Category: ARTISTS

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Chun Wu Liang

Chun Wu Liang’s paintings possess a distinctive style, marked by a refined, luminous quality filled with mystery and depth. His art has received high praise from Camilo José Cela, the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish writer, who described Liang’s work as “feathers soaked in light and shadow.” Cela remarked that his art soars with peaceful lines across the canvas, intricate yet mystical, while allowing viewers to grasp its essence. This delicate balance lies at the core of Liang’s artistic philosophy, where he employs subtle and precise techniques to create tension between reality, abstraction, and the figurative.

Unlike traditional nude portraits, the women in Liang’s paintings are not passive objects of observation or subjects of the gaze; rather, they are active storytellers. Liang does not use professional models, preserving a sense of innocence and natural spirit in his work—an artistic goal he has pursued throughout his life. In his painting, women are not merely images but symbols of emotion and thought, reflecting qualities of purity, nobility, and romance. 

 

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Gerard Mas

Gerard Mas was born in 1976 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona, Spain. He studied sculpture and stone carving at the Llotja Art School in Barcelona from 1998 to 2001. He later completed specialized training in sculpture restoration and conservation at the Escola Superior de Conservació i Restauració de Béns Culturals de Catalunya in Barcelona, graduating in 1998.

Mas’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by his early career as a restorer. His works, characterized by a realistic and figurative language, appear to align with academic traditions but are infused with irony and visual poetry. Depending on the needs of each piece, he employs a wide range of techniques, including stone carving, wood carving, colored resin, ceramics, and bronze. Through these materials, he frequently revisits events and themes from art history, reinterpreting them with a contemporary perspective. In his unique universe, imagined Renaissance noblewomen, fictional classical sculptures, and mythologized depictions of domestic animals coexist harmoniously.

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Baku Maeda

Born in 1974 in Sapporo, Baku Maeda graduated from the Economics Department of Hokkai-Gakuen University. In 2005, he became an independent freelance illustrator. In 2003, he joined the Japan-London 8-member illustration group “GOBACK2D.”

He incorporates broader, more conceptual thinking into his illustration work, whether in two-dimensional or three-dimensional forms. In recent years, he has focused on ribbon art through “Ribbonesia,” giving new life to inorganic paper figures through techniques such as bending and twisting.

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Yasuhito Kawasaki

Kawasaki Yasushi believes that from birth, we interact with people who share similar characteristics with us, such as parents, siblings, or relatives. As a result, we develop a subconscious recognition of familiar faces, perceiving them as similar to our own. He notes that it is common for people to think that pets resemble their owners or that couples grow to look alike over time, seeing this as a natural psychological phenomenon.

In his artworks, Kawasaki often creates portraits that carry his own features. He sees this as a subconscious process rather than a deliberate attempt to imitate a specific subject, and thus refers to these works as “self-portraits.” Regardless of whether the subject appears male or female, he believes these works reflect his own projection and are not bound by gender.

After getting married, Kawasaki began to observe the subtle dynamics of a two-person relationship. These observations inspired his creations, exploring the processes of mutual acceptance and influence within the smallest social unit of a couple.

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Marina

Marina, born in Hokkaido, Japan, focuses her artistic creations on women’s lifestyles, a theme she has named “Venus Eye.” This concept stems from her upbringing in a family centered around her mother and aunts and is deeply connected to her experiences as a mother. Additionally, her passion for the traditional festivals of Esashi in Hokkaido and her yearning for the sea have further inspired her work.

“Venus Eye” represents a divine perspective, akin to that of a goddess gazing down upon the world, capturing the beauty of both reality and fantasy. Her artworks uniquely portray women, illustrating their seamless transitions between the realms of fiction and reality, creating an aesthetic that is both authentic and transcendent.

