Limitless - Issue n.5

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FLORENCE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY Issue 5 / December 2021

Curatorial statement Since its foundation, Florence Contemporary Gallery has been an artistic dissemination platform that presents a selection of carefully selected contemporary artists, through our initiatives we have built, and continue to increase our community of artists, curators, collectors and art lovers.

First of all I would like to thank all the artists, selected and not, for their commitment and dedication in creating extraordinary works of art, your thoughts and vision enrich our contemporary society.

As with any art form, especially visual art, there are many ways an artist can bring a work to life, in this edition we explore some of these different art forms and hope you admire the various techniques used, also through the pages of this catalog, art in its conglomerate of forms has the power to stop us in our tracks, flood our minds with different emotions and does not push us to achieve the impossible, therefore, savor it with us , absorb the emotion portrayed in the selected works. In this edition of the open call, the theme had to refer to the concept of “Limitless”. A theme that left a lot of room for action and choice, and the result was a selection of exceptional works that you can find on our website. In the pages of this catalog you will find the artists and works selected during the call with the addition of three more works for each of them. Welcome to Limitless.

Michele Morelli FCG chief curator

Index

Matthias Lück

6

Ethan Samaha

10

Milica Lilic

14

Christian Door

18

Zoie Lam

22

Andrea Ehret

26

Artmoods TP

30

Carolina Ramos

34

Marilena Ramadori “Zizza”

38

Francesco De Lorenzo

42

Marta Nyrkova

46

Dan Obana

50

Salome Kobulashvili

54

Meri Aisala

58

Maja Puda

62

Jasmine Liaw

66

Laura Dimitrova

70

Eri Kato

74

Snezhina Biserova

78

Paul Yves Poumay

82

Ivana Dukic

86

Jack Savage

90

Martinu Schneegass

94

Marine Kearney

98

Var Sahakyan / Vartist

102

Sofya Danilova

106

Michael J. Lindow

110

René Siepmann

114

Alma Bibolotti

118

Nero Cosmos

122

Natalie Sobo

126

Ayuko Dan

130

Mandelbroz

134

Matthias Lück

Statement In my work there is always something like a symbolic approach, sometimes stronger and sometimes less. I like to tell little stories or even fairy tales. I like to throw current topics, invented and historical things together, stir vigorously and I am often amazed at what comes out of it. While actively strolling through the world, I soak up everything that is largely related to me and my environment. Like nothing else, art helps me to process what I have experienced and absorbed and here and there offers the basis for exchange and togetherness with other people. If there is such a thing as a main idea in my work, then it will certainly reformulate itself again and again and develop further. In addition to all the theoretical content, my work should always retain its beautiful and light character. That means that everyone who likes to look at colored pictures should find access as well as someone who wants to talk about content.

Site: lueckart.de Instagram: lueck_matthias Email: info@lueckart.de

Just a holy fire!

Mixed media on linen 120 x 100 cm 2021

6 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

The Milky Way Acrylic color on linen 120 x 100 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 7

The hype remains hype!

Acrylic color on linen 120 x 140 cm 2021

8 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

The Pink Balloon!

Acrylic color on linen 150 x 130 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 9

Ethan Samaha

Ethan Samaha (b. 1999, Pittsburgh, PA) is a light and space artist, utilizing neon and sculpture to get an understanding of time, space and perception in large installations.

Ethan Samaha holds a BFA in Art + Design, focus in Sculpture and Dimensional Studies, with minors in Performance Design and Technology and Dance, from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Samaha’s work is held in private collections across the United States.

Site: ETHANSAMAHA.COM Insta: @ethan_samaha Email: ethan_samaha@yahoo.com

++++ Glass, neon/mercury, argon/mercury, poly lactic acid 3d printed parts, stainless steel d shackles, harden steel chain, space, transformers Installation size - 304 x 243 x 731 cm 2021

10 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

++++ (detail) Glass, neon/mercury, argon/mercury, poly lactic acid 3d printed parts, stainless steel d shackles, harden steel chain, space, transformers Installation size - 304 x 243 x 731 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 11

++++ (detail) Glass, neon/mercury, argon/mercury, poly lactic acid 3d printed parts, stainless steel d shackles, harden steel chain, space, transformers Installation size - 304 x 243 x 731 cm 2021

12 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Green Red Green Glass, argon/mercury, poly lactic acid 3d printed parts, space, transformers 132 x 5 x 3.5 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 13

Milica Lilic

Born in Niš, 1985. Graduated from High school of Arts in Niš, in 2005. Graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Priština (Zvecan), in the class of Professor Tomislav Trific, 2009. So far, she has organized 12 solo exhibitions and exhibited at many collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (Hungary, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria, BiH, Slovenia, China) . She is a participant in numerous international art colonies. Member of ULUS and New Art Scene. Sphere of interest - drawing, painting, graphics, collage.

Instagram: milica.lilic9 Email: milica.lilic9@gmail.com

Blue Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021

14 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Green Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 15

Horizon Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021

16 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Waves Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 17

Christian Door Statement Being a digital native, I wanted to investigate some aspects that the digital world commonly offers to the user, such as the modification, customization and combination of pre-established structures, elements, objects within a specific environment or software.

In fact at the base of the project there is the desire to create artworks always starting from the same basic elements which in this case are geometric compositions, shifting the attention from time to time to the creative process, albeit limited by the basic compositions becomes a creative practice that generates different artworks but always referable as if it were a series, the the result that follows are works characterized by fields of geometric color that create abstract figures each time where the title represent a personal view to visualize the subject.

Instagram: christian__door Email: christian_door@yahoo.com

I tried but it went bad Acrylic on canvas 60x45 cm 2021

18 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Eden Acrylic on paper 30x70 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 19

Gone Acrylic on paper 70 x 100 cm 2021

20 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Impure Acrylic on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 21

Zoie Lam Zoie Lam is an artist based in Hong Kong . As the creator of the imaginary planet Zlism, she details a world with all its residents and happenings. Positive energy oozes out from the kind-hearted characters as they come alive under her pen, all with fascinating stories unfolding in one painting after another. “ZL”is the initial of Zoie Lam while “LISM” stands for her philosophy and ideas. Through her drawings, Zoie would like to express her ideas towards different social phenomena. Most of the artworks by Zoie Lam appear as a dense and intricate tapestry of patterns juxtaposed with vivid colours — a remarkable visual contrast for a signature style that sets Lam apart from the rest. Choosing acrylic paint and wool yarn, and occasionally oil-base marker and technical drawing pen for black-and-white effect, Lam always fills her stylistic paintings in brilliant hues and especially with florescent colours. All details are completed with refined brushstrokes and delicate lines under the fine pen tip. The canvas is then topped with hand-knitted finishing touches. Her another favorite art form is mural painting, which includes walls of shops and impromptu painting alongside real-time animation and performance.

