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Bogdan Rata

Bogdan Rata
Sculptor
Location: Timisoara (Romania)

Born January 22, 1984, Baia Mare, Bogdan Rata works in Timisoara, Romania. He teaches at the West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, Department of Sculpture.

Posthumanism.

His new hybrid realism finds new genetic forms of human anatomy in search of a new posthumanism. Rata multiplies human parts (fingers, ears, etc.) and combines them into new life forms. Newborn babies seem to be the result of strange experiments with the human body in an aesthetic laboratory. Rata’s works forge a contextual shift in anatomical detail through his obsessive multiplication. The materials used, and the resulting industrial aspect, question the attack on individual personality in a climate of standardization of the commercial brand.

Unsuccessful blessing.

The concept of “hand-foot” and the symbol of “unfruitful blessing” reinforce the idea behind the work. Propelling it delicately into the realm of the grotesque. The torso also evokes a twist of reality, the socially provocative themes of sexual identity and the hermaphrodite. He uses new materials such as polystyrene, industrial paint, plaster, synthetic resin.

Website: https://bogdanrata.com

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28/09/2022 Art Geolocalisation Sculptors

Mareo Rodriguez

Mareo Rodriguez
Visual artist
Location: Barcelona

Mario Rodriguez “MAREO” is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mexico City in 1981, raised in Colombia and based in Barcelona.

His work explores the strength of topography and natural territory, conceived as a constantly moving energetic living mantle. Epidermal stratification forged by time, with an emerging telluric language, pressing, gravitating, revealing itself through the landscape.

“Matter is condensed light”.

Rodríguez seeks to cover different scales in his artistic approach. From the massiveness of mountains and rocks, through its process of settling and fragmentation to stone as the basic unit. Thus, He is interested in matter as a condensation of light and its process of transformation. Expanding energy over time, releasing weight to return to origin.

Exhibitions & publications.

He has had 16 individual exhibitions and participated in various art fairs and projects in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Several publications of his work have been made, among which 3 books stand out: “Expansion” published by the Italian gallery E3 contemporanea and Vanillaedizioni in 2018, self-published book “Matter is condensed light” 2020 and VC 03 presenting the exhibition “Portals” by Valletta Contemporary, Malta 2022.

Website→ https://www.mareorodriguez.com/

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25/09/2022 Art Geolocalisation Visual Artists

Lawrence Argent

Lawrence Argent
Sculptor
Location: US

Lawrence Argent’s art encompasses a breadth of form, material, and site that push the viewer to confront their assumptions about environments and the art that exists within them. These interventions envelope a path of consciousness through which the physical promotes the non-physical. The sublime emerges as a vehicle traversing a slippery foundation in the gap between stimulus and response.

Website→ www.lawrenceargent.com

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18/09/2022 Art Geolocalisation Sculptors

Alicia Martin

Alicia Martin
Visual artist
Location: Spain

Alicia Martin is a visual artist from Spain. She holds an MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts of New York thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, where she focused on painting combining digital and traditional media.

Collage and sculpture.

In her latest body of works she deals with concepts such as change, entropy and evolution in the form of painting installations. By integrating diverse techniques in her process, she orchestrates layers of materials on intricate hybrid compositions halfway between collage and sculpture.

Exhibit:

Her work has been exhibited in cities such as New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, Madrid and San Sebastián.

Website→ http://www.aliciamartinlopez.com/

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06/09/2022 Art Geolocalisation Visual Artists

Sebastian Magnani

Sebastian Magnani
Photographer
Location: Switzerland

Sebastian Magnani is a Swiss-based photographer known for his intimate portraits that masterfully use light and color to create emotional scenes. His latest series “Daily Bat” skillfully captures the aura of cultural icon Batman and places it in the context of our normal everyday reality. The Batman figure becomes someone we can identify with, seeming to sympathize through a shared sense of isolation.

Website→ https://www.sebastianmagnani.com/

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04/09/2022 Art Geolocalisation Photographer

Piotr Kotlicki

Piotr Kotlicki
Painter
Location: Łódź (Poland)

Born 1972 in Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland in 2000, diploma with Prof. Ryszard Hunger. Currently works at the National Film School in Łódź at The Film and Television Directing Department. His work is multimedia-oriented with an emphasis on painting and video. They have been displayed at: Ningbo Museum of Art (China). The National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Audio-visual & new media arts festival Madatac in Madrid (Spain), the MS Dockville Festival in Hamburg (Germany), the International Video Festival in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Sandhofer Gallery, Salzburg (Austria), the Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg (Germany), the Simultan Festival, Timisoara (Romania), the National Audio-Visual Institute Warsaw (Poland), Assembly Gallery, Poznan (Poland), NordArt, Büdelsdorf(Germany), Drei Ringe, Leipzig (Germany), Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart (Germany). Awards: 2016 Grand prix Freedom of Form, The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland; 2017 IV Piotrkow Biennal of Art, ODA, Piotrkow Tryb, Poland; 2014 Shortlisted for „100 painters of tomorow”, Beers Contemporary and Thames & Hudson, UK.

