Un muro en Manhattan

Ciudad de México 1966 He studied drawing, design and painting at the Istituto per l ́Arte e il Restauro, Florence, Italy. He has a degree in Graphic Design from the Anahuac Universi...

The medium he uses for the creation of his works is very particular, since it uses a technique composed of composite medium (plaster), acrylics, inks and various materials on canva...

The medium he uses for the creation of his works is very particular, since it uses a technique composed of composite medium (plaster), acrylics, inks and various materials on canva...

Félix Beltrán was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1938, he is currently a Mexican citizen by birth. In 1956, he traveled to the United States of America, where he graduated from both the School of Visual Arts and the American Art School, both located in New York. Likewise, he studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He was a fellow of the New School for Social Research, New York, the Graphic Art Center-Pratt Institute, New York, and the Council for International Exchanges of Scholars, Washington, D.C. He is the author of 4 books and his articles and interviews have been published nationally and internationally. About his work, 3 books have been published. He has received l37 awards in various events, among which is the National Order for his contribution to culture, conferred by the Council of State of Cuba. He has received three Honoris Causa Doctorates: from the International University Foundation, Delaware and from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí; likewise, he is Honoray Doctor in Letters from the International Biographical Center, Cambridge. He has participated as a jury in I2I national and international events. He is included in yearbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias such as, among others: Incursions into Cuban Engraving, Havana, Cuban Art of the 20th century, Los Angeles, Annuaire de L’Art International, Paris, Dictionary of Plastic Arts, Havana, Personaggi Contemporanei, Milan, Who's Who in Graphic Arts, Zürich, International Profiles, Cambridge, Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexicon, Berlin, Personalities of the World, Raleigh, Who's Who in Art, London, Who’s Who in American Art, New York, Dizionario del Grafico, Milan, Who’s Who in the World, New York and the Encyclopedie de L’Affiche, Paris. Since 1963, he was a professor at the Escuela de Instructores de Arte, Havana, Escuela Nacional de Arte, Havana, as well as one of the founders and professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana. He is currently a full professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, where he is a Distinguished Professor. He is the founder and curator of the Artis Gallery, of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City. Among his most outstanding students are Jorge Carol, Nelson Domínguez, Roberto Fabelo, Erique Martínez, Manuel Monroy, Pedro Pablo Oliva, Tomás Sánchez, among others. In 1967 he participated in the collective mural that was part of the activities of the Salon de Mai à Paris exhibition held in Havana together with artists such as Valerio Adami, Karel Appel, Cesar Baldaccini, Corneille Beverloo...

The dynamics of transformation is a driving concept and process behind Biagi’s work, in particular, the transformative power of coating everyday objects with layers of viscous tar. With his series of round paintings, the transformative power of tar is explored on its own terms, as the singular materiality of painting. While on one level the minimal yet richly textured tar forms conjure dark themes like voids or black holes, they simultaneously invoke the opposite, their perfect geometric circularity referencing solid presence, totality, and completion. Mattia Biagi was born in northern Italy in 1974 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. After working under the tutelage of Giulio Cappellini for 11 years, Biagi departed for Los Angeles to launch his career. During a chance encounter with some black tar oozing from the ground at the La Brea Tar Pits...

Graffiti street art painting. Acrylic on canvas.

just a runaway (150x116cm) - Filipe Real Marinheiro About Filipe Real Marinheiro (b.1990, Portugal) Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal...

Exuberantly colorful, symmetric colleges with ovoid shapes, called emissaries, originate from another cosmic dimension. We are troubled by the unsettling apprehension that they may b...