Email: zlism08@gmail.com Instagram: zlism

Transform 2 Mixed media on canvas 100 x 100 cm

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Transform Mixed media on canvas 100 x 100 cm

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The power of now _1 Mix media on canvas 80 x 50 cm

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The power of now _2 Mix media on canvas 120 x 10w0 cm

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 25

Andrea Ehret Andrea Ehret’s artwork is concentrated on abstract expressive oil and mixed media painting.

Her approach is strongly connected to her vision of life, she chooses art as a tool for possible self-transformation. She believes art has the ability to heal and awaken. Her paintings are strongly inspired by Eastern philosophy and can be viewed as an expression of inner meditation, a reflection of her own inner world, embracing her own Light and Shadow via balancing tones, flow like brush strokes, a feeling of harmony and powerful energy.

Statement Structures are layered with my own internal charges, depicting longing, anger, frustration, softness, wanting, and more.

My paintings are my world, my dreams and visions… my circles.

I hope when one looks at my paintings they do not see circles, compositions, colours, they see life, their story… something that will stay with them for a while. I invite my viewers for the spiritual voyage, here is this longing for dream-like experience, where everything is possible and perfect harmony exists.

Maybe it is this world and maybe some other Site: andreaehret.com Facebook: InTheCircles Instagram: andreacircles Email: artandreae@gmail.com

Enchanted Winds and Trees Mixed media on canvas 220 x 130 cm 2021

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Enchanted Winds and Trees in situ

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 27

Look For Me, I´ll be in the garden.., Mixed media on canvas 150 x 100 cm 2021

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Night whispers Mixed media on canvas 150 x 100 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 29

Artmoods TP

My name is Tatiana and work under the artistic name Artmoods TP. I am afigurative art artist from Finland, a member of Helsinki International Artist Association.

I have started drawing while a kid, and as far back as I can remember myselfthe subjects of my drawings have always been people. Later at the local artschool in my adolescence, I enjoyed lessons where we could draw, paint andsculpt from a live model a lot. However, the only thing I lacked at thoseacademic sitting sessions was that “live” part in a live model. I felt it alreadythen that a human is a complex tangled often irrational being who hardlyknows him-/herself. A being who experiences feeling alive not through his/hersharp mind, smart choices, or safe daily routines, but through the emotions andfeelings that may zigzag within one (un)fortunate day from one extreme to theother. And I wanted my paintings to reflect that.

In my artistic life I have tried different genres, but always returned toportraiture. Human nature never seized to astonish me.

I think I can perceive,share and even see a certain beauty in all earthly emotions like joy and sorrow,passion and loathe, excitement and desperation, serenity and rage. Thesubjects I portray are imperfect, imbalanced, but always sincere and true tolife. I often get moved by real stories of my friends and strangers from thenews, and easily find inspiration in characters from literature and history. Iinterpret their narratives through my own experiences and understanding andlive their lives on the canvas. This way my paintings become my own alteregos.

I love bigger sizes, monochrome palettes, and rougher textures, as I feel theyadd to the atmosphere I want to convey. I pre-texture my canvases or useunsmooth wooden panels as a base.

Over time artists develop their skills, try different techniques, may changethemes and styles, but what they carry inside, I believe, is not changing.Exactly this makes them recognizable and authentic and allows them to findtheir audiences.

Making art is my way to connect to this world, get heard, andeven healed, but for that I need to trust myself when painting and listen to theinner calling.

Instagram: artmoods_tp Pinterest: artmoods_tp/_saved/ Saatchiart: artmoods_tp Email: amoodything@gmail.com

Seconds before a fight Oil on wood panel 60 x 50 x 1 cm 2021 30 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Fears set free Oil and acrylic on canvas 85 x 60 x 3 cm 2021

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Tell me whatever Oil and acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 x 4 cm 2021

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The cages we build for ourselves Oil on wood panel 60 x 50 x 1 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 33

Carolina Ramos Native of Venezuela, Carolina Ramos is an abstract artist whose main disciplines are collage, painting, sculpture and textile art. Since she was very young, Carolina showed talent for drawing and painting. During High School, she took multiple art techniques courses that allowed her to start a consistent practise. In 1994, she obtained her diploma as Fashion Designer and for almost a decade, she was dedicated to Haute Couture and embroidery. In her embroidery studio, Carolina incorporated painting to her work as a means of expression of her creativity.

In 2006, she moved to Montreal, Canada where after a short pause, she began to paint again with a new perspective. The experience of migrating and the cultural change deeply touched her. Today, Carolina focuses her work on creating a connection between the intricacy of immigrants’ reality, xenophobia, racism, religion, misogyny among others- with the countries that hosts them. Carolina has exhibited both in Canada and the United States and her work has been sold to customers in Venezuela and Canada.

Statement Carolina’s main source of inspiration comes from her experiences as human being, woman, and immigrant. She tries to voice the joys and challenges she daily encounters thanks to her point of view. She perceives her work as portraits of emotions arisen by the complexity and intersectionality many have to live through when they depart their countries. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2021 Mid-Year Trends report outlines, it is estimated that global forced displacement has likely exceeded 84 million by mid-2021, a sharp increase from the 82.4 million reported at end2020. The tridimensionality of Carolina’s work is an urgent call for attention to this problematic.

Email: carolinaramosartist@gmail.com Instagram: carolina_ramos_artist

2021 Collage of masks and acrylic skins on board. Recycled frame 20” x 24” 2021

34 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Femme Collage of fabric, lace, elastic bands, silk ribbons, silicone glue skins, andacrylic skins, acrylic on stretched canvas 14” x 18” 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 35

Not my truth Collage of masks, fabrics, old painting strips, plastic bags on stretched canvas 18” x 24” 2021

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Memories Fabric, acrylics, recycled paintings bands, acrylic skins, jute, plastic bags on stretched canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm 2021 Florence Contemporary Gallery | 37

Marilena Ramadori “Zizza” Marilena Ramadori, aka Zizza, was born in 1965 in Montegiorgio (FM). After completing her scientific studies, she graduated in Architecture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and subsequently attended the specialization course in “History of Architectural Design”. In 2003 she obtained a European master’s degree in “History of Architecture” at the “Roma Tre” University and completed the studies with an internship at the Soprintendenza per I Beni Architettonici e per il Paesaggio in Rome. In 2014 she approaches painting and at the same time also experiments with sculpture. In 2017 and 2018 she attended the painting courses held by Prof. Fabrizio dell’Arno at the RUFA (Rome University of Fine Art) which were crucial for continuing her artistic career with greater awareness and knowledge. Since 2015 she participated in numerous collective and personal exhibitions of painting and sculpture, obtaining various prizes and awards. In 2020 she is one of the finalists of the 14th Arte Laguna Prize in the painting section. In 2021 she is a finalist in several contemporary art awards: Florence Contemporary Gallery, Yicca Award, Marchionni Award and Mestre Award. Lives and works in Velletri.

Statement At the center of her research is architecture. Buildings have always accompanied humanity and investigating their expressive language becomes a need that the artist does not want to give up on. Her art is a reflection on the human dynamics expressed through the dialectic of architectural forms. Art is always architecture understood as a constructive force.

The artist focuses her gaze on buildings of great geometric rigor taken from personal perspectives, preferring detail to the whole, thus proposing a renewed interpretation. The architectural images that emerge on the canvas, a symbol of essential architecture, are combined with a certain expressive freedom of the background of the canvas that continuously comes into contact with the architecture.

The pictorial material is fluid, the color transparent to show the different layers of the painting so that this work can be able to narrate all the phases of its realization.

During the quarantine changed the way of living the house, which in this period became a safe shelter. The balcony from a simple architectural element represented a view of the world. The need to maintain a relationship with the outside world has made it the protagonist of human relationships at a distance, thus also assuming a participatory function. This is where the artists’ research began for this series entitle “Balconies” in which she tried to emphasize the importance and the socializing role that the balcony has plays in our new daily routine.

Email: info@zizza-art.com Site: www.zizza-art.it Facebook: zizza.art Instagram: ramadori

Gymnasium Oil on canvas 100 x 50 cm 2021

38 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Complesso residenziale Le Torri Acrylic and oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 39

Hatert Housing Acrylic and oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm 2022

40 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Facoltà di Magistero Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 41

Francesco De Lorenzo Born in Naples on 27 April 1978 ,I lived up to the age of eighteen in Limpidi, a small village in Calabria, in the province of Vibo Valentia.

Transferred to Tuscany for education reasons, I earned a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Siena and a Master in Web and Multimedia from the University of Florence.

While traveling a path far from that of art, I have never abandoned the passion for drawing and painting that has accompanied me since I was a child. Passion inherited from my mother, who let me grow up among canvases and oil colors and breathe the love for art. The studies I followed allowed me to discover and become passionate about graphics and digital illustrations. I love travelling and, during the most recent trips to European capitals, I got the inspiration for my latest works. I was fascinated by the presence of large installations representing the name of the city.

So I started to create writings, single words that summarize the theme of the work, which I make in cardboard and decorate by painting elements taken from cartoons, comics or videogames. I use to express real concepts, social problems sometimes even very hard ones such as drug addiction, prostitution, migration. I can’t define what I do with a word, also because I find that definitions trap an artist in a stereotype; I consider myself a visionary, who loves surrealism, pop art and tries to convey their ideas and feelings by winking at these artistic currents.

Email: delorenzofra@gmail.com Site: delorenzofrancesco.com Facebook: delorenzofra Instagram: delorenzofra

Dignity Cardboard, decoupage, acrylic 151,5 x 41 x 8,5 cm 2021

42 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Firenze Cardboard, decoupage, acrylic 128 x 41 x 11 cm 2020

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 43

Modi’ Cardboard, decoupage, acrylic 114,5 x 40,5 x 8,5 cm 2020

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Napoli Cardboard, decoupage, acrylic 127 x 47 x 15 cm 2019

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 45

Marta Nyrkova

Statement Marta Nyrkova is a Kyiv artist and watercolorist. Acts as a research artist, exploring changes in the city, terrain, types of landscapes.

Thus working with nostalgia, reproducing the moments of fixation here and now, because due to the rapid passage of time, this present immediately becomes the past. Works in different directions, experiments with materials and motives. The works are stored in private collections in Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain and CIS countries.

Email: marta34241n72@gmail.com Instagram. marthanyrkova Facebook: martha.nyrkova

First fly Watercolor on paper 65 x 100 cm 2020

46 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Second fly Watercolor on paper 65 x 100 cm 2020

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Third fly Watercolor on paper 65 x 100 cm 2020

48 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Morning Erciyes Watercolor on paper 20 x 20 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 49

Dan Obana

Statement My canvas space exists in a virtual three-dimensional space on a personal computer (PC). First, I build many 3D objects, arrange them in a distributed manner, and start making work by experimenting with various viewpoints and combinations.

There will be a lot of “meeting and discovery by chance”. This practical process of using collage techniques provokes the synchronicity of reality and subconsciousness, inspires my artistic creativity, and stirs the imagination of the endless future. “What a serendipitous and fantastic opportunity!”

The pursuit of a creative world inspired by this accidental scene is always at the core of my concept of art creation. It is, so to speak, an inspirational contingency in my daily life: “serendipity”.

Site: danobana.myportfolio.com Instagram: dan__obana Facebook: haruo.obana Email: h_obana@st.rim.or.jp

Fever Dancing in Ruins Monotype, Digital Print and Partial Hand Painting on Canvas 65.2 x 80.3 cm 2021

50 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Fever Dancing in Sunset Monotype, Digital Print and Partial Hand Painting on Canvas 65.2 x 80.3 cm 2021

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Previous Night of Dancing Fever1Acrylic on canvas Monotype, Digital Print and Partial Hand Painting on Canvas 65.2 x 80.3 cm 2021

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Previous Night of Dancing Fever2 Monotype, Digital Print and Partial Hand Painting on Canvas 65.2 x 80.3 cm 2021

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Salome Kobulashvili Salome Kobulashvili is a sculptor and jeweler from Georgia. It happened to be that Salome is a granddaughter of King Erekle, and the last residential house of her ancestors was transferred to the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

Her works are created by mixed media, using mineral stones collected from different parts of Georgia keeping its authentical shape and texture, also using different materials such as smalt, clay, bronze, and silver. Her background in stomatology gave her the ability to see the little details differently and play with them in a creative way.

She has been working in this field since 2016 and is actively working on both sculptures and jewelry.