Website→ https://www.instagram.com/piotrkotlicki/

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21/08/2022 Art Geolocalisation Painters

Otto Zitko

Otto Zitko
Painter
Location: Vienna (Austria)

The thesis will be that of wanting to recognize a bit of architecture in Otto Zitko’s drawings and especially in his bedroom drawings. In a first part, he wishes to enter into the relationship between modernism and design and architecture. Then, secondly, retrace the inversion of this relationship between line and space in the work of Otto Zitko.

Paint a continuous line.

A line that Otto Zitko draws when he paints continues the line that the artist started long ago. With this line, he is “on the move”, like someone who follows nomadic principles. Like someone who literally traces a path in a labyrinthine network and follows it (respectively pursues and traces it). Like someone placing a two-dimensional lineament into existing spaces with expansive painting/drawing gestures, making them dynamic. Delimiting them and enriching them with an unsuspected depth that alludes to the temporal dimension.

Website→ https://www.ottozitko.com/

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10/08/2022 Art Geolocalisation Painters

Javier Marín

Javier Marín

Sculptor

Location: Mexico

Mexican artist, born in Uruapan Michoacán (1962), with an active career that exceeds thirty years. Javier Marín has exhibited individually over ninety times and has participated in over two hundred group exhibitions in Mexico. United States and Canada. Also, in several Central American countries. South America. From Asia and Europe.

Construction and deconstruction.

Javier Marín’s work revolves around the integral human being. Using the analysis of the creative process from the construction and deconstruction of three-dimensional shapes. Take sculpture and now include drawing and photography as central disciplines.

His work is part of important public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, in particular.

Website→ https://javiermarin.com.mx/

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02/08/2022 Art Geolocalisation Sculptors

Beili Liu

Beili Liu
Visual artist

Location: Texas (US)

Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material-and-process-driven, site-responsive installations. Working with commonplace materials and elements such as thread, needle, scissors, feather, salt, wax, and cement. Liu manipulates their intrinsic qualities to extrapolate complex cultural narratives. As Kay Whitney wrote about Liu’s work in Sculpture Magazine: “Liu’s installations leap from obsession and repetition to something profound and expansive, merging the personal with the political.”

Austin, Texas.

Born in Jilin, China, Beili Liu now lives and works in Austin, Texas. Liu received her MFA degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2003). Also, Liu is an Institute for the Humanities Fellow (2020-2022) and the Leslie Waggener Endowed Professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Served on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Museum Panel (2019). Teaching has been endorsed by a UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2011), selected across the nine institutions of the University of Texas System.

Website→ https://www.beililiu.com/https://www.beililiu.com/

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31/07/2022 Art Geolocalisation Visual Artists

Tony Hornecker

Tony Hornecker
Visual artist
Location: London (UK)

Tony Hornecker is an internationally renowned artist and scenographer. His installations have been staged at institutions such as the Royal College of Art. The Royal Opera House and the Architecture Foundation in London. Her work incorporates a wide variety of mediums, from print to sculpture. Architecture and performance. Her love of found materials and how to take them, and taking the viewer on magical journeys in her imagination have won her work a loyal following.

Installation artist.

In recent years he has started to develop his career as an installation artist. Drawing inspiration from his turbulent childhood and later adventures in London. He put on some very intense and honest shows in his home and studio in Hackney. The studio itself becomes an attraction in its own right, a unique exhibition of the bowels of his soul. Abandoned sets and heaps of bric-a-brac, all lovingly arranged and displayed.

The Pale Blue Door.

In 2009, he opened The Pale Blue Door, a cabaret and dining experience installation staged among the many nooks and crannies of his elaborate home. It was to be a smash hit and continues to occasionally entertain to this day. His love of travel, his admiration for gypsies and the art of creating anything out of anything, took The Pale Blue Door as far away as Buenos Aires. Santiago. Berlin. Valparaiso and even the Glastonbury Festival.