Irma Kukhianidze – Painting with the heart

Irma kukhianidze born on January 21, 1970 in Kutaisi, Georgia. In 1987 she graduated from the Tbilisi Public School # 7 .1984-87 studied in Maisuradze art school. 1989-94 she studied at the State Academy of Arts . In 1993, her first exhibition was held in Greece, the city of Thessaloniki . on 10 October 2010 solo exhibition in the city , the gallery » Varla ,» the visitor and professionals greatly appreciated. On February 17, 2013 The Tea House » Foe-Foe» Irma kukhianidze again met fellow interested in her works. Since 2007 she takes part in the annual group exhibitions. The artist has signed two of the writer’s literary collection Eka Tkhilava – » Ocean Land » and the scholarly monograph «real dendi .

She creates his technically perfect and attractive painting in this space, which is already exhibited abroad besides Georgia. Pomegranates, strange cities, foreign paradises – they can be seen in the paintings of Georgian artist Irma Kukhianidze, in paintings that do not have names – the artist does not title his paintings and entrusts this role to the viewer.

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Metallic Sculptures by Kang Dong Hyun

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Kang Dong Hyun is a korean artist that creates awe-inspiring figurative sculptures made out of metallic branches.

Kang welds spindly shoots and sprawling root-like shapes into facial features and bodies that are then finished with urethane paint.

Creating a cohesive display of flora and fauna, each hollow, stainless steel sculpture considers the relationship between species and the idea that all life on Earth may lead to an invisible string.

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Exhibition «Augmented «Auguries by Claire Halpin

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The Olivier Cornet Gallery is presenting Claire Halpin’s first exhibition at the gallery since the monumental Jigmap series of works was acquired and exhibited at IMMA in its museum wide exhibition The Narrow Gate of The Here and Now – Chapter Four: Protest and Conflict. This has significantly positioned Claire’s paintings in an international context of contemporary and historically acclaimed political artists looking at protest, conflict, contested histories and responding to the global issues of our times.

The exhibition title – Augmented Auguries – links the livefeed of news and social media via satellite and drones to the ancient Roman practice of augury – the interpreting of omens from the observed behaviour of birds, and the sometimes fabricated auspices that could be used to pervert a political course of action.

This timely exhibition – Augmented Auguries – brings together an ambitious body of Claire’s work developed over the last two…

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Young Do Jeong: exploring human being’s innermost feelings.

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Young Do Jeong is a Korean Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1985.Hehas been depicting the collision between the inner mind and the external world in his paintings, based on images he acquired while growing up in two different cultures of the East and West.

His paintings are metaphorical and descriptive, exploring human being’s innermost feelings of loss, pain, and misunderstanding through psychoanalytic interpretation.

Jeong’s paintings, createdwith a varietyof mediums including acrylic paint, oil paint, ink, spray, color pencils, graphite, transcend the boundarybetween abstract and representational art, creating a sense of tension within the canvases surface.

Jeong received his B.F.A. in painting at Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. in painting and drawing at Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

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Stephanie Kilgast: an ode to nature

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Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast’s artwork is an ode to nature and its current biodiversity. Plants, mushrooms, insects and other animals encounter in a vibrant swirl of colors under her brush or sculpting tools.

Since 2017, in her series “Discarded Objects”, she grows colorful organic sculptures on manufactured objects, celebrating the beauty of nature in a dialogue with humanity, questioning the lost balance between human activities and nature.

Her work has a cheerful post apocalyptic feel to it, a reassuring reminder that nature has the capacity to grow back, if we only let it.

Her work has been exhibited in North America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

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Lovers, desire & colors … The life behind the art of Nicolleta Tomas Caravia

Nicoletta Tomas Caravia was born in Madrid in 1963 of a Greek mother, Spanish father, grandmother Austrian. She currently reside in Valencia, Spain.

Nicoletta Tomas is a long-standing international painter and illustrator. She travels the world with exquisite skills, rich colors, gentle and keen touch.

The purest aspect of human beings also attracts the audience into their own experience.

«The painting has been growing in me and I in it, we go hand in hand because it is an intimate language between my soul and me. I learn with her. I inhabit the realm of form to let speak deep emotions, my world mirrors the world outside-in. My pictorial motifs, the light of man, his fragility and greatness.»

