TIAF 2024 REVIEW - Tokyo International Art Fair 2024, Belle Salle Roppongi - 7th Edition

Thousands of art aficionados were eager to enter through the doors of Belle Salle over the weekend (Friday 29th and Saturday 30th November 2024 as Tokyo city hosted the third Tokyo International Art Fair organised by the Sakura Group.

The venue was arranged to perfection with over 100 artist and gallery stands from over 30 countries from around the world. The atmosphere was charged with positive vibes as visitors took in the wide range of original art available and took pieces they had purchased home.

Visitors were sipping away on champagne, whilst looking around to invest into a piece of original art.

Exhibitor Maki Nakana from Japan said that this was the best art fair she has ever exhibited. She was also interviewed by camera crew and received many requests.

Exhibitor Paulina’s Friends created a fantastic atmosphere the Tokyo International Art Fair 2024 and has been an amazing experience. She shown her fashion collection and wasn't sure what to expect, but was overwhelmed by all the nice comments. All in all a great event, thanks Sakura Group Team.

The weekend culminated in the announcement on Saturday afternoon of the winner of the "Best Tokyo International Art Fair Artist" in by both the panel of judges and members of the public.

First prize went to Nubian Art Gallery from Sudan. The second prize went to Mr AK from UK. The third prize went to Daryl Smith from USA. And the outstanding prize went to José Luis Ramírez Rodríguez from Mexico. You can find all details here

Organisers of the fair from the Sakura Group added their appreciation to the city's reaction to the event and the enthusiasm they found from artists and visitors alike.

"TIAF 2024 was a great success not only for the big selection of exhibitors from all around the world. It was a window of what's going on in the contemporary art world nowadays due the best artists " Tasha Curator said.

"We'll be back for more in 2025 and are already planning next year's event," they said.

For more information on next year's Tokyo International Art Fair and other forthcoming events, please visit www.tokyoartfair.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tokyointernationalartfair/

The count-down is on for Tokyo's most vibrant art event this year 29-30 Nov 2024

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Expect over 100 exhibitors from around the world to take over Belle Salle Roppongi for the 7th Edition of Tokyo's must-see art event!

東京インターナショナルアートフェア

29-30 NOVEMBER 2024 | 2024年11月29日~30日


Kim Minsu - Gallery Grappe (South Korea)

Set in the stunning Belle Salle Roppongi, just a stone's throw from the Mori Art Museum, the Tokyo International Art Fair brings together under one roof some of the most exciting and challenging artwork ever seen in the city.

GALLERY GRAPPE (booth C02) from South Korea will be amongst the 100 international exhibitors. They will exhibit and sell the paintings from artists Kim SoonCheol, Kim MinSu, Jeon DaWha and Lee Na, who are worldwide famous.

SOUTH TRIP GALLERY (booth D03) is the first Chilean Art Gallery oriented to the dissemination, promotion and export of Chilean and Latin American artists in the international art market.

GALLERY ART POINT (booth D05) was established at Ginza in Tokyo with the purpose of promoting artists and expanding contemporary art market in Japan. Since opening in 1969, it has conducted a policy of  presenting a wide range of exhibitions focusing on modern and contemporary art with local artists amongst them Hitoshi Yagi who is known for exploring new visual expressions through collage techniques, with a central theme of “What does a place belong to?”

Hitoshi Yagi - Gallery Art Point (Japan)

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More than 100 artists and galleries will take part, transforming Tokyo's artistic landscape. Art collectors and enthusiasts alike will get a one-off opportunity to view the wide range of art on show, talk to the artists to learn what inspired them and buy unique art for their home, workspace or garden. They can also enjoy an exclusive preview by attending a champagne private view when the art fair opens its doors on the evening of Friday 29th November 2024 from 18:00hr. TICKETS

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Paintings, sculpture, photography, illustrations, jewellery and bespoke crafts created using a wealth of different media and techniques are just some of the artworks at the two day event, with each artist carefully selected for the calibre, style and individuality of their work.

In launching the seventh edition of the hugely successful Tokyo International Art Fair, award-winning Sakura Group Curator Ms Tasha says, "This year's event will be a highlight on the vibrant Tokyo art scene, bringing a spectacular collection of contemporary work from established as well as emerging artists from across the globe – exhibitors from over 23 countries including many from Europe and Asia. I am thrilled to see a lot of Pop Art style work this year, which I am sure the local people will also be excited with.

Antonio Marra represented by Carparten Galerie (Germany) Booth D07 & D08

"Big names, among them are Markus Blazaizak, Antonio Marra, and Katrin Sefaj represented by Carparten Galerie (Germany) who will also have an interpreter for the deaf, meaning that any Japanese deaf visitors would understand. 

Heikedine Günther / Switzerland (booth D01)

Heikedine Günther is a Swiss contemporary artist living and working between Basel and Stalden, Switzerland. She is a painter, printer and sculptor who draws on the connection of abstraction and natural forms, and the concepts of microcosm and macrocosm.

José Luis Ramírez from Mexico (booth D04) The artist has developed a successful career, recently recognized in an international exhibition in which he received the "Artventurous & Paramount Art Awards" at the majestic Paramount Hotel in Dubai. His work has appeared in numerous art magazines and books around the world, such as the special edition "Top 200 Collectors" by Artnews Magazine and "The 100 Most Creative Mexicans in the World" by Forbes Mexico.

José Luis Ramírez / Mexico (booth D04)

Paulina’s Friends / Germany (booth C01)

PAULINA'S FRIENDS (booth C01) a sustainable slowfashion avantgarde couture label from Berlin. They connect sustainability and diversity creating a massive positive environmental impact. Zero waste. Unisize, unisex, uniseason. Funky, freaky, edgy wearable art. Unique. Every person is an unique piece of art. Their collections are handmade from couture leftovers/deadstock, vintage fabrics, world heritage fabrics and our own prints. We put real beauty, real people, real diversity in the center of fashion. Humanize and revolutionize the fashion industry and break down stereotypes and beauty standards in terms of age, body size, origin, gender.

Mr. AK (booth C03) is an India born British artist who has showcased in multiple exhibitions in the UK and internationally. He explores the sounds, movements, events around, seizes them forever and brings it to life using colours as if it’s talking to you. His art helps individuals bring their whimsical thinking and quirky behaviour out in open. His approach is to break all the conventional concepts of art in a positive way. In his words ‘My art is and should be a conversational starter’. He has also published his first illustrated book - The Bulbs of London: The Chronicles of Orby.


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“Many more international exhibitors will be there, so the quality and the sheer diversity of the work on show will be outstanding. We want to fill the city with colour and get everyone talking about and buying art. The event will inspire and enrich everyone who steps foot through the door."

Alongside the art on show, the fair will feature live painting, also live music by DJ ‘Katsuya Everywhere’, expect Geisha’s to pour champagne on the opening evening, and there is the chance for every visitor to attend the Sakura Art Prize Ceremony on Saturday 30th November. The culmination of the event, the Sakura Art Prize recognise and acknowledge the hard work of all artists and galleries taking part, singling out one overall winner and two runners-up for particular praise.

In the meantime, Sakura Group who have taken over the event and put the Tokyo International Art Fair on a new high has highlighted some outstanding exhibitors for visitors to must see.

Christine Climent from France (booth 1M05) grew up among the forests, rivers, and castles of the Loire Valley. In the series of paintings created for the TIAF, she used circles of color to evoke the sparkling essence of life and the lightness of living.

RJ Wafer / USA (booth A02)

RJ Wafer from USA (booth A02) is a 360 photographer from Brooklyn, NY. He’s made a career out of bringing new technologies to market, including work with 3D printing, telepresence robotics, VR and AR projects, and for the last 25 years, he’s also taken pictures and shot video for live music. Given his background, 360 photography is the perfect way to capture the images he envisions. RJ orients his shots into tiny planets and prints them on sheet metal to bring out the light. A must see at the Tokyo International Art Fair this year!

Big and Small Art Gallery (booth A21) Philippines

Big and Small Art Gallery (booth A21) Philippines representing MB Pacquing (Filipino b. 1988) was born in Cagayan Valley Philippines. Pacquing's titled work " Immortality" features a complex layering of images and styles, ranging from realism, anatomy organs and abstraction. He views this layering process as a metaphor for the multifaceted inter national identity. MB Pacquing also assume there is 'no such thing' as immortality. In literal terms you are of course correct, but in social terms 'immortality' is rather different.

Furthermore a selection of local Japanese artists will be exhibiting and selling their original artworks such as; Risa Wada Tan, CHIKA TAKEI, Ogasawara Masumi Gallery, MT, and artist Makoto Ambo.

We all welcome you to visit the 7th edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair on Friday 29th November and Saturday 30th November 2024.

You can book your tickets online here: https://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets


Dates & Times:
Friday 29th November 2024, 18.00 - 21.00 - Opening - private view by invitation & ticket only. Including Champagne Reception, Private View and Vernissage and DJ Katsuya Everywhere. Tickets available here http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Saturday 30th November 2024, 11.00 - 18.00 - Open to the public, free entrance. Reserve your free ticket online: http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Live painting and the Sakura Art Prize at 17.45. Pre-book tickets here http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Venue:

BELLE SALLE Roppongi

Japan, 〒106-0032 Tokyo, Minato, Roppongi, 7 Chome−18−18, 住友不動産六本木通ビル

For more information about the Tokyo International Art Fair, please go to: www.tokyoartfair.com


ENDS

Sakura Group Press Department

info@tokyoartfair.com



ボランティア Volunteer at one of the biggest International Art Fairs in Tokyo 2024

Interested in interning or volunteering for an international art fair? Then look no further!

