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© A60 International Art

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VITA

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La Vita dell'ArteInternational Exhibition

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partnerdouble arts

criticMaria Chiara Wang

curatorsEmanuele GregolinPengpeng Wang

artists fromBrazilChinaFranceGermanyItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited States...

exhibition nameInternational ExhibitionLa Vita dell'Arte

organizerA60 Internatioanl ArtA60 Contemporary Art SpaceMilan

[email protected]

©2020 A60 International ArtVia Aosta 17, 20015, Milan, Italy

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/ PrefacesArt Director. Emanuele Gregolin 8Project Director. Pengpeng Wang 10

/ CriticismArt Critic. Maria Chiara Wang 12

/ Artists and worksAAndrea Bertoletti 14 Antonella Campi 15Anzhelika Lebedeva 16Arnaldo Pomodoro 17Aleydis Nissen 18Ambra Scali 19CChen Hai 20Chigusa Kuraishi 23Chiara Mastrangelo 24Cheng Ruitao 25Cai Yu 26EElay Li 27 Elena Tortia 28Eleonora Rinaldi 29Ettore Sottsass 30F Francesco Liberti 31Fei Taishi 32GGiulia Seri 33HHilary Mooney 34Hong Ning 35Hu Shenglan 36Huang Shizun 37IIşık Kaya 38JJérémy Griffaud 39Jin Hankang 40LLiu Lei 42

Laura Pagliai 44MMatteo Benesperi 45Martin Bruckmanns 46Michelangelo Pistoletto 47Massimo Orsini 48Marco Raffaele 49Monica Sarandrea 50Massimiliano Sarti 51NNatsuko Saito 53SSebastian De Gobbis 54Simona Eva Saponara 55Sandra Lapage 56Sergio Ragalzi 57Sabrina Romanò 58Shi Wenmei 59Suduer Yilika 60TThomas Georg Blank 61UUmberto Riccelli 62VValerio Adami 64Viviana Graziani 65Vale Palmi 66WWang Huo 67Wu Zejian 70XXie Lili 72Xu Zihan 73ZZhao Kun 76Zhao Tianqi 77Zhang Haoyan 79Zhang Wenzheng 82Zhang Xinwen 83Zhang Yu 84Zheng Bing 85Zheng Yin 86Zhou Leyi 87

Contents

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Prefaces

Emanuele Gregolin__________________Art Director of A60 Contemporary Art Space

Today is undoubtedly difficult to find the glance and presence with serenity to relate to people: the fight against the invisible enemy which was and still is COVID-19, left invisible marks on each of us.

What will we remember of this period? What traces will remain? Each one inside will deeply try to give answers to these queries probably using some kind of artists forms. Art is the support, the structure, the body, the sensitive skin the artist chooses to create and to keep in touch with the world but also the cure to soothe life's problems.

This publication collects the valuable work of different artists who live and work in various countries such as Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, US, China. They decided to answer to our "Open Call" during this hard period by sending their work then chose by us. These artworks have been made with different techniques: drawings, paintings, engravings, sculptures, photos, installations and videos which drawn a sensitive and precious path that must be protected today more than ever. All artis replied to "La Vita dell'Arte" call proposed by us, feeling the urgency and concern everyone experienced in the last months.

Each artwork in its singular diversity represents evidence, position and register which indicates an exact thought. Some artists submitted artworks made before 2020 while others decided to create on purpose something closer to the suspended time we are experiencing.

Each of them made a choice, took a conscious position of the fact that everything led to a responsibility.

This is what we strongly want to underline: the artist, in his witness, must strongly feel the responsibility of his mark.

Never like in present times, plurality of languages is able to create emotional registers and meditations used to unlock our inner windows.

Video images allow us to revive new or forgotten situations while paintings and drawings make materials brighter. Photography instead confirms ambiguity in its "realism" while sculpture stimulates our need of depth and sensitive physicality.

"La Vita dell'Arte" hereafter told in this publication becomes a tiny but intensive journey made in proximity with artworks of some '900 living artists who we wanted to insert confirming the value of some shapes, marks and volumes in plural expressive languages.

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Emanuele Gregolin__________________Direttore Artistico di A60 Contemporary Art Space

Appare certamente difficile riuscire a ritrovare con serenità lo sguardo e la presenza capaci di relazionarsi, oggi: la lotta che abbiamo dovuto sostenere nei confronti del nemico invisibile che era ed è, il Covid19, ha lasciato su di noi segni indelebili.

Cosa ricorderemo di tutto questo? Quali tracce rimarranno? Ognuno, dentro di sè, profondamente cercherà di dare risposte a questi interrogativi, utilizzando anche le forme della creazione artistica.

L'arte è sempre il sostegno, la struttura, il corpo, la sensibile pelle che l'artista sceglie di creare per relazionarsi con il mondo ma è anche la cura forse più profonda e rassicurante che consente di lenire ciò che la vita offre.

Questa pubblicazione raccoglie il lavoro prezioso di differenti artisti che vivono e lavorano in luoghi molto diversi: Italia, Francia, Svizzera, Germania, Inghilterra, Stati Uniti, Cina. Hanno deciso di rispondere alla nostra "Open Call", in questo tempo difficile, inviando il loro lavoro da noi selezionato.

Diverse sono le tecniche utilizzate per la realizzazione delle opere che qui abbiamo scelto e pubblicato: disegni, dipinti, incisioni, sculture, fotografie, installazioni e video tracciano un percorso prezioso e sensibile che va difeso, oggi più che mai.

Gli artisti hanno risposto al Bando "La Vita dell'Arte"

da noi proposto sentendo profondamente l'urgenza e la preoccupazione che in questi mesi hanno toccato ognuno di noi; ogni opera nella sua diversità è una

testimonianza, una posizione, un registro che indica un pensiero preciso. Alcuni artisti hanno voluto proporre alla nostra attenzione opere realizzate prima del 2020 mentre altri, hanno pensato di creare appositamente qualcosa che fosse ancora più aderente al tempo sospeso che tutti stiamo vivendo.

Ognuno ha compiuto una scelta, ha preso una posizione consapevole del fatto che tutto ciò portava ad una responsabilità.

Ecco, questo è ciò che vogliamo sottolineare con forza: l'artista nella sua testimonianza, nel gesto vivente della creazione, deve sentire fortemente la responsabilità del suo "segno". Mai come nel tempo che stiamo attraversando, la pluralità dei linguaggi è in grado di creare registri emozionali intensissimi e riflessioni capaci di aprire in noi finestre preziose: le immagini di un video ci riportano a vivere situazioni nuove o dimenticate, mentre la pittura ed il disegno fanno brillare la materia nella rivelazione del mistero della presenza del segno. La fotografia riafferma invece nel suo "realismo" l'ambiguità mentre la scultura stimola il nostro bisogno di profondità e sensibile fisicità.

"La Vita dell'Arte", la mostra qui raccontata nelle pagine di questa pubblicazione diventa così un piccolo ma intenso viaggio che si compie anche nella vicinanza con le opere di alcuni grandi artisti viventi del '900 che abbiamo voluto inserire riaffermando il valore di alcune forme, segni e volumi nella pluralità dei linguaggi espressivi.

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Pengpeng Wang_______________Project Director of A60 Contemporary Art Space

"La Vita dell'Arte" is not just the exhibition theme but the thought and everybodys meditation on life in general. With the worlwide spread of Covid-19 in 2020 all people on hearth have been touched and, in this context, artists and artworks must give voice to this peculiar period. The artistic language looks like poems created by poets, stories written by writers or songs created by singers. The artist facing the emergency of our times needs emotional eyes to observe and register this era by transforming it into a unique artistic language, to show the result of his work.

As Exhibition curator, together with Emanuele Gregolin, we selected 60 artworks of artists from Usa, China, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Turkey.

They all interpret art and life definition through a rich artworks collection. Artists used different techniques such as drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, photos, videos, sounds and other expressive forms.Art as connection, with the possibility of observing the artist sensibility and intimate world by simply watching his artwork.

2020 will be remembered by all of us as a very odd year where too many things happened: catastrophic pandemic, economic stops, political fluctuations, educational and cultural shutdowns. Nevertheless, contemporary art gives us the possibility to appreciate some positive aspects such as: world famous museums held online exhibitions by connecting artworks and public through the web, some social

media found a way for instant exhibitions on the net which gave artists sundry visualization channels: close to the usual art techniques we can now experience net art, 3D art, interactive art, electronic art, sound art, light art etc.

