art magazine september 2021 august selection
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Each of our numbers is the fulfillment of a great work. Our meetings have as their sole objective the visibility of our artists. The novelty of this issue was born from one of our last meetings. Each artist of the collectives will have his QR Code in the magazine linked to his page on our website. This is another small milestone! Furthermore, the special issue on the theme of gender identity will be released in coming months. In this issue two artists from our collectives and many selected: many artists who have worked on the rights of human rights. As always we try to give the world the best art! Enjoy the reading!
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samantha passaniti collective 18
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Eghosa Ray Akenbor collective 19
samantha passiniti challenge 2018
interview Collective 18 Photo Courtesy Amalia Di Lanno
Tell us about your artistic work: why do you do it, what do you want to express, if you have a precise style and a specific technique or change them in every project. My artistic research is developed through the study and experimentation of natural and recycled materials, becoming themselves the subjects of the works I create, bearers of an idea and a symbolism linked to aspects of our existential experience.The hares I create are of a pictorial/bidimensional and installation/sculptural type.They dialogue with each other and with the space in which they are placed, and are often created in relation to and in function of a specific space as a site-specific project.The strong connection with the territory, with the natural world, I believe is the main characteristic of what I create: a link that I feel with the environment in which I was born and everywhere in the world through residency projects that I have the opportunity to do in places new to me in close contact with nature.
Could you tell us something about the art in your country? Is there an active artistic community? Are you part of it? I live in a very small seaside town in Tuscany(Italy), I am quite far from the whole cultural and artistic world but I am completely immersed in uncontaminated nature. I often travel to the main Italian cities especially in Rome where I studied and where I kept important contacts in the artistic world and as soon as I can I try to travel abroad in search of cultural stimuli. In recent years I have done artistic residencies in naturalistic places far from my territory where I had the opportunity to realize site specific projects. Working from the base near the sea and then moving as soon as possible, I think it is perfect for my artistic practice.
Within which mood of art, you place your artwork? My artistic production is of pictorial, sculptural and installation type. The works are made with natural materials collected in the environment, poor and recycled materials, and are related to conceptual art with aesthetic refer-ences close to minimal art.
Do you remember the first artistic work you did? I remember very well my first experiments even if I don’t consider them real works, they resembled Pollock’s drippings and were very colorful. Now I do totally different things even if Jackson Pollock still remains one of the artists I love most.
What’s a typical day in Samantha’s life? My days pass in a simple and routine way: I spend most of my time in my studio which was once my fa-ther’s old carpentry and the remaining time I spend in the open air in contact with nature. I love Yoga and I My work therefore always begins with an initial always try to live in a spiritual way for give more senphase of listening to the world from which and in se to my life. As soon as possible I try to travel and which my collection of materials begins: objects, look for new stimuli in the great cities of art. earth, materials , often waste, anonymous elements, without value, often destined to deterio- Travelling for art, for example for personal exhibitions rate that I collect with love and transform into or for other art exhibitions, you want to see? Do you something precious and meaningful.The meaning like to see others’ art? Traveling for me is essential. of what I want to convey is added to the meaning Precisely because I live far from everything, I often that the material itself carries through its histo- feel the need to move around to see exhibitions of ry and its function in the world.My practice is a art or to discover new landscapes that stimulate me symbolic act that wants to induce a greater at- both from a cultural and naturalistic point of view. tention to ecology, to recycling, to a simpler and Where are your favorite places or themes where healthier lifestyle, but it is also a regeneration of you can find inspiration for your work? Traveling something destined to die, an attempt to overcome for me is essential. Precisely because I live far from the death of the body through the transcendent everything, I often feel the need to move around to and spiritualthat I feel in my artistic practice.In see exhibitions of art or to discover new landscapes some recent projects I have sought a sharing, a that stimulate me both from a cultural and naturaliparticipation of people through the collection of stic point of view. fabrics and clothes charged with emotional meaning that have been donated to me to develop my Have you studied art or are you self-taught? I studied ideas.In this case, too, the concept that drives me painting at the art academy in Rome and then I atto this practice is always that of giving voice, im- tended a short course at the Slade School of Art in portance and new life to forgotten garments that London. Both of these experiences, the first classic actually signify important values and feelings that and the second very experimental, formed me comwe tend to forget in our fleeting time. pletely.
