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30/11/2023 | 21/01/2024
Navigating Material and Concept with Katrin Fridriks, Lee Hyun Joung, Nikodem Szpunar, Nicolas Dubreuille and Daniele Basso
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A wide range of artists and innovative techniques with various collections of paintings and sculptures.
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From my earliest creations, I sought a unique perspective on reality with the intention of revealing a fantastical universe.A fascination for science and technology is a source of inspiration. For my perspective sculptures, I use descriptive geometry as a language that allows representing in space the relativity of the viewpoint itself. In this sense, this approach is also aligned with kinetic art.The voids between the elements of a sculpture symbolize the invisible energy that holds together a dispersed ensemble, seemingly by order and disorder.It's also a way to showcase suspended time, as if in a virtual world anchored to reality. Both abstract and concrete, the compositions are a search for a balance and harmony equation.They act as questions and answers.
Stevens Dossou-Yovo
France
Katrin Fridriks is an abstract painter who explores speed, gravity and the interactions of human beings with the forces of nature. Fridriks artistic work focuses on the exploration of natural phenomena and the limits of human dexterity. Experimenting with both techniques and the strength and agility of her own body, Fridriks continuously pushes the limits of painterly expression. She has developed a set of different techniques in connection with her explorations many of which she now combines to create works of art that are truly unique.
Katrin Fridriks
Iceland
Nikodem Szpunar (born July 7, 1987 in Rzeszów, Poland) – designer, graduate of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, studied also at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He designs furniture and interior design items for both industrial and short-series production. In addition to cooperation with the industry, he creates paintings made with his own technique.
Nikom Szpunar
Poland
Famed for her iconic paths, Hyun Joung Lee’s work reflects her childhood memories in South Korea, her studies in fine arts at Sejong University in Seoul, and her goldsmith training in Paris. She developed her own artistic language and techniques while working with traditional Korean materials.
Lee Hyun-Joung
South Korea
Hiro Ando is a Japanese artist celebrated for his unique sculptural work that is not quite like anything else currently on the market. This multidisciplinary artist creates artworks that facilitate a special conjunction of the old and new. Ando mostly does this by relying on the traditional maneki-neko, standing for “lucky cat” within the Japanese mass culture, a motif Hiro constructs in figures of various forms, such as those of samurai, sumo wrestlers or robots.
Hiro Ando
Japan
Nicolas Dubreuille’s journey towards art has been a circuitous one: after starting out in visual communication, working as a graphic designer and extensive practice of ceramics, by the middle of 2010 he devoted himself to pain sculptureting. His art was progressively subjected to the language of geometry infusing it with a playful spirit, excluding the austerity often associated with this form of art.
Nicolas Dubreuille
France
For Rogelio Manzo, the practice of portraiture is more than a way to capture a likeness. His darkly compelling images of the human figure reflect a blend of cultural influences -as well as an underlying concern with the fragility of life-. In his work Manzo seeks to reveal the character of his subjects as they are “forced” to be themselves. He goes beneath the body’s protective layer of skin, which registers all personal events that scar the human being, to reveal their fragility and inevitable mortality.
Rogelio Manzo
Mexico
Gil Bruvel is a visionary artist, capable of translating complex ideas and fleeting impressions into stunning works of art. His curiosity about the human condition and the workings of the human mind is honed through daily meditative practice. His art emerges from a deep contemplation of images, emotions, and sensations, which he refines continually before he casts them into material form.
Gil Bruvel
Australia
This native of the city of Mons born in 1959, is a self-taught artist.Awarded by the overconsumption that strikes our industrialised societies, it appropriates a common material rich in colors: the commercial soda can known to us all, compressed and formatted according to its concept "Transform'Art Kompress ®".His concept, the "Transform'Art Kompress ®", mixes recycling and the artistic beauty.The father of the compressed can his artworks have an incredible finesse compared to the banal raw material that compose them.Today, his monumental art is mainly oriented towards the reconscientization of the public to the notion of recycling and to the quest for meaning of the artist's role in modern society.
Alfredo Longo
Belgium
Trained at Saint-Luc (Liège), Lucien is attracted to the creative and patchwork aspect of what he observes. In paintings, drawings, monumental frescoes, mural art, trompe- l'œil, decoration and urban design, he first explores a dark world under tension. His pseudonym reflects this.
