WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH A KIND OF CABINET OF CURIOUSITIES, POPULATED BY REPRESENTATIONS
HER POWER Global Female Contemporary Art Online Exhibition 2021 · Chapter Eleven
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2021 · HER POWER
The prologue of the "Life．Blossom” Exhibition - "Her Power" Online Exhibition, was jointly initiated by HK Art of Nature International Female Art Research Society, Art Life Foundation, and female artists and art institutions.
The first stage will bring the recommendations from our academic consultants, invited curators and International Women Artists Federation as pilot. Up to now, we have received works from around 120 artists from more than 30 regions (including oil paintings, ink paintings, installations, sculptures, photography, digital images, etc.).
The call for works is still open to public. The online exhibition will also be published by region, theme, category, subject, or material.
The content of the online exhibition will be presented on Art of Nature’s official website and the platform of "Her Art", Facebook, and overseas online platforms.
HER POWER
Art of Nature Intrenational Female Art Online Exhibition
Orgainisors :
HK Art of Nature International Female Art Research Society, Art Life Foundation
2021 · HER POWER· ELEVEN
"Monica Piloni: Reverberating in the Body", "Nikolina Petolas: Animal Fables",
"Viktoria Andreeva: Performing in a Fantastic Stage", "Cornelia Renz: Destruction of Norms",
"Kelly Reemtsen: New Female", "Jasmine Bannister: Portraits of Everything", "Tine Deturck: Souls in Ink"
MONICA PILONI
REVERBERATING IN THE BODY
At the end of the second decade of this century, interest in the representation of the human figure in the field of art is still remarkable. The body, its gestures, needs and desires have become a key element in the most pressing social and political issues of our time, and this is reflected in the imagery of contemporary artists. It is in this spirit of the age that Monica Piloni's work seems to evoke the forces that act upon bodies.
Looking at the whole of the artist's work, we are confronted with a kind of cabinet of curiosities, populated by representations.
In this series, the figures reveal something rather apprehensive and vaguely erotic. There is a certain silence and tension in the pieces at the same time. Beauty quickly becomes monstrosity, as in the soft, delicate contour of a model's torso, which doubles and bulges in the space in front of a mirror, replicating a reality already unfolded and rebounded on itself, transforming what would be a classic torso into a mass of flesh. It evokes the forces that act upon bodies, through an interweaving between appearance and essence, fact and fiction. That produces a kind of echo that insists on reverberating in the body itself.
MONICA PILONI
Sculptor, born in Curitiba in 1978. She currently lives and works in Brussels. Her works are collected by several art institutions and collectors around the world.
Desbundo-Me | 180 x 50 x 200 cm | Fiberglass, mirror and base | 2019
Diver | 113 x 63 x 63 cm
Fiberglass, polyurethane and pla | 2019
Lee | 34 x 44 x 70 cm | Resin, pla and false nails | 2019
The Reader | 160 x 100 x 60 cm
Synthetic hair, fiberglass, pla, books cover | 2019
The Kiss | 78 x 80 x 45 cm | Fiberglass | 2018
And Why Would You Want My Soul in Your Bed? | 66 x 99 cm | Archival pigment prints | 2014
Ballerina, FM | 186 x 113 x 32 cm | Resin, pla, collant, ballet point shoes, ocular prosthesis, synthetic hair and acrylic boxes | 2019
Ballerina II | 222 x 95 x 110 cm | Fiberglass, synthetic hair, ocular prosthesis and acrylic boxes | 2014
NIKOLINA PETOLAS
ANIMAL FABLES
Nikolina is a photographer and visual artist from Zagreb, Croatia.
With her works, she searches to underline the psychological and social aspects of our identity and the effects that endless soul searching has on our lives. In her metaphorical presentations, from dreamlike landscapes and fantasy scenery to strange and dark characters, creatures and environments, she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as a dreamy and vivid example to show complex human emotions and drives as well as her subjective personal experience of the world.