国際アートフェアのインターンやボランティアに興味がありますか?その後、もう探す必要はありません!

Opportunities are available to learn about every aspect of building a fair, including being on-site and working the actual event. 現場での実際のイベントの運営など、フェアを構築するあらゆる側面について学ぶ機会が用意されています。

WHEN: 29th & 30th November 2024. 日時: 2024 年 11 月 29 日と 30 日。

WHERE: Roppongi, Tokyo - 7th edition Tokyo International Art Fair. 場所:東京・六本木 - 第7回東京国際アートフェア

The volunteers receive (upon successful completion): 
- ‘Certificate of Completion Tokyo Art Fair volunteer Assistant” 2024.
- Official thank you letter signed by the Director of the organisation. 
- Free Catalogue Tokyo Art Fair 2024
- Free 2 VIP Tickets Fri 29th November VIP Reception to invite key contacts.

To find out more please fill in the form below and we will contact you about current openings.

Volunteers will have to work on both art fair days: Friday 29th November from 12noon till 21.00pm & Saturday 30th November from 11.00am till 18.00pm 2024.

Or email your CV with photo to: info@tokyoartfair.com

現場にいることや実際のイベントに取り組むことなど、フェアの構築のあらゆる側面について学ぶ機会があります。

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Thank you.

Nate Hester, magic realism and the language of maximalist collage - Tokyo International Art Fair Exhibitor.

Nate Hester - an emerging mid-career, transdisciplinary, diaristic artist from North Carolina in the United States, exhibited widely two decades ago—resurfacing recently at Satellite Art Show concurrent to Art Basel Miami in December 2023 with subsequent exhibits in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Hester’s unapologetic pop-punk, Southern Gothic, magic realism works are included in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Allen Memorial Art Gallery at Oberlin College, the Newark Public Library, and the New York Public Library. In the upcoming year, Hester will be in residence at Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn NY), Kolaj Institute (New Orleans LA), Studio Kura (Fukoka, Japan), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst VA) and Chateau Orqueveaux (Troyes, France). He loves fruit pies, the trickle of water over rocks along a creek in any deciduous forest and the memories of his 15 year old son as a young boy.

Hester’s absurd and reverential vision explores the charming if disquieting incongruities of the places, communities and bodies to which we all yearn to belong – in particular, the landscape of the modern home.  In his most recent topo-psychoanalytic, “In Search of Lost Time,” toys, flowers, imaginary avatars, human figures, found objects, and pop culture aphorisms cavort in almost—but never fully— comprehensible ways. The language of maximalist collage is invoked to address the fragmentation and inclusive reintegration of modern living. Hester asserts: “I don’t know about y’all, but my life is a hot-mess-dumpster-fire. Like that Leonard Cohen song about the cracks letting the light in, the beauty for me is how I manage to stitch all the ripped-toshreds pieces back together again.” Here, in the face of the predatory aggression of the adult world in the forms of advanced free market capitalism, neocolonialism and patriarchy, intimate sensuality and soulful tenderness prevail and proclaim that everything belongs to everything. In the face of sadness and “saudade” - the Portuguese concept of nostalgia for the future, Hester’s unapologetic pop-punk, Southern Gothic, magic realism calls forth the curiosity and playfulness of his own inner child, with the explicit hope that it invites audiences to connect to their own native and enduring bliss.

What drives you? 

I exist to expand the scope of human empathy through the expression of the silly sacred.  I care about and am driven by meaningful relationships.  The great thing about drawing from life or observational rendering is that it is always about harmonizing relationships. The way to achieve the correct proportions or tonal gradations is by seeing how things fit together.  I like when the right things fit together in the right way at the right time. In essence, I like creating harmony surprising harmony.

Where do you get your inspiration?

I get inspired by looking at Titian’s Andromeda in the Wallace Collection in London or graffiti in the banlieue train track corridors of Paris, hugging people that I love, reading Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West,” going out to dinner with raucous friends, hiking to the top of mountains, diving into the ocean, dancing to funk beats and singing outlaw country music at the top of lungs.

If I could have a group exhibit with anyone in the world currently alive, I would want to call it “Sidewalk Shamanism: Contemporary Surrealist. Hip-Hop Protest Textiles” and feature the work of Yinka Shinobare from Nigeria, Nick Cave from Chicago, Joo Young Choi from Houston, Texas and Melissa Monroe from Portland, Oregon. 

What is your life quote/motto?

In Voltaire’s Candide, the naïve religious cleric, Pangloss, is a foil for the author to criticize organized religion at the time of the Enlightenment.  Pangloss routinely says, “Le paradis terrestre est ou je suis.”  This translates as “earthly paradise is wherever I happen to find myself.”  While this was used in mockery and derision as Pangloss would exclaim this in the face of experiencing real human atrocities, I have reappropriated it for my own brand of earnest optimism and devious delight.  In other words, my life motto is “bloom where planted.”  No matter what forces try to pave over you and block out your sunlight, keep pushing your leaves up through the cracks in the sidewalk.

What jobs have you done other than being an artist?

I have been an interfaith hospital chaplain as well as a sports marketer for a cybersecurity company.

Website: https://www.thenatehesterstudio.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate_is_pretty_sketchy/

 

"You have to live it to believe it!" Interview with Marc Noël Avatar from Belgium - Tokyo International Art Fair 2024 exhibitor

Marc Noël Avatar was born in Belgium on the 08/04/1962. He is also currently living in Belgium. He is a very passionate and even excentric and out of the norm artist. Who has a major objective to the world where he wants to show and share his paintings all over the world. He has acquired now a reputation that when he comes in physically at one of his exhibitions, people recognize him immediately for who he is, the paintings he will be presenting and also his very out of the box entertaining skills during these exhibitions…

When he was young, a major car accident shifted his life into a completely different dimension from what he had planned. It was then that he began his training "at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Universe." During a long path of rehabilitation, Marc’s therapist understood very quickly that the patient he had in front of him was not a “standard” patient, and thus, this professional has been able to go outside of all his classic rehabilitation techniques with his patient. Together they completed a magnificent therapeutic path, which allowed Marc Noe l to, first, gain the ability to hold a pencil again between his fingers, through which the first achievements were the drawing of completely closed circles. Through his motivation, determination, and self-teaching, Marc Noe l progressed through drawing, pastels, Japanese calligraphy, and painting, eventually recovering full control over his hands. Always looking to push boundaries, he realized that traditional artistic expression felt limited. This led to a mystical opportunity where his painting became guided by another dimension, giving birth to his quantum paintings. The paintings he creates today are not just paintings but are very powerful evolving tools which, through time and the observer who stands in front of them, will create an opportunity for an “out of the norm” encounter between the quantum painting and the observer. These are now quantum paintings that change every day for the observer, even though the painting is not modified physically, because the quantum painting adapts itself in what it shows according to the evolution of the observer. He also teaches quantum painting to people, whether they have had or have not had academic training in painting, to make them live and experience “the painting” from a completely different point of view, or to dare enter into the feeling of the creation of the painting, and even become their painting. All the people who already have had the chance to acquire one of his quantum paintings have all experienced an evolution, from when they first saw their canvas, and day after day, as well as a change in their quantum painting and in the feeling that they had with their quantum painting. Today Marc Noe l also presents his paintings to the whole world in physical, digital and online exhibitions, and also on other media platforms, such as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), videos, etc., so that everyone who wants it can benefit from these very powerful tools

Every single time when a curator, a journalist, a gallery owner and even another artist is seeing my art on a physical exhibition or even digital exhibition, they are always intrigued.

Once journalist said from my work: “Mr. Noël, one thing is for sure… nobody will never be able to copy your artwork… not even with artificial intelligence !”

Every single exhibition that I have being presenting to the world have created with every observer/visitor a lot of questions because they “felt” things that their brain could not identify through a certain norm.

The uniqueness of my art is that first it has to be felt. Once the observer has made that connection with my canvas, with his eyes closed, he can open his eyes and invite them to discover one area of the canvas and caresses through his view every single relief… knowing that each one of my paintings are created through a hundreds of reliefs…

Also, I am a very passionate artist and so for me using a lot of very powerful and bride colors is a personal signature of who I am. Even the way I am “merging” colors is very intriguing. Once a curator shared with me that I was able to combine some colors that he had never seen been done by other artists.

You have to live it to believe it!

How would you describe yourself? And your artwork? What drives you?

Pure Passion ! In everything I do I am bringing in pure passion, and through that I am able to live every single second of my life the most beautiful things that I could not even imagine… And that gives me even more passion and drive !

Where do you see your art going in ten years?

Couple of years ago I decided to share my paintings all over the world. Since then, I have been participating in a lot of exhibitions. As well physical as digital exhibitions.

There where it fits into my planning, I honor the visitors of the exhibition with my physical presence. Because I know that people love to meet me face to face and of course I love to meet them too.

I have noticed that the popularity of my artwork grows day by day, week by week, month by month, and even year by year. I am also aware that my paintings are not just “paintings”, they are very powerful tools that are transforming people. So many people have already expressed verbally and also in writings how seeing and also owning one of my paintings has completely changed their life in a very positive way.

So in 10 years time, I see the impact of my art being something that will have influenced exponentially humanity…

I know my artwork is finished when…?