Noir (Lucien Gilson)
Belgium
"With my work I try to explore the meaning of things and life. Each work of art expresses a message. The goal is to generate a reflection and to induce people to a greater personal and collective self-awareness. The sculptures become symbols and monuments in which we recognize ourselves, not only as individuals, but above all as components of a unique and distinctive community. To be proud of it. Whose values are to be preserved as part of our identity. Hence the interaction of my work with companies, a pure expression of the Genius Loci and custodians of the know-how and culture that distinguishes every single territory in the world. Through the pursuit of beauty I look for concrete grips and positive emotions, to stimulate consciences to the imagination, to the dream and to the project of a better future!"
Daniele Basso
Italy
Geronimo is always pushing himself to new levels and breaking new ground – “Thinking that everything you do is the best is not me. I always work on myself to give more”.In Native American culture, they watch who you become before giving you a tribal name. Geronimo is ‘Jumping Bull’ - the one who leaps over obstacles.
Geronimo aka Jumping Bull
USA
Gregory Watin, originally from France, has been internationally recognized for his very unique "urban" style. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the USA for the last 15 years. He takes a picture he uses as a sketch. He immerses himself of all things that give strength to this urban landscapes, he looks at these structures marked by time and gathers all these elements in order to build an atmosphere, a universe around these places. In his work, he tries to make them his by giving them a second breath of life. That is why he uses bright colors. He inlays various element of nature, woods, cardboard, papers, plexiglass,....
Gregory Watin
France
Born in 1978, Juliette Clovis is a french visual artist living in south ouest of France. After studying law and history of art at L’Ecole du Louvre, she worked in communication for 2 years. In 2004, she left her job, passed a professional degree in graphism design at L'Ecole des Gobelins and then decided to dedicate herself to her art.
Juliette Clovis
France
Frešo lives and works in Czechoslovakia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and in Prague at the Academy of Fine Arts. His work and overall approach to art is rather untypical but at the same time they reflect the situation in the society and culture. The artist creates sophisticated concepts and projects presenting them as seemingly simple closed “Pieces of art”. He is often critical in his works and expresses his contempt of the art scene itself and its processes but with a light, humorous and playful undertone.
Viktor Freso
Czechoslovakia
He uses pipettes to distribute acrylic paint across the canvas to create his subjects; which then distorts by dragging the paint around using various tools, such as sticks and combs. He combines the classic,åbstract expression of marbling with concrete figures.
Mikael Takacs
Sweden
Stéphane Braud, born in Libourne in 1955, is today considered one of the greatest underwater painters in the world. He is also nicknamed the "sinner of blue".Self-taught, Stéphane Braud began painting at the age of 19 and traveled to Norway, Germany and Tunisia, where he found his inspiration. His preferred technique is then watercolor on the spot.Since 1974, he has traveled across Africa. It took him more than 20 years of research to finally restore on his paintings, the atmosphere of the Maghreb. A walk through a beautiful alleyway full of colors in the medina of Marrakesh, Morocco brought him the inspiration for this latest concept.Unique, his pots are of a sensitive realism and incomparable depth.
Stephane Braud
France
I’m continually inspired by the nude female form. It’s something that has, of course been worked on by artists through the ages, but the countless permutations of body/composition, facial expression and light (after you strip away clothing) provide a both a technical challenge and fascinating problem for me to solve. I’m also inspired by the medium in which I work; Lenticular Photography. It’s a complicated, expensive process but it’s one that captures the world and its subjects in a strange, wonderful blend of photography and sculpture. If everyone looking at my work was, even for an instant, transported into a liminal state, a state of in-between-ness, I’d be delighted. Liminality is a special place of temporary disorientation (of one’s sensory threshold). The medium of lenticular photography is perfect for seeding this condition - it is a 2 dimensional print with 3 dimensional illusory properties, so for a short time the audience’s perception of reality is suspended. This period of suspension is, I believe important for our minds to experience, especially when we, in the Western world, generally live in a spiritual vacuum. We need magical inspiration in our lives and I’d like to share a sense of this in my work.
Jeff Robb
UK
The immaterial world that emerges in the assemblages of Dario Tironi is made of plastic, tangible and sustainable values. The message conveyed is universal: recovery can become an expressive means and an in-depth investigation that allows us to go beyond the boundary of the contingent. An explosion of colours and vibrant vitality distinguish Dario’s sculptures; the playful and ironic sense of his artistic research makes him an authentic contemporary Arcimboldo.
