art magazine may 2021
Black - Bot Headpiece Despina Kilakou
EDITOR’s... There is a great explosion of activity in the art world! We continue to seek out talents and show them off! And we show the art of the artists we have selected over the years. It is the turn of two young artists who bring innovation and break, both in the production of art and on the figure of the artist. Looking at their works and reading their interviews. I am really proud to have identified them and proposed them to our juries. Every time we meet an artist or a work, let’s ask ourselves what he is adding to our life. We go to every corner of the virtual world to find ideas and productions, and we try to give visibility to everyone. We are happy to have more and more feedback and more visibility! I want to thank you all for the support you give us and above all the artists who create networks with each other and support each other! It is my greatest satisfaction. We are creating a real collective and a real art movement! Thanks NNC VWorld Comunity!
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A challenge for artists. Each month we select artists who will participate in the grand final of December 2021. The winners will have space on our website, in our magazine and in our events. In each issue an interview with two of our artists and the month’s selection. We also dedicate a space to a special guest and artist of the month. At the bottom you will find the artists of our Collectives currently represented. Enjoy the reading! We are looking for talent: candidates for the Challenge on our site.
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interview Collective 18
Despina Kilakou challenge 2018
Cobalt Blue Bot Dress
Tell us about your artistic work: why do you do it, what Have you studied art or are you self-taught? I have do you want to express, if you have a precise style and done many studies on fashion, set design & costume a specific technique or change them in every project. and through all this knowledge I develop my own personal techniques. I am a fashion designer, but I feel more like an artist. I deeply believe that fashion is art. Do you remember the first artistic work you did? Basically, I work on many artistic projects with Oh yes! It was an Installation with the title : different themes and approaches each time. I have “Persephone - from darkness to light” some standard techniques that I always use on installations like draping on the stand (moulage) What do you think about social networks and the web and TR Cutting Techniques, but I always like to about art and artists? Social networks and web can experiment with new materials and techniques. really help an artist on promoting his work, but you My mother was a seamstress, and from an early always must look for d irect contact. Art is a age I started creating things with my own hands. discussion with the viewer and you can’t do this Creating from scratch gives me pleasure and pushes discussion from your computer screen. me to cross my line every time I design something new. Could you talk to us about the idea of your project? Within which mood of art, you place your I’m currently designing a new collection inspired by artwork? It’s difficult for me to answer… My robots. The future where everyone has their own work is a combination of fashion, sculpture, personal robot is not far from today. How would you installation, video art & performance. like your robot to be dressed? Mine’s fashion - Bot, definitely going to be like this. (..see Blue - Bot Bress Could you tell us something about the art & Headpiece Photo). Last Year I also had the in your country? Is there an active artistic pleasure to cooperate with the community? Are you part of it? I’m currently designing a new collection inspired by There is a lot of Art in Greece. Elefsina is going robots. The future where everyone has their own to become the European Capital of Culture in personal robot is not far from today. How would you 2023. This means a lot to us , it’s a connection like your robot to be dressed? Mine’s fashion - Bot, of our ancient culture with the new age and definitely going to be like this. (..see Blue - Bot Bress many young artists worldwide. For more & Headpiece Photo). information, you can check the following link: Last Year I also had the pleasure to cooperate with the director Christopher Antoniadis for the creation h t t p s : / / w w w . 2 0 2 3 e l e v s i s . e u / of the documentary “Iolas Wonderland “. What’s a typical day in Despina Kilakou’s life? A typical day includes search for new materials, inspirations and a lot of work on developing new forms in my workshop. Travelling for art, for example for personal exhibitions or for other art exhibitions, you want to see? Do you like to see others’ art? I love travelling for Art. In 2018 I was in Palermo at Vestino Exhibition where I presented my installation: “Queen of Chess”I always like to see other’s art and hope very soon to be able to travel again and visit museums and exhibitions. Where are your favorite places or themes where you can find inspiration for your work? I find inspiration on everything ! Fairytales, ancient myths, symbolism, music festivals, comics, fashion, photography ecc.
The documentary is about Alexandros Iolas a famous Greek gallery owner and important collector of modern art. The film was selected by the Thessaloniki Film festival and will be presented online (24/6 – 4/7/2021 https://www.filmfestival. gr/en/) director Christopher Antoniadis for the creation of the documentary “Iolas Wonderland “. The documentary is about Alexandros Iolas a famous Greek gallery owner and important collector of modern art. The film was selected by the Thessaloniki Film festival and will be presented online (24/6 – 4/7/2021 https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/) You have organized exhibitions in the past. How does it feel to involve others in your art? Yes, I have organized & participate in many exhibitions in the past. I always enjoy meeting new people and discuss art. In most of my projects, I do involve other people. I enjoy the idea-exchange process.
