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Art Capital • Grand Palais • Paris 11-16 February 2020 Javier Arrés Spain Andres Bardales Colombia Paolo Emilio Benvenuti Italy Trond Are Berge Norway William Braemer USA / Cuba Robert Brandwayn Colombia Carol Carpenter USA Lore Eckelberry USA Kay Griffith USA Tilney Hardiment UK David Harry USA Sumio Inoue Japan Shlomo Israeli Israel Beanie Kaman USA
Sinae Lee Canada Charlotte Lisboa Brazil Stefano Mariotti Italy John Nieman USA Motoko Oyamada Japan Sara Palleria Italy Lenore Diamond Robins USA Susanne Sjögren Sweden Linda Stella USA Wayne Stoner USA Kevin Thomas USA Nienke van der Meulen South Africa Michael Freitas Wood USA
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Javier Arrés Spain
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It is easy and pleasing to lose oneself in Javier Arrés´s artwork. His hyperdetailed ink drawings of fantastical cities and machinery invite us to use our imagination and his hypnotic animated gifs, or “visual toys” introduce us, in turn, to the fantasy world of Javier's inventiveness. It is a creative path influenced by the industrial landscapes that have always fascinated this Spanish artist and his work recalls the models of miniature cities and the classic SimCity games which were some of his earliest inspirations. The city builder games and apps allow a player to use creativity to design large and intricate cities to get lost in the mazes of the imagination and Javier Arrés´s elaborate and complex ink drawings are like this. They have since earned him the attention of numerous clients including the NFL and The New York Times, as well as having won numerous prizes, most recently being awarded the first prize in the “Work on Paper” category at the 2019 London Art Biennale.
Holidays in Costa Agujero Ink on paper 120x130cm 2019
Andres Bardales Colombia
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Born in Colombia, Bardales draws upon his experiences and culture for his paper compositions. He works mainly in the ancient paper folding technique of origami to create original pieces of art and relies upon the implementation of lines, repetition and geometric shapes. This use of repetition, besides providing a structural quality to the compositions, also questions what time really means when one is ‘lost’ in the artistic creation process. He is interested in exploring the meditative state acquired by this process and the relationship this has with the meaning of presence and time. Bardales says, “bringing together different experiences and elements allows me to create unique pixelated images and abstract compositions that have an aesthetic sense that has become more recognized and used by artists in the post-internet era.” He incorporates recycled paper, newspapers and old encyclopaedias and he gives new life to these sources of information.
Square one Mixed media and paper 91x91cm 2015
Paolo Emilio Benvenuti Italy
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Paolo Emilio Benvenuti was born in Asmara (Ethiopia) in 1962, to Italian parents who had moved to Ethiopia for work. At the age of ten he returned with his parents to their hometown of Florence. Here begins his passion for art and in particular for drawing and photography. Also very interested in fashion and architecture, after secondary school, Paolo continued his education in interior architecture, fashion and design at the Cappiello Academy. He began his career by successfully expressing his creativity through designing bags and accessories and in particular, a line for Gucci. He then started working in the leather goods family business, still as a designer. However, he does not abandon his passion for photography and drawing and he experimented using various techniques: Indian ink, watercolours, pastels, acrylic and charcoal. Currently Benvenuti’s painting is mainly figurative, with a preference for the sinuous lines of the female body. In his photography, however, reality is transformed through the skilful use of blurred movement, to evoke images that stimulate the viewer’s imagination.
Luci primaverili Photograph on paper 159x109cm 2017
Trond Are Berge Norway
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Norwegian photographer, Trond Are Berge, creates his artistic photos by superimposing shots so that they blend and mould into an interiorized unity: our gaze is led to contemplate nature under an infinite sky, which envelops us in a silent cloak. The photographer presents us with frozen landscapes thanks to the northern winds or to hot landscapes, scalding like flowing lava: impressions of a free and pure nature without borders, where symbolic elements are inserted. He doesn’t use Photoshop and its virtual ‘layers’; for example faces of women, are impressed in the wood of a tree trunk from those great Norwegian forests, that then precipitate into the blue waters of the fjords or burning flames with stones suspended in the air overlooking a sea at sunset. These are the artist’s visionary and concrete creations of an introspective search for the true freedom found in nature’s primordial and invincible majesty.
