Mária Švarbová | Digital Photo Pro
Maria Svarbova: Frozen In Time And Space | Mark Edward Harris
September 2019
Slovakian photographer Maria Svarbova knew from an early age that she was going to be an artist. The only question was which medium would she use as a means of self-expression?
Within less than a decade of “discovering” photography as her chosen medium in 2010, she has garnered the prestigious Hasselblad Master award, had her images grace the pages of magazines around the globe, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and published her first book, “Swimming Pool,” with a touring exhibition.
Willy Verginer | The Photophore
Willy Verginer : magic realism
July 2018
Willy Verginer is nowadays considered one of the leaders of magic realism. His distinctive style has garnered him much attention, and his works have been exhibited around the globe. Simultaneously lifelike and whimsical, Verginer’s wooden sculptures are dipped in bold colours and patterns, lending a touch of surrealism to what is initially figurative. Worked in the round in full relief, the sculptures rise up from their mass and material weight into their surrounding space. Verginer’s sharp and at times embattled handling of the wood manifests something altogether new from a rather ancient material and art form. Willy Verginer doesn’t make statues; rather, he creates images in action.
Zhuang Hong-Yi | Museum Ulm
Zhuang Hong-Yi's first solo exhibition in a german museum
March 2018
The Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi (*1962 Sichuan / China I lives in Rotterdam and Beijing) combines imaginary opposites almost without effort and condenses them into space-consuming wall objects which, due to their seductive haptic character and enchanting dynamic palette of colours, appear rather as installative wall objects than paintings. He calls them Flowerbeds, these flowerheads which sprout equally from the canvas, sometimes tenderly fragile, sometimes deliberately voluminous. In their material language of rice paper, ink and varnish, they quote Chinese handicrafts to seek for a place to sprout between European NeoImpressionism and Western Abstraction. The Museum Ulm presents a selection of works by Zhuang Hong Yi in a solo museum exhibition for the first time in Germany from March 03 to June 17, 2018.
Alesandro Ljubicic | Grazia
Flowers in the attic
August 2017
In the hands of Alesandro Ljubicic, a Bosnian-born and Sydney-based painter, flowers are divorced from the moribund sentencing that art history dictates. Instead, they are reincarnated from their melancholic stasis as living still lifes, dynamic and daring, teaming with light and exploding with colour and all the paradox that the expression suggests.
Stikki Peaches | Radio-Canada
Stikki Peaches, ou l'art de rue qui réimagine la culture populaire
March 2017
ARTICLE IN FRENCH - Le mystérieux artiste aime apporter sa touche personnelle aux visages connus en combinant peinture, graffiti et objets trouvés. Batman, Brigitte Bardot, Darth Vader et Frank Sinatra reviennent souvent dans ses oeuvres. Découvert grâce à des collages illégaux dans les ruelles de Montréal, il vend maintenant son travail aux collectionneurs d'art à fort prix. Stikki Peaches explique à Catherine Perrin pourquoi il tient à conserver l'anonymat.
Francisco Valverde | El Universal
Interview | Sonia Sierra
December 2016
Francisco Valverde, one of the winners of the Tamayo Biennal explores the subject, experience and movement with his work.
"I'm not saying 'no' to conceptual art at all. I say'no' to the phobia of painting, to those who think that, because it is painting, then no. From the outset, I believe that true art is a concept. And I see two extreme positions: those who believe there should be no painting because it si not a current discourse, and thiose who believe that only the old is worth it.
This is how the painter Francisco Valverde speaks, who with the piece "Monday afternoon" became one of the three winners of the XVII Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennal.