Ugo Riva, 1951

Ugo Riva nasce a Bergamo nel 1951. Sin dall'inizio della sua carriera sperimenta diversi materiali, dal cemento alla pietra, dal marmo al egno, ma sarà con l'argilla che incontrerà la sua maggiore affinità. Questo materiale grazie alla sua malleabilità gli consentirà di rappresentare i segni, le vibrazioni e le passioni dei soggetti che ispirano le sue sculture. Ugo Riva ha tenuto, dal 1973 ad oggi, oltre trenta mostre personali in Italia e all'estero.

Anita Kreituse, 1954

Born in Riga, Latvia, Anita Kreituse graduated 1972 J. Rozentals Art School in Riga and admitted Latvian Academy of Arts in the same year.

Already since 1973 she participates in art exhibitions.

After Academy diploma 1980 she starts working as an art director in the "Zilite" magazine, where she is active until 1997.

Anita is member of the Latvian Artists Union since 1992 and has participated in numerous important art exhibitions in the country.

Siegfried Zademack, 1952 | Surrealist / Visionary painter

Siegfried Zademack, German painter, was born in Bremen, Germany. Freelance artist since 1980. Several artshows of his work in and outside his homecountry. Siegfried Zademack's surrealistic visionary paintings make recipients and reviewers wonder.

The arrangement of his pictorial thoughts immensely exceeds a realistic reproduction. His pictures allow us to slip in metaphysical dimensions, between humorous irony and the unfathomable deepness of our souls.

The semantic sources of this art are equally past and present.The quotation from art history stands alongside the Coca-Cola bottle. His true teachers were the masters of the earl and late Italien Renaissance up to the Mannerists.

Ilya Repin | Historical / Genre painter

Ilya Yefimovich Repin / Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, (1844-1930), Russian painter of historical subjects known for the power and drama of his works.

Born to a poor family near Kharkov, Repin learned his trade from a painter of icons named Bunakov and in 1864 became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg.

Michail Kudinow, 1961

Michail Kudinow painter and graphic was born in 1961.
Education:
1977-1981 Lugansk Fine Art School, Faculty of Painting.
1986 -1993 Academy of Fine Arts Saint-Petersburg, Faculty of Painting.
Lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.

Mélanie Bourget, 1972 | Ceramic sculptures

Mélanie Bourget’s work focuses on the human being. She creates Figurative sculptures in a contemporary yet a little offbeat style, oscillating between Realism and Fantasy.

Then she subjects them to the raku technique. Big busts of women with crazy hairstyles, mysterious and dreamy little characters are in a few words the poetic and fragile characters that live in her world.

Raku is an enamelling technique of Korean origin, that was further developed in Japan in the sixteenth century.

These creatures are alive; they transmit deep and mixed feelings.

And through the cracks of glaze we can see with accuracy the human soul…

Mélanie thinks of her mysterious characters as poetic, fragile creatures that transmit deep feelings.

Through her art they come alive and through the cracks of their glaze we see the human soul.

Antonio Mancini | Verist painter

>Antonio Mancini (14 November 1852 - 28 December 1930) was an Italian painter.

Mancini was born in Rome and showed precocious ability as an artist. At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied under Domenico Morelli (1823-1901), a painter of historical scenes who favored dramatic chiaroscuro and vigorous brushwork, and Filippo Palizzi.

Mancini developed quickly under their guidance, and in 1872, he exhibited two paintings at the Paris Salon.

Pablo Picasso / Alda Merini | Alla tua salute, amore mio

Sono folle di te, amore

che vieni a rintracciare

nei miei trascorsi

questi giocattoli rotti delle mie parole.

Ti faccio dono di tutto

se vuoi,

tanto io sono solo una fanciulla

piena di poesia

e coperta di lacrime salate,

io voglio solo addormentarmi

sulla ripa del cielo stellato

e diventare un dolce vento

di canti d'amore per te.

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973