Magazine #4 by Art Monday

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N O 04 SJULLE THE LJILJA PETER BASSE KELL JARNER HORACIO QUIROZ ANGELO MONTANARI SERGEY MELNITCHENKO

KELL JARNER

HORACIO QUIROZ

THE LJILJA

SJULLE

SERGEY MELNITCHENKO

ANGELO MONTANARI

PETER BASSE

CONGRATULATIONS WITH YOUR NEW ART MONDAY MAGAZINE : THE 4TH ISSUE. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL ENJOY ALL ART PRESENTED... COVER ARTIST : SERGEY MELNITCHENKO PRINTED AT MØLHOLM TRYK BACK OFFICE & EDITORIAL: JAKOB HINDHEDE . SUSANNE CHRISTENSEN . EMIRETH HERRERA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED, COPIED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS WITHOUT THE PUBLISHER’S WRITTEN PERMISSION. 3

KELL JARNER Discover cave painting mixed with comic and primitive art, overlaid with a bucket of Michelangelo and Botticelli. Kell Jarner’s paintings is like a crazy fantasy where nothing is defined and everything is open for interpretation. It’s full of clues and references, but it’s up to you to make the conclusions. A woman creates a baby with her finger. The woman has three breasts and she is wearing a veil. The baby has panda eyes. An elk has ‘snake horns’ like Medusa, and Medusa carries a theater wig with powder. They are watching a mother caressing her son. The son is playing with a skull. Venus, born from the foam of the sea, is now in a desert cave. She is naked, but wearing high heel shoes. She is looking up towards the sky whilst a crowd of people and animals are gazing at her. It sounds grumpy in a crazy way, and it is. This is certainly not art supposed to be ‘beautiful’ or ‘aesthetic’. But it leaves you with a great deal to talk about. In that sense, Jarner’s paintings are speech art, and that is no coincidence. For Kell Jarner is a rhetorician and he works on a daily basis with the professional use of words. This is the result of his other work, his night work. A visual passion.

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SERGEY MELNITCHENKO “Transvestites. Girls bathing in tubs of beer. Drunk actors and even more drunk visitors. All of this – CLUB, the club where I’m working. I walked by Club , years ago, as I came to Asia to work as a dancer. The last few months we perform in another Chinese club, which were more like a huge bar with a stage. No of the other visitors were dancing here. At one moment I realized how many great things are going on here and that’s how the series ‘Behind the Scene’ appeared in my mind. This is the reverse, the invisible side of the club, the atmosphere, a part of which I became. In ‘Behind the Scenes’ there is more burlesque than on the stage, the concentration of sexual fluids is more powerful than oxygen. There’s no deceit – it’s not a scene. It’s their everyday life, our life, or rather mine. They’re really young. Some of them were 18-19, some 21-22. All the girls are from Chengdu and nearest little towns. I think that girls who chooses such kind of work don’t have good family conditions that’s why they decide to work, even in such sphere. They’ll do everything - sex I can’t say for sure. But they dance. Some of them performed parts in their shows which we (foreigners) were also working, so we often worked together on the stage. Of course we accompany the guests; we drank with them and played chinese games, danced for them, danced with them, sang, and so on and so on. Many of girls really like what they do, but I always think ‘enjoy the moment for salary’ will be better said“. Sergey Melnitchenko

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HORACIO QUIROZ Horacio QuirozÂ´s work reflects his search for strength, developing an energetic tenacity that seals holes and revives emotions due to his self-consciousness. No doubt, this is an artist who is characterized for his freshness and interest in exploring the human body as a receptive cabin of emotions and the ability to transform himself through catalyst impulses that are activated while feeling and living an experience. The challenge of self-exploration and manipulation of feelings have become a fundamental part of his pieces, now that he has emerged through a personal process, which has also been therapeutic. In context it reveals a showcase that presents emotions which take shape by coming out and wrapping his privacy, so that he has found an interpretive tone constructed from a speech related to the story built by each individual since his birth, at the first contact with world. On the other hand, Horacio considers the adult world shapes the mind of a child, whose emotions are conditioned as he grows, this way they become twisted. How many emotional questions, unresolved problems, intimate interrogations are not sheltered in the depths of the existence? Horacio has made radiographs of these circumstances, especially of those that cannot be told with words and only through drawing and painting can be diluted to be interpreted. Body and skin are presented in a catharsis evoking the spirit to emerge offering an opening lecture full of dense meaning about his personal life and the process he has been through; this is how the images project a profound impact on those who look at them. His work demonstrates that confrontation is activated between the interaction point and the adaptation to the adult world finding a definition ranging from vulnerability and courage to follow his path. Therefore, it becomes a devotion to artistic practice as a medium to take out accumulated content through his experiences. Emireth Herrera 24