Visual interpretations of animal fables with profoundly detailed compositions in her signature 'Tale of the Blue Pear' series have been recognized by private collectors worldwide.
NIKOLINA PETOLAS
Photographer and visual artist. Her work has gained multiple international awards and has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including galleries and museums of Europe, USA and Asia. Her art is also represented in various books, magazines and publications.
Important Exhibitions:
2019 Tale of the Blue Pear, Galerie Boris, Paris, France
2019 Tale of the Blue Pear, Lishui Photography Festival, Zhejiang Province, China
2018 ImageNation Paris (Paris Photo Days), Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris, France
2017 Real - Surreal - Unreal, Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen, Germany
2017 Münchner Science & Fiction Festival, Einstein Kultur Centre, Munich, Germany
Chicken or Egg | Editions vary by size | Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Smuggler of Happiness | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
The Tree House | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Forestation | Editions vary by size | Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Smuggler of Happiness | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Lollipop | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Don’t Think About Pink Elephants | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Maybe This is Love | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
VIKTORIA ANDREEVA
PERFORMING IN A FANTASTIC STAGE
Viktoria Andreeva is a fine-art photographer focused on the body as the main composition element. As a former ballet dancer, Viktoria’s love and passion for the art of movement have deeply influenced her aesthetic.
The distortion of the figure aims to blur the line between reality and illusion, natural and artificial. Viktoria plays with elemental and symbolic opposites which contradict each other at a first glance. Her work seeks to connect and communicate with the viewer - to open up a field for interpretation of the narrative.
VIKTORIA ANDREEVA
Sculpture artist. Born and raised in Bulgaria in 2015 she moved to Vienna, where she pursued a degree in Photography and Audiovisual Media at the College of Arts Die Graphische.
Important Exhibitions:
2021 Romantica - shape of my art, M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milano, Italy
2021 Nude affiliation and Portraiture, Pepney Gallery, Cavan, Ireland
2020 “7th International Photo Salon Plovdiv” - Awarded photographers Travelling exhibition, Ancient Theatre, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2019 Loco-not locals, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
2019 Body Paint Soul, Viktoria Andreeva & Stefan Nuetzel Studio Stefan Nuetzel, Vienna, Austria
2018 In Schwebe, Gallery Lumina, Vienna, Austria
Into Pieces | 40 x 60cm | Photography | 2020
Smuggler of Happiness | Editions vary by size
Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
All We Have Is Now | 40 x 60cm | Photography | 2020
Familiar strangers | 60 x 40cm | Photoggraphy | 2018
Forestation | Editions vary by size | Museum-quality, archival pigment prints
Shapes | 60 x 40cm | Photography | 2020
In A Split Second | 60 x 40cm | Photography | 2021
Faceless | 40 x 60cm | Photography | 2017
CORNELIA RENZ
DESTRUCTION OF NORMS
As an artists with the cultural background of both Israel and Germany, Cornelia concerns about cultural norms and role models and their origins. In her work, she sampled existing image motifs from a wide variety of sources, such as European skeleton and Asian elf, in order to then deconstruct them using her montage process.
CORNELIA RENZ
Born in 1966 in Southern Germany. Live and work in Berlin, Germany and in Tel Aviv, Israel. Awarded Grant Prize of Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral in Germany, Grant Prize of Villa Aurora Stipendium in Los Angeles, USA, and Prize of Föderprize Bildende Kunst der Schering Stiftung in Germany.
Cornelia Renz’s works have been exhibited in galleries, museums and public spaces globally, including Kunsthalle Memmingen, Berlinische Galerie in Germany and Contemporary Art Center Louisiana in New Orleans.
