Panagiotis Pougaridis
Panagiotis Pougaridis does ships.
Panagiotis Pougaridis’s ships are made of brass and copper.
"Living in Thessaloniki, a city by the sea, the eye constantly trains upon the water, the port, the ships, I noticed their volume standing still, clearly outlined in the sunlight or fading away indescernible through the fog. A vision recurring and at the same time diverse and captivating.
Loaded with these images, I had experienced, I have been creating big or smaller boats, conjectural objects, through wich I have been trying to render all these diverse visions and to relieve their monotony, depicting them some times almost in their real proportions and some other as if they were deformed by the memory of the perspective viewpoint of their imposing volume.
My eye travels from the water – line to the deck, from stem to stern, focuses in the detail of their rig, identifying their sculptural dimension, drawing near the multiple layers of the oil paint, the rust, the wear caused by the sea and the desertion, discovering the conjectural value of the incidental then the visual experience is transferred to the object wishing to overcome its regular form and the chromatic standards.
In the end I hold an object, the repetition of which does not bore me ; not with standing, it inflames me to start again, looking for a new ways and new variations to render it."
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"Living in Thessaloniki, a city by the sea, the eye constantly trains upon the water, the port, the ships, I noticed their volume standing still, clearly outlined in the sunlight or fading away indiscernible through the fog. A vision recurring and at the same time diverse and captivating...
John Mejia
Colombian from Cali born in 1976, John Mejia arrived in France during the 1998 Football World Cup. He has always drawn and painted but it was following the tragedy of the Nice attacks that he decided to devote himself exclusively to his artistic work, after a watercolor that he spontaneously executed on the evening of the tragedy "Pray for Nice" went around the world.
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World artist John has his work regularly presented in the United States and Europe and has notably executed numerous commissions for public figures as well as for communities.
Pierre Heintz
“I like the idea of a certain paradox:
a naturalistic, apparently bucolic theme which is in fact dominated by a certain radicality.
Plants, nature are not the subject but the means.
I use plants, exploring all the combinations and contrasts of shape and color, to approach the subject of painting itself. The incredible diversity of life as a source of inspiration but not as a model.
These rules are a uniqueness of format and composition (centered), great clarity (avoid effects), contrasts of shapes and colors (radical rather than aesthetic), the systematic repetition of shapes and their accumulation. (…)
So if music were to accompany my painting, it would not be bucolic music but rather repetitive music like that of Philip Glass or Steve Reich.
Despite appearances, I do not place myself in what should be called figurative painting.
That’s the paradox. »
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Jon Voss
In 2004, Jon moved to Sydney Australia, perusing his passion for art and design. Since 2014 he has been living in Narbonne where he is creating works of sculpture, illustration and light art in his Antibes atelier.
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Jon has work held in collections in Australia and he has been commissioned for a number of large-scale projects including private and public art commissions nationally and internationally.
Guillaume Cavalier
Its generous palette and the grace of its line play with the eye of those who venture to observe it. Part of its production reflects a civilization in turmoil. The other part tends to make a supersensible and singular universe intelligible.
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From his ink drawings to his paintings on canvas, a double search, exterior and interior, pushes these antagonisms to be reconciled. A quest, mixing Tradition and Freedom, is embodied in this artist born in 1994.
His subjects of reflection offer a panorama of life in the 21st century, making the artist the witness of his time.
A cleverly orchestrated symbolism frees speech and initiates a dialogue between ideas. Behind a humble and naive character hides a stubborn goldsmith, gradually revealing the treasures that reside within him.
Philippe Gavin
After obtaining a Ph.D. in signal processing in geophysics, he worked for over 15 years as a researcher in the oil industry for the French Institute of Petroleum and TotalEnergie (formerly Elf).
His transfer within Elf to Pau brought him face to face with the Pyrenees mountain range.
He began painting mountain landscapes.
The year 2000 marked not only a change of century but also a significant change in his professional life, marking the beginning of his career as an artist, passionate about mountains and the sea.
He has been a member of the Maison des Artistes since that year.
In 2003, Philippe definitively left the world of scientific research for his own artistic pursuits.
He moved to the French Riviera.
He regularly exhibits during classic yacht regattas in the Mediterranean.
...The Voiles d'Antibes, the Classic-Week of Monaco, the Voiles de Saint-Tropez, the Régates Royales de Cannes, etc...
