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INTERVIEW | Wei Ting Chen

INTERVIEW | Wei Ting Chen

Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, he uses a lot of childhood memories and symbolic figures such as teddy bears, antique toys, intuitive graffiti drawings, costume characters, and so on. With a background in literature, his painting started as diary recordings, which tend to be in a written form. In order to seek more opportunities for exchange with artists and new projects, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.

INTERVIEW | Annet Katan

INTERVIEW | Annet Katan

Ukrainian-born Annet Katan is a photographer and designer currently based in San Francisco, United States. Annet believes that there is always room for improvement and growth. She is pursuing her dreams and looking forward to learning to explore and inspire others on their journeys. Her series Abstract Colorscapes was conceived during the Covid-19 lockdown as a depiction of landscapes she had previously seen.

INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

Pavel Korbička is a Czech artist, currently living and working in Brno. Korbička exploits each creative impulse down to the minutest detail and is able to bring his message across with the use of the most economical devices, his idiom conveying an experience of great intensity. He works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies.

INTERVIEW | A Young Lee

INTERVIEW | A Young Lee

A Young Lee is a visual artist based in Seoul, Korea. She is interested in language, communication, and emotions. Her works use a typography and new language she created. Through the concept of concealment, Lee opens a conversation and suggests that viewers discuss and think about her works in their own ways. She doesn't want her viewers to have certain answers for her works.

INTERVIEW | Jerry Helle

INTERVIEW | Jerry Helle

Jerry Helle is a 22-year old Cameroonian artist, currently based between Germany, Cameroon, the USA and Portugal. His work represents contrasting value systems, the dynamics of his family’s history, postcolonial theories. Working primarily with abstract painting as the deliberate reduction to the essential, Helle depicts an understanding of his physical, spiritual, and emotional reality.

INTERVIEW | Rick Bogacz

INTERVIEW | Rick Bogacz

Rick Bogacz is a landscapes and street photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by painters such as Edward Hopper and Canadian Christopher Pratt, Rick’s images will show lone figures walking through the frame or standing alone contemplating their surroundings. Other photographs will emphasize the natural elements themselves but in a solitary way.

INTERVIEW | Alan Lacke

INTERVIEW | Alan Lacke

Alan Lacke is a Cuban artist, currently based in Madrid, Spain. His art is based mainly on scientific information, mathematical laws, cosmic energies, and history. He uses the simplest elements to represent his ideas, and colors are essential to convey sensations to those contemplating the paintings.

INTERVIEW | Oleg Tsyba

INTERVIEW | Oleg Tsyba

Oleg Tsyba is a Russian artist and doctor. He started creating his artworks four years ago, and since then, painting has become his main passion. In his artworks, Oleg explores the form in its primary manifestation. Most often, the subject of his work is ancient mythology. These themes are always relevant to Humanity - they tell us about love, sex, passion, and death. And they inspire Oleg to create.

INTERVIEW | Oxana Kovalchuk

INTERVIEW | Oxana Kovalchuk

Oxana Kovalchuk is an artist from Kazakhstan, currently living and working in New York/New Jersey. Oxana's body of work "Making Fools Pray To God" metamorphoses Christian saints from her private arsenal into contemporary 'deities' revered by the masses, people at large, under new guises. She sees that the spiritual 'links' today have an equivalent in the 'realities' provided us through digital screens.

INTERVIEW | Chao Wang

INTERVIEW | Chao Wang

Originally from Hangzhou, China, Chao Wang is an artist who now works from New York. Her works are characterized by the presence of both organic and artificial elements, in a fusion that explores the human relationship with technology. Chao Wang is interested in how human-being interact with an increasingly technological society, exploring this through intriguing motifs.

INTERVIEW | Jim Green

INTERVIEW | Jim Green

Jim Green is an American artist, working primarily with digital art. He treats the computer mouse as a paint brush and pencil and the computer screen as a blank canvas to create virtual paintings that brings into question the value of traditional painting versus digital mark-making, particularly at a time when so much art is being produced using technological and printing processes.

INTERVIEW | Nina Stopar

INTERVIEW | Nina Stopar

Nina Stopar is a Slovenian artist. As a teacher of 5Rhythms she believes that movement is the gateway to creativity, abstraction, and the artistic self. Nina explores abstraction as the dance of intuition of body in motion. A dancing body is the purest and strongest form of perception. It inhabits the truth that arises from in it. Therefore, art created through the embodied practice of movement, as 5Rhythms dance, is subversive.

INTERVIEW | DINO Ahmad Ali

INTERVIEW | DINO Ahmad Ali

DINO Ahmad Ali is a Syrian artist currently based in France. His work focuses on two main elements: the interactive relation between the artwork and the audience and the human eye's visual capabilities. His new project, Interactive Colours, focuses on the material and its color to produce interactive optical illusion artworks formed by three colors: blue, red, and yellow.

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

INTERVIEW | Dipo Doherty

Dipo Doherty is a Nigerian artist based in Lagos. As an artist, engineer, and entrepreneur, he seeks to define a vocabulary in his work that unites his African heritage and scientific background. Doherty has interpreted the human anatomy in his own ideology, increasing its dimensionality in abstraction in his paintings, while expanding his visual language to other forms of media that reference socio-economic issues.

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

INTERVIEW | Olga Shcheblykina

Olga Shcheblykina (1986) is a visual artist currently based in Steyr (Austria). Her main media are painting, installation and photography. She is exploring themes of sensitivity, vulnerability, corporeality and feminism. Living the experience of isolation and changes in the world around me in 2020, she explored suppressed and hidden emotions and manifested sensitivity.

INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado

INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado

Fernando Madera Alvarado is a Mexican artist. His work is mostly composed of bidimensional surfaces: paper of all sorts, canvases, walls, or wood panels. For the last couple of years, his work has been focused on acrylic ink compositions. He also works with digital software to modify his ink sketches and compile them for use on larger compositions.

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

INTERVIEW | Alejandro Áboli

Alejandro Áboli is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer and The RedLine is his debut as an artist. Combining reality with fiction, Áboli reduces images to their simplest forms to capture the delicate relationship between real and imaginary worlds. The Redline photos catch the viewer’s eye using a contemporary theme and creating a comfortable ambiguity between reality and fantasy and spiced with a touch of humor.

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

INTERVIEW | Marcel Schwittlick

Marcel Schwittlick is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. With his work, he is examining the cybernetic aspects of generative systems and modern technology. He is interested in digital culture, its influence on society, and chances for alternative types of communication. He is working in strong connection to various practices, forging a relationship between physical and digital media, traditional and modern approaches.

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

INTERVIEW | BACCA - Benjamin Baccarani

Also known as Bacca, Benjamin Baccarani is a French artist. Bacca's work is a junction between photography and contemporary painting. He strives to transcend the materiality of photographs to make them more performative for the viewer. He works essentially with traditional photography and collage. He feels the need to salvage the images he captures as well as the ones he finds on billboards, subway ads, and old magazines.

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip

Kyle Yip is a Canadian, JUNO Award-Nominated hypersurrealist artist internationally recognized for his highly accurate creations of original visual art, electronic music, and films from his dreams. Yip's paintings are highly accurate creations from an ongoing series envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. The series explores the Gestalt and spirit of art vicariously through Yip's dreams.