Jan 29, 2018
Born in Marseille in 1963, Thierry Benenati is a sculptor. Fontenaisian artist, his fame is international.
After studying Applied Arts, he spent 20 years in Paris as creative director of artistic director in advertising agencies. For 10 years, he devoted himself to sculpture, pure artistic expression, his true nature. He regularly participates in the Grand Palais, or at the Salon d’Automne where he was vice-president and president of the sculpture section. In 2019, one of his works will enter an Italian museum attached to the city of Torgiano (Italy), a consecration.
The bronze…
Whether animalistic or not, the sculptures of Thierry Benenati reveal an invisible reality, a hidden truth of each subject, in the form of allegory, thanks to the symbolism. Before becoming bronzes, the originals are in plaster, iron and wax. It is in the greatest respect of the rules of art that his pieces reveal an authentic work of sculptor, created and then realized by the artist.
… and Steel
In his workshop in Rennes, Thierry Benenati also works iron as he does with the earth, but under the 1500 ° of his torch. The work of an original steel is more demanding and dangerous than the work of wax or plaster. Here everything is hard, cutting, heavy and extremely resistant. To make a steel work, then to chisel it, is a test of strength! But the final result, in its elegance and its movement, must make forget the rigor and the endurance that the work of this matter imposes.
To marry harmoniously classic and modern
My works forget neither the beautiful nor the living, nor light, nor space, nor even time.
It is outside of all modes or tendencies that I try to inscribe my work in a continuity of the history of the art and in the love of the great masters. My creations, resolutely surreal, always offbeat and mostly animal, betray my Italian origins in their sometimes baroque style: an expression that can be called symbolist-surrealist.
The witness sculpture of civilizations.
Primitive art; this is the source of the artistic creation of humanity. Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Modigliani, Brancusi … and more recently Bazelitz, Paladino, Barcelo or Ousseman Sow, and many others, all fed on these roots, be they Egyptian, Etruscan, Aztec, Mayan, African, Oceanian or Asian. Since the staging of Marcel Duchamps, we have seen 80 years glorify the concept rather than talent and know-how. Would not it be just a wink on 30,000 years of art? The crises have at least that good, is that they chase the superfluous and encourage us to find the fundamentals.
Historically, sculpture has been one of the privileged witnesses of the history of civilizations. From Africa to the West, the works, sometimes monumental, have always fascinated by the mastery of their authors. It is today part of a world where, since the direct cutting of stone or wood, materials and techniques are multiplying and we do not really know who does what and how.
But fortunately the public’s eye shows us that he will always be sensitive to the effects of shadows and lights on the forms, to the games of solids and voids, to the creativity and talent of Insuffler a spark of life that a work proposes to share with the visitor.
Richness of contemporary artistic production
For Thierry Benenati “the contemporary artistic production is fortunately more diverse and fertile than ever. But there is however an unjust split between moderns and classics. the former consider the classics obsolete and the latter accuse the moderns of neglecting mastery.
Most of my style tries to show that we can eventually find a line-union between the two.
Jan 15, 2018
Lirone is a French plastic photographer born in 1964. As a teenager, he is interested in photography and discover a real passion for this art.
Since 1990, he practices photography as a professional and guided by his passion for the image he is constantly in search of innovative photography techniques.
In 1994, he began his career by specializing in portraiture with a … particular attraction for portraits of babies and children. At the end of the 90s, he expanded his know-how to the world of industrial photography in France and then in the rest of the world (USA, Great Britain, Switzerland …).
He then tackles the automotive industry, fashion, culinary arts, jewelery …
In 2006, he is the creator of a totally innovative concept that combines aesthetics and original photography, painting and sculpture.
This concept is based on a method of direct visualization of a 3-dimensional image. This process is the subject of a patent registered at the INPI for international coverage since August 2006.
“I propose a renewal of the exercise that is to see.Adjust your position: they are constantly redrawing under your eyes.
Move: the pattern breaks down, but keeps. Come back to the work. The look finds the incredible depths of the crystal … “
Lirone is a French plastic photographer born in 1964. As a teenager, he is interested in photography and discover a real passion for this art.
