Sculpture

Naoki Okada | Installation

Naoki Okada | Installation

Born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1992. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design, 2018. Graduated from the master’s program in New Media at the Tokyo University of The Arts graduate school of Film and New Media,2020. The production of okada Naoki is performed with reference to nausea as classical aesthetics and absurd literature such as Kafka and Camus. Behind the expression is the overwhelming reality of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, and he is interested in how to deal with events beyond human understanding. Those are returned to themes with absurdity such as disasters, accidents, and coexistence with others. His work traverses various media such as images, CG animation, technology, sculpture, dolls, etc., which are constructed to expose the absurdities of the human world as installations and confront viewers as absolute others. To do.

Braun & Braunschweig | Installation

Braun & Braunschweig | Installation

The artist duo “Braun und Braunschweig” consists of the photographer Steve Braun and the painter Federico Braunschweig. Their collaboration started around 2017 in Nuremberg where they both studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. In their work they shift the meaning of ideologic and religious symbols to reimagine the aesthetics of the sacral. Using a kaleidoscope of media ranging from traditional crafts such as pottery to VHS video tape, religious forms get altered to a point where their original intentions become unclear. From this state of uncertainty the possibilities of Religion and Transcendence can be explored newly. Steve Braun an Federico Braunschweig mainly exhibit their work as solo artist but exhibited as a duo twice to date. Their collaboration is ongoing.

Ronald Gonzalez | Sculpture

Ronald Gonzalez  | Sculpture

Ronald Gonzalez is a contemporary figurative artist based in upstate New York. Since the mid seventies the artist has worked from his garage studio creating elegiac sculptures and installations that are embodiments of death and loss infused with grotesque narrative, and pathos. Gonzalez works primarily in a series with steel armatures and macabre collections of time worn objects, and detritus from his surroundings. The work is then further eroded with metal filings, burned wax, glue, wire, and black soot creating a dramatic tonal range that both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic heads, torsos and figures that appear as charred fetishistic mementos possessing a visceral quality imbued with a sense of primal energy and distress that permeates his work. His obsessive production of angst-ridden sculptures explore the emotive, social, and psychological associations of decaying found objects that function as autobiographical metaphors charged with potent and recurring symbols with childhood and nostalgic references. Gonzalez’s sculpture is mournful, confrontational, and estranged, standing on the border between human personage and doomed phantom. His restless investigation of animating materials has produced an art of dissolution with archaic, apocalyptic, and quasi-alien elements that convey an animistic mode of thought and intensely evocative expression of the human condition.

Gianni Lucchesi | Sculpture

Gianni Lucchesi | Sculpture

Gianni Lucchesi was born in Pisa in 1965 where he lives and works. He is a painter, sculptor and designer. He has made important public works by installing large iron sculptures, a material that he prefers for his symbolic value. For paintings he frequently uses materials according to the concept of the work, often putting in relation chemical solutions that are incompatible with each other. He has designed and produced museum, theater and cinema sets. In 2002 he created the "Opus" installation at the Roncerey abbey in Angers in France. In 2006 he received the Cisdac international prize for contemporary art. In 2012 he exhibited at the international biennial of contemporary art in Casablanca.From 2016 to 2019 he exhibited at the Museo della Follia curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. This year he created the "Markandeya" installation for Andrea Bocelli's theater of silence curated by Alberto Bartalini and Carlo Alberto Arzela.

Vasya Dmytryk | Sculpture

Vasya Dmytryk  | Sculpture

Vasya Dmytryk was born in 1991 and graduated from the Grekov Art School in Odesa, Ukraine. Vasya works in the fields of public art, sculptures, and installations.
In his artistic practice, he uses recycled and discarded materials, wood, metal, stone, styrofoam, and composites. In his sculptures, Vasya blurs boundaries between flatness
and dimensionality, formalism and conceptualism. Dmytryk's pieces thread figuration and abstraction, they nevertheless recall classical figurative traditions across a range of cultures and historical periods.