There’s a 20 paintings for 2020 project on now ( instagram #20_for_2020). In 2019 I happened to finish 19 paintings which is my best yearly score so far and I’ve decided to reach number of 20 by the end of 2020 for a star of a new decade. A whole programma had to be arranged
EXHIBITION > OKAYAMA & OSAKA
The “GARDEN” and “MY POTS” series is about to be displayed in Japan: “The Inner Gardens” in Setouchi City Museum of Art – Okayama with the opening starting at on Tuesday – 3 March 2020. For the first time, the “Garden” series March 8. “My pots” exhibition is to take place at Mitsu-ba in Osaka
EXHIBITION>PARIS
The “MY POTS” series includes 17 small and medium formats. 14 are to be presented at the Daniel Hanemian Gallery in Paris. The exhibits in this solo show echoe the great classic-modern French movements from the Nabis to the Fauves, as well as the Central European avant-garde with characters like Klimt, Moser, Kirchner or Macke.
My Pots
The most intimate garden spaces are flower-pots and vases – isn’t it? Therefore I’ve came to a decision of painting the ones I possess. The first attempt to paint a canvas which has for object plants growing in the bathroom of my Parisian appartment dates back to 2010. Here are some of the pots the
Gardens and Vegetal Landscapes
I do focus on vegetal world for couple of months already. This is nothing new for me as I’ve been finding inspiration in plants for years. For this time things seem to bring me hapiness since I’ve returned to what I’ve done before exploring the possibilities of liquid paint technique. These days the flat surfaces
Portraits
Since ever I do work on portrait of people close to me: mostly family and friends. This occasional distraction within my own “program-work” becomes more and more regular now. Therefore I paint those I love, admire and feel related to or those I miss, like my grandparents who recently passed away. Self portraits are being
India
I had a chance (or if you want to speak about privilege let’s say so) to visit India – motherland to our spirituality, land where all world major religions come from. In March 2014, my long-dreamed wish to discover this subcontinent came true. This tour, indeed not very long, as I have stayed in the
Carnet de voyage
An eighteen-century note book was once offered to me. Of something less than an A3 size, wrapped in paper, the animal, calf or a donkey skin beige cover, coulpe of missing pages, it is magnificent. For a while, I thought about selling it to some professional ‘faussaire’ as it’s filigrees show an royal french symbol
Decoration works
June 2015 and 2016. I got to Weligama on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, with a delivery of paintings the owner Anna Egorkina asked me for. Some of my paintings and prints were previously acquired by owner of Eraeliya Villas and Gardens and I was delighted when she asked me for more painting to
Seven deadly sins
My first ever published illustrations for a story book by Milan Kališ, an young Slovak author, handle with both fascination and critique of urban life, just like the knotty, heavy jungle-like texts of the edition are. Milan gave me free hand to come with some drawings for the collection of short (and long) analysis of
French statuary
After being focused on ancient greek and roman art for couple of years, I’ve decided to turn myself to French statues during the 2015 summer. Two couples of paintings are the result of long studies in the Louvre musuem: first are mid-sized marvelous alabaster neo-calssic figures depicting young men, based on work by Pierre Julien
NUDES
Nude and landscape painting truly are two themes that seduce me the most in painting. The reason might be the fact body is some kind of reduced scale landscape, but what interest me primarily is the graphic expression in the shape of a human body once reduced to surface. Volumes never were something that excite
Mirror, mirror… – art of portrait
Once again working on portraits. I think that artistic represention of a person is one of most challenging disciplines in art no matter if it does represent preson portrayed in hyperrealistic way or in Picasso style. Personally, I do enjoy working on portraits very much. There is always something exciting in waiting how person will
Paintings 2010 – 2014
I’ll be glad to meet you at the opening on my first parsian solo exhibition at Espace 93 in very chic 7th arrondisment on Thursday 6 November. Selection of 30 oils stretching from period dating back to 2010 as well as of all following years upto now will be visible at 93, Rue Saint-Dominique. The
Mirror-mirror # 3 (Self-portraits)
Slef-portraiting, the most decontracted and casual portrayal process for me. ideas of doing selfportraits come and go, sometimes I suddenly catch one and realize it, mostly on paper but canvas happens to get involved too once the pushing is too exuberant. There is no mean od keeping an visual diary like Van Gogh or Frida
Unicos