Since 1990, he practices photography as a professional and guided by his passion for the image he is constantly in search of innovative photography techniques.
In 1994, he began his career by specializing in portraiture with a … particular attraction for portraits of babies and children. At the end of the 90s, he expanded his know-how to the world of industrial photography in France and then in the rest of the world (USA, Great Britain, Switzerland …).
He then tackles the automotive industry, fashion, culinary arts, jewelery …
In 2006, he is the creator of a totally innovative concept that combines aesthetics and original photography, painting and sculpture.
This concept is based on a method of direct visualization of a 3-dimensional image. This process is the subject of a patent registered at the INPI for international coverage since August 2006.
“I propose a renewal of the exercise that is to see.Adjust your position: they are constantly redrawing under your eyes.
Move: the pattern breaks down, but keeps. Come back to the work. The look finds the incredible depths of the crystal … “
Aug 14, 2017
Born in Paris, France, in 1959, Philippe Guillerm began working with design in a early age and the local environment had an enormous and lasting influence on his drawings giving him contemporary forms. He continues to use today on his two and three dimensional works. The artist actually went to school for engineering, following his father’s vocation.But he grew up surrounded by art, and his training, along with helping his father build furniture and boats, prepared him to compose.
Philippe Guillerm’s family is originally from Brittany, or “ Land of the Sea”, where the people traditionally worked as sailors or fishermen .With his heritage and a life time of summer sailing behind him, adolescent Guillerm left France for Spain and Morocco. His travels eventually led to French Guyana, where he met wife and wood, Philippe Guillerm found the beauty of each undeniable, and he left for Tahiti two years later as a husband and sculptor. Art and music are more direct languages than spoken or written word’s could ever be, and Philippe Guillerm’s sculptures and paintings sing.
EXHIBITIONS
1990 Tahiti Cultural Space – Papeete
1992 Naval Center of Numea – New Caledonia
1994 Victoria Yacht Club – Vitoria Brazil
1996 Caioba Yacht Club – Caioba Brazil
Club Berisso – La Plata Argentina
Art Temple – Buenos Aire Argentina
1997 Vito Dumas Yacht Club – Necochea Argentina
Casa Del Imigrante – Necochea Argentina
Armada Argentina Country Club – Buenos Aires
Passeo Norte Art Center – Tandil Argentina
French Alliance – Curitiba Brazil
1998 Art Vue Gallery – Merritt Island Florida
Florida Tech Library – Florida
1999 Orlando Museum of Art – Florida
2000 Melbourne International Airport
Melbourne Convention Center
Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show
2001 Artserve Gallery – Florida
Boca Museum Artist Guild – Florida
Montgomery Armory Art Center – Florida
Lewis Gallery – Miami Florida
Schacnow Museum of Art – Florida
2002 Exhibit Gallery – Boca Raton
Artserve Main Library – Florida
Casual Environs DCOTA – Florida
Windsor Gallery DCOTA – Florida
ArtistHouse – Florida
Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art – Florida
California Museum of Art – California
Beaux Art – Coral Gables – Florida
De Graff Gallery – West Palm Beach
2003 Florida Philharmonic – Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization – Chicago IL.
2004 Broadway Gallery – Oakland, FL.
Boca Raton Museum of Art – Boca Raton, FL.
Creatrics Contemporary Gallery – Easton, Meryland
Broward Care For Kids -Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
American Craft Council Show – Atlanta, GA.
Seldom Sean – Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2005 Artexpo New York – NY
Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra – Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Art du nu Le Salon – France
Skylight Art Gallery and Jewelers – Boston, MA
2006 High Notes Gallery – Burlington, Canada
Carver Hill Gallery – Rockport, ME
2007 Palm Springs Art Museum – Palm Springs, CA
Symposium Des Arts – Drummondville, QB.
San Diego Art Institute Museum of the Living Artist – San Diego, CA.
Art for Sail – Atlantic Challenge School – Rockland, ME.
2008 Mary Martin Gallery – Charleston, SC.
Veil Gallery – Veil, CO.
