Downtown Chiado 20 - International Exhibition

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Atelier Natália Gromicho is very pleased to host the 7th edition of Downtown Chiado.

Represented so far 330 artists, our main goal is to promote international contemporary artist. The selection of the artist is careful made with a four months preparation and the exhibition will be hosted on February 2020.

"The idea is simple, make a private space in an open space, without limitation to any type of audience, without obstacles, without barriers. Anyone can see, taste, touch, paint.

Atelier Natalia Gromicho = experience, know, ART. ” Atelier Natalia Gromicho is located in Lisbon Downtown, opened in April 2013 with a exhibition of Natália Gromicho called “Lisboa, dignos de nota” that was her tribute to the city that she was born. Located in Espaço Chiado, a shopping center in Chiado that was build preserving “Ferdinand Wall”, a wall that protected Lisbon from attacks during the period of the Middle Ages. Chiado is one of the most iconic and traditional neighborhoods of Lisbon. Located between Bairro Alto and Downtown shopping stores.

Its location is very privilege , with access from the street Rua da Misericórdia or the street Rua Nova da Trindade, right next to Trindade Theater.

Atelier Natalia Gromicho benefits of people traffic by historical attractions of the Chiado, shopping and leisure areas…

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general information

Curator | Gonzalo Madeira Duration of the Show | February 1–7 2020 Location | Atelier Natália Gromicho Fine Art gallery Rua Nova da Trindade, 5G Piso SL 1200-301 Lisboa - PORTUGAL Exhibition Hours | Mon-Sat from 2 to 6pm Private View | February 1st, 2020, 3pm Vernissage Schedule | February 1st, 3pm - 6pm

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Natália Gromicho | Portugal DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

A gifted painter, in the purest sense, Natália has skillfully created a body of work that is simultaneously lyrical and mysterious, jubilant yet poetic. Employing these paradoxes, she skillfully applies her raw talent into different mediums and styles creating a sense of flux, depth and dominance.

Natália's work takes elemental images, from nature and the landscape to culture and individuals she encounters on her travels, and transforms using dramatic ploys such as contrasts in scale, shifts in focus, irrored reflections, staccato images, and multiple or layered surfaces.

Sensory perception for Natália is a spiritual activity, one that leads to a heightened awareness of both nature and culture—this thought process points to a new kind of realism—one that is engaged with the actual processes of life. Yet, it also references the theoretical avant-garde conceptions of deconstruction emerging during Modernism.

w – www.nataliagromicho.com e – info@nataliagromicho.com

Holiday | Acrylic on canvas | 100x120cm 7

Day Barry| UK DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Each act of painting is its own happening in the moment the paint is applied to the surface. One color is allowed to interact with another, put against another, pulled through another in a sort of unconscious interaction which I try to tease out rather than force. The art happened in that moment of application. When you look at the painting object you are not looking at the art itself but a record of the art which happened in a moment that has now passed. This is the value of the painting as an object.

instagram.com/iamdaybarry | iamdaybarry@gmail.com

Free Fall | Acrylic on canvas| 30x23cm 9

Sarka Darton| Czech Republic DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

My art is about looking and seeing; an investigation into the role of cognitive stimulation in the making and viewing of art. Each piece addresses issues of identity and the relationship between people and the spaces that they occupy. Working across various media, my pictures, prints, paintings and installations aim to create space, rather than occupy it. Contrasting transient and permanent imagery, figures and architecture, the viewer becomes incorporated into my work instead of just standing in front of it.

We all effect, and in turn are affected, by that which we see.

w – http://www.sarkadarton.net/ e – sarkadarton@hotmail.co.uk

Labyrinth | cast concrete, cast gypsum, silk thread and silk velvet 45cmx50cmx42cm

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Fabiana Macaluso| Italy DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Born in Turin 20/2/80 she studied at art school Renato Cottini of Turin graduated with excellent grades and attended some courses continuing her passion. She teaches in an association where she gave birth to her artistic social art-Therapy laboratory, teaches for free … open to all those who do not have the economic possibilities and also to people with disabilities, drawing art as a group therapy and good humor and culture, bringing its students to participate in some international exhibitions during the year to showcase the their artistic skills.

Her passion for tribal peoples and ethnic groups different from her origins is born in her during her travels, so she is currently trying to talk through her paintings and sculptures, to create art for integration. Her canvases convey the emoti onal and affective pathos of a personal history immersed in these distant lands.

