'My art is an expression of how the mysteries of life affect me, the materials direct me to which mystery, the night sky, joy, birth, nature and energies that surround us, the "the Cosmic Loneliness", serenity, peace, love...' -Eva Rossi-Kivimakii
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'My art is an expression of how the mysteries of life affect me, the materials direct me to which mystery, the night sky, joy, birth, nature and energies that surround us, the "the Cosmic Loneliness", serenity, peace, love...' -Eva Rossi-Kivimakii
Paola Pivi was born in 1971 in Milan, where she studied at the Milan Art Academy out of a desire, as she puts it, “to learn to draw.” Pivi’s work quickly took a conceptual turn, using photography, sculpture, and performance in multimedia works that also frequently include collaborations with both people and live animals.
As Buddha found importance in the interconnectedness of all things, Mary´s work strives to connect personal emotions and philosophy creating a balance that stems from that interconnectedness, that lack of absolutes. These colorful organic universes are created and resemble astronomical clusters of mass or craters, the way matter accretes in space. The goal is to have her viewer share a glimpse into these magical free flowing and yet structured compositions that become trapped on the canvas.
Albena has been painting all her life; it is what she does. For her everything starts with seeing. Nothing rings more true to her than “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. She feel s that her mission is to help you open your eyes and your imagination to all the beauty around us. Your hectic life might make it hard to see it at first, but is it so wonderful when you finally do. She is here to help you see it through a new set of eyes.
My paintings are layered bursts of energy that record experience. Blending nature in the here and now with memories or past experience. Shape ,form and line fall into a sea of emotion. A shape appears first as a reflection, then drifts into volumetric configurations. At once capturing the sense of nature with movement and light creating an artistic metaphor both opaque and airy, thick and organic.
Tsuruko Yamazaki
Born in 1925, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan. Lives and works in Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan.
Manuel Gracia (Madrid, 1964), lives and works in Madrid. Master in Contemporary Art by the IArt Superior Institute, his artistic approaches are understood in an intimate space where intuition, emotion and musicality are related to analysis and reflection in a self-referential sense.
Alain Biltereyst (b. 1965, lives and works in Brussels) continually draws attention to the innate beauty of practical designs, such as a manhole cover, fence design or airplane tail logo. Working primarily on thick panels, there is an attention to layering and repetition as well as an affinity for certain motifs of color and shape.
The Sotheby’s Italia Modern and Contemporary Art auction didn’t disappoint the expectations, with a sale total of € 14.176.250 and almost every lot sold.
Jules de Balincourt is a French-American contemporary artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his abstract, atmospheric paintings with saturated colors, blurring the line between fantasy and reality
Rodel Tapaya was born in 1980, in Montalban, Rizal, Philippines. He broke out in the art scene by earning the coveted top prize in the Nokia Art Awards competed among artists in the Asia-Pacific region which allowed him to pursue intensive drawing and painting courses at Parsons School of Design in New York and from the University of Helsinki in Finland prior to graduating from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts.
The inauguration of the 57th Venice Biennale is just few days away and Sotheby’s up the ante with a two-day sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Milan: are you planning your trip to Italy, aren’t you? Well, if you still uncertain you need to know that the world-renowned auction house Sotheby’s has some tricks up its sleeve, with a large range of high quality works from the most desirable post war Italian artists on sale on the 4th and the 5th May.
At once familiar and slightly bizarre, Ann Toebbe’s meticulous collages belong to the stay-at-home intimist tradition that begins with Édouard Vuillard’s Parisian interiors. For several years she has cut up bits of colored paper to recreate — with help from photographs and memory — the domestic interiors of her life and of the people around her.
Dante Galic is a working artist, currently working and living in Berlin. Dante have been working seriously withart, sincehe was thirteen years old. He have had many exhibitions, around the country, with more too come in the future.Dante Galic have been a professional artist, for the last three years, where private collectors, and others, have purchased his art, for their collections.
Contemporary Australian artist specializing in unique woodblock prints of landscapes, street scenes, domestic interiors and still life.
“Once upon a time, a boy reaching out of his school desk painted on the blackboard with a white chalk. Sea monsters came into sight and flying over the waves of the deep blue sea. The boy wanted them to stay with him, just a little bit longer before the janitor erased the blackboard for the next morning’s class”.
Gil Heitor Cortesão’s paintings look to the design aesthetic of the 1960s and ’70s, depicting spaces characterized by clean, hard lines and generally devoid of human presence. Working off images from ’60s interior design magazines, Cortesão paints layers of paint onto Plexiglas and presents the reverse side of the work when he exhibits them, creating a muted, dream-like quality that suggests the decline of the utopian promises of the Modernist era.
Meng Zhou born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China in 1992, is of a generation that has formed its personalities and beliefs during a period of shifting social and economic circumstances, and through a boom in the availability of information and technology.
We’d all like to believe that time stands still when it comes to art. Your insides melt and succumb to the profundity of stillness in motion, a time captured and frozen before your eyes. But, that’s simply not true, time is a product of art, it’s manipulated and solicited to manifest charge and state obviousness in an inescapable continuum.