He became a member of the Yacht Club de Monaco and crew member on "Tuiga," the flagship of the principality, for 20 years.
His dual expertise as a racing yachtsman and a painter of the sea allows him to transparently capture an atmosphere that connoisseurs appreciate in his work.
He has been selected several times for the "Salon de la Marine" at the Museum of the Navy at Trocadéro in Paris...
He is represented in the collections of French fine arts museums.
He has also been selected for the International Contemporary Marine Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport on the East Coast of the United States.
His works have been represented for several years in a gallery in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the birthplace of the America's Cup.
Today, he is present in galleries in France, England, the United States, and the Caribbean.
Philippe lives and works in the heart of the old town of Antibes in the Alpes-Maritimes.
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His artistic career began in Milan, where he has lived and worked since 1987. He gave his first personal exhibitions in Turin, Milan and Boston (USA). He has also taken part in numerous collective exhibitions held at museums and public institutes: in 1994 "Icastica" [Representative art] at the municipal modern art gallery, Bologna; in 1996 "Collezionismo a Torino" [Collecting in Turin] at Castello di Rivoli museum of contemporary art; in 2000 "Sui Generis" at PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan; in 2003 "Italian Factory - La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana" [the new Italian art scene], one of the fringe events at the 50th Venice Biennale, at the European Parliament buildings in Strasbourg, and at the Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Turin. In 2004 Cassarà was invited to participate in the event "Subway 3004" at Superstudio Più in Milan, in collaboration with the City of Milan, and in 2007 he took part in the collective exhibitions "Street Art, Sweet Art" at PAC in Milan and "Arte e Omosessualità" [art and homosexuality] at Palazzo della Ragione in Milan and Palazzina Reale in Florence. Also in 2007 he took part in the exhibition "La Nuova Figurazione italiana - To be continued..." [the new Italian figuration] at Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate (Milan) and the retrospective in homage to gallery owner Guido Carbone "Questo mondo è fantastico" [this world is fantastic], at Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin. In 2008 he was invited to the exhibition "Rumors" at Ex Arsenale Borgo Dora in Turin, which ran concurrently with the Artissima fair, and he also took part in the "Artisti per Arianna" [artists for Arianna] auction with Christie's.
Giacomo de Pass has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions around the world, and has been shown in numerous international venues and fairs including the Lincoln Cultural Center in New York, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the National Museums of Malta, the Palais Bourbon in Paris (National Assembly), FIAC Paris, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Museo de la Casa si Dante in Florence, the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, the Louis ll Stadium in Monaco and the World Bank in Washington. He now lives and works in Peymenade in the Alpes Maritimes.
Yann Letestu lets wander freely the individual fantasies and travelling aspirations of each and every one. The vague outlines of his horizons reflect the incalculable incertitude found in the quest for our destination, as elements disappear in the mist.
That is precisely where the intrigue of his marvelous pictorial language resides: in the contradiction lying between departure and residency, between discovery and recurrence. Certainly it is not by chance that his workshop is to be found in the old harbor of Marseilles, as if he was always ready to leave for faraway horizons.
His works carry a multitude of American and European influences, and seem like the participants of a magical and mysterious ritual, an invocation of shape and color throughsteel and flame. It is at night, like in a voodoo or a sabbath, that John Martini gives birth to its creatures.
Several exhibitions followed in Paris, including Salon d'Automne, Salon de Mai and Figuration Critique at the Grand Palais, of which he became a member. Since then, the artist has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions on several continents. In 2001, Nicola's first exhibition in New York City marked the start of a collaboration with a renowned international gallery, which exhibited his work in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Geneva, Miami... He is represented in several private collections around the world and was selected in 2014 for his work "pneumatic paintings" at the official inauguration of the Michelin Foundation "l'Homme en Mouvement".
The artist works uncompromisingly on balance, rhythm, body movement and the intimate dialogue between his works. He excels at blurring codes. His sources of inspiration include Rothko, Michelangelo, Hiquily, Bugatti, Marcel Duchamp and Miles Davis. A discreet artist imbued with humanity, Nicola lives and works in the Pays de Fayence, a region he holds dear. Nicola Rosini Di Santi remains, more than ever, an artist attuned to the heartbeat of the world.