Migration Photograph on paper 79x79cm 2018
William Braemer USA / Cuba
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To speak best about the work of American artist William Braemer, a sculptor and painter of Cuban origin, one needs to begin from what he has written about himself: “I like to define my artistic style as abstract in nature, coupled with an expressionist quality [...]. My art is my eyes looking into my soul”. In this, he summarizes all the elements of his painting: abstraction above all, an abstraction that is derived strictly from the observation of nature, lived in a deeply emotional way. His shapes - or nonshapes - represent the essence of nature itself, combined with a masterly use of tropical colours. A timeless, elegiac and “mythically” symbolic and iconic vision of figurative art is, on the other hand, clear in William Braemer’s sculptures. These headless bodies, or archaeological finds from the future, can be read both as metaphorical with their mysterious anatomies that are covered with a new skin made of American coins and other materials, but also with irony and humour.
Dangerous curves Mixed media on fiberglass sculpture 76x43x36cm 2017
Robert Brandwayn Colombia
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Robert Brandwayn, is a multimedia artist who looks to remind the viewer how resilience, solidarity and the creative spirit, help migrant groups survive and thrive despite the changes they have to endure. Starting with the story of how his grandparents arrived from Poland to South America before the Second World War, Robert has created an artistic chronology based on letters, photos, documents, permits and other memories which he has translated into music and art works. Exploring these aspects of his past have shown him - and in turn the observer of Robert’s collages as well - how the fragility of our geographical permanence is universal and can be felt by anyone who has had to deal with emotional and physical remoteness, farewells and abandonment. The art critic Piedad Casas Otoya states, “in order to appreciate Robert Brandwayn’s artistic production three concepts are essential to understand: fractured genealogy, migration and ultimately resilience”.
Solo continuo condensando la luz Mixed media on canvas 140x70cm 2017-2019
Carol Carpenter USA
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Carol Carpenter, from Baltimore in Maryland, is an exponent of Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism and the study of colour and its beneficial effects on the viewer is of great significance. Her brushstrokes are alive, decisive, even violent and absolutely gestural. They connect and superimpose on the background, transferring to the canvas all of the natural instincts involved in the creative act of the mind and communicating to us energies and sensations that the viewer can liberally interpret. It is really in this individual freedom and in the liberation of the spirit where the key to reading the artist’s compositions lies, where those colours can produce images and memories buried deep in our minds, from a golden yellow field tinged by autumn, a glimpse of marine life on the sunny island of Santorini, to a rusty sunset in the canyons of Arizona. Her art is positive, natural and full of light, that could almost be seen as a form of chromotherapy for the 21st century.
Coastall III Acrylic on canvas 152x122x4cm 2019
Lore Eckelberry USA
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Lore Eckelberry, who has her studio in Los Angeles, presents her personal form of figurative art that sometimes combines unusual pictorial supports and collage that is often taken from texts written in Western newspapers or from oriental ideograms. The dense scripture found in the artist’s triptychs, made of skateboards, in dynamic contrast with the solarization of the light and the saturation of the colours - made with homogeneous textures with a cut-out effect - highlights how the artist evolves from her form of Pop Art towards horizons that are no longer linked to the icons of western consumerist society, but towards paths that reflect the many nuances of femininity. The portraits, which often depict Asian and western women, are veritable explosions of colour, but are united by a common denominator of a joie de vivre or of a tireless will to express and affirm the dignity and greatness of the female universe, which the artist wholeheartedly sustains.
Courage Acrylic on skateboard 90x68,5cm 2019
Kay Griffith USA
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Abstract artist Kay Griffith, born and raised in Texas, exudes passion and energy into every painting. Griffith merges technical training into each abstract that is characterised by its own colour palette, rhythms and textures. She paints with oils, palette knives are employed to skilfully manipulate the paint and the result is masterful abstract expressionism. The artworks speak personally to the viewer, often evoking intense emotion, lively discussion and passionate reactions. The work has been described as complex, haunting, and exhilarating. Interpretations are always illusive and her abstracts know no cultural or geographic boundaries; yet they always connect deep within us. Not wanting to direct the interaction between viewer and art, Griffith seldom names a painting beyond an identifying number and she believes that the viewer’s interaction with the paintings is far more important than her relationship to the art.
