Downtown Chiado 23 - Official Catalog

Downtown Chiado Exposição coletiva de arte contemporânea Atelier Natália Gromicho Rua Nova da Trindade 5G, Lisboa 4 a 10 de Fevereiro 2023 Capa de Šárka Darton

Ana Maria Malta Aranka Székely Bruno Wilbert Christelle Duval Domingo Parada Elisabete Guerreiro Kayo Sato Leonor Sousa Metka Vergnion Natália Gromicho Nel Ten Wolde Noelle Kalom Normand ALLAIRE Paola Korga Šárka Darton Stanislav Riha

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Ana Maria Malta Ana Maria Malta was born in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. She exhibits about 400 collective and individual exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Brazil, the United States and Japan, where he won numerous awards and distinctions.

She is cited in several national and international art publications. About her technique, Her palette is chromatically bright and pluripigmented. Her works speak of the burning of Life in Nature, from a non-figurative expressiveness of the surrounding natural environment, with an imagery reference that presents the Elements of Nature in plastic dialogue with Man. The parish council of Vila Franca de Xira, taking into account her artistic career, elevated Master Ana Maria Malta to Citizenship of Merit of the City, in 2000, as a reference example of talent, art and Vilafranquense passion. In March 2017, she was highlighted as one of the 33 Exemplary women from the city of Vila Franca de Xira, in the year in which the City celebrated 33 years.

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Inverno sentido | Aquarelle on paper | 77x51cm 7

Aranka Székely Dr. Aranka Székely was born in 1966 in Transylvania, Romania. Having graduated from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, she relocated to Hungary. Aranka is a doctor by profession and an artist by her passion and creative mind. She currently runs her private medical practice in Alsózsolca and Miskolc, Hungary. As a self-taught artist she tried her hand in different styles of painting from realistic to abstract using pastels, acrylic and watercolours. Aranka’s color palette is very vivid and at the same time very feminine.

Aranka, has great technical ability and has indeed participated in many exhibitions and been recognized with many international awards, but the most important thing about her remains her passion for art, which gives her enormous joy and helps her to cope with daily stress. Looking at her works, it is clear Aranka's intention, to use her creativity, her colours and her emotions on the canvases for dedicate to us observers, the most joyful side of her and of her life, which thanks to the brushstrokes purifies and cheers the soul.Her artworks are displayed in a lot of artbooks and art magazines in Europe and USA. www.ateliernataliagromicho.com/arankaszekely | arankadr@gmail.com

Poppy meadow | Pastel on canvas | 30x40cm 9

Bruno Wilbert For 4 years I have been living on the island of Madeira, which inspired me with its impressive nature to start the project ART 4 ... OUR NATURE. Since art is also a means of communication, I draw attention to nature conservation issues with some of my objects, such as the large-scale sculpture "HOPE" or also my compact acrylic objects from the title series MAXIMINIMALISMUS. Some time ago, an employee of an internationally active environmental and nature conservation organization wrote me the following: "It is not art to destroy our livelihoods, but it takes art to draw attention to it".

Such thoughts motivate me and spur me on - possibly they will have a similar effect on other artists. In order to be able to efficiently promote the preservation and restoration of valuable ecosystems, I make a large number of my MONO stand objects available for non-profit actions. I gave the objects the abstract subtitle "GOLDEN SIGNALS OF NATURE" because I have been fascinated for some years by the idea that trees can communicate by means of signals via a network of fungi and roots under the surface of the earth. In my non-profit actions, I deliberately refrain from generating profits, as I want to motivate people to support important nature conservation projects - because this would be a gain for all of us. ART 4 ... OUR NATURE - together we are stronger. www.art4-info.com I project@art4-info.com

GOLDEN SIGNALS OF NATURE Fine structured acrylic objects 11x10x3cm

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Christelle Duval

My creations are based on photos of objects, decorations, textures, animals, parts of the human body, which I take in various everyday places or during my travels. The photos are then carefully chosen to be superimposed and reworked, in order to tell you a colorful story or send you a particular message. A new perception of the existing. One also often perceives in my works, a movement, like an air of music. Your own imagination and life experience will give you the freedom to make them your own, to make them exist through you. This is how I conceive the Art.

www.artactif.com/site-web/chris-d.html | chr.duval@icloud.com

Firework | Photography & digital art printed on plexiglas | 80x80cm 13

Domingo Parada

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.

