Artists

The Offshore Figurehead, 2021, Acrylics on canvas, 170 x 88 cm

Painter, art critic and journalist dividing her life and work between Turin, where she was born, and Crescentino, the town between the rice fields of Vercelli where she spent her youth and which still, between one trip and another around the world considers its oasis and refuge.

She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Turin. In the same city she graduated in Journalism and Advertising Graphics.

She has collaborated extensively with the newspaper STAMPA SERA with articles and illustrations, including “Blasoni Popolari”, “Mastro Don Gesualdo”, “Impressions of travel in America, From Monferrato to Langhe and the series of the Major Arcana. She was responsible for the artistic sector of TORINO MAGAZINE and continues to deal with art criticism.

She has been exhibiting her art pieces for more than 35 years in major galleries in Europe, Asia and America, both participating at collective and solo exhibitions, contributing with her very human message, both as a painter and as a journalist.

Please visit the website of Maria Giulia Alemanno:

www.mariagiulia-alemanno.com

Inspired by Urk. Travel Sketchbook, 2017, Ink on paper, 15 x 10 cm

From a very young age, a blank piece of paper was the corner where he revived his most primary need. During his years as a student at the Faculty of Technical Architecture in Alicante, he made first explorations as an auto-didact with the camera and in 1998 received an award for “Revelation Photography” by the University of Alicante. In 2000, he began his studies of Fine Arts at the Faculty of San Carlos of Valencia. Fascinated by all artistic disciplines, he studied drawing, painting, sculpture, graphic design and photography, means of which he will make use, adapting them to each project.

From his first exhibition as an artistic couple, “Castillos en el aire” (2004), the sculpture is selected for the V. Biennial of Art “Agulló de Cocentaina”. He has participated in different collective exhibitions of a social nature and has participated in some courses and workshops, among others with Antonio López.

He graduated in 2005 and a year later completed the Third Cycle Period at the
Photography and new audiovisual media program at the same faculty. This same year he received the “Havana Project” Scholarship for International Cooperation from the University of Alicante, where he was able to develop his research hypothesis materialized in a photographic work on the memory recovery and rehabilitation.

The first solo exhibition of his painting “The body will disappear” (2008), is a point of
inflection between his academic period and his stage as a teacher, vocation that he combines with his search and productivity. In 2018 he returns to his birth place with his most recent solo exhibition, a project loaded with intimate landscapes that describe the journeys of his life. He currently participates in the collective exhibition “L’ abbraccio. L’eccezione di un gesto” in Bossolasco.

The Offshore Epigenetic, 2021, Acrylics on cardboard, 146 x 104 cm

Part of José´s training in the visual arts is auto-didactic. In 2017 he participated in a Photography cours /Workshop with Professor Néstor Martí at the Office of the Historian. Thereafter he began to collaborate in the “Craft Paper Workshop” where he had the opportunity to receive a California-based Creative Direction and Video Animation Production Assistance course.

In 2017 he decided to launch his first personal exhibition “Identidad”, receiving constructive criticism from Cuban and internationally recognized artists. In 2019, together with Rafael Suau, he held an exhibition “Tribute” dedicated to the “Tobacco Store Reader”. He has exhibited in collective exhibitions in Cuba and Mexico, coordinated the costumes for the cover of “En Vie Fashion” magazine of the designer Rafael Suau, drawn the Videoclip “Un Oso Se Vista”, Buddy Bear, Berlin at the German Embassy in Cuba and acted as an Artistic Director for a significant number of important fashion shows and exhibitions of Rafael Suau and Víctor Mora.

In 2019, he acted as a designer and Artistic Director of “Post Identity” fashion show, gathering artists from several countries participating at a pioneering exhibition/fashion show combining fashion with painting. He is currently receiving plastic arts classes from Víctor Mora and his art pieces are part of important private collections.

In these days he is the representative of the General Direction and Production of the “Post Identity” Cultural Project. He is also a prominent artistic voice lobbying for the renewable energy and ecology.

Offshore, 2021, Acrylics on canvas, 162 x 73 cm

Rayco began his Fine Arts studies in 2005 and completed them in 2011. During that period, he actively participated in numerous exhibitions on the island of Tenerife and worked as an assistant to various artists in Tenerife and Madrid.

Together with other colleagues he founded the group “El Caso”, with which they traveled to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to participate in “Exhibition 8.1, “Distortions, documents, trifles and stories”, curated by Néstor Torrens, Gopi Sadarangani and Alicia Murria. He also participated, along with his colleagues, in the “Biennial Off” project of the Biennial of Art, Architecture and Landscape of the Canary Islands, winning the project with which “El Apartamento”, a multidisciplinary space for creation, was founded.

Later, and in collaboration with Javier Corzo, he participates in the “Visual Arteries” Project in “TEA”, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, where under the direction and supervision of Javier González de Durana, they carried out for 3 months “Theatrum Pictorium”, a reflection on the work of art, originality and copying. After several individual exhibitions at the Mácula Gallery, the Fleming Room or the Ateneo de La Laguna, he participated in the “Artizar Now” Project, a group exhibition at the historic Laguna Gallery.

Currently he has decided to change his residence to Bratislava, where he has lived since 2013 and from where he has participated in exhibitions such as "Breaking News", at the Manuel Ojeda Gallery in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, or the project "Four white walls" in the Neo exhibition hall in Madrid.