United under the art show title >UNICOS< 12 artists exhibit their works in unique book creations of Rio de Janeiro based artist Gabriela Irigoyen at GLICERINA, Rua General Glicério, 445 loja C, Laranjeiras, Rio De Janeiro. Along with Gabriela’s work of Hannah23, Mariana Mansur, Eduardo Denne, Michel D’Anastasio, Cláudio Gil, Mate Lelo, Maria Haddock, Coral Michelin, Tita
Yoshiko Yoshida: Mastering the art of Japanese calligraphy
What a soul stimulating city Nara (central Japan) seems to an artistic mind and how well fed such spirit is while discovering jewels of this ancient japanese capital! Contemporary calligrapher Yoshiko Yoshida (55) was born and grew up in this >>haut-lieu<< of Japanese buddhism. Attached to the written and spiritual traditions of ancient Japan and
石獅
Shíshī in China or komainu in Japan, chinese guardian lions ( often called Fu-dogs in Occident) as a element of far-eastern culture always fascinated me by on one hand the meaning of this imporant symbol and on the other by this exoctic interpretation of the prinicpal of believes in far-eastern countries as an equivalent of
Chinoiseries*
* Chinoiserie /ʃɪnˈwɑːzəri/ a decorative style in Western art, furniture, and architecture, especially in the 18th century, characterized by the use of Chinese motifs and techniques. (Oxford dictionary) First new chinoiseries are here! Yes, it took me a couple of months to finish them and it was quiet a work. Starting with two Chinese gods of
融き放つ 2
Second issue of successful Kurashiki Chūō Garō 融き放つ exhibition held in Japan in May. Together with calligrpahy master Yoshiko Yoshida alias Ryoshu, japanese calligrpaher Tekku Nishinaka, Michel D’Anastasio and russian artist Vitaly Shapovalov, I exhibit four japan-themed works; three oils: ‘Afternoon in Sō-ja’, ‘Sleepy rooster’, Varying (picturing blue komainu or buddha’s watching dog), and ink painting
On Human Condition
Moscow-affair (2010) The origin of this painting is to be found in my short voyage to Moscow in autumn 2009. This huge city left in me many impressions and I wanted to work with this russian capital as with an object for one of my paining unsuccessfully for several months. Being a fan of Louis
White paintings
White paintings series was my first real intellectual effort to create a homogeneous universe using picture as a bearer of some aesthetic idea. I started to work on it in 2008 developing structural language of flat chromatic surfaces neighbouring in harmonious way and putting aside all true perspective or natural light creating volumes. My painting
Wandering shoes
Yes, I am a chronic traveler. It has been like this since my late 17 when I get abroad alone for a first time, hitch-haking from my home-country through Austria to Italy. My first travel painting dates back to this summer spent in port of Leghorn ( Livorno) and Tuscan countryside. I was infected by
Un barbare en Chine
On the way back from Japan, I could not but stop by in Shanghai again – to get more of it, to enjoy it bit more I did in 2011, not primarly aiming to understand it ( I think there is nothing one can understand about modern China and not be quiet -well let’s say-
Korman in Japan
Save the date: In the month of MAY (14-19) four of previously never exhibited works of mine will join the group exhibition of 4 artists @ Kurashiki Chūō Garō (Kurashiki Central Gallery), Okayama prefecture – Japan. It’s going to be BIG! Along with calligraphies of Ryoshu Yoshida and Michel D’Anastasio as well as beautiful bizen
Paris – Ville Lumière
Paris -here it is! The Light city is beeing my home since 4 years already and I still remember the day of 13th March 2009 when once descended of the coach arriving from Brussels to settle down in Paris I got ready to survive within this man-eater-like city rather than conquer it. I hated Paris
Et in Arcadia ego
“For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out.” I – Tim 6:7 Popular as no other spiritual originated theme in painting (but may be charity) appears Vanity and contemporary society loves this ‘cutest of sins’ more than any other one to reflex it’s feeling about existence. I love vanity
Plants
Kingdom of Flora, so fascinating, inspiring artists since millennia is a welcoming theme to explore in contemporary creations even if floral motives may seem quiet old fashioned today. Not only Takashi Murakami’s psychadelic flower explosions or Don Sultan’s minimalistic compositions witness how the painters interprete their curiosity about plants. Flowers: If it’s by interest in
Korman au Maroc
>>Morocco was to me a revelation.<< Winston Churchill states in one of his articles. It was just the same to me when I first discovered this magnificent country. I dare say that Morocco is to Orient what Italy is to Europe, even if it were worth to add that the country is the very occidental
Good Taste
A good taste paintings are reproducing, for one the interior of Rome Musei Capitolini hall in which the Marcus Aurelius’ equestrian statue is displayed, second one shows the Michelangelo’s Hall in Louvre and another one the Room of Venetian painting in Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum, or grand hall of Marrakesh city museum.