Dario Tironi
Italy
Nature as a key element, as a starting point or final objective is the current focus of its work, the recreation of the universal and timeless consisting of real elements used as mere forms stripped of meaning. Order from chaos or vice versa. No dictates because everything is unpredictable and changeable.
Manu Muñoz
Spain
He has evolved from his earlier style which included a same single colored dot pattern with a superimposed subject, while today, the main element or subject coalesces within the pattern of labor-intensive, individually colored dots. For him, the pattern of dots serve as references to living organisms, atoms, i.e. the idea that matter is made up of discrete units. These patterned dots cohabitate in harmony. Many ask him “Why dots and not squares?” because for him dots (circles) keep on moving and rolling, squares are restrictive.
Dimitri Likissas
Belgium
Olivier Duhamel strives to capture the beauty and the emotions he sees in his subjects of study but his artist identity is constantly evolving and to describe him is aiming at a very elusive target indeed. He is a prolific artist who has acquired a mastery of the human form through years of practice of the time honoured discipline of life drawing. He initially grew a reputation as a meticulous portrait artist and then established himself as a leading New Zealand sculptor for his delicate and elegant bronze figurines. However, one aspect of his practice remains constant in his source of inspiration, the female nude. “I really like contemporary dance and wish that I could capture as much beauty and emotion with my sculptures that dancers can express with their body”
Olivier Duhamel
France
Yves Hayat belongs to that category of remarkable artists who have something to say, and who say it with such talent that they stamp their impression on the art of our time. His works, modern and contemporary, are however, the product of a deeply classical culture. Thanks to all the techniques which belong to our time: photography, superimposition of images, etc., he creates an original work rooted in the human cultural heritage but which, through the strength of its subjects, conveys every dimension of our era. Through a strictly artistic approach, Yves Hayat expresses a philosophical thought, not in complicated words but by speaking to our senses, in a clear, untortured way. He presents the essence of our human condition and of our time, bringing out its distinctive characteristics and its violence.
Yves Hayat
Egypt
Kind of fashion bestiary, Marc Le Rest paintings pattern lions, giraffe, chimpanzees, zebras and so on with contemporary and erotic lace outfits.These paintings strive to revive a tenuous balance, specific in the portraits of painters such as Memling, Holbein, Dürer, Clouet, Dashort, Vaneyck, Van der Weyden, in Northern Europe in the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth centuries, the balance between a formalist minimalism applied to the subject representation and an almost obsessional and baroque application in the details representation, especially in the costumes.This clear inspiration bonds with another one, the animal painting tradition in art history, from hunting paintings of Snyders or Van Aelst, the paintings of Catlin, Stubbs, and the english school, but also naturalist artists such as Audubon and his most contemporary heir, Walton Ford.Marc Le Rest artworks evolve like fashion collections where the outfits, divested from the human body dictatorship, and therefore cleared from any « signifiant » and any temptation to an identification, are free to take any kind of imaginable forms to adorn any kind of bestialities. And, by doing so, little by little, is created what ought to be called a peculiar "fashion zoo".
Marc Le Rest
France
Ryoko Watanabe is a Japanese artist born in 1973 in Sapporo, Japan.She draws his inspiration from the cultural heritage of his region and from the power of Japanese stereotypes such as Sumotori, Geishas and Samourai Warriors. She exploits these subjects with talent and turns stereotypes to her advantage by exploiting their reputation in order to convey an artistic message. In the artist's work we can perceive a strong nostalgia and a desire to preserve the cultural heritage of Japan and its unique personages which are part of the country's history.
Ryoko Watanabe
Japan
Passionate about contemporary and urban art, David draws his inspiration from Arman's Neorealism, César, J Villeglé, Warhol's American Pop Art, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jackson Pollock's Abstract Expressionism. He is particularly fond of the themes as music, photography, fashion, graffiti and icons. David Zac shares his passion for mythical motorcycles and legendary cars through his works, where women are often sublimated and are essential characters of his creations.
David Zac
France
Early producings of Döring are affected by historic highlights of Pop Art of the 60s and 70s, the thematic presence in the Döring-family's life influenced the young artist's work. Iconic personalities, revolutionary characters, comic, marvel and brand-stories, advertising claims, headlines, typography... Aesthetic spheres of which Döring was constantly surrounded by have then been used by the artist as raw material to design own stories on canvas, to act foiling and time-formative, this approach is still the core of Jörg Döring's daily work.
Jorg Doring
Germany
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Knokke, B-8300
30/11/2023 | 21/01/2024
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50 x 80 x 3 cm
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