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If you could show off your artwork anywhere in the world, where would you choose? I would choose New York Are you reading a book at the moment? There is one book you have on your reading list? Yes , I am reading Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Colour, by Valerie Steele. 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? A famous street artist that I like is Bansky . I also admire Daniel Roseberry (Artistic Director of Schiaparelli’s House since 2019). And an artist who is not famous but who you like and whose artistic research do you share? Also WD (Wild Drawing) is one of my favorites http://wdstreetart.com/about.html 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? Yes I really trust and believe in your work and your artistic approach. 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 do approve this procedure.
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Gordon Coldwell - Hollywood Las Meninas
Gordon Coldwell - The Unbiquity of Icons
Godess of Victory Greece
Despina Kilakou was born in Athens - Greece, In 2005 Despina graduated from the Department of Clothing Design & Technology of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, acquiring a Diploma in Fashion Design. Moreover she completed a course on the Italian technique of making patron in Athens in 2006 and she served her apprenticeship in Evangelia’s Panoliaskou haute couture atelier. In 2014 completes successfully a comprehensive evaluation at TR Platforms – Mastercalss and is certificated as a TR Master by Shingo Sato (TR Cutting School). In 2007 she begins creating handmade accessories and clothing using techniques and high quality materials only haute couture can provide. Despina has participated in many Fashion Tradeshows, Art Exhibitions and events in Athens, such as “Tell A Story” fashion tradeshow (2008), “Open September Festival” (2014 & 2015), “Petit Paris D’ Athenes” (2015), NGFL (2018).Moreover, many boutiques, concept stores & galleries (Occhi, Epidemic, Room 69, Gallery Black Duck, Exotic, Sunny Glass Room, Smart Gifts, The Baroness, AC-Art Gallery,have embraced her accessory creations in Athens, U.K and New York. Exhibitions – Participations – Distinctions In Competitions: Participation & showcase of my work in “Hoverphonics” music video clip: Looking for Stars, in cooperation with stylist Vina Neofotistou. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tWs-OUSiY Participation in Fashion Show : “ 4Cast Illusions” and presentation of “Leave No Trace”Collection in cooperation with fashion designer Alexandra Apsokardou, Location: Athens Concert Hall, 04.14.2019 Participation in art exhibition of “Regional Conference On ThePrevention Of Tafficking In Human Beings In Supply Chains Through Government Practises And Measures”. Location: Serafio City Of Athens, 30 & 31 January 2019 Participation in costume exhibition of the organization “Raise Your Voice”and presentation of an art installation sculpture: “Your Suffering….My Pleasure”, in Technopolis City of Athens, 11.18.2018 Participation in the exhibition PARTICIPATION IN THE EXHIBITION ART & FASHION - CREATIVE WEAR EXHIBITION performed at the Greek School Of Fine Arts, Piraeus 256,Building D, 12. 4-6.2018 Winner in “Creative Wear” Project and presentation of art installation “A Game Of Chess” in Vestino Exhibition at Palermo ,18 – 22 October 2018 Participation in 4th NGFL (New Designers Fashion Lines), and presentation of my winter collection 2018 – 2019 in cooperation with Cross – Crew Brand and Creative Director. Michael Pandos Location: Diplareios Sholh – 03. 17&18.2018 http://ngfl.gr/ngfl4/designers/#artisfashion Participation & Presentation of my fascinator collection in Fashion Movie Event by Jenny.gr, in cooperation with Creative Director Michael Pandos & L’Oreal Proffesional. in Location: Athens & Thessaloniki, April 2018 . http://jenny.gr/gynaika/today-i-love/727725/ti-krataw-apo-thn-xthesinh-bradia Winner in New Designers Competition completed by the “OZON MAGAZINE” in cooperation with “ABSOLUT” , and presentation of new collection in “HILTON” hotel by the organization of “Fashion Room Service”, 12.20.2017 http://el.ozonweb.com/contests-giveaways/absolut-rooms-winners-fashion-room-servixe-x-mas-edition http://el.ozonweb.com/fashion/fashion-room-service-xmas-edition-photos Participation in competition/ project “Creative Wear” and distinction of my project to the final presentation of the competition “Creative Clothing for the Mediterranean Space”, accomplished in “Greek School Of Fine Arts” by the “Center Of Clothing”, 12 .01&02.2017 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1858219100872928&set=pcb.1858219234206248&type=3&theater Participation in the project “Fashion Revolution Greece”(SOFFA), processed in the Kypseli’s Market on 11.17.2017 http:// euframe.blogspot.gr/2017/11/global-fashion-disruptors.html Presentation of my work at Numéro Magazine (Russia) - THE FUTURE IS NATURAL -053 ISSUE - DECEMBER 2018 https://www.numerorussia.com/on-stand-now Selection of my artwork by NNC (No Name Collective Gallery), and publication of my work on NNC Art Magazine , April’s issue 2018 https://issuu.com/nonamecollectivelondonmagazine/docs/magazine_april_2018
