ALFREDO DE STEFANO

ALFREDO DE STEFANO was born in Monclova, Coahuila, a city of the northeastern Mexican desert.

He's considered one of Mexico's most important contemporary photographers. He has a passion for the landscape specially the desert, an environment to which he has traveled countless times, performing art interventions in it and photographing it.

His work has been featured in over eighty group and solo shows in various cities around the world. His photos have also appeared in numerous books and magazines.


☁ ALFREDO DE STEFANO

SIMON CASSON

SIMON CASSON’s paintings have been rapturously received: he has gone on to exhibit with great success across North America and Europe. Last year he had solo exhibitions in the USA and at the largest contemporary art space in Canada.

In Casson’s paintings we are presented with the Western tradition of figure painting reinterpreted for a contemporary audience. The distinctive layering of the paint application is also a layering of attitudes, painstaking and flawless quotations of high renaissance and baroque paintings are threatened with obliteration by recklessly exhibitionist mark making. There is a stirring mixture of formality and the casual: the exactitude with which he draws his figures or paints a fruit is balanced by the informal gesture of dragging his fingers though he paint to interfere (or literally break up) the surface. (source)


☁ SIMON CASSON
☁ SIMON CASSON @ GDB

ALESSANDRO PAGANI

ALESSANDRO PAGANI (1973) was born in Milan, where he actually lives. Graduated in Applied Art and Scenography, he collaborated with the sculptor and restorer Lucio Viola Boros. He’s a teacher of Art Education and Art History. (source)



☁ ALESSANDRO PAGANI
☁ ALESSANDRO PAGANI @ FOREVER UNTIL THE END

ELAINE DUIGENAN

"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are"
Morrie Camhi

ELAINE DUIGENAN /// THE DREADFUL AND THE DIVINE


There is something fascinating about the tools which surgeons wield, they can invoke powerful associations: they inspire fear and awe, carry connotations of butchery as well as healing, and are synonymous with intricacy and skill – in manufacture as well as in use. They are the means to open the body and put it back together – instruments of a power simultaneously dreadful and divine.

Using photography, Artist in Residence Elaine Duigenan has explored instruments' contradictory status as the therapeutic extension of the surgeon's hands and as objects designed to destroy living tissue. Drawing on the rich historical collections of the Hunterian Museum and bringing together the expertise of surgeons, historians and instrument manufacturers, her work reanimates the instrument as a thing of beauty and dread.


☁ ELAINE DUIGENAN

ERNST HAAS

ERNST HAAS
Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921, Vienna – September 12, 1986, New York) was an Austrian artist and influential photographer noted for his innovations in color photography, experiments in abstract light and form, and as a member of the Magnum Photos agency.

Haas attended medical school in Austria, but, in 1947, left to become a staff photographer for the magazine Heute. His photo essay for the magazine on prisoners of war coming home to Vienna won him acclaim and an offer to join Magnum Photos from Robert Capa. Haas and Werner Bischof were the first photographers invited to join Magnum by the founders Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and Bill Vandivert.

Haas moved to New York City and in 1953 produced a 24-page, color photo essay on the city for Life, which then commissioned similar photo spreads on Paris and Venice. By 1958 he was considered one of the top ten photographers in world by Popular Photography magazine. In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art mounted a one-man show of Haas' color photos. Haas' first photo book, Elements, was published the next year.

Some of Haas' most famous pictures were deliberately out-of-focus and blurred, creating strong visual effects. He used the dye transfer process to make many of his original prints, yielding richly saturated colors.

In 1964, film director John Huston hired Haas to direct the creation sequence for Huston's 1964 film, The Bible. Haas continued working on the theme, producing the photo book, The Creation in 1971. Other photography books by Haas included In America in 1975, a tribute to his adopted country for its bicentennial year; Deutschland in 1977; and Himalayan Pilgrimage in 1978. Other films that Haas worked on included The Misfits in 1961, Hello, Dolly! in 1969, Little Big Man in 1970, and Heaven's Gate in 1980. Haas also photographed a number of advertising campaigns for Marlboro cigarettes.
In 1986, Haas received the Hasselblad Award for his photography. Haas died of a stroke in New York City.

While Haas had been working for some time before his death on a book with 'ideas for chapters and picture layouts', it fell to his son and daugher and former colleagues to bring a book to realisation. In 1989 'A Colour Retrospective 1952-1986' was published by Thames and Hudson. In it 'Selected Writings of Ernst Haas' gives broad and profound insight into his approach to and philosophy of photography;

'Photography is a bridge between science and art.It brings to Science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature'. (SOURCE WIKIPEDIA)


☁ ERNST HAAS
☁ ERNST HAAS @ GETTY IMAGES

RICARDO CELMA

OIL ON CANVAS BY RICARDO CELMA




☁ RICARDO CELMA

KOREHIKO HINO

KOREHIKO HINO
BORN in 1976, Ishikawa, Japan.

EDUCATION
1999 Graduated from University of Tsukuba, Major in Painting
2001 Completed the Master Course in Painting at University of Tsukuba


☁ KOREHIKO HINO