Salome’s works are kept in private collections around the world.

Statement I am a sculptor and jewellery designer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. I am captivated by the form, by the way, that a gesture can speak to us. Mainly, I try to use sculpture in jewellery and while my sculpted figures convey authentic emotions and relationships, they serve as archetypes that transcend the context of their story. Besides, my background in dentistry gave me the ability to think and create in a different and creative way.

Stones, collected from the different parts of the world and keeping their authentic shape and structure made a big role in my works, creating sculptures or jewellery. For creating except mineral stones, I use bronze, silver, and clay.

Email: kobulashvilisal@gmail.com Site: salomekobulashvili.com Instagram: salome.kobulashvili Facebook: SalomeKobulashvili

Passion Bronze, smalt 12 x 10 x 8 cm 2021

54 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Svani Elf Quartz, clay 18 x 7 x 5 cm 2020

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 55

Coral…Nefertiti…

Bronze, coral 5 x 2 x 6 cm 2020

56 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Theater Bronze, wood 12 x 9 x 2 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 57

Meri Aisala

Meri Aisala was born in 1992 in the heart of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. She was an art line student in high school and continued on to study graphic design in University of Lapland, where she got her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with a major in graphic design and minoring in art history. She is also currently studying education psychology and gender studies in University of Oulu while working on her art.

Statement My art tends to skew towards dark surrealism, but sometimes I also find myself lost in some bright and colorful, happier self-expression. I like to put my difficult and strong emotions into my art and use it to deal with difficult questions I’m grappling with. A lot of those issues tend to be connected to my borderline personality disorder, which makes me experience the world more intensely than others. I also like to use art as another vessel for my interests in alternative fashion and whatever else I may find myself obsessed with. My favorite mediums to work with are colored pencils and acrylic paints.

Site: meriaisala.wordpress.com Instagram: spiralartstuff Email: meri.aisala@gmail.com

Adrift Acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2021

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Borderline Acrylic on wood 46 x 67 cm 2021

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Fernweh Acrylic on wood 38 x 41,5 cm 2021

60 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Floater Acrylic on canvas 116 x 89 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 61

Maja Puda

I was born in Livno on January 17, 1999. years. I graduated from the High School of Economics (economic technician). 2017th. years I enroll in the Art Academy in Split. 2020th. year I am completing an undergraduate study of Fine Culture and Fine Arts (univ.bacc.art).

I am currently a graduate student. In my spare time, I work as makeup artist with two degrees.

Metaphysics is the spring of my inspiration and the path I am looking for and looking for possible solutions. I show landscapes that are prolonged by thought and a sense of another dimension that is not visible to us, but as such exists. Man, animals, and the smallest building unit, appear associatively or as an indication that I ultimately define myself. I achieve layer transparency, shape overlap and dynamic energy flow.

Energy can also be a thought in passing such as the work “Reservior”.

Email: maja.puda99@gmail.com Instagram: mayayyyy

Essence of the Horse Oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm 2021

62 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Fatum Oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm 2021

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Reservior Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2020

64 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Substance and energy Acrylic on canvas 120 x 80 cm 2020

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 65

Jasmine Liaw Jasmine Liaw is an emerging, Chinese-Canadian inter-disciplinary artist in contemporary dance performance and digital art. Bicoastal, she lives and works in so-called Toronto and Vancouver. In 2020, she graduated with Distinction at the Conteur Academy in Toronto, under the artistic direction of Eryn Waltman. Currently, her education in the Integrated Media program at OCAD University is supported by the BC Excellence Scholarship and the BC Achievement Scholarship. Within her degree, she hopes to expand her knowledge in documenting movement, and experiment with the human body as a vessel for versatile art forms. In 2021, her works were published in Purple Glow Mag Toronto’s Bloom Festival, Quarantine Qapsule partnered with Emily Carr University Library, and Withintensions Magazine. This fall, she premiered two short dance films through various social platforms. Jasmine is excited to be working with Chimerik Collective as an Intern projection designer this year.

Statement ‘plastic climbs’ is a collection of movement stills capturing the multiplicity a mixed-Asian woman holds in her body. As a gnomic media art series, various dimensions and forms of self emerge within a multi-coloured atmosphere. The camera peers over her, surveys her, sensualizes her. Re-generating her generation, she reclaims ideas of delicacy and exposure as the epistemological outlet; to the ownership of her body.

Email: jasmineliiaw@gmail.com Instagram: jasmineliaw_ Site: jasmineliaw.com

Plastic climbs: Multiplicity Digital Video Still 46 x 61 cm 2021

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Plastic climbs: Exposure Digital Video Still 46 x 61 cm 2021

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Plastic climbs: Dimensions Digital Video Still 46 x 61 cm 2021

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Plastic climbs: Delicacy Digital Video Still 46 x 61 cm 2021

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 69

Laura Dimitrova She works in the field of visual arts. She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Statement In my work I am blending diverse media and means of expression.

I have different approaches towards the problems.

The life seems to challenge and inspire me.

I work on projects in the field of visual art led by the idea of world’s wholeness in spite of its all diversities and contradictions.

Site: lauradimitrova.wixsite.com/laura-dimitrova Instagram: dimitrova.laura Email: laura.ivan.dimitrova@gmail.com

Freedom Restricted Cotton tape, canvas, 30 x 30 x 30 cm 2021

70 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

A Message Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 80 x 120 cm 2016

Florence Contemporary Gallery | 71

Memory Recycled paper, mixed media Varying dimensions 2018

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The Still Wind Paper, mixed media Varying dimensions 2015

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Eri Kato Statement I was born and raised in Japan.

My task as an artist is to reconstruct the things which has become unnecessary in daily life and create a new value out of those things.

I mostly utilize discarded materials, such as used cardboard boxes and materials that are made from paper and wood. I get a lot of inspiration from their texture, form, color and smell of them.

I handled the things in my childhood with greatest care. As time went by, Japan became a real consumer’s society. The things were rather cheap and affordable. Various things changed. I felt a strong sense of incongruity.

I would like to give new and improved lives to those discarded materials.

I believe in the importance and splendor of imagination, and it makes my art stand out in the artistic world.