«I am in a constant search for new ways of artistic expressions, both in style and means.»

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«I, the one who loves you» – Poem by Gioconda Belli

I, the one who loves you

I am your untamed gazelle
the thunder shattering the light on your chest.
I am the wind unchained in the mountain
and the concentrated radiance of the ocote’s fire.
I heat your nights
lighting volcanoes in my hands,
moistening your eyes with  my crater’s smoke.
I came towards you wrapped in rain and memories,
laughing the immutable laughter of the years.
I am the unexplored road,
the light that shatters the dark.
I put stars between your skin and mine
and overrun you thoroughly,
trail after trail,
unlacing my love,
undressing my fear.
I am a name that sings and seduces you
from the other side of the moon,
I am the extension of your smile and your body.
I am something that grows,
something that laughs and cries.
I,
the one who loves you.

Faded Painting by Nikolina Petolas

Yo, la que te quiere

Yo soy tu indómita gacela
el trueno que rompe la luz sobre tu pecho.
Yo soy el viento desatado en la montaña
y el fulgor concentrado del fuego del ocote.
Yo caliento tus noches
encendiendo volcanes en mis manos,
mojándote los ojos con el humo de mis cráteres.
Yo he llegado hasta vos vestida de lluvia y de recuerdo,
riendo la risa inmutable de los años.
Yo soy el inexplorado camino,
la claridad que rompe la tiniebla.
Yo pongo estrellas entre tu piel y la mía
y te recorro entero,
sendero tras sendero,
descalzando mi amor,
desnudando mi miedo.
Yo soy un nombre que canta y te enamora
desde el otro lado de la luna,
soy la prolongación de tu sonrisa y tu cuerpo.
Yo soy algo que crece,
algo que ríe y llora.
Yo,
la que te quiere.

Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli (born December 9, 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet.

Website:
https://giocondabelli.org/

 

The exquisite art of Toko Shinoda

Photography by Courtesy of Gifu Collection of Modern Arts.

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Toko Shinoda • 篠田 桃紅 (28 March 1913 – 1 March 2021) was a Japanese artist known for sumi ink paintings and prints that blend traditional calligraphy with Modern abstraction.

Influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Shinoda’s work is characterized by a loose, gestural style and imagery inspired by the natural world. In the 1960s, she began producing lithographs, which has remained her preferred medium to this day.

When she turned 100 years old in 2013, she declared herself married to her work and continued producing art. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913 in Manchuria, China and returned to Japan when she was two years old. She was taught calligraphy by her father and had her first exhibition at the age of 20, and since then, her work has been shown in the Hague National Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and other leading institutions around the world.

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New Dimension (Triptych)

Response by Toko Shinoda

Shadow of the Wind by Toko Shinoda

Song of Wood by Toko Shinoda

Toko Shinoda [篠田 桃紅]

 

Acqua Alta Library – Venice, Italy

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats. 
At Calle Longa Santa Maria Formosa you can visit a bookshop, which every time the water of the canals rises above a certain level, it floods, in fact, its furniture to hold books it was designed to float in case of high tide . You can find your books inside a bathtub, an old boat or a gondola. It is easily recognizable from the outside, because, on the door, you can see the inscription “Welcome to the most beautiful bookshop in the world”.

The self-proclaimed “most beautiful bookstore in the world” is composed of a number of over-stuffed rooms stacked wall-to-wall with books, magazines, maps and other ephemera. Due to Venice’s constant flooding however, these pictures piles are all placed inside bathtubs, waterproof bins, and in one room a full-size gondola. The name itself even means “Book Store of High Water.” When the local waterways do rise to fill the well-known store, it can rise inches off the floor, which would destroy any other collection. The store’s whimsically cramped atmosphere is even reflected in their “fire escape” which is simply a door leading directly out into a canal.

To really complete the look, the store has become home to more than one stray cat which are also able to escape the rising tides by hanging out atop the stacks.   

The owner Mr  Luigi welcomes everyone with a big smile. From the inside you can have a view of the canal from the top after climbing up a ladder made of large books. The library is open every day from 08.00 to 20.00.

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