Lisbon International Contemporary Exhibition - Catalog 2019

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Atelier Natรกlia Gromicho is proud to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Lisbon International Contemporary Exhibition, the international art exhibition that provides a wide range of artists from all around the world in Lisbon.

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Angelina Maia | Portugal

Natรกlia Gromicho | Portugal

Domingo Parada | USA

Stanislav Riha | Canada

Endre Bartos | Hungary

Elisabeth Vaz | France

Jaime Prates | Portugal

Angela Piedade | Portugal

Rossella Sferlazzo | Italy

Day Barry | United Kingdom

Marco Miranda | Mexico

Carlos Villegas | Colombia

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Angelina Maia | Portugal

I caught cardboard fever years ago. I’ll never get over it! Have you ever feel the smoothness of cardboard? Can you imagine starting from old boxes and step by step transforming it in pieces of art? I work my art with passion and delicacy. Creation feels me with happiness and gratitude. I enjoy every details and like to imagine some of my sculptures fragmented, desintegrated, like arqueological statue remains which have just been unearthed. I use old cardboard boxes to reduce the ecological impact of my creations.

Inspiration is everywhere: antic sculptures, nature, fashion design, graphic forms, magazines or shop windows... What do I enjoy most? When people ask which metal I use and when I explain it’s cardboard they just don’t believe it. www.cartaoconcept.com | cartaoconcept@gmail.com

Epona 59x41x27cm I | Renda de cartĂŁo| 59x41x27cm

Natália Gromicho | Portugal

A gifted painter, in the purest sense, Natália has skilfully created a body of work that is simultaneously lyrical and mysterious, jubilant yet poetic. Employing these paradoxes, she skilfully 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 avantgarde conceptions of deconstruction emerging during Modernism.

nataliagromicho.com | info@nataliagromicho.com

Tiles 18| Acrylic on canvas| 120x100cm

Domingo Parada | USA

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.

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

Magnificat| Acrylic on D´Arches 300 paper| 72x57cm

Stanislav Riha | Czech Republic

Visual artist, photographer, and writer was born in 1952 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. Since 1980 he lives in Vancouver BC Canada.

All his life he loves to create art full of feelings and “soul,” with the satisfaction of fun. He has been painting since childhood, as a young man mainly surrealism, last decade working in sculptured wall mounts combined with canvas and gold leaf as well as lately exploring computer as a tool for both physical and digital artwork. Since 2009 he is Editor-in-Chief of IQNexus Journal, in 2015 wrote a book “Judy and Bob Dialogues,” published by FriesenPress, Victoria BC, Canada,

http://stanriha.website | stanriha@gmail.com

Sailing in the moonlight| Mixed Technique | 84x54cm 13

Endre Bartos | Hungary

The very talented painter Endre Bartos (1930-2006 Hungary) lifework like landscapes, rows of houses, still lifes, relationships, flowers impress by style, color but also by perspectives. They amaze by the structure, power and brilliance of the thickly-filled oil paint. Bartos`s Art does not open up in a first or fleeting encounter. You have to look several times to be able to capture the full spectrum of its colorful splendor.

Life affirmation, joy, brightness and optimism, sometimes even darkness and thoughtfulnessthat is what the paintings of the painter radiate.

His art actually pointed to the influence of the Masters of German Expressionism in the development of his work, but his kind of motive interpretation is completely independent and unmistakable. And not only with regard to the relief-like surface structure with the chosen spatula technique, but also the way in which he combined a landscape experience into often block-like structures, almost forged together.

www.artinposter.com | artinposter6@gmail.com

Woodland | Oil on canvas | 80x100cm

Elisabeth Vaz | France

Born in 1972 in La Tronche in Isère, Elisabeth is a mother of three girls and twice grandma !! Of Portuguese origin, the cultural imprint of this country is sometimes very present in its work. Selftaught, Elisabeth learns to handle the brushes and the knife before integrating squares and rulers into her techniques. His first exhibition will take place in 2008 at the Marché des peintres in Grenoble, renowned for the quality of the amateur artists presented.

