do the shapes repeat virtually endlessly? As soon as you look at it, Tamaki's art strikes directly at the viewer's sensibilities. And that's the point. And this is the wonder of these works. At an initial sensation of fear and disorientation, your head stops spinning, your heart calms down and you begin to feel new sensations. A warmth welcomes us and we catch a glimpse, within that frantic tangle of colored elements, of a thread to be followed, a trace that Tamaki has left us and that we must seize. Only we can do it, after getting used to the kaleidoscopic vision that we find in front of us. And so it is that "Coexistence of Animals and Humans" is transformed into a story, a tale in images of a hope that was once everyday. The coexistence of animals and humans and the serene and non-abusive coexistence of all species on this planet is the theme of the work but it is also a crucial point of humanity itself. We ourselves are animals, we have simply forgotten that we are animals. Driven by our sanctimony and egocentricity we devastate habitats and become guilty of mass extinctions. We slaughter the planet earth without mercy and without even realizing it. "Coexistence of Animals and Humans" is a hymn to hope, a cry for coexistence without profit, a cry for the reconstruction of a balance that has not existed for centuries. Hope. The word hope resonates in the violet hues, echoes in the reddish arabesques and is heard in the vivid yellow spots in "To Bright Future". A rather unusual work in the artist's production, "To Bright Future" collects and carries the cry for hope. The title is eloquent and the river of colors that invests the entire compositional space is a clear symptom of this fire of hope that can not be eliminated. Waving purple, acid green and pinkish motions dazzle the viewer. It is a clear work, extremely crystalline in its vibrant, iridescent tones. It is an archetypal work, telling of a desire common to all men and all existences on this planet. Tamaki's art tells through images the pure sensations of life, it tells with colors and shapes the complex and multifaceted reality that we are facing and that will come.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Tamaki Nagakubo

Coexistence of animals and humans

Tamaki Nagakubo

To Bright Future

Tamaki Nagakubo

Vitality

Taryn Jahme

Swanky, eccentric and original. These are the three adjectives that best describe the works of the English artist Taryn Jahme, who participates for the first time in an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of "NFT New Freedom Think". In the heart of London, Taryn writes children’s books, cultivates her passion for tea and teaches its history and, above all, paints very special teapots that capture certain historical moments, are inspired by places all over the world, depict flowers, animals, geometric and abstract shapes or derive from her imagination and her collection. This characteristic trait of the artist is certainly drawn from childhood, since her father - a tea estate farmer - taught her all about the green beauty of the tealeaves and how tea growing and processing from an early age. All painted with Windsor and Newton oils and 24 Carat gold leaf, the three works exhibited are on a black and shiny background that highlights all the chromatic details and defines with precision the shapes, both square and soft, of the teapots. The real canvas for Taryn, in fact, is the teapot itself: it's on its, in fact, that the stories and subjects of all the paintings originate. Ladybugs, bees, blue flowers and blue, yellow and red polka dots surround “Secret Garden”, a vintage teapot with an enchanted air around which a bee roams, that - after a dotted path - rests on the lid. A large butterfly with warm colors characterizes Queen Elizabeth’s childhood teapot, which is surrounded by flowers and leaves that rest on a delicate blue. In the last painting, blue birds on a golden base catapult us in Japan. Thanks to Taryn, who blends in her paintings in a remarkable passion and talent, we activate all our senses: not only our eyes admire these teapots colorful and rich in details (wonderful the golden stylized smoke coming out of the spout) but our ears feel the relaxing whistle, our nose feels the scent of tea, the mouth taste it and the hands come forward to pour it. Taryn manages to create a synesthetic experience, concrete, complete, that reminds us of a lesson that this pandemic left us: the importance of all the events that bring people together and of those pretexts that we usually use when we want to see someone. Taryn suggests it with something very dear to her heart: a nice cup of tea.

“I feel that perhaps my intuition brought me to do these pieces of art from my deep passion for tea and how it brings people from all over the globe together, where enjoying tea is a ritual within millions of homes around the world. ” (Taryn Jahme) Art Curator Sara Grasso

Taryn Jahme

Secret Garden

Taryn Jahme

Queen Elizabeth

Taryn Jahme

Japanese blue birds

Tathina “I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

The famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wondered if the stars were illuminated so that everyone could one day find theirs. Tathina, artist based in Japan and India, discovered her star in 2010: it's called art. Escape from reality, sharing thoughts and emotions, diffusion of strength and light: for her, painting means this and much more. A haven, a faithful confidant, a window on the world: Tathina would like her works to be this for the viewers. KISETSU was created in 2022 with the acrylic and pastel technique. The painting was born as a reflection on the dark moments we have experienced in recent years and which we are still experiencing today. Pandemic and loneliness, war and terror. What is important to you? In a time when freedom is just a distant memory, we reflect on what matters to us or not. Everyone gave their answers. A common desire is to find peace in oneself and with others, to rekindle the flame that burned in us, and that the darkness has clouded. KISETSU wants to be a hymn to hope to which we must cling in difficult times. KISETSU represents the universe the artist desires: a world where the sun shines; a world where when darkness comes, there is always a star to follow to find the right path. Communicating profound messages, enlightening hearts, inviting reflection: this is Tathina's art.

Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Tathina

KISETSU

Thomas Steen-Hansen

Thomas Steen-Hansen is a Norwegian self-taught artist. His motto "Ego ludere" translated "I play", conveys his desire to have fun, to experiment with colors without immediately thinking about the meaning of his works. His art is spontaneous, he lets himself be guided by instinct, by the fluid movements of the brushstrokes, by the backgrounds of colors, only at the end can he see the hidden meaning behind his gestures, the subject behind the colors. For him, painting is a meditative art, a moment of relaxation in the frenzy of everyday life. An emotional journey away from reality, focused only on the impressions you feel while painting. His works arouse strong emotions and at the same time stimulate the viewer's imagination. The work "What?" represents the artist's mind crowded with questions about which direction to take in life. At the time of the painting, the artist was faced with a crossroads, forced to make important decisions. For this he uses acrylic colors with shades that are neither too bright nor too dark.

