Artists

Chiara Stefani is an Italian contemporary artist based

between Paris and Northern Italy, who combines

traditional techniques such as oil on canvas and graphite

on paper but with a contemporary perspective.

Her work is structured upon the representation of

feminine. The main concept is to focus on those qualities

like softness and vulnerability that are not synonyms

of weakness. “Our society always rewards masculine

approaches valuing individualism, aggressiveness and

analytical thinking as good attributes to reach success.

It’s time to reverse the tendency, to empower the

feminine side that is inside each and everyone of us, to

generate a more creative, nurturing and loving world”.

In her paintings she tries to recreate that feeling of

empowerment and sisterhood, to capture the innate

strength and complexity of women and contemplates the

nature of connection. Throughout the representation of

common people, she wants to explore the kaleidoscope of

emotion that can be found in the human face.

In her works the women are very charismatic,

represented often staring forward with unsmiling and

introspective

expressions.

She, for sure, finds her inspiration also in her various

travels around the world, especially South East Asia,

where she lived for a few years, and the Middle East. She

spends countless hours working on her paintings trying

to represent that specific feeling caught in that defined

moment in order to connect deeply and more intimately

with the viewer.

Born in 1986 in Italy she started to explore artistic

expressions from a very young age.

She studied fine art and she graduated in Art

Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Venice, and this

paved the road to her career in the art field, allowing her

to experiment with different techniques and studying

materials used from artists centuries ago till the latest

techniques.

Her figurative and hyper realistic style allows her to

express in the highest form the concept she wants to

represent on the canvas.

Jacques Bosser was born in 1946 in Le Havre. Lives and works in Montrouge.
Jacques Bosser is a painter and photographer, but for the past few years he has also been combining the two techniques in extremely original mixed works that he calls "photo-paintings".
"In my work combining photography and painting, I seek to establish a symbiosis between two mediums, each of which has its own mode of production and which are read with different codes. The aim is to create a global work that can be perceived at a glance. The attention is first attracted by the naked body in black and white, a body offered directly to the eyes, a sexualised, sometimes eroticised body. But this tension is mitigated by the colour and the pictorial material which envelop the object of desire with a certain sensuality, thus offering an escape, a breath.
In the Outre-mer series, the photographic staging takes up the erotic attitudes imposed on indigenous women appearing on colonial postcards from Africa and the Maghreb. The female body was thus offered to the desires and submission of the Western man. It responded to the fascination of the exotic indigenous body seen and fantasised by the Metropolis. Moorish bodies unveiled, Orientalist-style photographs of lascivious women. The exotic imaginary of the black body from slavery to colonisation has long fed our fabrication of fantasised images.

Née en 1989 à Amsterdam
Vit à : Amsterdam
Travaille à : Amsterdam

Degann is the artist pseudonym for Anne de Groot. Her paintings and watercolours search for ‘the spirit’ and emotion.
‘Our perception has many subjective filters; spirit, body, memory. Because of paintings’ array of possibilities, from depiction to total abstraction, it has the ability to surpass these filters and reach someone on an emotional level. My paintings show traces of emotion, power, vulnerability and reality. I realize this by combining techniques and distorting watercolours with smudges, which creates tension with reality. Therefore the spectator doesn’t focus on the likeness and recognition, but on the emotion. I look for attractive perspectives, vivid and approachable images but give them a dark edge. I work in inviting colours, but by taking a longer and closer look, a certain discomfort becomes apparent. This abrasiveness triggers a reaction with the spectator. Above all I’m looking to stimulate the senses and invite into a real experience of the images. I play with tension between beauty, esthetics and raw emotion.’ (The multiple layers in the paintings create an elusive form, like light the works are simultaneously fleeting and present.)

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Born in Agen, in 1981.

Winner of the 2021 Individual Creation Grant, awarded by the DRAC Occitanie, he is currently developing a project previously initiated by an artistic residency in Vietnam, the country of origin of his grandparents. It questions family ties, the notion of exile and "home".

"As soon as I became interested in art, I focused mainly on the accuracy and precision of observation of nature and the cosmos. First I described the volume of the model with the line, then with the wire. Until I realised, first unconsciously and then consciously, that the line is a fiction. What really exists is the mass, the matter. The head is above all a sphere."

Valota is a French artist with Italian origins. He works in his studios in Montreuil-sous-Bois (just outside Paris) and in Normandy.
He works with wax, a unique medium that he masters with fire and fusion. A recent monograph "WAX" published by Editions du Regard, Paris, retraces his singular work.
In 2014, Valota was at La FIAC in Paris showing paintings in wax and pigments from his latest series "Bloom & Vanity" and "Arborescence". He has showed his work in galleries in Paris, London, and Istanbul, notably alongside Andy Warhol (Fondation Absolut Vodka), Bernar Venet, Bustamente and Frank Stella (Riff Art Projects, Istanbul), Cruz Diez, Vasarely (Lavignes Bastille, Paris)...

