Art Market Magazine. September Issue #85

CONTEMPORARY ART / DESIGN / AUCTIONS / EXHIBITIONS / ART FAIRS

SOUTHERN GUILD

SEPTEMBER 2023 #84

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW YORK'S ARMORY SHOW

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10/ HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW YORK'S ARMORY SHOW SOUTHERN GUILD A PRESENTATION OF WORK BY ARTISTS ZIZIPHO POSWA, KAMYAR BINESHTARIGH, MANYAKU MASHILO, AND OLUSEYE

30/ THE THE THIRD LINE GALLERY PRESENTS: SAHAND HESAMIYAN | PROLEPSIS

SEPTEMBER 28– NOVEMBER 3 , 2023

38/ NAVA SABETIMANI | PREVIEW

48/ G ALAN STEWART | ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION OF LIVES AND JOURNEYS

62/ EVA LEWARNE | ALICE TODAY | FACING DEATH

76/ FORGE ART FAIR | VISUAL ARTISTS UNITE TO HOST A CONTEMPORARY ART EVENT AT AN ICONIC SETTING IN LONDON'S EAST END FROM 20-26 OCTOBER 2023

82/ DUKE WINDSOR | BURGER

98/ IGOR EUGEN PROKOP | THE SHIP OF FOOLS

108/ NICOLE COLLIE | REPRESENTING OUR INNER SELVES

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"I AM YOU"

INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN.

14 - 22 OCTOBER 2023 | FORTEZZA DA BASSO, FLORENCE, ITALY

XIV FLORENCE BIENNALE

We are glad to announce the winners and finalists of the ART category of the International Open Call Competition. A collaboration of Florence Biennale, Art Market Magazine, and Lens Magazine.

Artists and photographers participating in the competition were invited to interpret the theme of the XIV Florence Biennale, which will be held from 14 to 22 October 2021 at Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy:

"I AM YOU"

INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN.

The contest winners' works will be used for the integrated communication of the event (mass media, internet, outdoor advertising, etc.) and exhibited in a dedicated space within the XIV Florence Biennale, while the finalists' works will be projected in rotation within the same space. The winners will also receive the Guests of Honour recognition during the event.

WINNER | ART | JEAN-MICHEL BIHOREL

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW YORK'S ARMORY SHOW

SOUTHERN GUILD

A presentation of work by artists

Zizipho Poswa, Kamyar Bineshtarigh, Manyaku Mashilo and Oluseye

Southern Guild has exhibited for the first time at The Armory Show in New York City at the Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side from 8-10 September. Situated in the main section of the fair, the gallery's booth has focused on the work of sculptural artist Zizipho Poswa (South Africa), painters Kamyar Bineshtarigh (Iran/South

Africa) and Manyaku Mashilo (South Africa) and conceptual artist Oluseye (Nigeria/Canada).

Driven by a deep interest in materiality and process, Southern Guild offers a platform for diverse African narratives explored through multi-disciplinary art forms. The gallery's presentation at the Armory speaks of its interest in bringing the ancestral into conversation with the contemporary.

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Southern Guild's booth has featured:

New and recent work by South African sculptural artist Zizipho Poswa , including a monumental all-bronze totem explicitly commissioned for the fair, alongside a pair of sculptures from the artist's 2022 body of work, uBuhle boKhokho (Beauty of Our Ancestors). Inspired by her Xhosa culture and evoking powerfully feminine forms, the artist's work pays tribute to the matriarchs and rural African women who raised her. Poswa's participation in the Armory Show follows her warmly received first US solo, iiNtsika zeSizwe (Pillars of the Nation), at Galerie56 in New York's Tribeca this past spring; a three-month summer residency at the Center for Contemporary Ceramics (CCC) at California State University in Long Beach (CSULB); and inclusion in Terra Recognita: A Ceramic Story at Mariane Ibrahim in Chicago.

Several expansive paintings by young Iranian artist Kamyar Bineshtarigh , whose solo exhibition at Southern Guild's Cape Town gallery coincides with the fair. Born just outside Tehran, Bineshtarigh moved to South Africa with his family when he was 15 years old. The artist's interest in text, particularly Arabic script and calligraphy, has become an explorative means to study the nature of mark-making and the cultural complexities that often arise through translation.

Bineshtarigh's singular process involves applying layers of ink, paint, and glue to the walls of his studio building, a historic clothing factory in a gentrifying industrial neighborhood of Cape Town, which he peels away from the structure before applying a hessian backing. The finished work stands as a record of the passing of time, a multidimensional spatial archive.

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A series of acrylic and ink paintings by South African artist Manyaku Mashilo depict spectral scenes of figures floating through liminal, dreamlike landscapes. Reconfiguring elements of myth, science fiction, spiritual tradition, and ritual, Mashilo's works reveal an ever-expanding new realm for healing the past and reimagining future realities. Cinematic in their vision, her paintings oscillate between figuration and abstraction, pitting flatly painted shapes against areas suffused with ink wash. Mashilo will hold her first solo exhibition with Southern Guild in November.

Multiple installations of talisman-like objects from Nigerian-Canadian artist Oluseye 's ongoing Eminado Series. Made from "diasporic debris" –artifacts, discarded materials, and found objects he collects on his trans-Atlantic travels – these works embody the transgenerational movement of the Black diaspora. Oluseye was an artist-in-residence

at the GUILD Residency in Cape Town in early 2023, during which some of these works were completed. He will hold his first solo exhibition with Southern Guild in November 2023.

Southern Guild 's presentation at Armory is rooted in a shift toward a new African vanguard where purpose and representation can be renegotiated with vital agency. The featured artists call to an alternate world to shed historical traumas and reimagine a healed, whole, and more abundant self. In addition to the main fair, Southern Guild will also participate in Armory Off-Site, the fair's outdoor art program, which brings large-scale artworks to New York City's parks and public spaces. Zizipho Poswa's Mam'uNoBongile (part of iiNtsika zeSizwe) has been one of three large-scale sculptures displayed at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the US Open (22 August – 10 September 2023).

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KAMYAR BINESHTARIGH

Kamyar Bineshtarigh was born in the small town of Semnan, about 200 km east of Tehran in Iran, in 1996 and moved to South Africa with his family when he was 15. Based in Cape Town, he works in a variety of media. His conceptual concerns range from language and communication in all its forms to the movement, migration, and displacement of humankind.

In 2019, Bineshtarigh graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town, where he received the Ruth Prowse Award for his series An Exhaustive Catalogue of Texts Dealing with the Orient. In 2021, he was awarded the Simon Gerson Prize for his graduate exhibition at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art, as well as a Creative Knowledge Resources

Fellowship from the National Research Foundation and UCT. He was awarded the VAA award by ARP Residency in 2018, which led to his video work Shelter being screened at the Corto Lovere Film Festival in Lovere, Italy.

