Antonio Rojas is a Spanish painter born in 1962 in Tarifa (Cádiz). In 1993 he received a scholarship from the Spanish Academy of History, Archaeology and Fine Arts in Rome. He has a geometrical style that calls back to the metaphysics of Giorgio de Chirico, which makes us think of multiple dimensions. In his compositions he incorporates a constructivism that reminds us of Malevich, achieving a surreal deconstruction through the cone, sphere and square.
He has received numerous awards which include the Gold Medal from The National Exhibition of Fine Arts from Veldepeñas and the Unicaja Award from Malaga. He has been in multiple exhibitions in places such as the Museum of Modern Art Infanta Elena, Museum of Teruel, Provincial Museums of Ciudad Real and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Segovia. Today we have the privilege of hosting him in an online exhibition and soon enough in an onsite exhibition at FluxZone Gallery.
His education has been influenced by the Bauhaus and the new Swiss typographic style. He studied at the Basel School of Design. Subsequently completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. For several years has been living and working in New York, and after his return to Spain he continued his studies in photography, completing a Master of Art in Photography at the European Institute of Design in Madrid (IED), and numerous international photography workshops.
Some of the most prominent spaces where he has shown his work are: RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Venice Arsenale; PhotoEspaña festival, Madrid; Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville; TEA Museum, Tenerife; and Cultural Center of Jesus, Ibiza.
Angelo Cricchi was born in Rome, Italy. After a long career as a professional athlete, his passions turned to photography. As a successful fashion photographer of prominent international clients, celebrities and for magazines, Cricchi created his own company: Lost and found Studio. His artistic photographic work paralleled his commercial photography career, from 2001 he started to make short movies and fashion films. After the “Gloomy Sunday” exhibition at MAK in Vienna (2009) he left his position as a fashion photographer to realise his passion and talents in fine art photography. His works have been exhibited in public and private institutions in Italy, Austria, Germany and Holland. Angelo Cricchi lives in Rome. Angelo Cricchi is Creative Director at FLEWID – The book and Head Teacher of the Fashion Dpt. at “Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata di Roma.”
Alfredo De Stéfano was born in Monclova, Coahuila, a city in northeast Mexico located in the middle of the desert. He studied a degree in Communication and Marketing from the Autonomous University of Coahuila (UA de C) and is a self-taught photographer.
He is considered one of the most important contemporary conceptual photographers in Mexico. His passion is landscape and specifically that of the desert, a panorama that he has traveled countless times photographing and intervening on. Among his photographic series, the following stand out: De parajes sin Futuro (1992), Vestiges of Paradise (1996), Inhabiting the Void (2002) and Brief Chronicle of Light (2006); all of them with books or catalogs.
He has produced more than ninety exhibitions, between individual and collective, and his work has been exhibited on five continents as well as in different cities of the world such as Paris, São Paulo, New York, Washington, Madrid, London, Bogotá, Lima , Buenos Aires, among others. His photographs have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and his work is in public and private collections in Mexico and abroad.
His work is represented by different galleries in Mexico, the United States and Brazil; it is common to see his work at art fairs such as Paris Photo, Zona MACO or Art São Paulo, to name a few. Since 2008 he is a member of the National System of Art Creators FONCA.
Young emerging mexican artist, he is a professional bullfighter that explores performance art by linking it to his profession. Heavily influenced by Marina Abramovic, he incorporates sound and light effects to his performance pieces to provoke the senses.
Emiliano Gironella studied visual arts at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, USA. He resorts to engraving, direct wood carvings, bronze sculptures and methacrylate castings. Heir of a legacy of artists, his themes have fluctuated between bullfighting —influence of his father, Alberto Gironella—, tributes to contemporary artists, and his current concern: the havoc wrecked in Mexican society as a result of the violence experienced in the country.