Thomas Steen-Hansen

We find ourselves in front of a painting with almost neutral colors that do not arouse strong emotions. The viewer is able to perceive the state of emotional imobility in which the artist finds himself. We find a completely different situation in the work "The Cat" shades of red and bright orange, fill the picture in honor of his missing cat, whose name Keegan refers to the famous Liverpool footballer. The viewer perceives the artist's pain from the energetic brushstrokes. The white spaces left on the canvas represent the void left by the pet. Before the abstraction revolution, painters always expressed themselves first with drawing and then with colors. Thomas's art is a subjectivistic art in which drawing takes second place, to experience that individual feeling unknown in antiquity. We are far from art focused only on representing beauty, this is an art that focuses on man and his hidden feelings. Quoting Hegel, art, as the production of man, is one of the moments in which the Spririto (Idea) is manifested.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

Thomas Steen-Hansen

The Cat

Thomas Steen-Hansen

What?

Tim Boode Every flower is a soul that blooms in nature. (Gerard De Nerval) The word "empathy" has its origins in the nineteenth century, when this term indicated the feeling inside the nature that surrounds us. Empathy was therefore a way to express the symbiotic connection that man establishes with nature and the landscape around him. Today with this term we are used to indicate a relationship of closeness, of identification with the other person. We become smaller, indeed, we shrink our ego, to better understand others. Tim Boode reflects on this concept in "Flowering Universe", a work that perfectly reveals his interest in psychedelic art, combined with a strong spirituality. The work expresses in fact the will to affirm with strength and determination the possibility of creating a real fusion between us, that we are like flowers in the height of development, and the reality, the universe that surrounds us. Actually, also in the history of philosophy, we can find currents of thought, such as idealism, which affirm the importance of the ego, and of its being in relation to the whole. Tim Boode balances these different factors, to create an extremely poetic, light artwork, which makes us reflect on the importance of suspending the continuous, incessant (and often pounding) motion of our thought, and to be carried away by the flow of what surrounds us, until we merge with it. Only in this way we will be able, for Tim, to understand how life is extremely multifaceted and rich in nuances and emotions, that we must be able to accept as an indispensable part of us, of our soul.

Art Curator Matilde Grossi

Tim Boode

Flowering Universe

Tonje Rebecca Rosenberg “I find see myself as a visual poet, in absence of words I find my brush and canvas” (Tonje Rebecca Rosenberg) Tonje Rebecca Rosenberg (Norway, 1971) is a self-thought artist strongly attracted by nature from which she draws inspiration for her works. Tonje believes that knowledge is important, but that true art is when you are able to create from the inside out, just like music and poetry. Her passion is abstract paintings and she enjoys working with different kind of products to make exciting textures. At “NFT - New Freedom Think” hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Tonje presents “Grounding”, a mixed media work with rust. The painting portrays a bucolic landscape, with large expanses of lawns and a group of trees in the center of the canvas. The colors are suffused and delicate such as to create an indefinite image, like a vision, while the rarefied air is guaranteed by the use of rust that makes the background almost encrusted, as if the whole were the reminiscence of a distant memory. “Grounding” wants therefore to symbolize the importance of finding stability and grounding inside ourself. Dolly Parton said: ‘Storms make trees grow deeper roots’. So when the world is turning upside down we need to connect with ourself, breath deep and keep strong by choosing good thoughts.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina

Tonje Rebecca Rosenberg

Grounding

Tony Church

A four-handed work of art by Anna Perra and Tony Church, a painting of great visual presence. You don't feel the presence of the two artists' thoughts at all wading through this image. A tangle of curved and belly shapes, moving blobs that swell and deflate as the air passes through them. Small sketches and ornamental drawings within these forms seem to silently enter the soul of the abstract presences subjected to the painting. All very harmonious and pleasant, almost sculptural, the colors have a rough and compact texture even in their chiaroscuro. The lines that delimit the spaces seem to create in turn a further design that forms another bedding plane, an informal, distorted grid that contains but does not delimit. A balanced composition that seems to introduce a relational thought that will be continued: where do relationships between people lead? How can they contain so many feelings and not explode? The sweetness of this work of art can be felt at first glance, there are points where the friction of the two personalities makes itself felt with invasions and drippings but the result nevertheless brings a great sense of serene reality. The tenderness for which this painting is valuable is found in its most interesting element: the names of the two artists to the side of the main composition. Anna and Tony, like children's names engraved on a tree to leave a sign of love involving nature, in this case, art. Names, like tags in street art, where with a mark on a building or a train we say loudly: this is also mine.

Tony Church

Movement held

Tung Le “Humans built up and made Ammonia into living entities. We still do not know if what we have created is right or wrong because it is inherently abstract. Let's see where the intellectual revolution will lead us to.” (Tung Le) Tung Le is a multidisciplinary Vietnamese designer based in Italy and a third year student at the Frosinone Academy of Fine Arts. The digital artwork chosen by the artist for the "NFT New Freedom Think" exhibition, “SIN-Ammonia”, is part of a project called “Sincrosmo” that describes the perspectives of modern society, between cosmology and anthropology. The title refers both to the use of the chemical substance of ammonia, used excessively by humans in order to advance civilization, and to the project it is part of. The prefix in particular could also refer, with a play on words, to the word “sin”. The artist's message lies on a well-thought-out cosmological reflection and on the question of what the excessive creation of entities formed with this substance will bring. In fact, the artwork presents a sentient being, probably formed by this substance, but inactive, waiting for its possible coming up. The artwork is also accompanied by the sound of drops falling into a liquid, probably ammonia one. This seems almost relaxing, at times meditative, which brings the audience into a state of calm but at the same time also in alert to find out what the awakening of the figure could bring. The silhouette presents a chromatic reality equal to the surrounding setting, as if it is a whole but as if it is emerging from the background. The vision is not clear. Some ripples are depicted as if the creature lay in the liquid of ammonia and the beholder is watching the scene just in front of it, waiting for his awakening.