Please visit the website of Rayco Márquez (currently offline):

www.razycomarquez.com

Dreams of a New Day, Acrylics on canvas, 200 x 100 cm

Víctor Francisco Hernández Mora was born in the city of Santiago de Cuba and graduated as a Painter, Illustrator and Graphic Designer, also developing his career as a muralist.

From a very young age Víctor felt attracted to the visual artistic vocation and attended the School of Plastic Arts. In his career, he has offered many workshops to children and seniors and has held up to this day more than 20 personal exhibitions.

In the art world, Víctor has collaborated with many artists and participated at 58 collective exhibitions in and outside of Cuba. To the most significant ones belongs his contribution to the “Ninth Art Biennial in Havana” at which he took part in the creation of a mural with the Brazilian artists “Os Gemeos”.

Víctor has illustrated 7 books and took part in several visual arts projects. He is the only Cuban artist who has illustrated the Holy Bible.

Víctor won the international illustration award for the illustration of “Guije Manguito”.

In these days he responsible as the Artistic Director for the “Post Identity” Cultural Project.

The Offshore Wind Power of Life, 2021, Linden wood, 97 x 41 cm

Vlado Morávek studied photography at the Applied Arts Academy in Bratislava and film-making at the Prague Academy of Film and Musical Arts by Prof. Jan Šmok and Jaroslav Kučera. In 1975 – 2006 he worked as a cameraman for the Slovak Television. Since 2006 he is a free-lance wood-carving artist, working and creating in Bratislava.

He has held exhibitions not only in his home country but also in Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Washington and Arles, in cities where people had the opportunity to admire his “Holy Family”, “Merry Christmas”, “Angels” or the Project “One hundred cradles for Rome”.

Vlado Morávek says that the wood has chosen him (and not vice versa). “I have grown up on the trees and spent my days dreaming in their height. I love wood! Walnut-tree, chestnut-tree, cherry-tree, plum-tree or pear-tree. These are wonderful kinds of wood. The kinds of wood which I understand, with which I have been growing up.” Even today, after many years of his individual artistic creation, he is considering the wood as a living being. During his frequent walks in the nature, he is witnessing how people nowadays are enslaving the wood. He himself is trying to “map out” the cracks or prints left behind by others and not disturb the circle of the nature´s life.

“I would never cut a tree unnecessarily, when it is not dried.” His vision of the world translated into his interpretation in the form of statues, objects or the reality snapped by a camera is a very sensitive confession of an artist who is granting us all the calm and harmony. The nature and above all the trees when they are “singing” in the waves of the wind are for Vlado Morávek an orchestra of silence, an orchestra of light but more than anything, they are for him an inspiration of forms and rays of light searching their way through the branches of the trees.

Please visit the website of Vlado Morávek:

www.vladomoravek.sk

The Wind and the Sea, 2021, Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm

Since he was a child in his Zapotec land, in the Southern Pacific of Mexico, under the burning sun of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and with strong winds, he always drew, at first on the ground and later in sketch books. Amazed by the diversity of shapes that clouds took, he observed and imagined giant animals, mythological characters and even whimsical organic forms and spectacular compositions.

The colors of the huipiles and petticoats of the Zapotec women influenced him to take them up again and fearlessly apply the vast colors on his canvases. He is a lover of engravings, as well as of lithography. He always admired Albrecht Dürer, Goya, Doré, Posada and Méndez among others.

He studied art in Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Mexico City, Havana, Cuba and Florence, Italy. He has been Artist in Residence at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA.

Unstoppable traveler: "the best way to study is traveling”, going and returning with sketch books and drawings. This is where ideas and experiences emerge that later reach the canvas or engravings. He was invited to participate in an individual exhibition at the prestigious “Il Bisonte” School and Gallery, “Fondazione Il Bisonte per lo Studio dell’Arte Grafica”, Firenze, Italy.

His works have been exhibited in different galleries and museums in Mexico, as well as in Chicago, New York, Brownsville, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles, and in Argentina, Uruguay, Indonesia, France, Italy and Spain. He held a lecturer post at the Mesoamerican University, in Oaxaca, Mexico.

An Exotic Flower, 2021, Paper, wire and plastics, 44 x 47 cm

Rafael´s vocation for design began almost by accident, in the activity that he carried out and in which there were already perhaps rudimentary glimpses of what would come later. The originality of the offers of the manufactured productions of the paper workshop, depended to a great extent on the designs of the articles that were released to the market, the quality was marked precisely by the novelty of the designs, the finishes and the artisanal proposal that followed the steps of the Chinese wall, but this time directed towards the recycling policy in the middle of an inclusive socio-cultural project.

In this chimerical search for the idea of recreating costumes from the materials that were common in daily work arose his first catwalks for which he has received acclamations from
UNESCO to the world food program, CITMA, ISA, Academia San Alejandro, Proyecto Carita Habanos SA , Tobacco Museum, NGO, Palomas Project, National CTC in the condition of National Vanguard, Office of the Historian and others.

Then came in the invitations to participate in Art and Fashion, an event of “PURO ARTE” in the province of Matanzas, the exuberant event in Santa Clara, “Cuerda Viva” programs on various occasions, ecological television galas, FIART, “Post Identity” Project at the Fabrica de Arte Cubano and Expo “L’ abbraccio. L’eccezione di un gesto” in Italy.

In these days he responsible as the Fashion Director for the “Post Identity” Cultural Project.