The artist's interest in text, particularly Arabic script and calligraphy, has become an explorative means to study the nature of mark-making and the cultural complexities that often arise through translation. The script carries our collectively imposed meaning but also a multitude of intuitive translations, as well as an innate aesthetic of form and shape. This is embodied through the additive act of layering in Bineshtarigh's works, with the artist utilizing canvas, ink, pencil, shards of glass, glue, or layers of

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paint extracted from the very walls of his studio. Bineshtarigh frequently works on an immersive scale, creating site-specific installations that are arresting in their capacity to envelope the viewer.

Bineshtarigh's solo exhibitions include Koples boek(e) at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg (2021), Pilgrim as part of Everard Read's Cubicle Series (2019), and Uncover at Norval Foundation (2022), which named him the inaugural winner of the Bowmans Young Artists Award. He has participated in group exhibitions at galleries, including Stevenson, SMAC, Everard Read, the Association of Visual Arts, and the NIROX Foundation. The artist is currently pursuing an honors degree in contemporary art at Cape Town Creative Academy.

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MANYAKU MASHILO

Manyaku Mashilo is a Cape Town-based artist whose multidimensional practice encompasses mixed-media painting, drawing, and collage. Born in Limpopo in 1991, she addresses themes of spiritual identity, memory, ancestry, community, and belonging.

Mashilo draws on inspiration from photographic archives to build expansive scenes where imagined representatives of Blackness migrate through abstract liminal spaces. These scenes act as celestial cartographies, connecting the depicted Black figures through a felt mutuality of heritage, spirituality, shared ritual, and

intent. These migratory figures, forever moving between and through, are driven by an energetic pull toward a new vanguard where purpose and representation can be renegotiated.

Mashilo's figures are drawn from family photographs, historical imagery depicting various experiences of Black lives, and portraits of people from her own community. In this way, Mashilo enmeshes the contemporary and historical as a form of interdimensional mapping. Lineage and memory, both collective and personalized, conflate in this unknown world. Her vast cosmological landscapes offer a

multiverse of imagined futures, weaving together place and space, charting a rich and diverse tradition of African spirituality and identity.

Notable group exhibitions include SCENORAMA, curated by Gabi Ngcobo at the Javett Centre in Pretoria (2022);

SMO Contemporary's group presentation at ArtXLagos in Lagos, Nigeria (2021); 40 under 40 at KRONE X WHATIFTHEWORLD in Tulbagh (2021); The Medium is the Message, curated by Azu Nwagbogu at Unit London in London, UK (2020); and Liminality in Infinite Space at the African Artists Foundation in Lagos (2020).

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Solo presentations include There Are Other Worlds They Have Not Told You Of at 99 Loop Gallery in Cape Town and The Possibility of a Journey, curated by Tammy Langtry as part of the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, South Africa, both in 2020. Mashilo's work forms part of the Shulting Art Collection, Tiroche Deleon Collection, and The Suzie Wong Collection, as well as private collections in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Korea, and the United States of America.

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OLUSEYE

Oluseye is a Nigerian-Canadian artist. Born in London in 1986, the artist spent his childhood years in Lagos, Nigeria, before moving to Canada.

Using "diasporic debris" — a term he coined to describe the artifacts, discarded materials, and found objects he collects from his transAtlantic travels — Oluseye explores Black being across themes. These transformational objects are recast into sculpture, installation, performance, and photography. Their explorations invoke Oluseye's personal narratives and travel within a broader examination of Black and Diasporic cultures, migration, and spiritual traditions. The talismans in his Eminado

series physically trace and embody the transgenerational movement of the Black diaspora. Across his practice, he embraces the notion of Blackness as divine, fluid, and unfixed, unbound by time, space, and geographies. As such, his work blends the ancestral with the contemporary, the traditional with the modern, the physical with the spiritual, the new with the old, and the past with the future.

Oluseye has a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, Montreal, and a Master of Science in Entrepreneurship from Bayes Business School, London, UK. He has exhibited at the AlbrightKnox Museum, Buffalo (2022),

the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2021), Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen's University, Kingston (2021), and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015). His first public art commission, Black Ark, installed in Toronto's Ashbridges Bay Park, explores Canada's role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Oluseye was an artist-in-residence at the GUILD Residency in Cape Town in early 2023 and has presented his work with Southern Guild at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair and Expo Chicago.

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Top Left: Eminado Reunion. #11. 2018. An Ongoing Project. Cr. Hayden Phipps & SGuild Oluseye © All rights reserved. Top Right: Eminado Reunion. #10. 2018. An Ongoing Project. Cr. Hayden Phipps & SGuild Oluseye © All rights reserved. Bottom Left: Eminado Reunion. #7. 2018. An Ongoing Project. Cr. Hayden Phipps & SGuild Oluseye © All rights reserved. Bottom Right: Eminado Reunion. #9. 2018. An Ongoing Project. Cr. Hayden Phipps & SGuild Oluseye © All rights reserved.

ZIZIPHO POSWA

Zizipho Poswa is a Cape Townbased ceramic artist whose largescale, hand-coiled sculptures are bold declarations of African womanhood. She is inspired by the daily Xhosa rituals she witnessed as a young girl growing up in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa and the life-sustaining roles that Xhosa women play in traditional and contemporary life.

Born in 1979 in the town of Mthatha, Poswa studied surface design and graduated from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She draws on this knowledge to amalgamate the visual stimuli she encounters in her daily life into a simplified pattern

language. In 2005, she and fellow ceramicist Andile Dyalvane opened their studio, Imiso (meaning "tomorrow") Ceramics.

Poswa's work for Southern Guild explores her personal experience and heritage in monumental sculptural pieces. Her first major series, Umthwalo (meaning "load"), paid tribute to Southern Africa's rural women and the heavy burdens they balance on their heads, often walking long distances on foot. Her second series, Magodi, was inspired by the central role that hair salons play as a meeting place for African women. Each work is named after a family member or close friend, giving

vivid, physical form to the artist's own support network.

Poswa's debut solo, iLobola, comprised 12 ceramic and bronze sculptures paying homage to the spiritual offering at the heart of the ancient African custom of lobola, or bride-wealth – the cow. Like some of Poswa's earlier works, this series straddles figuration and abstraction, employing an intuitive vocabulary of shape, color, and texture.

Her second solo, uBuhle boKhokho (Beauty of Our Ancestors), drew inspiration from the elaborate art of hairstyling practiced by Black women across the African

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continent and diaspora. The series of 24 monumental ceramic and bronze sculptures was accompanied by a series of photographic portraits of the artist, who collaborated with a hairstylist to recreate some of the most iconic styles on herself.