Art Curator Angela Papa

Tung Le

SIN-Ammonia

Tyrone Oakley "They thought I was a surrealist too, but I never was. I've always painted my reality, not my dreams." (Frida Kahlo)

Tyrone Oakley, Canadian artist, immediately approached the world of art, thanks above all to the presence and closeness of his father, also an artist. After a period of estrangement, the artist manages to officially seal his close bond with art, creating works of art that act as a projection of his own inner self. The concrete act of making art pushes him to a continuous confrontation with himself, and the development of elements in strong contrast between them determines a continuous play of parts between what he feels and what is then artistically represented. Tyrone Oakley's works are a perfect mix of styles, reworked in a contemporary key: classic elements of the past are combined with modern digital representations, all reinforced by the presence of letters and writings that accentuate their symbolic meaning. Each element is perfectly combined with the others, it does not create confusion but rather a perfect compositional harmony, also given by the skilful use of colors. The artist's artistic imagination comes to life and generates works of art with a strong surrealist appeal, a peculiarity capable of enticing the observer to explore their own thoughts and inner self, through the symbolism proposed by the artist.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Tyrone Oakley

Jay

Tyrone Oakley

Zay

Tyrone Slothrop Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. (Albert Einstein) Conventionality and inspiration are two irreconcilable elements when we talk about art. The first allows to take refuge behind what has been explored by others, not to take risks. The second, on the other hand, is the voice of those who feel different, bizarre or even strange. They are those who do not accept compromises for their vocation, and follow it even if it will take them to unknown dimensions. Tyrone Slothrop's art fits perfectly into the latter category, leading the observer into a territory where physics, geometry and music come together in an animated ensemble of surprising visual and sound effectiveness. Cuboid Dream - the work presented on the occasion of the NFT exhibition - is configured as a dynamic deconstruction of a 3D cube, which has been converted to audio waveform and read by an oscilloscope. It's displayed as 2D vector graphics, and the visuals and audio are direct representations of the solid figure and its animation. The artist seems to want to demonstrate the multiform facets of artistic expression, and how they can also be wonderfully combined with a scientific universe. But it's not just this. Tyrone chooses a congenial starting point to open a reflection on the ability to be surprised by the complexity of what is known, by a simple object that reveals an incredibly fascinating and hypnotic structure. The viewer is captivated by the perfect harmony of the lines in motion, which create a whirlwind of constantly changing shapes. The choice of including audio also makes the result even more engaging, and allows the work to be elevated not to a simple artistic creation but also to a real sensory experience.

We live only now. Everything else is either passed or is unknown. (Marcus Aurelius)

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti

Tyrone Slothrop

Cuboid Dream

U Rae "Life is a flower. So precious in your hand. Carry on smiling. And the world will smile with you". (Ace of Base) U Rae's art is a manifesto of her personal desire to flourish. A simple painting, instinctive, expressive. A choice of colors and composition tending to light and brightness. The written element placed with balance to the side of the face almost whispering in the ear of the subject or whispered by the subject itself. A female half-bust with a serene and natural expression. The body depicted has delicate but important decorations that with the background and the thick line make the picture harmonious and pleasing to the eye. The artist wants to be a flower, she wants to bloom in her being woman and mother. A naturalistic vision of the purpose of human beings, the fulfillment of their being as a moment of opening to life and sharing with the world. A feminist manifesto also that a mother can actually bloom and show her new self to the world with joy and pride, which is completely opposite to the idea of the sacrificing mother society still is telling us through their infinite numbers of stories and advertising. To be a flower, to be born from a seed in the ground and then grow and blossom revealing all one's colors, opening up to the world and exposing one's joys and fragilities. Everything that until a moment before remained protected by the petals, enclosed in a delicate shell but careful not to leak the wonderful essence inside. And at a certain point, the moment comes to say here I am. Thinking of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's paintings, her bright colors and defined shapes, the desire for life is evident in all elements of the painting just like Rae’s. Women, yearning and living their lives in the enjoyment of its fruit through their art.

Art Curator Erika Gravante

U Rae

mother

Ui Do Han "The work of art is always a confession." (Umberto Eco)

Ui Do Han, a Korean artist, has found refuge in art since she was little, always depicting her essence and painting out of the ordinary. His art stands out as a perfect mix between the characteristics of oriental and modern art, where symbolism stands as the undisputed protagonist of the work of art. Symbols to evoke personal and deep thoughts and feelings: this is what Ui Do Han aspires to. "My room" is a strong and profound work, which investigates a discomfort that afflicts the artist, namely mysophobia, in total conflict with a figure faithful to the artist, namely his dog, depicted as a green nerve inside of a vase. The dualism that is generated is devastating: a feeling of comfort due to sleeping in your own room, a symbol of protection and safety, to which is added a clear and profound feeling of discomfort. Through the use of high-impact colors and writings, Ui Do Han has created a work with a strong emotional impact and apparently difficult to understand. The situations of one's daily life become the main subject of one's art, which aims to investigate the depths of one's soul and one's sensations.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Ui Do Han

My room

Vaida Kacergiene

For the international exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Vaida Kacergiene exposes two works (“LIFE STORIES” and “RAINING IN THE HEART”) through which she wants to show the viewer a vision of the human soul, so deep, pure and symbolic. In fact, in the first painting Vaida introduces to the observer three fundamental aspects: the presence of books, flowers and above all the number five. This indicates will, action, determination, and freedom, gathering in its symbolic value all the elements of the pictorial surface. Moreover, it represents par excellence the number of humanity, if we consider the four limbs plus the head: each hand and foot has five fingers, and five are the main senses of the human being (smell, sight, hearing, touch, taste). In this work, this number is matched with five books linked with five types of flowers: starting from the left to the right, the four manuscripts go through a path from shadow to light, emerging from the big book, the only one open on the canvas, as if it wanted to welcome with open arms every individual on the Earth, accompanying him/her into the Celestial Kingdom.

Vaida Kacergiene

In addition, each plant is so lush with flowers that it exudes a strong luminosity and vital energy, striking the emotions of the observer, and each represents a crucial theme: from the left, starting with penance, passing through forgiveness, respect, gratitude to infinite love. The combination of all these elements depicts a new starting point, the steps to be taken towards one's own introspection, an account of each tale of one's life. While in “RAINING IN THE HEART”, one can notice the same sensory charge, which is more emphasized by the contrast but also by the union of colors such as yellow, blue, orange and red/burgundy. The artist gives an immense warmth to the whole composition, thanks to that wave of golden light that tries to wrap the heart placed on the right. Hope and love are the basis of this great painting, through which Vaida Kacergiene manages to give peace and well-being to the viewer. Despite the daily life struggles, there will always be a light that will radiate our soul to help us to overcome adversity.