We gave birth to new opportunities and saw the rapid rise of "millennials" artists. Art spread out: artists can express art definition and background epitome through different creative languages. Though artists in this exhibition come from different countries, we are all using a unique language: ART.

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Pengpeng Wang_______________Direttore del progetto di A60 Contemporary Art Space

"La Vita dell'Arte" non è solo il tema di questa mostra, ma anche il pensiero e la riflessione di tutti sulla vita. Con la diffusione del COVID19 in tutto il mondo nel 2020, tutti coloro che vivono nel nostro mondo sono stati colpiti e, in tale contesto, l'identità degli artisti e delle opere d'arte deve essere espressa in questo periodo speciale. Il linguaggio artistico è come la poesia creata dai poeti, come le storie di romanzi scritti da scrittori, o le canzoni create dai compositori. L' artista che affronta ciò che sta accadendo ai nostri tempi, ha bisogno di un paio di occhi sensibili per osservare e registrare questa Era, trasformandola in un linguaggio artistico unico, mostrando il risultato del suo lavoro.

In questa mostra, come curatore insieme ad Emanuele Gregolin abbiamo selezionato 60 opere di artisti provenienti da diversi Paesi del mondo: Stati Uniti, Cina, Giappone, Regno Unito, Francia, Italia, Germania, Spagna, Messico, Turchia.

Nelle opere di questi artisti, viene interpretata la definizione di arte e vita, arte e vita per il pubblico dell'arte attraverso il ricco campionario di opere. Le tecniche utilizzate dai diversi artisti coinvolgono il disegno, la pittura, la scultura, l'installazione, la fotografia, il video, l'arte sperimentale, l'arte del suono e altre forme espressive.

L'arte come mezzo collega ognuno di noi insieme dando la possibilità di osservare la profonda sensibilità ed il mondo interiore dell'artista attraverso l'osservazione della sua opera. Il 2020 rimarrà per ognuno di noi un anno particolare in cui sono

accadute tantissime cose: la forte pandemia, gli arresti economici, le fluttuazioni politiche, l'arresto dei progetti culturali ed educativi e tutto ciò che ci circonda sta cambiando. Tuttavia, per l'arte contemporanea, questo periodo ci consente di vedere alcuni aspetti positivi, tra i quali ricordiamo: la maggior parte dei musei e le attività artistiche del mondo hanno iniziato a condurre mostre online, collegando la distanza tra le opere d'arte e il pubblico dell'arte attraverso Internet ed alcuni social media hanno anche lanciato un metodo di mostra istantanea sulla rete, che fornisce agli artisti canali di visualizzazione più diversi; per gli artisti, anche la forma della creazione sta cambiando e vicino alle consuete tecniche vediamo l'arte di rete, l'arte 3D, l'arte interattiva, l'arte elettronica, l'arte del suono, l'arte della luce, ecc. Abbiamo visto nascere tante cose tra cui anche la rapida ascesa di artisti "Millennials".

Lo sviluppo dell'arte è infinitamente esteso: gli artisti possono esprimere la definizione di arte e l'epitome dello sfondo dei tempi attraverso diversi linguaggi creativi. Sebbene gli artisti in questa mostra provengano da Paesi diversi, stiamo usando la stessa lingua: è l'Arte.

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Criticism

Maria Chiara Wang_________________Art Critic, The Eternal Present of Art

A60 Contemporary Art Space, entitling the collective exhibition hosted in its spaces La Vita dell'Arte, takes a clear position with respect to all those theories on the 'Death of Art' that - from Hegel to the present day - have crossed the modern and contemporary art scene. The variety of works selected for the exhibition - different for the expressive means used and for the subjects represented - testifies how much art is more alive and reactive than ever: art does not die, but transforms itself, evolves, keeps pace with its time, linked to the 'here and now', to a dimension of eternal present. We could therefore assert that, in a purely chronological sense, art is always contemporary and that - embracing Heraclitus' philosophy of perpetual becoming - its fluidity represents a symptom of its own vitality: only that which is alive is dynamic and changes.

Art is not only alive, but it gives life as it allows man to expand his potential and expand his limits, both at the level of thought (through the so-called 'classical' disciplines: painting and sculpture) and physically, thanks to the advent of digital and media art.

Likewise, from an expressive point of view, art as a language cannot die: languages are transformed, adapted, some terms become obsolete, others trivial, then there are neologisms, linguistic loans, poetic licenses... in short, man has always needed to express himself and to do so he time by time adopts the register and the methods that are most congenial to him. There are no dead languages, but languages that have evolved, vulgarized, whose matrix, however, remains indelible and whose traces are also evident in

the present.

Christine Macel, curator of the 57th Venice Biennale, has marked a positive and optimistic reversal of the trend compared to the critics and philosophers who preceded her and decreed the 'End of Art' or 'of certain Art' (Croce, Gentile, Argan, Adorno...). Viva Arte

Viva, a title awarded by her at the 2017 International Art Exhibition, is a hymn to the vivacity of art. Today, in light of the crisis linked to the pandemic, her call to 'a humanism in which the artistic act is at once an act of resistance, liberation and generosity' is more relevant than ever.

In conclusion, starting with the Avant-garde, continuing with Duchamp and Dadaism, passing through Pop Art and Arte Povera, to reach Digital Art, Art has never died, but has undergone an acceleration of its course and a shift of its position with respect to the border with reality, first approaching it, then overlapping it, and lately - thanks to new technologies - overcoming it.

The only episteme therefore: as long as Man lives, Art will live too.

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Maria Chiara Wang_________________Critico d'Arte, L’Eterno Presente dell’Arte

A60 Contemporary Art Space, intitolando la mostra collettiva ospitata nei propri spazi La Vita dell’Arte,

prende una posizione chiara rispetto a tutte quelle teorie sulla 'Morte dell'Arte' che - da Hegel ai giorni nostri - hanno attraversato il panorama artistico moderno e contemporaneo. La varietà delle opere selezionate per l'esposizione - differenti per i mezzi espressivi utilizzati e per i soggetti rappresentati - testimonia quanto l'arte sia più che mai viva e reattiva: l'arte non muore, ma si trasforma, si evolve, sta al passo col proprio tempo, legata al 'qui e ora', a una dimensione di eterno presente. Potremmo quindi asserire che, in senso puramente cronologico, l'arte è sempre contemporanea e che - abbracciando la filosofia del divenire perpetuo di Eraclito - la sua fluidità rappresenta un sintomo della propria vitalità: solo ciò che è vivo è dinamico e muta.

L'arte non solo è viva, ma dona vita in quanto permette all'uomo di ampliare le sue potenzialità e di espandere la propria limitatezza, sia a livello del pensiero (mediante le cosiddette discipline 'classiche': pittura e scultura), che fisico, grazie all'avvento dell'arte digitale e mediale.

Parimenti, da un punto di vista espressivo, l'arte come linguaggio non può morire: le lingue si trasformano, si adattano, alcuni termini diventano desueti, altri triti, banali, poi ci sono i neologismi, i prestiti linguistici, le licenze poetiche... insomma, l'uomo da sempre ha bisogno di esprimersi e per farlo adotta via via il registro e le modalità che gli sono più congeniali. Non esistono lingue morte, ma lingue che si sono evolute, volgarizzate, la cui matrice resta però indelebile e le

cui tracce sono evidenti anche nel presente. Christine Macel, curatrice della 57° Biennale di Venezia, ha segnato una positiva e ottimistica inversione di tendenza rispetto ai critici e ai filosofi che l'hanno preceduta e che hanno decretato la 'Fine dell'Arte' o di 'certa Arte' (Croce, Gentile, Argan, Adorno...). Viva Arte Viva, titolo da lei assegnato all'Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte del 2017, è un inno alla vivacità dell'arte. Oggi, alla luce della crisi legata alla pandemia, il suo richiamo a un umanesimo nel quale l'atto artistico è a un tempo atto di resistenza, di liberazione e di generosità risulta più che mai attuale.

Concludendo, a partire dalle Avanguardie, proseguendo con Duchamp e il Dadaismo, passando per la Pop Arte e l'Arte Povera, per giungere all'Arte Digitale, l'Arte non è mai morta, bensì ha subito un'accelerazione del proprio corso e uno spostamento della propria posizione rispetto al confine con la realtà, da prima avvicinandosi ad esso, poi sovrapponendosene, e per ultimo - grazie alle nuove tecnologie - superandolo.

Unico episteme quindi: finché vivrà l'Uomo, vivrà anche l'Arte.

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Andrea Bertoletti0111.

