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The number “1” of The 7th Continent ART magazine is dedicated to women artists. It will be presented at the Latino Museum of Pomona Los Angeles. It is a publication that is made on demand. We appreciate the collaboration of the artists that we present in this issue. We work for culture and communication. Dirección / Director Gorgonio Sanjuán Traducción / Translator Diana Moya, Beatriz Hidalgo, others Colaboración / Collaborators Africa Sanjuán, áfánde multimedia. IN3 Group, Diana Moya. Diseño / Design Crearium Team Diseño portada / Cover design Monica Steliana Cirtita Diselo Logotipo / Logo Design Alessandro Arrigo Editorial Diana Moya In3 Administración / Administration Goyart International Calle Barón de Eroles 38 22400 Monzón, Huesca, SPAIN Edita / Publisher Goyart, Crearium Phone: (+34) 620613219 Website: www,the7thcontinent.es E-mail: info@the7thcontinent.es
5 / Monica Steliana Cirtita 6 / Cover Contest 7 / Cover Contest 8 / Art Lover Ground 9 / Anita Ojeda Tirado 10 / Fatima Messana 11 / Laura Livia Grigore 12 / Emma Luna
Summary 13 / Coloured Mary
22 / WAG Israel
14 / Lia Pache
23 / Shah Nilla
15 / Yanina de Martino
24 / Isabel Pérez / Anna Tona
25 / Beatriz Hidalgo
16 / María Gimeno 17 / Geraldes da Silva
26 / 8 en Abstracción
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27 / Jalisco ( México)
19 / LPWA María Sagesse
28 / Mª Esther Flórez
EXPERIENCIAS
“Un proyecto donde la obra, el artista, el mensaje y el público se hermanan en un solo lugar.”
El proyecto surge ante la necesidad de querer crear una sola historia a partir de muchas otras. Esas otras, cada una de ellas, definida por un artista diferente. Sumandose cada “experiencia”, y dando forma a una sola. Haciéndo participe a quien disfruta de la muestra, como cuando lee una novela, va al cine a ver una película.
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Cada obra tiene su espacio y su momento. Nos encontramos con experiencias vitales, sentimentales, oníricas, reflexivas, de alegría, de tristeza, biográficas, leidas y un sinfín mas de posibilidades... El sendero es amplísimo y la libertad es total. Todos y cada uno de los artistas serán narradores de historias (fotógrafos, escultores, pintores clásicos, pintores modernos...). La idea del proyecto es crear un vehículo de comunicación entre el artista y el mundo. Crear un canal de promoción atractivo y diferente, donde el trabajo, las historias y el artista, sean los personajes principales de toda la trama. La intención del proyecto es que sea algo vivo, por ello cada 2 meses se realizará una nueva “EXPERIENCIA”. Siendo Abril, el mes elegido para crear una nueva aventura en California. Fran Borrego (Creador del Proyecto EXPERIENCIAS)
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Artistas que participan en la muestra de CALIFORNIA
(por orden alfabético)
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Editorial
In this issue dedicated to Women, I wanted to touch the eternal question: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Without much room or time, I took excerpts from an article by Linda Nochlin a few years back in Artnews.com.
Most discussions talk about the so-called woman problem. There are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness? Is there a different kind of “greatness” for women’s art than for men’s? Women artists are more inward-looking, more delicate and nuanced in their treatment of their medium? Certainly though, if daintiness, delicacy and preciousness are to be counted as earmarks of a feminine style, there is nothing fragile about Rosa Bonheur’s Horse Fair, nor dainty and introverted about Helen Frankenthaler’s giant canvases. If women have turned to scenes of domestic life, or of children, so did Jan Steen, Chardin and the Impressionists—Renoir and Monet as well as Morisot and Cassatt. In any case, the mere choice of a certain realm of subject matter, or the restriction to certain subjects, is not to be equated with a style, much less with some sort of quintessentially feminine style. The making of art involves a self-consistent language of form, more or less dependent upon, or free from, given temporally-defined conventions, schemata or systems of notation, which have to be learned or worked out, either through teaching, apprenticeship or a long period of individual experimentation. The language of art is, more materially, embodied in paint and line on canvas or paper, in stone or clay or plastic or metal—it is neither a sob-story nor a confidential whisper.
The fact is that there are no women equivalents for Michelangelo or Rembrandt, Delacroix or Cézanne, Picasso or Matisse, or even, in very recent times, for de Kooning or Warhol. Thus women and their situation in the arts, as in other realms of endeavor, are not a “problem” to be viewed through the eyes of the dominant male power elite. Instead, women must conceive of themselves as potentially, if not actually, equal subjects, and must be willing to look the facts of their situation full in the face, without self-pity, or cop-outs; at the same time they must view their situation with that high degree of emotional and intellectual commitment necessary to create a world in which equal achievement will be not only made possible but actively encouraged by social institutions. Thus the question of women’s equality—in art as in any other realm—devolves not upon the relative benevolence or ill-will of individual men, nor the self-confidence or abjectness of individual women, but rather on the very nature of our institutional structures themselves and the view of reality which they impose on the human beings who are part of them. Now days, in most countries, women are allowed into most, if not all, Academies of Fine Arts and competitions around the world. Also, allowed to train shoulder to shoulder with men on the disrobed human body, and women can wear the most comfortable garments for the task without prejudice. Let’s all get to work! Diana Moya
by María Sagesse
Monica Steliana Cirtita
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CRITICA DOTT.SSA MATTEA MICELLO
“Attraverso l’uso della resina l’artista Cirtita Monica Steliana crea delle opere autentiche, nuove,di forte eleganza e grazia. La materia nelle sue mani diventa il suggerimento per ispirarsi agli elementi della natura, la quale ne studia la struttura è lì piega alla sua creatività. Terra, acqua, aria, e fuoco si rivelano con l’auspicio di forme, linee ricurve, ondulate e nodulose accorpate a cromatismi riflettenti. Il ritmo compositivo, scandito dalla combinazione di questi espedienti fa si che le forme astratte sembrano soggette a continue mutazioni metaforiche.”
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Cover contest
Ana Brígida López
Pía Ojeda Valdés
Tânia Antunes
Conchi Coll Sánchez
Gloria Cediel
Liset Feider
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Teresa Riera
July Romero
MilĂĄn Lonnberg
MarĂa Brex
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Federica Desantis / ALG
F R O M LONDON TO BARCELON A , A NEW CON CEPT FOR ART LOV ER S Back in 2015, ALG’s roots are to be found in London when the founder Federica Desantis, an Italian working in sales and marketing was living and working there. As an art lover, she spent hours and days walking in galleries and museums without getting the chance to meet the actual artists. The core of ALG was to create an art event she and her friends were dreaming of: possibility for emerging artists to showcase their work and meet and interact with the audience. The first ALG event took place in May 2015 in the arty area of Shoreditch, London, with only 10 artists and more than 100 participants. Two years later, the 10th ALG event is taking place in Arteria BCN, a 400 m2 gallery in the center of Barcelona. With more than 100 applications, days of deliberations, it results with the selection of 25 talented artists. The Arteria gallery offers a great deal of space and light for artists to exhibit their art. During the night, participants and guests can enjoy a live music act and live art performances. During our previous events, Art Lover Ground was featured on Local and International Magazines such us the Spanish Metropolitan BCN, Guiris en Barcelona, Timeout, Evenssi, The culture Trip, Shit Magazine; the french magazine Equinox and Le Petitjournal and the Italian ones: RadioBombo, Trani Viva, 20eventi etc..
We were also guest of the Catalan TV El Punt Avui and Beteve Artic as well as the national italian TV Telenorba and various radios in London and Barcelona. International Hub for Artists based in Europe More than an event, Art Lover Ground is a place where artists and art lover can meet and exchange. It is an unique opportunity for young and emerging artists to get visibility. For many of the artists, it will be their first exhibition. ALG’s goals is to give a voice to the artists and help them opening new doors in the artistic world. The challenge of Art Lover Ground is to build a vibrant community of artists where we will share experiences and tips, and collaborate on future projects. You can follow us on Instagram or our Facebook page, where we share interviews of the artists, videos of the events and more. Experience Art Lover Ground!
Photo by Gauvin Lapetoule
Anita Ojeda Tirado
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I N C ESANTE LUCHA HACI E N D O D E CADA EXPRES I Ó N UN P R E T EXTO
Como el canto del gallo mítico, que otea el horizonte, así es el arte, el eco de las profundas raíces del ser engendrado en las memorias que son el tejido que se cuece en la luz del pensamiento.
Entre cielo y tierra se gestan los motivos de un legado, que testimonia el momento histórico de nuestra misión en este país de la vida; so pretexto es nuestra gratitud a la imagen la que nos convoca y le da sentido a la luz del florido atardecer de nuestros sueños. Sugiriendo una sombra que ligera se torna en pensamiento liberándoos y recreando el volumen de la forma del ser; absoluto, ensimismado en la lúdica de la pócima que nos declara testigos y forjadores de la colcha de retazos que es la historia, de compañeros viaje en la agenda de los días idos, compartidos y por venir.
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Fatima Messana
“ FAT IM A M ES SA N A : ORAC L E OF T H E A BYS S ” by Maria Rita Montagnani
“When bitter hecate descends you cannot flee her loathsome wing like a caress she strikes a mortal blow. You hide in a world that does not yet exist. All that is most obscure is akin to you.” Milo Rossi
“The sculptures of Fatima Messana bring into play two opposing and contrasting forces – thought and emotion – which, within their dialectic and creative contrast, become complementary and necessary to one another. In fact, thought builds conjecture that is often demolished by emotion, just as feelings create new ways and worlds that reason then investigates, making them intelligible, developing the dimension of awareness. Fatima Messana seems to be burdened with the weight and mass of an archaic heritage, centuries old, that the young artist manages to combine with her expert knowledge of modern materials and techniques to forge work that is contemporary and immediate. But today, the present is and remains a territory that is more uncertain and arduous than ever, a no-man’s land, a hazardous terrain swept by thousand-year old gales and storms but that could still emerge as a fertile land for new visions and unconventional existential perspectives. In these works there is something that is not openly expressed, but only hinted and barely palpable; something sibylline, almost prescient… there is a sensation of danger, an imminent or future threat, that casts a long shadow of strange foreboding before and within us like a sense of uneasy presentiment or vague premonition. And this presentiment is the place of our conscious inconsistency, the root of fearful unknown territories teeming with shadows, doubts, queries and terrifying bottomless voids that open up among rock-hard human certainties. In this state of suspension, everything is on the brink of toppling from its solid immobility, as if an invisible mind or hand places each thing in precarious equilibrium on the sense of its own enigma. If, for the artist, sculpture signifies giving a familiar face to what is most foreign to us, for Fatima Messana it represents tearing away the customary face of the things that seem recognisable to return them to their obscure origins… finally flinging them magnificently into the abyss of the void and the unknown.” Maria Rita Montagnani, Art critic / independent curator
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Laura Livia Grigore
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I’m an artist and writer, with a background in space engineering. I believe my lifelong mission is to bridge technology and emotions. We live in a world where technology is evolving fast, but what happens to the heart? It seems to have been left behind. My first book, The Heart is the Center of the Universe, is about the tremendous healing powers of art, honesty and love. It tells the poetic story of an inner journey: the desire to find love, the dreams, the suffering, the myths and the (un) expected bliss. I’m currently writing my second book. It is about the struggles of an artist to keep creating, despite all odds. It is about adventures and hope. A story about being human. There are stories that one can tell best, while back floating in the pool, with the scuba diver feet on, whistling a song. There’s a paintings odyssey I carry in my heart, a story I immersed myself into, which carried me or my words or my artwork back and forth, from the Netherlands to Bucharest, from Germany to New York, from Paris to Madrid, Rome, Barcelona, Cordoba, Milano and Porto. It has carried me or just my essence, condensed into brushstrokes or written words, back and forth, from agony to ecstasy. It all started with a fortunate encounter with a painter in a supermarket in Leiden, the Netherlands, asking me if I want to become his muse. I never saw him again, but the “what if” seeds were already planted in my soul. What if I can do it myself, what if I can become an artist myself and teach myself joy and, as the fluid learning and creation process goes on flowing, I can pass the teachings of love, that cost me so much emotional consumption, to other people? One important chapter of this painting odyssey, probably the most important one, is about people. I learnt there are two types of people: those who would kindly encourage you to go, supporting you emotionally and those who would attempt to cut off your wings because they cannot imagine themselves with wings. But love, all of them deserve it. A book that slowly builds itself, adding real and imaginary layers to the backbone of reality, in the same manner I build my artwork, connecting the pieces of my life experience so far, a book in which I am both Ulysses and Penelope, in which I fight and I hope and I wait for more magic to happen.
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Emma Luna
Siempre quise ser libre… Libre para hacer todo aquello que moviera mi alma… Solo tenemos una vida y quiero seguir viviendo la que quiero y no la que dicta la sociedad que lo estructura todo de modo que la gente se vuelva autómata… Otra vida es posible, no es fácil pero con constancia todo da sus frutos. Para vivir lo que se quiere hay que empezar por despojarse de las excusas, tomar decisiones y tener el valor de emprender el vuelo en busca de nuestros sueños… Desplegar las alas es el secreto de vivir… El horizonte es la meta y El vuelo es sinónimo de libertad… Creer en ti y en tus ideas, tu vida es solo tuya. La clave es tener las cosas claras, perseverancia y flexibilidad. Si sale bien, genial y sino, al menos lo has intentado y has ganado un gran aprendizaje. Puedes equivocarte y empezar de cero las veces que sean necesarias… Danzar en el aire es una forma de perderme y encontrarme a mí misma al mismo tiempo… Ahí es donde habito, siento, percibo y puedo expresar todo lo que nace dentro de mí… Amo lo que hago y me gusta compartirlo con los demás.. Disfruto en mi espacio de soledad porque me acerca a mí misma y puedo respirarme en silencio… Cada logro me ha supuesto mucho esfuerzo conseguirlo, y gracias a todo ese esfuerzo he aprendido de los momentos difíciles por los que he tenido que pasar y me han hecho crecer espiritualmente… La vida es un constante proceso, una continua transformación, nacer, morir y renacer… A veces da un giro inesperado y te golpea donde más duele sin previo aviso y te parte en mil pedazos… Todo cambia en un instante y sientes que no puedes seguir, pero tienes que encontrar esa fuerza interior para recomponerte de nuevo, pedacito a pedacito y estar dispuesta a perseverar a pesar de todas las cicatrices…
Tenemos que aprender de todo lo que nos ocurre y lo más importante, es nuestra actitud frente a los cambios que suponen esas vivencias.. He abrazado mi dolor y lo he transformado en energía y determinación para salir adelante. La estabilidad no es lo prioritario para mí, prefiero vivir una vida más inestable pero más plena, haciendo las cosas que me nutren interiormente… Al final lo único que cuenta son las personas que amas, los recuerdos que dejas y lo que eres interiormente. Cuando mi viaje llegue a su fin quiero tener la satisfacción de haber vivido la vida que decidí vivir…
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Coloured Mary
Coloured Mary (María Arcos Morales), is a young multidisciplinary artist from Madrid, which stands out among its many facets as an artist of Bodyart and Bodypainting, as well as video artist, painter, photographer and sculptor. Director of the brand and studio “Coloured Mary ART” (specializing in characterization and bodypainting) and also founder and organizer of the collective of Women artists “Mezkla de creadoras”, for sorority, empowerment and multiculturalism. These same premises of empowerment, women and multiculturalism, are usually her maxims in their creations, which we also find the most tribal expressionist feeling intermingled with futuristic and innovative tenors that contain numerous details.
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Lia Pache
A B OU T Y ULI A PACHECO Yulia Pacheco (Lia Pache) artist, painter. Engaged in abstract, portrait, landscape painting. Interested in psychology of art, and the creative process of artists. Born in Moscow. In 1990 Graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art College by 1905 year, department of the painting, profession - artist painter, teacher of painting. Graduated from MEUH, specialty in artcriticism, art-manager. Completed a course of practical psychology at Moscow State Pedagogical University. Graduated from the Evening Music School N. Rakov, piano. Studied at the Art School V. Vatagin.
