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Art Miami
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BOOTH AM219
For Art Miami 2021, HOFA Gallery is proposing an exhibition centred around the evolution of visual language across different parts of the world within both emerging and established practices. Through the works in this booth, artists challenge the established modes of representation, expose contemporary culture and invite us to reflect and bring more awareness to the meaning of language, both linguistic and visual. Some of our selected artist includes Banksy, Ilhwa Kim and Joseph Klibansky.
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INVADER
Invader (French, b.1969), also known as Space Invader, is an Urban artist originally based in Paris. He affixes mosaic images of characters from the 1970s video game “Space Invaders" in cities around the world. Once a work is completed, Invader records it as an "invasion" and creates accompanying maps and reference books to indicate the location of each piece. Invader began these urban, outdoor installations in Paris in 1998, and continued to "invade" 31 other cities in France, followed by an additional 22 cities across Europe. Currently, cities in the United States, Canada, Asia, and Australia are also home to examples of Invader's work.
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Jan Kaláb
Jan Kaláb, a graffiti pioneer in his native Czech Republic made his name on the European art scene originally under the name Cakes in the late 90s. After establishing himself on the Old Continent he ventured to New York, where he collaborated on numerous projects with the kings of the graffiti scene at the time - Key and Rome.
Jan found a new way to push his own limits and challenge himself by making 3-D Graffiti. Under the name of Point, he sculpted huge abstracts letters he chose to put in the streets and on the walls. This was another form of graffiti, in daylight, and without a spray, but truthful to the spirit of competition and innovation of the urban scene.
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Ilhwa Kim
Ilhwa Kim (b. 1967 in South Korea) creates works that are composed of tens of thousands of seed units. Each seed unit has a combination of straight lines and circles, which compose a tiny single universe. The materials are created personally for every single universe. The Korean artist dyes each sheet of paper by hand with thousands of different colours cutting and rolling the layers of paper to make them rigid. It gives Kim an emotional bonding to every single universe. Not a single universe has the same shape, look or colour in her work.
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Pan Jian
Lightening's Edge 20200106, 2020Internationally recognised Pan Jian (b. 1976 in Shandong Province, China) has been acquired by major collectors such as Uli Sigg and DSL Collection. Pan Jian conjures up elements from the tradition of Chinese landscape painting with reminiscences of Rothko’s meditative quality, Yves Klein’s deep blue and Zao Wou-Ki’s flowing energy. By painting chaotic silhouettes of leaves and branches, Pan Jian explores uninhabited deep forests through an electrifying and intense colour palette, creating landscapes that are both symbolic and real at once.
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Joseph Klibansky
Joseph Klibansky (b. 1984 in Cape Town) is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work examines the relationship between a thing and its essence, between what we see and what an image implies. The sense of precarious equilibrium that can be found in his recent paintings and in his sculptures reveals just how sadly dystopian an image can be that, at first glance, appears happily utopian. It thus reveals how utopia and dystopia can coexist within the same image.
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Madsaki
Born in Osaka in 1974 and relocated to New Jersey at a young age, MADSAKI graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York (BFA, 1996) and was a member of international artist group Barnstormers before starting his solo career. Both satirical and sentimental, aggressive yet vulnerable, MADSAKI has used graffiti influences as a way to express the frustration and alienation of his bicultural identity and to critique the value of art.
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Damien Hirst
Heart Spin PaintingDamien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995.
Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. Explaining: “Art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else,” Hirst’s work investigates and challenges contemporary belief systems, and dissects the tensions and uncertainties at the heart of human experience
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Banksy
Girl With Balloon, 2004Banksy (British, born c. 1974/1975) is one of the most well-known, if anonymous, street artists working today. Banksy, the pseudonym adopted by the artist, guards his privacy and the details of his life remain largely unknown to the public. He initially garnered fame for his grafitti, which combines spray paint and stenciling techniques with commercial, political, and contemporary imagery, infused with ironic social commentary and humor. His work first began appearing on walls in and around Bristol and London’s Shoreditch district during the mid-1990s, and he has since gone on to place images on the sides of corporate buildings, billboards, and the Israeli West Bank wall.
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Tomoo Gokita
Housewife, 2016Tomoo Gokita is a contemporary Japanese artist best known for his monochrome abstract figurative paintings and prints. His signature gray scale compositions are often based on found photographs and old magazine illustrations featuring a central figure whose face is obliterated.
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Josh Sperling
Red Squiggle, 2015Josh Sperling draws on the language of minimalist painting from the 1960s and 1970s, primarily working with shaped canvases. He crafts intricate plywood supports over which canvas is stretched and painted in a signature palette of saturated, sometimes clashing colors. In their three-dimensionality, his works blur the lines between painting and sculpture, image and object. Mining a wide range of sources, from design to art history, Sperling has crafted a unique visual vocabulary remarkable for its expressive quality and irrepressible energy.
