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Intuitively minimal with Yeachin Tsai

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Yeachin Tsai is best known for her rhythmic forms and decisive brush strokes made with a certainty rooted in Chinese calligraphy, and the infinite time and space dynamics of Chinese painting. She received her BFA at the National Taiwan Normal University and she holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Yeachin Tsai mostly uses ink and fluid acrylic on paper, canvas, and fabrics. The supports of the paintings are prepared to be absorbent like rice paper, so the color soaks in rather than sitting on the surface. She generates tension with the intimate scale of the smaller paintings and their colossal internal energy. Her large scale paintings use big brushwork to draw the viewer in and then explode joyously with energetic color and invigorating mark-making. Her subjects cover both the visible, for example still life, and the unseen as abstract movements evoking inner activity and emotions. Now based in upstate New York, Yeachin Tsai has exhibited her work at such notable venues as the Painting Center in …

Floating above reality with Fernando Gaspar

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Fernando Gaspar is seen as a self-taught visual artist. Born in 1966 in Portugal, he began his journey through the drawing and practice of watercolor. Fully dedicated to the activity since 1986, the year in which it began to participate in shows and prizes, and to exhibit regularly in the main art galleries of the country, exploring and adopting other supports, materials and techniques, he had his first solo exhibition outside Portugal took in 1995. There have been some National Prizes, collective participations and more than 50 solo exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. Over the years, the plasticity of Fernando Gaspar’s work has evolved towards an increasingly reflective and contemporary approach. So far, there are more than sixty solo exhibitions, some National Awards and representations in public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Brazil and United States. Fernando Gaspard has seen his works evolved towards an increasingly reflexive and contemporary approach , strongly marked by an assumed independence from current trends. Fernando Gaspar : The echo of …

La Gravité et la Grâce par Gérard Uféras

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Gérard Uféras est né et vit à Paris. À partir de 1984, il entame une collaboration régulière avec le journal Libération, pour lequel il réalise de nombreux reportages et portraits. Il participe à la création de l’agence VU en 1986, et publie régulièrement dans la presse française et internationale. Parallèlement au photo-journalisme et à son travail de portraitiste, il réalise des campagnes de publicité, travaille dans la communication institutionnelle et réalise des séries de mode. Il poursuit parallèlement des recherches personnelles qui l’amènent à exposer dans de nombreux pays. Passionné par la musique et le théâtre, lauréat du prix “Villa Medicis hors les murs”, il entreprend dès 1988 un long périple à travers l’Europe dans les coulisses des théâtres d’Opéra. Commencé à Paris et achevé à Moscou en 2001 celui-ci sera publié dans le livre ” Un fantôme à l’Opéra ” aux éditions du Collectionneur. Il rejoint l’agence Rapho en 1993. Suivent alors une série de grands travaux: “L’Etoffe des rêves”: l’univers de la mode réalisé dans toute l’Europe ainsi qu’à New-York, “The visit”: l’ile de …

Memories arrested in space with Chun Mi-Jin

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Chun Mi-Jin, South Korean born artist, who currently lives in Genoa, Italy, has a background majoring in painting in Korea. After studying Fine Art at Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea, she flew to Germany and continued to study architecture at the German University of Stuttgart and worked as an architect in Germany.  After ten years living in Germany, then she moved to Italy with her family where she is now focusing on three-dimensional works and paintings. Her work (Con-creARte) has been exhibited at  SaloneSatellite in Milan, Italy and published in various magazines. With this multicultural background, she focuses on architectural fine art and pictorial spatiality. The important elements in her work are unconscious space, form and color. Chun expresses architectural structural geometric forms and free, accidental and spontaneous expression techniques of painting on canvas at the same time. Combinations of contrast and contradictory perspectives, she drives to create new relationships and artistic values. 1. Do you consider yourself as an emerging artist in contemporary art ? Chun Mi-Jin : Well… That’s a very interesting question.  I had …

Art in motion with Erik Saglia

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Born in 1989, Erik Saglia lives and works in Turin in Italy. In his early works Erik Saglia, starting with the implications of the “modernist grid”, emphasizes and restructures it replicating it first with graph paper and spray, then with adhesive tape, that, perfectly laid in orthogonal lines, covers the camouflage spots; the tape is stuck in a precise and rigorous way, submitting the body to the discipline of the exact gesture that contrasts with the free aggregation of the spots below. In the recent works, the strictness that seems to disappear with the smoother motion of tape come back thanks to the precision of applying resin, revived with an almost sculptural thickness. The use of materials, spray paint, tape and synthetic resin, seeks to renew the concept of surface, deleting every biographical and pop aspect reconnecting the work by Erik Saglia to the Spatialist research by Lucio Fontana and the lesson of Alighiero Boetti. Erik Saglia has already participated at several group shows, among all: Too big or not too big at Thomas Brambilla …

