Artists

Zheng Lu (born 1978 in Inner Mongolia, China) works and lives in Beijing. Zheng Lu studied at Lu Xun Fine art Academy from 1998-2003 and then at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 2004 until 2007. While still in school, Zheng was awarded with LVMH Prize, which provided the artist with three months training at The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ENSBA, Paris. Zheng’s artistic practice mainly revolves around sculpture and installation works with steel structure, but it includes also two-dimensional works, multimedia projects, and public art. Zheng, through a continuous and multifaceted practice, elaborated and perfected his art logic and language system. His works encompass a large variety of subjects matter and concepts including reflection on material, writing, the notion of water, time and space. All these ideas, elaborated through a complex and coherent conceptual framework, make Zheng Lu’s artistic language and practice unique and distinctive. His work, casting light on the possibility of different existential conditions, addresses also issues related the relationship between nature, individual character, and the self. 郑路，1978 年生于内蒙古赤峰市，现工作和生活于北京，郑路于1998-2003 年就读于鲁迅美术学院 雕塑系，2007 年获得中央美术学院雕塑系硕士学位。2005 年获得 L.V.M.H. 青年艺术家大赛奖学金在 巴黎国立美术学院学习。郑路主要从事不锈钢结构 雕塑和装置创作，以及平面、多媒体、舞台和 公共艺术等形式的创作。 郑路在近几年来不断的个人实践当中逐渐构建和完善了自己的艺术逻辑和语言系统 。他将物质、文 字、水、时间、空间等概念纳入自成体系的观念构架中，形成了个人独特的语言表现方式。同时也 借此来暗喻生命状态的多样性和可能性，及如何应对自然、自性和自我之间的关系。

Eser Gündüz is an emerging artist whose work is focused on researching the concept of historical utopias and relating it to our time, creating work that reacts to the different ideals of the subject matter and connects it to our modern day understanding through large scale art pieces.

Jason Sims is an Australian artist who works in the realm of perceptual art. Using the properties of light and reflection, he creates simple illusions of space in the form of contemporary sculpture, large-scale installation and public art.

Born in 1962 in Sichuan Province, China, Zhuang Hong Yi lives and works between The Netherlands & Beijing. Zhuang's well known and highly collected 'flower bed' works are crafted from delicate pieces of painted rice paper, which he has bent and folded into hundreds of tiny buds.

Marie Pol has studied academic art at the prestigious Imperial Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, followed by years of experimentation and self-education. A true citizen of the world who has lived across three continents, Marie internalizes all that vast and diverse cultural experience into a unique painterly style. In her oil paintings, she elegantly fuses classical heritage with contemporary visual codes. Her style oscillates between the representation and abstraction, the sensual and the visceral, the illusionism and the textured physicality of the medium. Marie Pol is influenced by Classical and Neoclassical sculpture as well as by the work of Rothko, Vélasquez and Bouguereau to name a few. Before becoming a full-time artist in 2018, Marie built a successful career with Deloitte. She holds an MA in French Language and Literature and a BSc in Economics. Marie is fluent in English, French, Russian, Spanish and Italian. If not painting, you will probably find her reading, dancing the tango or planning the next mountain adventure. Marie Pol’s paintings can be found in private collections across Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States. Her work is also part of the permanent collection at Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece. About Marie Pol’s “Back to Antiquity” series Every human story despite seeming inimitable and unique can be aligned with one of the few fundamental plots (for example, Jorge Luis Borges claimed there were only four fundamental stories: the siege of Troy, the travels of Odysseus, the search for the Golden Fleece, and the sacrifice of a god). These fundamental plots are repeated again and again in national myths, classical literature and - in our lives. The basic plots get coloured with an unrepeatable set of emotions, circumstances, and nuances – making every one of us feel that what happens to us has never happened to anyone else before. This idea is at the core of Marie Pol’s “Back to Antiquity” series, in which she explores the interplay between the universal and the personal, the abstract and the figurative, the classical and the modern, the external and the internal, the rational and the emotional. By taking classical heritage and infusing it with contemporary visual codes, colour and texture – the artist demonstrates that our stories are deeply rooted in classical antiquity but feel unique, modern and personal because we infuse them with our own mental codes and emotions. This series is also Marie’s response to the dilemma of what being a contemporary artist means today. Within the same painting, she pays homage to the great figurative artists of the past and embraces the breathtaking discoveries of the Abstract Expressionists, creates masterful illusions of volume and depth and immediately disrupts those illusions.