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Dylan Gill

Gill was born into a large, boisterous working-class family, where he grew up in an environment where “you had to shout to be heard.” He found a way to express himself through painting, with art becoming a form of meditation that helped him process the surrounding world’s clamor. Gill integrates his work into the realm of “Cubism,” and we can see how his creations extend and expand an ongoing artistic dialogue, exploring the fractures and contradictions in how we think about meaning, existence, and identity following the emergence of Modernism.

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Shih Siao-Mo

Born in 1972 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Shi Siao-Mo is a contemporary artist currently based in Taipei. She has devoted herself to creating large-scale abstract paintings with thematic depth. Her work spans across fields such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, science, medicine, and geology, supported by theoretical literature, delving deeply into the exploration of human “consciousness.”

Siao-mo’s art is not merely about visual presentation; each stroke carries a profound analysis of the issues she addresses, reflecting on the complex and multifaceted social behaviors of humanity. Whether through her paintings, installations, photography, or videos, she blends a sensuous and dynamic idea with rigorous conceptual reasoning.

 

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Carlos Tárdez

Spanish artist Carlos Tárdez graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Both his paintings and sculptures are a constant pursuit of technical perfection, which he combines with humor, satire, and puns. Therefore, in many cases, he has resorted to animals and mythology to express feelings and situations found in our contemporary society. His work blends a figurative pictorial tradition with elements of current language.

In his latest series, the language of graffiti appears on his recognizable neutral backgrounds, a two-dimensional and direct language which contrasts with the reality represented in his painting. The void and defined space, the gaze and iconographic and mythological symbols continue to be the guiding thread of Carlos Tárdez’s work. A scenario in which he develops an enigmatic narrative with a hint of inconsistency or incorrectness that invites interpretation by the viewer.

Since his beginnings, he has received numerous awards, among which we can highlight his three Medals of Honor in the BMW Painting Prize, received in 2010, 2018, and 2021. His work is part of recognized collections and he is becoming a regular participant in international art fairs.

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María Cobas

Maria Cobas lives in the United States, Denmark, and Italy. At a very young age, she demonstrates interest and aptitude towards the arts. She studies architecture between EUAT A Coruña and Vitus Vering, Denmark. After working as an architect for five years, she decides to dedicate herself exclusively to the arts. Maria makes several individual and collective exhibitions and participates at art fairs such as Urvanity Art Fair Spain and Drawing Room Madrid, Spain. Her work nowadays is part of many private collections.
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Maria’s works is a dialogue between surrealism and metaphor, making also an allusion to the dreamcore. Maria Cobas present through it a woman who inhabits a technocapitalist society characterized by the acceleration of the rhythm of life, where time is not longer now but tomorrow. Maria Cobas uses the hybrid human-animal as a metaphor to talk about the constant change in society. She makes a reflection about human values and how hiperindividualism affects us. And she also interested in the relationship between individuals, nature, and technology.

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Mads Rafte Hein

Mads Rafte Hein lives in Roskilde and works in Copenhagen. He has achieved the title of Graphic Designer from Copenhagen Technical College in the Graphic department. In addition, he has been taught by renowned artists such as Grethe Bagge, Bjørn Poulsen, Peter Carlsen and Peter Nansen Scherfig.He has exhibited in Germany and participated in several different exhibitions in Denmark, including at Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition three times and the Artists’ Autumn Exhibition one time. His works are found in many private collections and in art associations.

His works focus on presenting a broad range of interiors, done in a style that is specific to his oeuvre. He is very comfortable creating rooms filled with decorations, still, lifes bursting with details and arrangements brimming with pastel colors. To elevate his body of work further, he decided to experiment with the “outside”. The new paintings are now also getaways to the natural world, the environment away from the “four walls”, Mother Nature in its full bloom. The artist takes his inspiration all over visual culture, starting with photography, golden age paintings, collages and books, to videos and old movies. Looking for a revelation in a process, but always a fruitful one. Therefore, the landscapes by Rafte Hein are a blend of culture together with nature. “His recent paintings are colorful and vibrant, with a common theme of bright pink, yellow and turquoise. They are infused with contrast – mixing objects, scenes and even centuries. His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Denmark.