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LISBOA ARTE BIENAL Exposição coletiva de arte contemporânea Atelier Natália Gromicho Rua Nova da Trindade 5G, Lisboa 4 a 17 de Março 2023

Angie Hickson Daniela Guerreiro Hans Varela Hiroyuki Ohnishi Mariana Santos Metka Vergnion Miran Mobasheri Mohamadhadi Fadavi Motoko Hasegawa Natália Gromicho Parvaneh Razaghi Safoora Esmailnejadi WangTou Kun Wedad Alnasser Xixia Wu

Angie Hickson Angie Hickson is an English artist who relocated from The Netherlands to Portugal in 2020. With a background in fine art and textile design, she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003. Angie produced designs for fashion houses in the United States before establishing textile design company Isana Design.

After moving to The Netherlands Angie focused on fine art painting, combining her love of colour into the landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that inspire her in everyday life.

Angie turns damaged surfboards which would otherwise be in landfill into beautiful pieces of art.

Angie's paintings have been sold to private collectors in the United Kingdom, Norway, Portugal, The Netherlands, Canada and The United States.

(1) Waves (2) Lisbon Palette | Acrylic on Surfboard | 170x46cm 7

Daniela Guerreiro Daniela Guerreiro is a Portuguese artist, born in 1992 in Faro. Today he lives in Lisbon where he finds most of his inspiration. He studied Visual Arts at the Faculty of Algarve from 2013 to 2014, and then painting from 2014 to 2016, at the Belas Artes de Lisboa.

Daniela is a figurative painter whose main intention of her work is to show reality, naked and raw, that is, her vision of the world. Painting allows you to capture individual and collective experiences in a more explicit concept. Each of them embodies the concept of social exclusion, shame, depression, insecurity, violence, etc., namely feelings that are little heard and talked about by society. While oil paintings individualize society, murals and street paintings aim to cover a broader, collective environment. The use of unconventional models allows you to convey a hidden beauty between each of them, where you look for a hidden and raw beauty of each character, working on color and the interaction between light and darkness. A personal and global journey in search of health and bodily connection is her main goal as a visual artist.

“We need diversity in the examples around us. And we all need a healthier relationship with our bodies and with our image, to relate to the world.”

The Naked Portraits | Oil on canvas | 190x130cm 9

Hans Varela Born in the City of Havana, Cuba. On July 5, 1967. Figurative sculptor in materials with stone, bronze, resin and others. The sculptor Hans Varela debuted in the art world in the mid-eighties. Vanguard of the sculpture of that generation in Cuba, he was the founder of the Sculpture of José Fowler, perfecting himself in the workshop of Cuban sculptors Osvaldo Llins and José Duverger, recognized guides of advanced generation.

Exhibitions, awards and distinctions Collective exhibition Gallery in Skulpturenpark Groeneveld Almelo, The Netherlands Monumental work for the Estoril Conference Center, Portugal. 1st Prize in the XIX Contest of Thrones of Sto. António, Bienvenida Centro Gallery, Lisbon.

Various media outlets have valued his work. He has more than 70 collective and 20 personal exhibitions in his career and participation in various international events.

The strength to live | Marble dust, Polyester and Wood | 55x30x30cm 11

Hiroyuki Ohnishi One of the most important works of the painter Hiroyuki Onishi is his depiction of beautiful women. The women in his paintings are characterized by their strong-willed eyes, beautiful curves, and fragile atmosphere. His works have a very philosophical atmosphere, which is the most attractive feature of his works, and the melancholy atmosphere is wonderful. Another thing that should not be forgotten when discussing Hiroyuki Onishi's works is the blank space. The margins, which give the viewer a sense of the temperature and weight of the air surrounding the motif figures, is something that cannot be experienced anywhere else but in Hiroyuki Onishi's works. This beauty of the margins is not only supported by the artist's technical skills, such as the unique cropping and composition of the figures, but also by his strong philosophy regarding the boundaries between people, objects, and space. The overwhelming density of the beauty of the margins and the portraits of women that evoke the inner lives and pasts of these people make Hiroyuki Onishi's beautiful paintings of women a profoundly weighty work.

Portrait | Oil on canvas | 45x52cm 13

Mariana Santos The two pieces I'm displaying in this exhibition are part of a wider body of work based on still frames from 50s and 60s TV shows like “The Twilight Zone”, “Hitchcock Presents”, “The Hitchcock Hour”, “Tales of Tomorrow” and “The Outer Limits”. In them, I attempt to renew or reanimate the old and poignant images that I see as still wor thy of life by isolating them and presenting them in a new way. I chose images from TV shows as opposed to movies because I did not want the actors to be immediately identifiable; I wanted the beauty of the images themselves as opposed to simply a portrait of a “celebrity”.

The subject of my work is often centered around people and how they relate to place. I’m intrigued by how they either fit or don’t fit appropriately into their surroundings be those physical or psychological. Being influenced by other art forms like literature and cinema, I try to use a narrative to suggest what the characters are doing, may just have done or are about to do. As well as thoughts or doubts they might be experiencing.

