All in Contemporary Art
Between May 24 and June 10, OJ hosted the first duo exhibition of two young Italian artists, Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele, entitled “It won't only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying". Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele are both artists based in Milan,IT. We came together with the artists to talk more about themselves and their upcoming show in OJ.
"Faust" by German artist Anne Imhof has long hours of few-seconds-videos on Instagram. This fractioned narrative hides unutterable sensations: a prison-style fence surrounds the external area, leading to the strained experience even before the actual performance; the pavilion reverberates frightful echoes, imperceptible by microphones; the internal structure is times bigger and higher than the lens can reveal but the numerous visitors contribute to claustrophobia, just to point a few elements that an insider can describe.
Originally an illustrator for Dutch magazines, pop surrealist artist Femke Hiemstra's works became so elaborate that she then turned her hand to fine art. Within her paintings she portrays a Grimm-esque world, where highly detailed animal characters are set against dark, surreal settings.
Nicola Kloosterman (Johannesburg, 1976) is an analog collage artist from the Netherlands who works with found imagery. Her subjects vary from fragmented female figures and faces to landscapes, nature and abstracts made with coloured paper and textiles cut from fashion magazines. Her collages explore concepts of (in)visibility, perception and feminine power.
Tom French is a highly collectible and well-regarded British artist whose powerful monochromatic canvases are driven by his efforts to engage with the subconscious, and a rigorous pursuit of truth.
'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.