Maryam Eisler is a London – based photographer and author. Maryam’s photographic work, the crux of which is centred around the Sublime Feminine thematics, is represented by Tristan Hoare in London and Harper’s Books in New York. Maryam has additionally shown at Photo London, Dallas Art Fair, Unseen Amsterdam, Space Gallery St Barth, Bermondsey Project Space, and Art Marbella. Maryam is a contributing editor to LUX magazine, a Condé Nast title as well as contributed photographically and editorially to Vanity Fair ( 'On Art' – UK), Harpers Bazaar Art, Harpers Bazaar Interiors and Vogue Arabia. Maryam’s book,Voices: East London for which she is both author and photographer was published in 2018. She has additionally edited several other Thames and Hudson titles to include Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces and London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City among many more.
Vanessa Velib is an artist from Queretaro. She has traveled the world exploring cultures, which led her to define her styles of expression and generate her own thoughts and philosophies on how to express herself. Continuous experimentation has been an important key in her artistic manifestation, her tireless use of textures and materials, which usually come from recycling and his interest in biodiversity and caring for the environment. At the center of the work there is the message of the universal ethical principle of respect to life and nature.
His professional training began in 1975 attending the workshop of master sculptor Lothar Kestenbaum, at the National School of Fine Arts in San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. From 1976 to 1978 he collaborated with Dr. Mathias Goeritz’s Art Section, as editor of the magazine Arquitectura/México. From 1979 to 1983, he studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he obtained his BFA, came in contact with the New Image Painting movement, and studied the Abstract Expressionists closely, especially Motherwell, de Kooning and Franz Kline. In 1985 he was Art Director at the Rufino Tamayo Museum. He founded El Pez Soluble Press, with fellow artists Alejandro Arango and Franco Manterola. In the 1990s, Pani's visual expression, with its characteristic abstraction, became more lyrical and synthetic as he moved to the countryside, where he designed and built his much reviewed house and studio. In 1993 he moved the press to Tequisquiapan, Mexico, where a great number of artists have come to work since and where he continues, to this day, giving seminars and teaching drawing and the etching techniques. Multiple exhibitions around the world have allowed his work to be part of more than 300 collections in museums and in public and private institutions. In 2001 he was awarded the Lorenzo Il’Magnifico Medal by the city of Florence, Italy, at the biennale. He has painted five murals in Mexico City. Knut Pani’s body of work, summons the expressive large format paintings, his vast work on paper, Artist Books and the urban sculpture projects in carbon steel he is currently working on. Pani is now developing a project called “Visual Exile” approaching a nomadic way of performing art, and directing, along with Santiago Pani, Art-House PANI (Mexico) and Art-House Holland (The Netherlands), interactive centers for the visual arts and art residencies open for artists from around the world, together with Taller El Pez Soluble. He lives and works between the cities of Madrid, Leiden and Tequisquiapan, Mexico.
She is mostly a self-taught artist. Growing up in a very rich cultural environment but spartan way of living, shaped her way of seeing life and applying photography.
She spent a long time trying to find her own way -between tradition and modernity- creating a path where her photo- graphic work is strong influenced by the art of painting in textures, colours and composition.This is first to perceive in her photo book “Portret met garnaalkroket” (Portrait with schrimp croquet) published by Ludion, where she reflects the artistic Belgian scene by making the portraits of some of their most emblematic members, like Luc Tuymans, Jan Hoet, Michael Borremans, Stephan Vanfleteren, Dirk Braeckman, Jan Fabre...
Some of her most relevant exhibitions: “Portrait with schrimp croquet” Gallery Van De Weghe (Antwerp) “Portrait with schrimp croquet”, Soledad Senlle Gallery Amsterdam. “Agitation” Ingrid Deuss Gallery – Antwerp “Here be lions” Ingrid Deuss Gallery – Antwerp; “Après l’Averse/After the Downpour” Ingrid Deuss Gallery – Antwerp
Joachim Hildebrand started his photography career as a freelance photographer for press and photo agencies. At the same time, he studied economic sciences in Frankfurt am Main. After having completed his doctorate and fifteen years in business, he turned to photographic art and studied Fine Art Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid under, among others, Elger Esser, Joan Fontcuberta, and Martin Parr. Since then he has worked internationally on my different personal projects.