U - 222 Oil on canvas 101.5x76cm 2016
Tilney Hardiment UK
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Tilney Hardiment studied Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art where she came into contact with artists such as Paula Rego, Anthony Gormley and Susan Hiller. In 2009, she completed a Fine Art MA at the University of Brighton. She is interested in the subtle implications of images rather than framing what is known. Her practice is essentially concerned with the abstract nature of forms and focuses on their evocative qualities by emphasising the work’s materiality. Hardiment has explored painting and drawing from photographs of her body as a process of employing the physical and transforming it on to other levels of suggestion. The merging of these two processes - the mechanical (a photograph) and the handmade - sets up a tension, a dichotomy of media that vie for their synonymous value, as one is a frozen moment in time, and the other process-based. The recent series, Touch Paintings (oil on aluminium), are painted with fingerprints; the marks reflect the subject and the intimacy of these are correspondences of natural forms.
Touch Painting Oil on aluminium 133x80cm 2019
David Harry USA
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American artist, David Harry is versatile, dynamic and totally involved in the passion of art itself. He describes his paintings not as Action Painting in the manner of Pollock, but as Anti-Action Painting, which defines the method of painting, not for the fast jets and dynamic sprays of paint on the canvas that then merge irregularly, but more as slow and warm drips that stratify, one layer on top of another to create a profound and deep effect, glazed and nuanced. In these curtains of colour, where depth is orchestrated in the foreground and middle grounds, in these textures of broad brushstrokes that weave infinite orchestrations, it can be seen — for those who look beyond — petals made of silk, iridescent fabrics, birds in flight and spring garlands. All of this in a perennial search for equilibrium and musical harmony, as in a majestic andante, which broadens the horizons of David Harry’s artistic metaphor so that we the viewer, find ourselves totally enraptured by his works that have become universal through colour.
Open Expression Acrylic on canvas 122x91cm 2017
Sumio Inoue Japan
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By observing the works in the series Silenzioso, by Japanese artist Sumio Inoue, a fascinating inner world full of emotion, is revealed. His photographs are images made up of light and shadow: the photograph is impressed with a dense and penetrating black tone onto uneven paper - handmade by the artist following ancient traditions – which in turn evaporates in undefined rarefaction on that irregular, wrinkled, creamyyellow support. The works surprise for their superlative quality. To observe Inoue’s works is to follow a photographic-pictorial journey to the sources of Light. His images are realistic, yet his photographs always offer inner impressions that reach the heart of the emotions. His works are a voyage into a dimension outside of any logical timespace plane, where everything seems to be suspended in nothingness, sustained only by an invisible thread that is made up of the dream and from silence.
Silenzioso #77 Photograph printed on handmade rice paper 79x64cm 2013
Shlomo Israeli Israel
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Shlomo is a photographer who uses his camera as a tool to document reality yet in a medium to express feelings and thoughts. Throughout his life he felt the need for artistic expression and for many years he worked in the field of music – playing and teaching, producing and submitting radio programs and in recent years, music has given way to artistic photography. Israeli says “when I take a picture, I look for a story within the scene. I like to give a sense of texture to the photograph, to use the natural light and shadow and to use the objects that are already there. I tend to take photos instinctively. Initially, the general feeling that the environment transmits to me at the moment of my taking the photo is more important to me than the details. These I find later back in my studio in the creation of the final work and dealing with elements such as colour, structure and form is the last step.�
Hug Photograph on paper 90x60cm 2019
Beanie Kaman USA
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The works by Beanie Kaman, originally from Hartford in Connecticut, USA, are infused with both an oriental light and the saturated colours one sees in reality, in particular in the symbols that ‘swim’ between the abstract forms or in monochromatic depths, like an amniotic fluid of a primordial ocean. Large cosmogenic circles, small rings like bubbles of vital oxygen, ancestral tribal signs, spirals and cycloids, phytomorphic elements (like ‘sacred’ nymphs) arise from the variegated strips of precious fabric sewn together to unveil recondite energies of the mind and soul, thus imbuing the artworks with an existential feel that lies somewhere between reality and a dream state or between nature and allegory, on the waves of a musical and universal harmony. They are visions, like antique tapestries that narrate the life of man, a weaving and unweaving of the soul at times emphasized by the material nature of the thread; they are urban maps that become interior paths unveiling solar luminous journeys, like a mandala.