Site: eri-kato.jimdosite.com Email: e.factory7575@gmail.com Instagram: erikato_art Facebook: erikato7575

Untitled 2021 Mixes Media (Used cardboard boxes, used envelopes) Each size (including the frame) 25.2×30.2cm 2021

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Nui-190306 Used cardboard boxes, used envelopes, thread 80 × 90 × 3 cm 2019

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Drawings 211020 Used cardboard boxes, used envelopes 70 × 45 × 2.5 cm 2021

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Drawings 180307 Used cardboard boxes, wire 10 × 12 × 5 cm, 8 × 10 × 5 cm 2018

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Snezhina Biserova Statement To try to discover the countless subtle manifestations of eternity – matter and spirit, space, and time, and among all this – the man with his drama – that's the meaning and the direction of my chosen path as an artist; leaving aside the ephemerally attractive and commercial, to touch as closely as possible the essence of things with the means that I have.

For me art is an endless journey to what is the most unknown – to oneself. No one knows what he would find on the way, just as nobody knows his own boundaries. But would it be sensible to choose a particular way if we knew in advance where it would lead us?

Site: bisser.eu Email: snbisser@hotmail.com

Natura Sacra CGD, Giclèe print on archival Fine Art Inkjet paper Fotospeed High White Smooth 315 gsm 80 x 120 cm 2021

78 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Natura Sacra II CGD, Giclèe print on archival Fine Art Inkjet paper Fotospeed High White Smooth 315 gsm 80 x 120 cm 2021

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Natura Sacra III CGD, Giclèe print on archival Fine Art Inkjet paper Fotospeed High White Smooth 315 gsm 80 x 120 cm 2021

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Natura Sacra IV CGD, Giclèe print on archival Fine Art Inkjet paper Fotospeed High White Smooth 315 gsm 80 x 120 cm 2021

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Paul Yves Poumay

Paul-Yves Poumay (15 June 1969, Liège, Belgium) has a background in finance and marketing, and extensive work experience in banking and insurance both in Belgium and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Although his passion for art is rooted in childhood (his first prize for a photograph dates back to 1986, on the occasion of AGFA-GEVAERT competition for the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium), his job has kept him away from arts for several years. One day this situation unexpectedly changed and, following his heart, he decided to enroll in the Art Academy of Spa in Belgium. He’s been publishing various short essays about society, writing for the prestigious “Le Monde”, the Belgian business newspaper, “L’Echo” and the daily newspaper “La Libre”. He is also the founder (2017) of the non- profit organization AWI - Art World Institute Asbl whose mission is to build a fairer and more sustainable world and contribute to human progress.

Labelled as utopian, he expresses his indignation towards the corrosive power of money and imposes his status of “the most expensive artist in worldwide contemporary art scene”. He transforms his own questions into a quirky expressionism, moving from the most colorful shades to the darkest tones. He is self-taught and instinctive and, through the use of arts (painting, sculpture or photography) and absurdity, challenges the world of finance and shakes the foundations of our societies. He provokes reactions while condemning in particular the societal aberrations we are witnessing today. Paul Yves Poumay is the creator of the sculpture “The return of Don Quixote”, estimated at over € two billions.

He has been involved in residencies (RUC, Italian Alps and Villa-R, Sicily) and important international group shows such as the Art Show Paris III (winner of the 2nd prize, 2019), the European Contemporary Art Fair in Strasburg (France, 2019) and the Hartexpo in Barcelona (Spain, 2019). His solo exhibition in Alemi Art Gallery (LeOn, Spain) – coinciding with Covid-crisis – closed before the official date, but has presented values surprisingly in tune with current times. During the lockdown he participated in “Hello World”, a global Internet exhibition by Transcultural Exchange (Boston, USA) featuring cultural venues from 70 different countries. In 2019 he took part in the DF art project which has put on display a selection of his most recent sculptures at the Parc Floral in Paris (France) in October 2020. In the meantime one of his most iconic photographs has been exhibited at the M.A.D.S gallery in Milan on the occasion of #Mil@no Photo Award 2020.

In May 2021 a solo exhibition of his most recent works has been arranged at the Spazio Arte Petrecca in Isernia (not far from Rome, Italy) with the support of the local Municipality. From June 2021 one of his most symbolic artworks is being involved in the socially engaged international art project “Human rights? @work” curated by Roberto Ronca – an AIAPI Visual Arts Unesco official partner – which is currently on display at the Fondazione Campana Caduti in Rovereto (Trento, Italy). On the 4th of September 2021 one of his works on paper has been included in the charity auction organized by Partage Oise Association to raise funds for educational purposes in developing countries (Compiègne, near Paris, France).

On the 27th of November he has recently opened a solo show at the Arte Borgo Gallery (Rome, Italy) – entitled “The Rings of Revolution” curated by the art historian Martina Scavone - which has received the official patronage of the Belgian Embassy in Rome. The effects of the hectic consumerism frenzy can be found in his last collection which is partly exhibited in this venue.

Site: paul-yves-poumay.com Instagram: pypoumay Email: pypoumay@icloud.com

The collective urn Terracotta 27 x 24 x 13 cm 2014

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Human Rights Terracotta 17 x 22 x 24 cm 2019

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Metro boulot dodo Oil on canvas 50 x 70 x 2 cm 2021

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The thinker Clay 17 x 16 x 12 cm 2021

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Ivana Dukic Ivana Đukic (Serbia, 1991) lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2013, she graduated from the Belgrade Polytechnic School at the Department of Graphic Design. Art was always a part of her life and plays an important role. Đukic works with painting, ceramics, installations, video work, and music. She took part in many exhibitions in Serbian, Holland, and Egypt. The latest project “Memory Eternal” was exhibited in Belgrade and Novi Sad in Serbia 2021 Statement The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18

The works of Ivana Đukic question the connection between the invisible and the visible and bring the information from those worlds in front of the spectator in form of shapes, colors, and objects. The works are the echoes of landscapes, emotions, states, images, sounds that once were “impressed” onto the artist’s “memory roll”. Those memories then become the source of inspiration for the artist.

Dealing with something as abstract as memory brings questions that concern the invisible. What is the invisible and how can one recognize it? Is that the magic of life that everyone is able to experience occasionally? One can ask oneself why only certain memories are clear and others are not. Often memory is created while being in special circumstances, emotional about what is in front of you, experiencing love, or being in the unexpected and new.

A vase is a self-sufficient thing, standing on its own, says Heidegger. It is an object separating two spaces/worlds - Inner and Outer. It is the border of those two and at the same time holds both. The vessel’s thickness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void (the invisible) that holds. The same happens with the paintings. The canvas has the role of holding the information about the memory that is realized through matter and holding it in the outer world, the one where it is placed. Painting for Ivana becomes a window between the two worlds.