“J’ai rêvé le Beau” avec le peintre vénitien Roger de Montebello

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Depuis « Venise la rouge » comme la décrivait Alfred de Musset, le peintre Roger de Montebello suit les traces des grands maîtres qui ont consacré leur don à la représentation parfaite de la Sérénissime. Explorant les liens entre la peinture métaphysique et le monde Méditerranéen, Roger de Montebello se situe à Venise, entre Orient et Occident, là où le cœur d’un Art en quête de sens bat au quotidien. Roger de Montebello découvre très tôt les lieux qui inspireront plus tard sa peinture : Venise, la Méditerranée, l’Espagne. Ses études l’emmènent à Séville où il acquiert les bases de la peinture à la faculté des beaux-arts, puis à Harvard où il étudie à la fois la pratique picturale et l’histoire de l’art. De retour en Europe, il ne tarde pas à se consacrer entièrement à son art. Ses voyages le portent souvent sur les rivages de la mer Méditerranée. Ses thèmes principaux sont les vues urbaines, notamment Venise, la corrida peinte sur le vif et le portrait. En 1994, René Huyghe, éminent spécialiste de la peinture …

André Boubounelle, la confession d’un homme du siècle

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André Boubounelle, un nom qui paraît sortir tout droit d’un roman de Gustave Flaubert. Un nom aux formes arrondies, aux consonances gourmandes qui nous mènent d’office aux portes d’un univers référentiel familier et rassurant. A une époque mettant par principe l’art figuratif de côté, le peintre André Boubounelle ose manier sa palette à la semblance d’un gouvernail traçant son sillage parmi les courants déchaînés du monde. Ancien élève de l’Ecole Nationale des Arts appliqués de Paris, puis de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, il expose quelques années à la Galerie Anne Blanc puis obtient le prix de la Casa Velázquez et de l’Institut de France en 1991, avant de devenir pensionnaire de la Casa Velázquez à Madrid de 1992 à 1993. Héritier de Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes et de Camille Corot, André Boubounelle peint d’un œil très contemporain ses paysages de la campagne et de la montagne, des vues urbaines ou des marines. Empreinte de grâce et de gravité, sa peinture transcrit la vision d’un monde magnifié : ses huiles évoquent le silence – le silence …

Dream of flesh with Rosy Lamb

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Rosy Lamb grew up a homeschooler in a family of artists in the deep woods of New Hampshire, in the northeastern United States. In 1999, she graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 2001, she established her painting and sculpture studio in Paris.  Rosy Lamb is best known for her intimate paintings, often painted on hand-cast plaster panels, which sometimes combine irregular contours, undulating surfaces or sculptural elements in their surface.   In recent years, she has been working on a new series of sculptures and bronze furniture, at the foundry Fusions located in Auvergne. These new sculptures use innovative techniques for making unique forms out of hot wax, drawing inspiration from her training as a painter and her intimate knowledge of bronze casting.    Rosy Lamb has received multiple awards and travel scholarships for her painting and sculpture and has exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia. She has also published a children’s book called “Paul meets Bernadette” (she was listed as one of the Publisher’s Weekly Flying Starts in 2014). She is …

Chorégraphies végétales et architecturales avec Ramon Enrich

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Après des études aux Beaux-Arts de Barcelone ainsi qu’un cursus en arts graphiques, Ramon Enrich décroche une bourse à la fin des années 1980 pour peindre et exposer à l’étranger. D’abord à Francfort, Marbourg et Berlin, où il travaille avec d’autres artistes autour de différents projets d’installations et d’expositions. Ramon Enrich s’envole ensuite pour les Etats-Unis afin de se former auprès des artistes qu’il admire. Il séjourne quelques mois à la Fondation Donald Judd, puis à la Fondation Chinati, avant d’y exposer son travail dès le début des années 1990. Il poursuit son voyage jusqu’à Los Angeles où il rencontre Ed Ruscha ainsi que David Hockney avec lequel il collabore. Il s’installe ensuite quelques années à New-York et devient l’assistant de Julian Schnabel. A son retour en Europe, il occupe un atelier à la Künstlerhaus Mousonturm de Francfort avant de revenir dans sa catalogne natale où il vit depuis lors. De retour en Europe, il s’établit en France puis en Allemagne où des institutions publiques et privées font l’acquisition de ses œuvres : Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, …

Dean West, photography grounded in reality

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A wide range of environments and character types are explored in the works of New York City-based Dean West. The Australian-born (1983) artist who studied at the Queensland College of Art, is best known for his intricate and highly staged photographs that take everyday occurrences beyond the realm of natural reality. Extraordinary in their tonal range, digital clarity, and artistic vision, Dean West’s meticulously choreographed scenes, character studies, and atmospheric landscapes powerfully yet synthetically link needs to desires and documentation to invention. Passionately dedicated to the vast possibilities of digital photography as both a medium and a cultural epoch, Dean West’s narratives draw inspiration from the total diversity offered by the visual arts. While the tableau photography of Stan Douglas and Jeff Wall inform Dean West’s understanding of photography as a form of contemporary communication, the paintings of David Hockney and Edward Hopper provide evident aesthetic direction. The fictional world of cinema and the functional language of advertising have also clearly left their mark and taught lessons of their own. International brands have embraced Dean …