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RETNA
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, RETNA is known to be one of the world's most popular graffiti artists whose work and fame has successfully encompassed the worlds of contemporary art and popular culture. He accesses spaces between text-based imagery and abstract, emotive states with his mysterious lines of verse. Drawing from Egyptian, Hebrew, Roman and Arabic calligraphy, RETNA created the unique script through which he has consistently expressed his emotions and experiences in totemic symbologies which, though masked in ciphers, pay homage to the shared and unifying elements of human existence over the course of his artistic career.
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Adam Parker Smith
Beautiful Ones, 2019Adam Parker Smith was born in Arcata, CA in 1978. He is based in Brooklyn, NY.
He received his BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his MFA from Tyler School of Art. Smith has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Atlantic Center for the Arts. -
Maxim Wakulschik
Maxim Wakultschik's art consists of mathematically precise and accurate constructions that create formal order from a chaos of independent elements. In his complex and multilayered objects, he explores the interplay between light and shadow, surface structure and colour vibration. Focusing on the effect of the reflection of the ambient light results in oscillating variations of reality that constantly challenge us to a proactive approach. His works perpetually change as the slightest movement, the smallest alteration in perspective leads to stunning new impressions, turning his works into kinetic objects. The edges of reality and illusion are blurred and become flexible constructs of the individual, which constantly challenge us to push the boundaries of our perception.
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Angela Santana
Angela Santana is a Swiss artist based in New York. Santana creates large scale oil paintings and explores the implications connected to the historical representation of the female body and its lasting influence into the digital age. While the female body is at the center of her work, she is using it as a canvas to speak about a myriad of social and political topics, agendas and discussions reverberating in our ongoing cultural conversations. It is also a critical look at the human figure in consumerism culture. Just like her multi-layered paintings themselves, the symbolism and meaning is not only what the surface promises in its often lush colors - it is deeply rooted in protest.
Her unique technique is a synergetic combination of digital and classical painting: Creating a new narrative and transforming the object to become a subject.The permanence and size in her work are an antagonism to the fleeting digital thumbnail. This process allows her to break tradition and question the status quo.
Santana is currently continuing her oil paintings series and expanding her artistic practice with sculptures. Angela Santana’s work has been featured in printed and digital magazines and platforms such as Artnet, Vogue, The Art Gorgeous, Novembre Magazine, Untitled Magazine, Art She Says Magazine and many more.
Her works have been exhibited in shows across New York, Europe and the United States, United Kingdom and Germany as well as fairs such as Art Miami and Zona Maco in Mexico City. Santana's Solo Show opens in May 2022 in Mayfair London.
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Lyès
Seduced by the whole existence and the love of the universe, Lyès celebrates the energy of life. Inspired by mindfulness and spirituality, the artist is attracted by reality and our perceptions of it.
Lyès’ work, named 'Source', shows the energy and the natural forces present in all people, all places, all times and all materials. The artist portrays the celebration of life using wall sculptures and installations, with a prediction for monumental artworks.
His celestial inspiration invites people to connect to their 'Source' through a sensorial art experience. Steeped in spirituality associated with mindfulness, Lyès’ wall sculptures are abstract tools that captivate viewers through colour and help facilitate a heightened level of consciousness.
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Wang Zilling
Close to incompatible , 2020Wang Ziling (b.1988 in Hunan, China) creates astonishing sculptural paintings in which she explores our perception of external surroundings by reforming the structure of how we see and perceive.
While delving into the relationship between colours and their abstract manifestations, Wang Ziling’s works attempt to break with convention. Her artistic practice explores a new a sense of freedom and generates unrestrained abstract forms that cannot be confined to the limits of traditional frames. Colours in her works are boldly flying outside the boundaries of conventional pantings, providing the viewer with a three-dimensional visual challenge
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Darian Mederos
Darian Rodriguez Mederos was born in 1992 in Santa Clara, Cuba, where he attended his first two years of art school at Leopoldo Romañach. His last two years of school were spent at the famed San Alejandro in Havana.
Mederos works primarily in oil on canvas.
Ironically the one thing Mederos was afraid to paint were faces; he committed himself to doing so. The artist is drawn to the light in his subjects eyes, and the expressive nature of their visage. Rodriguez considers himself a realist, with his feet firmly planted on the ground. He has no interest in the surreal, finding sufficient inspiration in reality. Mederos has experimented with textures and the slight deformation of facial features, but never alters the natural shape of the face. He creates both realist and photorealist works.
Rodriguez Mederos is relentless in his pursuit for perfection, though he knows perfection is an impossibility. He quotes Leonardo DaVinci, "Art is never finished, only abandoned."
Darian Rodriguez Mederos' work can be found in collections in North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean. He currently resides and works in Miami.
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