Can you tell us a bit about you and your artistic vision? My name is Armin Eßert, better known as an artist under the pseudonym “Nasca 1” or “Nasca Uno”. I was born in Munich in 1992 and have been living and working in Berlin for three years as a freelance artist and illustrator. I mainly work with painting: on…
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How did you find your voice as an artist? Despite always having a strong inclination for the arts, at only 38 years old in 1998, I met the masters Ronald Simon and Dulce Osinski, who saw the potential of my ideas and encouraged me to pursue my own language. The freedom to produce in the Alfredo Andersen Museum’s Painting Studio…
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Could you briefly describe yourself and the approach in your artistic work? Life is art, my art is my life. You studied in China and are now living in NYC – how does your origine influence your work? The origine influences deeply affect my art works until now. The origine influence to my art works was from Europe. My first…
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Please introduce yourself to us! Born in 1984, I am a Tokyo-based Japanese painter. I received my MFA in Fine Art from Tama Art University in Tokyo. By using traditional Japanese painting materials, my current theme is to depict the landscape of my mind and the nature of its existence. I have held solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Kyoto, Helsinki and…
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Peter Horvath is a Canadian multimedia and collage artist, whose unique collages manipulate and rework imagery from popular culture. Horvath’s digital collage work references both fine art and mass media. For example, his series ‘Lines and Vectors’ is inspired by Alexander Calder’s famous mobile sculptures, but Horvath juxtaposes these lines and vectors with images from 20th century advertising to create…
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Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am a Berlin-based artist, born in St. Petersburg, Russia. I finished both, my bachelor and master studies in Fine Arts, at the UdK (University for Arts in Berlin). I studied under Georg Baselitz and Daniel Richter. I’ve been exhibiting since 2002 all over Europe, in the USA, and in Russia. Why…
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What is your artistic singularity? Light and vision have been important themes running through my work for almost two decades. I push my paintings to the limits of visibility in order to get people to see something in a whole new way. For instance, I made a series of white on white paintings that would appear under ultraviolet lights. Later,…
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Can you tell us a bit about you? I lived for many years in the southernmost county of New Jersey, a largely rural, flat, coastal area that is almost 60% water and home to the City of Cape May, the country’s oldest seaside resort. I have always been drawn to the peculiar seasonal pulse of the coast, which varies daily…
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How did you find your voice as an artist? As a child I loved drawing and creating things so I have always had an artistic voice of sorts. I left my job in media when I was 40, took a year off, did up my London flat and went to art college. After that I gradually built up a body…
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You worked many years as a classical music composer. How did you come to art? I have always been drawing. Before I started studying music at university I felt torn between following studies in fine art or music composition. Whilst working on my doctorate I became increasingly aware of how the music I was writing was a visual thing in…