Burning minds
The ‘Black fire’ painting dates back to 2010 when once arrived in Paris I started to look for new style, more casual and decontracted. There is a story behind: the hunk trying to get a contact with a prostitute – well, as we can see neither his face nor the prostitute it is up to
Les antiquités II
Antinoos (2010) First one of the series, the ‘Grand Imago’ is a portrait of ‘Antinoos de Richelieu’ (Musée du Louvre) a XVII century copy of roman marble. Octavius Aurgustus (2012) Behind this painting stands a famous statue Augustus di Prima Porta (Musei Vaticani, Rome) and the bronze copy of this famous marble in Sana Lucia
Les antiquités I (pairs and series)
The complete collection of my antiquity inspired paitings dating back to 2010 when started the Imago series with portrait of ‘Antinoos de Richelieu’ (Musée du Louvre). Using different techniques I have produced a series which counts several ‘portraits’ of famous marbles from biggest collections. Once again working with a principle of notoriety just like Andy
Bad Religion
So here it is – the image of Virgin Mary with a big red heart in her hands (I think this painting is due to the a very special and authentic maltese religiousity): Maltese Madonna: I did already work with christian themes in the past and did two paintings themed similarly quiet recently, the ‘Burning
Viva l’Italia: Venus of Urbino
Well, here it is: Viva l’Italia! Two years ago there was a plan born in my head to work on an important male nude canvas and I took for this a picture of quiet an ordinary gayporn movie actor I wanted to pictue in very masculine and bossy position in the same way as old
Francesco
In 1652 Bernini finished his work on bust of Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena – an artloving ruler of Modena and Reggio nell’Emilia. This portrait in marble which stands for what is considered (with the bust of French Sun King Louis XIV by the above mentioned sculptor) as an example and standard for monarchical portraiture
Das Schloß
126 years have passed since the opening of the famous Neuschwanstein castle to the public and since the death of Ludwig II of Bavaria that year; 90 years ago precisely Franz Kafka started to work on his last and longest novel The Castle, published in 1926. Two years ago, just after having finished reading of
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (2010) is both a critique and hommage to modern and postmodern conception of view on art in which I have been inspired by an anonymous photograph found in a book giving to my work an dimension of a ready-made approach but at
Green line – inspiration
I have always been inspired by work of Henri Matisse. Here is the pochoir work on paper infuenced by his famous Madame Matisse portrait now conserved in Copenhagen titled: La Raie Verte. The japanese influence ( quiet obvious ) is not due to any empiric far-estern inspiration but to an uknown passing-by in Paris Metro.
On man
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon) Once again, I do return to my eternal questioning of the relation between understanding the cultural heritage and re-using it’s traditions in painting. Having fallen recently under the spell of some nietzschean philosophical ideas on eternel recurrence I return to
Art of portrait 2
Once again inspired by my favourite maestro after having visited his exhibition in Centre Georges Pompidou: Matisse: Pairs et Series to focus on art of portrait. I took my favourite model’s beautiful face to start with a variation on famous Portrait de Lydia Delectorskaya (Hermitage museum, Saint Petersburg) and sketch her portrait split by an invisible
Federico Cortese: CODICE / CODE
Born in Turin, Federico Cortese (41) works as an independent artist and as an architect, collaborating with several design offices. Very skilled painter, he focuses in his artistic research on study of language. “Every language,” says Federico, “is created in the purpose of communicating an information. But each language also has formal rules stemming from
A Garden
In the same way as in the beginning of discovering countries in search of inspiration during my first stay Italy hit me with immense beauty and I fell in love with it’s landscapes and light Morocco, and more precisely Marrakech, has got me charmed and mesmerised me by her strange and vivid colours. As every
Venice-Florence-Rome, welcome back home
The Nocera Inferiore exhibits: Venice, Florence and Rome have arrived safetly back home! The exhibition and learning program was realy enjoyable. There was also a very nice article that went on in IL MATINO (30.3.2012) interviewing the director of the San prisco museum, Don Natale Gentile.
The Mesmeriser
Here is the one – blast from the past. It finds itself in New York and I was particularly happy to offer him an American adventure. Considering it as one of my best paintings ever done I miss this strange fearless but full of doubts sight very much of course. The absence of colours underline
The Holy Land Adventure
Besides oil paint ink paiting is technique that suits me well. Some souvenirs from 2010 Holy Land adventure:
ART FESTIVAL CHATEAU LAVAUX SAINTE ANNE
The Chateau Lavaux-Sainte-Anne show terminated on 29.7. There are still following painting available in Brussels based Cobalt International Gallery, you can contact me or the gallery @ http://www.cobaltinternationalgallery.com/ if you wish to consult the pricelist (prices start at 300€).