He usually deals with public places and urban or suburban spaces in which people live, work or spend their free time. What they look like is the result of collective and individual decisions. People shape their environment, but at the same time, they are also shaped by it. He is particularly interested in man-made things and human interventions in the landscape and its surroundings. Therefore, the built environment always plays an important role in his work.
Paula Guimaraes splits her time between Coast Careye and Lisbon. Her work is known for the deep connection of shamanic powers and the healing powers of nature.
In our indigenous cultures it is understood that shamanic knowledge derives from an epistemology in which everything that exists –rocks, trees, wind, ocean, and deserts- is alive and has a soul. Because of this, all of us are part of a corporality that connects and unifies us. The natural world is full of life, filled with healing spirits that take us into an ontological awakening; the chirping bird's songs, the crackling of fire, the sound of the wind, the roaring of the waves. This exhibition reveals the shamanic power of Mother Earth. These extraordinary disruptive times are a calling for humanity to shift its gear and retake the wisdom inherent in Nature.
Parra//Gironella is a family collage, an exhibition where you can observe the echos and correspondences of a heritage. In it, the art of four generations of Mexican artists with different aesthetics is reunited: Manuel Parra, Alberto Gironella, Carmen Parra y Emiliano Gironella. The purpose of this exhibition is a reflexion on the multiple perspectives generated in their artwork, where a creative dialogue, going beyond the family bond, comes together. Some of the shared echoes between these artists lie on similar critical positions that they take in the face of contemporary events and characters, as well as the expressive gestures, baroque at times, that they resort to in their pieces and the aesthetic they created from collage and the assembly of shapes, images and objects.
Vanesssa Velib’s gaze can be found without referring to specific places and instead choosing to transform her work into a sphere of dialogue with the most commonly used codes: the alphabet with a succulent thickness created by the impasto that suggests matter, where compositions make an invitation to a sensual touch, a fundamental and constant element in her work.
Velib establishes a communion with nature, as she rejects conventions and discovers her own personal language to achieve her goal. She achieves this through her use of color saturation along with thick and marked contours, thus creating a network of shapes that are significant by themselves.
There is a swift, violent, and compelling treatment with an urgent sense of change and metamorphosis. This is a style known as "all over" painting where there is no prior idea of composition, without difference between figure and background; in which each element can get confused with everything in a space without neutral or empty areas. Quick brushstrokes, impastos, and broad stripes of color integrated in various directions can be distinguished; confirming the artist's interest to suggest - rather than the experience of nature - the very nature of the act of painting.
In her work we find echoes of Abstract Expressionism, as she holds stylistic correspondences with Gorky, Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko y Kline, all of whom manifest the improvised states of the unconscious through brushstrokes and paint drips. With these gestures, Velib seduces in a definite way the importance of abstract movement by proposing a generous materiality where a center of gravity is built and given by the sumptuous color that supports it as a visual metaphor.
Related to “action painting”, Vanessa Velib revisits the extraordinary freedoms of shapes and colors, impastos and scratches, objects or subjects that she incorporates into her compositions appearing as bodies in a continuous metamorphosis.
Joachim Hildebrand started his photography career as a freelance photographer for press and photo agencies. At the same time, he studied economic sciences in Frankfurt am Main. After having completed his doctorate and fifteen years in business, he turned to photographic art and studied Fine Art Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid under, among others, Elger Esser, Joan Fontcuberta, and Martin Parr. Since then he has worked internationally on my different personal projects.
He usually deals with public places and urban or suburban spaces in which people live, work or spend their free time. What they look like is the result of collective and individual decisions. People shape their environment, but at the same time, they are also shaped by it. He is particularly interested in man-made things and human interventions in the landscape and its surroundings. Therefore, the built environment always plays an important role in his work.
Threshold of Catastrophe is an aesthetic-political proposal where artists are committed to the abysmal dilemma that afflicts us all: climate change.
These artists put forward a fresh gaze at ancestral forms highlighting the oral traditions of water and earth; as well as forms of traditional cultivation such as plow with animals, marking the rhythms of life and death. They take up the teachings of wise men; ancestral understanding marked by the stars, which resonates, as a magnetic echoes in landscapes and seascapes. We find signs uneasy to decipher, that belong however, to a more generalized use of alpha- bets and arithmetics.