www.facebook.com/domingo.parada.52 | dparada807@gmail.com

Sonata in blue | Acrylics on D'Arches paper 300 | 72x57cm 15

Elisabete Guerreiro Elisabete Silva Guerreiro Isabel was born in Faro. From an early age, she showed an interest in Visual Arts, having followed in Secondary Education, the area of Art and Design. She graduated in Visual Education in 1992 from Escola Superior de Educação de Beja. In 1994, she joined the Equipment Design course at the Faculty of Architecture in Lisbon. She took an online course in Footwear Design, at ESME Fashion School – Madrid, in 2019.She held several courses and workshops in the areas of drawing, painting and sculpture with well-known Spanish painters, including Pablo Lanuza, Alberto Germán, Irene Cuadrado, Coque Bayan, Cecílio Chaves, Ana Sara Soberón and Eduardo Millán.Since the late 1980s, she has participated in several individual and group exhibitions (Algarve, Beja, Lisbon, Ayamonte, Seville, South Korea, Armenia and Turkey).

www.instagram.com/elisabeteguerreiro_artist | elisabete.guerreiro.isabel@gmail.com

Mulher | Acrylic on canvas | 50x50cm 17

Kayo Sato 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 artmaking 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.”

www.kayosato.com/ | art.kayosato@gmail.com

Chatting Orange | Polyester, Wool | 60×70×25cm 19

Elisabeth Vaz Elisabeth VAZ born in 1972 in Isère, self-taught painter. I started painting a little over 22 years ago, often in the evening when the children are asleep and sneaking around! Yes in secret because in my entourage we do not understand my new craze for painting ...

Being of Portuguese origin, in our environment Art is not part of our culture or my education ... I persevere despite everything because it brings me a lot, I who am quite withdrawn, in front of my canvas I finally express myself, I transmit my emotions, I am me in another world, I exist. In my paintings we find a dominance of warm tones, a lively and luminous palette. When I started I worked with brushes and very quickly I integrated the square and the rule. I mainly work with oil, I recently tried acrylic and aerosol. After a period marked by intimate and relatively confidential work, I decided to show my work to the general public. My first exhibition will take place in 2008 at the Grenoble Painters 'Market, for the next 8 years, I exhibited at the Hôtel de l'Europe in Grenoble, at the Comptoir de l'Armaccord, at the Marché de l'Art d' Annecy and in St Cyr au Mont d'Or. This will be followed by an individual exhibition at the Lyon City Hall and other exhibitions. www.elisabeth-vaz.com/ | elisabeth.vaze@orange.fr

Primavera | Mixed Technique | 150x120cm 21

Leonor Trindade Sousa

“I am what life does to me .... I am the rest of everything and the beginning of a lot...”

Leonor Trindade Sousa, was born in Vagos, Aveiro - Portugal. She finished school on the Arts’ area at Liceu Dr. Manuel Laranjeira in Espinho, the city which saw her growing up.

Since adolescence that curiosity and intuition awakened her to the world of arts, particularly to the painting. Through various techniques ... from figurative to abstract ... from acrylic to oil ... She has painted different collections. Her entire work results from a great stoicism and struggle. An unusual tribute that shares the spirit of solidarity, which feeling is to contribute to the demystification of a more egalitarian freedom and justice through her art, not forgetting her intrinsic female condition in parallel the most remarkable and sensitive condition, the motherhood. Meeting Leonor Sousa is to know the hardships that shaped her character, her personality and her fight for a more fraternal world. Her curriculum already has a huge amount of individual and collective exhibitions, either national or international (Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Luxembourg, Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Norway, Colombia and U.S.A.) She also received several awards from Brazil, Italy, Spain, France, India, U.S.A, Life gave her the ability to express herself through art.

leonorsousapintura.pt/ | leonor.limas.sousa@gmail.com

Inquietude | Acrylic on canvas | 54x88cm 23

Metka Vergnion The photographs displayed in this exhibition are inspired by Japan, the country that fascinates me since many years by its beauty, cultural difference, ancient tradition and philosophy. The “Spiritual garden” series represent dry landscape gardens, their graphical aesthetics and spiritual values. Through numerous visits to gardens in Kyoto and around Japan I became aware of their mystical roots and tried to replicate their inherent feelings of peace and serenity into my work. Symbolic graphical elements where nature is reduced to its abstract form, incite creativity. To convey the essence of these gardens I applied a reduced colour palette along with superpositions and subtractions as a technical means. The process of assembling these images brings to mind the same inspirational challenges that gardener needs to overcome, when raking the gravel into the patterns inside zen gardens. I studied photography/film at ENS Louis Lumière in Paris, participated in numerous group/solo exhibitions in Europe and Asia.

Book: ”Extracted from time 1970-2017”

metkavergnion.com/about/ | mvergnion47@gmail.com

Moss Pattern | Digital Print on canvas | 150x120cm 25

Natália Gromicho 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, mirrored 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.

www.nataliagromicho.com/ | info@nataliagromicho.com

Viagem de comboio | Acrylic on canvas | 100x100cm 27

Nel Ten Wolde Originating from the Netherlands, Nel ten Wolde migrated to Australia in 1986. Since this move, Nel has enjoyed the possibilities of travelling internationally, particularly throughout Europe, seeking inspiration from different countries and cultures. She has been invited multiple times to take part as artist in residence, working alongside and collaborating with other artists. Whilst in Melbourne, her work is focused on abstract landscape oil paintings in varied sizes.