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Vaida Kacergiene

Life Stories

Vaida Kacergiene

Raining in the Heart

Valeri Cranston

For the international exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Valeri Cranston exposes two works (“Dreamscape” and “Summertime”) through which the act of painting becomes an action not conceived and not planned in the ways of execution and in the final effects: but it is precisely in this gesture where lies the pure Art. At the center of each work there is the individuality of the artist: a space free from aesthetic conventions, in which Valeri conveys her emotions and vital energy. An expressive necessity of purely spiritual imprint, which leads her to search for colors, lines and shapes as an external manifestation of inner contents, by repeatedly involving the observer inside the paintings. She does not describe what she sees but what she feels, expressing her emotions freeing herself from the need to reproduce objective reality, thus looking at the world with different eyes. Between the harmony of the shapes represented and the predominant use of vivid colors, these works become a mystical experience that addresses the emotionality of each individual.

Valeri Cranston

As if one is struck by a musical rhythm, the alchemy of all the tones seems to dance in unison with the observer's moods: in this way, an experience of visual and sensory perception is created, in which imagination, inspiration and intuition extend beyond the limits of nature, to merge with the heart of the works themselves. As for example, the use of purple combined with yellow creates a fusion that relaxes any soul shrouded in negativity as well as the mind of the viewer. Thanks to the vigor and brightness that radiate from the works, the artist manages to transform everything into a surreal vision that takes the viewer into a parallel universe where everything becomes more suggestive, managing to overturn what is perceivable to the human eye, upsetting the ordinary and promoting a new and unique way of perceiving reality. Valeri Cranston creates such imaginative structures that merge with the deepest emotions of the viewer.

Art Curator Alessia Perone

Valeri Cranston

Dreamscape

Valeri Cranston

Summertime

Vanessa Leschke “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” (Franz Kafka)

The artworks by Vanessa Leschke, a contemporary German visual artist, are kaleidoscopic visions composed of a myriad of details and textures that, drawn by hand, blend into each other to create psychedelic imagery. Combining more traditional and digital research, the artist gives life to shapes in constant movement, wrapped in bright and incandescent colours and shades. In the work entitled "METAmorphosis", displayed at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery on the occasion of the NFT New Freedom Think exhibition, we see how lines, circles and black and white dots run across the surface, drawing unpredictable shapes and filling the space with vibrant elements. The background, tinged with a shade of pink that goes towards blue, makes the whole fluorescent and hypnotizing to the eye. Vanessa Leschke's research is rooted in the concept of metamorphosis and eternal change, describing the transformation, the functional or structural modification of life. Her works are often created on paper and then completed digitally, in a process that is itself metamorphosis and evolution into something new. Vanessa Leschke tells of microcosms, where cells and chemical bonds live in continuous movement. Forms that merge and then detach, changing their structure according to environmental conditions. She seems to carry out a chemical analysis of bodies: through a microscope, she enters under the skin to study the most infinitesimal parts that characterize us and allow us to change.

Art Curator Francesca Brunello

Vanessa Leschke

METAmorphosis

Wendy Cohen

Wendy Cohen is a South African artist living in Sydney, Australia. Cohen's artistic career is extremely rich and this leads her to be an artist with active exhibitions and awards all over the world. Wendy Cohen is again the guest of an exhibition organized by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery and on the occasion of "NFT-New Freedom Think" she exhibits five works that deeply recall the artistic technique of color field painting by Helen Frankenthaler and Jules Olitski. Cohen's pictorial style is extremely personal and unique, there are geometric elements, lines and unique shapes that lead the artist to be recognized as belonging to the current of abstract expressionism. In all her works, the fields of color are crossed by lines, which flow into other forms and other fields. The richness of the chromatic variations, of the use of color leads the viewer to imagine these abstract representations as the representation of something that the artist has seen, perceived or experienced. The works are extremely dynamic, full of movement and details that allow the observer to observe the painting with ever new and different attitudes and perspectives. As the artist herself explains, it is the geometric element that gives this great dynamism to the work that creates a unique, immobile and profoundly powerful atmosphere. Cohen not only expresses all her aesthetic taste, but also herself, making herself known as a human being and not just as an artist.

Art Curator Martina Viesti

Wendy Cohen

Colour Forms Hamging on a Mass of Lines

Wendy Cohen

Domain of Calm Caves

Wendy Cohen

Emerald Leaves

Wendy Cohen

Giant Steps

Wendy Cohen

Olive Grove

William Underwood Art is more of a way for me to explore my own mind than anything. Creating is essential for me to process thoughts and emotions (William Underwood)

William Underwood shows his absolute, predominant position in experimenting with the communicativeness of matter and color. He decides to exhibit He passes like a shadow at the international exhibition "NFT New Freedom Think", hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. The work is proposed as a trespassing from the traditional categories of painting and sculpture, following the wake of the great masters of the Informalism (materical). The work broadens the very concept of artistic creativity, which follows meticulously and wisely a precise compositional will, taking the place of the ancient drawing, and traces guidelines with which to weigh proportions and balance. Nothing irrational, therefore, nothing instinctive, but rather a patient work of management, of government of the materials. The artist, in fact, carefully calculates the compositional balance of the painting, trying to make the most of the characteristics of the surface. His interest is not so much in the form represented or in the play of colors. Rather, he focuses on the texture and color of the material, while trying to safeguard the overall harmony of the image. Through this process, the artist probes the energetic and evocative potentialities of matter released from an image. The concretions of pictorial matter, which seem suspended in the void, become a metaphor for an existential search. A search aimed at discovering something authentically genuine. The work belongs to William's "Under the Sun" series and is a reflection on the book of Ecclesiastes and man's search for meaning and importance in the big picture of humanity. In the series, each piece wrestles with the darkness and undeniable light that exists in man and the human experience. It consists of highly textured pieces, in black and white or white, using mixed media and dyes. The experimentation with material and color choice reveals the sacred and absolute nature of the object and the potential for language.William's artistic genius does not consist only in the re-evaluation of the poverty of matter but is the expression of a motion of the soul in a decidedly original way.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