What is the proposal of this exhibition? Perhaps a return to the rhythms of the earth, to its echoes, to its biological and cosmic energy that mark the balances between man and nature. A metaphor to understand the cyclic gear that articulates the pictorial practice.
This gravitational attraction returns the focus to ontological questions as creators move be- tween diverse environments, formats and contexts, leading to open horizons.
The main focus in Maryam Eisler’s work is the sublime feminine, concerning all of women’s roles. A play of Light & shadow dominates her work, as she portrays landscape and space. In this series she was drawn by the relationship between Edward Weston and Tina Modotti as they shared an adventure in Mexico, during the revolution. Eisler drew inspiration from her visit to Weston’s home and imagined how he looked at Tina at the height of their affair between love, passion, and trust. Here she portrays her as a muse, collaborator, partner and lover; effectively showcasing her in many different roles, a magnificent woman in her own right.
We find in his painting, echoes of Motherwell, Kooning and Franz Kline, where the chromatic stain explodes and multiplies, in a spontaneous deployment that gestates an infinity of possibilities. Emotional landscape that goes from white to black, passing through shades of gray, play of mirrors of a retina that unfolds in hatchings and implosions.
Knut Pani, wants to show the essence of the emotional gesture and to make evident within an abstract language the most elemental of the human condition; the confrontation of man with his destiny. Facing the blank surface, the emptiness that one wants to fill with meaning, being in front of a bottomless abyss. Giving meaning to existence is man's challenge to life and defines his connection with the universe.
This performance is a crosscurrent work; bullfighting today is disruptive. Therefore, Manuel Gaona through the body as a medium, is given the task of expressing works site where a fluid structure is transformed into language and movement; similarly, photography and video as a record, leaves a footprint, a trace.
By exploring the echoes of body art, Gaona explores transition states, and focuses on the process of change: from the concrete to the ephemeral, from inside to outside, from darkness to light, from life to death. The live actions and soundtrack are displayed in dialogue with text fragments that fluctuate from the metaphorical to the literal.
Vanessa Velib is an artist from Queretaro. She has traveled the world exploring cultures, which led her to define her styles of expression and generate her own thoughts and philosophies on how to express herself. Continuous experimentation has been an important key in her artistic manifestation, her tireless use of textures and materials, which usually come from recycling and his interest in biodiversity and caring for the environment. At the center of the work there is the message of the universal ethical principle of respect to life and nature.
His education has been influenced by the Bauhaus and the new Swiss typographic style. He studied at the Basel School of Design. Subsequently completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. For several years has been living and working in New York, and after his return to Spain he continued his studies in photography, completing a Master of Art in Photography at the European Institute of Design in Madrid (IED), and numerous international photography workshops.
Some of the most prominent spaces where he has shown his work are: RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Venice Arsenale; PhotoEspaña festival, Madrid; Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville; TEA Museum, Tenerife; and Cultural Center of Jesus, Ibiza.
She is mostly a self-taught artist. Growing up in a very rich cultural environment but spartan way of living, shaped her way of seeing life and applying photography.
She spent a long time trying to find her own way -between tradition and modernity- creating a path where her photo- graphic work is strong influenced by the art of painting in textures, colours and composition.This is first to perceive in her photo book “Portret met garnaalkroket” (Portrait with schrimp croquet) published by Ludion, where she reflects the artistic Belgian scene by making the portraits of some of their most emblematic members, like Luc Tuymans, Jan Hoet, Michael Borremans, Stephan Vanfleteren, Dirk Braeckman, Jan Fabre...
Some of her most relevant exhibitions: “Portrait with schrimp croquet” Gallery Van De Weghe (Antwerp) “Portrait with schrimp croquet”, Soledad Senlle Gallery Amsterdam. “Agitation” Ingrid Deuss Gallery – Antwerp “Here be lions” Ingrid Deuss Gallery – Antwerp; “Après l’Averse/After the Downpour” Ingrid Deuss Gallery – Antwerp
Alfredo De Stéfano was born in Monclova, Coahuila, a city in northeast Mexico located in the middle of the desert. He studied a degree in Communication and Marketing from the Autonomous University of Coahuila (UA de C) and is a self-taught photographer.
