Sep 2, 2023
Silvio Porzionato was born in Italian Piedmont in 1971. Trained in Fine Arts, he began his career as chief designer of an important Italian company and learned about photography.
After traveling the world, Silvio decided to settle in his native village to devote himself solely to painting.
His first exhibition in 2007 earned him the Mondadori Prize and then was selected for the Venice Biennale in 2011.
Consecration came quickly with orders from the Museum of Urban Art of Turin and especially the acquisition of 112 paintings by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily in 2013.
Although borrowing from the rules of portraiture, the immense faces which he makes his signature seek more to probe feelings, emancipated from the conventional framework of representation, to give free rein to a fictional and dreamlike interpretation.
This look seems to have been taken on the spot, like a stolen photo?
This is because the artist is also a photographer and knows how to capture the fleeting moment which reveals solitude, joy, surprise, the expression of interiority, life itself.
Silvio Porzionato’s figurative approach is fundamentally humanist, through his imaginary realism he paints faces as one fights against forgetting, against the standardization and the negation of the face to face imposed by totalitarianism.
From a particular face, the artist seeks to draw the universal, and through a mirror effect makes us discover that we are not alone in being alone.
As a figurative painter keen on photography, he knows the dramatic intensity monochrome can bring by guiding the eye towards the essential.
He tactfully masters this technique of grisaille which frees the subject from the rhetoric of color, emphasizing the variations and nuances of skin tone.
The visual power of black and white is unrivaled for expressing contrast and depth.
It gives a form of authenticity, a timeless dimension and effectively helps us to go beyond the simple contemplation of forms.
A great traveler, Silvio Porzionato has recently participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Miami, Chicago, London, Paris, Bogotá, New York, Seoul and Istanbul.
He presents at the Galerie Montmartre a new collection specially designed for the exhibition “Face to Face” with Gil Bruvel.
Jun 28, 2023
STELI
Steli have a graduate of the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a member of the International Association of Plastic Arts, he uses different techniques of painting, collage, gold leaf and silver.
His “City series” of stylized flowers, hearts or purely geometric compositions have metaphorical, poetic and lyrical significance and are inspired by my travels to world famous metropolises such as Paris, New York, London and other equally exciting.
He likes to tell stories lived in these places, but in a poetic form and without emphasizing a specific event.
He plays with symmetries and volumes to animate these specific mounted puzzles. His collages are a mixture, a “patchwork” of old and new “found” banknotes, postcards, stickers, flyers and the like, and of course fragments captured by my camera in the urban environment.
This imaginary journey takes us through street names, shop windows and the iconography of famous places, all brought together on canvas with my own unique “patina” technique. I try to capture the mood of the moment, the movement, the rhythm of life as well as the traces of the past, the history of the place that remains.
I would like to give everyone the freedom to make their own journey, to discover their own street, to come back to their thoughts and memories in these magical places where they once were…
A graduate of the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a member of the International Association of Plastic Arts, he uses different techniques of painting, collage, gold leaf and silver.
His “City series” of stylized flowers, hearts or purely geometric compositions have metaphorical, poetic and lyrical significance and are inspired by my travels to world famous metropolises such as Paris, New York, London and other equally exciting.
He likes to tell stories lived in these places, but in a poetic form and without emphasizing a specific event.
Jun 25, 2023
Benoit Havard, born in 1981 in Orléans, is a French painter. He began to draw and paint at the age of six. In 1998, he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Cherbourg, where Lejeune and Valadié became his masters.
If his artistic path leads him to favor watercolor and pastel at first, he evolves today more in acrylic.
The artist draws his imagination from his travels, with a predilection for marine and urban scenes. From his brightly colored landscapes emerges a meditative atmosphere, where contemplation takes on its full meaning. And at the same time, his paintings are alive, animated by the experience that Benoit Havart manages to breathe into his paintings, real captures of a moment.
Benoit Havard has exhibited in several galleries in France since 2004 and has been the guest of honor at several fairs. In addition, his works can be found in numerous public and private collections, such as La Française des jeux, Louis Vuitton, ASSYS CYBORG and the Mauresmo family. Finally, his work was published in the magazine Univers des Arts in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Benoit Havard, born in 1981 in Orléans, is a French painter. He began to draw and paint at the age of six. In 1998, he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Cherbourg, where Lejeune and Valadié became his masters.
