Robert Ricart, 1948 | Paris painting

French painter** Robert Ricart was born in Bruay en Artois. He studied at the Etudes Arts Graphiques and the Beau Arts School in Paris where he still resides.

Ricart became famous on the art market for his Paris vedutas.

He was trained at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts, initially exhibited especially in the West France, from the early 1970s in Paris and other towns, received numerous awards** and his works are owned by European as well as American museums.

Aldo Parmigiani, 1935 | Figurative painter

Italian painter** Aldo Parmigiani was born in Milan in 1935 and has his studio in via Amphitheatre 9. Lives in Tradate. He is very young pupil of the painter G.M. 

He moves and attended the School of Art of the Sforzesco Castle in Milan; later he enrolled at the Academy Cimabue, to take courses of nude and specializes in graphic art at the Art Institute of Urbino.

He began to exhibit in 1960 affermndosi soon in prestigious contexts. 

Important exposure to Palazzo Guasco of Alexandria in 1983, set up by the Provincial Administration.

A large staff he was dedicated in 1996 at Palazzo Bandera Busto Arsizio, with presentation of a monograph by art historian Mario De Micheli, publication that the same critic also illustrated at the Museum of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
A rich catalog with a preface by Carlo Munari, had already been given to the press in 1981. In October 2000, Tradate, his adopted city, has dedicated a retrospective at Villa Truffini, with the publication of a catalog edited by the City Council. In 2012 he starred in a major exhibition in the cycle Art in the Castle at Art & Wine Gallery.

Aldo Parmigiani nasce a Milano nel 1935. Giovanissimo diventa allievo del pittore Mossa e contemporaneamente frequenta i corsi della Scuola D'Arte del Castello Sforzesco di Milano.

In seguito si iscrive alla Accademia Cimabue di Milano per seguire i corsi di nudo. Frequenta l'Istituto d'Arte di Urbino per specializzarsi nell'arte grafica, restando comunque un assiduo frequentatore degli ambienti artistici milanesi.
Ha iniziato ad esporre nel 1960 continuando poi con numerosissime personali in Italia e all'estero, partecipando ad importanti collettive, ottenendo riconoscimenti ed una costante attenzione critica.

Nella chiesa parrocchiale di Tradate-Abbiate Guazzone, vi sono opere che rappresentano una Via Crucis in una sua personale interpretazione.

Le sue opere fanno parte di collezioni private in Italia, Europa e Stati Uniti.

Merab Gagiladze, 1972 | Fantasy / Surrealist painter

Georgian artist Merab Gagiladze was born in Tbilisi.
In 1987 he began his formal art education at the Tbilisi College of Art, School of Ceramics.

In 1990 he continued his studies at the prestigious Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Graphic Art.

Nathalie Vogel, 1980 | The liquid women

Most of the work from Vogel exhibited here pertains to undines: "liquid women", bewitching and tragic.

Several paintings deal more specifically with a quintessential theme of romantic symbolism, the drowning Ophelia.

Vogel's postmodern reexamination of the opheliac disappearance introduces subtle and complex nuances in the representation of feminity: Ophelia doesn't drown, she withdraws from us.

This feminity with an attitude is very different from the symbolist's victimized staging of feminity.

Andrew Ferez / Андрей Ферез | Surrealist / Fantasy painter

Russian** illustrator Andrew Ferez - Андрей Ферез - aka 25kartinok, creates surreal** scenes, each with their own fantastical narratives, that seamlessly merge various opposing elements. Digitally drawing his elaborate renderings, Ferez's work has a dark, fantasy-driven appeal.

Artemisia Gentileschi | The Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1616

Mary Magdalen was a much-loved subject both by painters and the public because she represented the ideal model of the search of virtue and the renunciation of worldly pleasures.

Artemisia Gentileschi wished to recount the story of this difficult path in her portrayal of a young woman with wild hair wrapped in a magnificent yellow silk gown holding a mirror, the symbol of vanity and inscribed with the words Optimam partem elegit (“you have chosen the best part”, namely virtue) away from her.

The beam of intense light illuminates the figure from the right, a demonstration of the technique Artemisia would have learned by studying Caravaggio's works in Rome, and conveys the sense of drama that envelopes the subject.

Artemisia Gentileschi | The Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1616 (detail) | Pitti Palace

Renata Brzozowska, 1977 | Abstract painter

Born in the city of Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, Renata Brzozowska** paints and draws since childhood. She graduated the University of Art in Poznań.

After years of living in France and working for one of the local gallery, she returned to the country, fully devoting herself to easel painting.

The subject of her paintings is constant for many years, it is woman, femininity and dance - her great love and passion.

Do Duy Tuan, 1954 | Mixed Media Figurative painter

Do Duy Tuan, Vietnamese painter, is one of the most talented artists in Vietnam and a profound, Zen thinker.

Do Duy Tuan graduated from Hue National college of Fine Arts in 1974.

The artist is a member of the Fine Arts Association of HCMC and also is a member of the Vietnamese Fine Arts Association Singapore and received the Art National Award for three consecutive years in 1999-2001, as well as the Vietnam Fine Arts Awards in 2001.