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Juan Pablo mapeto 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. I make art because it is the only place where I find myself and from where I learn day after day, whether with happiness or frustrations. It’s what drives me to overcome. I try to express the feeling of what I see and the daily life. The technique depends on what I want to express with each series. I look for simple and versatile materials. Each series determines the material to be used. Within which mood of art you place your Artwork? I have been working with philosophy and science in postmodern society as the predominant idea of the concept of my art. Currently, I have been very interested in visual documents with demographic references, surrealism, and minimalism to carry out new dialogues and research. Could you tell us something about the art in your country? Is there an active artistic community? Are you part of it? I have not lived in Chile for a few years, but as an important artistic scene that occurred there and that serves as an inspiration for many artists, I suggest knowing more about the works of Roberto Matta, Nicanor Parra, Nemesio Antúnez, Violeta Parra. What’s a typical day in Mapeto’s life? I wake up early in the morning, have a cup of coffee or green tea and go to the studio. First, I solve the jobs that were left over from the previous day, and then I start painting. I usually do more than one activity at the same time, alternating painting, collage, listening to music, reading about my investigation, and writing my projects. Travelling for art, for example for personal exhibitions for for other art exhibitions you want to see? Do you like to see others’ art? I really like to travel and discover new places and other cultures. Whenever I’m travelling for my exhibitions or on vacation, I try to visit museums, galleries and know other artists. I find it interesting to know the history and culture of the people and the local artists and see other production methods and artist engagements. Where are your favorite places or themes where you can find inspiration for your work? I like to mix science, philosophy, the streets, and demographic issues because my work involves my immigrant status. My work is always related to demographic and socio-cultural boundaries, seeking the convergence of both I am always looking for in-
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formation about science, technology, and new authors of contemporary philosophy. I also look for inspiration in everyday situations that happen in my life and with people around me. Everything serves as a starting point to execute a work. It usually works as a sensation and a need to register a feeling of the present moment. Have you studied art or are you self-taught? I started as a self-taught person since I was a child, then I started taking painting courses. In college, I ended up taking an engineering course while living in Chile. However, my real passion was for art and I moved to Buenos Aires to study at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UNA), where I specialized myself in various techniques of visual arts. Do you remember the first artistic work you did? Yes, the first group exhibition I attended, I was 13 years old. The exhibition was a reinterpretation of landscapes by one of my favourite painters, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. What do you think about social networks and the web about art and artists? Every age has its own means of communication and it changes over time, as well as the forms of language. I think social networks and web are tools that can help if used in the right way. It can facilitate both the search for ideas and the dissemination and knowledge of new artists. I believe that it contributes to democratizing the possibilities of each one to show their work. But I still have doubts about how democratic it is because we are susceptible to algorithms that contributes to the standardization of the image, since they act according to commercial precepts. Could you talk to us about the idea of your project? The project I am currently working on is a critique of the form of education prevalent between the 1960s and 1990s, which was a massive education based on the use of figurative stereotypes as a form of visual indoctrination. When I take books from that time, the idea is to reformulate and criticize the foundations of our education. With this series, I try to develop an artistic language that has to do with the subjectivity of the documents used in the educational area, mainly school encyclopedias. I have been looking for material from that period where I select visual diagrams, illustrations, scientific and natural diagrams, symbology etc. that re-signified in collages and paintings generating a dialogue between color, depth and space with the pragmatic and tacit of the visual diagrams. With that, I seek to make a connection between the existential concepts of the postmodern era, working with a new concept of the duality between humanity and science and between analogue and digital. Lately I have been interested in making minimalist syntheses in which miniatures and symbols converge in a space that make reference to a pause. You have organized exhibitions in the past. How does it feel to involve others in your art? Yes, I have already organized some solo exhibitions and with other artists. I believe that this is one of the richest ways to establish a dialogue between two or more ways of thinking about a subject and sharing different knowledge. Every time I do this kind of exposition it is an enriching, good and fun experience. What is your favorite artwork? My favorite art is the Presencia de America Latina (Presence of Latin America) that is a mural by Jorge Gonzáles Camarena, a Mexican painter and muralist. It is located at the University of Concepción (Chile), in the city where I was born, and it is an artwork that inspired me a lot. If you could show off your artwork anywhere in the world, where would you choose? I think I would choose to do an exhibition in Tokyo. I think it would be interesting to take a little of South American art and culture to a place with different tradition and culture in relation to mine and at the same time a city that inspires future. Are you reading a book at the moment? Currently, I am reading Byung-chul Han’s books. I recently read Psychopolitics and this book made me want to read more of his work. I also have read Hyperculturality and Good entertainment and the next on my list are Muerte y Alteridad and Topology of Violence, from the same author. In addition to these more philosophical readings, I also like to read some short stories like those of Horacio Quiroga and Jorge Luis Borges.
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? Yes, I could see that you are seriously dedicated to developing your work and I was happy to have met the No Name Collective Gallery. 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 think it is ok to charge a fee that is not too high to cover the costs of the project and to pay the people that is involved in work on it. We all have to think it is ok to charge a fee that is not too high to cover the costs of the project and to pay the people that is involved in work on it. We all have to pay our bills. pay our bills.
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Juan Pablo Mapeto was born in Concepción, a city in the south of Chile, in 1985. He studied engineering at Universidad Federico Santa Maria in 2002. Later he moved to Buenos Aires (Argentina) to study Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA). He currently lives in São Paulo developing his work. His investigation is based on the idea of pictorial and conceptual reinterpretation of demographic, borderline and immigration, situations experienced by the artist. Solo exhibitions 2021 Virtual Exhibition NNC Gallery VWorld VLondon 2017 Fuegos - Espacio Van Staseghem, Colombia 2014 La Vida en Tiempos de Guerra - Espacio Van Staseghem, Colombia 2013 Decameron, Argentina 2012 Mostra Anônima - Espaço S/A, Brazil 2010 Habitación # 310, Argentina Other projects Album “Beijo estranho” and “Vanguart sings Bob Dylan”, band Vanguart (Deskdisc) Documentary Exposto – Artist Juan Pablo Mapeto Awards 2010 Honorable mention and Cultural Merit – Metropolitan Museum of Buenos Aires contact www.instagram.com/juanpablomapeto www.vimeo.com/135604882
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CHALLENGE 21 May SHORTLIST
Fatin Rahmouni Germany
Rayden Lawrence canada
Caterina Santinello italy
Christian Gastaldi france
Gabriela Farnel
Karla Diaz Velarde Chaves
selection
may 2021
Jenya Stanhkov
Danilo Novakovic
Anderson Alencar
Fiona Liberatore
Rachele Gigli
Mondli the Artivist Kunene
pati John
marmet Magali
Lars Cornelisse
I Gede Jaya Putra Dekde
Rafael Meca
francesca Brivio
Feixue Mei
sara Sayu
andrea Cerina
Istepan Obsidian Goekbas
special guest may 2021
BY VANESSA RUSCI
Vertical buildings
Lorenzo Linthout italy
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Vertical buildings The color images are shot in different European cities represent a sequence of skyscrapers that lose the heavy heaviness of the building materials and magically acquire a lightness that makes them float in the sky, even if firmly anchored to the earth by some device that we would like to discover. The architecture is sublimated in the images implying spaces that should be inhabited but which appear here as tracks of a printed circuit, united by a refined and linear design, through a work of photographic deprivation, subtraction and negation, to bring them back to a lexical sobriety, to an absence of structural noise, of stylistic redundancy. The shots are made almost unrecognizable by the estrangement of any visual disturbance and by everything that belongs to reality, cleaned and stripped of any contextual trace and excess of form. Thus stripped, these architectures appear “not deafening”, always illuminated by the light of the sky which becomes an aseptic background and represents the silence that has the task of enhancing the relationship between volume and empty space.
Lorenzo Linthout was born in 1974 in Verona, city where he lives. He started photographing at the age of sixteen; when he was twenty four years old he graduated at the Faculty of Architecture “Biagio Rossetti” at the University of Ferrara. In the recent years he has exposed, both personal and collective, at more than one hundred exhibitions in Italy, France, Switzerland, Poland, England, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary, Montenegro, Slovenija, Croatia and Albania. In February 2017 he published the book “Architectural visions”, in August 2018 the book “The silent cities”, in September 2019 the book “Abandoned places” and in May 2020 the book “Vertical buildings”
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