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Natália Gromicho | Portugal A gifted painter, in the purest sense, Natália has skillfully created a body of work that is simultaneously lyrical and mysterious, jubilant yet poetic.

Employing these paradoxes, she skillfully applies her raw talent into different mediums and styles creating a sense of flux, depth and dominance.

Natália’s work takes elemental images, from nature and the landscape to culture and individuals she encounters on her travels, and transforms using dramatic ploys such as contrasts in scale, shifts in focus, irrored reflections, staccato images, and multiple or layered surfaces. Sensory perception for Natália is a spiritual activity, one that leads to a heightened awareness of both nature and culture—this thought process points to a new kind of realism —one that is engaged with the actual processes of life. Yet, it also references the theoretical avant-garde conceptions of deconstruction emerging during Modernism.

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Natรกlia Gromicho | Portugal

In Pain | Acrylic on Canvas | 90x60cm

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Teppo Korte| Finland Nighttime city landscapes inspire the Finnish artist Teppo Korte. He studied architecture and was a painter. Nowadays he combines both disciplines with resin, LED-lights, prints and spray paint. He is enthusiastic about nightlife and landscapes in a city with lighted windows, bars, neon-lights, cinemas and traffic. Lights and shadows.

In full light everything is visible, but in the shadows you can hide. This happens simultaneously in the night in a city. The romance and the danger at the same view.

Like in a cinema, the movie brings bright colors into the room, but there's still enough darkness for privacy. Korte tries to discover our relationship with artificial lights and darkness. What do we want to show and what do we want to hide.

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Teppo Korte | Finland

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LISBON INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION Domingo Parada | USA American Artist born in 1941 in Sucre, Bolivia. Studied Art at the Universidad de San Francisco Xavier of Sucre, Bolivia. Attended classes at the Museo de Arte Moderna of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with Brazilian artist Ivan Serpa. Considered a pioneer, and one of the most important figures in contemporary art in Bolivia he moved to the U.S in 1966 where he continues his creative career. He has exhibited his work more than one hundred times in Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Portugal, Dubai, England, Mexico, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria ,Canada and several states in the U.S. His paintings form part of the private collections in several countries in South America, Europe, the U.S and Asia. His work also figures in cultural institutions like the Museo Charcas, Sucre, Bolivia, the Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Pan-American Union, Washington D.C., U.S.A., The Phillips Collection, La Paz, Bolivia, El Diario Collection, La Paz, Bolivia, Centro Boliviano-Americano, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Centro Boliviano-Americano, La Paz, Bolivia, Centro Boliviano-Aleman, La Paz, Bolivia and Universidad Tecnica de Oruro, Bolivia. He represented Bolivia at III Biennale de Arte Americano, Cordoba, Argentina in 1966. He received an Honorary Mention in the 1965 Salon Nacional Phillips, in La Paz, Bolivia. In 1969 he received an Honorary Mention at the "Art & Soul" Exhibition in Chicago. He also received an Honorary Mention in the 1959 Poster Competition for the 350th anniversary of the Archbishopric of La Plata, Sucre, Bolivia. He received a First Prize at the 1963 Competition of the School of Medicine, University of San Francisco Xavier, Sucre, Bolivia, and the1964 Gauguin Group of Ceara, for his artistic work in Brazil. In 1969 he received The Davina Wilson Prize at The 15th Annual Exhibition of The Society of Painters in Casein, New York City, U.S.A. In 1970 he was given The Fabian Zacone Prize by The 29th Annual Exhibition of The Society of Painters and Sculptures of New Jersey, Jersey City, U.S.A. In 1971 he was given the M. J. Kaplan Prize at the 17th Annual Exhibition of The Society of Painters in Casein, New York City, U.S. A. In 2012 he won the Visual Arts Society Award in the 33rd Annual Mini Works on Paper Exhibition at Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama.

In 2013 he received Third Prize at the Colorful Compositions Exhibition ,Leading Artists Online Gallery. U.S.A. He represented the USA in two international art exhibits: “Lisboa International Contemporary Exhibition” in 2013 at the Meeting Art Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal. And at the “Downtown Chiado 14”in 2014 also at the Meeting Art Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal. In 2014 he won First Prize at the “35th Annual MiniWorks on Paper” Exhibit at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Alabama.USA. He received an “Honorable Mention” at the “38th Annual Beverly Arts Center“ Competition & Exhibition” in 2014. In 2015 won the Patron Award at the “28th Annual Northern Art Competition” Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA. 2015, “Honorary Mention” International Art Exhibition “ A Tribute to Xavier Carbonell” , The Museum of the Americas & Heights Arts Studios & Gallery

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Domingo Parada | USA

Czardas| Mixed Technique | 71x62cm

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Karl Lu| China

Karl Weiming Lu is regarded as a true global Renaissance man of our time who’s life and art span from East to West. He was born in 1962, into a big intellectual and art family for generations in Hangzhou, China. He was a pioneer of Chinese Elite Students Movement of early 1980s, and a civil engineer and building designer in 1980s China. Besides civil engineering and building design, Lu also worked for The New Art magazine of China Academy of Art in mid 1980s, and participated the significant “85 New Wave Art Movement”.

In 1991, Karl W. Lu relocated to Australia to have his postgraduate studies in philosophy, and then, international studies in The University of Wollongong, and University of Sydney respectively; and further achieved triple Masters degrees in Art, Design, and Architecture in The University of New South Wales Australia. He has returned to art practice professionally since 2000 and exhibited & published globally in Australia, China, Japan, USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Dutch/Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Denmark, etc.

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Karl Lu| China

The origin of life| Mixed Technique | 61x46cm

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Alina Levytska| Ukraine When I can’t say anything I just paint; in every work I speak my silence. Sometimes people are too much for me--- too complicated, too unpredictable. Painting in b&w keeps the image simple, and in b&w portraits, the person that I capture sometimes seems to be simpler and more self-assured... like a portrait of an archetype or a character from a noir film. “Smoking” is my third b&w series, but it is the first where each painting represents the culmination of a process: I selected a model; posed and shot photographs in a studio; and then paint based on elements of the photos that capture the feelings I am trying to emulate.

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Aline Levytska | Ukraine

Exhaling my haze | Oil on canvas | 60x50cm

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LISBON INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION Alessandra Bisi| Italy Alessandra Bisi is a painter and gifted poet of form and color, who creates chromatic impressions of her travels around the world and her personal journey as an artist. Observing Alessandra Bisi’s paintings, it is possible to see not an Italian village or an African market, but to feel the textures, the structure and the essence of a moment carefully interpreted.

Her paintings have been featured in major European art shows for more than a decade. Since she was little, she was not interested in reproducing reality, but was passionate about drawing the world as she wished it to be.

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At a young age she decided to become an artist. Her early skills showed promise and she was admitted to the ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI BRERA, where she studied painting and visual design, focusing on the dynamics of color and geometry. At the academy, she was taught the fundamental techniques of the Renaissance painters and for practice, was challenged to reproduce the style of Caravaggio — not an easy task. She studied the great artists of the last century and developed a fondness for Modigliani, Kandinsky, Picasso, Schiele and Mondrian in particular. She also studied with contemporary artists, while working to refine her own unique style.

Alessandra Bisi| Italy

Tempestoso| Mixed Technique | 76x56,5cm

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