Photo Marco Passaniti
What do you think about social networks and the web about art and artists? I believe that in recent times the art market and the use of works is changing considerably and that, as in all sectors, social media and the web are replacing real life with virtual life. In the artistic field for me all this is very positive also because living decentralized from the big cities doing my work without the web would be impossible so for me it is fundamental to make me notice but also to be able to see other artists and what happens in the world. Could you talk to us about the idea of your project? In recent years, during artistic residencies in naturalistic places, I had the opportunity to create environmental installations interacting with nature. Starting from my practice focused on the research of natural material, my research has evolved out of the walls of the galleries or my studio and into the open space. Among the major projects I remember the installation at Arteventura, (Andalusia, Spain), the one on Mount Beigua (Liguria, Italy) and finally the one at Artenatura (Veneto, Italy). You have organized exhibitions in the past. How does it feel to involve others in your art? In 2017 I organized and curated a site specific project called Nature Specific where I involved three other artists. We worked for six months in a Tuscan organ-ic company and I must say that it was a wonderful experience where I learned a lot from the exchange that was created by working as a team. In the future I would like to repeat the same project in new reali-ties in contact with nature. What is your favorite artwork? Definitely my favorite work is “Relational Forest”. It is an environmental installation made in 2020 with fabrics that were donated to me by the inhabitants of a small village on Monte Beigua (Liguria). These fabrics are linked to the stories and memories of the people who donated them to me and therefore actively participated in this work and its installation in nature. I cherish this work for the human connection that has emerged through contact with the people. If you could show off your artwork anywhere in the world, where would you choose? I would certainly like to exhibit in cities like New York, London or Berlin in interesting spaces for experimental art Are you reading a book at the moment? There is one book you have on your reading list? I love reading and I always have a very long list of books to read. At the moment I’m reading White by designer Kenya Hara. I purchased this book at the end of 2018 at the Beacon Art Center near New York. The book investigates the white color from a con-ceptual and philosophical point of view and I must say that it is enriching me a lot since I use this color prevalently in all my works. Is there a famous contemporary artist, that you want to report? And an artist who is not famous but who you like and whose artistic research do you share? Certainly among all contemporary artists I want to mention Lawrence Carroll whom I had the pleasure of knowing personally in 2015 and with whom I had the honor of working as an intern. I am infinitely grateful to this great artist for having transmitted me much on an artistic level but above all on a human level. I think I was really lucky to have met him.And an artist who is not famous but who you like and whose artistic research do you share? There are many artists that I should mention, too many, in general I share the work of a whole series of new artists who, like me, in this delicate historical period and have chosen to work with nature and for the nature. I believe this is fundamental today and has a profound sense that goes beyond art. You have been contacted by No Name Collective Gallery and did not know what kind of project we would have made: are you happy to trust us? I am very happy to have been chosen for the 2018 collective, I think it is a wonderful opportunity for me and whatever will happen from this collaboration will surely be positive for me and for my work. We ask for a small fee for the selection of the magazine and our other calls (artistic residencies and art clashes) but for the artists, we have selected and which we will select every year then we work for free. What do you think about this thing? I believe this aspect is ethically correct and it does you honor. I do not want to talk about those who, on the contrary, ask crazy figures for very young artists to participate in often useless projects, but I prefer to emphasize that there are fortunately realities like yours, even if they are few, which instead really help the artists who have chosen this difficult path.
