Chianciano Art Museum
Critical Analysis Artist: Angelo Maristela Art Critic: Karen Lappon
ICAC
International Confederation of Art Critics
Critical Analysis Artist: Angelo Maristela Art Critic: Karen Lappon
The Museum The Museum of Art of Chianciano hosts a series of collections ranging from Neolithic and Asiatic to Contemporary art. There are approximately a thousand works on display. Visitors are able to view paintings and sculptures by artists such as Tom Nash, Salvador Dali, Sir Henry Moore, Frances Turner, Mario Schifano, Damien Hirst, Brian Willsher and Albert Louden, drawings by the likes of Magritte, Guttuso and Munch; historical works from Royal Collections and original etchings by masters such as Dürer and Rembrandt. The museum is known for organising annual international events, including the Chianciano International Art Award and the Biennale of Chianciano.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) “Joachim and the Angel” Original woodcut, circa 1504
Sir Henry Moore (1898-1986) “Head” Bronze Sculpture
ICAC
International Confederation of Art Critics
The Critic Karen Lappon, born in Santander, Spain, is an Italian art critic and essay writer that operates in London, UK. Although an expert on the Italian Renaissance period, Lappon is also great admirer of contemporary art. Karen studied at the “I Liceo Artistico in Via Ripetta” and at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome. A book of great interest curated by Karen is the “2nd Millenium”, the publication of an important exhibition at the Lord Leighton Museum, in which the talent and art of the prominent painter, Frances Turner - selected 5 times in a row for the BP Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London - is highlighted. This artist has been spotted and appreciated by another great critic, Normal Searle, that wrote an article in the Evening Standard on one of Frances’ paintings. “Vita e Opere di Antonio Sbrana” is a publication in which Lappon ties the activity of Sbrana and his influences on the “Macchiaioli” of the 19th century, like Natali and Fattori. A publication that illustrates the continuity of this movement and how it is still present in Italy today. Besides being a consultant for the Chianciano Museum of Art, Karen Lappon is part of the Board that selects artists for the Biennale, a difficult task that she has undertaken since 2009, along with other curators, to choose 100 artists out of 2000 applicants that will be part of the Chianciano Biennale. Karen is part of the jury of the London Biennale where 120 artists, selected from 40 different countries participate, and has been chosen by the organisers to accompany the Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea during the opening of the biennale.
Mixed media on canvas by Angelo Maristela
The Artist Angelo Antonio Maristela from The Philippines, is an extraordinarily eclectic artist who masters a wide variety of styles and techniques brilliantly. He was born to a Filipino mother and half-American father. He was an actor, a model (fashion and TVC), and a singer. Angelo’s art inclinations were manifested as early as when he was three years old. At the young age of 15, he had already started to paint professionally. He went to Far Eastern University, where he graduated in Fine Arts and Advertising. He is a natural hyper-realist painter but Angelo expands his range into abstracts and impressionism paintings. He has realised commissioned art pieces mostly for corporate and commercial projects, famous restaurants, hospitals, banks in the Philippines, USA, and Qatar. When he was in the Philippines, Angelo was a member of highly-acclaimed art groups, Artist Association of the Philippines (AAP), and Arte Etnika. He was one of the finalists in the Philip Morris Art Awards, a prestigious Asian regional art competition. In 2009 he produced several artworks for exclusive villas in Pearl, Qatar. Angelo has exhibited all over the world and he was selected by Art Encounter in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was also invited for an exhibition in Philippine Center in New York. In September 2015 Angelo showed his works in The Chianciano Biennale, in Italy and, simultaneously, in the cultural village of Katara, in Qatar.
Mixed media on canvas by Angelo Maristela
The Critique Angelo Antonio Maristela is a naturally gifted artist that cannot be circumscribed within a given style or movement as his qualities span over a varied range of nomenclatures. He masters Hyperrealism through portraits of such astonishing faithfulness that remind us of Richter, Estes and Organ. His more figurative works and landscapes are of an exceptional beauty reminiscent of the great nineteenth century British landscape painters such as Constable and Stubbs. Maristela’s abstract and figurative expressionist paintings are representations of a mysterious dimension that trigger our deepest instincts and force them out until they whirl and float around us, leaving us entrapped in the amazing disclosed secrets of the universe he recreates. His canvases are explosions of mainly analogous colours whose combination creates an extraordinarily magical atmosphere. The juxtaposition of delicate and strong hues highlights Angelo’s taste for colour and his understanding of its multifaceted visual language. This wonderfully complete and talented artist takes the viewer on a journey to the very origins of creation through clear and powerful images of stunning impact. The boundaries of our thoughts are expanded to new and amazing dimensions of consciousness through our comprehension of Angelo’s incredible sensitivity and artistry. The highest exponent of the scientific world of today, Stephen Hawking, said: “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” Science and art: two distinct idioms. Maristela is the bilinguist that translates the message into words that our souls can perceive as an invitation to explore.
Karen Lappon International Confederation of Art Critics
“Beautiful Flamingo” Mixed media on canvas by Angelo Maristela
Mixed media on canvas by Angelo Maristela
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