The Kessler Collection – Orlando, FL.
Drummondville Gallery – Drummondville, QC.
Le Balcon D’Art – Monreal, QC.
artKudo 4th International Juried Art Exhibition and Competition.
2011 Elementos Art Gallery – Dominican Republic
2012 Open his own studio/gallery – Philippe Guillerm Gallery , Waldoboro, ME
2014 Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Savannah, GA
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel St. Augustine, FL
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, FL
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Ashville
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Taos
2017 Gallerie Saint Martin – France
Jan 14, 2017
Stephan Chinikov
Born in 1969, Stephan Chinikov grew up in the city of Sofia, where he showed off his talent for painting at a very early age. He studied at the College of Fine Arts in Sofia between 1984 and 1988 and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1994. He quickly realized that the academic style is not what his heart desires and he distinguishes himself by plunging into much freer and expressive universe. In his creations, Chinikov follows the rich traditions of European art while developing a personal touch that is easily recognizable with its distinctive shapes and bright colours. His works are the expression of a true Slavic sensuality, determined by the origins of the artist, whose predominant themes are the eternal love and happiness. “Love is the fibre of life,” says Chinikov, whose Slavic soul is fuelled by true emotions and strong feelings that he expresses and translates into his work. His sources of inspiration are The Life, The Woman and The Music.
With a real freedom of his expression and unlimited imagination, the artist constantly plays with the faces and the bodies in order to destruct the usual forms and to recreate them in an unprecedented way by his imaginary and unique universe. He enjoys constructing his paintings from spots of colour, collages and abstract forms, letting himself to be driven by the improvisation and the spontaneity of the moment. The artist himself describes his works as an intermingling of emotions and colours. This melange is often reinforced by words or phrases that take the spectator in the desired direction. Filled with boundless positive energy, the paintings and sculptures of Chinikov impress with their delicate light, captivate with their vivid colours and overwhelm with their inspiring enthusiasm. Chinikov has more than 30 individual exhibitions and numerous participations in exhibitions in Europe, North America and Asia. His works are present in prestigious private collections of art lovers from all over the world.
Nov 15, 2016
Johanne 8 ; A name that resonates like a lucky charm when one knows the symbolic meaning of the number attached to the first name of this young artist from Lyons. After a career in aeronautics, she decided to return to her passion for everyday life.
Artist inspired by Liberty, Johanne 8 speaks about society, violence, sexuality, the suffering of people, their little happiness, their smallness in a style inspired by comics, mangas, graff and Pop-Art.
In his paintings, there are many references to the memories of his childhood, to the characters who accompanied him like the superheroes, the American pulps and comics of the 50s, Hello Kitty, Walt Disney but also many winks to US, logos, pubs and all its inspirations from the street …
Johanne 8 was born in Lyon in 1974. She lives and works today in Paris.
It is the curiosity of the world and cultures that takes JOHHANNE 8 on the paths of art. Everywhere she paints, writes and sticks from her earliest age. These many journeys she makes will impregnate in her mind the strong images that are found today in these paintings.
It is especially during a passage in New York that JOHANNE 8 discovers Basquiat. It is an emotional and artistic shock for her, which will now plunge into North American urban culture.
This is how the artist defines himself today as an heiress of Bad Painting, a movement of American graffiti artists. She joined the young artistic movement of “Street Pop” which she shared with other artists like Benjamin Spark, young and talented Belgian artist.
When Johanne 8 returns to settle in Paris, it is to dedicate herself fully to her first love: she writes scenarios for cinema and television. At the same time, she took over the brushes and exhibited paintings where the diversity of the techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and the proliferation of visual codes.
Johanne 8 conjugates images, mingled with words, in order to transcribe its inner bubbling and the variety of its artistic and cultural references. It allows the viewer to wonder about his own cultural mosaic, about what constitutes today our mixed identities.
Discovered by a first Parisian gallery in the Marais district, the artist now exhibits his paintings in France and abroad.
The ready-to-wear brand Paul & Joe even asked her to design a basketball model for their Men’s Autumn / Winter 2009/2010 collection ….