Winding Trail Mixed media on linen 148,5x71cm 2018
Sinae Lee Canada
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Korean artist, Sinae Lee, who lives and works in Canada, employs the medium of acrylic to transmit natural impressions that are imbued with feeling. Her romantic landscapes convey feelings of warmth and a vibrant sense of life. Delicate hues and sensitive touches suggest the scent of flowers and the gentle caress of a passing breeze. Where others see with their eyes, Sinae sees with her heart. Deep marine blues, infinite skies or intricate forests are painted in a dream-like manner as ethereal ‘ghosts' under the lights at sunset or in the moonlight, to glimpse vital mirages of her own unconscious, to perceive scents and sweet sounds, in which the viewer can lose oneself. Thus, chaos diminishes and uncoils to rediscover harmony; the inner world can find a sense of balance with the external one, where the flight of seagulls in the moonlight makes our feelings and our innermost desires spread and fly into infinity, all in a gesticulating farewell to the notes of a sonata by Edvard Grieg.
Scent of Breeze Summer and Winter Acrylic on canvas 76x204cm 2019
Charlotte Lisboa Brazil
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Charlotte Lisboa was born in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Following her graduation from the University of Miami, she continued her academic studies at the Romero Hidalgo Artists Studio where her drawing skills became more refined as a crucial component of her artistic education. Her influences range from Monet and Renoir to Rembrandt, Sorolla, Sargent and Klimt, as well as Rothko's abstract works and Charlotte is compelled to paint figures with emotion and atmosphere. She describes her work as: “humanity with strokes of an ethereal atmosphere. My academic figure drawing was taken as a point of departure to seek a distinct feeling or mood that explores emotion with expressions, textures and movements from the subject at hand. My drawings, mixed medias and oil paintings strive to express life in a genuine way by taking the subjects out of context in which they exist, onto another level of awareness. I perceive my work as realistic with touches of impressionism and abstraction.�
La mer Mixed media on canvas 152x101cm 2019
Stefano Mariotti Italy
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Stefano Mariotti studied art as a young boy and grew up going regularly to exhibitions and museums with his father, a passionate art collector. Meeting Primo Conti was very important for his artistic training to understand that reality is not always as we see it but how it is represented. Stefano’s research went beyond the boundaries of the perceived to invade that of pure abstraction, which led him to try different ways of expression, with a particular interest in kinetic art of the 1970’s. His ‘painting’ is interactive and looks at aspects of philosophy and spirituality. He focuses his artistic attention on the study of shadow through matter and the use of the nylon threads serves to create a dialogue in constant transformation between light and shadow and between the spectator and the artwork, to create paintings – installations, or textures, as he likes to define them. His works are distinguished by the delicate, almost maniacal perfectionism and the profoundly elegant aesthetic result.
Terra Silente (ta panta rei) Mixed media 100x150cm 2019
John Nieman USA
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American artist, John Nieman has had various creative careers, including as an advertising creative director, a musical director, chef, author and most recently, he has dedicated himself to the visual arts, leaning towards realistic painting with a strong chiaroscuro. His artwork can be summed up as a combination of hyperrealism, advertising graphics and pop art. Elements and symbols from American life, such as actors or food from everyday take-away restaurants, are alternated in his paintings and this gives the viewer an immediate and direct impression of the globalized world in which we live. The objects play and intermix with the black writing he places over the images. Names, rhymes, opposites, proverbs and computerized implications, are inserted in an apparently nonsensical fashion, which bring to mind futurist writings. They may also contain personal meditations and thoughts on our way of living in the fast-track, with subtle connections to the impeccably depicted objects.