Poswa's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the LOEWE Foundation, as well as significant private and corporate collections worldwide. In 2021, she was a featured artist with Andile Dyalvane in the inaugural Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in Perth, Australia, and was included in SelfAddressed, curated by Kehinde Wiley at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. She has participated in group exhibitions in New York, Paris, Hamburg, and Liverpool and presented her work through Southern Guild at Expo Chicago, Design Miami, The Salon Art + Design in New York, and PAD London. She is an artistin-residence at the Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University, Long Beach, in Summer 2023.

Mam'u No Sayini. 2023. Hayden Phipps & SGuild Zizipho Poswa © All rights reserved. Omhatela, Ovawambo. 2022. Hayden Phipps & SGuild. Zizipho Poswa © All rights reserved. Fang Ndom. Cameroon. 2022. Hayden Phipps & SGuild. Zizipho Poswa © All rights reserved.

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Embracing the close ties between geometry, mythology, and philosophy, Sahand Hesamiyan is focused on extracting traditional elements from these ancient sciences and adapting them for the present and future. His explorations often manifest in the form of complex sculptures, whether they be freestanding objects or multifaceted wall installations. As a master of designing structural systems, Hesamiyan reinterprets Yazdibandi and Rasmibandi which are historic design methods utilized in the interior ornamentation of domes in Persian architecture.

SAHAND HESAMIYAN

Prolepsis

The Third Line, Al Quoz 3, Dubai, UAE | 28th September – 3rd November 2023

Sahand Hesamiyan, Kanoon I, 2020, Steel, 40 x 9.5 x 10 cm_AP, Edition of 3, 1AP, Detail. The Third Line Gallery ©

SAHAND HESAMIYAN Prolepsis

The Third Line is pleased to announce our third solo exhibition with Sahand Hesamiyan. Marking the artist's 24-year journey with steel, Prolepsis will showcase a collection of sculptures that celebrate his dedication to this medium and shine a light on a trove of longcherished yet unrealized projects.

Prolepsis serves as a moment of reflection for Hesamiyan. While the artist is renowned for his ambitious large-scale works, this exhibition presents miniature forms of anticipated

projects that remain unmaterialized but not forgotten. Each sculpture becomes a poignant echo of what could have been, and Hesamiyan prompts us to consider the interplay between aspiration and realization.

By blending the precise geometric principles of Islamic architecture with the artist's minimalistic sensibilities, his work conveys the profound and spiritual notions deeply rooted in ancient Iranian heritage. Through a unique reinterpretation of elements drawn from Iranian architecture, Hesamiyan not only highlights the fundamental design and conceptual

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significance but also underscores their pivotal role in shaping the history of Islamic art.

As viewers move through the exhibition, they embark on a journey into the intricacies of the artist's creative process. Witnessing the genesis of his ideas, this experience grants a profound understanding of Hesamiyan's commitment to his craft, fostering a deeper connection with the artist's process.

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Top: Sahand Hesamiyan, Kanoon I, 2020, Steel, 40 x 9.5 x 10 cm,AP, Edition of 3, 1AP The Third Line Gallery © Sahand Hesamiyan, Kanoon I, 2020, Steel, 40 x 9.5 x 10 cm, AP, Edition of 3, 1AP The Third Line Gallery © Left Page: Sahand Hesamiyan Kanoon II, 2020 Steel 24.5 x 9.5 x 10 cm, AP, Edition of 3, 1AP The Third Line Gallery ©

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ABOUT

SAHAND HESAMIYAN

Born in 1977 in Tehran, Sahand Hesamiyan holds a Bachelor of Sculpture from the University of Tehran. The artist's versatile practice is informed by a profound understanding of construction techniques, culminating in largerthan-life metal sculptures and small elaborate works on paper. By creating interactive pieces that eclipse the mere repetition and reflection of these traditional forms, Hesamiyan is able to convey his acute technical abilities while taking inspiration from years of craftsmanship and historical concepts.

Embracing the close ties between geometry, mythology, and philosophy, Hesamiyan is focused on extracting traditional elements from these ancient scenes and adapting them for the present and future.

His explorations often manifest in the form of complex sculptures, whether they be freestanding objects or multifaceted wall installations. As a master of designing structural

systems, Hesamiyan reinterprets Yazdibandi and Rasmibandi, which are historic design methods utilized in the interior ornamentation of domes in Persian architecture. Selected solo exhibitions include Far Side, Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan, Iran (2022); Majaz, BLOK Art Space at Cukurcuma and Buyuk Valide Han, Istanbul (2017); Frame Reference, Dastan Outside the Basement, Tehran, Iran (2015); Tavizeh, Dastan's Basement, Tehran, Iran (2015); Khalvat, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2014); Sulook, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2013); Memory Lives On, Aun Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2011); Do You See Me!, Ave Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2008).

He has taken part in the Jameel Prize 4 exhibition organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum that traveled to the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakstan (2017); the Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, Korea (2017); and the Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2016).

Other selected group exhibitions include There Is Fiction In The Space Between, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2020); The Spark Is You, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2019); Nine Iranian Artists in London: THE SPARK IS YOU, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK (2019); 8th Annual of Iranian Contemporary Art, Persbook, Yazd, Iran (2018); The International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia (2018); Beyond Boundaries, Art by Email, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017); LTR: RTL, Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran (2017); Centerfold: Spring of Recession, Sazmanab Center, Tehran, Iran (2015); Iran Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2015); TheBlue Route, Musée National Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, France (2014); TheBlueRoute, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium (2013); Summer Exhibition, Royal College ofArt, London, UK (2012), to name a few. Hesamiyan currently lives and works in Tehran.

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Sahand Hesamiyan, Kanoon I, 2020, Steel, 40 x 9.5 x 10 cm, AP, Edition of 3, 1AP The Third Line Gallery ©

Sahand Hesamiyan Kanoon II, 2020 Steel 24.5 x 9.5 x 10 cm, AP, Edition of 3, 1AP The Third Line Gallery ©

Prolepsis SAHAND HESAMIYAN The Third Line, Al Quoz 3, Dubai, UAE | 28th September – 3rd November 2023 Website: thethirdline.com | Instagram: @thethirdlinedxb | Facebook: /thethirdline

Preview is a supporting foundation for repetition, searching for connections, and seeking the meaning of repetition—a relationship based on causality.

-Nava Sabetimani

N AvA S A b E ti MAN i Preview

N AvA S A b E ti MAN i Preview

PREVIEW IS A SUPPORTING FOUNDATION FOR REPETITION, SEARCHING FOR CONNECTIONS, AND SEEKING THE MEANING OF REPETITION—A RELATIONSHIP BASED ON CAUSALITY.

Nava Sabetimani, born in 1989, is a Tehran-based artist who mainly focuses on figurative abstraction and plays with the human anatomy in artistic style. She graduated with a Master's in agriculture at age 26 and then decided to pursue her innate passion- art. She studied for a BA in painting at the Islamic Azad Art University of Tehran.