He is considered one of the most important contemporary conceptual photographers in Mexico. His passion is landscape and specifically that of the desert, a panorama that he has traveled countless times photographing and intervening on. Among his photographic series, the following stand out: De parajes sin Futuro (1992), Vestiges of Paradise (1996), Inhabiting the Void (2002) and Brief Chronicle of Light (2006); all of them with books or catalogs.
He has produced more than ninety exhibitions, between individual and collective, and his work has been exhibited on five continents as well as in different cities of the world such as Paris, São Paulo, New York, Washington, Madrid, London, Bogotá, Lima , Buenos Aires, among others. His photographs have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and his work is in public and private collections in Mexico and abroad.
His work is represented by different galleries in Mexico, the United States and Brazil; it is common to see his work at art fairs such as Paris Photo, Zona MACO or Art São Paulo, to name a few. Since 2008 he is a member of the National System of Art Creators FONCA.
His professional training began in 1975 attending the workshop of master sculptor Lothar Kestenbaum, at the National School of Fine Arts in San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. From 1976 to 1978 he collaborated with Dr. Mathias Goeritz’s Art Section, as editor of the magazine Arquitectura/México. From 1979 to 1983, he studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he obtained his BFA, came in contact with the New Image Painting movement, and studied the Abstract Expressionists closely, especially Motherwell, de Kooning and Franz Kline. In 1985 he was Art Director at the Rufino Tamayo Museum. He founded El Pez Soluble Press, with fellow artists Alejandro Arango and Franco Manterola. In the 1990s, Pani's visual expression, with its characteristic abstraction, became more lyrical and synthetic as he moved to the countryside, where he designed and built his much reviewed house and studio. In 1993 he moved the press to Tequisquiapan, Mexico, where a great number of artists have come to work since and where he continues, to this day, giving seminars and teaching drawing and the etching techniques. Multiple exhibitions around the world have allowed his work to be part of more than 300 collections in museums and in public and private institutions. In 2001 he was awarded the Lorenzo Il’Magnifico Medal by the city of Florence, Italy, at the biennale. He has painted five murals in Mexico City. Knut Pani’s body of work, summons the expressive large format paintings, his vast work on paper, Artist Books and the urban sculpture projects in carbon steel he is currently working on. Pani is now developing a project called “Visual Exile” approaching a nomadic way of performing art, and directing, along with Santiago Pani, Art-House PANI (Mexico) and Art-House Holland (The Netherlands), interactive centers for the visual arts and art residencies open for artists from around the world, together with Taller El Pez Soluble. He lives and works between the cities of Madrid, Leiden and Tequisquiapan, Mexico.
Angelo Cricchi was born in Rome, Italy. After a long career as a professional athlete, his passions turned to photography. As a successful fashion photographer of prominent international clients, celebrities and for magazines, Cricchi created his own company: Lost and found Studio. His artistic photographic work paralleled his commercial photography career, from 2001 he started to make short movies and fashion films. After the “Gloomy Sunday” exhibition at MAK in Vienna (2009) he left his position as a fashion photographer to realise his passion and talents in fine art photography. His works have been exhibited in public and private institutions in Italy, Austria, Germany and Holland. Angelo Cricchi lives in Rome. Angelo Cricchi is Creative Director at FLEWID – The book and Head Teacher of the Fashion Dpt. at “Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata di Roma.”
Maryam Eisler is a London – based photographer and author. Maryam’s photographic work, the crux of which is centred around the Sublime Feminine thematics, is represented by Tristan Hoare in London and Harper’s Books in New York. Maryam has additionally shown at Photo London, Dallas Art Fair, Unseen Amsterdam, Space Gallery St Barth, Bermondsey Project Space, and Art Marbella. Maryam is a contributing editor to LUX magazine, a Condé Nast title as well as contributed photographically and editorially to Vanity Fair ( 'On Art' – UK), Harpers Bazaar Art, Harpers Bazaar Interiors and Vogue Arabia. Maryam’s book,Voices: East London for which she is both author and photographer was published in 2018. She has additionally edited several other Thames and Hudson titles to include Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces and London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City among many more.
