Ricardo Nunes’ Places of Disquiet

At the age of 21 Ricardo Nunes explored the historically overwhelming center of  Lisbon for the first time on his own.

The last two years he travelled several times through Portugal, following “old memories of places he might have been” – places he visited with his parents to spend time with distant relatives.

He is showing us how important feelings are that we connect to pictures which we form out of blurry memories – “a simultaneity of foreignness and familiarity”.

“The loneliness that overcomes me in Portugal still has no release.” – Ricardo Nunes

www.ricardonunes.de

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It’s summer, it’s hot, it’s Hilo Chen

Hilo Chen is a Taiwanese-American painter and is known for his erotic photorealistic paintings.

He studied Architectural Engineering, Chung Yien College, Taiwan and had multiple solo and selected group exhibitions all over the world.

His work is in major museum collections throughout the world. Currently presented by Bernaducci Meisel Gallery.

Josh Keyes – One thing is clear, the world has changed

above, Roaming Woods
20″x34″, acrylic on birch panel, 2013

“The variety of animals and odd creatures I have created over the years began to ask where do we come from, what is our story?”

Treadmill
24″x30″, acrylic on canvas, 2006

His work has been described as “a satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and encroach on our rural surroundings.”

Entangle II
30″x40″, acrylic on panel, 2009

“One thing is clear, the world has changed…“. And so did Josh Keyes’ illustrations.
They once were reminiscent of the diagrammatic representation found in scientific textbook illustrations that often express through a detached and clinical viewpoint of an empirical representation of the natural world.

Above and Below I
40″x30″, acrylic on panel, 2012

The apocalyptic taste, the satirical look is not gone, but its simple illustration is replaced by more nature, more landscape, more surrounding.

Roaming Woods
24″x20″, acrylic on panel, 2013

The happenings now take place in the world we think to know. The protagonists in this illustrations move more freely through the woods, the streets and the sky. The sculpturesqueness and the simplicity change to complexity.
The Old Ones is the first installment of The Far Side of the World.

The Messengers
12″x20”, acrylic on birch panel, 2014

www.joshkeyes.net
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Albín Brunovský’s surrealistic illustrations

Albín Brunovský was a Slovak painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and considered one of the greatest Slovak painters of the 20th century. He died in January 1997 in Bratislava, Slovakia

The Hložník School, where he studied under Prof. Vincent Hložník from 1955 to 1961, was known for its high artistic and technical preparation in graphic arts.
1981 he was appointed as a professor, creating his own engraving school.

Tri Princezne V Belasej Skale (Bratislava: Mladé letá, 1972), owns the title of being the “most disturbing children’s book of all time.” It has about ten full-color plates and countless black/white/green illustrations.

Oil paintings by Christiane Vleugels

Each new painting unveils a certain aspect and makes it clear to me that I have chosen the right path in life.

A life in which I have yet to learn and give so much.

This is why none of my paintings carry a certain message or political statement.
The sole purpose of my work is to tempt people to dream.
There is nothing I love more than to move my audience to ecstasy by allowing them a peek into my fantasy.

This is why I gladly invite you all to take a look at my gallery.
‘Welcome to my world!’

– Christiane Vleugels