Email: ivanadjukic991@gmail.com Instagram: ivania_dj

Blue and Red Glazed ceramics 18,5 x 23,5 x 1 cm 2021 86 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Danubius Acrylic and tempera on canvas 150 x 100 cm 2021

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Blue and Green Triptych Glazed ceramics Plate 1 -18,3 x 23,8 x 1 cm Plate 2 - 18,3 x 23,4 x 1 cm Plate 3 - 17,6 x 22,6 x 1 cm 2021

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Fields Acrylic and tempera on canvas 120 x 90 cm 2021

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Jack Savage Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and digital artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) - He was educated at Nottingham University, where he carries an MA in American Studies and Film. Winner of over 100 international professional photography awards - he is also an Adobe certified expert in Photoshop CC and Photoshop trainer, owning a large studio in Northampton, England, from which he conducts mentoring & professional fine art photography teaching. Jack is represented by The PassePartOut Unconventional Gallery, Milan, The Blackline Gallery, San Francisco, and The Zari Gallery, London.

Statement Silencio - A series of politically charged photo collage, comprising of studio portraiture & mixed media elements, presented in a style reminiscent of contemporary street art and painterly works. The series is united by the common theme consisting of protest against racial injustice within British society. People of colours voices are often silenced particularly within politics, and underneath the current of popular culture, the depth and tonality within the work reflecting this. The series was inspired and influenced by the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and by the tragic death of George Floyd.

Site: jacksavage.co.uk Email: jacksavage@live.co.uk Instagram: jacksavage_photo Facebook: jacksavagephotographer

Silencio Digital Mixed Media, Photographic collage, and acrylic painting 80 x 54 cm 2021

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Silencio 2 Digital Mixed Media, Photographic collage, and acrylic painting 80 x 54 cm 2021

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Silencio 3 Digital Mixed Media, Photographic collage, and acrylic painting 80 x 54 cm 2021

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Silencio 4 Digital Mixed Media, Photographic collage, and acrylic painting 80 x 54 cm 2021

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Martinu Schneegass

1951 born in Bremerhaven, Germany, I started to be fascinated early on by surrealism and its mysteriously alien worlds.

In the early 1970s, while studying architecture in Darmstadt, Germany, my early explorations balanced the rational approach at the university with rather surreal drawings about vulnerability. In 19761 moved to Paris, studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Art and my style changed almost immediately. I explored visually what happens before something new appears seemingly out of nowhere, what kind of build up of energetic tension leads ultimately to manifestation, a quest to explore in watercolors where creativity comes from, for instance. Later I created visual languages for music, sounds that we make, when pronouncing names and later blended together images of music instruments and the music that might come from them in some sort of story boards telling stories of transformation and birth of the NEW. In 1980 I moved to New York working with materials discovered on Canal street and its many stores for electronis, artist matereals etc. The 3 dimensional objects were meant as models of some reality beyond what was shown, reflected Marshall McLuhans ideas Years later in the 80s I became a student of a Lakota Medicin Man, Rainbow Hawk Linton, learning about a very different approach to image making based on Medicine Wheel teachings and ceremonies, which I later combined with shamanic practices based on teachings by the anthropologist Michael Harner.

After years of hiatus during which my focus was on computer generated imagery, I looked for a visual language that captures energy and felt contemporary. In 20161 came across fractals in various forms and started to combine them, creating shirts that alter the energy of the one who wears them. I still produce new designs which sell in some stores in New York and Miami.

Recently I felt the longing to paint again when I stumbled on an Al (artificial intelligence) program that presented such surprising and fresh compositions that I wanted to see what happens when I recreate them as watercolors. This interaction with virtual reality opens up yet another venue to discover how new things are born, and how we can relate to them.

Email: mschneegass@gmail.com Instagram: martinuschneegass Site: www.fireislandvibes.com Facebook: martinu schneegass

Profile Watercolor 28 x 28 cm 2021

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Emperor Watercolor 28 x 28 cm 2021

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Introvert Watercolor 28 x 28 cm 2021

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Dance Watercolor 28 x 28 cm 2021

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Marine Kearney

Marine Comperatore Kearney is a French artiste based in Clonmel. Ireland.

After graduating with a Master in ESC Rouen in 1999, she worked in the IT industry. Marine moved to Ireland in 2004 to follow her sweet-heart. Today Marine lives in a house by the river Suir, has 3 children ,2 dogs and one cat making her life full of adventure.

Marine took oil painting when she moved to the countryside. She started in representative work and with her experience moved to a more contemporary place . She is a graduate in advance life drawing from the Crawford art college; her master was Holly Walsh.

She has always pushed herself to evolve in her painting as life changes you. She is mixing classical drawing and mixed media to express herself.

Her first group exhibition was with Studio 3 in Clonmel county Tipperary Library, she then exhibited in Cahir Craft granary, in 2015 and Dungarvan in Group ventures, in 2016 she exhibit in the Art center of Dungarvan. In 2019 she was in the Crawford CIT exhibition, and made part of the poster in advance life drawing. During the 2020-2021 Pandemic she started a new journey presenting her feelings, October 22-31 2021 : ALDILA Exhibition in Milan (Italy) and Fuerte Ventura (spain) with M.A.D.S Gallery. “The other side of things. » November 2021 to the 18.12.21 : Solo Exhibition ” Banféinni ” This exhibition is at l ‘ Alliance Francaise and it is an interpretation to recent life events.

Marine is a Breast cancer survivor, mammy, wife and (mainly taxi-driver ) also an artist combining visual creative art with day to day events. Munster Woman with Atitude!

Statement: I spent 30 years of my life immersed in busy cities, bright and noisy, colorful and anonymous; today, I live in County Tipperary, Ireland, a peaceful rural area, miles away from my urban life[, with a community at its heart, where each color has an infinite amount of shades and where silence is the only noise: I am lucky to say that I get my inspiration from both landscape scenes and life experiences. They have each shaped and enriched me and I draw on them both in my creative process. I work with Acrylic on wood board which allows me to make undercoat visible if I choose to do so; it also enables me to include charcoal, pencil, stencil, or even wax or collage. Today I like to create a serie from my paradox: Urban and Nature , I like to dive into the actual nature crawling back to the city life, my dream would be to see the empty building left alone being reclaimed by nature as it ‘s legacy , right, with either drawing painting , or mix media materials.