"At first, my practice mainly involved using pen and ink on cardboard, but my interest in oil painting developed over the past year and a half."

Nava Sabetimani has risen in the Iranian contemporary art scene in the past years. She has exhibited at many galleries, including the featured project "Preview" in a solo exhibition in Tehran, Iran. In

2023, she participated in group exhibitions, including "The Last Savior" at ADAP Gallery and The KHOR Art Initiative at SARAI Gallery, Iran. In 2022, she exhibited at The 12th ANNUAL "Montakhab-E Nasle No," Homa and Shirin Gallery, Tehran. Sabetimani was awarded several international awards, including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and exhibited in London in 2023.

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In his book, "In the Search of That Lonely Word," Yadollah Royai writes: "Variation is a result of helplessness, a continuation to it. A continuation of a beginning that has seen its own end and yet has seen nothing. Turning its completion into a fire that will burn it away. Burning in the unsaid words means the spoken learns from the unsaid, or from what cannot be said, when unsaid words remain unsaid, on the verge of being spoken. Variation wants to take shape, to become a shape, but wanting isn't always achieving... so Variation remains, in its own shape: a result of defeat".

The 'Preview' artworks are my variations. The results of my defeated and surrendered works that have seen their end without seeing anything, I have learned through all the defeated and surrendered.

Preview is a supporting foundation for repetition, searching for connections, and seeking the meaning of repetition—a relationship based on causality. Kierkegaard also notes: "for what is repeated has been, otherwise it could not be repeated, but precisely the fact that has been gives to repetition the character of novelty."

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PREVIEW is a starting point for investigating the subject of repetition. Where does repetition come from?

According to Kierkegaard, we repeat our mistakes only because we do not commit them impeccably. This can signify a deep relationship between repetition and defect, but it also immediately raises another question: "Does lack of repetition signify perfection?"

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Top Left: Preview No. 2, 2023 Oil on canvas. 24×30 cm Nava Sabetimani © All rights reserved. Left Bottom: Preview No. 7, 2022 Oil on canvas. 20.5×30 cm Nava Sabetimani © All rights reserved. Top Right: Preview No. 10, 2023 Oil on canvas. 25×30 cm Nava Sabetimani © All rights reserved. Right Page: Preview No. 44, 2023 Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm Nava Sabetimani © All rights reserved.

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Preview

G Alan Stewart

Artistic representation of lives and journeys

My images, my paintings, unify abstraction and narration, first losing and then closing in on forms that speak of mythological archetypes. They connect with viewers through shared, deep memory."

- G Alan Stewart

Humans need a mystery, a fertile void, to discover both universal and personal truths. This idea lies beneath my work. My paintings are abstractions hanging on the verge of a narrative, constantly plying a deep space in which archetypes seek form through shapes and lines. I bring myth to my canvases to explore our modern world. The viewer is integral to my images as we both, together, survey the human experience through the art I’m privileged to place in front of them. I typically work in series with multiple paintings in progress at once. I use mostly oil paint but also water-based materials, and I work on cradled panels hanging directly on walls.

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Acrylic

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inch

My palette is a glasstopped table,

which rolls with me from canvas to canvas. Often, my finished work peers through layered glazes and velatura. In this way and within this environment, I am able to allow my ideas and intuitions to find form.

My latest work explores the interesting play of first introducing images and then, perhaps, denying them full form in my abstractions. This artistic dance allows for distinct spaces to emerge on the canvas, places that I hope find deeper connections with the viewer. Each time I enter the studio, I want to create art that imagines tunnels from reality to imagination, back and beyond.

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My shapes and lines dig into the human experience and allow for a visual representation of our lives and journeys. The work pulls viewers into themselves and plunges all into a world of archetypes, intuitions, and allegory.”

G Alan Stewart

My work continues to be seen in both group and solo shows, including at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh. I’ve received grants and awards, including the United Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. My paintings reflect my decades-long evolution from rural North Carolina to cities along the eastern seaboard. I studied at Lenoir Community College and the Savannah College of Art and Design and held studios in Georgia, Florida, and now, at present, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Top Left: Point of Departure. 2021 Oil on Panel. 44.75x48.5x1.75 inch

Left: Light of Day. 2021 Oil on Panel. 44.75x48.5x1.75 inch

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As A Feather. 2021 Acrylic on panel. 48x36x1.75 inch

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Alan Stewart has exhibited in Art museums, Group Exhibitions, and Art Fairs for the past twenty years. Among the many exhibitions, you will find the Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM), Raleigh, NC, in 2018; Glance Gallery, Two Man Show, Raleigh, NC, in 2006; the Miami Fine Art group show, Miami, FL, in 2006 and at the BaCA Group Show, Pompano Beach, FL, in 2012.

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Left Page: Invoking the Sun. 2020 Acrylic on Board. 24x24x2 inch G Alan Stewart © All rights reserved. Top: Airing Cautiously. 2020 Acrylic on Board. 24x24x2 inch G Alan Stewart © All rights reserved.

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Left Page: Deos Terra #1. 2022 Mixed media on paper. 9x12 inch G Alan Stewart © All rights reserved. Top Left: Deos Terra #3. 2022 Mixed media on paper. 9x12 inch G Alan Stewart © All rights reserved. Top Right: Deos Terra #2. 2022 Mixed media on paper. 9x12 inch G Alan Stewart © All rights reserved. Right Bottom: Deos Terra #4. 2022 Mixed media on paper. 9x12 inch G Alan Stewart © All rights reserved.

I bring myth to my canvases to explore our modern world. The viewer is integral to my images as we both, together, survey the human experience through the art I’m privileged to place in front of them".

-G Alan Stewart

ALICE TODAY E vA LEWARNE

By ignoring the reality of our existence, we are feigning sleep while awake and carrying on with life as if nothing is happening."

-Eva Lewarne

ALICE TODAY E vA LEWARNE

Wonderland is a place of madness.

'We're all mad here,' states the Cheshire cat."

Through the eyes of society, one who questions, and perhaps especially the seemingly basic things, maybe labeled mad. And society is, in fact, ripe for questioning between the extreme inequality of wealth distribution and the lack of real movement on Climate Change. Global Warming is causing floods, fires, and brimstones, and yet the Oil Industry is untouched, preferring to pray rather than quit mining. It is the White Rabbit who leads Alice down the rabbit hole. It is he who woke her up from her daze since the hot day had made her sleepy.

By ignoring the reality of our existence, we are feigning sleep while awake and carrying on with life as if nothing is happening. According to a recent UN report, the death toll from devastating flooding in Libya's eastern coastal city of Derna has risen to 11,3000. Fires are causing people to have breathing and lung problems.

Hurricanes are devastating whole islands, like Hawaii and coastal shores. And yet we sleep, allowing billionaires to convince us that as long as their profits are intact, we will be okay.