Emiliano Gironella studied visual arts at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, USA. He resorts to engraving, direct wood carvings, bronze sculptures and methacrylate castings. Heir of a legacy of artists, his themes have fluctuated between bullfighting —influence of his father, Alberto Gironella—, tributes to contemporary artists, and his current concern: the havoc wrecked in Mexican society as a result of the violence experienced in the country.
Joachim Hildebrand started his photography career as a freelance photographer for press and photo agencies. At the same time, he studied economic sciences in Frankfurt am Main. After having completed his doctorate and fifteen years in business, he turned to photographic art and studied Fine Art Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid under, among others, Elger Esser, Joan Fontcuberta, and Martin Parr. Since then he has worked internationally on my different personal projects.
He usually deals with public places and urban or suburban spaces in which people live, work or spend their free time. What they look like is the result of collective and individual decisions. People shape their environment, but at the same time, they are also shaped by it. He is particularly interested in man-made things and human interventions in the landscape and its surroundings. Therefore, the built environment always plays an important role in his work.
Antonio Rojas is a Spanish painter born in 1962 in Tarifa (Cádiz). In 1993 he received a scholarship from the Spanish Academy of History, Archaeology and Fine Arts in Rome. He has a geometrical style that calls back to the metaphysics of Giorgio de Chirico, which makes us think of multiple dimensions. In his compositions he incorporates a constructivism that reminds us of Malevich, achieving a surreal deconstruction through the cone, sphere and square.
He has received numerous awards which include the Gold Medal from The National Exhibition of Fine Arts from Veldepeñas and the Unicaja Award from Malaga. He has been in multiple exhibitions in places such as the Museum of Modern Art Infanta Elena, Museum of Teruel, Provincial Museums of Ciudad Real and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Segovia. Today we have the privilege of hosting him in an online exhibition and soon enough in an onsite exhibition at FluxZone Gallery.
Young emerging mexican artist, he is a professional bullfighter that explores performance art by linking it to his profession. Heavily influenced by Marina Abramovic, he incorporates sound and light effects to his performance pieces to provoke the senses.
Paula Guimaraes splits her time between Coast Careye and Lisbon. Her work is known for the deep connection of shamanic powers and the healing powers of nature.
In our indigenous cultures it is understood that shamanic knowledge derives from an epistemology in which everything that exists –rocks, trees, wind, ocean, and deserts- is alive and has a soul. Because of this, all of us are part of a corporality that connects and unifies us. The natural world is full of life, filled with healing spirits that take us into an ontological awakening; the chirping bird's songs, the crackling of fire, the sound of the wind, the roaring of the waves. This exhibition reveals the shamanic power of Mother Earth. These extraordinary disruptive times are a calling for humanity to shift its gear and retake the wisdom inherent in Nature.
The main focus in Maryam Eisler’s work is the sublime feminine, concerning all of women’s roles. A play of Light & shadow dominates her work, as she portrays landscape and space. In this series she was drawn by the relationship between Edward Weston and Tina Modotti as they shared an adventure in Mexico, during the revolution. Eisler drew inspiration from her visit to Weston’s home and imagined how he looked at Tina at the height of their affair between love, passion, and trust. Here she portrays her as a muse, collaborator, partner and lover; effectively showcasing her in many different roles, a magnificent woman in her own right.
Parra//Gironella is a family collage, an exhibition where you can observe the echos and correspondences of a heritage. In it, the art of four generations of Mexican artists with different aesthetics is reunited: Manuel Parra, Alberto Gironella, Carmen Parra y Emiliano Gironella. The purpose of this exhibition is a reflexion on the multiple perspectives generated in their artwork, where a creative dialogue, going beyond the family bond, comes together. Some of the shared echoes between these artists lie on similar critical positions that they take in the face of contemporary events and characters, as well as the expressive gestures, baroque at times, that they resort to in their pieces and the aesthetic they created from collage and the assembly of shapes, images and objects.