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ANGELO MONTANARI The North Italian illustrator and digital artist, Angelo Montanari, creates figurative stories with a style reminiscent of an almost horror-pop-art microcosm. Characters created with scratches and pixelated elements infuses the fragile universe of radiant colors. “I call this ‘Real Beauty’. I think that real beauty is often something strange and unknow. Real Beauty is something that penetrates your mind, your bones and into you soul - and you are both scared and happy at the same time. It’s like a ferocious beast that eats you inside out. When you experience what I call real beauty you might be in a bit danger as it enters your mind. It’s like if your soul were kidnapped and you can not eat, breath, think, have sex without thinking to that real beauty. It’s a sort of a black magic spell that destroys all your idea and leaves you to rebuild these in a new and different way. The strangest thing is that real beauty is alway resolving in different ways. Maybe you identify new details in ways it moves, smells or accrue in colours… and you never know when you’ll find it! And maybe, after a while, you will forget. You might forget what you recognised as real beauty - the feeling inside you. And then you’ll have to throw it out because it’s too big. It’s too primitive and barbarian to carry for a single soul. Real beauty is an illness. And the only cure is to show it to the the world; to involve everyone to these beauty - just before it eats your body and soul, piece by piece”.

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angelo montanari

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THE LJILJA The Ljilja is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Croatia. She made her debut in 2006 with a performance, as a part of group show “Four Funerals and One Wedding” and have since then been shown in various group and solo shows.Her work ranges from installations and paintings, to photography and performances. “I call my practice a ritual. In my installations, decay is present. I destroy garments by burning, cutting, burying and growing mildew on them, and then I install them inside of a gallery space”. Her paintings, drawings and photography are bold, dynamic and expressive. The reality of her work moves away from objective reality. She doesn’t want simply to express her psychological state. By painting and capturing with camera her emotions of fear, sadness and pain, she achieves purification. ‘The Ljilja’ is an ongoing photography project inspired by Jung and his Alchemical studies. “As an artist my main aim is making the subconscious conscious, and bringing it to the light. We live in an era where most of us are showing the best part of ourselves, the most beautiful parts (a wonderful Kingdom of Selfies), and I am showing those, hidden, dark, disturbing parts. By covering my face and hiding my identity, I become no one; and by becoming no one, I have become everyone. I would not define myself as a photographer, I simply use camera the way I use my paint brushes.” Her photography is a documentary of her inner states. By observing her journey, we are walking on the same path, we are sharing the same story.

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PETER BASSE The danish self-taught multidisciplinary artist, Peter Basse, have since his childhood been fascinated by drawings and paintings. As he grew, always experimented with various creative environments Basse have developed his very own idiosyncratic style, rather if it’s on the canvas or in his everyday projects. “Through my years of painting I’ve worked with the most real in life - the inner life. My work is an adaptation, giving the picture less a picture, finding the figure inside the emotion, and the landscape that surrounds it. A sketch is spontaneous and uninterrupted thinking caught in the moment it makes it’s appearance. Later some sketches develop into drawings, fine tuning the reserved. Some sketches become paintings, a very different process, witch requires focus in a much longer time period. Colors, layers upon layers extending emotions, sucking the the bone marrow out of the original sketch, forcing it to become a new living entity. Some live throw to exhibition, some burn in my garden”

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SJULLE The Danish artist Sjulle conveys, through her abstract and expressionist legendary universe, an often familiar feeling of emotional division, as a sense of certainty that you do not know what exactly is in front of you. And for some, her wild, erotic, humorous, surprising and extraordinary art creates an interesting mood of annoyance. “My ego is on standby when I get started. This itself is an exemption. And i usually play and use many colors. I am attracted to the universe of colors. The colors give me oxygen and make me breathe. A painting can tell you tens of thousands of stories, and I think that this, for me, is one of the most exciting thing. Because art and emotions are inextricably linked to each other. It is not only a common point of view that experiences of art are associated with something emotionally. The mere fact that we are looking at a painting means that we have an aesthetic experience. But what is aesthetics - yes, it is very individual from person to person. I am very fascinated by the alternative world. The deep and intensity. The cruelty and vulnerability that lie in the intimate of being human - in a fleshy body on this earth’s cliff, both alone and with other people. I try to recreate my subconscious; my dreams of my everyday life, my erotic desires. It all appears in my art. Staring eyes, soft shapes, skulls, animal organs and creatures. Everything is served with some warmth and humor, if I have to say it myself. The viewer can travel wherever he’ll link, and if the travel will be a quick or slow experience. I’ll just say you might discover a near-flowing world where the work and the imagination’s imagination merge. It’s not that straightforward. It is the operation of changing”

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