Instagram: @mckart Facebook: @marinekearneyartiste Twitter: Marineartist Site: marinekearney.com

Dance Mixed media and paint 120 x 80 cm 2021 98 | Florence Contemporary Gallery

Bloom Acrylic Mix Media with a wax finish.

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Reclaim Acrylic Mix Media with a wax finish.

70 x 120 cm 2021

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Twist Acrylic Mix Media with a wax finish.

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Var Sahakyan / Vartist

Statement To know if he created art, the artist has to come out of the process of creation, liberated from himself (or his Self). Therefore, it is not a brush, hand or eye that the artist works with – but internal freedom. We have boxed everything into categories and have names for everything: painting, drawing, portrait, abstract, this – that. It works well for search engines and our convenience. But the deep urge of creativity comes in a formless force of creation. Breathe it into any form and there it is. It may be a meal, a canvas or a dance. What you can touch or experience is called “the work” of art, but “the art” is the inner experience of the creator in a given moment in which he/she manifests something into existence.

Thus, the artwork which we can see or touch, is not the art itself, but the surface that bears the traces of that inner experience. It is all about the inner experience. And the purpose of having any work is that the work hopefully can, in some way trigger an experience or insight of a similar kind in the viewer. Therefore, the artist’s primary focus is not the result, but what’s going on within himself/herself at the time of the creation.

Email: unnosustomed@gmail.com

Abstract landscape Digital painting 2021

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Abstract landscape Digital painting 2021

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Abstract landscape Digital painting 2021

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Abstract landscape Digital painting 2021

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Sofya Danilova

Sofya Danilova has over 15 years of photo shooting experience. She is proficient in a wide range of styles — from photo manipulations and art photography to commercial photo shoots with ADimage photo studio.

Her works were awarded at XIII Florence biennale in the New Media category.

Previously Sofya’s work was exhibited at the LoosenArt gallery in Rome, M.A.D.S. Gallery in Milan during the Milan Fashion Week, the Boomer Gallery in London and at several online exhibitions.

Statement My work is largely intuitive and born out of photographs that at the first glance seems not at all worthwhile. I strive to find new images where there is no ready-made material to work with so that the result is unexpected even for myself.

A huge part of the themes that are born in this way are either related to urbanism, or to nature and the place of human beings in it, because for me this is a perpetually open question to which I cannot give an unequivocal answer.

In terms of technique, it is especially important for me to find analogies and details that immerse the viewers in the image and make them search for new meanings, which they would open up for themselves like petals, one by one, picking up this chain of associations little by little.

Email: cutmixcombine@gmail.com Instagram: cutmixcombine Foundation: cutmixcombine

Horns Mixed media 2021

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In or Out Mixed media 2019

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Stone and wind Mixed media 2020

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Yggdrasil Mixed media 2020

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Michael J. Lindow Lindow has been creating art since the age of four, when he cut and folded craft paper into a 3D biplane. He continued to pursue art through high-school and was the only student in his school’s history to pass all three advanced placement art exams. To pay for college, he worked at a local stained glass studio designing, painting, and building stained glass windows for projects around the world. After college, he continued to pursue art as a hobby, painting and sketching for himself and his family, while developing a career as a data analyst and data engineer. Learning to code and working with large datasets, he developed a love for efficient systems, automation, and human-augmentation. His current work blends his interests, by creating computer code that generates artistic images.

Statement I believe computers have great potential to augment human abilities and free us to pursue our unique potential: creating. I write computer programs that capture my artistic vision and distil it into a set of executable instructions laced with random variation.

Email: me@mjlindow.com Instagram: mjlindow Twitter: mjlindow

Jardín 2 p5.js 32” x 38.4” 2021

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Sol 2 p5.js 36” x 48.6” 2021

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Jardín 1 p5.js 32” x 38.4” 2021

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Untitled 4 p5.js 42” x 50.4” 2021

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René Siepmann

René Siepmann (born on November 1st 2002) is a German painter and graphic artist who currently lives and works in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Siepmann made his first steps within the field of visual art in his early teenage years when he started to draw comic characters, buildings and objects on paper. Even though Siepmann developed certain skills concerning illustration while practicing, he got bored over the course of time and discovered his obsession with art through his art teacher in middle school, who gave him a book on how to draw manga published by Jen Satora (2005). Generally speaking, this book has inspired him to go beyond the level of replicating something that’s already there. Instead, René Siepmann now wanted to be his director of his work. He dived into the art world, got influenced by legends like Warhol and Basquiat but also by more modern painters like Gerhard Richter and Alec Monopoly and then started to paint his first artworks, which were mainly Pop Art orientated. Over the course of time Siepmann developed his own signature style, away from Pop Art and started to portray objects, situations and people that he was inspired by and throughout the years ended up with the topic of humanity and our purpose. During the late 2010s Siepmann also began to promote his art and also gained international awareness by collaborating with Luke G with whom he created a series of multiple digital artworks.

Then when 2020 and the pandemic closed down the cultural sector entirely, René Siepmann had his Gallery debut at the Friendmade Gallery in Bonn Germany, which is producing and selling his prints online and worldwide.

Later on Siepmann also participated in several online exhibitions based in the UK, the USA and Germany while he also discovered new mediums for his work since he designed the ‘’Back for the Summer’’ cover art for the singer / songwriter Kenny Elrod which ended up being the main element of his merchandise. A few months later, after the release of the cover art in July 2020 Siepmann gained even more international reputation by being featured in numerous online and print magazines.

Now René Siepmann is a well emerged painter who is currently starting to initiate his first physical exhibitions. While doing so he is also experimenting with his art style, his preferred materials and mediums which results in his art changing continuously.

Email: contact.artist.renesiepmann2018@gmail.com Website: renesiepmann.vsble.me Instagram: renethepainter Twitter: rene_siepmann Prints: friendmade.fm/de/artist/rene-siepmann/

Gender and Humane Acrylic paint on framed canvas 70 x 100 cm

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Music Size Acrylic paint on framed canvas 100 x 70cm

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Tired of Options Acrylic paint on framed canvas 50 x 70 cm

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Claustrophobia Print on paper 80 x 80 cm

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Alma Bibolotti

I was born in Bari where I graduated in Foreign languages and literature. Then I moved to France where I lived for 6 years, in Paris and Nice. My relationship with photography started when I discovered the works of Mimmo Iodice, Mario Giacomelli, Lucien Clergue, Edward Weston which had a strong influence on my vision. Since then, photography is a vital dimension, allowing me to express my deepest emotions.

