Pop art is a mid century genre inspired by commercial and popular culture, first materialising as a diverse response to the postwar era’s commodity-driven values. As with all movements today’s Pop Art has certainly evolved to include philosophical and elusive concepts, such as beauty standards, history and relationships as well as new and varied techniques to communciate it's themes.
Featuring:
Johnny Romeo
Jisbar
Paolo Pilotti
Mikael Takacs
Talita Barbosa
Distorted, subjective and completely reinterpreted. Figurative art makes clear references to reality - no matter how wildly or weirdly the subject is presented. Here, we share a selection of represented artists who filter their perception of the everyday, punctuating it with the question, fact or figurative?
'Stillness reveals the secrets of an eternity' - Lao Tzu. The frenetic pace of modern life means we often forget to sit still and observe; both our inner and outer worlds. Fortunately, these artists have taken the lead for us in their contemplation of inanimate objects and places, providing us with a subject to concentrate our attention on and cultivate our stillness. Come and see this curation of Still Life works and exhale...
Ivan Montana describes art as being entirely mental; a pure reflection of thought, an emotional, pre-verbal, deep, sensual experience, which goes beyond the truth, a leap into the void that is loaded with complex discoveries and encounters. Guided by the spontaneity of gesture, Montana uses brushstrokes, the path of the strokes, marked cardboard, organic forms, stains and scratches to create his artworks and narrate a dialogue with memory.