Mária Švarbová | Digital Photo Pro
Maria Svarbova: Frozen In Time And Space | Mark Edward Harris
Septembre 2019
[ARTICLE EN ANGLAIS] 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
Juillet 2018
[ARTICLE EN ANGLAIS] 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
Première exposition solo de Zhuang Hong-Yi dans un musée allemand.
March 2018
Article en anglais | 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
Août 2017
ARTICLE EN ANGLAIS - 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
Mars 2017
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
Entrevue | Sonia Sierra
Décembre 2016
Francisco Valverde, l'un des lauréats de la Biennale de Tamayo, explore le sujet, l'expérience et le mouvement avec son travail.
"Je ne dis pas du tout" non "à l'art conceptuel. Je dis non à la phobie de la peinture, à ceux qui pensent que, parce que c'est de la peinture, alors non.
Dès le début, je crois que l'art véritable est un concept. Et je vois deux positions extrêmes: ceux qui croient qu’il ne devrait pas y avoir de peinture parce que ce n’est pas un discours courant, et ceux qui croient que seul l’ancien vaut la peine.
C’est ainsi que parle le peintre Francisco Valverde qui, avec la pièce «Monday afternoon», est devenu l’un des trois lauréats de la XVIIe Biennale de peinture de Rufino Tamayo.