If his artistic path leads him to favor watercolor and pastel at first, he evolves today more in acrylic.
The artist draws his imagination from his travels, with a predilection for marine and urban scenes. From his brightly colored landscapes emerges a meditative atmosphere, where contemplation takes on its full meaning. And at the same time, his paintings are alive, animated by the experience that Benoit Havart manages to breathe into his paintings, real captures of a moment.
Benoit Havard has exhibited in several galleries in France since 2004 and has been the guest of honor at several fairs. In addition, his works can be found in numerous public and private collections, such as La Française des jeux, Louis Vuitton, ASSYS CYBORG and the Mauresmo family. Finally, his work was published in the magazine Univers des Arts in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Jun 25, 2023
David Ferreira is a French painter born in 1982.
He took a few painting lessons as a child but never studied art in higher education. It is completely self-taught that the young artist is trained in creation. Influenced by his father who worked as a carpenter, David Ferreira turned to building design and began a career as a surveyor.
The drawing quickly becomes more important than the building and David Ferreira throws himself fully into the paint. His passion for geometric art and mathematics will define his art and his style. Equations with several unknowns, round and triangular square shapes, puzzles… will become his favorite motifs. From an arithmetic sign, David Ferreira brings forth a figurative painting on canvas. This is how Toto, its main protagonist, is born, straight out of the playground.
Although he draws his inspiration from science and rigour, his art is instinctive, generally starting from a task that he will develop and let live on his canvas. David Ferreira loves passion and making it felt through his works. He will let the paint overflow on the edges of the painting, revealing it in three dimensions, giving the impression that the canvas preexists the wall that supports it.
For more meticulous works, such as his works based on the famous Rubiscube game, a multicolored cube from the 80s, the artist nevertheless develops a sketch in his mind or lines that the canvas he will be able to follow to respond to the perspective requirements.
Without hesitation, the materials rub shoulders with the colors and nourish the geometric shapes. Fabric, leather or metal can support the canvas in its relief. The artist will swap the brush for a trowel, a knife or simply use his fingers if he feels like it. Very active in front of his canvas, he needs to take a step back, to let his gesture express itself and that is why he prefers large formats to small ones, giving him more freedom.
Now covered with a glossy varnish, the canvases are revealed in all their colors and movements. The visual changes as the day progresses, it sparkles. His work and his journey can recall Basquiat for certain points, a source of inspiration for David Ferreira who does not fail to refer to it in his works.
We recognize the paintings of David Ferreira by his signature, but also by his lucky number, the number 15. Having a great symbolic value for the artist and his family, it relates to happy events, and follows the artist in each of his paintings.
Jun 25, 2023
EMROD ONE is a French artist born in 1985. He discovered art in the districts of Paris and its suburbs. He then plunged into the world of graffiti, forming his urban artistic culture through adventures and encounters. The ephemeral nature of this art motivates him to begin a quest that will prove to be the basis of his future work: immortalizing graffiti through photography. He develops his technique as an autodidact and chooses to highlight the essence of graffiti: the Letter.
His work thus reveals the contrasts of a life and a society on which the artist questions himself and takes a position. His reflection is an invitation to distance himself from the themes explored..
EMROD ONE is a French artist born in 1985. He discovered art in the districts of Paris and its suburbs. He then plunged into the world of graffiti, forming his urban artistic culture through adventures and encounters. The ephemeral nature of this art motivates him to begin a quest that will prove to be the basis of his future work: immortalizing graffiti through photography. He develops his technique as an autodidact and chooses to highlight the essence of graffiti: the Letter.
His work thus reveals the contrasts of a life and a society on which the artist questions himself and takes a position. His reflection is an invitation to distance himself from the themes explored..
EMROD ONE is a French artist born in 1985. He discovered art in the districts of Paris and its suburbs. He then plunged into the world of graffiti, forming his urban artistic culture through adventures and encounters. The ephemeral nature of this art motivates him to begin a quest that will prove to be the basis of his future work: immortalizing graffiti through photography. He develops his technique as an autodidact and chooses to highlight the essence of graffiti: the Letter.
His work thus reveals the contrasts of a life and a society on which the artist questions himself and takes a position. His reflection is an invitation to distance himself from the themes explored..
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