by Lisa | Apr 1, 2021 | Artist Profile
As a conceptual artist, Franziska Ostermann’s medium is the word and the image. The central themes of her work are virtuality and identity. An important motif for Ostermann is the photographic self-portrait. Dealing with one’s being, online and offline, is the starting point of her work. The photographic self-portrait allows Ostermann to encounter herself. When the shutter is released, she is both the photographer and the photographed, in the same place. Is she doubled or split? Photographic splinters of our selves’ views represent our identity in a place that we cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its representation.
by Lisa | Mar 31, 2021 | Artist Profile
Rosie Emerson is an award-winning contemporary artist originally from Dorset, she studied and lived in London for 10 years. She now resides on the South Coast and continues to work almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new from Artemis to the modern-day supermodel.
by Lisa | Mar 30, 2021 | Artist Profile
The Artist’s creative journey began at birth: Diana Malivani was born on the coast of the Black Sea, bathed in the riotous profusion of the colours of the Caucasus. Her love as a child for fairy tales and pictures later developed into a desire to convey, to those hearing and viewing her work, the great feeling for nature that enhances her life and the lives of those she loves.
by Lisa | Mar 29, 2021 | Artist Profile
Photography artist Gert Kist made a name for himself at Galerie Eduard Planting, with his male images printed on weathered wooden subphases. As a photography artist, Kist has recently gone through a period of development and transition. His subject matter has shifted and his photographs have since also become more layered – both in a figurative and literal sense. In the new series of female portraits, there is a clear emphasis shift. No longer is the attention in Kist’s work solely on the male torso but focuses now on female faces that seem to want to either express something or in fact conceal it. Dashing women wearing extravagant costumes, jewellery, hair-dresses and masks. Something is happening inside these female portraits. The beholder can only guess, is intrigued and engages with them.
by Lisa | Mar 28, 2021 | Artist Profile
Juan Barletta’s works focus on consumerism and desire, his photo-realist paintings evoke an ambiguous duality of desire and beauty. Juan’s images of often controversial iconic figures within popular culture question the ideals of synthetic beauty and its imagined reality. He alludes to the falsity of images represented within the media and its distorted boundaries of what is real and artificial.
by Lisa | Mar 27, 2021 | Artist Profile
Frank E Hollywood is an esteemed Dutch contemporary artist. Hollywood studied at the St. Joost academy of art in Breda, the Netherlands, where he early on sought out the boundaries of autonomous and commercial art. His works explore the tensions between the past, present and future. Not interested in simply reimagining the past, Hollywood draws on a collective visual memory of the past, to present us with something truly new and exceptional.
