Cristina Torre Cáceres: "'Se domani non torno..."

Se domani non rispondo alle tue chiamate, mamma.

Se non ti dico che vengo a cena.

Se domani, non vedi arrivare il taxi.

Forse sono avvolta nelle lenzuola di un hotel, su una strada o in una borsa nera.

Forse sono in una valigia o mi sono persa sulla spiaggia.

Patrick Pietropoli, 1953

Patrick Pietropoli is a contemporary painter artist who represents cityscapes and street scenes along with delicate figural compositions.

He paints the carefully articulated architecture of New York, Paris, Rome and Venice as well as the intimate portrayal of the feminine figure always finding a perfect balance between freedom and form.

Patrick Pietropoli was born in Paris.

Jaime Zapata, 1957

Ecuadorian painter Jaime Zapata graduated from the Art Faculty of the School of Plastic Arts at the Universidad Central de Quito in 1972.

In his young years, Zapata appears in the Ecuadorian visual arts.

An oil in canvas called Melele, got a mention at the II Plastic Arts National Conquest in the Central Bank.

The artist based his current work in painting and specially in his own ability, a very special intuition and a deep observation of the masters.

Andrey Zakirzyanov, 1969

Born in Simferopol Crimea USSR, Andrey Zakirzyanov / Андрей Закирзянов is an artist, film director, animator, designer, teacher an so on.

1985 / 1989 - Graduated from V.A. Serov Art school (Roerich Art School).

1990 / 1992 - Russian Academy of Arts.

2001 / 2008 - Professor Design and Animation St.Petersburg State University.

Monica Cattaneo, 1953 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Born in Florence, Monica Cattaneo - artist of Italian origin but naturalised Swiss citizen, seems to achieve in her painting a perfect fusion of the three pictorial styles, Marc Chagall’s Expressionism, René Magritte’s Surrealism and Antonio Donghi’s Magical Realism, giving life to a personal and original language in which nature and the human being’s relationship with it become the focal point.

Her protagonists, predominantly women, seem to emerge from a parallel world in which the atmosphere is rarefied, suspended between reality and dream, between images traceable to details that the eye recognises and an almost paradisiacal dimension in which all that surrounds the human being is the element of flora and fauna, which becomes the co-protagonist of the canvas itself.

Ferdinand Leeke (1859-1937)

Ferdinand Leeke was a German painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.

A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843-1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter.

Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.

Christine Swann | Pastel Artist

Christine Swann has been designated as an Eminent Pastellist by the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS).

In 2015 Southwest Artist Magazine selected Christine Swann as an "Artist To Watch" and her artwork has evolved since then.

Although she originally started out by painting her children by bribing them with candy, she now works with live models.

Known for her "personality portraits" she started as an illustrator and is now an award-winning artist on the international level, including winning the IAPS Best of Show "Prix de Pastel" Masters Circle Exhibition award in 2020 and in 2015.

Oleg Turchin, 1964

Oleg Turchin was born in Kishnev, Republic of Moldova, and began his studies of art at the children’s art school Sciusev under V.B. Bulba.

In 1981, he began his studies at the Fine Arts College (I.E. Repin) under S.S. Babjuk and Proniaev.

He later studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts under painting faculty leaders I.I. Serbinov and V.I. Kazakov.