“I was from a good family, the daughter of a famous painter who adored me and of a mother who came from an illustrious dynasty of booksellers. I was obedient, but I wanted everything. I was stubborn, obstinate, tenacious. Beneath a suave and enchanted air lay an iron will’.
Qatar Museums (QM), the country’s leading institution promoting cultural initiatives, has appointed internationally renowned Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the first artistic director of the creative hub Fire Station: Artist in Residence. Shawky will oversee the institution’s programme, which to date has promoted the work of nearly one hundred emerging Qatari artists.
Artist, graphic designer, and sculptor, Julia Nesis was born in Novorossiysk (Russia) in 1984, but today lives and works in the United Kingdom. She has studied in Moscow at the State University of Arts and Industry “SG Stroganov” (2004), then at the “Detali” School of Design (2010). Since 2016 she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MUA). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and held meaningful solo exhibitions, including the one at the “Promgrafika” Gallery in Moscow (2015) and “Etika Pomyati” (The Ethics of Memory, 2018) at the theater of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art.
Laura Lodigiani, born in Milan, graduated in set design at the Brera Academy and lives and works in Florence. She has worked in theater for public bodies and private companies, with many exhibitions and awards, her works are all over the world in public and private collections, and journalism and writing are also part of her activities.
Exponent of Russian impressionist painting, Leonard Viktorovich Turzhansky (1874, Yekaterininburg ⸺ 1945, Moscow) «can rightly be considered an heir to Levitan’s “landscape of mood”. In his works, he expresses profound emotions, albeit held back and never overflowing. A man of few words, Turzhansky is laconic even in figurative means, preferring spacious compositions with few objects. A painter by nature, Turzhansky thinks and feels through color” the art historian Natalya Stankevich writes about him.
Once upon a time, there was an ancient castle in a clearing in the woods, inhabited by two castellans… This is how the story of
Ukrainian self-taught painter, from 1986 to 1989 Petro Yemets worked as a liquidator in the decontamination of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area, an experience that
The works of Oleg Putnin (1974, Cherkessk, Republic of Karachay-Circassia) are pervaded by that sense of instantaneousness typical of plein-air painting: he observes the world
Maurice Bazungula was born in 1943 in Mpasa, in today’s Democratic Republic of Congo. In his works, we encounter the artistic traditions of his people,
Arte a Casa Tua si propone come partner qualificato per lo sviluppo di occasioni di scambio artistico/culturali tra l’Italia, l’Europa, i Paesi emergenti e il resto del Mondo.
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