Giovanni Motta Giovanni Motta and his success in the NFT @The Cryptonomist Giovanni Motta, born in 1971, is an artist from Verona. For Giovanni, making art is necessary, fun and healing at the same time. During our interview, he himself defined his passion as follows: “Making art is the only way I know how to express my vision of the world and of the human being; the only medium that allows me to express myself freely without restraints and limits”. For the artist, art is the only blank canvas ready to accommodate his ideas and emotions, the only universal language where all people can confront each other and take refuge without barriers. Read More

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錨點 1 Luisa Mè Duo since 2016 Luisa Mè (Luca Colagiacomo (b. 1990, Milan, Italy) and Francesco Pasquini (b. 1991, Pesaro, Italy)) is a duo of London-based Italian artists who have collaborated since 2016 and were educated at the Accademia di Belli Arti di Urbino, Italy (2011-2015). WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES As an artist duo that makes paintings and sculpture, Luisa Mè engages with themes of human existence and psychology in their work, concentrating on the dark side of the human condition, as seen through their own subjective experiences. Despite the visual seduction, their evocative body of work copes with debased and wretched human qualities, aiming to divulge potent emotions and heartfelt psychological fears. Compositionally, the pictorial plane of Luisa Mè’s paintings is dominated by expressive renderings of figurative or anthropomorphic forms in a vibrant, polychromatic palette. The freshness and originality of their compositions reveal, at closer look, a deep knowledge and respect of the Italian aesthetic tradition. An overwhelming energy transforms apparently peaceful situations into virtual struggles that force the figures into unnatural and painful contortions that are also visible in their curvaceous sculptural practice. From the purple of a hematoma to a spiky high heel, from the spread legs of a human to the beak of a tropical bird, Luisa Mè employs motifs that flutter between sexual pleasure and beauty and something more sinister and psychologically painful. Recent solo exhibitions include those at National Gallery of Marche, Urbino, Italy (2019), Union Gallery, London (2019), Her Gallery, London (2018) and T293, Rome (2017). Luisa Mè attended an artist residency at Bocs in Cosenze, Italy in 2018. Luisa Mè is represented by T293 in Rome. 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITIONS DSC03973.jpg DSC03907.jpg ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Nov10 - Nov 13 2022 West Bund Art & Design 2022 Nov10 - Nov 13 2022

錨點 1 Devra Fox b.1 WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES ARTWORKS 錨點 2 EXHIBITION 錨點 3 DSC03388的新.jpg Null Protocol Oct 7 - Nov 4 2022

錨點 1 Hilary Doyle b. 1985 Hilary Doyle lives and works in New York, USA and graduated with honours from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. The artist has said, “Focusing on the conditions in which people live helps us examine the rituals, psychology and emotions of daily life.” WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES Artist Talk: ​ I was inspired by my grandmother who was a hobby painter and by classes I took at a local art museum as a child. Sometimes I think a vocation like making art chooses you. I am first inspired by observations while walking or traveling and make sketches on walks and trips to work from. I am researching ancient matriarchal societies and mythologies surrounding powerful women. I see medusa from greek mythology for example as a metaphor for society’s curse on women to juggle so many roles and expectations at once. ​ I see fruit as symbolic in many ways as a reference to the story of adam and eve, and a fresh start after a bitter pandemic. I have been collecting objects and cloths with fruit patterns on them to paint from. I want to present archetypes of strong women - characters that question societal gender roles. I see Grandma Walking at Dawn as a painting about triumph and perseverance. Sophie Menade who is a character in some of the paintings is a wise storyteller from Monique Whittig’s French feminist 1969 novel “Les Guérillères”. As in the paintings she recombines symbols and mythological stories in new ways to tell a new story of a matriarchal society. ​ ​ I am really excited to have my work on view in Shanghai alongside so many great artists in a space run and curated by a creative woman gallerist. I visited Shanghai 3 years ago and found it to be inspirational: as a place that is at once futuristic feeling (imagining the future is the first step to imagining a better future) and full of wonderful contemporary art in museums and galleries. I remember a building sign that read “Dream Big you are in Shanghai” and love the idea that it’s a place where dreams become a reality. 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITION 0X0A9895.jpg The Fiction July 11 - Aug 11, 2021

錨點 1 Ana Barriga b.1984 WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITION 0X0A8432.jpg Hidden Message Nov 10 - Dec 12, 2021