The intent is to share the splendor of these peoples, the colors, the faces, the poignant expressions and intense traits, tell of the sacredness and respectful austerity that these peoples attribute to life, with which they feel fused and interrelated like a single flow that flows from the blood in the veins and mystically intertwines with the rays of the burning sun that embraces them. There is no break between what is physical and what is metaphysical. Macaluso wants his journey to be the journey of all those who observe. w – https://www.macalusofabiana.it/ e – fabiana19802@gmail.com

The Peace list| Oil on canvas | 120x80cm 13

Magda Chiarelli | Italy DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Born in Milan and grown up between Emilia and Romagna, I have always brought back the enterprise and the eclecticism of the first place, joint with the enthusiasm and the joy of living of the second ones. I started painting when I was a child, thanking to my family teachings and I continued following the studios of some maestros and drama schools: thanking to a degree in Modern Literature and another in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, I started a new research on color and painting and on the world of performance, installations and visual arts in general. I am really interested in experiencing several media and materials and in proving myself with no limits to make my job increasingly meaningful and personal, so in 2017 I began the PhotoPaintingFusion, a technique in which a photograph and a painting specifically created are melted, losing concreteness and substance, in order to create the sensation of being immersed in a thick atmosphere with a different time and space thanking to their fusion: the colours are communication and magic, so we lose ourselves in their never-ending possibilities to feel every new evocation and this makes us free and give us the possibility of going out of our cages. w – www.magdarteclaudio.com e – magda.chiarelli@gmail.com

Bricks | PhotoPaintingFusion| 40x30cm 15

Mariana Siebold| Guatemala DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

“ Guardians of Time” All year long I have been travelling back and forth from Guatemala to Europe. Essentially my work focuses on creating a universal language of connections between people through intuitive images. Every time I come to Europe I feel like I am travelling through time.

Seeing the architecture and the way of life that is so different from home, it seems as if Europeans keep the past in the present. That is what this piece represents. Made up of 5 parts, I tried to recreate clocks. Three of them in a traditional-European-looking way and 2 of them in a more modern style. Time… as if it changes but at the same time stays the same. That is how I feel in Europe.

w – www.marianasiebold.com e – marianasiebold@gmail.com

Guardians of time | Resin, wood, metal, acrylics | 36x44cm each piece

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Sinikka Elfving | Norway DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Sinikka Elfving is a Nordic painter. She was born in the Northern part of Finland close to Arctic Circle. She lives and works in Norway. She is inspired by the strong contraries of the Arctic life, the dark, long and cold Winters and the bright Summers. This is revealed in her works. She uses symbols in her art which are found in nature. In that way her art becomes lyrical, spiritual and expressionistic. The metaphysical aspect of colors has a special place to embrace emotions. She is also fascinated by the phenomena of light that has certain magic in the Arctic Zones during the seasons.

With her art she tries to inspire people to value the spiritual meaning of life, to protect the nature and work for peace. The Earth is our only home that we should be able to share with each others, live and let live in peace and harmony. The nature is the exclusive provider of life on Earth and our survival is depending on it. We should find a turning point in our evolution towards humanity and respect for life.

w – http://www.sinikkaelfvingartist.com e – sinikka.elfving@gmail.com

Shadows of the night | Acrylic on Canvas | 60x80cm 19

Yvonne Wiese | Denmark DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION As a child artclasses inspired me to paint people and I liked it very much. Therefore, when I start as technical translator, I never stopped painting only slowed down until I stopped working. Then I started in art schools and learned by professional artists. When I was introduced to paint with artist knife I found the expression I wanted. I specialized in acrylic paint layer on layer with artist knife on canvas, as I very much like the raw and not photographically expression. I paint impressively and with bright colours, and like the contrast between light and shadow. My motives are people, animals and nature from own photos and inspiration from different medias. My speciality is portraits. I have exhibitions in Denmark as well as Spain Italy , and Portugal.

In Denmark I am member of the art cooperation K21 with 3 exhibitions each year and I exhibit in Art Nordic 2020 in Copenhagen in March. I have been awarded with many international prices.

w – http://www.portraetspeciel.dk e – ytw45@hotmail.com

Road Knights | Acrylic on canvas | 40x50cm 21

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Kayo Sato | Japan DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Kayo Sato was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She received her Ph.D in fine art in 2006. She is a versatile and unique artistic innovator adept at working with fiber, including dyeing, weaving, and pleating. Her work is regarded as a contemporary art.

The artist has exhibited her artwork throughout Europe, especially Italy, and is also active in regional promotion, cultural property protection, design education dissemination, and product production, etc.

Kayo currently lives in Japan, working as an artist. While her style of art-making has changed over the years. She continues to enchant the viewer. “In my work, color is an important factor. My soul is in the color. So I dye the colors myself.

I've always done that and will continue to do so.”

w – https://www.kayosato.com/ e – art.kayosato@gmail.com

Carmen | Flower drops I Habanera = Pleating 53x70x10cm | 65x90x20cm | 60x53x10cm 25

Domingo Parada | Bolivia DOWNTOWN CHIADO CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION

I believe that, as a painter, my creative work is fruit of my awareness of the world which surrounds us. But the world is not only a visual world. It is also the immensurable world of our interior mind, its landscape of emotions, imagination and fantasy. All that exists in the Universe is constantly created by energy. This energy manifests itself in billions of vibrations, among this is light. Light is color. The infinite colors of the spectrum together with the geometric forms that are essence of the Universe give me a palette that I can use to demonstrate the moments of my conscious experience. My work can be interpreted by consciously or un-consciously grasping the vibrations of the light in all of its forms and colors as if they were a form of pure music.

w – facebook.com/domingo.parada.52 e – dparada807@gmail.com

Melody in Pink| Acrylics on D'Arches paper 300 | 57x72cm 27