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25 - 28 june 2016 exhibition at SASK, Hasselt, Belgium. Welcome at 'Atelier Vrije Grafiek'.

Maleonn

Maleonn was born in Shanghai, China, where he studied and still lives. It is said he took portraits of around 200.000 people. He loaded up a truck with props and clothes and took to the roads to create a unique album called 'Studio Mobile'. It took seven months preparing before taking the first picture, and another ten months completing the project that took him all over China.
The start of his epic journey was his eviction from the studio in an artist community by the government. Studio Mobile shows people from different life styles and origin in a staged setting, dressed up in Maleonn's outfits or costumes they brought.

Mobile Studio

Ugo Gattoni

Ugo Gattoni is a Paris based illustrator, creating some amazing artwork. "Master of the fine-liner" according to Agent Pekka. His detailed work came to fame in 2011, and is in high demand ever since.

A master with graphite, fine-liner and of lately intaglio printing. Just see him at work to understand his extensive craftsmanship. 

The Making of Bicycle from Agent Pekka on Vimeo.


Ugo Gattoni / Sybille’s bath from Sold Art • Gallery & Publisher on Vimeo.

Pakpoom Silaphan

Pop art, big brand logos and metal advertising displays fused with well known images and iconic figures, Pakpoom Silaphan brings it in his modern style pop art vision. Pakpoom Silaphan is a Thai-born artist, now living and working in London. East meets West in more ways than one.
The infiltration of western imagery and ideology had a profound influence on Silaphanʼs understanding of the West and on his artistic practice. Silaphan creates an engaging dialogue between the relationship between East and West, and the universal language of signs and symbols that is accessible to all and has been imprinted on to the universal collective consciousness.

Zhong Biao

 Chinese contemporary artist, Zhong Biao was in1968 in Chongqing. He graduated from the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has a unique painting style, a kind of explosive, realistic pop art, bringing past, present and future together in one story.

Zhong Biao; "I like to paint people in black and white because people are temporary - they will eventually leave the world and become
the past. However, some buildings live longer than people; they continue to exist in the world. This is why I paint people in black and white and the background in colour. The contrast with colour is to highlight this dichotomy.

Sometimes, unfortunate things suddenly appear - they become the past, and then the future pushes forward. When today arrives, today becomes the past. It's a continuous process - a cycle. And everyone in the world is constituted from pieces of time. Therefore, in my paintings I can freely co-ordinate the past, present and future.

I don’t want to force my own understanding or interpretation of my paintings on the audience. The mixture of images within each of my paintings is like a combination of controversial elements in life. We don’t have to understand everything we see in each painting. Like life, we cannot understand everything that we have seen or experienced. In my paintings, Eastern and Western, historical and modern opposites coexist, reflecting the reality of today’s lifestyle.

I have only one dream: That the people I have painted will, many years from now, visit the people of the future on my behalf, taking along with them this chaotic world." (from Art Scene China)

 

Kim Simonsson

Kim Simonsson is a Finnish sculptor/ceramist. His childlike figures and animals look as if they escaped out of a Manga comic book, though they have western features. His work is a bit dark and uncomfortable yet sensitive.
Kim Simonsson: "In my sculptures western traditional ceramic is combined with modern trends of easten pop culture. So, in my opinion, I get an unusual and very interesting effect. I create my own world of strange characters that are my comments on daily life and its oddities.
My images seem dark to you? No wonder: I examine the diseases of modern society, and they are quite unsightly.
The subject of my work, as a rule, are children, animals, or something in between. An important detail: all my sculptures have glass eyes, they seemed to enliven cold dead matter."