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Artists, more than ever, need to be vigilant and vocal. No longer preoccupied with just abstract aesthetic values but speaking and shouting on behalf of the world and life."

Capitalism, which may have served us well in the beginning, is now a rapacious, greedy entity eating our very lives. We have devastated Nature to the max, and Nature is rebelling. It is the White Rabbit that Alice runs after and searches for

endlessly in Wonderland, a symbol of her quest for knowledge. Just when things seem rather desperate, the rabbit appears yet again, and Alice drives on through. Symbolically, this means we need to overthrow the warm fuzzy mantle of what was comfortable and face life head-on; we need to

dance, shout, and act MAD to move the powers-at-be to change their course before it is too late.

Artists, more than ever, need to be vigilant and vocal. No longer preoccupied with just abstract aesthetic values but speaking and shouting on behalf of the world and life.

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ALICE TODAY E v A LEWARNE Series: Facing Death Earthlink Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 30 inch Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved. Right Page: Series: Facing Death I Have a Rendezvous with Death. Acrylic on canvas. 48 x 36 inch Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved.

Lewis Carroll constantly asserts the essence of nothingness: 'If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?'

Yes, the other side of earthly existence exists like a two-faced coin, but we will only really learn of it once we are dead. Nothingness awaits, but until then, we have a duty to fight for the survival of the earth for the sake of those humans yet to come.

Right: Series: Facing Death Bewildered. Acrylic on canvas. 36 x 36 inch Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved. Top: Series: Alice Today Queen of Hearts. Acrylic on canvas. 42 x 36 inch Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved.

E vA LEWARNE

About Me and My Art: A Little Story

Even as a young child, I was visual….and at 8 years of age, while everyone in the family was watching their new black and white TV, I was sitting on the floor with my sketch pad drawing their feet and hands. Mona Lisa hung above my bed, and across from her a Modigliani. I wanted to paint like that. I was also moved by the works of Peter Bruegel and Bosch. They inspired my compassion for

the suffering of people. Bruegel's "Beggars" and "Cripples" greatly impacted my view of what life must have been like for people in their times. I was more inspired by this work than by the portrait paintings of Aristocracy at the time. The paintings made me curious about my society and life around me, and I would observe and search out the faces of people who were suffering around me, trying to guess the cause of their pain. And there always was suffering, and I thought

about ways to capture it on canvas or paper. My paintings became motivated by trying to capture emotions, not only pain but also other more subtle emotions like awe and pensiveness…and the unnameable and un-knowable ones, the mystery of life.

Mona Lisa is, to this day, shrouded in mystery; no one has been able to guess her state of mind and her story, and I think that is what I love the most.

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Eva Lewarne at the studio

Iam a post-war child born right at the end of World War II in Poland. I have pictures of myself walking with my Grandfather among the city's ruins.

Going to school, we took trips to Auschwitz, believing that if we see the millions of children's shoes left behind, we will never make the same mistake. I cried and had nightmares for years after, yet nothing has changed when we look around. Many Hitlers have been born and died and still exist. As a young adult, I began to meditate as a way to find inner peace among the suffering of people everywhere. I began to study Zen and then Tibetan Buddhism with a Lama; it saved me from depression, and slowly, over twenty years, I began to realize that life is impermanent, dark and light, and rich in its design. My compassion grew without annihilating me in the process, as well as my appreciation for ordinary magic in life. And I embraced the dictum by Dogen Zenji that "My life is one continuous mistake," and that is okay… I decided to work on myself; my mind was important to me. My Art is often the result of this study.

I live in a pretty prison, in our earthly existence, we take so seriously, so meaningfully, so righteously. But in reality, this body, this life, is but a prison confining us to merciless doing, suffering, rejoicing, and meaningless acts of boredom, killings, and daily survival acts in an attempt to prettify the whole thing, find so-called happiness and consume as much as we can of everything before we find our end. To add to the intrigue, we have sleep, perchance a dream, a mysterious encounter with our own shallow existence of our mind.

Then we discover God, a benevolent, sometimes frightening father that dispenses favor on some and pain on others. Maybe a mother would be better? No difference, really. It is time to face facts; this pretty veneer called life is easily ripped apart when the prison walls start to narrow and tear when there is no escape in view, no vacation from the fire eating up every shred of your hopes and dreams, and you can no longer ignore that all is an illusion and you have to make the leap into the unknowable void, emptiness and scary jaws of what hopefully is bliss.

Eva Lewarne is an internationally awarded artist. Lewarne has graduated from the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto. For the past twenty years, she has Exhibited countless Solo and Group Exhibitions in Canada, New York, Paris, Bordeaux, Barcelona, and Italy. Her work has been featured internationally in Art Magazines and books.

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Series: Alice Today No Time.

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E vA LEWARNE WHEN FACING DEATH W

hen confronted with an illness such as cancer that really has no magical pill but is at the mercy of trial and error by contemporary medical people, you begin to see what life is really all about.

And you realize that we all have a "Rendezvous With Death" at some point sooner or later in life. We are just another aspect of Nature, like the trees and birds, and our bodies will return to the earth. We are, in fact, "Earthlinks".

But since you can't believe that is all there is, as you have tasted Love and Soul, then you realize whatever more there is, it is all "Hidden In The Eyes."

The bad and the good exist together like night and day, and "Bewilderment" is our constant companion. But if you look with Love at each and every moment, life is beautiful! And facing death transports you there like nothing else can.

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Top Left: Series: Alice Today Believe in Magic Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 30 inch Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved. Left: Eva Lewarne and Andrew Cheddie Sookrah (A Canadian artist) © All rights reserved. Top Right: Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved. Right Page: Series: Alice Today Blood Sweat + Tea. Acrylic on canvas. 48 x 36 inch Eva Lewarne © All rights reserved.

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ALICE TODAY

the other side of earthly existence exists like a two-faced coin, but we will only really learn of it once we are dead. Nothingness awaits, but until then, we have a duty to fight for the survival of the earth for the sake of those humans yet

Website: www.evalewarne.com

Photography: www.evalew.com

Instagram: @evalewarne3

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to come.

-Eva Lewarne

Series: Alice Today Making Friends Acrylic on canvas.

Forge Art Fair Announces Debut Contemporary Art

EXPERIENCE AT THE FORGE CRAFT CENTRAL GALLERY

Visual artists unite to host a contemporary art event at an iconic setting in London's East End from 20-26 October 2023

This Autumn, the inaugural Forge Art Fair will showcase the work of visual artists working across the latest mediums in a week-long celebration of art and creativity at Craft Central Gallery in the Forge, Isle of Dogs.

Forge Art Fair is a unique platform that brings together artists and art

enthusiasts in London. Our mission is to create a space where creativity can thrive, and artists can connect with their audience.