Nasser Al Aswadi was born on 4 October 1978, in the village of al Hujr, not far from Taiz, the third largest city in Yemen. He lived in his village until he was 16 years old. Later, he studied architecture in Taiz and then in Sana'a. He exhibited his first works in Sana'a in 2001. Since 2008, Nasser has been going back and forth between Yemen and France. For Nasser Al Aswadi, calligraphy is a way of expressing feelings and thoughts without being specifically linked to language. He uses Arabic letters, words and shapes as well as religious and musical references. The wide variety of meanings and styles feeds the artist's creativity.

Born in 1961

Lives and works in Colombes

My images are simple fragments of reality, photographs never retouched or even cropped after the shooting. It is painting that gave me the need to make pictures, the abstract painting that impresses my retina since my childhood. At first I wanted to collect the wild abstract paintings I found on my way but very quickly, the adjustment of the framing revealed itself as a compositional tool to "draw" images. I began to explore all sorts of random shapes to make them my own and my creative material, chasing the most insignificant subjects to transfigure them into doors for the imagination. My images don't say what they show, they usually don't even say what they are. They appeal to the ability we all have to recreate what we see by interpreting it. I am looking for this creative vertigo, this subjectivity of the gaze that puts a filter on our consciousness, like an endless dance balanced on the border between reality and imagination.

Painting helps Hamida Ouassini to better understand life and her feelings. The current works of the Belgian artist reflect the person she is today and express her aesthetic and existential concerns. The choice of color depends entirely on her mood and is never random. She explores various themes through series and paintings using acrylics on linen.

Born in 1983 in Chiyah, Lebanon
Lives and works in Paris

One of the earliest occurrences of the word Rasm (or 'drawing' in Arabic) is in the poetry of Imro' AlQais (500-550). It means the imprint, the remnant of the loved one in the sand.
Guided by this transcription, I draw to connect images, carefully buried in my memory, to the cosmic Intelligence.
For me, the line may represent a happy path towards an area of junction, sharing and continuity.

Sandra Ghosn

Born in Lebanon in 1963, Bardig is an award-winning artist and photographer based in Paris for over 30 years. He is a graduate of The New York Institute of Photography. After decades of work on the theme of Armenia, and the Armenian genocide, Bardig explores the city with the same sensitivity. It is thanks to the photographic treatment carried out with his softwares that the poetry of photography reveals all its beauty to bewitch us and to draw us into an interior world rich in sensations, showing the limits of the visible and the possibilities to see beyond.

Chiara Stefani is an Italian contemporary artist based

between Paris and Northern Italy, who combines

traditional techniques such as oil on canvas and graphite

on paper but with a contemporary perspective.

Her work is structured upon the representation of

feminine. The main concept is to focus on those qualities

like softness and vulnerability that are not synonyms

of weakness. “Our society always rewards masculine

approaches valuing individualism, aggressiveness and

analytical thinking as good attributes to reach success.

It’s time to reverse the tendency, to empower the

feminine side that is inside each and everyone of us, to

generate a more creative, nurturing and loving world”.

In her paintings she tries to recreate that feeling of

empowerment and sisterhood, to capture the innate

strength and complexity of women and contemplates the

nature of connection. Throughout the representation of

common people, she wants to explore the kaleidoscope of

emotion that can be found in the human face.

In her works the women are very charismatic,

represented often staring forward with unsmiling and

introspective

expressions.

She, for sure, finds her inspiration also in her various

travels around the world, especially South East Asia,

where she lived for a few years, and the Middle East. She

spends countless hours working on her paintings trying

to represent that specific feeling caught in that defined

moment in order to connect deeply and more intimately

with the viewer.

Born in 1986 in Italy she started to explore artistic

expressions from a very young age.

She studied fine art and she graduated in Art

Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Venice, and this

paved the road to her career in the art field, allowing her

to experiment with different techniques and studying

materials used from artists centuries ago till the latest

techniques.

Her figurative and hyper realistic style allows her to

express in the highest form the concept she wants to

represent on the canvas.

Pat de Wilde né 1949 (Lille)
Vit et travaille  : Marseille

Patrick de Wilde has traveled the world as a wonderfully passionate spectator. He writes, "I have only endeavoured to respond spontaneously to the call of beings and things in such a way as to coincide at best with what they might present as unique and astonishing."
Occupation: Photographe, Dessinateur, Sculpteur, Écrivain, Voyageur. Patrick de Wilde begins his professional work as a photographer reporter in Asia. There he worked on the Buddhist and Jainist religions, which led him to share the way of life of monks, especially in Burma and Thailand. He then turned to the observation of the great wild spaces. He devoted the following years to the study of the most isolated peoples and to the survival of shamanic customs. From his first travels in the early 1980s he made portraits on a black background.