SAUGY
Anna Zavileiskaia
Vladimir Karnachev
Andrius Kovelinas
Edward Belsky
Svetlana Rumak
Victor Panchenko
Vahagn Tadevosyan
Djoma
Ekaterina Malakhova
Kristin Borresen
Olga Naletova
Laura Sindici
Francesca Gazzolo
Martina Casaretto
Stefania Cancemi
Francesca Braghetta
SAUGY website: http://www.catherine-de-saugy.com/
"…The originality of my work consists in transposing the art I create on canvas to Plexiglas.
I use paintings combined with sophisticatedtechnologies to develop movements and structures in an infinite space..."
(Saugy).
Logan Riley – art critic
Art Fairs International Magazine New-York 2009:
“Swiss-French artist Saugy mixes techniques in a unique way on Plexiglas. Giving her paintings a new kind of depth, her use of paint and digital manipulations breaks down the limits of canvas and infinitely broadens her horizons. Not limited by space and dimension, Saugy is able to freely express her creativity, using juxtaposition of material and technique to draw viewers into a “light kingdom” that no one else has achieved.”
During the last years SAUGY has been invited to exhibit:
2011 Galerie de Grancy Lausanne Switzetland
2011 Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzetland
2011 Le Moulin en Clarens, Vich Switzetland
2011 AF PADOVA Italy
2010 ArtbyGeneva Switzetland
2010 Amsterdam Whitney Gallery New-York USA
2010 Broadway Gallery, New-York, USA
Biography:
Anna Zavileiskaia was born in Moscow and trained at the Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy). She currently lives and works in Budapest and is a member of the Hungarian Chamber of Architects. Her photography has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and the USA.
Statement:
Working with visual installations is what I find most stimulating. Not only is this an intellectual process, it also provides "spiritual nutrients" to the mind – an attempt to approach art not only at an aesthetic level but as an intellectual phenomenon as well, a dialogue, possibly a provocation, which should be acted upon. The objects themselves are nothing more than everyday items from daily life, transformed and seen in a new context. There is constant play with light and form whether the subject is an inanimate object, an architectural environment or a model.
Website: www.annazavileiskaia.com/
Victor Panchenko was born in 1950 in Samarkand (Uzbekistan). In 1970 he finished Tashkent P.Benkov Art College (the department of painting).
In 1975 he graduated from Tashkent State Conservatory (the department of conducting). Victor has been engaged in painting for more than 35 years. He believes his teachers are Rembrandt and Picasso. In his works he is striving to join the instant and the eternal, the two beginnings. His works’ plots are fusions of fantasy and life associations. The main exhibitions: 1980 – a personal exhibition in Tashkent Palace of Youth (Uzbekistan). 1989 – a personal exhibition (Kaunas, Lithuania). 1990 – “The Artists of Uzbekistan” (San-Francisco, USA). 1997, 1999 – personal exhibitions in Simferopol Art Museum (Crimea). 2000 – an exhibition in Simferopol “КЭП” Gallery (Crimea). 2003 – a personal exhibition in The Gallery of European Contemporary Art (Prague, Czech Republic). 2006, 2007 – personal exhibitions in Sevastopol Green Pyramid Gallery (Crimea), 2011 – Crimean Holidays exhibition in Sovcom Gallery (Moscow). The pictures are exhibited in The State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow); Tashkent State Art Museum (Uzbekistan); The State Museum of History, Culture and Art (Samarkand, Uzbekistan); Kaunas State Art Museum (Lithuania); The Museum of Modern Art (Seoul, South Korea); Simferopol Art Museum (Simferopol, Crimea); The Private Francois Mitterrand Gallery; The Gallery of European Contemporary Art (Prague, Czech Republic).
Website: www.rumak.net/
WOODBURY, CT - Fenn Gallery's First Anniversary exhibit, "2 Artists from Russia", features paintings by Svetlana Rumak and Zufar Bikbov. The show runs from Oct. 27th-Dec. 4th. A Champagne Reception with live music on Sat., Oct. 29th from 2-6 pm is open to the public. Fenn Gallery has assembled an exhibition of 18 figurative paintings by Svetlana Rumak of Moscow, Russia and 12 abstract paintings by Zufar Bikbov, formerly of Kazan, Russia. All artwork is new work being exhibited in the US for the first time.