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Samantha Passaniti passaniti.s@gmail.com www.samanthapassaniti.com instagram: sa-ma_art_studio Facebook: samantha passaniti
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Samantha Passaniti Born in Grosseto in 1981, she lives and works between Monte Argentario and Rome. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in 2015 she attended a postgraduate course at the Slade School of Art in London. In 2018 she is selected by the international organization ReArtiste for a group show at the MC Gallery in New York. She is among the finalists for the Arteam Cup award in 2018, 2019,and 2020 exhibiting at the Fondazione Dino Zoli in Forlì, at Villa Nobel (Sanremo) and again at the Fondazione Dino Zoli. In 2020 she wins an artistic residency focused on the link between art and nature in the Geopark Unesco heritage of Monte Beigua (Savona) and is selected for a residence at the center of contemporary art Arteventura contemporary art center in Andalusia, Spain in the Sierra de Aracena Natural Park. Aracena. In both residencies she realizes environmental installations. Recent solo exhibitions include “Corrispettivo naturale” in 2018, curated by Davide Silvioli at the Art G.A.P. Gallery in Rome and “Rethinking Materials, Rethinking the Place” always curated by davide Silvioli in 2020, in the beautiful historical palace Cozza Caposavi of Bolsena (VT). Among the numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, we mention the participation in June 2020 at the exhibition Athens Open Art at the gallery Art Number 23 in Athens. Her artistic artistic research is focused on the experimentation of natural materials collected in the environment that become the object of reflection and investigation into the complexity of human relationships and experience existential experience. Her paintings and installations are born from a continuous relationship, dialogue and exchange between dialogue and exchange between inside and outside, between intimate world and environment, between man and nature, between existential experience and natural cycles, with particular attention to the ancestral symbologies and spiritual archetypes that since ancient times connect man to the natural world that hosts him. “My artistic research is developed through the study and experimentation of natural and recycled materials, becoming themselves the subjects of the works I create, bearers of an idea and a symbolism linked to aspects of our existential experience. The hares I create are of a pictorial/bidimensional and installation/sculptural type. They dialogue with each other and with the space in which they are placed, and are often created in relation to and in function of a specific space as a site-specific project. The strong connection with the territory, with the natural world, I believe is the main characteristic of what I create: a link that I feel with the environment in which I was born and everywhere in the world through residency projects that I have the opportunity to do in places new to me in close contact with nature. My work therefore always begins with an initial phase of listening to the world from which and in which my collection of materials begins: objects, earth, materials , often waste, anonymous elements, without value, often destined to deteriorate that I collect with love and transform into something precious and meaningful. The meaning of what I want to convey is added to the meaning that the material itself carries through its history and its function in the world. My practice is a symbolic act that wants to induce a greater attention to ecology, torecycling, to a simpler and healthier lifestyle, but it is also a regeneration of something destined to die, an attempt to overcome the death of the body through the transcendent and spiritualthat I feel in my artistic practice. In some recent projects I have sought a sharing, a participation of people through the collection of fabrics and clothes charged with emotional meaning that have been donated to me to develop my ideas. In this case, too, the concept that drives me to this practice is always that of giving voice, importance and new life to forgotten garments that actually signify important values and feelings that we tend to forget in our fleeting time.”
Photo Marco Passaniti
still afraid to realize
interview collective 19
Eghosa Ray Akenbor
CHALLENGE 2019
Tell us about your artistic work: why do you do it, what do you want to express, if you have a precise style and a specific technique or change them in every project. My works are mostly experimental (mixed media art), i explore found objects around and fuse them with fresh colours to create, inspire innovation, excitement, imaginations and magical stories on canvas. Outside painting with found objects, I paint with imaginary symbols, motifs, patterns inspired by African traditional symbols and patterns which are found on local craft like – textile works, calabash decoration, basketry, woven fabrics etc My works are mostly abstract and a little bit representational, in order to connect more with my audience. Within which mood of art you place your artwork? I will say Expressionist Could you tell us something about the art in your country? Is there an active artistic community? Are you part of it? The art in my country is diversify because of the culture, tribe, locations differences, each of the region have their own kind of art that prevail in the area. The art in my country is in two forms – the traditional cultural art which was practice before colonialisation and it is still practice till date. The other form is European art style brought in through art education by the colonial masters. The art style is what is prevailing in Nigeria art market. The interesting thing is that the European style is now fused with the various traditional art cultures to tell the African day to day stories. I don’t know of any art community. Where are your favorite places or themes where you can find inspiration for your work? Anywhere can inspire my work. Have you studied art or are you self-taught? I studied art in a higher institution. Do you remember the first artistic work you did? I can’t really remember because I started practicing art at a very tender age, from my primary school days. I drew cartoons a lot What do you think about social networks and the web about art and artists? It is a perfect way to promote the art and artist, I love it. Could you talk to us about the idea of your project? I am working on more than one project for the now . Let me say three - The first is a mixed media expression of bold portraits and female forms on a dramatic textures in black and grey and touches of vibrant colours. The second project is big sizes of human forms in African motifs, patterns and a lot of dots in various shapes in black on a white background. While the third are large sizes of collage paintings in magazines, fabrics, calendars, cardboard papers, acrylic etc to create imaginary patterns, motifs, symbols, human forms. You have organized exhibitions in the past. How does it feel to involve others in your art? I have organized exhibitions in the past- group exhibitions. It will be cool to involve others in my art, if it will be beneficial. If you could show off your artwork anywhere in the world, where would you choose? New York, London, Germany, France, Japan, China etc Is there a famous contemporary artist that you want to report? El Anatsui, Victor Ekpu And an artist who is not famous but who you like and whose artistic research do you share? Arueya Joel You have been contacted by No Name Collective Gallery and did not know what kind of project we would have made: are you happy to trust us? Kind of trust you guys, I just have to be positive. We ask for a small fee for the selection of the magazine and our other calls (artistic residencies and art clashes) but for the artists, we have selected and which we will select every year then we work for free. What do you think about this thing? That’s cool.