In the 90 years with her family lived in South America, painted and taught art. The author of articles about artists and art in Latin America in 2000-2008. Participated in scientific conferences at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Participant of personal and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The artist goes from fragmentary current thinking among many sources of information where there is a separation from the real world to the virtual, and is on track to return to the sources of ancient knowledge, in search of the genetic code of philosophical wisdom. Her abstract works have an influence by Jazz improvisation, the effect of lyrical abstraction, action painting, abstract expressionism... In addition to traditional oil paints for painting, the artist uses modern synthetic materials, acrylic relief paste, giving a formal and sculptural relief work, alkyd paints and aerosols make it possible to use different methods frottazh, dripping... The works are distinguished, on the one hand, balance, equilibrium and fine-tuned composition and at the same time the unpredictability of expressive action, the movement impressed by the expression... Lia contracted study of pure color, the complexity of pictorial compositions, layering in conjunction with the work of “a la prima�.
Yanina de Martino
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Observing this artwork, the viewer is immediately caught by its three-dimensionality. In fact, the artist presents us a series of nine geometrical cubes, every one peculiar and different from all the others. By mixing various elements and colour tones, she moulds an internal disposition allowing it an independent physical existence, giving it a volume, a weight, a concrete presence with whom occupy a space. The ouvre, in this way, detaches itself from the background and gets closer to the viewer, calling him to enter in communication with it. It’s a unique construction that brings together several distinctive units, creating a whole which is much more than a mere sum of its different parts, as stated the Gestalt psychology. Therefore, here the artist recreates a sort of microcosm, underlining the importance of every singular section that participates of its nature. We derive a sense of universal harmony from it, a melody which is possible to hear thanks to the action of any single note which makes up the composition. As mosaic tiles, us human beings participate of the same nature: we’re all unique parts of the same reality and without one of us this reality is irremediably brought to change. Moreover, the reflection on such a theme as the passage of time, as announced in the title of the artwork, is one of the most fathomed yet still very current and heart-felt when considering our human condition. Time teaches, time heals, in any case its action leaves traces in our souls as well as on our bodies, in our spiritual as well as physical evolution; pushing us to change in order to keep pace with it. In Yanina’s cubes, these temporal marks are represented through the stretches of colours that impress their surfaces in an unfading manner. Visually, this artwork seems to reconnect to the research of artists such as Paul Klee and in particular Josef Albers, whose colour field paintings made frequent use of square geometrical shapes while investigating the communicative power and the symbolic meaning of colours, seen as a primary subject of the artistic creation. But, differently from these prestigious examples, Yanina’s works have left behind any trace of two-dimensionality, giving shape to a reality that presents an interesting mix of sculpture and painting. The colour, here, is still very relevant but the artist manifests an urgent need to experiment with various type of materials, gathering them together in her artwork in order to elevate its overall value and channeling all their peculiar symbolic meanings into the creating process. By using artificial resin, Yanina succeeds in freezing various time intervals: “Con el correr del tiempo” shows, therefore, a span of nine singular moments of her lifetime. It’s the attempt to leave a trail of her peculiar existence for a longer period: the purpose of any artist as well as of any living being; the proof of their presence on Earth, the emblem of a productive and fulfilled life conducted realizing a precise aim. We’re not immortal, so it’s important not to waste any moment of this precious gift we were given: to follow our passions, to stay close to our beloved, to express ourselves: that’s the way to truly benefit of our lifetime. We don’t have to worry too much about time flying, the secret lies in focusing on the present moment which we are experiencing and in living it to its fullest. “There’s only a manner of forgetting time: using it.” Charles Baudelaire Deborah Maggiolo, Art Curator
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María Gimeno
My question is simple: Could you give me the name of 3 women artists, before the 20th century? If you don´t know 3, maybe 1? “Queridas Viejas” is an artistic video project in which I include women artists throughout the history of art, a place from which they have been systematically excluded.
What is “Queridas viejas”? With a kitchen knife, I cut Gombrich’s “The History of Art”, and physically I introduce the missing pages, to create a unique art history, where creator men and creator women coexist. Why the Gombrich? “The History of Art” by E.H. Gombrich (1909-2011) published in 1950, currently published by Phaidon has sold until today more than 8,000,000 copies worldwide; It does not mention a single female artist in his more than 600 pages. I have chosen this book because it is the icon of the established canon and the one that defines what is Art , with capital A. I read it for the first time in 1st of Fine Arts, 1991, and I did not even realize that it did not include women, I did not know them, so I did not miss them. Simply: What we do not know, does not exist! No work of any woman? Not one that deserves to be included in art history manuals? Really? I don’t believe it! The Art History Manuals are incomplete, all creative women are missing, but I have needed 23 years to notice their lack and I consider valid the selection of great masters that make up the history of art.
Geraldes da Silva
Geraldes da Silva A arte consiste num diálogo permanete entre o artista e o espaço físico. Onde se vive uma relação de partilha com todo o universo. Comunicar atravéz da arte no lugar onde estamos e ir ao encontro a todas as partes do mundo. A arte de uma forma global é composta de sentimentos e formas comuns como uma identidade de um todo. A pintura comunica com todas as outras formas de arte, através dos elementos que fazem parte dela num todo que é a composição. Os sons e os ritmos das cores em toda a sua energia e força levam-nos a viagens de sentimentos universais e globais. É de uma forma expressionista e sentimental com espirito critico e sentimento de pesquisa que a pintura faz sentido para mim como um todo.
Art is a permanent dialogue between the artist and the physical space. Where we live a sharing relationship with the whole universe. Communicating through art wherever we are and go towards to meet all parts of the world. Art in a global way is composed of common feelings and forms as an unique identity. Painting communicates with all other forms of art, through the elements that form part of it in a whole which is composition. The sounds and rhythms of colors in all their energy and strength lead us to travels of universal and global feelings. It is in an expressionist and sentimental way with a critical spirit and feeling of research that the painting makes sense for me as a whole.
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Maria Saggese
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Maria Saggese is an italian fine art photographer and Light Painter, based in Salerno (Italy), graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. With her photography she describes her art and her way to express herself and reality, giving them a new perspective. With her photographs she explores the world and goes beyond the appearance. The darkness is the canvas and the light is her paintbrush. Maria Saggese began creating her light painting work in 2012 and since then she has developed a style that is instantly recognizable as her own. Maria’s work has inspired many light painting artist emulate her style and she is a recognized artist in the whole world. Since 2014 she is local representative of LPWA (Light Painting World Alliance). Brand Ambassador for Light Painting Brushes. Brand Ambassador for HUAWEI Mobile Italia.
You can see more artworks: Blog: mariasaggeselightpainting.com Facebook: MariaSaggeseLightPainting Instagram: mariasaggese_lightpainting Light Painting World Alliance: www.lpwa.pro/database/maria_saggese
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Sonia Vecchio
The artist Sonia Vecchio, after completing her studies in Fashion Design in Milan, moved to Rome, where she is living and working in the artistic field and clothing sector. Her training in the fashion world affects her refined chromatic choices, the innovative textures, her constant research between colour and matter, between shape and volume. The most diverse elements join the color on the canvas in a new and amplified form of expression, which is neither painting nor sculpture, but a new means of artistic communication. Her multi-material works acquire a three-dimensional, tactile and volumetric solidity which creates a synergy captivating the onlookers. She exhibits at both a national and an international artistic level.