One of my foundations I have learned, practiced and integrated is the practice of Shodo, Japanese calligraphy. For me practicing this art has never been putting something on a canvas…

It has always been and still is practicing “the breath of the Dragon” …

So when I stand in front of a completely new blank virgin canvas… I present myself in a very humble way to it and I request for the permission to get in contact with the canvas. When I feel that I have been accepted and I have received the authorization from the canvas, I choose also a brush that is presenting himself to participate in this creation. And then of course all the abundance of colors that are in my environment where I am going to create this painting starts to sing and to breathe in the rhythm like an orchestra which are tuning all the instruments to start a magnificent “creation” …

And then breath after breath and stroke after stroke, the painting is created and is manifested on the canvas… until this beautiful symphony of breaths and strokes merging with colors onto the canvas and comes to an end in a complete silence…

That is where my creation of this canvas is DONE!

What other hobbies do you have?

I choose this question because it is a very very funny one when people ask me “what are your hobbies”?

Why? As I am a very passionate person, I have developed hobbies already very early in my life and until today I have just been adding up more and more hobbies…

Every hobby that I have, I am still practicing with a lot of passion in the time frame that is available for me in my day-to-day planning. Very often people ask me how it is possible for me to do all these activities as well professionally as personally in a 24hours day period?

The answer is that I have learned to be “very time management efficient”. So, I will share with you some of my hobbies so that you have a taste of how passionate through my hobbies I am.

First, I would like to mention that I practice 7 different types of martial arts that I started when I was 7 years old. For me martial art is something that has created a foundation of my life and I am still living in a true way of “Bushido”.

I am also a very passionate long-distance runner which gives me always that opportunity to go in a very deep state of meditation during my long runs.

I am also a very passionate alpinist and rock climber which gives me that opportunity to be always very focused in being aware that every foot step that I make, every grip that I make with each one of my hands have to be perfect because my life depends on it. I am also a deep sea diver and rescue diver, it is a passion that grew early in my life because I always been one with the water, and once I grew I wanted to explore also the depths of water through special diving gear equipment. And through that I felt the need also to become a rescue diver so that I could help people in need at those depths.

Another passion of mine is to drive motorbikes and sport cars on circuit, a hobby that brings me also the opportunity to work on my focus through high speed on 2 wheels and on 4 wheels. Another hobby of mine is the art of archery, again a magnificent tool for me to work on my focus, being in the present moment, and become the arrow and travelling with it until he has reached his target.

Another passion of mine is to play the Taiko drum, Japanese drum, that for me is much much more than just a percussion instrument. Every single time I strike with my “bachi” on my Taiko, it is like a heartbeat, a breath of life, a creation into the Universe. Communication in all his forms is also a hobby of mine, that I am able to practice, to teach into seminars and on one to one encounters. For me the art of communication is a day-to-day tool that I practice every single moment.

And I could of course continue much much longer on this topic but I am sure that the reader has already have a view how passionate I am through my hobbies.

Have you ever had a spiritual happening?

I have been very lucky in my life that I have so far had a lot of spirituals happenings/ awakenings.

But one I would like to share here is the one that changed my life overnight. When I was 26, I had a very major car accident that make me live a near death experience and a very long revalidation period. This experience brought me even to the big question that I had on that moment: “Would I like to continue to live a normal life with a job, a wife, a child or live the rest of my life as a Tibetan monk?” And I went into a very deep “introspection” and finally found the answer to this question…

I could live both and that’s what I did. It changed my life a lot but the major advantage is that through this spiritual happening, I am now a very good businessman, and I am still able to live fully into science and merge at the same time in the most freeing spiritual and energetical dimension and share it and teach it to the world.

And I enjoy every single moment of it.

If you would be on your death bed what advice would you give to people?

This is such a beautiful question but even that I am still not on my death bed… I would like give people already this advice today…

First, enjoy every single moment in your life… every moment that is gone, is gone… so make sure that when you see that that moment is gone, that you have no regrets on that “gone moment”!

Second, I would like to advice people that they make themselves aware, and also to every child that is walking on this earth, to look very deep inside of them and look for that very special light that is telling them who they are. And then, that they dare to approach that light, go into a deep communication with that light, and being fulfilled with it.

Third, I would advice them to look around them, wherever they live in the world, and look of what “the norm” is, look at that norm and see if they are compatible with it…?

If they would feel that they are not compatible with it, I would advice them of not going into resistance, and I would advice them to look for a way to transform this norm in something that is compatible with who they are today… and then eventually from there, share it and maybe teach it to others!

Fourth, if you really committed in something in this life, you should use this sentence for yourself and for others : “I will do whatever it takes, no matter what to succeed !”

And finally, I would advice them don’t judge themself and don’t judge others and your life will become much much easier. And then, before I will close my eyes definitely I will ask myself this question, the question that I have asked myself every single time before I was sleeping in since my childhood: “Did I do everything that I had to do today in all my knowledges and my competencies to make this world a better place ?” and the answer will be as it has been every single night when I was sleeping in : “YES !”

Why do you do what you do?

This is a very simple question for which I have a very simple answer. I do what I do because I am unable not doing it…

Every single breath that I take is a gift that I received from the Universe and so it is my duty and commitment to this world that every time I have been granted through this breathing in, that in every breathing out I am giving back something to the world and to the Universe. So it is a very natural and automatic process for me, the things that I do, there is no mental process involved in what I am doing…

I do what I do… Just because I AM WHO I AM.

CONNECT WITH MARC:

Website url: https://mapeinturequantique-fushigina.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naturopathe.glinne.anais

Come and see and buy Marc’s artwork at the 7th edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair.

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Tokyo International Art Fair reviews and success stories

Tokyo International Art Fair reviews and success stories

"Thank you so much for the opportunity to exhibit at the Tokyo Art Fair. I had six paintings and sold 3 of them within the first hour of the opening night!!! Very exciting. I was so thrilled to be a part of such a great event. The amount of people that came was huge and the feedback I received, the contacts that I made, not to mention new friends, has made my experience a successful, as well as truly memorable and worthwhile one. I can't thank you enough for putting on such a great show!" - Joanna Blair

SAKURA GROUP puts Tokyo International Art Fair on a new high!

After six successful editions of the Tokyo International Art Fair the Sakura Group is taking over and puts the TIAF 2024 on an even bigger high. The Group has organised hundreds of art and culture events mainly in Japan, but also overseas. The team are expertise in combining the pleasure of art and culture to the Japanese art collecting audience.

Expect a new and diverse art trade show open to artists and galleries worldwide.

6回の東京国際アートフェアの成功を受けて、さくらグループが引き継ぎ、TIAF 2024をさらに盛り上げます。当グループは、主に日本国内だけでなく海外でも数百件の芸術文化イベントを主催してきました。ターシャ・ベルが運営するチームは、日本の美術品を収集する観客に芸術と文化の楽しさを融合させる専門知識を持っています。

世界中のアーティストやギャラリーが参加できる、新しくて多様なアート見本市にご期待ください。

Artist interview with Marco Riha

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Marco Riha

Born: Austria

Live: Mexico

Website url:

marcoriha.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/198847040155829


Marco Riha was born in Austria. After some years on the road, he found in Mexico his creative home base. The self-taught artist looks back on 25 years of experimenting with the automatic painting technique, where he puts aside his conscious thoughts and accesses images from the subconscious mind. During his symbolic period, he worked with different mediums, mainly oils on canvas, which includes inner and outer travel logs, therapeutic releases and screams in colour. His current abstract phase produced some socio-political pieces shifting the focus from personal to collective themes brings up the age-old question of the artist as a moral compass.


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What is so unique about your artworks?

What differentiates my art is that it describes my very personal soul's journey—an artistic quest laced with my unique sweat, tears, dreams, and visions.

How do you deal with artist's block?

Throw some colour on a canvas



Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

I just finished a new series called ‘midnight-flowers’, after Tokyo my work will be shown in Dubai in November.


Which are your favourite artists?

DaVinci & artists of the Automatism tradition: Masson, Dali, Pollock and of course, Le Automatistes from Quebec like Borduas.

Best exhibition ever participated in…?

Colour of Life, Saatchi Gallery in London



What is your life quote/motto?

To be in the flow


How does your work comment on current social or political issues?

Since 2014 I have been producing some socio-political pieces about multiculturalism (‘encounters’), ecocide (‘crocodile-on-fire’), freedom (wall-melt’) and latest division and unity (‘2sides’ & ‘1heArt’)



Professionally, what’s your goal?                                                                                                 

To become a household name



手数料なしでアーティストから直接作品を購入可能 東京国際アートフェア 今年も開催

ベルサール六本木にて 2021年10月8-9日開催

2021年10月4日:世界中のアーティストとコレクターをつなぐ東京国際アートフェアが、来たる10月8日から9日にかけて、ベルサール六本木にて開催されます。様々なギャラリーを有する、コンテンポラリーアートの聖地ともいえる六本木を舞台に、森美術館や六本木ヒルズの目と鼻の先の会場にてアートシーンをさらに活気づけます。

アーティストやギャラリーが、コレクターに直接作品を展示・販売するイベントでは売買手数料が一切かからない大変ユニークなこのイベントは6回目を迎えました。2日間にわたって行われるこのアートフェアは、日本だけでなく世界25カ国から一流のアーティストが参加する現代アートの祭典です。

熟練したコレクターの方も、これからアートの世界に足を踏み入れる方も気軽に参加することができるイベントです。何千点もの素晴らしい作品の中から、自分のコレクションに加えるもの、アートの世界を楽しむきっかけとなる作品を選ぶことができます。

フェアでの新たな試み

また今回は、新たに「デジタル&バーチャルアート」のセクションを設け、東京オンラインアートギャラリーを通じて海外のアーティストの作品を販売します。  このセクションのために設けられたブースでは、革新的な技術を駆使して、オンラインで作品を購入できるだけでなく、海外のアーティストに関する情報収集としても活用いただけます。展示される作品には、絵画、彫刻、写真、イラスト、ジュエリーなどがあり、アーティストに直接作品の制作を依頼することもできます。 数々の賞を受賞しているグローバル・アート・エージェンシーのキュレーター、ジーナ・ササキ・ジョンズは、今年の東京国際アートフェアは特別な意味を持っていると述べ、

