Irina Biatturi, an Art Deco ode to women and the sea.
A graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Academy of Art in Bucharest, Irina Biaturri has been in contact with painting from a very early age. The …
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When art dresses up in jeans.
Ian Berry uses denim like a painter uses paint… It’s simple, with scissors, a pot of glue and lots of old jeans, he creates illustrations …
WOODROW NASH, the Master of African New Art.
In the tradition of the great masters, Woodrow Nash’s consuming passion to uplift the human spirit takes the form of sculpture. Born in Akron, Ohio, …
Cyrille Borgnet uses raw materials to create his works of art
Born in the Vendée, Cyrille Borgnet Dupont studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Nantes. Inspired by the city walls that surround him, mortar became …
The HAIKU is a magnificent hymn to life.
Born nearly four centuries ago in Japan, under the name of haikai, haiku is the world’s shortest poetic form. An art of ellipsis and suggestion, …
Aboriginal artistic creativity is ageless, Salli GABORI.
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori was born around 1924 on Bentinck Island in northern Australia. She belongs to the Kaiadilt people. She had to leave her …
A duo of Spanish geniuses in Bordeaux : DALI and GAUDI.
The former German submarine base is home to the world’s largest immersive digital exhibition space in the Bassins des Lumières. It’s a successful conversion, a …
A humanist and globe-trotting photographer, Marta ROSSIGNOL.
Marta Rossignol, a Swiss-Spanish author and photographer, lives in Bordeaux. An avid traveller, she explores the world in search of others and draws her inspiration …
Nicolas de Staël, painting with a thousand vibrations.
An encounter with Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) is like a plunge, sometimes overwhelming, into colour and light. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, this tightrope walker …
Women’s poetry, by photographer Giovanni GASTEL.
Giovanni Gastel was born in Milan in 1955 to Giuseppe Gastel and Ida Visconti di Modrone, sister of the famous film-maker Luchino Visconti, who introduced …