All in Painting
BiHop parodies the paintings of renowned artists such as Caravaggio, Bacon, Gogh, Lautrec and Cezanne, for escaping from this dichotomous ideology of the subject-object. It shows the intention of de-subjection and de-objection by removing the Sunflowers from the Gogh’s painting and taking away the Apples from Cezanne’s.
My artistic biography began 11 years ago with training at an art school in Belgium. Before that, I traveled a lot and made a lot of sketches. Then I began to take part in art exhibitions in Belgium, Holland. Later in France and the UK.
Beyond meditative serenity, Simone elaborates her canvases like musical compositions.
Having started her day with meditation, her mind is free and serene.
Rostislav Romanov is a Russian born artist that lives and works in the southeast of England. He is a trained landscape painter that travels and captures nature between Russia and England. He uses his art as a way to understand the world which gives him, a unique soul voice and perspective.
Olan Ventura (b. 1976) took up his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the East, which hailed him as Most Outstanding Alumnus in 2007 for Fine Arts and Culture. He has mounted solo and group shows locally and internationally, and has explored themes ranging from identity, technology, popular culture, and more recently the folk Catholic traditions of his native Philippines and its expressions in contemporary life.
My name is Robert Solomon and I have been a creator for most of my life. I have a broad education for which I feel is an advantage for any artist. I have explored performance art, automated theatre, installation art, printmaking, sculpture and design. I now make paintings. I live in Philadelphia, PA and Greenwich, New Jersey where I have my studio
In Fant Wenger‘s paintings, nature and technology usually collide in a rugged and momentous way. Not only is the chosen spectrum of colours powerful, the artist also places railway wagons, telephone poles, parabolic antennas or even a satellite in the landscape.
Born: 1986, Los Angeles, California. Lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
Vladinsky was born on July 11, 1988 in Romania, in Onesti, a city in the Moldavian area, not far from Transylvania. In the first part of his childhood he experimented with drawing in pencil, trying to reproduce cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and then after the age of 10, he started experimenting with extreme sports. He is part of a middle-class family whose child would normally have to choose another path, the path to a career in the area of oil processing because her parents were working in one of the largest refineries in the area.
Valentina invites viewers to a plastic discourse about living, reflecting, finding ( in the sense of finding one self - I did not know the word) and reconciling (as well with self). In a world where the self is camouflaged, the thinking is in pattern, the values are reshaped, Valentina invites the viewer to an exercise of introspection.
Born and raised in the German countryside near Munich, Petra learned to appreciate nature at an early age. She uses both photography and painting to express her deep connection to nature. Petra’s artwork ranges from close-up photographs and paintings of flora and fauna to abstract interpretations of nature’s mysteries. Her latest series of paintings are inspired by water reflections and vary in their degree of abstraction.
Marco Avigni, residing in Liestal / BL, has been working as a freelance artist since the 90s.
He created an extensive oeuvre with a large number of large-format pictures in different styles and techniques, starting from classic modernism. Born and raised in Arlesheim (Baselland / Switzerland) .
Miro Frei was born 1974 near the small town Aarau in Switzerland where he also grew up. He studied history, geography and german studies at the University of Zurich. He had been working as an artist since 2004. In 2007 he exhibited his medium-size pastel and acrylic paintings in his first solo show at the Kraftwerk gallery in Berlin. 2014 he exhibited his paintings in a show of the art scene Berlin at the Petrus Church in Berlin Lichterfelde. 2009 and 2013 he participated in the Florence Biennale.
Aomi Kikuchi is a creator of innovative fine arts inspired by Buddha’s Philosophy, impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering of all life. She started her career as a fashion designer, and she has a professional Yuzen Kimono Dyeing skill with about thirty years career. While she has a strong obsession with silk fabrics, she tries other materials, which have femininity and fragility such as fiber, goose down, cotton flower, glass, and film. Her artistic practice has been expanding from two-dimensional work to installation, sculpture, and film work. She received BFA from Kyoto University of Art and Design, and MFA from Pratt Institute.
Christel uses oil painting on canvas to present us her lyric expressionism visions. She is a self-taught artist, based in Mechelen, Belgium. The island of Crete remains her major source of inspiration, along with her travel experiences. Christel has lived in Crete during the 90s and she still spends a lot of time there. Her emotions are expressed through the language of bold colors, with laconic, solid composition and delicate texture mainly on large canvasses. Every painting is a story. Soon after starting out in 2017 she has had several exhibitions in Belgium. Lately Christel had the opportunity to present her work in Lisbon, Amsterdam, London and Venice.
Established 2009, Beast has produced more than 200 urban installations in more than 40 cities across Europe, United States and Japan. With his ironic and provocative collages, Beast deconstructs well-known faces of politics and the world of entertainment, recreating scenarios to the limit of veracity. At the beginnings his distinguished mash-ups, framed in gold and freely placed on the streets, have quickly attracted the attention of media, challenging the urban audience to question the truthfulness of the information, in a continuous play of references between the real world and the ideal world proposed by the artist.
Grabelsky’s paintings are inspired by the years he spent riding the subways in New York as a kid and by his early fascination with Greek mythology. Small details including zoo posters, stickers, T-shirts, and toys add humor to the art, while light reflecting off subway tiles and molded sets show the artist’s technical ability to paint hyperrealistic scenes.
I am German and have lived and worked in Germany, Switzerland, Bermuda, London and Bath. The UK has been my home for 27 years and it is here that I started in the arts about 4 years ago and have since exhibited in Bath and at Brick Lane Gallery, London.
YIP FUNG (葉灃) was born in Canada in 1963 by Chinese parents. After studying fine art in Saskatchewan and architecture in Toronto, he moved to Hong Kong where began working as an architect. In 1999, he decided to transition into fine art and photography, following his deeper passion into his personal interests. He formed a collective called Melo-Melo Artist Alliance with several friends. It was then that his journey into art began.
Gina Plunder is born in Romania, now she lives and work as a visual artist in Rastatt, Germany. She graduated at the University in Bucharest and in Freiburg /Germany. She is member of the GEDOK- German and Austrian Artists association and BBK- federal German artists association. Since 2004 she is lecturer at the Country Academy of Art and Theater Castle Rotenfels. Since 2006 Director of the Art Centre - Bildungschance Rastatt, an education Association for schools Pupils.