When I started to take photos and print them, I was very interested in darkroom techniques so that when I shifted from analogue to digital photography, I was mainly drawn by the need to fix impermanence and to experiment in post-processing. Today I feel totally freed by technical aspects and I like challenging the rules to enhance form, light and texture: much of my work focuses on the language of nature and it is in the natural world that I look for subjects to create something that resonates emotionally. I think simple elements can evoke parallel worlds where dreaminess and double meaning prevail, so that the outer space gives voice to my inner gaze.

In 2019 I was finalist in the international contest Garden Photographer of the Year, run in association with the London Royal Kew Gardens.

With my portfolio ‘Arborum sudaria’, I have just received a honourable mention in the international contest ‘Transversalidades - Fotografia sem fronteiras’ 2021 (exhibition in Guarda in april 2022).

Site: almabibolotti.wixsite.com/photoshoot Instagram: almabibolotti artlimited.net: artlimited.net/30433 Email : almabibolotti@gmail.com

Xylella Ballad Photography (ltd. ed. of 8, print Hahnemuhle art paper) 30 x 40 2021

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Xylella Ballad II Photography (ltd. ed. of 8, print Hahnemuhle art paper) 30 x 40 2021

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Summer Haiku Photography (ltd. ed. of 8, print Hahnemuhle art paper) 28 x 40 2020

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Fall Haiku Photography (ltd. ed. of 8, print Hahnemuhle art paper) 30 x 40 2020

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Nero Cosmos

Nero Cosmos is an artist, who invites the viewer to see the world through the eyes of a machine. His work focuses on ideas of perception and transformation through Artificial Intelligence. Interested in how consciousness changes in digital space and affects daily life, Nero Cosmos uses data collection, machine learning techniques and algorithms through Generative Adversarial Networks to create images and videos in a constant state of metamorphosis. Inspired by the aesthetics of life forms and structures reflected in the digital realm, his artwork combines a large quantity of image and video-based sources. Due to the training of the Generative Adversarial Networks model, the artist loses temporarily control as the algorithm takes over the creative process. The machine and the artist are intentionally forced to collaborate and exist in constant symbiosis.

Consequently, the unpredictability of artificial intelligence generates results influenced by technology, breaking the viewer’s perception into a multitude of possibilities. The more images involved, the more spontaneous the results. Through visualizations of these outcomes, Nero Cosmos creates work that mediates between a real and an abstract world, seemingly creating threads of logical patterning in the midst of random and chance.

Site: nerocosmos.com Instagram: nerocosmos Email: hello@nerocosmos.com

Axon, identity and limitless memory Digtal art 4096 x 4096 pixels 2021

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Broken bodies, shattered minds Digital art print , ink on canvas 150 x 150 cm 2020

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Kabukicho, night walk Digital art print, ink on canvas 120 x 120 cm 2021

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Shilly-shally Digital art print, ink on canvas 120 x 120 cm 2021

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Natalie Sobo Natalie was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she graduated from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design in 1993.

She has lived and worked in Toronto, Canada since 2001, graduating from the International Academy of Design and Technology in 2002.

Natalie has continued to produce and exhibit her work throughout Toronto, as well as becoming a founding member of P. M. Event. Her artistic upbringing was defined by international travel, exposing herself to new cultures, and sharing her art work around the world.

Her works can be found in the St. Petersburg Museum of F. M. Dostoyevsky, the Private Museum of Modern Art in Heraklion, Greece, and in private collections in Germany and The Netherlands.

The artist is proud to be an Award Winner with the Society of Canadian Artists, Acrylic Painters USA, Vancouver Art Space, Art Impact International, Envision Arts, and Northern California Arts.

Statement Being a woman, I take a deep look into myself. I continue to explore the mystery of a female nature.

In my artwork I try to find the sound of color, to hear the color and to make the picture sound. I want to hear the vibration of the colors and tones, rhythm of the lines and shapes. I try to create the visual harmony akin to the auditory sensation that we feel while listening to music. I try to find the right tones, rhythms and vibrations to bring color, shape and line to create a visual music of harmony and happiness.

Site: nataliesoboart.com Instagram: nataliesoboart Email: nataliesobo@gmail.com

MADAME Acrylic on canvas, with gold leaf, and Pebeo outliner touch, 20”x 16” 2021

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Motherhood / Madonna off a Pebble Acrylic on canvas 36” x 24” 2018

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Rush of Gloves / Waiting for Love Acrylic on canvas 24” x 20” 2021

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Selfie / So, What Do You Want to Tell Me? Acrylic on canvas with glass drops added 20” x 16” 2020

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Ayuko Dan Born in 1974 in Japan. Previously studied silversmith and currently studying art in an art school in Stockholm, Sweden.

Statement My works come from deep within me; the embodiment of my life, my thoughts and feelings - creation from the subconscious. Currently, I’m working on a project that deals with my eating disorder which came to my life about 20 years ago. This project gave me an unexpected chance to see how deeply I love my disease, although I am so tired of living with this mental disorder. This mental health condition gave me this skinny body, which I really really really wanted since my childhood, with high self-efficacy for the first time in my life. Most people think that I have injured myself through the disease; however, I’ve never thought that I harmed myself. Rather, I just made extreme efforts in order to realise my lifelong desire. To have an eating disorder is my best investment I have ever made, through which this lovely bony body was given to me as self-confidence that came to me for the first time in my life. I don’t know if there are other ways where I can build self-esteem.

Instagram: konst.med.passion

“ I love my skinny body. I love my bones.

I love my thin body on which the bones stand out.

I know that this is the only way I can accept myself

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Limitless love Plaster casting of the artist’s back, (Photo) Sculpture and the artist myself 48 x 43 x 19 cm 2021

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Limitless love Plaster casting of the artist’s back, (Photo) Sculpture and the artist myself 48 x 43 x 19 cm 2021

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Limitless love Plaster casting of the artist’s back, (Photo) Sculpture and the artist myself 48 x 43 x 19 cm 2021

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Mandelbroz

Statement There are no specific goals in my artistic speculation. The result of such “nonscopy” is a wide range of works of high expressive level. There is no preferential range of audience. Anyone who looks at the work has the ability to judge an expression, seeing it through its lens. Every man expresses, every man can judge.

Site: mandelbroz.com Instagram: mandelbroz Email: brozmandel@gmail.com

Intro-Inspection Acrylic on canvas 60 x 80 cm 2021

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AmbiVerse Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021

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James Bold Acrylic on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2021

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PhDisease Acrylic on canvas 70 x 100 cm 2021

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