Ms. Rumak's enigmatic work is a rich synthesis of her unique visual vocabulary with medieval russian iconoclasm. The canvases are inhabited by humans and animals rendered in an earthy palette, set against very stylized but highly textured backgrounds. Like medieval Orthodox icons, her people have enlarged almond eyes with an otherworldly cast and long straight noses. The elongated figures seem weightless, and float in a spiritual atmosphere of spacelessness, without mass or shadow-casting volume. Also typical of icons, Rumak juxtaposes flat figures in ornately patterned garments with more fully modeled heads.
"Letter from Home" depicts a man suited in armor aside a woman, within whose cupped hands floats a miniature house. The figures preoccupied gaze does not engage. The crimson background is over painted with a tapestry of gold-leafed roses, and part of the woman's profile becomes the background. The layers of symbolism are many fold. Is the man her knight in shining armor and the roses symbolic of paradise, as in medieval art? This idyllic interpretation is undermined by the presence of the tiny home which hovers, does not rest, in the woman's hands. Does it suggest the elusiveness and ambiguity which can underlie traditional concepts of home and relationships? Ms. Rumak has a BFA, exhibits in Europe, and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan.
Also on display are the abstract paintings by the emerging artist Zufar Bikbov. Educated as a representational painter in Russia, Bikbov has been successfully exploring the possibilities of abstract painting since moving to the US several years ago. Bikbov demonstrates his mastery of color and composition in works like "Golden River". The central focus in this gestural piece is a widening band of color ranging from gold ochres to persimmon to burgundy, suggesting an elevated view of a meandering river. Soft-edged, liquidy brushstrokes in garnet and cream nestle around "the river". The painting exemplifies Bikbov's development of a nonrepresentational language to express his fascination with the mysteries in man and nature. Bikbov has a degree in art from the Zelendoisk Youth Art School, has exhibited in both Russia and the US, and is in international collections.
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 - Gallery of Svetlana Sazhina, Moscow 2011 - Arthaus Gezel Gallery, Vetzlar, Germany 2010 - "Dance with me!", Central Artist's House, Moscow, Russia 2010 - Les Oreades Gallery, Central Artist's House, Moscow, Russia 2010 - Object1 Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2010 - Art-City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 2007 - Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, USA 2004 - Art-Gorod Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia 2004 - Maksim Gorky Museum, Kazan, Russia 1999 - Kamill Gallery, Kazan, Russia
Publications:
2011 - Catalogue of the Art Fair "Business Art", Paris, France 2011 - Catalogue of the Art Fair "Artesaniya", Moscow, Russia 2011 - Catalogue of the exhibition "Artist's Space", Moscow, Russia 2010 - Ctalogue of the exhibition "The Time of Travels", Moscow, Russia 2010 - Catalogue of the Art Fair "Art-Manege", Moscow, Russia 2010 - Catalogue of the exhibition "Walk of the Lonely Dreamer", Moscow, Russia 2010 - Catalogue of the exhibition "Abstract about a Particular", Moscow, Russia 2010 - Catalogue "V Fair of Graphic Art", Moscow, Russia 2009 - Catalogue of the Art Fair "Art-Manege", Moscow, Russia 2009 - Catalogue of International Exhibition of Contemperary Art "XII", Center of Contemperary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan 2009 - Catalogue "IV Fair Graphic Art", Moscow, Russia 2008 - Catalogue of the exhibition "Different Reality", Central Artist's House, Moscow, Russia 2008 - Catalogue of Moscow International Art Salon, Moscow, Russia 2007 - Newspaper "Evening Chelny" 40, Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia 2007 - "The Art Guide", Monthly Catalogue for galleries & museums, December 2007, USA 2007 - Catalogue "Modern Art of Russia", Moscow, Russia 2005 - Catalogue for exhibition "22", Nijnekamsck, Russia 2005 - "The Art Guide", Monthly Catalogue for galleries & museums, November 2005, USA 2005 - Catalogue of the exhibition "Artists of Tatarstan", Moscow, Russia 2004 - Newspaper "Izvestia Tatarstan" 11, Kazan, Russia 2004 - Newspaper "Vostochniy express" 11, Kazan, Russia 2003 - Magazine "LINEA D"L" 2, Kazan, Russia 2003 - Magazine "Seumbike" 2 (in tartar language), Kazan, Russia 2002 - Catalogue for "ХII congress of artists of Tatarstan", Kazan, Russia 2001 - Magazine "Kazan" 11, Kazan, Russia 2001 - Catalogue of Moscow International Art Salon, Moscow, Russia 2000 - Catalogue of the exhibition "The Classic and the Present", Kazan, Russia
Website: http://www.no-design.ru
Biography
I was born in the South Ural of Russia in 1978, and when I was a child I couldn’t imagined how could it be “not drawing”. Since I was 8, I went to children art school, after that it was naturally to enter to the Academy of Art. Of course I had to continue my graduation in capital – Moscow or Saint-Petersburg. It was the Art – Industrial Academy
of Art in Saint-Petersburg. I graduated in 2004.
