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Paolo Cassara
Cassarà was one of the first in Italy to work with polychrome terracotta, a technique considered obsolete until its "rediscovery" in recent years.
His polychrome terracotta creations are the fruit of first-hand analysis of the world of youth. They offer an innovative image of sculpture, set in direct contact with everyday life. The artist draws inspiration from the streets, with ironic, subtly melancholy works that speak of the search for an identity in the face of a system dominated by conformity and fleeting fashions. Paolo Cassarà was born in Monreale, Sicily, on 26 June, 1968.
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.
His polychrome terracotta creations are the fruit of first-hand analysis of the world of youth. They offer an innovative image of sculpture, set in direct contact with everyday life. The artist draws inspiration from the streets, with ironic, subtly melancholy works that speak of the search for an identity in the face of a system dominated by conformity and fleeting fashions. Paolo Cassarà was born in Monreale, Sicily, on 26 June, 1968.
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.
CEM
CEM, aka Jérôme Ispanakci, is an artist-designer-assembler.
CEM is his name and it's also Creative Engineering Management, a creator of the unusual through Eco-Logic. His work resides in the orchestration of objects through conceptual hijacking, objects that he makes a point of never modifying, drilling or welding. The outcome is a creative resolution combining technique and aesthetics, a creation through fusion of existing elements. He has created subjects for major names in industrial production and has received numerous awards; his work has been presented at the Musée d'art contemporain de Nice (MAMAC).
CEM is his name and it's also Creative Engineering Management, a creator of the unusual through Eco-Logic. His work resides in the orchestration of objects through conceptual hijacking, objects that he makes a point of never modifying, drilling or welding. The outcome is a creative resolution combining technique and aesthetics, a creation through fusion of existing elements. He has created subjects for major names in industrial production and has received numerous awards; his work has been presented at the Musée d'art contemporain de Nice (MAMAC).
Giacomo De Pass
Italian of Venetian origin, Giacomo de Pass was born in Marrakech in 1938. After a series of highly successful early exhibitions, he moved to France in 1958 to confront the Paris School.
Giacomo de Pass quickly gained recognition for his work, and the city of Paris made its first acquisitions of his paintings. Giacomo de Pass then divided his time between his studios in Paris and New York, where his work underwent a veritable metamorphosis, emerging from the tragic shadows that characterized his expressionist work of the 60s, to canvases flooded with light and color.
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.
Giacomo de Pass quickly gained recognition for his work, and the city of Paris made its first acquisitions of his paintings. Giacomo de Pass then divided his time between his studios in Paris and New York, where his work underwent a veritable metamorphosis, emerging from the tragic shadows that characterized his expressionist work of the 60s, to canvases flooded with light and color.
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
The nostalgia of the traveler, torn between the farewells of the departures and the calls of a new journey, is the subject of Yann Letestu’s slightly melancholic paintings. Nothing symbolizes more that feeling than a ship weighing anchor.
That fleeting moment is reflected in the delicate grey-blue shades found in his paintings.
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.
That fleeting moment is reflected in the delicate grey-blue shades found in his paintings.
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.
John Martini
John Martini is an American artist born in 1948. He lives and works in Key West, Florida, and in Veuxhaulles sur Aube, in Burgundy.
In the U.S. his workplace is the former movie theater of the black Bahamian village from the time of racial segregation; in France it is an old forge which was still active in the 60s.
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.
In the U.S. his workplace is the former movie theater of the black Bahamian village from the time of racial segregation; in France it is an old forge which was still active in the 60s.
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.
Pascal Pontoire
Pascal Pontoire is a painter based in Antibes, who has long worked in the world of animated films: for over twenty years he has created chromatic atmospheres and sets for cartoons and comic strips; his work has been exhibited in Paris at the Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet and at the Musée des arts asiatiques de Nice.
But it is now on canvas that Pascal Pontoire can fully express his artistic sensibility, inspired in particular by the post-impressionists and luminists, and for the past 6 years he has been offering us images of the Côte d'Azur transfigured by his talent...
But it is now on canvas that Pascal Pontoire can fully express his artistic sensibility, inspired in particular by the post-impressionists and luminists, and for the past 6 years he has been offering us images of the Côte d'Azur transfigured by his talent...