Into Pieces | 40 x 60cm | Photography | 2021
Self Fed By Little Death | 120 x 200 x 6 cm | Pigment marker on acrylic glass | 2008
Alt New | 172 x 172 x 8 cm | Pigment marker on two sheet of perspex | 2018
Fair. Play. | 170 x 170 x 8 cm | Pigment marker on two sheets of perspex | 2017
Superheroine | 100 x 100 x 6 cm | Pigment marker on two sheets of perspex | 2014
Gretel Liesel | 100 x 100 cm | pigment marker on two layers of acrylic glass | 2020
In A Split Second | 60 x 40cm | Photography | 2021
Dance of Death - Yes, We Can | 50 x 80 cm | pigment marker on foil | 2021
KELLY REEMTSEN
NEW FEMALE
The paintings for which American artist Kelly Reemtsen is best known are her bright and bold paintings of women carrying household tools such as chainsaws or axes, which are elaborate depictions of the role of the modern day woman.
Reemtsen’s women are not simply pinup girls or arm candy. Rather, the women, while dressed to the nines, undertake household, and often, traditionally masculine tasks. The objects they hold, from dishrags to wrenches to chainsaws, range from domestic to menacing, and yet, as a body of work, address the question of the proper role of the contemporary woman. Anonymous torsos, the women remain beautiful representations of the feminine with which anyone can identify.
In terms of technique, Reemtsen’s work, with its thick impasto, represents a masterly handling of paint, which can be seen throughout her oeuvre of women, as well as other subjects including designer furniture and pills.
KELLY REEMTSEN
Born in 1967 in Michigan, USA. Her paintings are best known for its thick impasto, bright white background and the anonymous characters.
Important Exhibitions:
2021 THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
2020 The Shape of Things (Solo), Albertz Benda, New York, USA
2020 Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, USA
2019 Pattern (Solo), David Klein Gallery, Detroit, USA
2018 Fix It (Solo), Lydnsey Ingram, London, UK
2018 Value (Solo), Albertz Benda, New York, USA
Smack Dab | 122 x 91.5 cm | Oil on panel | 2020
Pieces of Her 30 | 51 x 51 cm | Oil on panel | 2020
Grounded | 152.5 x 114.5 cm | Oil on panel | 2020
Taking Shape Neon Pink | 68.5 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm | Cast resin, steel, lacquer, gold | 2020
Pieces of Her 10 | 51 x 51 cm | Oil on panel | 2020
JASMINE BANNISTER
PORTRAITS OF EVERYTHING
After graduating from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France, photography is Jasmine’s main medium. She tends to question its possibilities with an artistic approach and by blurring the thin border between art and documentary photography.
Her photography work focuses on narratives within different territories such as her own but also ones far from her, where culture, identity, history and environment collide. From photojournalism to contemporary photography, she have a desire to document the many different intricate realities that she comes across.
JASMINE BANNISTER
French Artist
Important Exhibitions:
2020 Expo/osée, Granville, France
2020 Domestic Landscape, Granville, France
2019 Rise and Fall o tomorrow’s Icons, Nantes, France
2019 Silver Show, , Granville, France
2017 Four Seasons, CCA Galleries International, Jersey, Channel Islands
All prints are: 40 x 30 cm | Printed on Bright White Hahnemühle paper
TINE DETURCK
SOULS IN INK
Tine Deturck started to create with ink decades ago. After setting up her own studio in Beijing in 2007, she spent her time between her studios in Paris and Beijing.
Affected significantly by the expressionists, she focuses on the human face which becomes more and more on the edge of abstraction. There is a balance between concise lines and expressionist momentum, zen concentration and explosive intuition. Tine Deturck sounds out the ineffable and fleeting impressions of the human mind directly connected to the soul.
TINE DETURCK
Born in Belgium, Tine Deturck grew up and studied in Germany, Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Live and work in Paris, France. She owned a studio in China as she is fond of Chinese culture. Her works noticeably reveal the penetration and influences of Chinese ink.
Enigma | 73 x 60 cm | Mixed media on canvas
Gagarin | 146 x 114 cm | Ink on canvas | 2013
Antichrist | 73 x 60 cm | Ink on canvas
Ode to Soulages n°2
146 x 114 cm | Ink on canvas
Papillon | 73 x 92 cm | Ink on canvas
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