0111., Iron, plastic, clay, acrylic, cm 50x50, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Antonella CampiSecrets

Secrets, Etching (soft wax) es. 3/5, cm 50x35, 2016

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Anzhelika LebedevaFour Walls

Four Walls, Pastels on rough canvas, cm 50x40, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Arnaldo PomodoroBassorilievo

Bassorilievo, Bronze, cm 8.3x11.2, 1981

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Aleydis NissenOld Men’s Tales - Begin With a Blanket

Old Men’s Tales - Begin With a Blanket, Ink on Japanese paper, cm 50.4x35.6, 2018

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Ambra ScaliApparent Tranquility

Apparent Tranquility, Digital Art, cm 29.7x42, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Chen HaiModular Pleasure 20200416

Modular Pleasure 2020032016Mathematics 20191001

Modular Pleasure 20200416, Acrylic on canvas, cm 60x60, 2020

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Modular pleasure 2020032016, Acrylic on canvas, cm 60x60, 2020

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Mathematics 20191001, Acrylic on canvas, cm 50x60x3, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Chigusa KuraishiTemptation Blue Fly

Temptation Blue Fly, Tempera pastel, cm 50x50, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Chiara MastrangeloEquilibrium

Equilibrium, Egg, scotch, glass and brass, cm 49x7, 2018

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Cheng RuitaoKiss

Kiss, Acrylic on canvas, cm 50x40, 2017

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Cai YuFireworks at Down

Fireworks at Down, Etching 2/20, cm 30x35, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Elay LiBlue Unknown

Blue Unknown, Oil, brush, cobalt blue on canvas, cm 44x56, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Elena TortiaMiscrovo

Miscrovo, Comprehensive materials, cm 65x54 / 46x36, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Eleonora RinaldiHeart

Heart, Oil on canvas, cm 15x21, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Ettore SottsassCiao Ettore (Self Portrait)

Ciao Ettore (Self Portrait), Marker on paper, cm 19x21, 1997

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Francesco LibertiBismuth

Bismuth, Plaster, marble, metal, bismuth, acrylic, cm 23x14x10, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Fei TaishiUntitled

Untitled, Digital video, 06’16’’, 2017

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Giulia SeriBìos

Bìos, Watercolor, ink, glass, cm 40x50, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Hilary MooneySecure

Secure, Photography, cm 29x42, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Hong NingMade in China

Made in China, Digital video, 00’52’’, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Hu ShenglanZero

Zero, Digital video, 00’47’’, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Huang ShizunPresent

Present, Packaging paper, composite materials, size is changing, 2018/2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Işık KayaMonuments

Monuments, Digital video, 02’08’’, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Jérémy GriffaudThe Best Landscape

The Best Landscape, Digital video, 04’51’’, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Jin HankangBlu Ink 1/2Blu Ink 2/2

Blu Ink 1/2, Digital painting, cm 60x60, 2020

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Blu Ink 2/2, Digital painting, cm 60x60, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Liu LeiEndlessly No.5Endlessly No.9

Endlessly No.5, Sketch on paper, cm 27x27, 2019

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Endlessly No.9, Sketch on paper, cm 27x27, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.202003.07. - 15.07.2020 Laura Pagliai Three Dreams

Three Dreams, Ceramics, cm 10x11x17, cm 10x11x15, cm 11x12x23, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Matteo BenesperiDeux Fleurs

Deux Fleurs, Plexiglass, earth and 2 flowers, cm 25x12.5x9, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Martin Bruckmanns31_1735

31_1735, Photography, cm 35x50, 2018

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Michelangelo PistolettoThis is My Sign Art

This is My Sign Art, Marker on paper, cm 21x21, 1997

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Massimo OrsiniIn.Finito

In.Finito, Digital video, 04’22’’, 2007

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Marco Raffaele[G_R_12.08.2020_TTELLUB / BULLETT_0202.80.21_R_G]

[G_R_12.08.2020_TTELLUB / BULLETT_0202.80.21_R_G], Digital video, 05’13’’, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Monica SarandreaPalingenesi

Palingenesi, Ceramics, cm 29x14x15, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Massimiliano SartiRoom with Sofa

Cups, Teapot and Candle

Room with Sofa, Oil on canvas, cm 50x65, 2007

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Cups, Teapot and Candle, Calcografia, cm 35x50, 2016

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Natsuko SaitoTank

Tank, Photography, cm 100x70, 2018

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Sebastian De GobbisCodecity@Elegant

Codecity@Elegant, Numbered graphics on canvas, cm 53x51, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Simona Eva SaponaraWe Don’t Have Solutions

We Don’t Have Solutions, Installation, cm 300x50, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Sandra LapageCarapace

Carapace, Digital video, 04’39’’, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Sergio RagalziDue figure (Two figures)

Due figure (Two figures), Pencil on paper, cm 25x38, 1986

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Sabrina RomanòAudrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn, Collage technique on canvas, cm 60x80, 2016

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Shi WenmeiChairs

Chairs, Oil on canvas, cm 30x24, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Suduer YilikaThe Memory of the Feeling

The Memory of the Feeling, Digital video, 04’37’’, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Thomas Georg BlankHoney Hunter

Honey Hunter, Digital video, 09’47’’, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Umberto RiccelliMan on the Train

Vince Neil

Man on the Train, Charcoal on paper, cm 12x18, 2019

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Vince Neil, Charcoal on paper, cm 21x15, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Valerio AdamiInterior with Dancer and Piano

Interior with Dancer and Piano, Multiple es.V/XX, cm 50x70, 1970

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Viviana GrazianiFootsteps of Woman (in red)

Footsteps of Woman (in red), Mixed media on canvas, cm 40x40, 2010

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Vale PalmiRose Quartz

Rose Quartz, Digital video, 05’48’’, 2018

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Wang HuoJi Huo Fei Mo B07 Ji Huo Fei Mo B09 Ji Huo Fei Mo C11

Ji Huo Fei Mo B07, Plant ash on rice paper, cm 97x182, 2020

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Ji Huo Fei Mo B09, Plant ash on rice paper, cm 97x182, 2020

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Ji Huo Fei Mo C11, Plant ash on rice paper, cm 97x182, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Wu ZejianEgg 01 Egg 02

Egg 01, Oil on canvas, cm 55x35, 2020

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Egg 01, Oil on canvas, cm 30x30, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Xie LiliSkin 09

Skin 09, Art inkjet, cm 60x44, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Xu ZihanImprison

Where is it? Box

Imprison, Oil on canvas, cm 60x51, 2020

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Where is it?, Oil on canvas, cm 60x51, 2020

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Box, Oil on canvas, cm 40x45x2, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Zhao KunLost Items

Lost Items, Digital video, 03’51’’, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Zhao TianqiRealm of Jasper

Ancient Meaning and Present

Realm of Jasper, Comprehensive prints, cm 48x60, 2019

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Ancient Meaning and Present, Comprehensive prints, cm 58x60, 2019

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Zhang HaoyanDust Matter

No Alarms And No SurprisesCross the Bridge

Dust Matter, Digital video, 03’56’’, 2020

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No Alarms and No Surprises, Digital video, 02’44’’, 2020

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Cross the Bridge , Digital video, 02’44’’, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Zhang WenzhengParadise Lost

Paradise Lost, Digital video, 04’02’’, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Zhang XinwenThe Power of Sound

The Power of Sound, Digital video, 04’00’’, 2019

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Zhang YuHongmei Park

Hongmei Park, Digital video, 16’42’’, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Zheng BingBreak Free

Break Free, Photography, dimensions variable, 2020

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17.07. - 29.07.2020 Zheng YinMysterious Blood Cat Cat

Mysterious Blood Cat Cat, Prints on paper, cm 80x80, 2020

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03.07. - 15.07.2020 Zhou LeyiSelf-Reports for People with Mental Illness

Self-Reports for People with Mental Illness, Digital video, 05’39’’, 2020

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Andrea Bertoletti 14

Andrea Berto 191 Bertoletti works and lives near Milano. In 2015 he graduates at "Accademia di Belle Arti", Brera, in Graphic design, with honours. Since 2009 he creates murales and artistic installations in different Italian cities, he takes part in nationals and internationals events, expositions and art fairs. His artistic resource connected an autobiographical experience with natural elements and recycled materials. The artist tries to give weight and consistency to thoughts, memories and daily reflections, by using the space occupied by objects, an affective space. Many of these objects are researched in abandoned places or even the artworks themselves are

created in significant sites.