What is missing Mixed media on milk cartons 33x33x28cm 2018
Motoko Oyamada Japan
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The abstract paintings by Japanese artist Motoko Oyamada, have a precise interpretation about which the artist has stated, “As a mother of one son, I feel that I am still in emotional contact with my late mother and I am still helped by her in some way; everyone should give thanks to this maternal love and the support it gives us. I want to believe the love of a mother could create a peaceful world. My works describe and are inspired by those feelings which can be interpreted in the strokes of the paint brush and in the colours and lines that I use.� Her paintings can be appreciated by the observer with this in mind: they are full of luminous, instinctual colour and of black lines and signs (often circles of the mandala of life), which represent deep and inner bonds. They are then placed in a visionary setting which is reminiscent of ideograms found in oriental art where vases, silks and paintings were depicted on rice paper.
Longing Acrylic on canvas 100Ă—124cm 2019
Sara Palleria Italy
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Sara Palleria, an Italian painter, is a typical exponent of Lyrical Abstraction and Informal art and the most intimate reflections on the psychology of emotions are manifested in her artwork. She presents an artistic language that also has its origins in a careful study of the works by Antonio Corpora, which revolves around colour and its energetic expression. Oil paint and mixed media create a palimpsest of the soul on the canvas: chromatic flames, dazzling illuminations and bottomless depths. She expresses the perennial search by man for emotion, losing and finding oneself continuously in visceral emotions and these light up her paintings that are full of natural impressions expressed without form – or better – with the form of the heart and of colour. Sara Palleria collaborates with various institutions in the visual arts sector and runs education courses on images and colour laboratories.
Equinozio d'autunno Oil on canvas 140x110cm 2016
Lenore Diamond Robins USA
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Lenore Diamond Robins is an American artist who creates sculptural wall art of vibrant colour and contrast, using many coats of acrylic paint. The three-dimensional aspects of her work, in combination with strong geometric themes, draw viewers to reach out to touch the artwork and the high gloss resin on the majority of her pieces is extremely technically challenging. The result is very beautiful but the resin, that is hand mixed with a hand-poured finish, requires many years of experience to master. “The art world can be a puzzle for many. I often find myself in a puzzling situation, quite literally. With my art, I try to unravel this puzzle by creating designs which are imaginative, multi-dimensional and accessible to many. One fan described my art as Pop Art that really pops!� In addition to collectors from the US, she has an international clientele of art collectors ranging from Canada, Austria, Colombia, UK, France, Spain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
Bold is Bold Acrylic and resin on wood 81x125cm 2014
Susanne Sjögren Sweden
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Swedish artist Susanne Sjögren, works in the field of interior design, successfully combining architect-interior decorating projects with the instinct of an artist. Despite the rationality that characterises the Swedish art school in which she was educated, the inspiring source of her creations is nature itself, that is emphasized by the use of natural materials. She herself states about her work that “the shapes are found within me and nature is my source of inspiration. In my art you find extreme contrast as well as balance and harmony”. She uses often primary geometric shapes which then dissolve into soft sinusoids that look to lanceolate and zoomorphic, phytomorphic shapes (for example, the feet of the furniture are often in the shape of claws, or a part of a chaise longue in the form of a raven’s beak). These shapes form the structural elements, which are then combined at times with black and white upholstery, which almost seem like new representations of yin and yang.
Life Mixed media 40x110x90cm 2019
Linda Stella USA
Linda Stella is an American figurative painter and her style is suspended between Neo-impressionism and Neo-expressionism. Through her paintings, the artist reveals clearly feminine ancestral human aspirations to the observer which aim to surpass the contingence and project themselves in the transcendence. She has an innate aspiration to depict the eternal through simple things and everyday acts and her inner world is translated on the canvas to become a shared experience with the viewer. Each brushstroke is like a musical note, which extends the symphony of an intimate and spiritual ocean, it is rhythm and song. Her stories become our stories, her being is our being, in a sweetly illuminating fusion. She offers us women with large eyes and prominent lashes, ancient myths between butterflies and bats, female figures that dematerialize into sinuous forms, in union with nature and in a poetic recreation that become almost neo-Art Nouveau.