​Andrés Lozano Chen Jiupi Erkut Terliksiz Jiang Taoyue Liu Lin Yokoteen Oct 09 2021 - Oct 31 2021 ​Self Delivery INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS Liu Lin Erkut Terliksiz 4的副本.jpg 截屏2021-07-20 下午3.01.47的副本.png 《到底谁高贵？》 61cmX90cm 布面油画 2020 2.jpg WechatIMG17192_副本.jpg flower-power-1_副本.png WechatIMG7204的副本.jpeg Jiang Taoyue ​Chen Jiupi Andrés Lozano Yokoteen We are pleased to present ourfourth exhibition since the opening of Gallery Func, which, as always, explores the relationship between modern painting, contemporary image production and the inner logic of emotion through the work of the artists.The exhibition brings together graphic paintings by six artists from home and abroad, based on artistic traditions ranging from Romanticism to Popism, in a diverse range of works that present an alternative to the many possibilities of contemporary figurative painting.Unlike traditional figurative painting, these apparently modest works raise questions about the freedom of expression in painting and psychological issues. Through the artist's skilful control and combination of images, their skillful 'feeling' in the various dimensions and shifts of form gives the works sensitive details and an air of rebellion against the popular. These works are essentially depictions of scenes from life that do not constitute any realistic and are always playful, bright, and full of amusing irony. In contrast to the traditional concept of painting, the artist does not wish to give vent to all his emotions, but rather to paint 'what I see' in and spontaneous manner.Painting has existed for over 30,000 years in human history and it can be considered as a private note that can be made public. The paintings on display now visualise the author's psychological world, and the artist, in their sincerity and purity, allows the viewer to truly experience the same experience as he did at the time of creation.

錨點 1 Ania Hobbson b.1990 ​ Ania Hobson is a British artist born in 1990, Ania has a degree in Fine Art and studied at the Prince's School of Painting in London and portraiture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Her portraiture works are inspired by artists like Alice Neel and Kerry James Marshall. Her architectural portraits use subtle, complementary colors to create refined, dignified pictures of her close female friends and family members. ​ Artist Talk: ​ Being a painter is not a decision I chose, it’s something that you can’t escape. From young being creative was something that was already running through the family, we watched and would spend our time drawing at the dinner table, it was always there but never pushed on us...So, growing up it’s also been engrained in me and will always be part of me. ​ All my work is a timeline of figures and exploring the emotions that we go through. My painting is just another form of expressing language sometimes subconsciously painting in my own anxieties. I work with sketches first which are usually from my imagination or memory, I feel this is a good way of creating a non-anatomically correct view on the human form, I then transfer these drawings straight onto canvas before painting. I work to a medium / large scale with oil paints and impasto. ​ ​ I want the audience to be able to relate and feel a familiarity to my painting, something that they can recognize within themselves building that connection between them and my painting. My painting is all about people reading, emotions, vital, mark making, composing and psychology. ​ I’m so pleased to be exhibiting in this exhibition, it’s my first time exhibiting in Shanghai, along with some great artists too! WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITION 0X0A9895.jpg The Fiction July 15 - Aug 15, 2021

錨點 1 Vickie Vainionpää b.1992 Vickie Vainionpää’s practice considers the impact of technology on the process of painting and investigates the relationship between natural forces and digital processes. In her ongoing Soft Body Dynamics series, twisting, tubular forms are systematically created using generative 3D modelling software. The software randomly generates a set number of splines per day, from which the artist selects to create final compositions which are painted by hand using oil on linen. By embracing new digital means of reading space and content, the works draw attention to the ever-changing relationship between the human body and digital technology. WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITIONS DSC03926.jpg West Bund Art & Design 2022 Nov10 - Nov 13 2022

錨點 1 Astrid Styma b.1988 Astrid Styma creates highly realistic still lives, portraits and sculptural interventions that span references between painting techniques of renaissance Neo-Realism, Surrealism and Post-Digital works of the 21st Century. Figures which are often isolated from any detailed references are arranged in front of gently illuminated backgrounds that remind of contemporary and digital surfaces in pastel-shaded tones. Through the repeated depiction of the same motifs, the works read as metaphors for complex interpersonal constellations. And with subtle references to architectural impossibilities, Styma invites us into trustworthy worlds of images that reveal paradoxes and open up possible trapdoors of perception. WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITIONS DSC03800.jpg West Bund Art & Design 2022 Nov10 - Nov 13 2022