Hosted by renowned Multimedia Artist Carolina Kollmann and curated together by a collective of accomplished artists, the Forge Art Fair will feature some visual

artists like Pierre Benjamin, Tammy Walters, Het and Leah Ibrahim Sams, JairoNicola , Arturo Soto, Jasmine Honor Mercer and Carolina Kollmann , as well as art educational live events hosted by the artists. Set in a beautiful gallery with industrial heritage, the Forge Art Fair is the perfect opportunity to be inspired by art, connect with the artists, and learn more about their background, creative process, techniques, inspiration, and latest work. Artworks will be for sale to buy from the artists directly.

The Forge Art Fair will run from 20-26 October 2023, with a private showing on Thursday, 19 October 2023, from 6-8pm. Entry is free.

Carolina Kollmann, Multimedia Artist & Forge Art Fair host, said: "Curated by artists, The Forge Art Fair is a unique opportunity to immerse and understand the world of contemporary art and explore the work of remarkable artists from our community and abroad. Set in an inspirational setting with daily educational, informative, and creative live events, the Forge Art Fair will be an experience like no other - From traditional art to 3D, Digital, and NFTs Art, perfect for art lovers of all ages not only from the local area but further afield."

Location: The Forge, 397-411

Westferry Road, London E14 9UW

Website: WWW.FORGEARTFAIR.COM

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About the Artists

Pierre Benjamin | PAINTER | ILLUSTRATOR | NFT ARTIST

Pierre's work specializes in characters, concept sculpting, illustration, and painting. Through this artistic exploration, spark thoughts trigger our memory and the complexity of our experience.

Leah Ibrahim Sams | DIGITAL ILLUSTRATOR & NFT

Leah Ibrahim Sams is a British-Malaysian Digital Illustrator known for her bold and striking female portraits, with a focus on vibrant colors, culture, and fashion.

Janic 'JairoNicola' |

SCREEN PRINTERS | COLLAGE ARTISTS

Jairo and Nicola are experimental silkscreen printmakers inspired by imaginary surrealism. The artists' collaborative collages and wide range of work are all interconnected with a vintage completion.

Tammy Walters | PAINTER | ILLUSTRATOR

Tammy Walters is a British Modern Contemporary Artist based in the heart of Lancashire, UK, best recognized for her bold and illustrative equine and animal paintings.

Carolina Kollmann | MULTIMEDIA ARTIST | 3D ART

Carolina Is a Multimedia Visual Artist with her own figurative painting characterized by 3D structures to accentuate the subject appearance, transforming her own existential worries into inspiration.

HET | ABSTRACT ARTIST | PHOTOGRAPHER

HET utilizes and

manipulates reclaimed, industrially manufactured materials, focusing on their qualities and materiality. The work consists of abstract assemblages, paintings, and photographs focusing on structure, space, light, and nature.

ARTURO SOTO | SCULPTOR | DESIGNER ARTIST

Arturo creates reclaimed and recycled materials in a poetic way. Using

woodturning and biosculpture designs to create reserve nature's statements.

Jasmine Honor Mercer | CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE PAINTER

Jasmine is a contemporary portrait painter, figure painter, and wildlife artist whose work empowers her subjects whilst championing freedom of expression.

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About The Forge

The Forge was built in 1860 and is one of the last buildings from the golden age of shipbuilding on the Isle of Dogs. At the time of Brunel's famous paddle steamer, The Forge – part of a 5,000-strong workforce – built the keel for HMS Northumberland, one of the earliest ironclad battleships.

Now a Grade II listed building, The Forge is the home of Craft Central Gallery – a collection of studio spaces, creative workshops, and a gallery for exhibitions. Its unique triple-height space with industrial heritage, exposed brickwork, and original features make it the perfect setting for The Forge Art Fair.

visit:

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Food in Art

There is a long history of food in art. Artists Van Dijck, Van Gogh, Louise Moillon, Cezanne, and Wayne Thiebaud have each contributed to this genre. They each have created spectacular still-life masterpieces with food as the subject. In this form of stilllife painting, food painting gives us more opportunities to understand the cultural lifestyles of the past.

BURGER DUKE WINDSOR

Double-Double. 2021 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 24 x 30 inch

Seeing

Duke

BURGER DUKE WINDSOR

The Romans and Greeks each prided themselves in pursuing realistic depictions of food in art. In the Renaissance period, food was often incorporated with high realism in many religious-themed paintings. I have always admired the realistic Dutch depictions

of markets and elaborate kitchen scenes filled with fruit, bread, slabs of meat, whole fish, boars with gleaming eyes staring back at you, and highly detailed colorful bouquets of flowers.

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Gold is the color of extravagance, wealth, riches, and excess, which hypnotizes. The color gold is a warm color that can be either bright and cheerful or somber and traditional. Its yellow and brown cousins are also associated with illumination, love, compassion, courage, passion, magic, and wisdom. In art, the Golden Mean or Golden Ratio is the theory that the natural world has perfect symmetry by divine design.

Gold is attributed to the spiritual reverence held by ancient gods. The Golden Rule in the Old Testament refers to treating everyone equally. Gold is a symbol of divinity and is mentioned throughout the Bible. Pagan idols were often made from gold, and the Ark of the Covenant was overlaid with gold. The gift of gold to the Christ child symbolized his divinity—God in the flesh.

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2021 Acrylic &

Thick Patty, One-Third Pound.

Imt. Gold

The hamburger is a simple meal whose exact origin is unknown.

It was in the early 1900s when a cook from a small town in Texas placed a hamburger steak between two slices of bread, thus creating an instant meal to be

An American Food Icon

carried out by a guest who was in a hurry and could not sit to eat. The hamburger is a standard, everyday dish and is a product that is affordable and easily consumed. Advertisers spend millions of dollars to tantalize our senses with the best commercials and

the most alluring ads. These ads are all developed by professional food stylists to create the "perfect" burger. As in art, this commercial still life is used to appeal to our emotions, senses, and desires and excite our taste buds, with the end result being to sell.

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Advertisers spend millions of dollars to tantalize our senses with the best commercials and the most alluring ads. These ads are all developed by professional food stylists to create the "perfect" burger.

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DUKE WINDSOR BURGER

Duke Windsor was born in Texarkana, Texas, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a radio operator, combat illustrator, and drill instructor. After leaving the service, Windsor was a freelance illustrator and amateur rodeo cowboy, competing in bull-riding, bareback and steer wrestling events. He subsequently studied classical voice at San Diego State University and performed professionally with the San Diego Opera Chorus. Windsor holds the rank of 4th Degree Black Belt in Kempo martial arts and continues to be an active singer-songwriter, guitar player, and solo performer.

Windsor has over 15 years of museum exhibition design and installation experience; he has worked for the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Man, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the San Diego History Center, and the Mingei International Museum.