Mail Ordered Male Acrylic on canvas 76x101cm 2019
Wayne Stoner USA
American artist Wayne Stoner for many years worked in the military and then had a complete change of career to dedicate himself to others and his art, a passion that he already had as a young man. He currently lives between Florence, Italy and the USA and it is in Florence where he has most recently been inspired for his paintings and mixed media art works. Wayne explains about his artistic process, “I paint from imagery connected to my memory, experiences and dreams to kickstart an intuitive process that works by refining, adding and subtracting. I tend to respond to my surroundings and mimic colours and seasons. I may consider my work finished but only when viewed, is it truly complete. I aim for an ambiguous outcome that allows the observer to arrive at their own conclusion. I encourage viewers to touch my paintings, I believe the actual texture provides another level of enjoyment and the viewer gets to violate the taboo, “don’t touch the art”.
New light Oil on canvas 130x170cm 2019
Kevin Thomas USA
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American artist, Kevin Thomas acquired formal training at the Parsons School of Design in New York City and the experience he accumulated there attributed greatly to his gaining invaluable direction. Kevin has since created original fine art, illustrations and designs for numerous award-winning projects for clients of advertising agencies and design firms to museums and universities throughout the United States. Each commission is as unique as it is different and all require a particular visual solution to that specific project challenge, whether he is drawing or painting portraits of people, pets, landscapes or architecture. Kevin himself admits “I enjoy drawing and painting just about everything under the sun, especially people.� This passion and talent are evident in his interesting depictions, often from unusual viewpoints, compelling the viewer to look more closely at the image. He recently exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Japan and at Palazzo Rosselli del Turco in Florence. He is represented by Art Fusion Galleries in Miami.
Neat Oil on canvas 82x82cm 2016
Nienke van der Meulen South Africa
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Professional ceramicist, Nienke van der Meulen creates her sculptural vessels from her contemporary studio in Cape Town, South Africa. Her workspace is saturated by natural light and surrounded by a lush garden with a view over Table Mountain. This is her sanctuary and source of her creativity. Nienke feels a kindred spirit when she works with clay and this intrinsic love can be seen in her sculptural works. She says, “it’s intuitive. It grounds you and once you understand the clay you can extend the boundaries of conventional ceramics. My sculptural vessels are often inspired by shapes found in nature and objects around me. My vessels are distinguished by their size. I’m drawn to natural colours and organic textures to enhance their curved contours. They are tactile and bring with them a sense of spaciousness to a room.” There is also an added importance to her vessels as Nienke gives them a name, a title, and so they become more than just a simple object. Her sculptural series, Libration, reflects what is hidden and also visible. Like one can never fully see the moon, such is the observation of the sculpture.
Libration Handmade ceramic sculpture 80x45cm 2019
Michael Freitas Wood USA
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The “walls� of American artist, Michael Freitas-Wood, are made up of geometric grids that articulate space through harmonic, rational and polychromatic textures. He creates abstract visions that are like virtual flowers, memories of an infinitesimal united molecular structure, those of atoms, neutrons and protons. His geometric abstractions reinterpret matter, the mechanism of the universe in an artistic form: a scientific art. Michael reminds the viewer that the grid has had a use in art for centuries but more recently in the work by two artists of great importance, Mondrian and Agnes Martin. By mixing acrylic colour with plaster onto fiberglass sheets or onto wood he defines nuances and makes clear references to Op Art through these grids. For the artist, his cubes are a journey of searching for the origins of the cosmos in which we move. Lines, circles and optical effects create various unusual forms that are fascinating and mesmerising for the viewer.
Be visible Plaster on fiberglass 122x122cm 2018
Open Art Code is composed of a group of renowned artists who have very different technical styles and their artistic formation is varied. They have united their talents to exhibit together in Paris at the Grand Palais, in Monaco at the Auditorium Rainier III, at the Oxo Gallery on the River Thames in London, in Shanghai at Pudong Library and CEIBS, in Venice at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti on the Grand Canal, in Cannes at the Gare Maritime on the Croisette, in Tokyo at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, in Florence at the Salone di Donatello of the Basilica di San Lorenzo in the Opera Medicea Laurenziana complex and at Studio Art Unlimited in Geneva.