Her last show “Touch! Materic Appearances” is an invitation to interact with the works: indeed, they are sometimes interactive. In this journey, the Universe is the leading theme where the floating planets are the imaginary places of fantasy and the unreal world. The viewers are invited to touch the assemblages: tri-dimensional, volumetric and tactile effects; they are not passive observers but active interpreters of the work itself. Strong shades of colors and metallic nuances aiming at the expression of symbologies which, through the viewer’s eyes, emerge as a subjective perception. What appears is not always what it really is. So.Ve www.soniavecchio.it sove.mood@gmail.com
Muriel Massin
Muriel Massin is a french painter living and working in Paris. She has trained at the Studios of Paris, école des Beaux Arts and more specifically at the studios of Antoni Ros Blasco and Martin Bissière. «Invent another world» Like a uncontrollable need, the art is for Muriel Massin a way to express her feelings. It is after having gone to an exhibition of the German expressionists in the Museum of Modern Art, that she buys her first box of paint. Then a determining meeting with a painter suggesting her joining his studio pushed her over the edge. Painting becomes then a passion, a way “to invent another world”. «A happy painting» Qualifying herself of lyric painter, Muriel Massin produces a joyful, radiant work, always in excitement. If the representation was in her early stages in the center of her creation, she quickly turned to an abstract style allowing her to work the texture and the color more than the subject. Envisaging the painting as a involvment of the body, she works on the floor by using the acrylic but also the pencils, the pastels and the sticks of oil, and incorporates collages of newspapers and pieces of poster. Her paintings often represent an atmospheric phenomenon, such as the appearance of the sun in a grey sky, the rain or the thunderstorms. Her exhibitions: Over the years, Muriel stood out in the national but also international stage, and multiplied the exhibitions, in France as well as in Germany, in Belgium, in Russia, in Spain, in Italy and in Brazil, Japan and China. muriel281@live.fr www.murielmassin.com
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WAG Israel
WAG ISRAEL is a member of the WAG International Artistic Organization from 2012. We are 16 members, with 13 of them are women artists. Ms. Rumy Renan, NC President / PAINTER Ms. Shula Ross, NC Vice President / PAINTER AND SCULPTOR
NC Members Ms. Varda Breger / PAINTER AND POET Ms. Bracha Laszlo / SCULPTOR Ms. Orly Netanel / GLASS ARTIST AND MUSICIAN Ms. Dora DamariI / MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST Ms. Rebeka Uziel / PAINTER MIXMEDIA Ms. Rachli Marty / VERSATILE ARTIST Ms. Shaula Schaham / PAINTER Ms. Tami Meiri / SCULPTOR Ms. Tamar Greenfeld / PAINTER Ms. Hanna Ben Eliezer Curtis / COLLAGE ARTIST Ms. Adriana Silvia Cherem / VISUAL ARTIST Mr. Uri Netanel / MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER Mr. Avi Sharon / PAINTER Mr. Dima Mogilevsky / PAINTER
Shahnila Mughees
Although I surrender to the challenge of expressing my art through words and seek refuge in the following quote from artist Georgia O’Keeffe, where she propounds… “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” … Nevertheless, I’ll still put my verbosity on test. Paul Gauguin a famous post-impressionist artist stated: “Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.” This perception nurtures my intention to create work that holds the viewer, asking them be present in the moment, allowing themselves to be drawn into the details of the piece. Each of my abstract acrylic paintings explores expressive gestures, rhythms, textures, and layering which often creates the illusion of energy and movement. Living in the beautiful land of Pakistan, Malaysia and now Oman, my paintings are depictions of my soul... a visual manifestation of my emotions and inner wordless dialog with my spirit, and my Creator. Allured and fascinated by sights and sounds of nature, the moods create a strong emotional response in my soul. Like therapy, the creative process serves as my vehicle for reflection, transformation, and healing... letting out what is deep inside me. The harmony in the flow of my brushwork is a manifestation of the influence of my surroundings. The compositions are nothing but my transcendence from the worldly phase to spiritual, demonstrating, in each stroke, my connection with my creator. My prayer is that my art will bring praise, honor and glory to Him while engaging the viewer in a process of reflection, reminding one of His presence and the bliss that every time surrounds us, no matter whatever the circumstances... and that we are loved by Him and are never alone.
As said by Dominique De Menil: “We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.” Shahnila Mughees shahnila.mughees@gmail.com
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Isabel Pérez D. / Anna Tonna
A music concert of contemporary works for classical piano, mezzo soprano, and small chamber ensemble written by members of the New York Women Composers Association (USA) and the Asociación de Mujeres en la Música (Spain) as well as students of the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program. The initiative is led by American mezzo soprano and 2007-2008 Fulbright to Spain, Anna Tonna and Spanish classical pianist Isabel Pérez Dobarro. This concert aims to encourage cross cultural dialogue between women creators, in this case in the field of music, between the two gender specific associations in Spain and New York City respectively. Exposure of works by women composers in both countries is critical for the success and prestige within the field, where there is currently a large gender gap. This concert presents a platform for female composers from Spain and the United States to interact and exchange ideas on music aesthetics, impact of their works as well as mutually helping each other to gain this much needed exposure. In addition, the concert showcases two works by high school aged female students from the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers, giving a multi-generational dimension to the project as well as promoting these young girls’ early involvement in classical music composition.
The project has already been presented to wide critical and audience acclaim both in Madrid, at the American Space in Madrid on May 25, 2017, and at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center in New York City on January 24, 2018. The famed NY critic John Osburn stated in his review of the New York Concert: “I thoroughly enjoyed this concert in which two men, Shakespeare and Cervantes, were celebrated by a legion of musically distinguished women, including Isabel Pérez Dobarro and Anna Tonna. (…) Consuelo Díez´s Ser y Tiempo, a piano solo played with astonishing insight by Isabel Pérez Dobarro (…). Alexa Babakhanian´s Las Damas de Don Quijote (2005-2011) directly followed Ser y tiempo (…) Nan Maro Babakhanian and Anna Tonna gave each tale a distinct tone and carachter, with touches of flamenco and other Spanish forms grounding the songs in placce and tradition. (…) Marga Richter´s Two Sonnets (2007) and Mary Ann Joyce The Raven Himself is Hoarse (2016) (…) beautifully executed by Tonna and Pérez. (…) Pamela Sklar´s The Chains of Love set to Cervantes´poem Las Cadenas del amor brought on flutes (…) to acccompany Tonna and Pérez and open the superb second half (…). The program at Bruno Walter Auditorium began with two pieces from high school students in the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program, Sunflower by Madeleine Schmidt, and Beauty and Magic by Cassandra Stevens, each for piano and flute They well deserved the accomplished playing of Pérez, Sklar, and Falzon.” (Women in Music, Osburnt: Dispatches from a life seared by the art, http://osburnt. com/women-in-music/) Spanish critic Soledad Bordás stated that the concert showed “the highest level of intelligence, wisdom, and artistry. (…) Isabel Pérez was at the piano the whole time, using her technique to portray the different styles accurately depicting what the music asked for: drama, laughter, pragmatism, terror, and love; with elegance, decision, and beauty of sound. (…) In this concert, (Anna Tonna) captivated us again with her beautiful voice and expressive singing, capable of protraying any style or genre.” (La música contemporánea en Madrid exhibe magníficos frutos, El Arte de la Fuga). The next concert of the initiative will take place in Madrid this upcoming Fall.
Isabel Pérez Dobarro
Anna Tonna
Beatriz Hidalgo
A T I , ALM A DE MÉXI CO Te abrazo a ti mexicano, que te atreviste a soñar y has luchado porque has creído que nuestra tierra se puede cambiar y lo has logrado. Te abrazo porque has sido llamado loco, traidor, rebelde, insensato y revolucionario pero en tu mente solo has tenido la palabra mexicano Te abrazo a ti mexicano, defensor de una verdad sin renuncia, y a costa de tu suerte te olvidaron. Te abrazo porque has conocido el peso de la historia, del destino y porque siempre supiste de nuestro origen divino. Te abrazo a ti mexicano, que buscas la justicia, la igualdad y la verdad, porque amas tus raíces y tu sangre. Te abrazo porque nunca bajas los brazos, porque cantas, porque bailas, porque gritas, porque abrazas, acompañas y acaricias. Te abrazo a ti mexicano que callas, que creas, que honras que vives, que sueñas y enamoras. Te abrazo a ti que naciste en esta tierra, a aquellos que eligen estar aquí y defienden esta casa como propia. Te abrazo a ti mexicano que amas esta tierra con alegría, porque vives la vida con color y poesía.
