Archive for the ‘Country - Artists’ Category
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
With over 50 years of experience in the art scene, Braz Dias, a Brazilian artist from São Paulo, has done almost everything one can expect from an artist of his caliber. His resume is enhanced by a great number of national and international exhibitions, as well as awards received by ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
"Painting allows my subconscious perceptions to register graphically, similar to the way they do in dreams. I have come to see painting as a developing solution to the unconscious. If I allow myself enough freedom , painting goes beyond the formal and aesthetic into a dialogue with the psyche."
Joe Goodwin
June 2008 - Featured ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Robert Raushcenberg (1925 - 2008).
Recognised as an heir to Dada and precursor of Pop Art, he glued, assembled and happily combined all sorts of images and materials from his era, playing on their interaction in terms of shape, texture and colour. In 1958, Léo Castelli took him under his wing ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
May 17 is the last day of the solo show of Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery (April 3 - May 17, 2008). His first show of new work in London since 1999, and his first at the Britannia Street galleries.
Hodgkin's paintings are unmistakable with their assertive, compressed gestures, brush-swept, complex ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
"Just like in his painting series, Fernando's photographs bring a new perspective to every image and everyone's imagination. You are invited to be more than a beholder, you are drawn to become part of his world." Heather Barker - Transart Editor.
Ferreira de Araujo's Solo show in Miami - Crossroad, The ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Iberê Camargo is an artist of singular strength and feeling, and one of the great names in 20th century art. Ibere created an extensive body of work which includes paintings, drawings, gouaches and prints. He was born in November 1914 in Restinga Seca, in the interior of Rio Grande do ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
While working on his MFA at the University of Illinois, Joe Goodwin became interested in the work and ideas of C.G. Jung, especially his concept of the collective unconscious and his interest in dreams. Dreams defy physics and amplify experience with their ambiguous spaces, symbolic meanings, and sensations that seem to speak from ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Howard Hodgkin was born in London in 1932 and attended Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in the following year won the Turner Prize. He has exhibited internationally for over four decades and his work ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust", yet most people are unaware of this genocide.
Babi Yar is the name of a ravine in the northwestern section of Kiev. A. Anatoli described the ravine as "enormous, you might even say ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Barbara Agreste was born in Pescara, in central Italy, in 1971 and lives and works in London. She attended the Art Lyceum in her hometown, and then moved to Milan to attend a scenography course in the Academy of Arts. Not happy with the cultural atmosphere that surrounds her in ...
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