「東京へのカムバックを果たし、この街で最大かつ最高のアートフェアの扉を開くことへ非常に胸を膨らましています。ヨーロッパ、アメリカ、オーストラリア、日本から厳選されたアーティストやギャラリーの作品の質は非常に高く、このイベントを活気と色に満ちたものにしてくれます。アーティストと来場者が語り合い、鑑賞し、そしてもちろん作品を売買する賑わいを体験していただくのが待ちきれません。この機会にぜひお越しください。」

とコメントしています。

展示予定の作品

メヌチャ・ペイジ - エルサレムを拠点とするユダヤ人女性アーティストで、トーラー・ユダヤ教と価値観という古代のテーマを、絵画、ドローイング、写真、木工、ガラス細工、金属細工などの現代的な芸術技術と組み合わせています。  古代のテーマと現代アートを融合させた彼女の作品は、タイムレスな本質と最先端の現代アートの技術がユニークに組み合わさっています。そのテクニックは彼女のアートに深い意味を持たせる上で重要な役割を果たしています。 https://www.menuchapagefineart.com

パク・ナウン - 韓国人の彼女の作品は、自身を取り巻く世界を反映しており、確実性が保証されないこの時代に生きる人々の不安定な移ろいに焦点を当てています。彼女のデジタルポートレートは、環境によって変化する現代人の特徴を表しています。不確実性の高い時代に生きる私たちを説明するストーリー性のある作品の中で、強い色が人の姿を調和させています。http://naniparkart.creatorlink.net/INTRO

ヴィンチェンツォ・コロナティ& 横山玄太郎 ソラナアベニューギャラリー - ヴィンチェンツォ・コロナティは、写真、テレビ、絵画などの分野で活躍する、イタリアの学際的なコンセプチュアル・アーティストです。東京では、自然を題材に、キャンバスに絵画をプリントするアルゴリズムによる「オフ・ペインティング」の技法を用いた作品を発表します。  横山玄太郎は、日本のネオ・ポップ・セラミック・アーティストです。遊び心のある創造性が、人間の本質や魔術的リアリズムを物語る、カラフルで魅力的な作品を生み出しています。

アグネス・ルイ - 香港インターナショナル・ヤング・アーティスト・ソサエティのメンバーでもあるアグネスは、自分のアートへの愛を伝えることに情熱を注いでいます。望遠鏡で観測した星空を描いた彼女の作品は、こんなにも美しいものが常に私たちの周りにあることに気づかせ、まるで私たちを探索へと誘ってくれるようです。彼女のある絵画では、黒い部分に注目すると、そこには暗さしか感じられないかもしれませんが、その暗さは、圧倒的な色彩で構成されている絵画のほんの一部に過ぎません。

アリッサ・チャップマン - ニューヨークを拠点とするファッションデザイナーからアーティストに転身したアリッサは、ファッション・イラストレーションを専門とし、ファッションにおける芸術的表現への情熱を絵画に転換しました。彼女のポートレートや静物画は、1950年代のアメリカの黄金時代と彼女のセンスに触発され、彼女の遊び心を描いています。 彼女のとらわれない構成と、この時代を彼女なりに解釈し、ビビッドなカラーで表現したスタイルが注目を集めています。 https://www.sshhaaddooww.com

マルコ・リハ - オーストリア出身のマルコは、現在メキシコを創作活動の拠点としています。彼の作品の多くは、自動で絵を描く技術、オートマティズムから生まれています。 オートマティズムとは、無意識のうちに素材を用いて作品を作ることです。

長きにわたりキャンバスへの油絵に魅せられた後、現在は様々な素材を使った抽象的な作品を中心に、自由、多文化主義、エコサイド、分裂と統一などをテーマにした社会政治的な作品を制作しています。道徳的な羅針盤としてのアーティストの役割について作品を通して疑問を投げかけています。  https://marcoriha.com/

ピア・キントラップ - ドイツ出身のコンセプチュアル・フォトグラファーであるピアは、写真の役割とは何か、そして何になりうるかに興味を持っています。また、写真から彫刻まで、様々な方法や素材での表現を研究しています。変化を伴うプロセス、物事の価値、空虚と豊かさは彼女の作品には欠かせないものです。 https://www.piakintrup.com/

ミミ・レヴェンク- ミミの作品は、ポジティブで本能的なスタイルが印象的です。彼女の絵画は、日々の経験や瞬間に触発された物語を、彼女の内面世界の言葉で表現しています。その象徴は、彼女の中にあるもので、東欧の神秘、おとぎ話に影響を受けています。彼女は物語を語る際に、常に誠実さと、誰もが生まれながらにして大人になるにつれて失いがちな生の感情や喜びを探しています。 https://www.mimi.ro/

シャナ・アブレウ ­- シャナのアーティストとしての目標は、穏やかで詩的な構図の直感的な作品を通して、他者への理解と受け入れる寛大さを表し、調和のとれた共存を促進することです。彼女のアートは、社会に脈々と流れるあらゆる寛容性を高める動きに対し、違いを融合させ、人間を調和させることを目指しています。メタモルフォーゼ(変身)、人間化した動物や動物化した人間を描き、人間関係を大切にしながらも、恐怖や欲、嫉妬など、人間が向き合い、受け入れることの難しいあらゆる要素に取り組んでいます。 https://www.xanaabreu.com/

ジョニー・ダンカン - アーティストでありBlue Dozen CollectiveのサテライトでありFirst Friday NBの創設者でありそしてストリートウェアブランドChill Infinityのオーナーでもあるジョニーは、鮮やかで象徴的、そしてシンプルな万華鏡のような作品を生み出しています。 彼の作品は、壁画、イラスト、ファッション、写真、ファインアートなど多岐にわたり、注目を集めるグラフィティの大胆さと、ノスタルジックでクラシックなカートゥーンのイメージを融合させています。 シャーベット色のグロテスクな表現と幻想的な映像で、観る者を彼の世界へと誘います。 https://www.jenkins2d.com/

ニコル・ラフィキ- アーティスト、キュレーター、そして編集者としての顔も持っています。学際的なアーティストとして、テキスタイル、テキスト、写真を用いて、空間、アイデンティティ、そして世界的な移民の影響を受けた人々の姿を描写しています。彼女の最新作は奴隷、人権侵害、そして人種差別や植民地支配、に由来するアフリカの女性への性的虐待に関する現在進行形の研究が反映されています。

東京国際アートフェアについて

10月8日(金)のオープニングに合わせて、VIPレセプションと展示作品のプレビュー、そして1日早く作品を購入することが可能です。 レセプションは18時から21時にかけて行われ、チケットは税込2500円ですhttps://www.tokyoartfair.com/ticketsからご予約いただけます。10月9日(土)は11時から18時に開催され、入場は無料です。アウトスタンディングアワードは10月9日(土)17時30分から開催されます。

開催場所: 〒106-0032 東京都港区六本木7-18-18 住友不動産六本木通ビル ベルサール六本木

ウェブサイト: https://www.tokyoartfair.com/

本リリースのお問い合わせ先

コミュニオン株式会社

本井眞奈 090 2538 1255 / m.motoi@communion.co.jp

Sarah Pracey + 44 7985 112 777 / sarah@praceypr.com

 

Tokyo's Most Exciting Art Fair Returns to the City

Tokyo's Most Exciting Art Fair Returns to the City

Tokyo International Art Fair, Belle Salle Roppongi

08-09 OCTOBER 2021  |  2021年10月8-9日

東京国際アートフェア2021年10月8-9日


28th September 2021: In a little over a week, the doors will open to Tokyo's most exciting art fair.  The Tokyo International Art Fair, now in its sixth successful year, will be making a welcome come-back to the city on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th October, bringing hundreds of inspiring artists and thousands of visitors to Tokyo's vibrant art scene.  

Set in the stylish Belle Salle exhibition hall in Roppongi, just a stone's throw from the Mori Art Museum in the affluent Roppongi Hills, the free to attend two day art fair sees leading artists not just from Japan but from 25 other countries across the globe, converging on the capital for a celebration of contemporary art. 

What is unique about the art fair is that it offers the chance for artists and galleries to show and sell their work directly to art lovers and collectors, with no fees for buying or selling. Art lovers, whether seasoned collectors or those just starting on their journey into art, can pick out a piece to add to or start their collection from thousands of incredible pieces on display.

NEW AT THE FAIR

There will also be a newly integrated Digital and Virtual art section at the sixth edition of the fair, selling artworks from international artists through the new Tokyo Online Art Gallery.  This has its own booth complete with innovative technology allowing the visitor to buy art online as well as read more about the international artists. Among the artworks on show will be original paintings, sculptures, photography, illustrations, jewellery and much more, as well as the chance to commission art directly from the artists. 

For Curator Gena Sasaki Johns of the award-winning Global Art Agency, this year's Toyko International Art Fair holds particular significance. "We are hugely excited to be back in Tokyo and to open the doors to one of the city's biggest and best art fairs," says Gena. "The quality of artworks is exceptional, with carefully selected artists and galleries from across Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan filling the event with vibrancy and colour.

"We can't wait to experience the buzz of artists and visitors talking, appreciating and of course, buying and selling art. Don't miss it," she says.  

Among the incredible work on display will be pieces from the following featured artists:

Menucha Page - a Jerusalem-based Jewish woman artist combining ancient themes of Torah Judaism and values with contemporary artistic techniques in painting, drawing, photography, woodwork, glasswork and metalwork.  Her work, a blend of ancient themes and contemporary art, combines a unique blend of eternal principles with cutting-edge contemporary artistic techniques in ways that inspire and imbue her art with deeper meaning. https://www.menuchapagefineart.com

 Naun Park - Korean Na Un Park's work reflects the world around her, focussing on the uncertainty of people living in this era, where certainty cannot be guaranteed. Her digital portraits display characteristics of contemporary people changing according to their environment, with strong colours harmonising human figures in a storyline of artworks explaining the contemporary nature of our lives in a time of uncertainty. http://naniparkart.creatorlink.net/INTRO

 Vincenzo Coronati & Gentaro Yokoyama, Soranna Avenue Gallery - Vincenzo Coronati is an Italian interdisciplinary conceptual artist working in photography, television and painting.  In Tokyo he will present works using his “off-painting” technique, with paintings printed on canvas through algorithms that replicate pictorial gestures with naturalistic subjects.  Gentaro Yokoyama is a Japanese neo-pop ceramic artist. An impulsive and playful creativity inspires his colourful and captivating pieces that tell stories of human nature and magical realism. 

Agnes Lui - a member of Hong Kong International Young Artists Society, Agnes is passionate about sharing her love of art. The countless wonders of the night sky have always captivated her and her paintings of the starry night sky when observed under telescope remind people that the most beautiful things are always around us and they invite us to explore. If you focus on a the black area of a particular painting, you may only see darkness, but in fact, this dark region is just a small part of the painting which is composed of an overwhelming array of colours.

Alissa Chapman - New York based woman's designer turned artist, Alissa specialised in fashion illustration and turned her passion for artistic expression in fashion into painting, replacing fabric with a brilliant palette and brush as her go-to medium. Her portraits and still lives are inspired by the golden age of America in the 1950's and her sense of style, portraying her sense of fun.  Her casual compositions grab attention with vivid colours that convey her interpretations of this era and all its glamour. https://www.sshhaaddooww.com 

Marco Riha - originally from Austria, Marco now calls Mexico his creative home base. The majority of the images he creates are born out of an automatic painting technique; automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind.

After a long fascination with oils on canvas, he now focuses on abstract works in mixed media, with socio-political pieces about liberty, multiculturalism, ecocide, division and unity, raising the age-old question about the artist's role as a moral compass.   https://marcoriha.com/

Pia Kintrup - a conceptual photographer from Germany, Pia's interests lie in photography as a media, what it is and what it could become. Her research investigates new media and materials, ranging from photography to sculpture. Transformational processes, value, emptiness and abundance and photographic steps of transition are essential for her artwork. https://www.piakintrup.com/ 

Mimi Revencu - a mirabilis artist, Mimi’s art is positive and instinctive. Her paintings tell stories inspired by every day experiences and moments expressed through the language of her inner world. Their symbolism comes from a place within her and are influenced by Eastern European mysteries, fairy tales and patterns. In telling her stories, she’s always searching for sincerity and for that raw emotion and joy we are all born with but tend to lose as we become adults.  https://www.mimi.ro/ 

Xana Abreu ­- Xana's goal as an artist is to contribute to the understanding and acceptance of the other and to promote coexistence in harmony through visceral works in serene and poetic compositions. Her art seeks to collaborate with the movement of increasing tolerance that pulses in society, merging and smoothing those differences, mixing beings, metamorphosing, painting humanised animals and animalised humans, valuing relationships but also addressing fears, greed, envy and all the ingredients that make understanding and acceptance more difficult. https://www.xanaabreu.com/ 

Johnny Duncan - multidisciplinary artist, Satellite of the Blue Dozen Collective, founder of First Friday NB and owner of streetwear brand Chill Infinity, Johnny creates kaleidoscopic works that are vivid, iconic and deceptively simple.  His work encompasses murals, illustration, fashion, photography and fine art, marrying the attention-grabbing audacity of graffiti with nostalgic, classic cartoon imagery, inviting the viewer into his universe of sorbet-coloured grotesqueries and fantastic visuals.  https://www.jenkins2d.com/

 Nicole Rafiki - artist, curator and editor. As an interdisciplinary artist, she uses textile, text, and photography to re-imagine and challenge the stereotypical depiction of spaces, contexts, identities and the people who are affected by global migration. Her most recent work is an ongoing exploration of the enslavement, dehumanisation, and hypersexualisation of African female bodies through colonial and racial systems, global and forced migration, and identity politics.

Tokyo International Art Fair opens in style on Friday 8th October with a VIP reception and sneak preview of the artworks on display, plus the first chance to purchase directly from the artist.  Reception from 18.00pm - 21.00pm. Tickets cost ¥ 2500 JPY ($ 20 USD) and can be booked at https://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets.  The fair continues on Saturday 9th October from 11.00am - 18.00pm and entry is FREE. The Outstanding Artist Awards will take place on Saturday at 17.30pm.

Tokyo International Art Fair takes place at Belle Salle Roppongi, Japan, 〒106-0032 Tokyo, Minato, Roppongi, 7 Chome−18−18, 住友不動産六本木通ビル More information is at https://www.tokyoartfair.com/

ENDS

ボランティア Volunteer at one of the biggest International Art Fairs in Tokyo

Interested in interning or volunteering for an international art fair? Then look no further!

国際アートフェアのインターンやボランティアに興味がありますか?その後、もう探す必要はありません!

Opportunities are available to learn about every aspect of building a fair, including being on-site and working the actual event.

The volunteers receive (upon successful completion): 
- ‘Certificate of Completion Tokyo Art Fair volunteer Assistant” 2021.
- Official thank you letter signed by the Director of the organisation. 
- Free Catalogue Tokyo Art Fair 2021
- Free 2 VIP Tickets Fri 8th October VIP Reception to invite key contacts.

To find out more please fill in the form below and we will contact you about current openings.

Volunteers will have to work on both art fair days: Friday 8th October from 12noon till 21.00pm & Saturday 9th October from 11.00am till 18.00pm 2021.

Or email your CV with photo to: office@globalartagency.com

現場にいることや実際のイベントに取り組むことなど、フェアの構築のあらゆる側面について学ぶ機会があります。

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Artist interview with Menucha Page

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Menucha Page

Born: Lakewood, New Jersey, USA

Live: Jerusalem, Israel

 www.menuchapagefineart.com

 


Menucha Page was born in Lakewood, New Jersey, in the USA and currently lives in Jerusalem, Israel.  She has pioneered a blossoming movement in Israel combining ancient themes of Jewish mysticism and scholarship, including the Hebrew letters themselves and ancient texts, with contemporary mixed media techniques involving painting, metalwork, and photography.  Her pieces are large-scale and once meticulously detailed and at the same time macro.


Alefinsta

Alefinsta


If you would have to impress the press (TV/Radio) with your artworks – how would you describe your works in order to stand out from other exhibitors?

Each of the works combines the deep wisdom of a venerated thousands-of-years-old tradition with contemporary elegance that achieves a rare effect.  


Aleforiginal

Aleforiginal


What is your definition of art?

I define art as beauty combined with some unique aspect that causes people to view the world in a different way than before they were exposed to the artwork.  If it doesn’t bend the mind and inspire, it’s probably not art but more interior decoration. 


Kuftiaf

Kuftiaf


Where do you get your inspiration?

I look into both the ancient Torah itself and into the natural world and try to channel and reflect the depth and beauty I find there.

Where do you see your art going in ten years? 

I don’t believe in sticking with only one style and technique.While my sources of inspiration remain constant (because they are a real sense truly infinite), the artistic techniques and elements of composition I connect to change over time.That’s why art is never static and dull for me.In ten years, I’m fairly certain that my art will be recognisable but also recognisably different than it is today as well.

 


Instadining1

Instadining1


Which are your favourite artists?

I’m actually really inspired by some of Weimar German artist, Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde.  On the other hand, my original inspiration is probably the biblical figure Betzalel who managed to tap into deep Divine knowledge to create the breathtaking artwork that went into the Tabernacle in the Sinai Wilderness.

Would love to exhibit my work in …

I have been inspired by the changes that are sweeping the Middle East. Today, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are at peace with Israel.  I would like to exhibit in Dubai and engage in the exciting crossover that’s occurring between Israel and the Arabian Peninsula today.


Flowerinsta

Flowerinsta


Should art be funded?

I believe that artists like all professionals provide something of value to the world, and because many appreciate that value, I see no reason why the government rather than private institutions and people should be the arbiter of what art gets funded and what art does not.


Vov

Vov


What superpowers would you have and why?

I appreciate the agility and manoeuvrability of Spiderman, and I also appreciate his sense of humour and his  underdog status.  But I also would like something a little more interesting and more spiritual, like being able to utter a holy name of God and instantly incinerate evil.

Artist interview with Léa Nasnas Chami

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Léa Nasnas Chami    

Born: Lebanon 1981 Live:  Oslo Norway

Website: www.leanasnas.com

Instagram: leanasnas      

Facebook: leanasnas

Twitter: LeaNasnas

 


Léa is a self taught artist, with a style of her own, born in Lebanon on November 29th 1981. When her parents divorced, in the midst of the Lebanese civil war, Léa and her little brother fled to Paris, France. They lived there with their grandmother for several years. After their mother remarried with a Norwegian man when Léa was 10, they moved to Oslo in Norway to reunite with her.

In 1999, she left home and went to Lebanon to study international relations at USJ in Beirut. She then specialized in corporate communication at ECS in Paris, France, where she met her husband. They settled back in Lebanon in 2004 where she has worked in journalism, event production and communication management. Due to the chaotic situation in Lebanon, Léa and her husband decided to move to Oslo, Norway with their children in 2020 for a fresh start.

