Artist
Elena Lobanowa
Elena Lobanova comes from a Russian family of artists. Inspired by her grandfather, a landscape painter, she attended the art school for painting in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine). After her first exhibitions in the then Soviet Union, she became known to a wide audience in the rest of Europe, especially for her fascinating depictions of bulls. She creates her motifs with different materials and techniques. For example, spatula technique, airbrush, oil chalk, acrylic paint or even impact metal. Not only with her monumental portraits, but also otherwise, the artist is always breaking new ground and thus proves her versatility and her desire to always try something new and to be on the pulse of time. Exhibitions in London and New York - among others at the Art Expo - underline her continuing success.
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Charles Fazzino
Charles Fazzino, born in New York in 1955, is one of America's best-known artists. The son of a Finnish sculptress and an Italian designer, he appeared at a young age with his first exhibitions after studying at the School of Visual Arts, one of the leading American colleges for art and design. Fazzino established three-dimensional pop art globally and is today the most famous 3-D pop artist in the world. His comic-inspired paintings speak of the lively and glittering life of the metropolises, especially his hometown of New York. But Fazzino has also long since discovered a heart for Europe, as documented by numerous works he has dedicated to cities such as London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt. Fazzino is equally concerned with sporting themes. He is a passionate sports fan and has been the official artist for the American Superbowl for years. For Fazzino, art is, as he says, an elixir of life that makes people smile. Anyone who has experienced the elaborate process by which Fazzino's 3-D works are created knows how to appreciate the artist's artistry and extraordinary talent: First the sketch, then the painting, finally the lithograph. Then the individual pieces are meticulously cut out and precisely pasted in up to three layers to the appropriate places. Only then is a Fazzino work of art complete.
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Mr. Brainwash
Born in France, Mr. Brainwash now lives in Los Angeles and has been taking his pop art to the streets, galleries and canvases for about a decade. Equipped with spray cans, brushes and paint buckets, Mr. Brainwash began conquering the streets and building walls in 2006 with stencil graffiti (stencils) and posters of icons and cult figures, and quickly became one of the standouts of the emerging street art scene.
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James Chiew
James Chiew stammt aus Singapur und wanderte als Jugendlicher mit seiner Familie in die Niederlande aus. Seit 2009 ist er als Künstler aktiv. Ein großer Erfolg war es für den Autodidakt, als eines seiner 3D-Werke während der Ausstellung „Beeld van Beatrix“ in den Palästen „Het Loo“ und „Soestdijk“ ausgestellt wurde.
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Isabelle Scheltjens
Isabelle Scheltjens has been interested in art since her youth. She studied at SISA, the Antwerp City Institute for Decorative Arts and Crafts. Her husband's glass design inspired Isabelle to work with the same material. It took years of intense practice and juxtaposition of countless pieces of colored glass to refine her method and truly master color theory. She developed a unique glass fusing technique that fuses pieces of glass of different colors, sizes and textures together at about 800°C.
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Peppone
Peppone received 500 Tintin albums from his father and is always looking to expand his comic book collection. He describes this collection as his "paper heritage" and uses it "to create artistic encounters with our memories and humanity." Peppone's vibrant sculptures and mixed media works of well-known comic book characters challenge us to question our conventional views of what art should be. In his mixed media works, he places the heroes of our childhood in situations with iconic references, inviting the viewer to recall the strength of certain photographs, films, posters or historical events. In this way, his works penetrate the roots of our cultural memory, which the artist interprets in a new and humorous way.
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Live artist
Elena Lobanowa
Elena Lobanova comes from a Russian family of artists. Inspired by her grandfather, a landscape painter, she attended the art school for painting in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine). After her first exhibitions in the then Soviet Union, she became known to a wide audience in the rest of Europe, especially for her fascinating depictions of bulls. She creates her motifs with different materials and techniques. For example, spatula technique, airbrush, oil chalk, acrylic paint or even impact metal. Not only with her monumental portraits, but also otherwise, the artist is always breaking new ground and thus proves her versatility and her desire to always try something new and to be on the pulse of time. Exhibitions in London and New York - among others at the Art Expo - underline her continuing success.
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Galerie Mensing Düsseldorf