Antonella Campi 15

Antonella Campi was born in 1956. Lives and works in Ceriano Laghetto. In the 70s she worked as a graphic designer in Milan at a lithographic studio where she met the painter and graphic designer Giuseppe Venturini who brought her closer to painting. Since 2006 she has participated in some collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad, winning some prizes (City of San Fermo, Special Jury Prize in 2006 and Guglielmo II Trophy, Monreale in 2010). In addition to painting, she created sculptural works and engravings demonstrating a particular sensitivity.

Anzhelika Lebedeva 16

Anzhelika Lebedeva born in 1995 in Tver, Russia and raised in Moscow, Russia. Actually she lives and works in Firenze, Italy. She began studying art in her homeland where in 2012 enrolled in the Moscow Academic Art College (MAXY) in Moscow, Russia where she entered the Enviromental Design Department and studied for four years classic drawing techniques and last design innovations. Upon graduation she moved to Italy where entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and successively completed in Graphic Arts in 2020. In 2018, during her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence she won an Erasmus scholarship and consequencently spent one semestre in Antwerp studying Printmaking at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp. She gained broad experience in the world of contemporary art, such as collective exhibitions, participation in competitions and training courses in Russia and in Europe. Anzhelika Lebedeva's art is deep and complex: it investigates the manifestations of human nature that are usually not translatable into words, but which can instead be expressed through the work of art. Currently the artist's work is evolved around connection between reality and dream, between visible and non-tangible, between clear and confused, between physical and

metaphysical.

Arnaldo Pomodoro 17

Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 23 June 1926) is an Italian sculptor. He was born in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. He lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930–2002) was also a sculptor. Pomodoro designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The piece is topped with a fourteen-foot diameter crown of thorns which hovers over the figure of Christ. Some of Pomodoro's Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, American Republic Insurance Company in Des Moines, Iowa, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the University of California, Berkeley, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and the Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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Her art practice experiments with new routes by treasuring a sense of delicacy and volatility in human life. Not starving, but hungry; not preaching, but stepping up. She is always curious to explore dissatisfaction and human endeavour to change the accepted norms

and break away from constructs and conventions.

Ambra Scali 19

Obtained the diploma of "Master of Art and Decorator" at the secondary school, of the State Institute of Art of Imperia (2012-2013). Protracted his studies in the course of ''Painting'' at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sanremo achieving the Degree (2014-2017). Obtained the certificates for the courses ''Ceramics'' and ''2D e 3D'' a l'école supérieure Pavillon Bosio of Montecarlo (2016-2017). Registered at the Accademia Albertina of Turin for the specialization in theater scenography (2017). Obtained the certificates for the courses "3D Blender" and "France Language" at the Accademia Domani (2020). Currently I work as a stagist in the

make up department in Turin's Teatro Regio (To).

Chen Hai 20

Chen Hai, born 1971 in China, studied in the oil painting department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, focusing on the study of figurative painting and being well-known in the industry in his early career of creation. His works explored and showed the erosion of natural persons by the living environment in the Chinese

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context. In the subsequent artistic exploration, his works turns to the exploration of abstract art, gradually withdrawing some concrete elements. The works are mainly composed of natural body and geometric elements, constructing a cold, rational and hard-edged visual space. He currently lives in Shenzhen and has participated in several large-scale exhibitions of national or global solicit contributions every year. In terms of collection,his works are mainly collected by art galleries, as well as by individuals and enterprises. They also have a good record of transactions in some art auctions.

Besides being an artist, he is also engaged in art education.

Chigusa Kuraishi 23

Chigusa Kuraishi, born in Nagano in Japan. She graduated from the Musashino University of Art and obtained her specialization in Textile design. She began working as a designer and draftsman at Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. and collaborated with various stylists, including Issey Miyake. In 1990 she came to Italy and attended the University for Foreigners of Perugia, the city where he still lives and works. Since 1998 she has worked as a correspondent for The Hochi Shimbun and other newspapers. In addition to numerous solo exhibitions, in Asia and Europe, among other exhibits at the Kaneko Art G1 Gallery in Tokyo, at the ZAIM Collective in Yokohama and participates in the Collective of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. In 2015 she was present at the CCUP Expo Chinese pavilion in Milan. Her works are found in numerous private

collections in Italy, Japan, USA, Sweden and Germany.

Chiara Mastrangelo 24

Chiara Mastrangelo was born in Florence on June 11, 1994. Her artistic career began at the Porta Romana Art Institute and was then developed through studies undertaken at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where she received her bachelor of arts (first and second level degree). She participated in several collective exhibitions and won calls for tenders and competitions that brought her abroad taking part in international environment. The initial interest in painting was then extended to polymaterial sculpture and assembly work, thanks to the attention paid to waste and synthetic materials. The topics dealt with are various and their expression varies according to the medium used, but all her work focuses on a specific central node: what has value today? The concepts of body, life and dignity are particularly important for her research: although these concepts are basic principles for any living condition, they are often put aside from socio-economic, political or cultural issues in a world that, increasingly tied to a human logic of exploitation, production and consumption, is the background to the illusion that

its inhabitants are able to subvert the natural order of things.

Cheng Ruitao 25

Cheng Ruitao, born in 1988, at Xi'an China. Major of Bachelor degree is modern art, now living in Xi'an.Painting description: Under the modern background of explosive technology, saturated information, influent communication, in order to make the ancient art form of painting once more charming, it is

imperative to find the new existence value and meaning of painting.The two-dimensional visual art from classical realism to contemporary conceptual painting has never stopped developing,and exploring the infinite possibilities of painting is the source of my continuous creation. Selected exhibition: Horizontal View - Stuttgart - Sino - Germany Artists Exhibition, Art Bund "Nature and City" the First Season of Art Ecology Exhibition The Ancient City

on the Tableland·HOUTAN Contemporary Art Fair.

Cai Yu 26

Cai Yu, born in 1993 in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, China, is a printmaker, illustrator and painter. She studied at the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts. During her undergraduate studies, she became interested in the ancient and delicate technique of etching, therefore after that, she came to Italy to study etching techniques at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated in 2018 with the highest score. Currently she works and lives in Venice. From 2017, Her works have been exhibited in various national and international exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Serbia, China, Japan and in 2018, she was invited by the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation to Moscow. In 2019 she was invited to join the Italian National Association of Contemporary Engravers as the first and only Asian member of the Association. Then in 2019 as well, she held her personal exhibitions

three times with the name "Mechanical Jungle".

Elay Li 27

Elay Li was born on September 18, 1985 in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. Both of his parents are teachers of literature and his mother is also a pianist. He took piano classes in his early secondary school years. Though he was good at math, he decided to study at the Faculty of Art of the Nakhchivan State University. While studying at the university, he went to Baku to present his paintings to the professors of art. In 2007, he was accepted to the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated in 2010. In 2013, he decided to go to Europe for higher education and to look for new galleries. The same year, he started his master education in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. He graduated in 2017. He made his first personal exhibiton in 2017

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in the studio of Piero Manzoni. In 2019 His second personal exhibition opened in Palazzo Fondi in Napoli. He has research on monochrome figurative, which are mostly bodies, portraits which comes from monochrome surface with glitters of the brush tarces. He lives and works in Milano, since 2013.

Elena Tortia 28

Elena Tortia degree to Accademia Albertina Belle Arti in Turin and follows many videos workshop and contemporary art project. For example Solid Void with Diogene, Reso Meet Up in 2013, workshop Ars Captiva in Fondazione Merz, Video Art Workshop with visiting professor Masbedo in 2012. She starts from the work-building process, the end is never determined by the beginning. The everyday life is the basis for her search: how people influence the world, how they socially perceive themselves, how they condition one another. She pays attention to the micro impressions which may arise from the environment, searching for limit, decay, saturation and aesthetical downfall. The artistic practice moulds itself on the project - nothing is binding, only seriality; The search for intention is thus extended in space and time, it is not tied to the finished work

/ objects experience.

Eleonora Rinaldi 29

Eleonora Rinaldi lives and works in Italy, travelling between central Florence and the northern region Friuli Venezia Giulia, where she was born in 1994. Her work has been shown in Florence, in Marina di Campo (Isola d'Elba), and in Friuli Venezia Giulia, as part of collectives and with her first solo exhibition in Udine, 2018. She is a young painter whose aim is that of translating what she sees, and more, into the language of painting. Her work is driven by her continual 'need to paint, a never ending exercise'. She studied in Udine where she specialised in History of art, academic drawing and painting and, more recently, in 2020, she graduated cum laude from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Eleonora explores the possibilities offered by oil paints, and the objects and subjects she represents in an experimental research which meticulously uses

tools, techniques and gestures to communicate with the viewer.

Ettore Sottsass 30

Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century. His body of work included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home objects and office machine design, as well as many buildings and interiors. In 1939 he graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Torino. One of the most influential and important figures of the last century, Architect and Designer, he has participated in all radical movements

whether created from the 70s and 80s. In 1981 he founded the Memphis group, a group that has radically changed the scenario of Italian and world design. Honored with numerous international awards, was winner of the Golden Compass in 1959. He designed the first laptop "Valentina" by Olivetti. He died in 2007 at the age of

90 years.

Francesco Liberti 31

The artistic research of Francesco Liberti arises from the awareness that Art has a cathartic effect on human passions and, hence, it can dissolve the numbness which some issues stagnate in. However, as an artist, Liberti pursues a sort of formal and substantial purity: this peculiarity, while guaranteeing esthetic beauty, never forgets the importance of the message to be conveyed. His primary interest lies in exploring and investigating into the energies and vital forces animating the natural subsoil as well as, through a process of

metaphorization, in the strength of human individuals.

Fei Taishi 32

Artist, freelance photographer and artistic director, born in Beijing, China. Fei Taishi has exhibited at United Unions (New York, 2020); 2102 Gallery (Beijing, China, 2020); La Mama La Galleria (New York, 2019); Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY, 2018); Arthelix (New York, 2018); Rock Center (Syracuse, NY, 2018); Shoppingtown Mall (Dewitt, NY, 2017); Lightwork, (Syracuse, NY, 2016); Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA, 2015). He won the 2nd MEIHODO International Youth Visual Media Festival award, the 1st prize in Jingming Cup Photography Competition. His exhibitions have been report by major presses, including: artron.net, qq.com, sina.com.cn, The China Press, peopleart.tv, etc. He was the artistic director of The Arthouse, gallery assistant in Christie's, etc.

He is working at Spacestation Gallery in Beijing.

Giulia Seri 33

Giulia Seri is an italian artist, born in Rome in 1988. After a master degree in biology she studies painting at the Art Students League of New York (NY, USA). She wins in 2017 a fellowship and obtain the specialization at Il Bisonte International School of graphic art where she worked for the following two years as etching and silkscreen teacher. She took part in solo and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad and was awarded and shortlisted in national and international art prizes as "Jusùs Nunez International printmaking prize" ( Spain) , "biennale di Incisione Giuseppe Maestri", "Biennale internazionale di incisione Acquiterme" and " Fibrenus Carnello cArte ad arte". I n 2018 she is invited at the " Triennale européenne

de l'estampe contemporaine" i n Toulouse, France.

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possibility of gifts in the flow of interpersonal networks.

Işık Kaya 38

Işık Kaya was born in Turkey and currently lives in the USA, where she is pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. She holds a BA degree in Photography and Videography from Istanbul Bilgi University, and had worked as a freelance photographer/videographer for major art galleries, museums, and publications in Istanbul before moving to California. Through the use of lens-based media, Kaya observes the role of architecture in society and economy, and how it's used as a tool of capital. In her practice, she focuses on traces of economic infrastructures to examine power dynamics in built environments. By framing her subjects exclusively at night, she aims to uncover

the uncanny atmospheres and qualities caused by urbanization.

Jérémy Griffaud 39

Jérémy Griffaud lives and works in Nice, France. He graduated from Pavillon Bosio, art and sceno-graphy school of Monaco in 2017. He works essentially with drawing, video and installation. His research follows the popular culture spread by television, music industry and especially social medias. Subjects questionned are directly or indirectly linked to the construction of an image carrying an identity, which can be a self-representation, representation of a group or the representation of an ideology. He focuses essentially on the ways which individuals or groups use to differentiate themselves, through visuals processes or storytelling. His approach consists in diverting some stereotypes or codes to another context of reception and / or production. His creations are thus often parodic

or absurd.

Jin Hankang 40

Hankang Jin is an artist and interior designer currently based in Hangzhou, China. Studied in Politecnico di Milano and China Academy of Art. "In my works I'm trying to merge the emotional feelings into colors and brushstrokes through which to engage the outside world ."In addition to his profession as a spatial designer, Jin uses art as a practical way of expressing his thoughts and ideas about life. Digital is currently chosen as the main creative media for the need of instant expression and the unique randomness that created through it. At present, Jin focuses on his individual creation,

and also collaborates with other designers on space projects.

Hilary Mooney 34

Glasgow, Scotland, 1993, Hilary Mooney is an interdisciplinary artist. Through dismantling, collaging and erasing a multitude of single elements from brutalist structures, Mooney's practice illustrates and explores the way in which our lives are imposed upon by our surroundings. Her work has always been interested in realigning our relationship to the space we inhabit while providing a new grounding for experience of urban landscapes in general. Much of Mooney's work reshapes and contorts structures and environments, creating new perspectives and deconstructing the world into individual lyrical elements of perception.Mooney graduated with a BA in Photography at the University of West Scotland in 2016, where she specialised in analogue and digital image processes and was awarded the Principal's Award for Most Outstanding Academic Achievement and subsequently studied Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art. She is

currently based in Glasgow and Berlin.

Hong Ning 35

Hong Ning (b. 1996, Weihai) is a video artist, currently based in China. He received a bachelor degree in art studies in 2018. Since then, he has created works that blend videos, digital art and installation. The deconstruction of Lu Xun's literature is an

important motif in his works.

Hu Shenglan 36

Hu Shenglan was born in 2000 and now is studying in Italy. He went to Italy to study in October 2019. Before going to Italy, He studied architecture in China. During the time at school, he got experience of designig museums and community. He was praised by university teachers and exhibited works in the school's final exhibition. In spare time, He taught himself architectural hand-painting. He likes to copy some characteristic buildings. He also won the prize in the hand-painted competition held by the school. During the summer vacation in 2019, also studied in a studio in Changsha for two months.

Huang Shizun 37

Huang Shizun born in 1992 in Ningde City, Fujian Province, China, lives and works in Xiamen City. His works mainly include photography, video, and installation art. In 2018, he launched the long-term art project "Present", trying to seek the bond of affection and meaning through the flow of gifts, visualizing the relationship network. He wants to represent the consolidation of this relationship network based on the trust of people relationships and explore the

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Liu Lei 42

Liu Lei, born in 1995. She graduated from HuNan Normal University with a bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literature. At that time, She was particularly interested in ancient Chinese literature and She had read a lot of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign literature. She had been a Chinese teacher in a countryside for three years. It was a very important experience in her life. Now she is a second-year postgraduate student in the department of fine arts, school of architecture and art, Central South University, majoring in comprehensive materials. After learning painting for nearly two years, she became more interested in abstract art. In her works, she used the repeated arrangement of small vertical lines as her artistic language. Calligraphy has also been a great hobby of hers. Interestingly, before she was studying painting, she almost went to graduate school in calligraphy. No matter what, she would like to keep kind and hard work, she would like to create more works that others and herself will love.

Laura Pagliai 44

She was born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1972. After technical studies, She enrolled at some Art school and in 2012 she attended a painting course at the Art Students League of New York. She currently lives and works as a teacher in a school in Ravenna. She analyzes human existence from unusual observation points, at first glance curious and original but emotionally intense. She focus on clay characters immobilized in an atmosphere of melancholy meditation and material attachment. They represent humankind and its moods finding their own red balloon, a poetic element, a concept of dream, of the pursuit of happiness. There are those who have already found it, but do not know how to reach it because inside a maze, those who find it suddenly having the courage to turn the page. These little men are inserted in cubic-shaped structures, small houses that are a reference or starting point to dream. The cubes with decisive lines are the rigor and solidity to aim for. However, they present a broken corner, modified by events, even if you want you'll no longer find the perfect fit.

Matteo Benesperi 45

Matteo Benesperi (b. 1997, Pescia) is an Italian artist.He studied at the Artistic Lyceum in Pistoia until 2016, when he graduated in Figurative Arts. From 2016 to 2019 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Since 2019 he studies Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Currently, he lives and works between Tuscany and Bologna. During his studies, Benesperi has always given himself a certain freedom to «snoop around outside the sculpture classroom». For that reason, since 2017 he

performed for - and sometimes collaborated with - artists like Ai Weiwei, Stefano Giuri, Michael Fliri, Paolo Scheggi, Marcello Maloberti and institutions as Galleria Continua and Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci. In 2017 he participated in the group exhibition Flowers. Habitat in the spaces of Giardino dei Semplici

in Florence with his work Provisional title (2017).His poetic develops from an unceasing personal reflection and from debates with people who hang around with him about boundaries and contrasts between life and death, art and non - art, individual

and collectivity, ethics and aesthetics, sacred and profane, using media like sculpture, installation, photography and drawing.