Léa started to paint in 2003 to express her high sensitivity and supressed emotions and fell in love with the colors and fluidity of paint. She lets her inner child guide her hand while she paints. This is why she signs her artworks "Ley" by the short of her nickname "Leyouche".

Her unique style caught the eye of plenty as she loves to depict hearts, wings, meaningful places and strong emotions. Léa describes her style as "emotion-art" and often paints using blue, bright or metallic acrylic colors.

Léa participated in exhibitions worldwide and has her own limited edition line of products on https://leanasnas.redbubble.com


Van Gogh tribute collection

Van Gogh tribute collection


If you would have to impress the press (TV/Radio) with your artworks – how would you describe your works in order to stand out from other exhibitors:

My art style is unique, it is like an abstract expressionism of emotions. All my paintings tell an emotional story. My artworks are truly an expression of my deepest emotions on canvas without any censorship or filter. If I am happy, I paint happy paintings with bright colors and when I’m angry I use a darker palette. It’s a way for me to accept that “This is how I feel right now” and to tell others that “it is ok to feel that way” too. The blue hues of my mindfulness series bring hope and a sense of grounding to the viewer as I feel while I am painting them. I also have a collection in tribute of Van Gogh whom I truly admire. I let my inner child guide my paint strokes that‘s why I instinctively sign my paintings “Ley”, the short of my nickname “Leyouche”.


War Divorce and Decadence

War Divorce and Decadence


How would you describe yourself? And your artwork?

I smile to strangers and love to help others. Especially when I play matchmaking for my single connections. My friends call me “Cupidon” the name of the cute little angel of love… I collect angel figurines and my home is very colorful and cozy, especially at Christmas time with all my special decorations. I could never live without Christmas, Chocolate, human relations, spirituality and natural sunlight. My artwork is raw emotions on canvas. I love to use blue hues, bright colors and metallic paint. Hearts, wings, and abstract impression of emotions are my favorite subjects.


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Where do you get your inspiration?

I get my inspiration from all kinds of emotions, love, meaningful relationships, the beauty of nature, the sound of birds singing, piano playing, poetic songs with beautiful lyrics and music.

I know my artwork is finished when…?

When I feel an artwork is done, I hang it in my living room and look at it for a few weeks. Than I know it needs some extra work… I sign the artwork when I feel it is finished after I hung it and looked at it without feeling it needs anything more.

 

Which are your favorite artists?

My favorite painters/visual artists are: Vincent Van Gogh, Yayoi Kusama, Gustav Klimt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Romero Britto, Lisa Concannon, Da Wack (Mika’s sister Yasmine Penniman)


Jesus

Jesus


Best exhibition ever participated in…?

The best exhibition I ever participated in was definitely “Art Connects Women” in Dubai. It was organized by Zee Arts Gallery and gathered 100 artworks by women from 100 different countries. It also was my last real exhibition before the covid lockdown, in March 2020. I was proudly representing my adoptive land, Norway and connected with great women from around the world. The whole exhibition and program was around equality and the quality of the whole event was outstanding.  I am looking forward to other exhibitions and would love to show my art on all the continents.

 

What dream you ever had you still remember?

I was going through a dark moment in my life and Jesus appeared in my dream he was so pure, and compassionate. There was a warm light all around him and he showed me I could rely on him and offered me a hug. This is why I painted him on a human size with a sunshine impression all around him. That painting will stay in the middle of our home, to remind me that I can always rely on him and I can always hug him if I need some comfort.


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What other hobbies do you have? / What jobs have you done other than being an artist?

I have worked in communication and event management and started to paint to express my great sensitivity and suppressed emotions. After a thorough therapy using traditional CBT, I met my Integrative Stress Manager mentor and practiced Emotional Liberation Breathing, while he coached me to find my balance.  I discovered a passion to emotional healing and enrolled in an ISMC course to coach others and help patients more efficiently. I am also a certified Biodecoding counselor and I practice Art Therapy. I think art and therapy should both be funded because it really is hard to make a living out of art if you don’t have the right connections and art is an essential part of life and healing. By becoming a better version of yourself you help the world evolve too.

 

What’s your favourite artwork?

I don’t have a favourite artwork. All my paintings are the product of my emotional experience and of course some of them bring me more peace when I look at them, just like a picture of good moments that bring you joyful memories… but the darker paintings also show me that I got through this and kept growing and moving forward. So I love these too.


Artist interview with Agnes Lui

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Agnes Lui

Born: Hong Kong

Live: Hong Kong

Website url: www.agnesmyuniverse.com

Twitter: @agnesmyuniverse

Instagram: agnes_my_universe

Painter Agnes Lui was born in and currently residing in Hong Kong. It has never come across her mind that pleasing people and gaining recognition from them is a way to live. Awards and achievements have never occupied a big part in her life. She is known for remaining incognito while going after her dreams. She was led to be a painter right from her youth but she had refused to listen to her destined calling repeatedly. Her artworks, limning the magnificent night sky when observed under a telescope, are meant to remind people that the most beautiful things are always around us and they await us to explore. In a digital era where people live on the social media, it’s easy to share our thoughts in a minute while forgetting to appreciate the little treasures we have. The message she wants to convey through her artworks is as simple as this: to be grateful for everything you have.


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If you would have to impress the press (TV/Radio) with your artworks – how would you describe your works in order to stand out from other exhibitors:

In the multitudes of thousands of artworks in the fine arts industry, Agnes Lui’s paintings are particularly soothing. How relaxing it is after moiling and toiling all day and you find accompanied her renditions of the starry night sky without having to bring a telescope out? It’s the combination of her hobbies in stargazing and talents in arts that make her artworks interesting. When viewers stand in front of her artworks, appreciating her portrayal of the magnificent night sky which human beings have taken granted for, they will start wondering the insignificance of mankind. How will each of us look like when observed from the exoplanets or stars in other galaxies? As minuscule as stardust? None of us will survive long enough to see the finite existence of galaxies which the scientists could gauge in exact numbers with the aid of the most advanced technology. The life span of mankind varies with individuals, but it’s an undeniable fact that our lives are much shorter than those of the astronomical bodies in our universe. If we are merely stardust travellers of particular time frames who have to surrender our possessions here when the journey ends, what kind of footprints would each of us want to leave in the universe?


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Where do you get your inspiration?

 From nature. 


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Where do you see your art going in ten years?

 It’s difficult to see where I’ll stand in 10 years’ time but I will work as hard as I can to make my artworks reach out to more people as long as I live. It’s my pleasure to communicate with the guests coming to my exhibition and knowing how they think about my artworks.


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Can you tell us what your 'Before I Die' is?

 To become the person who I have always wanted to be and to work hard to realize all goals in life. There’s something more than getting married and becoming a mother for women. People need multiple sources of happiness and it’s only through finding goals to achieve that people can stay positive continuously. I enjoy setting goals and seeing myself completing the items on the checklist one after another before I die.


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I know my artwork is finished when…?

 No further amendments are needed and I am happy with it.  I am particularly fastidious over the trivial details and sometimes it takes a year to finish a painting.


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Greatest achievements so far…?

 Pulling myself together after experiencing all crises in life and standing up for myself when nobody else did.


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Would love to exhibit my work in …

 Museums all over the world.


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What is your life quote/motto?

 To live each day to its fullest. 


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What other hobbies do you have?

Stargazing. It’s marvellous to observe the ever-changing night sky through a telescope.


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Artist interview with Anibal Olier Bueno

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ANIBAL OLIER BUENO

 

Born & lives: CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA

Website url: https://www.anibalolierbueno.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anibalolier

 


Born on September 3, 1947 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, South America.

 

He studied at the Bolívar Fine Arts and Sciences University Institution. Master in Drawing and Painting and Master in Plastic Arts. He has been a teacher and Director of this institution for more than ten years.

 

He is a University Professor in the Humanities area of ​​the University of Cartagena, where he has worked for more than thirty-five years.

 

He has presented multiple solo exhibitions and participated in more than forty collective exhibitions both in his country and abroad, mainly in Beijing (China), Florence (Italy), Miami, New York (U.S.A.), Venezuela, Panama and Guyana.

Lives and works in Cartagena Colombia.

 


Dialogo / 150cm x150cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas

Dialogo / 150cm x150cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas


My work is mediated by the tendency of the New Figuration.

I think there is some neo expressionism when it comes to the application of color. The predominant red is the red of love and not that of the blood of violence. I also think that, despite being a plastic artist with a strength typical of the Caribbean region, the conceptual proposal comes from the desire for peace for my country, Colombia, bathed in blood by a historical atrocious violence.

 

That is why my Series, DIÁLOGOS, in which I represent figures embracing, understanding and respecting each other in an atmosphere with great geometric influence, is the feeling of response to so much perversity and intolerance with which we have learned to live.


Dialogo II / 150cm x150cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas

Dialogo II / 150cm x150cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas


How would you describe yourself? And your artwork?

 Conceptually, my art work aims to capture the new form of interrelation between human beings that, without mediating borders, ideologies, races or social conditions, find in the dialogue and materialize in the embrace the union and respect that must exist between all peoples of the world.

To get there, I use human figures immersed in atmospheres of color and geometrically delineated.
I am a humanist.


Madre Soltera / 120cm x120cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas

Madre Soltera / 120cm x120cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas


What drives you? 

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Life drives me. Also everything I want to communicate about life.

What is your definition of art?

Art is everything that a concept proposes within the communication of humans.

Where do you get your inspiration?

The only protagonist of art is the human, that is why it is always in my work of art.



