"HAPPINESS.OPTIMISM.LOVE"
emerging and mid-career artists
ARTISTS:
Angela Thouless
Stéphanie Barbetta
Krisztina Arláth
Vera Blansh
Rigatoni Garrido
Laura Munoz Delgado
Brigit Kovax
ANGELA tHOULESS, SCOTLAND
Angela Thouless based in Aberdeen Scotland graduated in 1999 from Gray’s School
Of Art with a BA (Hons) in Painting, going on to receive her Postgraduate
Diploma/Masters in Art & Design in 2000 Angela Thouless has exhibited her
artwork across the UK and further afield - Milan, Crete, Venice and Singapore. In
2015 her work was featured at Het Kunstenaarsbal (Amsterdam Cultural Festival).
Moving from painting large scale street art inspired canvases to walls Angela’s Tribe
All artwork began as an idea for a workshop painting on old spray cans which would
have otherwise been thrown away.
In 2019 these paintings developed into her unisex urban t-shirt brand Tribe All.
Both the artwork and the t-shirts celebrate and promoting the diverse
cultures of the world motivated by my love of street art and culture.
Her artwork has been featured in Elle Decoration, 3 editions of House & Garden and
Red magazine. Tribe All has been
GQ, Wired, London Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Elle, Cosmopolitan and
Vogue have all run editorial on Tribe All. The brand has also been promoted
at the Urban Music Awards in 2020 Future ventures include being
promoted again at the 2022 Urban Music Awards and Event Savo’ which will
be opening Milan Fashion Week in February 2022 where Tribe All will be
paraded as ‘New Talent’.
KRISZTINA ARLATH, HUNGARY
"My artwork is an animation series about Venetian courtesans from the Renaissance and Baroque
period. They were the lovers of many rich and famous men, and artists. I found
interested, that the name of the gallery is the same, than the famous Venetian theatre. I
had a little resource about their woman before. The people I have researched so far
have played a particularly important cultural role in their own community based on their
progressive thinking and multifaceted knowledge. The innovative effect of their
activities, although indirectly, can still be discovered today. For example, Veronica
Franco had the courage and talent to break out of the bondage of stylized emotions in
the field of poetry.
Tullia d'Aragona understood the knowledge of the cultivation of the body and wrote
philosophical dissertations.
Barbara Strozzi was an excellent Baroque composer, whose notes are still performed
by today’s soloists. Portrait paintings were made of the above-mentioned women in their
own age; the painters were Jacopo Tintoretto, Tiziano Vecellio, Alessandro Bonvicino,
Bernardo Strozzi, Paolo Veronese.
I used the digital version of the oil paintings, and I made painting animations.
I am a Budapest based artist, from Hungary. I graduated the Hungarian University of
Fine Arts, in Budapest 2014. I am sculptor, but I love to make animations also."
LAURA MUNOZ DELGADO, SPAIN
Laura MD is a multidisciplinary Spanish artist in love with nature and other cultures that inhabit our land, from which she learns and finds the inspiration to shape her work.
In 2008 she finished her studies of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca.
Her training is mainly pictorial, but has not prevented her from covering other areas such as sculpture, photography, design and manufacture of fashion, headdresses and accessories, as well as event decoration.
In her creative work Laura is meticulous, organized and persevering.
Her designs and creations reflect a special taste for detail and a preference for hand-made manufacturing. In her paintings, inspiration comes from nature and the influence of artistic expressions from other cultures and eras. In them, the repetition of decorative patterns, geometric structures and floral elements, symbols, are intermingled, forming an organic fusion, full of subtlety, strength and colour.
She has held several individual and group painting and photographic exhibitions.
She has also worked on the decoration of various places and venues in the U.K. and Spain.
As an accessories designer, she has participated in fashion fairs such as the 1st Edition of the Alicante Fashion Week and has collaborated in costumes for television series.
She is currently involved in the development of a new creative project, Agua Art Studio, as a personal brand, focusing on painting and illusion. Where she continues to develop personally and artistically throughout this journey of continuous learning, with the intention of creating and offering harmony and beauty through her artwork.
VERA BLANSH, UKRAINE
Photographer. Studied at Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London
2014-2015 - University of the Arts London / Central Saint Martins
Specialty: Fashion, Art Photographer.
2008-2009 St. Petersburg School of Photography
1997-2001 Institute of Arts Rivne State University for the Humanities.
She has worked with photography since 2007. Until 2020 she was heavily engaged in fashion photography. She has appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Fucking Young, Marie Claire, La Botanica, and has collaborated with brands in New York, London and Paris.
In 2020, there was a profound transformation of her personality and she began to delve into documentary photography, as well as art photography.
In 2021, Vera Blansh took part in an international art residency: Biruchiy contemporary art project.
Since 2012 she has held about ten solo and group exhibitions, both international and local.
For 2022 there are plans for exhibitions in New York, London, Miami, Paris.
“Photography for me is not just a craft, it is a way of life. Wherever I go, I always take a camera with me. Sometimes I consciously prepare for a project, but sometimes the shot can find me quite by accident. The main thing is to be in the flow, in search, in desire and aspiration, to transmit the beautiful to the world, because there sure is enough pain and despair around us!
PUBLICATIONS: "Vogue", "Harper's Bazaar", "Fucking Young", "Marie Claire", "Labotanica"
BOOK: 2021 - art book "Opera Lingua" of OPERA APERTA is a laboratory of contemporary opera, founded by Ukrainian composers Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko.