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‘PAVE Contemporary’ is a new division of HOFA Gallery and will be dedicated exclusively to supporting global emerging talent, with its key objective to promote diversity and inclusivity, whilst providing a platform for artists to create and exhibit across HOFA Gallery's international galleries in London and Mykonos.
For the first show of the CURATED series 'Inner Escape', Raphael Isvy will curate an exhibition by 5 female artists. The exhibition embarks on a journey through intimate worlds, captivated by colour and transformed through self reflection. 'Inner Escape' encapsulates visions of going inward to escape physical restrictions and watching the familiar and domestic spaces transform through the surreal. The artists exhibiting include Lucile Gauvain, Kidd Murray, Keren Schwarz, Emily Stollery and Lise Stoufflet.
'CURATED' is a new art exhibition series presented by HOFA Gallery and PAVE Contemporary designed to put a spotlight on hand-picked seasoned art collectors and provide a platform for the emerging artists.
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AT THE HEART OF 'CURATED' IS A DEEP APPRECIATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARTISTS AND ART COLLECTORs. PAVE CONTEMPORARY RECOGNISES BOTH THE ARTIST AND ART COLLECTOR AS VISIONARIES WHO BY CREATING AND PROJECTING ART ENRICH SOCIETIES AND CULTURES, CATALYSING CHANGE AND AWARENESS.
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"My work often captures people doing mundane actions in 'not-so-normal' places. It is my way of questionning the routine of human nature, transposing it onto unusual spaces and situations."
- Lucile Gauvain
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LUCILE GAUVAIN
'Miniatures' is a tryptich of colour-pencilled drawings that explore human beings’ quest to create environnements that reflect the different stages of their lives. In between delusions of grandeur and the local community exists a permeable space for constructing worlds in which feelings of belonging translate to the human scale.
The title of the triptych draws a parallel to Lucile Gauvain's prior habit of realising these drawings in a much smaller format. As part of her work especially created for CURATED, the artist was encouraged to tackle wider scales and so was able to, in the process, envision the impact of the exchange between an artist and a collector. Through this relationship and affiliation are born novel tangible realities, a silver-thread, loud enough to resonate amongst crowds.
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EMILY STOLLERY
Emily Stollery chooses to shift, and reappropriate the natural associations we have with these materials, in a way that somewhat goes against the ‘rules’ of her chosen medium. Breaking them out of the confines of what we know they are capable of, and perhaps suggesting an alternative. Seemingly hard transformed into a fluid form. Softness, frozen solidly in a fixed state. Alluding to many things leaves you suspended in a state of unknowingness. For why should you need to know everything?
Led by the seductive properties of materials, process and assemblage then run in parallel for the work to emerge somewhere in between. Materials meet instinct to create forms born out of spontaneity.
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"All through the touch of my hand. My body perhaps becoming the most significant tool in this process. Surfaces not quite right, imperfections showcased. These forms, in their purity, reference the struggle of the processes they were born from. A not so perfect form, formed perfectly. Allowing chance and indeterminacy to exist as a parameter for making. Whilst these objects allude to many things, they are at the same time non-representational. No one set answer, nor reading."
- Emily Stollery
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LISE STOUFFLET
Lise Stoufflet develops a work of painting and drawing, but, also explores the object as a possible overflow of the fictional images she builds. Her works are innocently disconcerting and beautifully surreal. The narrative is richly present in her paintings, the story is not always clear and, oftentimes, unsettling. Part of this tension arises from Stoufflet’s beautifully contained manipulation of colour, which marries a contrast of pastel, soft colours with rich, dark hues and creates atmospheres of mystery and intrigue.
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Kidd Murray
Kidd Murray is a visual artist whose works question ideas of the unnatural and natural, and the artificiality of nature as a result of interference by man. Kidd is interested in the processes, tools and structures implemented by society as a means to modify and dominate our immediate natural environment. Gardens, parks and other green spaces nestled in amongst urban areas feature heavily in Kidd’s work, as she explores the systemisation and design of these natural patches. Kidd often adopts elements of several landscapes and merges them to create a fictional terrain, inviting the viewer to escape into a colourful, dream-like realm. Through creating visual work, Kidd aims to communicate and question the possibility of naturalness, and the decorative and ornamental elements of our designed, modified surroundings. Kidd lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.
"Women are still majorly underrepresented in the art world, and so I'm extremely grateful to Raphael, for making the decision to put on an all-female show. I hope that this exhibition allows visitors to lose themselves in the colourful and surreal space which we have created - momentarily allowing them to escape from the uncertain world which we find ourselves in today."
- Kidd Murray
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Keren Schwarz
Keren Schwarz explores a way to transcend reality by layering colours to visually recreate emotions and intangible concepts in an intense and expressive form. Contemplative and idealist she tries to take some distance from the material world through her artworks in a strive to express her poetic vision of reality with explosive colours and textures.
Her approach is instinctive but also with a conscious idea of what she first wants to express. When she is painting, the canvas is on the ground to keep the freedom of composition and movements, she then follows the burst of feelings and energy coming from deep inside her. Schwarz experiments in the gesture following the movements of her body and discovers the result of her work while being at the origin of it.
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Meeting the Curator Raphael Isvy
Raphael Isvy is a passionate art collector based in Paris and creator of one the biggest networking communities for galleries, artists, editors and collectors on Facebook.His collection include original works from Robin Francesca Williams, Joyce Pensato, Josh Sperling, Oli Epp, Garber-Maikovska, Robert Nava, Anna Park, Javier Calleja as well as new editions from Kaws, Julie Curtiss, Tomoo Gokita, George Condo, Peter Saul and more.
"My tastes have quickly evolved during the past years as i've travelled around the worlds for
fairs and shows. I am "only" 30 years old and I know that this art passion i developed is
going to be in my skin for my whole life." -
INNER ESCAPE | CURATED SERIES WITH RAPHAEL ISVY
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