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Te abrazo a ti, con un corazón lleno de grandeza, de historia, de pasión y de belleza. Te abrazo a ti mexicano, que sabes disfrutar los recuerdos amorosos, y superas pese a todo, los momentos dolorosos. Te abrazo a ti, persona buena y de alma una... porque sabes que amigo significa hermano, porque compartes el pan, el dolor y el mismo corazón. Te abrazo a ti mujer fuerte, luchadora, a ti que das la vida; al niño, al joven y al anciano. Te abrazo a ti mexicano, que no temes pasar al olvido, porque siempre estás dispuesto a crear cielos e inventar mañanas. Te abrazo a ti, que tienes la libertad de cambiar el destino, convirtiendo tu corazón en campana que nos hacen sentir el mismo latido. Te abrazo... porque tuviste la gran suerte de haber nacido en esta tierra el Don, el Regalo y la Bendición de ser mexicano... Que Viva México en tu corazón por siempre... Viva el Alma de México! “Con mi orgullo, agradecimiento y amor por México” Beatriz Hidalgo De la Garza
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8 en abstracción
E I GHT IN ABSTRACT I O N “Containment and rapture” Female brushstrokes
In the name of painting, one receives the other or goes to visit the neighbor, this exchange most of the times confirms the identity and the place itself, essentially in the pictorial universe. On the path of this search eight Jalisco women venture to the old continent to exhibit 16 pieces whose chromatic forms go from the feeling of the Apollonian dream to the drunkenness of Dionysian music. Carmen Avalos, a woman with eyes that reveal the color of her vibrant soul, presents two pieces of lyrical abstraction in red chromatics, which through her brushstrokes transmit a vehement exaltation of the thirsting passion to discover life in its suggestive forms. The presence of the circle reveals the search for the perfect, for the round, for the universe that has no interstices and that is dimly outlined in white as a subtle suggestion of light, as is hope, but the thin and marked black lines let us perceive the ominousness of a finite existence. Conchita Rivera, a docile woman with life, seeks to reflect her harmony with the world through morphological forms where the predominance of oranges, yellows and blues are captured by her brush to be suspended on the white canvas. The forms of both pieces of organic abstraction are subtle, suggesting in shading the disagreement of the body, the liberation of forms, the ephemerality of life, that hidden or between-seen, heard as passing in the wind beats. The presence of black wavy lines with chaotic stripes creates the illusion of sustained movement of that always stalking anxiety. Georgina Arce, woman of water and earth, which presents two pieces where the colors dim yellow and a blue matt predominate, getting in the canvases thin layers of paint that give way to the dream of a silent world that allows the contemplation of vital details and fleeting like the flutter of a hummingbird or the flight of a butterfly shaped in vaporous drippings, which show the illusions of the world, the movement by which life is cruel to perpetuate itself in small things. Shadows in white superimposed as the foam to the sea and black spots marked on the path as footprints, witnesses of the feel. Mari Carmen Souza, divergent woman, presents two contrasting paintings with each other. For where blue predominates, there is a sober chromatic universe that produces calmness and inner peace in the spectator, whereas where yellow dominates there is a vortex of thoughts without end. With a trace of metal in which there is no chance but construction, masses of color are generated with suggestive forms, which lead to the journey of imagination and association. These strokes are interior gestures that are revealed to the viewer as intangible, but from which you have certainty of what has been lived.
Georgina Arce
Carmen Ávalos
Conchita Rivera
Mari Carmen Souza
Jalisco / Mexico
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Perenzalez, desiring woman, of determined brushwork, of force in the metallic line that shares two pieces with the presence of semidefinite geometric figures that later evolve to the deformity as representing the imperfection of the being when she loves. Her paintings are testimony to that irredeemable dependence on the resistance of the other, through thick lines and the transposition of geometric figures, with some touches and red lines that abruptly border a black blot transmitting a sense of pain, because it makes dark what should be pure light in loving. Rosana Zuber, woman of tradition, who through her brush, lets us feel a dreamlike universe where everything is beautiful but nothing is clear, where the soft lines, thick and undulating, transmit the energy of old stories that once had an incomparable radiance. His paintings present the colors with elegance and sumptuousness, thus leading the viewer to an endless contemplation, to a being of eternal continuity, seeking in creation to reinvent reality. The balance and composition of this painter is a nod for those who want to find answers. Tamis Leal Barceló, woman of hope and ideals, shows two pieces where the white predominates, but the color becomes fundamental and this is translated after achieving in the canvases the superposition of figures and symbols delineated with thin layers of paint, almost always matt, which They convey to the viewer a sense of volatility, of helplessness as life. In the total composition, the line is presented as the element producing a sudden rupture, thus creating a work of forceful composition.
Perenzales
Tamis Leal
Verónica Jiménez, woman of paths, who talks through the brush with the natural elements of the world, that from a powerful barrier of green glimpse the need of beauty does not manifest to the eyes, only to the soul. The shared brushstroke is so strong and powerful that it seems that nature inhabits the creative woman. The straight and wavy marks that appear as in apparent movement create in each painting a highly expressive pictorial space. Possibly the viewer when facing the set (or unit) of the pieces of this exhibition, have a moment of meditation on the relationships of thinking and seeing, on the intelligible and the sensitive, but especially on the invisible of the visible and thus each painter in her creation seeks to safeguard, embalm, expose or exhibit the horizon of his aesthetic thought. Johanna Alejandra Aguilar Noguez.
Roxana Zuber Verónica Jiménez
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Mª Esther Flórez
Bailar suspendidos en el aire El tango es un reflejo del vértigo En el fondo azul La pareja da los primeros pasos Se cruza con la orquesta Como en busca de sueños En el orden certero, Juega con los Dioses Porque el tango es un himno Sin banderas de sombras, Sin medir la distancia,. Los pies no se esconden Son seducidos De un modo legítimo en los giros donde en la tercera vuelta puedes viajar a la luz Sin buscar las palabras, No hay fronteras en el espacio, En la plenitud de sus pasos, Están solos sobre el escenario Y el mundo le da vueltas, Al otro lado de la música Un bandoneón de historia trágica Les trae un final feliz Donde se puede dañar La perfección en el viento, Donde toda locura Es respetable y hermosa, Las sombras se prenden al vacío Y es poesía su hazaña De figuras en el paisaje En la llanura del movimiento Donde se entiende La forma de sus pasos Metidos en la piel Vencedores sin miedo, Donde la libertad y la rebeldía Pueden con el agotamiento Donde los límites no están rotos Y la fatiga gana a la respiración Donde no hay descanso, Allí la pareja es cómplice De este amor canalla Y al final cuando para la música Todo se queda en los ángulos, Por fin pueden mirarse a los ojos Místicos, eternos e insaciables. Antonio Ruiz Pascual 21-02-2018
“El arte no solo es la belleza artística, para mí es también la belleza emocional, es el estado anímico del autor en cada instante“ www.mestherflorez-airesdelarte.com
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“Mujer con Pañuelo Rojo” 50 x 50 cm Óleo sobre lienzo
Inari M.
Una obra clásica al Óleo inspirada en el estilo del Retrato Renacentista, con algunos toques de actualidad.
Patricia Aizcorbe
Representa esa conexión que surge entre madre e hijo , tan especial y única que es irreproducible. Diferente a otro tipo de relaciones y permanente por la eternidad. Los materiales utilizados representan el pasaje del tiempo y como eso se sella con ese antiguo tul color beige que denota lo antiguo y permanente.
“Transparente conexión a través del tiempo“
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Klaudia Neuhardt
AMEDEO and ME I.
AMEDEO and ME II.
Con todo, pese a la belleza jugosa y la amplitud seductoras de estos logros, Klaudia dice que no siente hecha..., terminada su práctica... - Tengo aún muchas cosas por buscar y encontrar... “ Estamos, pues, ante un conjunto de obras de factura excelente que suponen y declaran el final de un ciclo y el comienzo de una andadura nueva.
Milán Lonnberg
Afincada en Barcelona desde 2007, es donde he realizado gran parte de mi trabajo como artista visual, exponiendo en Italia, España, Chile y próximamente, Irán, colaborando constantemente con otros artistas. Mi obra profundiza en el subconsciente humano, con símbolos y personajes mayoritariamente femeninos que cabalgan sobre sus propias historias cargadas de emociones y deseos, utilizando una estética pop surrealista con constantes reminiscencias al cómic.
