All in Interview
I feel myself change as I look at an object of beauty. It has calmed me from childhood, the blue shadows on the snow, and the sparkling raindrops on leaves. The late great Canadian encaustic painter, Tony Scherman, said that you know it’s beauty because there’s pain in it. This is my experience also. Sometimes, you can’t look away. My only explanation is that it is something divine.
Nora is a Hungarian artist-painter with the artist name Mano. She was born in Hungary and is still living in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. She’s been painting with oil on canvas for more than three decades, inspired first by the beautiful landscapes in Hungary and other countries where she has been living with her family for a few years (Sweden, Israel, Belgium).
Montreal artist Sonia Indelicato Roseval was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1955. Inspired by and passionate about the architecture of Old Montreal, Roseval took on her first exhibit in the 1980's. It was at this exhibit that she met her future mentor and internationally renowned artist Francois Lortie.
Originally from Austria, Marco Riha started his long creative journey in Sri Lanka in the mid-nineties. After painting and traveling for some years, he found his creative home base in Mexico. André Breton describes Surrealism as ‘psychic automatism in its pure state.’ For decades Riha has been experimenting with this automatic painting technique, unaware of being a modern-day Surrealist.
Christopher, Tim König holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in "Culture and media education with art and music as a specialization". In the meantime he has taken part in international exhibitions and sold his paintings to private collectors. His art moves between abstraction with strong color volumes, performing arts and drawings with ink. His ideas result from consistently listening to the music as well as from his everyday experiences.
Christel Delrieu Pétraud (CDP), born in 1976 in Toulouse, France, is an internationally famous artist, known for her innovative painting and artistic explorations combining mathematical logic and letting-go. She obtained her baccalauréat in Arts and Letters in 1995, then went on to study visual arts and art history, obtaining a double degree in 1998. In 1999, she obtained a Master's degree in Visual Arts, specialising in colour. The following year, she graduated from the IUFM to become an art teacher, but ultimately did not integrate national education.
Julieta, can you take us back to the beginning of your art journey? What sparked your initial interest in art, and how did you decide to pursue it as a career?
My journey into art began at a very young age, deeply influenced by my surroundings and my mother, who was an exceptional artist. Watching her create and express herself through various mediums sparked my initial interest in art. The decision to pursue it as a career came naturally as I found immense joy and fulfillment in creating art. Over time, I realized that this was my true calling, a path where I could merge my passion with my professional aspirations.
Andrea Gendusa's artistic journey is a fascinating narrative that blends traditional and digital mediums, creating a beautiful symbiosis of form and technology that is both captivating and thought-provoking. Gendusa was born in Turin and began his artistic journey at the Liceo Artistico Renato Cottini, immersing himself in the tactile world of painting. Simultaneously, his fascination with digital media propelled him into uncharted territories, resulting in a seamless union of the conventional and the contemporary.
Painting was something I always wanted to try. I simply had no time to devote myself to it. When COVID-19 regulations mandated we shelter-in-place, I suddenly found myself with an abundance of time. I wanted to channel my energy into something creative that I could undertake without socializing. So, in May of 2020, I turned to online shopping...this time, buying art supplies. Hoping to bring light back to a world darkened by the Pandemic, I picked up my first paintbrush to reflect upon, and interpret, the beauty that remained in a World interrupted.
Through the duality between being a passive and active subject, it reveals a dark and dreamlike universe. Her self-portraits, fusing Fine Art and Trash, are an invitation to explore the inner abyss. Unusual compositions challenge norms, empowering her art. Self-taught, she extracts sidereal images from her melancholic universe, composing pieces that question existence. Her own style, Fine Art Trash, fuses aesthetic elegance with the raw darkness, inherited from Punk, creating striking photographs. Each image, a piece that challenges norms, immerses the viewer in a sea of contemplations, inciting emotional and intellectual responses. Her art, a visual symphony that screams the chaotic and provocative essence of challenging established norms.
You mention a deep connection with imagining unseen worlds. How do you translate these imaginative visions into tangible artworks?