Windsor served seven years as the founding Director of Exhibits at the U.S.S. Midway Museum. Currently, Windsor is CAD Design Engineering Manager at Full Swing Golf Simulators, headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

12 x 12 inch

Left: Guacamole Dreams. 2022 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf

Windsor is an Associate Artist of the California Art Club and a former board member with A.R.T.S., A Reason to Survive, which empowers troubled youth through the arts. He is also the former Education Chair of the San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild. Windsor has also served as a Public Arts Selection Committee member for the San Diego Regional Airport Authority Art Program.

Windsor has taught art at many venues, including the San Diego Museum of Art and the Athenaeum, and he is currently an instructor of drawing and painting at art on 30th Street and offers a wide range of artist development workshops throughout San Diego County. Windsor's awardwinning paintings have been exhibited at juried solo shows, festivals, group exhibitions, and corporate venues in San Diego, Southern California, and throughout the U.S., and they are held in private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work is in several museum collections, including the University of Maryland David C. Driskell Center.

Duke is represented in Southern California by Sparks Gallery.

Windsor's art studio has been located at his Mt. Helix, California home since 2015.

Contemporary Culinary

Today, in the 21st Century, ordinary objects from the kitchen, like condiment bottles in the sunlight, or even very stylized paintings of desserts, as in the works by Wayne Thiebaud, suggest a new approach to depicting our culinary tastes. As the tradition of art flourishes and technology advances, the artist will continue to explore this desire to record our culinary tastes from the artist's palette to our palate.

Top: Sliders. 2019 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf

12 x 36 inch

Nothing's Impossible. 2020 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf

14 x 22 inch

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Right: Let's Eat. 2021 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 20 x 20 inch Duke Windsor © All rights reserved. Right: Old Fashion Hamburger Sandwich with Cheese. 2021 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 24 x 36 inch Duke Windsor © All rights reserved.

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As the tradition of art flourishes and technology advances, the artist will continue to explore this desire to record our culinary tastes from the artist's palette to our palate.

Left Page Top: Two-All-Beef-Patties. 2019 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 19 x 19 inch Duke Windsor © All rights reserved. Top: An American icon. 2021 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 24 x 48 inch Duke Windsor © All rights reserved. Left Page Bottom: Lots of Mayo. 2022 Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 12 x 12 inch Duke Windsor © All rights reserved. Left: An American icon. 2021 (Detail) Acrylic & Imt. Gold Leaf 24 x 48 inch Duke Windsor © All rights reserved.

Acrylic

11 x 14 inch Duke

Double Cheeseburger with Monarchs. 2021

& Imt. Gold Leaf

Windsor

Website: www.dukewindsor.com

Instagram: @windsor.duke

Facebook: @dukewindsorMt.Helix

The Ship of Fools IGOR EUGEN PROKOP

Igor Eugen Prokop's painting "The Ship of Fools" is a satirical and caricature-rich artwork reflecting our contemporary world. The piece is created with acrylic paint on canvas and is intended for adult audiences.

The graphic solutions in the artwork vividly portray fools' journey in their self-indulgence world. The characters appear grotesque and absurd, highlighting modern society's oddities and customs.

In Prokop's work, you can also recognize figures inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, clearly alluding to the traditions of medieval painting and its absurdities.

The artwork can also be seen as an allegory, where the fools' journey to Noah's last ark represents an escape from the expectations and madness of society. The underlying message of the painting may encourage us to contemplate the absurdity of our own decisions and actions.

Igor Eugen Prokop's "The Ship of Fools" painting is a powerful and thoughtprovoking masterpiece that can prompt deeper reflections on the peculiarities and contradictions of our modern world.

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Igor Jeno Prokop is a Hungarian artist whose profound love for the natural world and its diverse manifestations permeates his work.

Born in Budapest in 1953, Prokop currently resides and creates in Visegrad. His educational journey reflects his multifaceted interests and spans across various fields. After completing his studies in dental technology from 1971 to 1973, he embarked on a career as a teacher of art and biology from 1974 to 1978.

Prokop continued to expand his knowledge by studying biology from 1981 to 1984, followed by philosophy from 1985 to 1986, film aesthetics from 1987 to

1988, and design management from 1990 to 1992. In 2001-2002, he also delved into the realm of environmental protection.

Throughout his illustrious career, Prokop has received numerous accolades for his artistic endeavors. Notably, he garnered Special Mentions at the Chianciano Biennale in 2009, a Biennale Leonardo Award for drawings 2, and the European Confederation of Art Critics Award for drawings 1 in 2011. In 2013, he earned a Special Mention for Excellence at the Chianciano Biennale and a Biennale Leonardo Award for Painting 3 at the same event in 2015.

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The year 2015 also brought him the International Confederation of Art Critics Award 3 at the London Art Biennale. Prokop's remarkable journey continued with the International Prize Andrea Mantegna in Mantova in 2017, and in 2018, he was honored with a Biennale Leonardo Award for Painting 3 and the Oxford University Alumni Society Award 1 at the Chianciano Biennale.

Prokop's artistic philosophy is deeply rooted in his profound connection to the natural world and his ardent commitment to its preservation. Through his travels, he has borne witness to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, capturing and presenting it to his audience with immense love and passion.

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Prokop's artwork mirrors his reverence for the vibrant colors, shapes, and forms found within the seas, forests, and islands he has explored. Prokop firmly believes in the significance of safeguarding the magic of the natural world for future generations, which fuels his dedication to environmental protection and his desire to share fragments of this infinite world with others.

IGOR EUGEN PROKOP

Website: prokopigoreugen.com

Instagram: @prokopigorjeno

Facebook: @igor.prokop.507

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Top: Ship of Fools #3. 2023 Acryl on canvas. 150 x120 cm Igor Prokop © All rights reserved. Right Page: Ship of Fools #3. 2023 (Details) Acryl on canvas. 150 x120 cm Igor Prokop © All rights reserved.

Representing our inner selves SHE + ME = HAPPY. 2023 SHE was life itself, wild and free, wonderfully chaotic, a perfectly put together mess. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, gold leaf, wood, orchid, ink. 9 x 12 inch. Nicole Collie © All rights reserved.

Nicole Collie

As an artist, I strive to show others that we should all love ourselves, love each other, and love life without judgment. Identity is what my art is about. I grew up with body issues, just like anybody else these days. I come from a very conservative and strict background, which caused me to rebel, and my rebellion was to paint nudes. Painting nudes was my personal therapy that helped me reach the conclusion that if I can stand in front of a mirror

naked and like the person I am, I have won the battle of self-worth and self-esteem. My inspiration now for painting the female body is empowerment. As women, we spend so much time trying to look better, hide, or not acknowledge our flaws, which is unfortunate.

My desire for everyone, especially women, is that we can accept ourselves unconditionally, flaws and all. My inspiration comes from my own journey of accepting myself.

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Keeping Watch Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink, molding paste. 48 x 48 inches. Be an Angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your Angel has given You. Be kind, show empathy, and love yourself. Nicole Collie © All rights reserved.

Idescribe my work as Abstract, with images that are colorful and textured with symbolism. The images I paint have a celestial and ethereal feel to them because they are a representation of our inner selves. The medium I use is any material that I can get my hands on, but my artwork is anchored in acrylic

paints. I will use gels, plaster, wire, metals, nails, gold leaf, sand, glass beads, ink, real flowers . . . If the material speaks to me and I am inspired by something about it, I will incorporate it into my paintings.

My philosophy on my work is whatever I’m going through

in my real life, I will end up expressing it in my artwork. My underlying fundamental truth is acknowledging that we all lie to ourselves about who we think we are. I don’t believe that people honestly evaluate, recognize, and accept who they are. I want to operate from an honest space and tell the truth on the canvas.

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Broken Stain Glass. 2022 The most beautiful whole is from broken pieces. We all have stories to tell and the pain we went through to become who we are. We are survivors of our own pain. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink, gold leaf, orchid, glass beads. 24 x 24 inch Nicole Collie © All rights reserved.

Past - Present - Future. 2022 Accept your past without regrets, confidently handle your present, and face your future without fear. 36 x 48 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink, gold leaf, orchid Nicole Collie © All rights reserved.

Left Top: Welcome to Caribbean Love. 2022

Even though I am from the islands, I still want to travel the world with you twice.

Once to see it my way and the other to see the way you see the world.

16 x 20 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink

Left Bottom: What is in My Head. 2022

Very few people really get to see who

I am in my head. Almost none. It is the most precious gift I can give to bring her out of hiding.

36 x 36 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink, photography, sand, plaster, gold leaf.

Right Page Bottom: Orchid & Nail. 2023

Do not compare her to sunshine and roses when she is clearly orchids and moonlight. - Melody Lee

3 x 5 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, nail, orchid, ink

The truth is that we are all flawed, and my artwork reflects that. My intention is not to highlight negative images but to celebrate flaws as a beautiful representation of who we are as human beings.

We are imperfectly perfect. Depicting balance is a key component of my most current work. Nothing is all good, and nothing’s all bad. For instance, I have been incorporating orchids in my paintings, which I consider to be soft and delicate, but the opposite is something hard, rusty, worn, and rough, like a nail, which I place right next to it to show balance. I also use straight and curved lines representing opposing views in the same image.

The role of an artist should be a thought provoker, inspiration, and to express a point of view. There are always two sides to a coin. Hope and desperation can exist on the same canvas, like light and dark, good and bad. Art is subjective and expresses all the emotions and experiences that we have as human beings.

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Nicole Collie was born and raised in the Bahamas and went to college in the United States, where she now resides.

“My journey as an artist starts with vivid memories of a fluorescent green desk full of coloring books and crayons. This desk was bigger than life, and when I totally grew out of it, I began carrying it around. I have fond memories about this desk.”

Her first paintings were of landscapes, flowers, and the female form.

Nicole started painting with watercolors as a child, using the

same seven colors that most of us were given to use during elementary school, and she loved using that medium as she developed as an artist. While attending The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where she received her bachelor’s degree in graphic design, she had to take an art class using acrylic paint and was totally against it. At that time, Nicole had only used watercolor and gouache paint. She was surprised at how easily she adapted to using acrylic paint and that it was enjoyable. It allowed her to add layer upon layer, creating a wonderful paint texture.

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This school also required her to paint nudes, which she was adamantly against due to her religious upbringing. However, once she started working with women who allowed her to paint them on canvas, there was a special transformation when she experienced a boost in confidence and self-esteem. Ironically, painting nudes is now all that she does.

Nicole says, “I began painting nudes as an act of rebellion and for shock value. Raised in a modest home where nudity was never spoken of, conservative Bahamian culture made it particularly difficult for people to accept my art.”

Nicole is inspired by women and other creatives. “I enjoy painting the female body as a symbol of empowerment. Women spend so much time trying to look better, hide, or not acknowledge their flaws, which is sad. My desire for everyone, especially women, is that we can accept ourselves unconditionally, flaws and all. My inspiration comes from my own journey of accepting myself. That is why the images I paint have a celestial and ethereal feel because they represent our inner selves.”

Top Left: NO JUDGMENT. 2019

Parents, please love your children even if you do not agree with their lifestyle. We are all humans and deserve to be loved.

48 x 48 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, beads, Orchids, ink, sand.

Left Bottom: Human Freedom / Human Rights. 2019

My brother told me years ago, “I wouldn’t choose this life; I would have chosen an easier life.” I believe in loving each other 9 x 12 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, plaster, ink.

Right Page: Father and Son. 2022

He is my heart, my soul, the best thing that has ever happened to me., the source of many laughs and a few tears. He is my son, and he is my world.

36 x 48 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink, glass beads, gold leaf, plaster, medal, wood.

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Nicole is, first and foremost, a mother and wife. Her son was in kindergarten when she quit her job and opened an art gallery called Sine Qua Non. The art gallery was where she showed her son how important it is to follow his dreams by doing what she loves.

Nicole has shown her work for over 20 years at galleries, including Baha Mar on her native island, The Bahamas; and Art Village Gallery, Memphis; Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles; Van Der Plas Gallery, New York; and more.

Nicole was inspired to launch Emerging Creatives –and later, her nonprofit Creating Gray Spac es – after her early years as an artist in Nassau and repeatedly being turned away by galleries who preferred traditional Bahamian culture, wildlife, and landscapes versus her paintings of nude female figures. “I fought against that. We can’t put limitations or restraints on how people choose to express themselves,” Emerging Creatives empowers artists to be unapologetically creative and protect their self-

sovereignty and self-expression from systems that seek to monopolize, profit from, or take control of their work. “Artists are constantly drained of their talent, time, and space; in the end, they’re left with a small percentage of their earnings. The artists who show their work at my exhibitions keep the majority of their profits.”

Nicole is a diverse creative meaning that in addition to her art, she is a graphic designer, illustrator of children’s books, and a brand and website builder. Her clientele includes authors, corporate and small business clients, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits. She also curates her own exhibits and art shows for other artists.

Visit NicoleCollie.com to see more of her art, inquire about commissioned pieces, and purchase prints, original pieces, and accessories like t-shirts, totes, phone cases, and more.

The children’s books she has illustrated are available on e-commerce sites, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Books A Million, and the author’s website KimberlyLuttery.com

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Life is Never Easy. 2022. (Detail) 24 x 36 inch. Mixed Media: Acrylic, gels, ink, orchid, silver.

Accept your past without regrets, confidently handle your present, and face your future without fear."

Life is Never Easy. 2022

Life is never easy...but the art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much

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A slow

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