Group Exhibition on View
THE WAY
20th January - 20th February 2022
We are pleased to announce that the “THE WAY” Online Group Exhibition opens on January,20 2022, exhibiting the work of 20 artists.
WHEN YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS,
THE THINGS YOU LOOK AT CHANGE.
Wayne Dyer
Exhibition link : AlbeArtgallery.com/theway
Exhibitors
AGNES SHEIKH / ACQUAETTA WILLIAMS / ANASTASIYA KROKHMAL/ BROLY SU/ FABIO GIORGIANNI / FRANCESCA BRIVIO / GIOVANNI GRECO / JASON ENGELBART / JORDANA RAE GASSNER / JOSEPHINE FLORENS/ KATARINA CHYRVA / KRISTINE NARVIDA / KSENIIA ANTIPINA / LOUISE HAPTON / MANON RAMAN / MATHILDE LÂM / MATINA VOSSOU / SONIA BUKHGALTER / TONI BARBOSA/ SUNNY J
60x80cm 23.6x31.5’’
Acrylic paints and passementerie for the swing.
20x28” 50.5x71.1cm
Acrylic paints and acrylic inks on canvas + collage for the swing (acrylic skin).
20x28” 50.5x71.1cm
Acrylic paints and acrylic inks on canvas + collage for the swing (paper 180gm + acrylics).
20 x 20” 50.8x50.8cm
Acrylic paints and acrylic inks on canvas + collage for the swing (paper 180gsm + acrylics).
Since April 2020, a swing has appeared in my work, lonely, visible or almost invisible, still or in motion. It symbolises this period we are living in, where the future remains uncertain. I use acrylics and I have 2 series going on. In both of them, the swing is always glued on the canvas as the final touch. My series “Resilience” allows me to relate to Nature and spiritual thoughts. The swing, considered as a self-portrait, acts as a form of meditation and a catharsis, releasing negative emotions, leading to the restoration and renewal of feelings. Using only acrylics, I love playing with paints and inks, their opacity and transparency and the different consistencies that I create. With this series, I can paint what I am fascinated with, fields, clouds, calm waters… My second series “Papa”, is directly related to my father, 93, leaving in a retired home in France. Life has changed dramatically for him since the pandemic. The impact of the lockdown-almost a year- is terrible...He used to be very active…Now, he sits front of his window, looking at the birds, the wind, the clouds, the colors of the sky. I like to think that he dreams. Therefore this series celebrates the ability for the mind to dream, soothing the pain of this loneliness. The swing represents my father finding Sanctuary in within his reverie. Empty rooms accentuate the confinement while windows highlight the power of mentally escaping the reality…
acrylic and vinyl, 24” x 24”
acrylic, paper and vinyl,
24” x 36”
acrylic, pastels and vinyl,
24” x 24”
acrylic, paper and vinyl,
24” x 24”
24” x 24”
Why Do I create Art?
To remind people of their humanity. Throughout my journey creating art, I have worked in a variety of mediums: glass, paper, canvas and wood. The materials are of a diverse nature, they are the surfaces as well as depths of renderings: forms, lines and shapes. There are also the stories that emerge from these environments: stories about identity, love, compassion, anger, sensitivity and of being human. My art has been an assemblage of re-purposed materials, as in my series titled Deconstruction Memories were I utilize roller skates, pocket watches, camera lenses and clarinets to create fragmented compositions of expressive lyrical movement. Explosions of saturated energy overpower the rigid stability of a rectangular space, establishing bold and shifting perspectives that constantly offer more to be discovered. I approach my canvas like that of a worn plaster wall. Layers of papers of repeatedly glued announcements that are torn and weathered from sun, wind and rain, peeling away — exposed. This is where I start my art process. This wall is obscured and hidden from the viewer. I find it to be mysterious. I see in it the richness and colors of the Faceless. It speaks to me. My collage paintings are made of diagonal, horizontal and vertical lines. Moon-shaped eclipses rotate counter-clockwise, woven together with worn, scribbled messages that keep the eye constantly moving. The reflective energy of vinyl plays to the illusion of shapeshifting through the tiniest of light; it moves and flickers refusing to settle down. The vinyl pulls the canvas away from the wall at the same time drawing the viewer in. Suspiciously lurking in the shadows is paper — exploding in volume, texture and form. Its repetitive nature adds dimension and distinctive details; it complements my geometrical sense of balance. It offers a juxtaposition between meditative and aggressive, a bridge between brittleness and fluidity. Faceless Melodies embody the street musician, the religious frantic and the homeless. Their voices echo emotional agitation and sensitivity, often through music. Balanced, repetitive curves reveal more physical form, gritty texture, and sharp bold color, while speaking to us with compassion and love. Who is orchestrating this music? “I am homeless.” Layered surfaces unzip and gently peel away, revealing the spiritual transformation — the heart and determination of individuals who have become invisible.
oil on canvas on cardboard, 30 * 28 cm.
oil on linen canvas, 60*80 cm
oil, canvas. 120 * 80 сm
oil on linen canvas, 70*90 cm
oil on paper, 38 * 54 cm.
50 * 50cm.
I paint expressive oil paintings in the figurative genre. The main theme of my paintings is feelings and conditions of people, including conditions related to the spectrum of mental disorders. My artistic practice is based on self-reflection, emotional intelligence and personal life experience with anxiety-depressive disorder. The characteristic features of my paintings are pronounced contrast, drips of paint, raw paper margins or pieces of canvas. With these techniques, I strive to share my energy with the viewer. Art for me is not only the result of my experience and reactions to everything that happens, but also the opportunity to combat the stigmatization of mental deviations.
Series "Self-destruction and / or self-rebirth?"
The people in the paintings reflect my own struggle with that part of myself, with that unhealthy part of the psyche that prevents me from living a full and happy life. People in the paintings are fighting for themselves, for their existence in the truest sense of the word, because sometimes mental illness and death are separated by one step into the abyss. Who will win this battle? What will this battle mean in the end: self-destruction or self-rebirth? There is an imperceptible line between these concepts, and only each person within himself knows this truth. Art
digital illustration, 10 x 10
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
digital illustration, 17 x 5.5in
digital illustration, 8.5 x 11in
digital illustration, 8.5 x11in
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
digital illustration, 40 x 24in
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
Born and raised in Changsha, China – a city filled with love for hip-hop music and street culture, I was introduced to Kanye West for the first time at the age of 13.
The groove and rhythm were so unique and special that I couldn’t help discovering more about hip-hop music. Most of my illustration work has been a visual presentation of the knowledge and beliefs like positivity, integrity, perseverance, and justice that I have learned from hip-hop music, graffiti, and street culture throughout the years.
I believe illustrations have the power to bring changes, whether it is alternating how street culture is viewed or criticizing social injustice, which is also the main reason I love creating illustrations that have narratives.
pastel pencils and fusain charcoal on paper
50x35 cm, pastel pencils and fusain charcoal on paper
50x35 cm,soft pastels on paper
50x35 cm, pastel pencils on paper
42x32 cm, pastel pencils and pierre noire on paper
Fabio Giorgianni is a self-taught painter.
He was born on the slopes of Etna, in Catania and, despite having never attended painting courses or attended academies, he felt the passion for graphic-pictorial art grow in him from a very young age. He moved to Turin at the end of the 1980s to follow his university studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and, during these years, he experimented with different styles and various pictorial-graphic techniques that led him to mature his personal style in which he blends his roots. etnee with contemporary art. The passion for the East and for Japan in particular, the practice of martial arts, yoga, meditation and spiritual research, influence many of his works, where the continuous search for new suggestions leads him to a phase of study in where the realism of representation coexists with graphic and formal abstraction.
Fabio Giorgianni's works live and change thanks to the continuous suggestions that the surrounding natural environment evokes to the artist. The subjects of his works range from hyper-realistic portraits to volcanic landscapes, from the Sicilian hinterland with its sunny wheat fields to Mediterranean gardens and urban landscapes, creating an ever-changing emotion in the observer, leading him to get lost in those worlds. that in realism find a magical and spiritual dimension.
... In my works I try to make you feel a human vibration that enhances feelings through shape, line, color and intentionality; the encounter with the unexpected, for the opening of new worlds and new possibilities of vision where the work itself is understood as a result of the encounter between man and nature in an alternation of empathy between pure form and its complexity; strongly attracted by the material relationships that the eye is able to grasp in the surfaces of objects, along the walls of the city or even more in the memory of the already state;
I am intent on developing a discourse on structurality, and particularly on the technique in which color is assumed in its linguistic value, which also applies to signs, which are admitted to constitute an alphabet without a code that guarantees a form that reflects a idea or trace and document an emotion; and so in the color they are inserted into the layout, into the diagram of tensio ns, of the rapidity, of the cadence which the gesture encounters as it explores the interior space and the surface to be painted. In search of a point of access or contact
oil on canvas ,150X100cm
oil on canvas, 70x60cm
Francesca Brivio, from Italy, learned how to paint very young, focusing in oil painting on canvas. She graduated at artistic high school and then studied design. After a period in London, as well as a few other experiences in the fashion industry, She began working in a new field that allowed her to travel. Currently, She paints almost every evening in her new studio. She is drawn to subjects such as portraits, the human bodies, animals, magical creatures, water and untouched landscapes.
“When, looking at a painting, you immediately recognize the author, it means that He is original, coherent and authentic. In Francesca Brivio's canvases we immediately grasp her decisive and dynamic traits that are made delicate, despite the rapid brush strokes, with harmonious colors and the lightness of the paint. A constructive and pictorial gesture, fast and without second thoughts that animates the canvases inside, giving her subjects a manifest vitality and a strong emotionality. Francesca focuses on numerous themes even though the feminine world prevails while never stereotyped or banal. On the contrary, her elegant and fluid style gives the figures, simultaneously, a unique and universal character. These are introspective and lonely characters who experience emotions that we all feel and share. Sometimes they appear to us indeterminate but never uncertain or weak, instead gritty and strong despite the sweetness that inhabits them. Spontaneity is the technical and expressive mean that Francesca chooses and that allows her to transfer what she feels and what she experiences at that moment on the canvas. In fact, the Author must always finish the paintings “alla prima”, the next day would be too late. Her excellent technique is never an end in itself, but placed at the service of the emotion she feels and that asks to get out to stick on the canvas. It is difficult not to be enchanted and captivated by her works; we are faced with a rare case of artistic intensity, maturity and truth.”