William Underwood

He passes like a shadow

Xanalia NFT Art Award Xanalia NFT Art Awards is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Competition of the Year. Yuya, Obliraj Krishnaraj and Winglay won the first, second and third prizes respectively in this competition. Encapsulated in the choice of these three works is the idea of the multi-instrumentality of art and its representation through a variety of mediums. We find, for example, a choice of traditional execution in the case of Yuya, purely digital art in the case of Winglay while Obliraj Krishnaraj relies on video and special effects to produce art that can amaze the audience. The wonder that emerges from this selection is all here: in the expressive power of art that becomes visible to the human eye using the most varied means of expression to obtain the work of art. And so it is that, in the case of Yuya with "Great Cormoran Flying City", the traditional medium is used to create a work that is part of the NFT circuit. It is intrinsic, therefore, a process of re-elaboration of painting to produce a work that is no longer only physical but also digital. The traditional medium is transformed into a digital medium taking the form of an imposing cormorant flying over the city. The pen moves leaving small strokes and dirtying the white paper. The sign is strong and characterized by a marked expressiveness. The composition is all played on a series of elements and shapes that join together to create the sinuous and graceful body of the cormorant. It is hovering above the ground and detaching itself from its roots. Yet, if we look closely, the wings, torso and feathers of the cormorant are nothing more than a miniature city. Towers, houses and domes piled on top of each other go to create the flesh, bone and feathers of this majestic bird. The cormorant observes the city from above, not knowing that it has left an imprint on him. Of a completely different incisiveness is Zeus, the work of Obliraj Krishnaraj. In this case the artist wants to emphasize the pure gesture, the power of the sign and the finger of the person who creates the work of art. Sand is thrown onto a luminous surface. Little by little the hands and fingers begin to form a darker part. It is water, we can glimpse the crests of the waves. Then, as if he wanted to tell a story, the artist forms clouds and then again a vessel, a sea monster with giant tentacles that is attacking the ship. The scene is excited, thanks also to the accompanying music, and the boat is at the mercy of the waves and the monster. Then the epiphany. Zeus appears from the clouds and hurls a thunderbolt against the sea animal giving an epilogue to the concurrent adventure. In Winglay's case we have a static work that is at the same time characterized by a diagonal movement. The small tiles each hosting a small character are juxtaposed in such a way as to create a sort of wave motion that sets itself diagonally about the sense of representative space. One can therefore say that "Square Human Alpha Rainbow" is literally a work within a work. Small works as cells that make up the fabric of the final product.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Xanalia NFT Art Award

YUYA

- Great cormorant flying city

Xanalia NFT Art Award

Obliraj Krishnaraj

Zeus

Xanalia NFT Art Award

WINGLAY

Square human alpha Rainbow

Yoko Sato

Beams of purple light flood our vision. Silent elements floating in space, these vertical red columns introduce us to an intense journey. Planes that overlap one another, elements that intersect creating games of shadows and light, of gentle nuances and vivid angles. "Untitled I" is the gateway to our journey and, observing it, it is already possible to taste the landscapes that will be hidden during our slow wanderings. Each spatial element is as if it were connected with the rest of the shapes in the work, we walk in fact, in a rarefied but homogeneous atmosphere. The changes of color are never sudden, everything is docile, everything is shaded and in harmony with the rest. And so it is that we arrive at "Untitled II", a universe in which the atmosphere becomes calm and placid. Opaque in its representation and devoid of bright elements, this work gives us a vision of a quiet and muffled world. There is silence in this place, our limbs are wrapped in warm and soporific penumbra. The vertical lines that were previously consistent now turn into thin threads. Like weave of fabric, these lines go to create soft, sinuous shapes, purple limbs that stand in space. They seem to move, to have a life of their own. One moves among the threads of the universe, navigates within them to discover what lies beyond that blanket of lines. Swimming in this world is splendid, but it's time to leave these placid waters. We find ourselves catapulted into the air. All around us wonderful blues and particularly intense pinks.

Yoko Sato

Our bodies and minds are flooded with the colors of the aurora. The air is fresh and crisp, the calm that characterized the space before is now a distant memory. All around us we breathe air infused with life, an atmosphere teeming with energy ready to explode. Here, too, vertical lines dominate the composition but, unlike before, they have now mutated into more concrete elements. "Untitled III" is actually characterized by wave-like movements reminiscent of a heartbeat, mountainous reliefs and waves in the ocean. What we see is all of the above, it is constant energy about to be released. Let's dive once again into this very narrow network of lines and arrive at the heart. We are in the darkest part of this universe, the one that is not possible to reach to the fleeting eye. Hard, solid, compact. A wall of matter stands out in front of us. A myriad of lines, of chromatic combinations, of different spaces are here, all in this image. It would seem that "Untitled IIII" is the keeper of Yoko Sato's secret. It is no coincidence that it is in this work that the lines become accentuated and the processual nature of the work becomes more pronounced. The artist approaches Generative Art by creating worlds with their own sense using programming language just like a brush and colors. Not by chance, we are talking about two types of alphabet that belong to two different languages: art and programming. In Yoko's art, these two elements merge, taking the characteristics of each other. They come together and create fascinating worlds to be discovered by assimilating two mediums that are so different yet so compatible.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Yoko Sato

Untitled I

Yoko Sato

Untitled II

Yoko Sato

Untitled III

Yoko Sato

Untitled IIII

Yolene I want my art to be before all positive and enriching for each look it will touch (Yolene)