Problem Without | Acrylic on canvas | 81x100cm 15

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”

Sparkling Foliages | Digital Print on canvas | 150x120cm 17

Miran Mobasheri

For an “artist photographer”, each frame is like a medium between “ego” and “the world spirit”. A way to record the transparency of the world and its latent modesty, an struggle between “darkness and light”, “to be and not to be”, “far and close”, “prosperity and demolition”… In the meantime… I would listen to the song of the world. To the whisper of the leaves. With reflection on the universe and wonders of the nature, I would be drawn to something very beautiful and brilliant. With passing of the first beam, with the least handshake, I will immortalize a disperse piece of heaven in a marvelous frame. The call of appreciate would arise from my soul First from the universe and then from its kind creatures…

“And this is all life”

Lisboa | Photo | 50x75cm 19

Mohamadhadi Fadavi

For many years, he has tried hard in the area of painting, to achieve self-expression.

He was able to make a logical and accurate relation between contemporary painting and the Iranian Miniature Art. He has also been able to give special identity to the presence of miniature at the present time as a historical process in his works. He invites the addressee to accompany him in sightseeing his works, and reminds us that coordination shall exist between the shape and the content of artistic works. In his works, there are many horses without riders with brilliant colors, i.e. turquoise, azure, saffron yellow, white and gray, which are moving from left to right and from right to left slowly and which are seen in a ground of cypress trees and birds. The horses do not cover each other while passing, but their colors are combined when they reach each other; and new colors are created at the time of their contact. He takes benefit from combining materials in his works for achieving a proper structure for his expression and finds canvas as the best ground for his artistic expressions.

Riderless horses and cedar trees | Mixed Media| 150x150cm 21

Motoko Hasegawa The idea that I hold as the foundation not only of my production but also of my life is that "everything is in moderation and absolute.

When I saw that there is no right or wrong or superior or inferior, positive or negative, I became less miserable with myself and it became easier to live.

By accepting all that I feel, I have come to realize that emotions are my response to the world, and I have come to believe that each person perceives and lives in the wor ld through his or her own unique emotions.

I believe that emotion is the absolute with which everyone has a world.

This way of thinking is a way of thinking that I learned and acquired to make my life easier, as I have believed since childhood that I am wrong and others are right.

I enjoy being different, and I believe that creating artwork has been a way for me to express this.

untitled | mixed media | 50x50cm 23

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 k ind 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.

Hermafrodita | Acrylic on canvas | 100x100cm 25

Parvaneh Razaghi The inner and outer voices which are becalmed and silenced. Passing through yet connected, eyes closed. Shot. And yet they are people who put their effort in human understanding and progress.

People who leave behind their attachments in order to create meaning. At times with symbols, at times with complicated forms, the untied knots within themselves, searching for the truth within and in the other.

Tree of hope | Oil on canvas | 120×120cm 27

Safoora Esmailnejad My paintings are an attempt to create a world, where the viewer can find between the layers the mirror image of their inner self. Where the imagination is waiting to be discovered by the spectators.

Creation | Oil on canvas | 100x140cm 29

WangTou Kun Non-Seeing series is my reaction to photography within the digital age, photographs now no longer represent the real world, it can be fiction. “Non-Seeing” also challenge the concept of traditional photography, which emphasizes the way of “see” or viewing. While digital camera process images that very close to the reality, in fact it is all digital data. So I capture images and turn it into impossible, surreal view, to remind audience to be wary of camouflage in images.

“Seeing” or “Non-Seeing” can be related to “Exist” or “Not Exist”. I am influence by Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou, he questioned why the sky is blue in color, I question images and the reality that human eyes can see. There is more data or information hidden, not trying to see might be the way to feel more.

I create “Non-Seeing01, 2023” by imagining Lisbon and its nature, it is my impression of Lisbon overall.

Non-Seeing 01 | Photography + Digital Media | 80x120cm 31

Xixia Wu Chicken and eggs are often used to discuss the origin of life and the universe. It symbolizes the source of life, and the eggshell contains the mysteries of all things in the world. It is the beginning and end of human beings. Language and human beings are like the logical relationship between eggs and chickens. We use language to thank, curse, pray, express feelings and so on. In the sense of life, eggs represent chicken eggs in language and also mean female reproductive cells, and are often associated with reproduction. Men and women have sperm and eggs physiologically, while women's eggs can only be released at a specified time, the rest of the time in a state of "aphasia".

The Birth of Egg Tart | Sculpture | 50x50x30cm 33

Wedad Alnasser Wedad Alnasser is a Jordanian, born in Amman , artist, actress & photographer.with a master degree in law . Her work conveys the battleground of inner self and the need for belonging ,and the psychological impact of modernity that triggers the disconnection between self and space ,and her own interpretation of social ties and human behavior concealed with consumption as a way of identification, inspired by a past rooted with inked faces Exhibited artworks in Seoul , Jordan ,Bahrain, Jakarta, Malaysia, China, UK, qatar, Australia, Paris, Dubai, Tunisia.

Untitled | Acrylic and oil on wood | 80x80cm 35

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