w – www.elisabeth-vaz.com e – Elisabeth.vaze@orange.fr

Orange city| Mixed Technique| 60x120cm 17

Jaime Prates – Portugal

Photography is a mean that allows me to capture a world that seems fleeting. With photography, I search for a reality beyond what we perceive as reality, urban experiences, human expressions, broken realities and a obscure and hidden side of life.

http://www.facebook.com/KingslayerPhotography | pratesjaime@gmail.com

Quimigramas | Mixed Technique

Angela Piedade | Portugal

I consider myself watercolorist, while for a plastic expressivity that contemplates the merging of several techniques for better representation of what I feel. I use oil, acrylic, watercolor, that allow me to capture a poetic, diaphanous and sensual reality.

http://angelapiedade.wix.com/angela-piedade-art | angela.r.piedade@gmail.com

Composições| Aquarelle pasted on canvas| 20x30cm

Rossella Sferlazzo | Italy

I work mainly on acrylic on canvas. In my series “ Women of light ” there is a sentimental continuum, a Leitmotiv that is in every artwork , or rather the awareness and the will to react adversity of life through the beauty of life. Painting become an occasion to express a “poetic” inside world , to the freedom to express yourself and to give space to the inside power that differentiates the feminine. The main character of these artworks are women, women that had to overcome many trials of strength to of their life through resilience , bringing together again to their real. By a serious alchemy work on their soul, they transform pain in joy, illness in healing, dead in life. In 2016 after a skin disease, I used art , my dream and passion, like therapy and I began Women of light series of paintings.

www.rossellasferlazzo.com | rossellasferlazzo@gmail.com

Cardum Sylvaticum | Acrylic on canvas| 60x50cm

Day Barry | United Kingdom

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

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Free Fall | Acrylic on canvas| 30x23cm

Marco Miranda | Mexico

L.A.P. Artista multidisciplinario, ha expuesto internacionalmente en Europa, Asia, Medio Oriente y América, destacando Bangladesh, Portugal, Qatar, Beijing, China, Milán, It., Miami, Fl., Chicago, Ili, Los Ángeles, San Diego, Denver, Co., San Francisco, Ca., Cuba. Radicando en Baja California desde hace 14 años donde nace su gusto pictórico, actualmente trabaja tiempo completo en su taller-estudio en Mexicali. Nominado Art Prize San Diego New Contemporaries Artists VIII 2015 en San Diego, CA., mismo año donde gana primer lugar en exposición Internacional Mini Art 2.

Ganador X Bienal Universitaria de Arte Contemporáneo UABC (Premio Nacional), Ganador en el Premio Internacional 53 Bice Bugatti, Milan,Italia, en el 2017 fue Seleccionado en la 7ma Bienal Internacional de Arte de Beijing, China. 2018 Seleccionado en la XX Bienal de Arte de Cerveira, Portugal, al igual que en la Bienal de Asia en Bangladesh.

http://marcomiranda.mx/ | tallerestudiomarcomiranda@gmail.com

Utopia Zero | Mixed Technique on plexiglass| 76x152cm

Carlos Villegas | Colombia

Mi producción artística comienza a tomar forma cuando me voy a vivir al campo detrás de las montañas orientales de Bogotá, Colombia, en la vereda Frailejonal del municipio de La Calera. El paisaje bucólico y mi continua estancia en la ciudad es la fórmula perfecta para desarrollar estas obras impactantes que están cargadas de dos agentes: la naturaleza y la cultura. La poética abunda en la coalición de materiales e ideas, llevando al espectador a un recorrido por rasgos de mi vida que se deprenden de la experiencia intencional. www.cvillegasju.wix.com/cjvv | cvillegasju@gmail.com

Lucero III | Photograph| 60x90cm

general information

Curator | Gonzalo Madeira

Duration of the Exhibition | October 5th – 11th 2019

Location | Atelier Natalia Gromicho Rua Nova da Trindade, 5G Piso S/L 1200-301 Lisboa - PORTUGAL

Exhibition Hours | Mon-Fri from 2 to 6pm

Private View | October 5th, 2019, 3pm

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