When working as Artist in residence she mainly works on collages with photos taken by her on long walks, mostly over old pilgrim routes, through different countries. She likes to restrict herself with the materials, to force herself to get on to other ideas to create the collages.

Most recently she started to make collages on iPad, photos taken of different materials over each other, floating in water, with already existing photos. Then she adds drawing and painting on iPad.

www.neltenwolde.com/ | n.tenwolde@gmail.com

The Hug | Oil on canvas | 71x84cm 29

Noelle Kalom I am interested in the human tendency to find patterns and familiar forms in chaotic and random designs. My creative process is based on this innate impulse and each new painting holds its own path of discovery. I begin by applying thick medium gel to the canvas. Using a palette knife, I add several layers to create a messy, unplanned topographic foundation. Contrasting colors are brushed on to emphasize the nuances of the textured surface, and at this point pumice, beads or other media is often incorporated into the mix. It is through this process of layering that I begin to detect and highlight recognizable shapes and human features that form the painting’s composition. What slowly emerges is an abstract landscape in intense and shifting colors that reflect canyons, mountain ridges, rivers, and fields. In a nod to my passion for maps, the final painting invites the viewer to find their own path through this unknown territory.

www.noellekalom.com/ | noellekalom777@gmail.com

Untitled | Mixed Technique | 30x30cm 31

Normand ALLAIRE My name is Normand ALLAIRE. I lived in Montreal, Paris, Brussels, Phnom Penh and today I live in France (Brittany). Photography has always been my passion, my favorite vector of expression. From film to digital, my work as a photographer has focused on a search for beauty, harmony, the balance of shapes, lines, colors, what macro photography, landscapes, architecture, … inspire me spontaneously. My image production remains classic, but I also like to test the metamorphosis of the image thanks to the mastery of digital processing tools. For example, sublimating the image, transforming a landscape photograph into an art photograph, an abstract painting, a gallery work, an original and unique decorative object. In another register, probably a legacy of my experience in documentary film, I seek to portray the fleeting moment that reveals the human condition. By its force of expression, each character then becomes the illustration of its destiny, sometimes happy, often dramatic. www.normandsky-photo.com/ | normandsky@gmail.com

Homme au marché | Photographe | 40x27cm 33

Paola Korga The artist has a very personal style that ranges from figurative to abstract. Many symbolist, tribal and multi-ethnic influences characterize her technique. Paola Korga is constantly looking for new textures to be included in her works, making them precious and unique. This adds a further level of interpretation in addition to the ones provided by the colors and the subjects represented. The collage and the use of different materials is a trademark of her works, as well. The union of these elements with bright and earthy colors, ranging from the reds, orange in all its shades, and on to the browns, golden, and bronze ones, summarizes the author’s life and experiences. Paola Korga indeed travelled for years around West Africa, supporting and helping children and families in need. Her paintings, powerfully showing her genuine passion, reflect the great variety and cultural richness of the people she met, the beauty of nature as well as the unspoiled landscape.

She portrays the mothers, carrying with strength and elegance the spiritual, albeit heavy heritage of ancestral times. Paola Korga renders in a simple portrait the genetic emotional cultural map of a people thanks to a wise and refined use of her particular technique. www.tintimol.com | paola.corgatelli@icloud.com

The Magician | Mixed Technique | 118x95cm 35

Šárka Darton

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.

sarkadarton.net/ | sarkadarton@hotmail.co.uk

Labyrinth | 27x27x17cm Entanglement | 7x14x14cm Cat´s Cradle | 30x30x45cm The Threads of Conversation | 17x11x21cm Mixed media

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Stanislav Riha

In the last three decades, I have been creating wall-mounted, cast resin and aluminum, sculptures combined with canvas and gold leaf, and exploring of computer as a tool for both realistic and digital artwork. All my life, I love to create art full of emotions and feelings "soul," with the satisfaction of fun. The direction of the last two decades is aimed at understanding and, through artwork, expressing the human struggle of emotions and adaptions. In the period of the past ten years, I have been polishing my creative work into the Surreal-abstract style. The main moto of my artwork is; Just as in a good story, the readers have space to create their image; in a good picture, the viewers have a space to create their account. Since 2009, Editor-in-Chief of IQNexus Journal, In 2015 wrote a book "Judy and Bob Dialogues," published by FriesenPress, Victoria BC, Canada,

stanriha.website/ | stanriha@gmail.com

Challengers | Collage | 52x35cm 39

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