During my student years and after that, for 8 years, I worked as Graphic Designer in Advertising Business. I suppose that, that work, had a great influence on my techniques.
When I was student, I was keen on painting. I was very impressed with Leonardo’s works. My paintings were figurative.
I aspired to transmit lights, darks and reflexes. I liked to paint portraits so much; touching the canvas with rich dense oil colors on my brush, it was like a meditation feeling.
I don’t know why I do not paint anymore, now.
May be the main reason is the speed in creation. If I have an idea, I want to make it real as soon as possible, I want to see how could it be, otherwise ideas, collected in my mind, become so closed and they burn out.
Therefore, in 2008, I approached the photography and photo-manipulations.
In general, human images attract my imagination: their emotions, imperceptible and serene or strong and expressive. Humans can be so beautiful and I want to transmit that to my viewers.
Sometimes it is just a formal course, like an empty liquid covering a human body, which after that, finds its idea’s filling.
Other themes I like to work with are the incompatible combinations.
As example: vegetative and anatomic images or Russian dolls and Batman.
Now I plan to continue working at human images in photo. Nearest progects which I want to realise are: formal photo “man and woman in their dialogue”, social series “Orphan children deserve to be happy”.
And I plan to try my forces in little shape sculpture. To be exactly, in ceramic.
Of course, my professional work in graphic design has put imprint on my creative self-expression. Some says “it is pop art”, somebody doesn’t consider it as art, just as alloy of technique and photo. Discussion about what deserve to be named “art” can proceed infinitely. I am convinced of general: visual images have to attract spectator, his attention has to be overcome by images. If the spectator has a question “how is it made?”- not important regarding technique or process of creation – it means you touched some point of his perception. Hope, sometimes my works do.
Curriculum:
Saint-Petersburg’s Art-Industry Academy - Specialised: Graphic design
2005: Modulor 2005 - Bronze diploma in a nomination “Art-design” - Russia
2010: St.Petersburg Art Week - 2nd place in Art-photograph competition - Russia
2010: Contemporary Art Exhibition “Manipulation”
2011: Berlin Art Week - Germany
2011: 14 Beijing International Art Fair - China
2011: Arte Padova - Italy
2012: AAFair Milan - Italy
Website: www.kristinborresen.com
Kristin has a great passion for painting. She is working on acrylic, watercolours, collage and various mixed techniques. I love experimenting with colour, using different media and techniques to express myself and to create atmosphere and moods in my paintings.
The motives are very varied, from landscape, flowers, vases and jars, and people. She paints the most figurative, but also a little abstract. Kristin Børresen has worked as an artist for many years, and has taken workshops with different artists. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, both individual and collective in Norway.
Sharing her experience and introducing a variety of techniques by holding workshops is also something she find very enjoyable and rewarding.
She has received an artstipend from Innovasjon Norge
All her paintings are originals.
Permanent exhibits at Modern Art Gallery in Trondheim
Purchased:
Åsen Sparebank Skogn Helsetun Åsen Helsetun DPS Stjørdal Div. artclubs
Innherred Sykehus
Meldal Sparebank
Frosta Kommune
Laura is an independent artist.
She started painting till she was young and worked privately on commissioned artworks.
Her paintings/portraits are in many private collections in Italy (Rome, Milan, Genua) and US.
Her passion for portraits and human figures made her famous in some artistic "niche" markets.
She has decided now to expand her opportunities participating to some fine Contemporary Art Fairs.
Francesca is a young and professional artist.
She was born in 1989 in Genova (Italy) where she lives and studies.
After achieving the Diploma in 2007 at the Art School Paul Klee, she has been accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milan) and Genova following the Painting Course.
Her passion is drawing with pencil on paper, or using a combination of pencil and black oil.
In the last years, together with her traditional art studies at the Academy, she is focusing her attention on photography, experimenting new black and white techniques, giving more result to the study on the aestheticism, conceived around the concept of pure art and as a place of the soul, as she likes to say.