M.A.D.S. gallery is honored to host, for its second exhibition with us, Yolene. NFT, New Freedom Think is the name of the international exhibition hosted by the international art gallery M.A.D.S. A name, that of the exhibition, that can be considered the emblem of Yolene's free art. The world around her, the social dynamics, are the favorite subjects of this young woman. She lives intensely what she paints and this is perceived by the chosen color palette, intense; the figures that animate the scenes have, moreover, a well-defined outline. Her art touches every individual in their deep and rooted thoughts, buried in memories, Yolene says "for me art will always be a driving force for all kinds of people and will be able to make and cause a good evolution on every living soul on this planet earth". Coming to the works: La femme habitée is "a woman connected to the good and bad side of the world" In fact, the right hand when you look at her is the hand connected to the good side, and the other is connected to the 'bad' side. Up and down, good and bad are the main themes of this painting. Connecting with the energies around us in general and in our daily lives are the main themes of this painting"

Yolene Simple, direct and concise are the artist's messages, immediate, just like L'amour: "a painting that represents the complementarity between man and woman. The ideal couple is represented here, always respecting the equality between him and her, here knowing that she is on the second floor of the painting and that he is on the 'second floor'. It is also a way to 'universalize' love and show that, like the English language for humans, love is also a universal way for humans to communicate and be understood". Protect our youth "is about protecting youth; in fact, the mother is trying to protect her son on here, the 'cigarette' that represents 'danger'. This picture is about the healthy bond between a mother and her child, child, and the real side of what an adult should energetically and in terms of education bring to a child discovering the world." Submission against freedom is a representation of the dynamics between social classes, the conflict between power and submission. Exactly as in the emblematic medieval representations, the powerful personalities are depicted as preponderant and aesthetically larger than the weaker ones. Power is advised by the devil and the demand for freedom of the bottom character is strong. The work refers in general to the two years just passed and the hard psychological period faced.

Art Curator Mara Cipriano

Yolene

La femme habitée

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L'amour

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Protect our youth

Yolene

Submission against freedom

Yoshi - f - Japan An explosion of colors animates our vision. Small particles of matter follow each other throughout the representative space occupying the surface needed to be fully represented. All around, a dark space. A dark and bluish universe pervades our sight. The feeling is that of being in front of a cold space, inside it seems to lack life. One has the sensation of observing the definition of emptiness. Yet, if we look closely, we see that this slice of the universe is characterized by spots, currents and tone-on-tone waves that blend with the dark matter. These graphic elements help create a sense of space that invests the area in question. And so it is that empty space is transformed into a world with well-defined space-time characteristics. There is a globular mass reminiscent of soap bubbles in the foreground, there are flat opaque spots at the top of the work, there is an area that seems to be pervaded by electric currents just to the right of the composition. Space is no longer dark, now the universe is defined, now that dark space is comprehensible to our senses. Yet, at a certain point, a short circuit occurs. Our space-time coordinates that we love so much and that reassure us stop making sense. That blue space, animated by multiform elements, is ripped open. Broken? Destroyed? Torn? Or simply obscured by something opaque and heavy that has stolen its expressive space? We don't know, only Yoshi-F-Japan can know. So what is that formless mass, that blur that destabilizes our senses and perception? It seems that the universe has been torn apart and from that wound a new world has been born. And so it is that our eyes never stop staring at that violet space with its distinctly three-dimensional tones. A network of whitish slabs of matter urges us to look a little further down. There is a sphere, perfect and shiny that curves the space around it because of its gravity. It is beautiful and infuses whatever is around it with light, illuminating it with fuchsia and pinkish tones. Our eyes do not stop staring at that glow, they remain in disbelief looking at what that glimpse of the universe contains. Our senses and perceptions wonder non-stop. Is it another dimension? Is it some sort of black hole? Are they simply two different representational planes resting on top of each other? Yoshi-f-Japan's is an art that draws heavily from the creative spark, from that flash of genius that arises when least expected. The artist, invoking the expressive freedom that embraces the entire process of creation, creates works that are layered on top of each other. Re-elaborated works, united, intersected between them form new visions that arise from a real natural process. There is no premeditation, there is pure artistic intuition at play. And by playing, the artist creates new worlds like those of the Face-io series. Universes characterized by great compositional balance that contain in their superimpositions and in their slashes, that creative intuition that animates the mind of Yoshi-f-Japan.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Yoshi - f - Japan

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Yoshi “Art washes from the soul the dust of every day life.” (Pablo Picasso)

Japanese artist Yoshi was catapulted into the world of expression from an early age. His creations are an exploration of the world in different artistic techniques. The traces of his passion for photography always remain, the painting he creates might look like an image visible in a photo but with a deeper intention. As if the artist is capturing through the lens an emotion that he himself has experienced first-hand when creating the work of art. His art is physical, because the primitive and creative force expands in the artist's body and then become an expression of himself on the canvas. The artist transforms his thoughts into action and manages to express his personality through painting, creating pure intensity. In his design there is an outlined and specific form that recalls pure colour and concrete elements that expand on the canvas creating a virtuosity of form and matter. The painting perfectly renders the enchantment of a moment, a place where one feels the power of the warmth emanating from the sun. Finally, the painting represents a perfect balance between the tranquillity of the sun and the desire to contemplate a work of art that expresses a monster other.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi

Yoshi

Blood moon x Tokyo - Shibuya incidents 2022

YRIS The expressionism of YRIS, French Canadian duo, is about NFT works with which the artists explore a new way of making art. Y.R.I.S. is the summary of their art, a GIF that shows us in a few seconds all the dynamism of their works. The viewer watching this GIF feels invested by splashes of strong and decisive colors that come from several directions, literally in the middle of a storm of colors that invests him pleasantly. The splashes of color come from different works, united by the predominantly red, yellow, blue and green tones. Y.R.I.S. is an extraordinary summary of the art of the two artists who choose to use technology to give a taste of their art. "Northern Lines 0004" and "Northern Lines 0008" allow the viewer fascinated by this carnival of colors to linger and observe carefully. In the first work the color is spread following the pattern of dense rays of colors guided by thin and very precise yellow strokes that the artists have chosen to make by hitting the canvas with a set of rulers, scrapers and angle squares dipped in acrylic paint. Those who find themselves in front of this work feel as if they are about to enter the vortex of colors that releases all its power. To create "Northern Lines 0008" the artists use the same colors that they lay down in a different way. This time the rendering of colors is vertical, bringing to mind something tribal, something wild. This time the lines of color represent a rain that has not yet reached the ground, the work encapsulates the snapshot of the moment before the action. The verticality is aided by the laying of warmer colors in the center of the canvas while on the top end a greater amount of blue is laid down, while on the bottom the color is darker. YRIS create works of great visual impact by making colors and their infinite nuances the main protagonists, what identifies them.