Cecilia Ornague
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La artista Ceci Ornague es de nacionalidad argentina Su formación es científica (Diplomada en Bioquímica) Amante de la naturaleza y la biología. Siempre sintió atracción por las artes plásticas. En el año 2002 comenzó sus estudios en la Escuela de Arte Municipal de Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona. Y a partir de ese momento se ha dedicado a pintar y experimentar distintas técnicas pictóricas. Sus obras fueron cambiando de figuración a abstracción, y actualmente continúa expresándose de forma alternada. Ha expuesto en distintos lugares de España y en distintos países de Europa. También tuvo la oportunidad de participar en exposiciones colectivas en Nueva York. Sin duda el arte es para Ceci el mejor vehículo para expresar sus sensaciones y sentimientos.
“Perfil Urbano“ “Otoño“
Novais, pintora que desde niña realiza por varios estudios de A Coruña preparación para la pintura, tocando distintas técnicas: carboncillo, óleo, pastel, acuarela, acrílico... Estudia artes, decoración y arquitectura de interiores y grabado. Mujer inquieta que realiza diferentes estudios y técnicas de pintura, ya que su creatividad esta en continuo movimiento. Realiza diversas exposiciones por España, Paris, Suecia, Italia y Portugal, participa en el libro de “Elas” dedicado a recopilar más de 400 mujeres Gallegas, participa en las Meninas de Canido, en la Ruta de I’ART Castelló D’empúries, Gerona, participa varios años en los encuentros de artistas en el Pazo de Maríñan, Donosti Arteam II feria de artes internacional de Donostian, participa en el Grad Palais de Paris. Colabora en la formación concurso pintura al aire libre “Faro Vilan”, jurado de concurso, comisaria de varias exposiciones. Critica de Salicin, L. de su obra: La elegancia en la dicción, el saber encontrar el ángulo apropiado, el situarse en el lugar preciso para conseguir una com-
Novais
“Eclipse de luna“
posición atrayente, curiosa a veces, acertada siempre, conforman el sello que caracteriza la obra de Novais. Parte de lo esencial, utiliza el detalle como segundas partes y, para aumentar la dificultad, utiliza una gama cromática fuerte, poniendo en juego el justo cromatismo necesario,de suaves contrastes que sabe manejar de manera inteligente.
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Belén H. Cosgaya
Belén H. Cosgaya, ha realizado varias exposiciones colectivas e individuales a nivel nacional e internacional. Ha participado, además, en varios certámenes de pintura, recibiendo varios premios europeos. El material que utiliza en todos sus cuadros es el óleo/lienzo. Sus lienzos están llenos de color y crea una atmósfera de ilusión y de fuerza.
En las obras de la artista se aprecia una concepción figurativa del arte, con tintes imaginativos y una tendencia hacia la pintura definida, al color y, a los contrastes de luces y sombras. En los retratos se aprecia una obra intimista con fuerte contraste entre la fortaleza que transmiten y la candidez, son obras figurativas con matices expresionistas realistas y algo decó. Entre sus últimos trabajos, destacan los que realizó en 2014- 2016 dedicados a la temática de “The Flappers”, mujeres de los años 20 que rompieron las reglas impuestas por la sociedad y que trasladándolas a la actualidad podrían ser una más de nosotras, pero que vivieron a principios del siglo pasado. Su deseo no fue observar lo buenas, artistas que eran, si no plasmar su parte más personal, su actitud.
“Apariencia abstracta I”
“Apariencia en violeta”
E-mail: belenhcosgaya@gmail.com Phone: + 34 629468201 Website: www.belenhcosgaya.com
Consuelo Plaza Aranda
“Madre“
www.consuelo.nl
“Apariencia en verde”
Consuelo (Visser) Plaza Aranda, has developed her career as a sensitive artist and she likes to experiment. This approach requires an exchange of communication between the work and the viewer. “Her rich language develops through a conscious experimentation using media as Surrealism. Her search doesn’t stops at a theatrical stage and travels insatiable through a fantasy world until what she has learned, inside the imaginary tour of the canvas, is presented as a recognizable form holder of a great emotional weight. Her creativity resides in the organization of her feelings, and for this purpose the technique is only a mean to perceive these senses ” (Dr. Marc Puig Tebar) Consuelo (Visser) Aranda currently lives and travels between the Netherlands and Spain, where he spends his time teaching and painting. His constant traveling between the two countries gives her a vital creativity to paint. Don Tébar / Fundación Piramidón de Barcelona.
Helen
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Elena Fernández Camazón, artísticamente Helen, nació el 13/08/1973 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa. Autodidacta e hija del prestigioso pintor ydescubridor de la Flammagrafía Vicen, se impregna desde que nace de los conocimientos de su padre y aprende su técnica. Domina las técnicas del óleo, grafito, pastel, acuarela y Flammagrafía, aunque es un estilo propio el que utiliza para crear sus obras. Miembro de: Unión Artística Vallisoletana y A.E.P.E. (Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores). Desde el año 2016 comienza a exponer. Elegida cartelista 2018 para el cartel OHYP Tordesillas-Pasión por la tradición para las fiestas de la peña. Seleccionada para el “53 Premio Reina Sofía” 2018 Casa de Vacas del parque del Buen Retiro de Madrid.
“Armonía de Luz”
“Arrepentimiento”
Exposiciones Individuales: (15 al 31/07/2016) Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas. Valladolid (12/08 al 12/09/2016) sala exp. Bodega Copaboca Tordesillas. Va. (7 al 20/11/2016) sala exp. Infanta Juana de Zaratán. Valladolid (6 al 17/02/2017) Centro cultural de Medina del Campo. Valladolid (19 al 31/05/2017) Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas. Valladolid (19 al 31/07/2017) Oficina de Turismo de Medina de Rioseco. Va. (semana cultural 21 al 27/08/2017) Ayto. Renedo de Esgueva. Va. (14/04 al 03/04/2018) Sala Oficina de Turismo Ampúdia. Palencia
“Creciendo entre anillos”
Serie
“desde mi ventana“
Gilma Carreño
Gilma Carreño Rangel, artistas plástica y gestora cultural Colombiana. profesora en el campo del diseño gráfico y el arte, en su larga trayectoria en el campo del arte, ha expuesto en estados unidos, europa y colombia. ha realizado diversos proyectos curatoriales internacionales y nacionales, ha realizado proyectos de restauración de pintura de caballete, y ha ganado premios nacionales. El arte ha estado presente desde las diferentes formas de expresión, el dibujo, la pintura, escultura y el grabado, estudiosa del color , como una posibilidad de expresar emociones encontradas con las formas y sentires inspirada por el mágico colorido del caribe,que se ven plasmadas en cada pincelada, que desde diferentes contextos marcan un estilo muy cálido. Desde mi ventana, como propuesta pictórica que parte de la inspiración de las ventanas venecianas, reflejan un cálido realismo mágico que a través del colorido, expresan que no hay fronteras para el arte.
Hasu Art
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Aunque su nombre es Alberto Castiñeira, es conocido como Hasu Art, un artista de 32 años, nacido y residente en Barcelona. En sus inicios se dedicó principalmente al realismo en grafito, no obstante en su búsqueda por plasmar emociones y sensaciones y poder transmitirlas, empezó a aprender Sumi-e, pretendiendo ir más allá de la belleza del arte, para que cada una de sus obras tenga una personalidad y un espíritu própio, y así poder despertar un abanico de sensaciones y emociones.
“Pensamientos”
www.hasuart.com art@hasuart.com
“Ballet IV”
“Ballet VI”
“Movimiento”
Feguars
Nace y reside en Caspe (Zaragoza). Comienza su aprendizaje en la Escuela Municipal de Arte de Caspe y sigue, posteriormente, su formación de manera autodidacta. Ha participado en más de 50 exposiciones individuales y alrededor de 170 exposiciones colectivas por distintas ciudades de España, Italia, Francia, Alemania, Reino Unido, Portugal, Irlanda, Suecia, Siberia, Finlandia, Bélgica, Suiza, USA, Argentina, Japón, Uruguay, China, Mónaco y Bulgaria. Website: www.feguars.es Phone: +34 650 73 70 45 E-mail: feguars@hotmail.com Facebook: Joaquín Ferrer Guallar y en Feguars.