Vanesssa Velib’s gaze can be found without referring to specific places and instead choosing to transform her work into a sphere of dialogue with the most commonly used codes: the alphabet with a succulent thickness created by the impasto that suggests matter, where compositions make an invitation to a sensual touch, a fundamental and constant element in her work.
Velib establishes a communion with nature, as she rejects conventions and discovers her own personal language to achieve her goal. She achieves this through her use of color saturation along with thick and marked contours, thus creating a network of shapes that are significant by themselves.
There is a swift, violent, and compelling treatment with an urgent sense of change and metamorphosis. This is a style known as "all over" painting where there is no prior idea of composition, without difference between figure and background; in which each element can get confused with everything in a space without neutral or empty areas. Quick brushstrokes, impastos, and broad stripes of color integrated in various directions can be distinguished; confirming the artist's interest to suggest - rather than the experience of nature - the very nature of the act of painting.
In her work we find echoes of Abstract Expressionism, as she holds stylistic correspondences with Gorky, Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko y Kline, all of whom manifest the improvised states of the unconscious through brushstrokes and paint drips. With these gestures, Velib seduces in a definite way the importance of abstract movement by proposing a generous materiality where a center of gravity is built and given by the sumptuous color that supports it as a visual metaphor.
Related to “action painting”, Vanessa Velib revisits the extraordinary freedoms of shapes and colors, impastos and scratches, objects or subjects that she incorporates into her compositions appearing as bodies in a continuous metamorphosis.
We find in his painting, echoes of Motherwell, Kooning and Franz Kline, where the chromatic stain explodes and multiplies, in a spontaneous deployment that gestates an infinity of possibilities. Emotional landscape that goes from white to black, passing through shades of gray, play of mirrors of a retina that unfolds in hatchings and implosions.
Knut Pani, wants to show the essence of the emotional gesture and to make evident within an abstract language the most elemental of the human condition; the confrontation of man with his destiny. Facing the blank surface, the emptiness that one wants to fill with meaning, being in front of a bottomless abyss. Giving meaning to existence is man's challenge to life and defines his connection with the universe.
This performance is a crosscurrent work; bullfighting today is disruptive. Therefore, Manuel Gaona through the body as a medium, is given the task of expressing works site where a fluid structure is transformed into language and movement; similarly, photography and video as a record, leaves a footprint, a trace.
By exploring the echoes of body art, Gaona explores transition states, and focuses on the process of change: from the concrete to the ephemeral, from inside to outside, from darkness to light, from life to death. The live actions and soundtrack are displayed in dialogue with text fragments that fluctuate from the metaphorical to the literal.
Threshold of Catastrophe is an aesthetic-political proposal where artists are committed to the abysmal dilemma that afflicts us all: climate change.
These artists put forward a fresh gaze at ancestral forms highlighting the oral traditions of water and earth; as well as forms of traditional cultivation such as plow with animals, marking the rhythms of life and death. They take up the teachings of wise men; ancestral understanding marked by the stars, which resonates, as a magnetic echoes in landscapes and seascapes. We find signs uneasy to decipher, that belong however, to a more generalized use of alpha- bets and arithmetics.
What is the proposal of this exhibition? Perhaps a return to the rhythms of the earth, to its echoes, to its biological and cosmic energy that mark the balances between man and nature. A metaphor to understand the cyclic gear that articulates the pictorial practice.
This gravitational attraction returns the focus to ontological questions as creators move be- tween diverse environments, formats and contexts, leading to open horizons.
Joachim Hildebrand started his photography career as a freelance photographer for press and photo agencies. At the same time, he studied economic sciences in Frankfurt am Main. After having completed his doctorate and fifteen years in business, he turned to photographic art and studied Fine Art Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid under, among others, Elger Esser, Joan Fontcuberta, and Martin Parr. Since then he has worked internationally on my different personal projects.
He usually deals with public places and urban or suburban spaces in which people live, work or spend their free time. What they look like is the result of collective and individual decisions. People shape their environment, but at the same time, they are also shaped by it. He is particularly interested in man-made things and human interventions in the landscape and its surroundings. Therefore, the built environment always plays an important role in his work.