Six Great Master Painters The Six Master Painters Exhibition features the work of Alessandro Kokocinski, Maya Kokocinski Molero, Andre Cervera, Wensen Qi, Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni and Christian de Laubadere. Each of these critically acclaimed artists stand out for their distinctive approach to art and expression. They each draw on a diverse range of contemporary and classical traditions and techniques to create uniquely provocative and challenging paintings which explore subject matters such as feminine sensuality, existential restlessness and the spiritual nature of life. Four of the six artists have spent considerable time in Asia and the continent and its cultures have had a significant influence on some of their more recent work.
Andre Cervera Andre Cervera, a native of Sete in the south of France, has spent his recent years travelling China from the sprawling urban metropolis of Shanghai to remote Miao villages in Guizhou. He seeks out inspiration in street scenes, atmospheres and encounters. As he says, “each human life is a story and each story is a painting.” In Shanghai Cervera immersed himself in a reality where modernity coexists with shoe shiners, calligraphers, card players, musicians and hairdressers who have a strong aesthetic connection to “old China”. While living in this city of contrasts, he took notes and made sketches of everyday life while collecting a large variety of materials during his visits urban and rural markets. His highly individual style fuses together these diverse elements and media – which include old posters, wallpaper, stamps, academic drawings, and printed and painted sheets of paper – to produce a unique, reflective perspective based on his experience of life in China. In these most recent works, Cervera has created an expressive subject where thick-coloured contours and sharp contorted faces coupled with motifs and collages of materials give texture and shape to this series which revolves around Chinese people’s love of games, such as Go, chess and cricket fights, which are engaged in at every opportunity all over China.
Cervera 1 73 x 93 cm
Cervera 6 73 x 93 cm
Cervera 3 73 x 93 cm
Cervera 4 73 x 93 cm
Cervera 5 73 x 93 cm
Cervera 2 73 x 93 cm
Christian de Laubadere Christian de Laubadere, whose work was recently exhibited at the Theatre of Indulgence Gallery in March 2011, is a French artist who has been based in Shanghai for the past decade. He is famous for his “neck paintings� which reflect on the sophistication and sensualityof women, past and present. He paints on paper and canvas using lead pencils, smoke and charcoal as well as printed and embroidered fabric selected from China and France.
Christian 38 73 x 152 cm
Christian 37 73 x 152 cm
Christian 32 73 x 139 cm
Christian 33 100 x 200 cm
Christian 34 100 x 200 cm
Christian 35 73 x 152 cm
Christian 36 73 x 152 cm
Christian 16 73 x 152 cm
Christian 23 73 x 152 cm
Maya Kokocinski Molero Maya Kokocinski Molero was born in Chile in 1970. She is the daughter of the Alessandro Kokocinski and Prudencia Molero, an actress. Despite the influences of her artistic parents, Maya’s first interests were archaeology, psychology and palaeontology. However, a sabbatical year spent in London catalysed her work as an artist. As someone fascinated in how past events influence and define contemporary reality, Maya immersed herself in the painting of the Masters and a passion for traditional technique which saw her transition from being a conceptual artist to becoming a painter. Her interests are focused on the human form: faces, bodies, portraits, gazes. Her paintings are not hyper-realistic renderings, but psychological analyses which reflect sentiment and existential restlessness. Maya has taken part in several collective exhibitions, among which “Un mondo di immagini per chi immagina il mondo”, Giffoni Film Festival, 2003; “Inchiostro Indelebile – impronte a regola d’arte” Macro ex-mattatoio, Rome. 2003. Her solo exhibitions include those at Studio Merlini-Storti (Rome, 2003), Lotus Lifestyle Gallery, (Bangkok,Thailand, 2004) and the Italian Cultural Institute (Brussels, Belgium, 2005).
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JAKRIN 80 x 150 cm
PAYU 80 x 150 cm
Alessandro Alessandro Kokocinski is a painter whose visionary and captivating realism combines the fabulous Russian world with the passion and realism of South America while evoking the charm of 17th century Italy. The kaleidoscope of cultures and influences are the fruits of the artist’s rich life experiences and his unique perspective on the spiritual nature of life. His work has a hallucinatory quality, one which is full of energy and often underpinned by brooding darkness that denotes a sense of desperation born from the human condition. While he is predominantly a visual artist – a painter and sculptor – he recently returned to work in the theatre. Kokocinski was born in Porto Recanati, Italy in 1948 to Russian mother and Polish father, both of whom were revolutionaries. In the early 60s he travelled to Buenos Aires where he joined a circus as an acrobat and then journeyed across Latin America with some of the greatest circus artists, including Popov. He worked as a stage designer when he returned to Buenos Aires, but the repressive military government forced him to flee to Santiago in Chile in 1969, where he exhibited drawings exposing the junta’s dirty politics. When Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile, Kokocinski left for Rome where he was welcomed by leading intellectuals and radicals of the day including Rafael Alberti, Alberto Moravia and Carlo Levi. While in Italy he was invited to the Vatican State to exhibit in the museums and to illustrate the Angelus Dei for the Holy Year, under the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. In 1977, his exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara continued to portray the cruel social reality of South America and denounce the military dictatorship in Argentina. The mid-80s saw the artist travel to Asia, where he lived in Thailand and China and hosted an exhibition at the inauguration of the Hong Kong Art Festival Centre. Since then he has spent time in Germany, Prague, Rome and Buenos Aires.
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Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni was born in Rome in 1967, into a family of Tuscan artists. He showed an affinity for his family’s creative traditions from early childhood, frequenting his father’s atelier and taking lessons in drawing from his uncle Marcello in the latter’s sculpture studio at Pietrasanta. While he completed his first painting at the age of 16, his career as an artist only started once he finished high school in 1986 when he joined his father’s atelier and studied Literature and History of Art at the Rome University ‘La Sapienza’. Both are still a source of great inspiration in his paintings today. His paintings create a beautiful fantasy world that is inhabited by all kinds of mythological, historical and contemporary creatures. While Tommasi’s style and choice of subjects is influenced by the traditions of the past, he is also intrigued by contemporary icons. His paintings unite classical style and subjects with a contemporary analytical perspective in an ironic and fantastic way. Ferroni is a painter in the classical meaning of the word. His work bears testimony of an admiration for the Renaissance art and a feel for monumentality. Buildings, events and mythological and historical figures form the starting point of the imagination of the artist.
bradamante olio su tela 50 x 70 cm 2011
Pasifae olio su tela 35 x 50 cm 2011
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Wensen Qi Wensen Qi, or Vincent Cazeneuve, is a French artist who has been engaged in Chinese qi lacquer painting since 1990. In contrast with the traditional delicate subjects of traditional lacquer painting, Wensen’s work evokes a stark and visceral experience. The dark colours suggest a mysterious and tragic meaning, as if viewers are contemplating an infinite landscape.
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