“Gabriels’Oboe” Óleo sobre lienzo.
Medidas: 73 x 92 Cm.
Basado en el tema compuesto por Ennio Morricone para la película La Misión.
Roma, 12 / 11 / 2012 Gran , original artista creador de imágenes. Me satisface su original creatividad . Tan sincero en la comunicación y la claridad de su inspiración . El recuerdo de su obra permanecerá. Ennio Morricone .
EXPERIENCIAS “Un proyecto donde la obra, el artista, el mensaje y el público se hermanan en un solo lugar.” El proyecto surge ante la necesidad de querer crear una sola historia a partir de muchas otras. Esas otras, cada una de ellas, definida por un artista diferente. Sumandose cada “experiencia”, y dando forma a una sola. Haciéndo participe a quien disfruta de la muestra, como cuando lee una novela, va al cine a ver una película. Cada obra tiene su espacio y su momento. Nos encontramos con experiencias vitales, sentimentales, oníricas, reflexivas, de alegría, de tristeza, biográficas, leidas y un sinfín mas de posibilidades... El sendero es amplísimo y la libertad es total. Todos y cada uno de los artistas serán narradores de historias (fotógrafos, escultores, pintores clásicos, pintores modernos...). La idea del proyecto es crear un vehículo de comunicación entre el artista y el mundo. Crear un canal de promoción atractivo y diferente, donde el trabajo, las historias y el artista, sean los personajes principales de toda la trama. La intención del proyecto es que sea algo vivo, por ello cada 2 meses se realizará una nueva “EXPERIENCIA”. Siendo Abril, el mes elegido para crear una nueva aventura en California. Fran Borrego (Creador del Proyecto EXPERIENCIAS)
www.experienciasart.com
Artistas que participan en la muestra de CALIFORNIA
(por orden alfabético)
www.experienciasart.com
YANINA DE MARTINO Soy una artista inquietamente versátil. He ido mutando y enriqueciendo mis obras a través de una búsqueda incansable dentro mío, que me condujo a horizontes impensados dentro de la abstracción. Mi ímpetu creador me llevó a explorar el uso de distintas texturas, buscando y encontrando un lenguaje y un estilo claramente personal y propio. Finalmente, logré conjugar materiales clásicos con objetos de la vida cotidiana para utilizar las propiedades simbólicas de cada uno y la relación que ellos mantienen con la obra. Mis producciones son una mezcla exótica y armónica entre una obra pictórica y una escultura, por la riqueza de los elementos y por como juegan y se fusionan en un todo, haciendo que cada obra sea única e irrepetible y así intentar materializar verdaderas obras de arte contemporáneo. yanina_de_martino@yahoo.com https://www.instagram.com/yaninademartino/
RUTH BOTTO Nací en Madrid en 1975, desde pequeña siempre tuve gran inquietud por el mundo de la pintura, así que empecé mi formación académica a la edad de 12 años en el estudio de arte de la gran pintora portuguesa María José Carmezim. a la que estaré por siempre agradecida al haber plantado en mi la semilla del amor al arte. Me licencié el Bellas Artes por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el año 2001, y en ese momento dejé de lado la creación pictórica, ya que mi carrera, primero se orientó a la restauración de obras de arte, habiendo trabajando en el Palacio Real y en las pinturas murales del Monasterio del Escorial y más tarde a la docencia, actualmente trabajando en ese ámbito. Mi pintura en su primera fase se dedicó a la investigación del blanco y negro, y a la figura humana, fundamentalmente cuerpos grandes y generosos en carnes, para pasar más tarde a pintar en color, y a investigar otras formas, en esta fase es en la que me hallo actualmente. La técnica empleada en mis obras es óleo sobre lienzo con imprimación propia .Espero que lo disfruten. ruthbotto@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/rgarciabotto/
ROXANA IRIMIA Artista nacida en Pașcani (Rumania) el 4 de junio 1985. Desde temprana edad siente una pasión por el arte y se inicie en el mundo de la pintura en el Circulo de Bellas Artes Palacio Cantacuzino, Pașcani, Rumania. Años después se traslada a Madrid ,donde continua con sus estudios de dibujo y pintura bajo la tutela del Maestro José Moran Vázquez. Ha realizado numerosas exposiciones en: Madrid, Málaga,Barcelona, Pașcani, Estocolmo, Paris, Alexandria, Sighișoara, Stara Zagora( Bulgaria), Roma y New York. La mayoría de sus obras se caracteriza por su temática figurativa ,realista y costumbrista .Sus obras tienen un reflejo de los sentimientos y emociones del ser humano. Su técnica es directa ,fresca ,espontánea y sentida . Domina numerosas técnicas ,dibujo,pastel ,óleo y acuarela.. Para ella, su trabajo ha sido una reflexión sobre la mirada, la mirada como poder. El cuerpo, el dolor, el ámbito, la tradición, las vivencias en su asociación al enfrentamiento físico y emocional son elementos y conceptos fundamentales en el desarrollo de sus propuestas . A través de su trabajo intenta entablar diálogos sobre la muerte, el amor, la vida, lo cotidiano, la naturaleza, en fin de la esencia humana del ser humano y su presencia en el entorno que le rodea.
roxy_ro_2002@yahoo.com
PIA OJEDA VALDES Pintar para mi es hablar de color, de expresión viva y movimiento. Es detenerse en un instante, salir de la manada, retraerse, vivir en un contexto mental que permita plasmar lo onírico, la tibieza de las formas y calidez del color; para dar un lugar donde lo aparente, lo velor, comprobable, no es lo importante, sino escribir todo lo contrario...invitar al espectador a salir de sí mismo, detenerse y retener un sentimiento, sensación, algo vivaz... Esa es mi intención. Dar forma a una idea, una pasión. A un sentimiento pleno de extásis y dejar que mis manos fluyan buscando el eros, la belleza, el sabernos todavía una gran cadena de hombres que transitamos un tiempo, y que tal vez podemos permanece como un referente, una entrega silenciosa, de libertad, de expresión y crear de lo que veo un poco de fantasía y realidad, algo luminoso y vital que me conmueve. PíaOjeda@gmail.com
NINA POLA Crece bajo la pasión nostálgica del piano en un entorno rodeado de música y libros. Tras sus estudios de piano y composición, víctima de un constante cuestionamiento acerca del ser humano, estudia filosofía y antropología. Su visión nostálgica del mundo se refleja con intensidad en sus múltiples relatos y poemas, muchos de ellos ganadores de diversos concursos literarios y editados en revistas y libros. Consciente de que su mensaje requiere la imagen a modo de “grito”, se sumerge de lleno en el mundo de la fotografía donde encuentra la forma más ágil y conmovedora de expresarse a través de la poesía visual. En este ámbito, Nina Pola ha sido ganadora de varios concursos y ha participado en exposiciones colectivas. caligrama@hotmail.com https://www.instagram.com/nina__pola/
MONREC Gabriel Recoder Monasterio, nacido en Madrid, se licenció en Bellas Artes en la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria en el año 2011. Actualmente desarrolla su trabajo en las disciplinas de la pintura, la escultura y el dibujo, principalmente, sin descartar otras formas de expresión artística. Desde que iniciara sus estudios en la universidad ha participado en diversos proyectos individuales y colaborativos, entre los que destaca el realizado con la artista Ouka Leele en el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Tras la exposición colectiva “Emerge” en el año 2011, con la que inicia su etapa profesional, dedica los siguientes años a desarrollar ideas y producir nuevas obras. En el año 2016 participa en varias exposiciones con la galería FeedingArt, que le abre el camino hacia su primera exposición individual, con su obra en formaartmonrec@gmail.com to bidimensional. www.monrecart.com
MIGUEL SOKOLOWSKI Nace en Madrid. Atraído por la pintura y el dibujo que, desde siempre, había practicado, ingresa en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Allí cursa la especialidad de grabado. Estudia después Técnicas de Realización de Cine de Animación en la Escuela Taller “Fantasma”. Realiza estudios de fotografía, retoque fotográfico, diseño, modelado en 3D, y animación por ordenador. Expone en colectivas de alumnos de Bellas Artes y en numerosas ocasiones con la Red de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid. En 1989 gana un Accésit en el I Premio Nacional de Pintura sobre Tema Cervantino y en 1990 el tercer premio en el XV Certamen Nacional de Pintura Ciudad de Denia, y un Accésit en el X Certamen de Pintura del Círculo Catalán de Madrid. Actualmente su pintura asimila elementos del cine, la animación y el comic, aunque no siempre resultan obvios. El último año, y de forma simultanea a la pintura, ha empezado a hacer collages de pequeño formato con todo tipo de materiales, en los que ensaya composiciones que a veces le llevan a proyectos mas grandes. En ocasiones, sus dibujos ilustran historias de relatos que el mismo escribe.