Martin Bruckmanns 46

Martin Bruckmanns, 1969, is a German photographer who moved years ago to Italy to study Visual Communication at the Istituto Europeo di Design, Turin. Still based in Turin he collaborated for more than two decades with several advertising-studios. Currently

he's focusing more on artistic and fine-art photography.

Michelangelo Pistoletto 47

Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. These works quickly brought Pistoletto international acclaim, leading, in the sixties, to one-man shows in important galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. The Mirror Paintings are the foundation of his subsequent artistic output and theoretical thought. In 1965 and 1966 he produced a set of works entitled Minus Objects, considered fundamental to the birth of Arte Povera, an art movement of which Pistoletto was an animating force and a protagonist. Between 2018 and 2020 the activity of the Third Paradise has further intensified, in particular through the development of an international network of Embassies and Forums. In these same years he has been particularly active in various South American countries, with personal exhibitions and a series of initiatives linked to the Third Paradise.

Massimo Orsini 48

He was born in 1967. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce and experimental engraving techniques at the International School of Graphics in Venice. In 1993 he taught engraving techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce. From

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1992 to 1995 he was part of the contemporary research group The artistic province operating in Salento. Since 2001 he has been teaching Artistic Anatomy and Elements of Morphology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he proposes a new semiotic and symbolic research program on the body in relation to the artist's work. literal sense that critical of the term, draws attention to the need to initiate students to an inner reconstruction of the ethical and aesthetic sense of the work in relation to their own body. In the same years he developed and experimented with a new method of creative drawing in the dark programmed in pre-established phases which aimed at studying training in relation to formativity. These studies are collected in the essays The body of the sign and Form and soul. Since 2008 he has presented a new experimental research program in the Biennium of Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages, collaborating in the years 2008 and 2009 to found the new headquarters of the Academy of Fine Arts at the L. Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, where proposes an experimental teaching through a multimedia artistic action. In the years 2013/2014/2015 he held, together with M. Raffaele and V. Ventimiglia, "STARTpoint - CONTEMPORARY DRAWING", Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He exhibits in public and private

spaces in Italy and abroad. He lives and works in Florence.

Marco Raffaele 49

Born in Turin in 1965. Lives and works in Vinci (FI). He teaches in the Biennium of Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He uses different expressive media, from painting to photography to video, finalizing his artistic practice in site-specific projects / environmental installations. He has participated in several personal and collective art exhibitions, in public and private spaces, among the main ones: 2019 - 1PERTESTI minor, [TTT] Project - number zero, MACRO ASILO, Museum of contemporary art in Rome. - ONE BELT ONE ROAD, ALL STREETS, Sino / Italian Contemporary Art Exibition, Changsha, Shanghai (China). - TTT Project prewiew to 19mq, Prato (PO). 2018 - NOPLACE4 Santo Stefano di Magra. 2017 - ART AND TECHNOLOGY. Italian contemporary art, curated by Riccardo Farinelli, LAN WAN ART PARK MUSEUM, Qingdao, China. - DE ACADEMIA, edited by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. 2014 - VISUAL FIELD, collaboration with Bianco-Valente, curated by Pietro Gaglianò coordination Francesca Biagini, SRISA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Florence. - TOTAL SPACE / TOTAL SPACE, curated by Alessandra Scappini, Sincresis - D'A - Art space, Empoli (FI). 2013/15 - LIBROPERA, the artist's book in the digital age, traveling exhibition in the locations: Palazzo Beccai, Academy of the Arts of Design, Florence / Palazzo Pretorio, Figline

Valdarno (FI) / Urbino.

Monica Sarandrea 50

Monica Sarandrea (Rome, 1974) attends the art courses at La Porta Blu Art School from 2004, where she is tutored by artist Alberto Parres. She develops her painting skills working on chromatic and depth of field, gradually moving from figurative art to abstraction. She also studies engraving with artist Roberto Pace and from 2011 she starts working on sculpture focusing on materials such as clay, plaster and marble. From 2011 to 2013 she takes part in marble workshops in the island of Thassos (Greece). From 2006 she takes part in exhibitions in art galleries and institutional spaces, contemporary art festivals in Italy and abroad including RvB Arts, MICRO Arti Visive, Centro Culturale Gabriella Ferri, Ex Dogana (Rome), Ca' dei Carraresi (Treviso, Italy), Artbox Project (New York), Galerie L'Atelier (Hünibach, Switzerland), Sculptures in Chigi Park (Ariccia). From 2010 her solo exhibitions take place in art galleries and institutional spaces such as Il Laboratorio, Creative Room Art Gallery (Rome), Villa Corsini-Sarsina (Anzio), Sala Orsini (Formello) and Studio Tiepolo (Rome). In 2016 two sculptures enter the permanent collection at MAAM - Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove, Rome. Her works can be found in private

collections in Italy and Europe. She lives and works in Rome.

Massimiliano Sarti 51

Painter, Engraver and Philosopher Massimiliano Sarti was born in 1980 in London from Italian parents, but he grew up and lived in Italy, in Bologna, where he obtained his Diploma of Maturity at the State Institute of Art and a Laura in Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. After the Art Institute he developed various drawing and painting techniques, such as oil, watercolor, wax, charcoal, chalk, pencil and collage. In 2009 he began a Counselling at Arte-Terapia at the Gestalt Institute in Bologna. In 2015 he frequented a printing shop in Modena where methods of printing with movable characters are used, "Officina Typo". In 2016 he became a student of the master of engraving Clemente Fava, with whom he experimented with different techniques of engraving and woodcut. In 2019, he became a pupil of the master Agim Sako, with

whom he continues his work.

Natsuko Saito 53

Natsuko Saito (Tokyo, 1982) lives in Florence. Saito received her B.F.A. (2005) and an M.F.A. (2008) in Japan. Saito graduated from

the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence (2020).

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Sebastian De Gobbis 54

Born December 24, 1971 in Beirut.It is the whole of humanity, current, in ways and in feelings that emerges from the drafting of these works, as reality Human condition of repression of the human condition. Enters the human by exposing one theme that makes you meditate. Stylistic balance and coloristic quality are constantly maintained in all its works amalgamating with the geography of feelings, drafts of solids and voids that pose dramatic silences detectors. A theme that has its roots in current affairs and tends to communicate the psychophysical unease of times of today with a correspondence between the position represented and the emotional suggestion of the composition. The artist in a continuous research aimed at expressing the universal feelings of the human live from all latitudes, is a profound observer of the psyche and spy and describe the various changes and still connected aspect and different but necessary settings, and creating an atmosphere of the unconscious and of encounters among the various artistic formulas that generate vitality. Sebastian painter of renowned fame international has made alive and tangible glimpses of a world that escapes the hasty distraction of majority.There have been many personal and collective exhibitions and abroad as well as awards and awards and publications on the page of the most important and prestigious magazines and publishing

houses of sector.

Simona Eva Saponara 55

Simona Eva Saponara is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Florence, Italy. She works in publishing, cultural, communication and art projects. She studied "Technology for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage" and "Editing - Innovative Marketing for Publishing" in Florence. Since 2012 she has been working as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator for Studio Prodesign Milano and as freelance. Super Cavalli Parade for Toast Project Space - Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze, 2020; Le forme dell'acqua - Museo di Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2020 Special Mention; Divago - Genova, 2019; Fiorart - Le forme dell'acqua - Granaio Granducale, Tenuta Lorenese Grosseto, 2019 Special Mention; Rospigliosi Art Prize - Arte cibo dell'anima - Palazzo Rospigliosi Zagarolo, Roma, 2018; Amarone "Vigneti di Jago" DOCG 2012, Cantina Valpolicella Negrar, 2016 Gold Mention; Whakiti. Una scuola per Haiti - MUBA Rotonda della Besana, Milano, 2014; Orto d'Artista - Milano, 2014; BLOOM 2 - San Vito

di Leguzzano, Vicenza, 2012.

