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Paolo Pilotti

Paolo Pilotti lives and works in Rome, where he was born in 1982. Pilotti Is an Italian painter of Italian art groups “New Pop” and “Italian Newborn”.At the age of 3,he picked up his first colouring crayon, with his left hand and hasn’t stopped colouring since. His innate passion for art has guided him throughout his education: after his highschool diploma at Art school, he went on to achieve a Master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, in Painting, with his final thesis on the Anatomy.Over the years, his work has been on display in several personal exhibits, as well as group exhibits in various art galleries accross Italy.

Paolo Pilotti’s art is a carnival of colours, a jamboree of sparkling shades. When there isn’t full nudity, lurex, latex and a precious selection of embroidered fabrics transform the art pieces in a shimmering parade that astonishes the eye of the observer, leaving mouths wide open in amazement and instilling a bizarre desire to touch.Pilotti has a skilled hand, which serves a flashy immagination.

The anatomy remains the focal point of his work and the human body becomes an inexhaustible source of compositions, sometimes pushed to the limit, which implies a conflict between beauty, tradition and the human anatomy itself. Botox lips for brawny Marvel comic heroes, masculine faces on voluptous bodies, adult heads on infant bodies. Pilotti’s surgical aesthetic flaunts hyperbolic beauty pushed to the extreme and driven beyond the beauty standards of traditional figurative art, but perfectly part of the era which we live in, ruled by the dogma of the “filler”.There is a striking conflict in his work, extended on two levels: the first, visual, more related to the image, to the signifier of the work of art itself.The second level, relates to the underlying message, intrinsic in its meaning, but oxymorically glossed.In every single piece, Pilotti tells a different story and at the same time maintains his very personal morality unaltered: the need for bilateral art and opposing concepts in the contempory society he lives in.

 

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Moisés Yagües

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Moises Yagues was born in Murcia, Spain in 1972. A self-taught artist, he has studied a variety of techniques from painting to printmaking and film. He is one of the resident artists at “la Persiana Naranja”, an art and studio space in Murcia. Now a master printer, he has exhibited his work in several European countries. His latest work comments on the very controversial issue of immigration and the arbitrary nature of borders.

Moisés Yagües imagines the interior of the human head and body as a place where stories take place, where ideas come to life and take literal meaning. His cartoonish characters, full of energy and tenderness, already cause smiles all around the world due to his exhibitions in Germany, Mexico, Chile, China, the United States and Japan, to name a few.

His admiration for the great masters appears in ‘Parallel Universes’ through two recreations of works by Mark Rothko and Pierre Mondrian, intervened by his recurring “helpers” who, with their rollers, ladders, scaffolding and paint buckets, strive to finish the art piece. These tiny characters also appear populating a game of Tetris, to which they help to bring order.

His figuration of surreal situations and schematic characters finds its influences in comics, illustration, pop art and street art, among others. He continues his search of the freest creation and a completely personal universe, with a fresh and carefree style, a well-established iconography and a desire to tell stories that has also led him to a facet as an illustrator of books for children and adults. He has also been the recipient of various awards and scholarships such as the Casa Falconieri in Italy or the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, and artistic residencies in China, Romania, Slovenia, Italy and Germany.

 

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Jisbar

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Born in 1989, Jisbar is a young raising “pop street artist”. Surrounded by art and by the world of skate-parks since an early age, he combines his two passions by exulting his creativity. He draws his inspiration from fashion, music, pop art, the underground style of the world of skateboard and all the motifs displayed on the streets. 

Through a myriad of colors, he spreads a punk style and a sort of pictorial freedom. The artist approaches with irony the references of the pop culture. Under his prism, society meddles in his canvases and shows another face. Jisbar freezes, what he calls, “moments of life”…. an ode to a past time or a taste for nostalgia, his works emit an indescribable force. Such force engenders by an instinctive gesture in order to extract the essence of the creative spontaneity and of a defunct society. 

Jisbar has doen several exhibitions in France, the United States and Sweden. The artist focuses in creating in situ works, in a relationship concordance relationship between the place, the architecture and the public. 

 

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Gemma Holzer

Through the use of childlike imagery, artist Gemma Holzer reflects upon the universal emergence into adulthood and the interpersonal relationships we hold with one another. Her work reveals the collective loneliness that resonates in our post digital age.

Gemma makes large scale paintings that use brightly colored acrylic and oil on canvas. The paintings have a vibrant and flat quality that mimic the online realm. Her art is a transposition of digital drawings into physical painting. Flat, and profoundly still, the images exist as vacuums of time. These overly saturated scenes suggest memories of youth.Her work explores themes concerning interpersonal relationships, loneliness and reality, through the use of childlike imagery. The paintings are an escape from reality; the intention being to take the viewer into a make-believe virtual world.Gemma’s work revolves around a fetus-like character named PinkBoy, who inhabits worlds appropriated from existing cartoon imagery. PinkBoy is a self-portrait; a personal avatar; a depiction of childhood. He is placed within the artificial worlds to consider issues around being human in today’s age.

 

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Cane

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Riccardo Nannini aka Cane comes from a working-class family in Toscana.While studying for his bachelor’s degree in design at the University of Milan, he often participated in street sit-ins and protests, which led to the creation of a wave of street art. He contacted with many famous street artists (Bros、Abbominevole、Ozmo), joined Antonio Colombo Gallery and became a new contemporary artist in Milan. He began to experiment with street art until the end of his educational career in 2006, when he decided to devote himself to the field of design. For three years he worked as an assistant to designer Andrea Incontri and was a teaching assistant at the Milan Polytechnic University. 

The year 2009 was an eventful year in his life. Due to his partner’s health problems and his professional career, he moved from Milan to London and then to Barcelona. What started as a tragedy turned into an opportunity to face a new life. He began to think about the issues he had encountered throughout his life: freedom of will, human nature and social pressure, and in the following years, Nannini left the field of design and entered the art-descriptive underground, working with several local artists, magazines and galleries. He lived frugally and took the time to redefine his creative style and narrative abilities.