MARIBEL MANZANARES
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Nació y creció en Madrid. Desde muy pequeña destacaba por su perfil creativo. Tras pasar una década inmersa en viajes, dedicada profesionalmente al diseño gráfico y la ilustración, termina por vivir entre Madrid y Miami, Dichos viajes, hacen que su interés por las distintas diferencias sociales y de género entre países se dispare, haciendo de ésta inquietud, su identidad. En una de sus estancias en Europa conoce a quien transformará su visión del arte, Jaime Valero. En éste punto comienza la etapa de asentamiento, compartiendo caballete con grandes artistas de la talla de Eloy Morales, Emanuele Dascanio o el gran Maestro Antonio López. Ha sido publicada en la Revista Flamantes 2017, Seleccionada para ¨Mostra Mercato Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea¨ en Arte Salerno 2017, Elegida en un grupo de 25 pintores para formar parte del taller de Antonio López 2017. En la actualidad en el sentido más básico, Maribel pinta retratos, Retratos que transmiten, que invitan a reflexionar sobre la sociedad en la que vivimos. Retratos, de quienes merecen ser info@missmanzanares.com mirados. https://www.instagram.com/missmanzanares_arts/
LORETO SANTAELLA Natural de Bilbao, apasionada por el arte en general y por la pintura en particular. Licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad del País Vasco en la especialidad de pintura. Con más de veinticinco años en la práctica pictórica, mis inicios tuvieron lugar como autodidacta participando en exposiciones amateur a nivel local (Sala Larrea de Bilbao, Sala BBK de Bilbao, Aula de Cultura de Basauri y Aula de Cultura de Getxo). Mis trabajos siguen dos líneas muy diferentes que alterno e incluso simultaneo: la estética figurativa simbólica y la pintura abstracta. En la primera línea de trabajo, la figurativa, suele haber siempre un primer acercamiento a la obra mediante un estudio y reflexión profundas. Disfruto de la evolución de la obra hasta que satisface mi expectativa. En la segunda, en cambio, además de tener siempre un trasfondo teórico experimento con la compulsión, el ritmo, las tensiones. Asuntos como la mitología, el lenguaje, el comportamiento emocional y sensorial primitivo, fenómenos psicológicos inherentes a la persona, floriografía, etc. suelen ser los puntos de inicio de cualquiera de mis trabajos.
www.loretosantaella.com santaella@loretosantaella.com
LAURA MONT Nacida en Barcelona emigró a Santiago de Chile en el año 2012 buscando nuevas experiencias y fue donde se desarrolló artísticamente. En esta ciudad fue consciente de su pasión y necesidad de crear con imágenes en papel de forma análoga y posteriormente agregando objetos, además de participar en diferentes talleres con artistas chilenos como Mauricio Garrido y Klaudia Kemper. Sus obras reflejan el subconsciente de la artista creando composiciones y escenarios visualmente irreales, con contrastes de color, en los que mezcla lo antiguo con algo de moderno, la arquitectura y el universo. En varias ocasiones descubre el significado de la obra después de crearla. lauramont.art@gmail.com
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LAURA LEN En mi opinión “todo lo que puedes imaginar, puede aparecer en una fotografía” y así casi sin darte cuenta acaba siendo cada imagen una historia, que se ha hecho a partir de algo tan simple como la expresión visual de los sentimientos y emociones más intimas. Me emociona cuando algunas personas al ver mis fotos en grande me confiesan que se han sentido “atrapadas por ellas “ y no podían dejar de mirarlas. En esos casos la “magia” ha funcionado. Han asociado sus vivencias y recuerdos a veces perdidos en lo más profundo del alma con lo que veían en una imagen. www.lauralen.com info@lauralen.com
KEIOZIVA KEIOZIVA es una joven pintora artística catalana especializada en pintura óleo, siempre en continuo aprendizaje, evolución y formación autodidacta en la pintura. Sus estilos son varios des de lo más tradicional del retrato figurativo hasta obras pop art, impresionistas, surrealistas, siempre inspiradas en la literatura del realismo mágico y con gran atención a las figuras animales, que ocupan parte de su fuente de inspiración y son la temática de la mayoría de sus encargos exclusivos, personalizados y únicos.
keioziva@live.com https://keiozivart.jimdo.com/
GRAZIE GRA Daughter of an Italian father and Brazilian mother, the eldest of two brothers, Grazie since the street was a small extension of your backyard to play, sing, skate and talk. In college he graduated in interior design, but the desire to paint was greater than all, she left the office and took to the streets and began to print your art on the walls of the city that became his screen. Her art speaks to the everyday life of the metropolis and draws the attention of passersby with its delicate features it comes to troubling questions and fruits of their research as being of humanity, kindness and decay in civilizations, the position of women in ancient society and current, motherhood, generation, creation, the sacred,melancholy, pain and death and life cycle. The young Brazilian artist Graziele Grassone currently lives and works in São Paulo, where she prints her poetry on the walls of the city and that too with a variety of media.
FRAN BORREGO
I am Francisco de Asís Borrego de la Rubia. Madrid. Generation of 82. Experiences and gave me life. Also the value of art and her passion for him. Making my passion as well. Instilled in me values such as curiosity, the approach of the “whys” and “wheres” and the desire to always be better. I always knew that art would be part of my life. Having studied advertising and loved the cinema, my influences are very photograms. When I paint or take a photograph, I try to immortalize a feeling, a thought, an action. In short, I seek to be the narrator of a story. For this, I do not limit myself to a single technique. I can use: temperas, acrylics, inks, enamels, varnishes, lacquers, cakes, tea, coffee,etc. I have participated in more than 50 exhibitions around the world. (Rome, Milan, Paris, Oporto, Amsterdam, Argentina, New York, Dallas, Ecuador, California, Madrid, Barcelona, Jaen, Zaragoza, etc). Currently, I dedicate my time to create. To design. To paint. To expose my work. I also do commissioned work.. I am the creator and curator of this "Experiencias" Project. www.franciscoborrego.com franborregoart@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/franborregoart//
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CRISTINA MSOLER Me dedico a la fotografía desde hace 4 años, empezó como terapia pero ahora, mirar a través de la cámara, Me ha cambiado la forma de ver la vida. La veo con otra perspectiva. La vida hay que vivirla con ilusión y con sueños. Con esfuerzo llegan a cumplirse los sueños y el renacer de nuevas ilusiones. Me encanta la fotografía callejera, pero también hago otras fotografías: aleatorias, urbanas, naturaleza, creativas ... He expuesto en varias galerías en :Barcelona, Madrid, Roma, Porto ... https://youpic.com/photographer/CristinaMSoler/ https://www.instagram.com/cristina.msoler/
ANDREA NAGY You will find in my little “Felt Infinity word” all a mixture of things that have inspired me over the last few years, while I stitched in privat. I use fabric felt for my artwork. My needlework express modern themes and portrait between truth and illusion. https://www.feltartinfinity.com andy@feltartinfinity.com
ANA MARIA FUENTES https://www.instagram.com/anamariafuentes_/ anafuentes20@gmail.com
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