Sandra Lapage 56

Sandra Lapage got her MFA from the Maine College of Art in 2013. Sandra has participated in collective and solo exhibitions in Brazil, Europe and the United States, notedly at the Brazilian Embassy in Brussels (2007), at the Ribeirão Preto Art Museum for the 2006 exhibition program, at the Centro Cultural São Paulo in 2012, at the Gowanus Loft (NYC) in 2014 and 2015, at the Blumenau Art Museum and Aura Arte Contemporânea (São Paulo) in 2018, and Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto and Andrea Rehder Arte Contemporânea (São Paulo) in 2019. Sandra has resided at various institutions such as the Fondation Château Mercier (Switzerland) and NARS Foundation (NYC) for 6 months in 2014, Elefante Centro Cultural (Brasilia) in 2015, Camac Art Center (France) and Paul Artspace (USA) in 2016, Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Art in 2017 and was awarded an artist residency at Monson Arts in 2019, and will attend ART OMI 2020. Sandra was a visiting artist at the Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia) and Maine College of Art (Portland), United States. In addition to her solo work, she develops a collaborative work in the collective Eclusa and runs, with 9 other artists and designers, the independent art space Vão in São Paulo. "My work deals with the illusion of control: in my point of view, control is an illusion, and through the work, I exercise the acceptance of what everyday and discarded materials reveal, from accidents to new processes. The vital materiality of quotidian objects is my starting point and leads me to a reevaluation of the dichotomy between life / inanimate, human/nature. I believe that a shift in hierarchy can result in a greener approach to self, culture and nature. In the emergence of the unconscious, I am interested in the appearance of primal forms, remnants of timeless myths and ceremonial objects, and in this sense I refer to Joseph Beuys' shamanic practice: by limiting the presence of consciousness and the censoring ego in the work, I hope to channel an essential poetry. My work is made of impurity, of error, of failure, of frustration, of insubordination, of excessiveness and of organic

accumulation."

Sergio Ragalzi 57

Sergio Ragalzi was born in Turin, where he still lives and works. He debuted on Italian art scene in the '84 with "Extemporanea", the exhibition that consecrates the reopening of the historic Roman gallery "Attico" of Fabio Sargentini. In 1985 he participated at "Anniottanta" exhibition at Gallery of Modern Art of Bologna. The same year he was invited to the Art Museum of Sao Paulo and some of his works were presented in the exhibition "L'Italie Aujourd'hui" at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain in Nice, curated by AB Oliva, Maurizio Calvesi, Antonio Del Guercio and Filiberto Menna. In 1986 he participated in the itineranr exhibition

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Hannover - Frankfurt - Vienna "Aspekte italienischen der Kunst 1960-1985" curated by Renato Barilli. In 1992 he participated in the "Avanguardie in Piemonte 1960 - 1990" at the Municipal Gallery of Alessandria. In 1996 he participated in the XII Art Quadrennial at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 1997 he won the Prize of the Camera dei Deputati, in that occasion it was acquired one of his works for the collection of the Camera and, in the same year, a catalog and an exhibition have been held in his honor. In 2001, his sculptures are displayed at the exhibition "The Italian sculpture of the twentieth century, Italy in Japan from 2001 to 2002" in the three Japanese museums of modern art in Ibaraki, Yokohama, and Kagoshima. In 2007 he organized a retrospective exhibition at Pagliero factory in Castellamonte (To). The most important exhibitions of 2008 are four: Acquario alla galleria Allegretti in Turin, Voliere alla Galleria Delloro in Rome, Due insetti neri at Castello di Rivara, contemporary art centre and Pioggia Nera in Milan, at Grossetti Contemporary Art. The research that underlies the work of Sergio Ragalzi is the attempt to shape the innermost unconscious of man, that the artist resolves in the revelation of a lucid nightmare.

Sabrina Romanò 58

Sabrina Romanò was born in Tradate in 1967. After her artistic studies and graduation in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan has developed its own artistic research exhibiting in solo and group

exhibitions since 2000.

Shi Wenmei 59

Shi wenmei, Contemporary Artists, born in China, now living in Shenzhen, China, mainly engaged in the creation of the Chinese state in the early years, and in recent years have been involved in a wide range of works, mainly engaged in oil painting, composite materials, silk-colored, and other works, the creation theme generally pays attention to many aspects is the history, the myth fable and the human and the natural relations and the human in the society one kind of normal condition. Works in Australia, Japan, Beijing,

Shanghai, Jinan, Wuhan, Shenzhen and other places on display.

Suduer Yilika 60

Sudure Yilika was born in Inner Mongolia in 1997. Graduated from Henan huanghuan college in 2019, majoring in 3D animation. During her undergraduate period, she participated in the post production of TV series "Flying Boy" and "Six Finger Qin Devil" in Beijing Film and Television Company. In 2017, she participated in the post production of the movie "Psychological Crime", which was released in the same year. In 2018, Li Yang, the third generation

disciple of Japanese cartoonist Mr. Tezuka Osamu, was interviewed and reported at Phoenix TV base in Beijing. In November 2019, she moved to Italy to study Italian language and culture in Florence. During her study in Florence, she was influenced and influenced by Italian culture. Now she is trying different artistic creation and

actively participating in various types of art exhibitions.

Thomas Georg Blank 61

Thomas Georg Blank, born 1990 in Germany, was first trained in cultural and media education focusing on photography before studying art in Karlsruhe and Mexico City. Moving betwen research and speculative interpretations, Blank explores how spatial and habitual representations of individual and colective imagination afect the world we're living in and vice versa. By creating multidirectional, spatial naratives he ofers spectators a space for reconfiguration and change of perspective. He curently lives in Darmstadt and San Diego and has had several exhibitions in galeries and museums, including Hek Basel, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Kunsthale Darmstadt, Kunstverein Pforzheim, Blue Star Contemporary and C/O Berlin. His works have been awarded manytimes and he has been a scholar of DAAD as a research fellow at UC San Diego's Center for Human Imagination. Besides his work as an artist he is a cultural producer in a wide variety offields. During the last years he organized shows and lectures with his colective sspatz, started a residency program as a founding member of Atelier Siegele and realized a 100 day long art festival as a board

member of Darmstaedter Sezesion.

Umberto Riccelli 62

Umberto Riccelli was born in Naples on Sep 02 1980, and still lives in the same city. He started drawing during his childood, attended one year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples at the age of 21, and then continued as a self-taught painter. He took part to some art

exhibitions at the Palace of Arts in Naples between 2015 and 2019.

Valerio Adami 64

Valerio Adami (born 17 March 1935) is an Italian painter. Educated at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, he has since worked in both London and Paris. His art is influenced by Pop Art. Adami was born in Bologna. In 1945, at the age of ten, he began to study painting under the instruction of Felice Carena. He was accepted into the Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in 1951, and there studied as a draughtsman until 1954 in the studio of Achille Funi. In 1955 he went to Paris, where he met and was influenced by Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. His first solo exhibition came in 1959 in Milan. In his early career, Adami's works were expressionistic, but by the

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time of his second exhibition in 1964 at Kassel, he had developed a style of painting reminiscent of French cloisonnism, featuring regions of flat color bordered by black lines. Unlike Gauguin, however, Adami's subjects were highly stylized and often presented in fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms (1965). In the 1970s, Adami began to address politics in his art, and incorporated subject matter such as modern European history, literature, philosophy, and mythology. In 1971, he and his brother Gioncarlo created the film Vacances dans le désert. In 1974 he illustrated a Helmut Heissenbuttel poem, Occasional Poem No. 27. Ten Lessons on the Reich with ten original lithographs (Gallerie Maeght). In 1975, the philosopher Jacques Derrida devoted a long essay, "+R: Into the Bargain", to Adami's work, using an exhibition of Adami's drawings as a pretext to discuss the function of "the letter and the proper name in painting", with reference to "narration, technical reproduction, ideology, the phoneme, the biographeme, and politics". There were four retrospective exhibits of Adami's work between 1985 and 1998. They were held in Paris, the Centre Julio-Gonzalez de Valence (Spain), Tel Aviv, and Buenos Aires. In 2010, the Boca Raton Museum of Art devoted a special exhibit to Adami's

paintings and drawings.

Viviana Graziani 65

She was born in Forli, lives and works in Saronno. She has gone through different seasons, her attentive gaze, precise in the direction of interiority. The moment of her favorite work is the one in which, suddenly the image appears and finally she can translate and express the memory that takes place in a childhood that is distant and present at the same time, what seems to represent the original core of her creative energy. Her painting is full of symbols, the images reveal secret allusions, the figures are suspended in the air, enclosed

in themselves, they float as if the air were alive and tell their story.