Art Curator Sara Giannini

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Y.R.I.S.

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Northern Lines 0004

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Northern Lines 0008

Yucco

Yucco is a Japanese artist initiated into art from a young age. At the age of eleven she won a gold medal in a painting competition and currently she works with musicians and advertising companies. Her ideas and her inspirations come to life through the use of digital art. An artistic activity that involves the use of computers or other digital devices as part of the creative process. Born in 1950 from the artistic experiments of the American Benjamin Francis Laposky and the German Manfred Frank, two mathematicians and programmers, today digital art is widespread all over the world, helping to create a new way of approaching art. The intent is to generate new emotions by renewing old images or creating new ones.The images, thanks to photo editing software, are completely manipulated, modified with filters and retouched.

Yucco

Yucco uses digital art to build an image from scratch. The monitor takes the place of the canvas and the mause replaces the brushes. Her works depict young female faces surrounded by robotic and natural parts, such as plants and flowers. For the first time the material merges with the immaterial, nature is one with the mechanics, to create something unique. They look like futuristic nymphs, guardians not only of nature but also of our spirit. Superheroes watching over us. They have a proud and powerful gaze that they often turn to something unknown that only they understand. They represent what we need, figures of a reality unknown to us, who carry the weight of our fears, our emotions, ready to fight for us.

Art Curator Lucrezia Perropane

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Yuki Matsuoka

Yuki Matuoka has a multifaceted soul and this multifaceted nature is inevitably reflected in his artistic production. The artist ranges from digital art to graphic experiments up to the creation of new and original characters. In this case, Yuki Matsuoka offers us four pictorial works that illustrate, in their development and their themes, the vital breath of the artist's creativity. From the exhibition of a twodimensional work, we have therefore moved on to the exhibition of 4 works that have been created using traditional painting methods that even use relief to emphasize their connotations. Yuki walks in the middle of space, dwells on 2D and then moves nimbly into a three-dimensional universe depending on what his creative flair tells him. The malleability of the artist's artistic process is therefore a symptom of a journey into art that is now consolidated, stable and lasting. For Yuki, art is any medium, the important thing is that the message reaches its destination. And so it is that the selection made for this exhibition includes the presence of some cornerstones of his art. Symbols, themes and subjects that are gradually taken with each medium, digital or traditional. And this is how "Zungerabokko" animates our vision. Yuki's friend and traveling companion in this artistic wanderings, Zungerabokko is transformed each time depending on the mode of representation selected.

Yuki Matsuoka

It becomes rough and porous when it is represented through painting, it turns into a flat and threedimensional being characterized by vivid colors when it is included in digital works and it even turns into a "real" being in an Instagram filter. Zungerabokko, if people want, can be anywhere, anytime, and in any space. He can be scary at first glance. His red eyes staring back at us instills a certain awe. Two glittering rubies hovering from a dark blanket. A dark blanket because Yuki's friend is dark and dirty, so dirty that he blends in with the background, with a rock, with the ground. Yet he is a good being. He got like this because of us. He has changed his physical appearance to do good to us, the people who observe and welcome him. Being white and immaculate, one day he met men and decided that, from that day, he will eat the sadness of anyone who stands in front of him. He eats, eats and eats again, the desolation of the human soul never seems to end. The crystalline eyes are covered in red, the white coat acquires a brown coloration. But that's okay with him, he will continue undaunted to eat the sadness of people until he sees a smile on the faces of his friends. Zungerabokko is selfless altruism. It is self-denial of any form of sadness. He is a friend who cheers you up when your face is streaked with hot and salty tears. His existence is precious, his presence is saving. The next time we see his red eyes and catch a glimpse of his silhouette, let's hug him; he'll be happy.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti

Yuki Matsuoka

Don't judge a book by its cover

Yuki Matsuoka

I try to match them, but I can't look them in the eye

Yuki Matsuoka

LMAO

Yuki Matsuoka

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Yuko Sagisaka “Art must be an expression of love, or it is nothing.” (Marc Chagall)

Unconditional love - this is the main topic of Yuko Sagisaka's works. Love towards oneself, towards others, towards the nature that surrounds us. Yuko is a contemporary Japanese artist who wants to honour classical techniques used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the classical tempera technique with a gold background and oil painting and tempera technique. Her mission is to spread positivity, serenity, and hope through her works of art. Her paintings want to be a caress for those who look at them, a light in the middle of the darkness that indicates the way to salvation. In “Daybreak-The Time of Dawn” (2022) is represented the moment in which the night makes room for the day: the moon gives way to the rising sun and warms the Earth. Dawn is a metaphor for positive events that follow dark periods, such as the rainbow is born following a storm. In “A Prayer for Rebirth” (2021) a moment of prayer is depicted to wish a bright future to every person who has suffered, struggled, and is getting up. Around the protagonist shines a strong light that wants to reach the heart of every man. At the centre of “Dragon god Ryujin Kannon” (2022) we see the god of the sea, who turns his gaze towards the viewer. He is a good god, ready to help the people when difficulties arise. For Yuko, art is a tool with which to spread profound messages, beauty, and peace.

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Art Curator Camilla Gilardi

Yuko Sagisaka

Daybreak-The Time of Dawn

Yuko Sagisaka

A Prayer for Rebirth

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Dragon god-Ryujin Kannon

Yuma Oberraufner "For me, colors are living beings, highly evolved individuals who integrate with us and with the whole world. Colors are the true inhabitants of space." (Yves Klein)

Yuma Oberraufner is a young and emerging artist with an innovative and curious creativity. Her young age did not prevent her from developing an artistic poetics focused on her own being and on what surrounds her. What drives her to create art is the will to elaborate what she sees and feels every day according to her sensations and emotions, trying to create a deep contact with the observer, who is literally kidnapped and introduced into a world made of vibrant colors and abstract and vibrant depictions. The digital world has established itself as a favorite form of expression: the artist, driven by the desire to discover the mystery that surrounds things, uses the inspiration of music, light and her own emotions to give life to works of art that reflect his inner self and his desire for exploration and interaction with the surrounding world. His works, initially confusing in appearance, find their own harmony, thanks above all to the choice of precise colors, and resonate like music in the eyes of the observer, a personal music which, however, opens up to confrontation with one's neighbor and to discover new and personal points of view.

Art Curator Federica Schneck

Yuma Oberraufner

Love made me do it

Yuma Oberraufner

It feels like spring or something like that

Yuma Oberraufner

Don't take life too seriously

Zandy XR You use works of art to see your soul. (George Bernard Shaw) Time changes and with it, the surrounding, Art amongst it, subject to a constant and rapid increase of process and media, new and alternative, ready to meet every need. The VR artist Zandy XR shows this in her works, she paints and sculpts with Tilt Brush and Open Brush, her process is meditative and healing, in the artworks displayed in the Mixed Reality Art Exhibition “NFT - New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, it is evident. In every work the sense of freedom is perceptible, thanks to the absence of boundaries, the artist has the ability to express her emotions and feeling. This is visible in “Angel”, the sense of liberty and peace directs the entire work, the wings of an Angel occupies the whole space and the background is changing, it’s a journey in reflecting the connection between another world and the earth, it’s a reminder that we are connected even in distance, believe it or not, everyone has it’s own guardian angel watching over them. On a different level, but according to Zandy XR style, “Field of Dreams”, suggested by its title, the representation of a joyful fields of flowers, painted with bright colors, the movement follow the area and all of a sudden a changed in vision, like the audience is behind a window observing something that’s outside reality, where it can find happiness and release, accentuated by the alternative music fountain at the center of the vegetation, that transport to childlike time. The other work “Yoga Pose” can seems a studio work, where the artist, using just gold, thick lines, build a human body immobilize in a yoga pose, turning around the subject, the observer can analyze sculpture, and appreciate, in single details, the physical effort that the person is making, underlining the liberation that the practice and the body communicate.

VR art has become a lifelong dream to create works of expression that come from the heart. (Zandy)

Art Curator Alessia Procopio

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Angel

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Filed of Dreams

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Zarga Martini

Zarga Martini's work is the result of her research into the contemporary landscape. For the artist, working on the consequences and conditions imposed by the pandemic is a moral obligation and artistic responsibility. Every author of his time produced works that criticised or accompanied the events of the era in which they were living. Above all we can quote Pablo Picasso's famous Guernica to remind us of the need for the visual and aesthetic analysis that only artists can provide. Through her works Martini tells us what we are experiencing and how the world is reacting by using her own city, Trieste, as a primary city that contains the places inhabited by our souls: our bodies. Sick bodies, enclosed bodies, kidnapped, forced and injected bodies. The rights of bodies have been denied and those same bodies have been robbed of their ability to choose. The author questions the loneliness generated by a denied freedom, the absence and therefore lack of the other person. Where will this lead? Perhaps a glimmer of hope and openness can be glimpsed in the background of one of her digital paintings, among the rubble of what has been. Images that exist not only as a personal and solitary expression of one's feelings but also and above all to convey a message to the outside world. A brick wall as a display of a work of street art perhaps, but also as an aesthetic event that folds in on itself to strengthen its containing force and therefore its eventual revelation. Zarga Martini asks the right questions at the right time and like the masters manages to translate her vision into art.

"When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did." (Pablo Picasso) Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo

Zarga Martini

THE LONELINESS OF THREE

Zarga Martini

COLOR IN THE WALL

Zarga Martini

TRIESTE TO DAY IS A DATE TO REMEMBER

Zhigang Zhang Zhigang Zhang is an artist, illustrator and art teacher. His creations are colourful, brilliant and inspired by everyday life. The influence of his studies in illustration is evident, and is reflected in his artworks, especially in the subjects, the graphic line and the essential but striking colours. Each of his creations contains a story. The elements are well inserted, minimal but well understood. The colours are striking, overwhelming. Every detail is studied to perfection and in harmony with the rest. Zhigang combines digital with hand drawing, creating an unusual but functional mix, aimed at creating unique images inspired by everyday life but reworked with the help of imagination. In the two works "You are not Alone", the artist expresses the same concept but in two different ways. In the first work, inspired by a scene seen in Walmart, he presents primary colours in a hypnotic way. A little girl, wearing a mask, carefully reads her book. She is leaning against a display case with fish of different species and colours. The play of colour combinations is interesting, as is the use of architectural forms to create perspective and depth. Zhigang is very close to the world of childhood and growth and this is evident in his subjects. He combines realistic elements with fictional ones, such as the red colour of the girl's skin. He projects his protagonists into surreal, imaginative and magical worlds, characterised by the atmosphere typical of children and the enchanted and pure world of childhood. In the second work entitled "You are not Alone", the artist takes up the theme of fish, playing with shapes, colours and superimpositions. The technique, also in this case, is mixed. The work evokes Zhigang's childhood, depicting a child observing different types of fish. The colour contrast between blue and yellow is striking, evocative and suggestive. The lines are graphic, as is the colour that fills the spaces and the technique with which it is applied. The work "Walking dogs" differs in theme from the two described above. The protagonists are more numerous but the peculiarity of the red colour of the skin, the graphic line and the perspective remain. The space is obstructed by a play of vertical, horizontal and oblique lines. The black and white chequered floor contrasts with the exuberant colours of the human beings. The crowd is intent on observing something, invisible to the viewer. In the foreground four dogs of different breeds are emphasised. A single man, on the left, holds them all on a leash. The play of contrasts between his yellow striped shirt, pink shorts and red skin is fascinating. The image appears humorous thanks to the length and shape of the dogs, which is deliberately exaggerated. Everything expresses liveliness, humour and fantasy. What Zhigang does is to make positive artworks, giving the viewer a unique visual experience, a light-hearted moment that distracts them from the chaos of life.

Art Curator Ilaria Falchetti

Zhigang Zhang

You are not alone

Zhigang Zhang

You are not alone

Zhigang Zhang

Walking dogs