last image: Poetry In The Head IV. Acrylic on canvas. Size - 48/48 inches. Year – 2021
Poetry In The Head III. Acrylic on canvas. Size -48/48 inches. Year – 2021 next image: Garden Of Thoughts I. Mixed media on canvas. Size -36/48 inches. Year – 2021
A Tribute III. Mixed media on canvas. Size -54/54 inches. Year – 2021
A Tribute I. Mixed media on canvas. Size -54/54 inches. Year – 2021
Just Be Happy I. Mixed media on canvas. Size 48/48 inches. Year – 2021
The Elders II. Mixed media on canvas. Size -58/58 inches. Year – 2021 life is serious serious
The Elders IV. Mixed media on canvas. Size -58/58 inches. Year – 2021
Eghosa Raymond Akenbor lives in the culturally rich and historically artistic city of Benin, south of Nigeria, where he creates his art, drawing generously from his environment. His works have been published in Average Art Magazine Uk, Wotisart Magazine Uk, Lunch Ticket online magazine USA, Hidden Treasure Art Magazine UK, International Contemporary Art Greece/USA and Pomona Valley Review USA. Eghosa has also had his paintings exhibited at the Dalla Grafica All Africa, Lugano, Switzerland, Spectrum Miami 2014, Show de Bola Brazil 2014, Altered Aesthetics group exhibition USA amongst others. He teaches creative art in a missionary secondary school. National Artdays AHOY Rotterdam 2016 ART&GALLERY Jan Mennen Roggel The Netherlands from 2017, NNC GalleryVWord London 2017
Garden Of Thoughts I. Mixed media on canvas. Size -36/48 inches. Year – 2021 - detail
Eghosa Ray Akenbor
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august selection challenge 21 shortlist
Emmanuela zavattaro italy
FENG WANG CHINA
id Sousia korea
irina Tsypilova austria
Jeronima Jaume Clar
Spain
manuel unda spain
frank boyce ireland
FARAH HASSAN EGYPT
ZAINAB MEHMOOD PAKISTAN
Ameana alessandri England
LAURA NOTARI ARGENTINA
Amy deal us
pigi Daoula Greece
lydia bullok us
Lydia Bullok US
Christian Peter France
Special Guest August 2021
edited by Vanessa Rusci
Found Photography
Gemma Pepper Switzerland
https://gemmapepper.carbonmade.com/ Instagram: @gempepper
Selection of Exhibitions 2021 Group exhibition, The Print Swap, Athens, Greece 2021 Online exhibition, The Artist Intervenes, Lensscratch 2021: Group Exhibition, The Print Swap, Hanoi, Vietnam 2020 Group exhibition, Noorderlicht Festival, The Netherlands 2020 Group exhibition, Swiss Photo Club,Zürich, Switzerland 2020 Online exhibition, Your Favorite Photo of 2020, Lensscratch 2020 Online exhibition, The World Laughs, Analog Forever Magazine 2017 Group exhibition, Fotofestival Northern Eye, North Wales 2014: Solo exhibition, “Constructed Spaces” Stadtcafe, Sursee, Switzerland 2014: Solo exhibition, “Constructed Spaces” and “Gaol” Art Gallery Teiggi, Kriens, Switzerland 2014: Group exhibtion, Ascot England 2013: Online group exhibition, Museum of Derby, Derby, England 2013: Group exhibition, Museum der Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland 2013: Solo exhibition, Camino, Zürich, Switzerland September 2013 – September 2012: Group Exhibition “Best of the Best” University of Derby, England 2013: Group exhibition, Neo Artprize, Bolton England 2013: Group exhibition, Freerange, London, England 2013: Graduation show, University, Derby, England 2012: Group exhibition “Photonative”, Colwyn Bay, Wales May 2012: Group exhibition, College Rhos on Sea, Wales May 2012: Solo Exhibition, Artgallery Casc, Llandudno, Wales 2011 Group exhibition, Liverpool, England 2011 Group exhibition, Artgallery Casc, Llandudno, Wales Selection of Publications Interview with the art review magazine Arthabens Museum and Art Gallery Derby Award 2013 Derbyshire Community Foundation Award 2013 Lenscratch Online Exhibition “Night” Laura Noble Blog: Review Freerange June 2013 London Art Scene: Review Freerange The Power of the Creative Mind: Review Freerange
