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Noah Latif Lamp through time
Today there is such a variety of different artists in the visual art scenery, so many diverse personalities with their own complexity, all bringing different attributes and expression to the art world. The ones I love the most are those who above all designate knowledge and experimentation as the main guideline for their artistic development. This category of artist is continuously seeking for a new creative epiphany, they continue to elevate themselves artistically and socially, and set no boundaries to accomplish it. When the epiphany happens and it looks like they have found a productive peace, a creative lay-back moment, this is when they start again – looking for new challenges. Noah Latif Lamp embodies every aspect and nuance of the artist I have described above and, in my opinion, that any contemporary artist should exemplify. I met Noah a few years ago in Amsterdam and I have soon enough become obsessed with his talent and his huge capability to experiment and to challenge himself continuously and regardless of the huge appreciation he is already getting from the art world. Noah has the colossal virtue of having never been afraid of becoming an avantgarde and risking to be ignored due […]
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Shahina Jaffer Interview
Shahina Jaffer is not only a fine and developed artist, but an intellectual and active person towards the social and cultural scene. She considers art sort of a universal language and she has the courage and audacity to transfer that in her style. The result is an extremely pathological and emotional style, abstract and subjective, therefore opened to different interpretation from the viewer. This builds up a sort of interaction between the parties, the artist/artwork and the viewer and this interaction is completely driven by the perception the viewer has of her talent. Carlo Tozzi, st-Art founder and art director Where have you grown up? I grew up in a small town in Surrey England, called Hersham, Walton on Thames, I was lucky enough to be surrounded by open fields and the river Thames, and this is where I formed a strong connection to nature. That still Influences many aspects of my work. A lot of my creative projects include aspects of social inclusion, because from a young age, I understood that art is a universal language, that can transcend barriers and also help us relate to people from different backgrounds. At the age of 8 years old, I was […]
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The art with no barriers and no conditions of Luna de Jesus Licea
‘Luna de Jesus Licea is not only an extremely talented artist, but a very interesting and articulated personality. He reminds me so much of the artists from the 80s and their approach to art with no barriers and no conditions. Luna considers art his safe place from reality and his possibility to express himself in a way words could never do. Being an artist myself I can deeply understand and appreciate his position and feelings. Art is a trigger to unleash our most deep sensations and unexpressed desires, but even our recondite fears. To my eyes it appears clear his appreciation of Pop and street artists, like Jean Michel Basquiat. His mixed media pallet, with oils, acrylics, markers is so dense of symbolism and anthropological subjects. He touches with his brush so many society problems and displays them with extreme courage and no respect, just as a real artist should do. Like all free artists he doesn’t find himself comfortable in classifying his style or the artist who influenced him….his statement “At the end of the day my life, my memories, my struggles and just my day to day thoughts influence and inspire my art” is the best summarization of his […]
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Expressionist Portraits by Kieran Smith
Kieran Smith is a peculiar and talented artist. He is able to mold and manipulate extremely complicated types of materials and obtain impressive results. Industrial glues, adhesives for tiles and sand are such difficult media to adopt for art. But Kieran has taken the challenge to make this materials live and flexible to his purpose to represent incredibly vivid and expressionist portraits. His experimentation on art materials is continuously evolving, so we will see even more great artworks from this talented artist. Carlo Tozzi st-Art founder & art director Where have you grown up? I was born in a sleepy town on the British south coast called Eastbourne in 1980, but grew up in a province called KwaZulu-Natal on the east coast of South Africa, in a city called Durban. I moved to Amsterdam in 2011. What is your artistic background? I come from a pretty normal, middle class, politically progressive family with a cultural interest that was more focused on music than on art. So I studied the cello as a child and played at a semi-professional level until my 30s. I was always encouraged to pursue what interested me, and it was in high school that I discovered and […]
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The Switching and Scraping Techniques
by Iacopo Maria Fiorani
Iacopo Maria Fiorani (b.1975) is an Italian artist currently living in Rome. He loves the sea, has a passion for fishing and lived a few years in Greece (Athens, 2003-2005), a country which he considers to be one of the places he might one day call home.
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The Inquiring Canvases of Sarah Bozzaotra
Sarah Bozzaotra is a young Italian woman born and raised in Naples, Italy, and she will immediately confirm the controversial identity of her city. Naples’s suffering soul is opposite to the exuberant artistic aesthetic and lifestyle, and the nearby Vesuvio gives the final hint of this disruptive frame to all its inhabitants.
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The Infinite Skies Above
of Naima Karim
Naima Karim was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1976. She grew up in a creative environment, as her father, a doctor, and teacher in med school would create homemade furniture during the weekends while her mother would sew and embroid or make dolls.
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Antonella Trapasso:
Thula’s Artistic Path
Thula, or Antonella Maria Trapasso (b.1965), originally from Rome, is an artist that today lives and works in Milan. Her path has always been based upon research and discovery, as Antonella was doing something else in her first working career before finding out she was an artist.
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The Intimate 3D Art of Giuseppe Perna
Giuseppe Perna was born and raised in Naples (b.1987), although for as long as he can remember he also spent part of the year in Greece, which he considers to be his second home.
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The Revived Ceramics
of Salvino Arturo Pozzi
Born in Naples in 1974, Salvino Arturo Pozzi got his name from his grandfather and gained a passion for Architecture initially from his uncle, which taught him most of his artistic skills.
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Doron Beuns Deal Between Selfhood and Otherness
Doron Beuns was born in Tiel, a small town in the middle of the Netherlands, but moved to Amsterdam by the age of 18 to study at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute.
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A New Alphabet by Benedetta Delcoco
Benedetta Delcoco is a young Italian painter (b. 1994) from Lecce, a city in southern Italy where she still lives and works. Since her childhood, Benedetta has always been attracted to drawings and creativity, and her parents were intuitive enough to recognize her talent so to make her attend an artistic high school.