I believe that by listening to music from different movies and soundtracks, I transport myself to another world, a place to escape from my reality, where all my characters and stories connect. Likewise, I seek ways to translate that imagination or stories into a tangible work.
Phyllis van CHUA's products are full of colorful and vibrant floral patterns and designs. Phyllis van CHUA's core concept and features are mostly based on greenery and flowers, which stem from the fact that since I was a child, I have been living with flowers and plants, and I feel that the world of flowers, plants and plants is full of joy, carefree, comfortable and at ease, and that I am passionate about collecting treasures of the natural world. I remember my father's orchid garden is a good medicine for my spiritual enrichment, and the flying winged insects in the garden are regarded as an image of "freedom", which is the goal that I want to pursue most, so I incorporate the concept into my works.
I began my career 5 years ago as an abstract artist while working as an accountant. It was the hobby for me at first and I was learning different painting languages by copying paintings from famous artists like Van Gogh or Claude Monet. It was a relaxing time for me. Then later I developed my own abstract taste and started looking at the art deeper than just a visual object. Some artworks were like a door that invites to the different worlds, a portal to the different layer of reality that coexists with the current one. And later on, I started exploring new worlds and expressing messages from it in a new form of art which allows me to be my most vulnerable and open self in a form of a sacred energy art.
Oksana Tanasiv is American, Ukrainian-born contemporary artist, who currently lives and works in Connecticut, USA. Her art works belong to the museum collections in the USA, Canada and Europe, and to the private collections worldwide. Oksana collaborates with the galleries in Connecticut, NYC, and Miami. She is an exhibitor at International Art Fairs such as Volta NYC, Art Hamptons, Art Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Miami, and Aqua Miami.
My name is Birgit Huttemann-Holz, I am a German American painter and printmaker. My energetic works show a lush world, where nature is in constant celebration. My lyrical abstractions reflect an intense relationship with the surrounding landscape, an intimate experience of wilderness which mirrors alluring and alarming oneself.
Britta Ortiz's oeuvre stands as a profound homage to the natural world, intertwining the intricacies of animal lives with a philosophical depth that transcends mere visual aesthetics. Her linocuts, a dance of contrast and harmony, draw the observer into a contemplative dialogue with the environment that surrounds us, challenging the anthropocentric view that often separates humans from the complex tapestry of life.
Undoubtedly living in such a magical city full of artistic heritage awakens the aesthetic sense of any sensitive person. It is a magical city for its light, its magic, its heritage and uniqueness. On the other hand, two cultural traditions coexist, the Christian and the Muslim Andalusian. One is abstract and the other has a figurative tradition that begins in the Renaissance, when the city keeps great artistic treasures that surround it with a mystical and unreal beauty. My work has also evolved from figuration to abstraction, although my abstraction is not geometric but organic, it does carry the concept of module, repetition and texture in several of my assemblages, this concept of module is noticeable in others, the organic predominates.
I guess I was always interested on how society expresses the thoughts and ideas of their era in the way it shapes the urban environment, in architecture and landscaping. At times houses in my paintings are sort of a metaphor for the unique identity of each of us, maybe different in colour of detail but always recognizable as a house, as a place to live with unique colours. At times my paintings reflect on history. For instance in recent paintings with the theme of the terraced houses of dutch cities. But mostly I paint projecting my own ideas.
Through my artwork, I convey that compassion is a meaningful solution to alleviating cravings. I focus on personal desires and suffering, and on people and things that are forced to suffer in order to satisfy the greed of others. Fear and disgust are also causes of suffering. I work to help people let go of negative emotions by finding new perspectives and turning negative emotions into positive ones.
All my life I had been feeling that I had to express something, that this craving for art was always in me. I read a lot about art and art history and I was fascinated by impressionism with his color, light and a lot of mood. I was thrilled by the lightness and atmosphere. But the urge to paint really rolled over and splashed out when I was studying business administration. I needed a balance to this theoretical subject with its dry material.