Pareja Abrazándose / 130cm x130cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas

Pareja Abrazándose / 130cm x130cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas


Where do you see your art going in ten years?

Art will always exist as long as humans exist, because the human is an artist by nature, he is creative, sensitive and imaginative.

 

Can you tell us what your 'Before I Die' is?

I will work in art until life allows me, that is, I will die working in art.


Pregoneras / 130cm x100cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas

Pregoneras / 130cm x100cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas


Can you tell us what is happening now?

Humans have become desensitized to scenes of violence. For this reason, those of us who feel disgust for violence are committed to proposing scenarios of love, respect, dialogue and understanding.


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In the studio


The following are some comments on my artwork:

 

“When talking about Anibal Olier I immediately think of a human figure marked by abstraction, movement and color. Elements that we could call vital and that are lacquered seals in their canvases.
If we talk about your pictorial reasons, we will say that you are interested in expressing those virtues of life that are sincere features of your warm personality.

In the face of the struggles that preach violence, Olier proposes the sincere possibilities of a hug. It does so after searching itself, with the same intensity as it does in the other, and then building it as a pictorial work. An exercise of encrypted communication that we could call in the way of the poet Charles Baudelaire “the heroism of modern life”, an attitude that Olier gives us in this exhibition, as who begins a new struggle.”

By DAVID LARA

 

“His current theme revolves around the communication that is established between two or more people in terms that can suggest a respectful exchange of feelings, ideas, convictions or arguments as observed in his series entitled Dialogues. It is also a rejection of the intolerance that has permeated our contemporary society where human rights, including the right to life itself, have lost their validity and forced respect, attacking the family nucleus that, once dissolved by factors external to its will, tends to weaken society as a whole.  This circumstance fosters chaos, violence and instability that, in turn, contribute to the social decomposition that has disturbed our country throughout its republican history. In Olier's work the individual human figure predominates or in groups as anonymous symbols whose main intention is to highlight the need to unite around love and friendship as a way to achieve peace and to shield ourselves against the indifference and brutality of the times that they run. To achieve his goal, he uses emphatically contoured drawing and vigorous chromatic painting with loose and vigorous brushstrokes that add vitality to his compositions.”

By MARCELES DACONTE

"The proposals in formal plastic art, nowadays, can be sensations as placid as that of the painter Aníbal Olier, who proposes a sonority of color and line that transports us to the essential Americanism that cries out for the simplicity of the defined line of the figures allegorical pictures of the families always present in his paintings.

The proposed dialogue is essential for those who look at and appreciate the urban conceptual landscapes of a shameless work of an artist who invites the joy of life, without hurting the canvas with a tint of violence, despite its “bright” red color and that it is a look of hope in a society that has lost the sense of the "good" and the "beautiful".

Definitely, Olier is the welcoming proposal of Colombian art”.

By WINSTON CABALLERO


Pregonero / 140cm x120cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas

Pregonero / 140cm x120cm / Oil and acrylic on canvas


Artist interview with Sharmila Agarwal

Artist Name: Sharmila Agarwal

Born: 1968

Live: in Hyderabad

Website url: http://www.Sharmila-Agarwal.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/agarwalsharmila

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sharmila1840

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About you / Artist/ Gallery Statement:

Sharmila Agarwal is born and brought up in Bareilly, northern part of India, currently living in Hyderabad. She has been painting since she was a child. It was her art teacher who persuaded her to embrace arts in her future studies and since then she has never looked back.

 She is a well-known accomplished multifaceted artist who is pursuing painting since last forty years. She has done her bachelors in fine Arts and Masters in English literature but her love for art pushed her to pursue it further by joining Masters in art. She has participated in a number of group painting exhibitions and has displayed her works in few solo shows. 

Though she has tried different mediums, styles and keeps experimenting towards new parameters, she is well known for her contemporary miniature paintings. Her paintings are widely appreciated and recognised for their positive approach of the subject. They not only rejoice but take to a land of peace and subtle calmness moving the viewer at another level towards meditative mental state. Paintings are reflections of our internal state that’s why life of the characters of her paintings whether in miniatures or free expressions is very simple though not without vigour.

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If you would have to impress the press (TV/Radio) with your artworks – how would you describe your works in order to stand out from other exhibitors?  

 I.E- What is so unique about your artworks? 

A- Work says more than words but still if my work has to identify with current scenario, it is unique with its subject and color palate. There are very few Indian miniature artists who are creating their own theme with a contemporary subject instead of royal and mythological subject characters. Spirituality, calmness and positivity matter a lot to me and these gestures are easily noticed in my paintings.

 

What other hobbies do you have?

I love Ikebana and writing poetry. I am an Ikebana Master of higher degree, practicing since nineteen years. I have written two books on Ikebana. My first book Ikebana, “Japani Pushpkala” (Hindi Language) is a Hard Cover book with 252 pages. It is the first book in the world, written by any writer in the Hindi language about Ikebana. My second book “Ikebana for Beginners” is fun with flowers, and is written in the English language. I have given several Ikebana demonstrations and workshops as Guest Master nationally and internationally.

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Would love to exhibit my work in?

Tokyo is like second home to me due to my Ikebana engagements. I go there very often and have visited most of the museums. I will love to see my work at any of the museums in Tokyo, SalarJung Museum, Hyderabad and Lalit kala Akademi, Delhi.

  

Have you ever had a spiritual happening?

Oh! It’s all the time there. My work is like meditation to me. I live in the moment while painting and try to practice the same at other times too. As the teachings of lord Buddha says “Our appointment with life is in the present moment. The place of our appointment is right here, in this very place”. My abstract works are healing while miniatures are soothing and pleasant.

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What does your work aim to say?

From my side I say nothing just allow my hands to draw and paint freely. My hands draw what I love and appreciate. Though I don’t aim to say anything but positivity and pleasantness is very important to me to feel through my paintings. I feel as every work of mine is a part of me and like me, it also enjoys the company around.

 

How has your practice change over time?

Time has the capacity to change or mature the things at its pace similarly artist’s works also enhance with time, artists’ age, experiences, practice, life-style, mental-status etc. automatically influence one’s work. In my case with a period of time my style has matured and I am more courageous to twist the subject as per my imagination demands, characters are more vocal and women in my miniatures have always believed in freedom of expression and action, now they are more bold and expressive.

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How do you deal with artist's block?

I am not a full-time artist and have other creative hobbies in support so do not face artist’s block for a longer period but if I am working on any one work for three months continuously it becomes monotonous at times. I just relax for a day or two then clean my table, palate, sort out my pigments, look for hidden treasure (papers, stationary, pens, brushes etc.) in my studio cupboard and plan another  artwork and move on.

 

What themes do you pursue?

My way of doing contemporary Indian Miniature painting is the manifestation of previous olden style, maintaining the traditional roots I have allowed myself to explore new original themes and experiment with new techniques to some extent only to make sure that I am not killing the zest or flavour of past miniature paintings. I have chosen to go decorative way and shown the positive side of life which I find, opens up the peace within due to the pleasant approach towards life. Guiding spirit for my paintings is a simple day to day life, relationships between humans, between humans and nature. The themes I always keep in mind are the importance of Nature, the importance of creativity, the importance n need to present creativity through an aesthetic way.

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What art do you most identify with?

I will love my art to identify as meditative, spiritual, calm and positive. I make sure that these mantras reflect in my paintings.

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Artist interview with Tic Ikram

Artist Name: Tic Ikram

Born: July 24,1982

Live: Los Angeles, California, USA

Website url: http://tic.gallery

Instagram: @tic.artist

Facebook: @tic.artist

Tic Ikram in Tokyo, Japan

Tic Ikram in Tokyo, Japan

Artist Biography 

Born in 1982 in Salinas, California, Tammy Ikram (known as TIC) lived more in the imaginary than reality. Attending over thirteen different schools in three states before her Sacramento based high school graduation, she took advantage of new environments to reinvent her persona. TIC graduated in 2007 with honors from San Diego State University with a major in political science. While studying for the LSATs in 2007 with the intention of pursuing a career in law, a deep sense of imbalance with that field shifted her focus back on her deepest passion, art. TIC launched herself fully into creating beauty in the world believing what the world needed more than anything was hope, love, and imagination. 

TIC has maintained a studio in the broader Los Angeles area since 2013. TIC has also taught private drawing classes in both Orange County and London, England. Tic has exhibited in Hollywood, San Diego, Orange County, and Beverly Hills, and has upcoming exhibitions in the The Oculus at World Trade Center in New York and Tokyo, Japan. She will also have her paintings heavily featured on Season two of Selling Sunset on Netflix. She currently lives in greater Los Angeles with her husband and two children. 

YARA // Floralscape I / 2019 / Oil on cotton / 40 in x 60 in (101.6 cm x 152.4 cm)

YARA // Floralscape I / 2019 / Oil on cotton / 40 in x 60 in (101.6 cm x 152.4 cm)

Artist Statement 

My paintings explore space, movement, and the ideals femininity. The fantasy of escaping from the mundane into a world filled with vibrant colors and verdant gardens of elegance captures my imagination.The sense of freedom I feel in that space directly feeds the emotional energy of my paintings. I use floral structures as my compositional framework in order to take the viewer into a state of wonder, beauty, and seduction.  

Hard Candy // Floralscape II / 2019 / Oil on linen24 in x 30 in (60.96 cm x 76.2 cm)

Hard Candy // Floralscape II / 2019 / Oil on linen

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How do you deal with artist's block?

Keep working. I consider myself a chain artist, I always try to keep a flow of ideas. I’ve amassed a collection of thousands of images in several digital mood boards in case I ever feel stuck or uninspired. 

Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

I’m currently finishing a tightly layered floral painting with a gorgeous gradient change throughout, and I’m planning a large modern piece with grays, blues, and a burst of titanium white, my interpretation of masculine floral. 

 

Best exhibition ever participated in…?

Entering my exhibition in the Oculus building at the World Trade Center was so special to me. Just the historical significance and beauty that now envelops that space moved me. 

Cotton Candy // Floralscape IV / 2019 / Oil on linen / 18 in x 24 in (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm)

Cotton Candy // Floralscape IV / 2019 / Oil on linen / 18 in x 24 in (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm)

Would love to exhibit my work in... 

Tokyo! I’m so drawn to the beauty and culture that encompasses it. The last time I visited, I remember walking down the street dressed like a ninja with two katanas down my back. I was then stopped by the local police. At first I thought he was going to tell me I couldn’t brand weapons like that in public, but instead he smiled and laughed with me. There was no judgement or fear of cultural appropriation, just pure humor and interest. That is my forever mood, and the vibe I want my collections to present. 

Tic Ikram creating Chrysaora Fuscescens // Floralscape VIII / 2019 in studio.

Tic Ikram creating Chrysaora Fuscescens // Floralscape VIII / 2019 in studio.

  

One thing no one knows about you, but defines you a lot?

I love movies, like really really love movies! I go to the movie theatre almost weekly. I love getting lost in someone else’s creative world. 

 

What does your work aim to say?

I think the core of my art is to make people happy. I think the world has enough hurt and pessimism that I want my contribution to be one of love and inspiration. 

 

What’s your background?

Before transitioning into a full time fine artist I worked as an interior designer and space planner. I also designed wireframes for websites and mobile applications. I think both of those experiences have influenced my current collections. 

What’s integral to the work of an artist?

Honesty and vulnerability. About yourself, your desires, your preferences. Sometimes it’s hard to hear your own inner artistic voice and it takes years of experimenting and failures before you can hear it, but once you start listening, go all in. 

How has your practice changed over time?

When I was a kid I used to mindlessly doodle all over my notebooks. When I decided I wanted to become an artist, I became more intentional about my designs, and worked towards mastery of different techniques. Now I’m coming full circle and I want to take those skills and apply them to creating completely unique, whimsical pieces, akin to those I created from childhood. 

Luminyara // MysTic No. 01 / 2019 / Oil on linen board / 18 in x 24 in (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm)

Luminyara // MysTic No. 01 / 2019 / Oil on linen board / 18 in x 24 in (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm)

Describe a real-life situation that inspired you?

Once walking through an airport I was stopped dead in my tracks by the typography on the cover of a magazine. I just kept staring at it. The perfect line weight, the elegant flourishes, and the color story throughout. I bought the magazine and even found the font family. I eventually drew a butterfly that I felt could be an extension of that design, and built an entire painting around it. (Luminyara, 2020).

Artist interview with Parjam Parsi

Artist Name: Parjam Parsi

Born: Tehran

Live: Yerevan/Tehran

Website url: parjamparsi.com

Twitter: @parjamparsi

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Artist Parjam Parsi was born in Tehran (23/10/1988), currently living in between 2 cities: Yerevan (Armenia) and Tehran(Iran)

He is heavily influenced by German/Russian literature so besides creating art he also writes short novels or poetry to each of them.

He is a self-taught painter.

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What is so unique about your artworks?

I want to capture the story of my uncertainties and worries in such a way that gives the content and context of my style more universal than endemic art

How would you describe yourself? And your artwork?

I am a worried confusion. 

my works are destructed by my sense, mind, experiences, and imagination at that time. This is not a perfect mental or physical circumstance, but it works to build a piece every time

What drives you? 

My failures and frustrations

 

What is your definition of art?

it is very difficult to explain. I think we should talk about what is the art and what is not art

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 Where do you get your inspiration?

Poetry, a tragic event, personal failures and things I can not change or fix in real life

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Where do you see your art going in ten years?

Observation, work, observation. Repeat

Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

I'm working on two different series, based on Fernando Pessoa and Sylvia Plath (figurative and abstract paintings) related to my developmental studies

 

I know my artwork is finished when…?

It is a desire but you never arrive to end, but you keep working until you cannot make any more changes

Which are your favorite artists?

Daniel Turner

One thing no one knows about you, but defines you a lot?

I’m a mind full of dreams with many impossible actualities

If you would be on your death bed what advice would you give to people?

Regular hard work is not the key to success (in the original definition we use in general)

Record numbers turn out for Tokyo International Art Fair 2019

12th July 2019: Belle Salle Roppongi was teeming with talented artists, leading galleries and appreciative art lovers in their thousands as the city of Tokyo played host to the 5th annual Tokyo International Art Fair.

The two day art fair, one of the highlights of the city’s cultural calendar, featured work created by leading artists from around the world including Ron English, Cho, Hui-Chin, High Art Gallery and Araki Nobuyoshi. Artists and visitors alike declared it a huge success, with record numbers turning out to show, enjoy and buy art.

More than 100 exhibitors from 23 countries travelled to Tokyo to take part in the largest free to attend showcase of contemporary art seen in the city.  Paintings, sculpture, photography, illustrations, jewellery and bespoke crafts transformed the setting into a sea of colours, as the aisles buzzed with excitement as visitors chatted to the artists and snapped up unique works.

Trade was brisk, with artists and galleries reporting strong sales throughout the event, as Tokyo International Art Fair director and curator Joëlle Dinnage explains. “It was the fifth time that I and my colleagues from the Global Art Agency travelled to Tokyo to host the art fair and this year surpassed all our expectations,” she says.

“I can honestly say that it was one of the busiest, most vibrant art fairs we have ever organised anywhere in the world, with an incredible atmosphere on both days. The excitement was palpable.

“Wherever I looked, I saw artists, surrounded by enthralled visitors, talking passionately about their work. We were totally bowled over by the level of talent on display, something which made judging the Tokyo International Art Fair Awards on the second day harder than ever.  Finally, we did select our winners1 and I warmly congratulate them, though everyone who took part was worthy of praise,” she says.

WINNERS OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARDS TIAF 2019

1) Harry Arling (Netherlands) middle https://www.instagram.com/kosmotroniks

2) Jiro Shimizu (Austria) left www.jiro.tv

3) Tunikov (Russia) right www.tunikov.com

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The organisers’ enthusiasm was matched by the artists present, who were quick to share their appreciation for the event.  

“It was a great opportunity to be a part of the show. I was able to meet an incredible amount of extremely talented artists as well as gallery representatives from all around the country and the world. I can’t thank you enough. I know that being part of such a high calibre event is going to be a major part of my success story,” says American artist Johnny, the “The Spilt Ink”, who resides in Tokyo.

“I too had a great time at the Tokyo International Art Fair,” says Dutch artist Stephan van Riezen. “I sold a few paintings, but most importantly, I met amazing people. I’m in love with Tokyo now, something which is giving me great inspiration.”  

"Tokyo was great and so was the art fair,” adds painter Rima Chahine. “I sold all of my paintings, so I am very happy with the results.  The atmosphere of the opening night and the second day was stunning and captivating. I made many friends, both artists and collectors, and met buyers and potential buyers.”

Dates for the sixth Tokyo International Art Fair are beginning of June 2020, applications to participate will open shortly, but in the meantime, artists and galleries can register their interest for next year’s event by going to http://www.tokyoartfair.com/apply-to-exhibit-tokyo-art-fair.

More information about the event can be found at www.tokyoartfair.com. 

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The event is organised by http://www.globalartagency.com/ 

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Press contacts:

Sarah Pracey + 44 7985 112 777 / sarah@praceypr.com

office@globalartagency.com / contact@joelledinnage.com   www.joelledinnage.com

 

Note to editors:

Details of the winners of the Tokyo International Art Fair Awards 2019 can be found here.

Artist interview with Ale Montañez

Ale Montañez, was born in Tenerife (Spain) being the oldest of the brothers, raised in an environment within a fairly large family, for different adverse reasons of life. Montañez responds to his feelings through painting, being for him is an escape, where he can express what he feels, what he has seen or what he imagines. During Montañez’s travels he has learnt stories that he later captures in his paintings. He began to work in a small format, but after time, he concentrated on a bigger format with a change of technique, the latter was carried out and would be exhibited by different rooms of museums, galleries, exhibitions and biennials.

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What would you tell him/her about your art so he would buy it?

A few years ago, I created a painting for Lady Gaga, I was inspired by it in the "force" tarot card. In a concert that the artist performed in the city of Amsterdam. I moved with the painting to make it come, since from my point of view, it is a letter that represents her, for all the adversities that she had to overcome in life, being the person that it is today.

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How would you describe yourself? And your artwork? What drives you?

I am a conceptual artist, who always paints what inspires me and that art is the answer to sensations.

Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

I am inspired by nature, the little things in life. Artists block is complicated, when this happens to me I need to see the sea, to feel its renewing energy. My art will continue to grow and evolve, I will continue doing what I like and I will give it to know the world. Right now I am in a stage of connection with the earth, reflected with flowers and animals.

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I know my artwork is finished when…?

Every time I finish creating a piece of work, I look at it, if I feel that I do not need to express anything else, I sign.

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Which are your favorite artists?

When I exhibited in Florence, commissioned by art curator Virginia Bazzechi, at Dante Museum

Best exhibition ever participated in…?

Vincent Van Gogh

Greatest achievements so far…?

To have exhibited my work in three continents, America, Europe and Asia

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Would love to exhibit my work in …

I am very happy to exhibit my work so that everyone can see it, especially in these moments that I have been able to take my art to Tokyo, where people will be able to see different parts of my art.