Vale Palmi 66

Born in 1994, lives and works in Bologna. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, since 2018 she has participated in national and international (Italy, Austria, Lebanon) solo and group exhibitions, and her works have been exhibited at contemporary art fairs. Among the most important recognitions are the Zucchelli Prize (2019), the purchase of the series of five photographs of the performance "Sub-Limo/Sub- Limen" by the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore in Bologna for the gallery collection; and the solo show "Contra me Giusto" at Labs Gallery in Bologna.Vale Palmi works with many different media including installation, sculpture, painting, photography, video, performance. She prefers organic materials (Blood and Mud) accompanied by cooler materials (iron galvanized in its various declensions). With these

elements she denounces the Virtuality of Life of a Developed World that denies contact with Death, Material and Spirituality.The subject of her works are Corpses, of which she investigates Life after Life, trying to study - spying through the Corner - their location in the Afterlife.

Wang Huo 67

He was born in Wudang Mountain, Hubei, China in 1974. He specializes in comprehensive Tempera paintings, and his paintings explore metaphysical chaotic art from Qi ink painting and caligraphy. He studies the integration and rejection properties ofTempera with ink and lacquer, and the existing form of polymorphism. At the age offive, he began learning ink painting from his father. He analyzesd traditions and focused on painting by heart. He absorbed the painting techniques and creative state of predecessors such as Huang Binhong and Zhang Daqian. He was deeply influenced by the integration of Chinese and Western painting charm of Zhao Wuji and Zhu Dequn, seeking a new breakthrough of the integration by the light and vigorous characteristics of dry brushworkand color technique. Constantly expanding the mind to create, His metaphysical study of abstraction was influenced by Vasily Kandinsky, Picasso, the integration of Chinese caligraphy and seal cuting online shape extension makes him create a starting point in the field of chaotic art. Through the unique form of expression and the existence caused by the colision between contemporary materials and traditional media, the combination of multiples obtained a manifestation of consciousness and material as each other's status, leading to a visual interpretation

of the caligraphic and material spirit.

Wu Zejian 70

Wu Zejian was born in Guangdong, China. He has been painting since childhood. From 2013, he studied painting at the Art School of Central China Normal University. After graduating in 2017, he continued to study painting at Carrara Academy of Fine Arts. During this period, because of the change of concept, he began to look for some new experiences from ordinary life, and his works technically return to the essence of painting.

Xie Lili 72

Lili Xie is a fine artist, who works in photography, performance and short films. Her introverted personality and family education made her ignore her individual's self. She lost herself in reality while constructed herself in her works. Lili is full of vague, skeptical cognition and uncertainty of herself, which gives her imagination as well. Lili Xie was born in Zhe Jiang in 1993, based in Shanghai.

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She received her BA in Intermedia Art from China Academy of Art in 2016, and earned MFA in Fine Art Photography from University

for The Creative Art, the UK, in 2019.

Xu Zihan 73

Zihan is an artist who is focusing on personal narrative creation. She received a B.F.A (2018) from the Maryland Institute College of Art (graduate with honors). After graduation, she teaches painting at the echo art studio until now. Zihan's works are mainly about the personal feelings, relationship with people and myself, social phenomena, the individual psychological changes and the complex, paradoxical interaction among the crowd in a contemporary context, she draws on narrative and rhetorical modes - including allegory and metaphor - to explore such themes as game, identity, self cognition, balance and imbalance. Zihan works across various media, including painting, installation, drawings, ceramic, and comics,etc. She set up catcan studio with friends in 2019, and attended Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tank Art Festival in 2019, she will take part in ELCAF in 2020. Zihan currently lives and works in

Beijing.

Zhao Kun 76

Born in Tianjin, with the support of her parents, she has been in contact with painting since she was 12 years old. Since 2018, she is studying at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. Currently studying and living in Italy. In addition to recording life and expressing personal emotions through painting, she also made various attempts in creation, invold sculpture, video, performance, installation and other art forms. Constantly focus on daily life phenomena and social issues, but not to define something through the work. Instead, and to use a unique artistic language to record personal views and feelings, her mind and thought can create and connect with audience's

emotion and interaction through information from her works.

Zhao Tianqi 77

Contemporary Concept artist, Born in Changsha, Hunan,in 1995.His creation comes from the fusion of modern technology and traditional ideas. 2015 national 3D modeling competition for college students, 2016 International Youth Art Exhibition, 2017 Academic Exhibition of the name of nature, 2017 painting method, 2017 outstanding graduation exhibition of China Academy of Fine Arts, 2018 national comprehensive painting Biennale, 2019 China Japan and paper exhibition, 2019 Art Expo, 2019 13th National Art Exhibition (watercolor), 2019 "One Belt, One Road" Shanghai International Art Fair, 2019 "Redefine" Shanghai International

Youth Art Fair

Zhang Haoyan 79

Zhang Haoyan, born 1996 in China, had two years of Fine Art education at the University of the Arts London. His works include installation, painting, film and performance art. Zhang Haoyan mainly explores sensory enjoyment and narrative environment. They are based on an understanding of the multiple relationships between time, space and the natural environment. Zhang Haoyan currently lives in Shanghai, China, and has had several exhibitions in galleries, including the Crypt Gallery, Ugly Duck Gallery, 5th

Base Gallery in London.

Zhang Wenzheng 82

Contemporary artist, born in Tangshan, Hebei, in 1997, he studied painting from an early age. In his early studies and creations, his works were ma inly displayed in the form of traditional realistic sculptures. And participated in the design and creation of ice and snow sculptures and buildings in "Harbin Ice and Snow WorId" many times. In his art studies and creations in recent years, his art direction mainly turned to contemporary art, and his works were mainly displayed in the form of art installations, videos and performance arts. In his current artistic creation, he mainly focuses on the relationship between human beings and natural ecology. Because the artist was born in a heavily polluted heavy industry city, the natural environment had a great impact on him dur ing his childhood. Through some of his works, we can exper ience "The Impact of Natural Ecology on Humans" and "The Impact of

Humans on Natural Ecology".

Zhang Xinwen 83

She is studying ceramics in the Royal College of Art. Her work relates to Chinese calligraphy and Chinese ink painting. The elegant brush strokes of Chinese calligraphy and the "boneless" painting style of Chinese painting gave her a lot of inspirations. Because her major was oil painting in BA, She found that the Chinese ink painting use different way to express the "space" compared with Western painting. Moving in the direction of Chinese culture, her work focus on how to combine the traditional Chinese painting method that completely abandoned the 3D concept with the real 3D space, and turn the brush stroke into a stereoscopic image. It leads people's eyes to move through different spaces with complex shapes. There is a hidden symbol of an infinite loop in Chinese painting that is the basic ceramic form of her work where it comes from. It looks like a fermented bubble, and the free strokes and patterns shuttle in the open sphere and close sphere. For the color of the brush strokes and patterns, She has not pursued the original colour from the Chinese ink paintings. For her, the blue and white

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over the white of the porcelain clay release more amazing effects.

Zhang Yu 84

An artist by training, Yu Zhang finished her PhD in 2017 on the theory and artistic practice of interactive technologies for public, large-scale installations. In 2017, Yu Zhang launched STUDIOÜ and she approaches visual art with mixed reality installations and projections, sensor-based interactives, and computational arts. She roots her artistic intent in the symbolism of Asian traditions and transforms the artistic unpacking of drama and cultural signifiers into experiences of interactivity and connectivity that ultimately bridge artistic expression and audience experience. Starting from interactivity, she constructs layers of different connections between artist, artwork, audience, and the environment to express how far such connectivity can impact and reshape the structure and relations

of objects, space, and time within a dynamic audience experience.

Zheng Bing 85

Zheng Bing was born in China and now lives in Florence. During her stay in China, she has traveled to all the provinces of the country. She is obsessed with dialogue with people from different cultures and different levels. She has always opposed the solidification of creative styles and explored the practical methods of multi-media art. Her works touch on sculpture, painting, installation, image and other art forms. She often focuses on the realities of everyday life, on those things that are marginal or not easily defined, looking for artistic expression between everyday

experience and unspeakable perception.

Zheng Yin 86

Bachelor degree of Dalian Institute of industrial art and Information Engineering (Digital Media Art) Researcher of painting and calligraphy art of Modern Management University. Member of Liaoning Artists Association comprehensive painting species art committee member of China pen and Ink Painting Association member of China freehand Oil Painting Research Association

member of China Buddhist art calligraphy and Painting Academy.

Zhou Leyi 87

Born in Yichang, Hubei in 1995, living and studying in Venice. She studied visual communication and graphic advertising design, she once worked as a graphic designer for TRK space design company, responsible for the mall logo design, visual identity design, poster production. She often pay attention to the life of vulnerable groups in society, so as to understand the rapid spread of mental illness in

the current society. She takes inspiration from her own experiences and observations to explore how people are constantly changing in the social structure and environment.

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