Wales Art Review Issue 12 by Ryan Glyndwr Davies
Gemma is known for her atmospheric mixed media artworks. Her work is described as painterly, poetic and moving. Her mixed media landscape works are inspired by her home country Wales and her current location: Switzerland. The artworks that contain found photographs explore themes of memory, identity and transience. Using a collection of analogue photographs and everyday objects her work intends to make sure the past and the people within it are not forgotten. Gemma’s artworks explore different photography genres and combines digital with analogue as well as painting with three dimensional objects. One of her aims is to explore the significance of nostalgia and remembrance photographs as aesthetic objects and cultural artefacts. Posing the question what does a photograph do? Which ideas and future visions of the world, social relationships, of the own and other can photographs reproduce by being recontextualized into something new?
Tayo Olusola
https://martynabenedyka.com/
Tayo Ogunsola
Born November 12 Currently resides in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.
COLLECTIONS Private collection, Leicester, UK Private collection, Texas, USA. Private collection, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. Private collection, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria Private collection, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria Private collection, Abuja, Nigeria.
Instagram: @tayo_creates
artist of the month
Tayo is a painter, working primarily in oils. He often employs bold colours and emotive tableaux in a contemporary mixed-media and realistic manner. He is a contemporary artist from Lagos, Nigeria. He often describes himself as a GOD-taught artist. He completed his Bachelor of Political Science and International Relations degree, Covenant University in 2012. After his formal education in a differing subject from his innate talent, he resumed improving his skill in his favorite field and since 2015 till date he has earned from it in commissions and sales. Most of his works are inspired by classical/renaissance art styles, and experiments that bring abstracts, impressionism and realism in one piece. Tayo has participated and received invitations to sit as panel for a art competition, the launch of a virtual art gallery by a leading financial institution in Lagos, Nigeria. He has exhibited his works at business fairs, a group Exhibition in Ilorin, Kwara State, Zarnelia Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria and “Night Museum” at Art Oblaka in Bashkortostan, Russia where he currently resides. His works collected by art enthusiasts in the United States of America, England, Russia and Nigeria respectively. He studies a master’s degree program in Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Ufa and working to throw a solo art exhibition aimed at exploring Christianity using mainly women from diverse cultures as the subjects of communicating the message of his art.
Lucía Guadalupe Guillén
Madre e figlia, Acrylic, pencils and colored wool on canvas, 70x100cm 2014.
Nosostras, mixed media on canvas, 70x100cm 2019
Collective 20
Marcin IdZkowskI
julia Bezshtanko
PAULA SEGARRA
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SJ Kilgallon
Yalım VURAL
ANNAKLARA galli
challenge 2021
massimiliano balo’
Runa
Octavio Martinez Gil
denisa Olexa Bogdalíková
ami davis
Helen Birnbaum
J DAVIES
Josh Stein
Ernest Compta Llinàs
DIEGO DIAZ RODRIGuEZ
Polina Welscher
joy margar
Lucas Nagel
shoan street
Jorge Gomes Moreira
Doctor Sample Umut Nur Sungur
Mikolaj Jackiewicz
MARIAN DAVIES
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