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ANTOH (Antoh Mansueto), Italy "My life vision is perhaps, as someone says, near to Brueghel, Bosh.
Well, some century later... I see our days and our life as a big war
game. People, thoughts, souls, are going around restless. Suffering and
ever looking for something they can't find. In my pop, surreal and
abstract canvas, often you see some logos...they are referrals to daily
life...things we have to sell and to buy every day more and more in our
happy and stressed lives... Usually, while I paint, I think about life,
and so, informal chaos, surreal seekers, and pop commercial brands merge
in my artworks as in my vision on life. MIDORI MCCABE (USA) "My canvas is the place where I pour all my hidden emotions. I guess America is very tough country; people seem super competitive and
they are often afraid of showing their weakness.
For me, a hard shell is like an egg
shell; tough but then useless when it is cracked. But I don't belong to that side of the world at all, I try to be free from
competition, free from snobbism. I am like a singer of life. I sing with my emotions. I don't want
to put a cage around my emotions, that's not healthy as a human.
Jealousy, anger, dark thoughts so on are all part of life. I guess I think that many believe that negative emotions should be caged;
but you cannot cage them and let other sunnier feelings free. We
live in light and shadow, we need both... MASSIMILIANO ROBINO (Italy) "I see a lot of funny things in today’s life. Joking about media icons, I remember that we're real, not media virtual men. My canvas are some new about pop art, I love so much irony. I believe in busyart. I go with my friends Antoh and Miko..."
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International Art Collective "We are artists
many kilometers apart but strongly connected in heart"
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BIOGRAPHY Antoh
Mansueto
Was born in Naples in 1960. When a
teenager he had lessons with the neo-impressionist Neapolitan painter
Renato D’Angelo. When he moved to Milan, he attended for a few years
the great artist, writer and designer Bruno Munari, who becomes his
mentor. In the 90s he focused on ceramics, had lessons with the American
ceramist Monique Bousquet (author of some manuals of Fabbri Editors).
Since the year 2000 he has been drawing live human figures (moving pose)
at Milan’s Osservatorio Figurale. In these last few years the graphic
influence of Bruno Munari merges with a Brueghelian and Babylon vision,
even if happier in the pictorial space. Echoes of informal, pop,
expressionism and surrealism start to cross over in this research. He
feels the hyper-productivity of the surrounding world and in 2008 he
founded Busy Art, a group of international artists, together with Midori
Mccabe and Max Robino, with the support of the art gallery owner Tina
Parotti (Milan) and of the journalist Mariangela Maritato. Latest events:
in 2007, “Loving Matisse, the nude” exhibition – “La Villa di
nando” exhibition in Arcore with Alice Avallone – in 2008, he
participated in several collective exhibitions (Lodi, Caserta, Arcore,
Milano, Sa Jose (USA)), a personal exhibition in Arcore and then one at
the Tina Parotti Gallery (Brera, Milan). Antonio Mansueto is also Responsible
of the working group of the cultural heritage of AIAF (Italian
Association of Financial Analysts), and chairman of the Association
Villa d’Arcore, which promotes the refurbishment of the Villa Borromeo
D’Adda in Arcore (www.villadarcore.com). MIDORI
MCCABE
Midori was born in Japan, lived in Tokyo, London and now the U.S.A. If we think of a blank canvas as an empty
theatre, each painting is a play and each form is a
character. She aims to put a spot light on all her
inspirations — dreams, music, movies, books, and sometimes from her own creative stories. As a child, she took private art lessons from a Japanese contemporary artist as well as piano, singing and solfege lessons.
Both art and music are very well coordinated
as a part of her life. She sees images in music and hears music in
art. In fact music and art are integral to her. She works very intuitively combining the
color, texture and form into a fluid whole until she can
hear the melody. Her paintings are collected by many private collectors in Asia, Europe and USA. (Selected
Exhibition 2005-2009) upcoming
exhibition "Corrections" at SomArts Cultural
Center, San Francisco, CA, Mar 5 - 25, 2009 Tina Perotti Gallery in Milan, ITALY, Sep 28
- Oct 4, 2008 The collective "Dissacrazione" at
Spazio Symposium XXI, Milan ITALY, May 11 - Jun 11, 2008 "Studio 6 Open" at Alameda Artworks,
San Jose, CA, May 17 - 18, 2008 “Vereda Tropical” at Gallery House, Palo
Alto, CA, May 6 - 31, 2008 "Proposte per una collezione" at Real Sito Belvedere di San Leucio, Teano, ITALY, Apr 24 - May 11, 2008 "Mostra Collettiva di Primavera" at Galleria Oldrado da Ponte, Lodi, ITALY, Apr 5 - 22, 2008 2008 Stanford Medical Center at Stanford, CA The Big Red Shiny Show at Art Ark Common
House Gallery, San Jose, CA “Midori Solo” at Bocca Salon in Palo Alto, CA 2007
Solo Exhibition at Tied House, Mountain View, CA “Just Paint” show at Gallery House, Palo
Alto, CA “Art Madness” at Gallery House, Palo
Alto, CA Cubberley Open Studio at Cubberley Studios,
Palo Alto, CA “Beyond the surface” Exhibition at
Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA Cubberley Christmas show at Cubberley Studios,
Palo Alto, CA 2006
Synopsis Show by Cubberley Artists, Mountain View, CA "Portals of Perception" at Agora
Gallery SOHO, NY Cubberley Open Studio, Palo Alto, CA "4 Artists" at Stanford Art Spaces
at Stanford University, CA "Summer Tale" at Gallery House,
Palo Alto, CA 2005
"Some Bodies" Exhibition at Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA "Love and Chaos Revisited"
Exhibition at Alameda Artworks, San Jose, CA "Works by 16 Northern California Artists"
Exhibition at Soquel Creek Gallery, Capitola, CA "Waga-mama" Exhibition at Sobi
Gallery, Burlingame, CA Silicon Valley Open Studio at Cubberley, Palo Alto, CA "Midori" Solo Exhibition at Soquel
Creek Gallery, Capitola, CA Cubberley Kaleidoscope Show at City Hall,
Palo Alto, CA "Lieder in Color" Exhibition at
Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA "The art of Violin"at Zyt Gallery
& Peninsula Museum of Art, CA Holiday Open Studio at Cubberley, Palo Alto,
CA
Massimiliano
Robino www.equilibriarte.org/massimilianorobino
Was born in Vigevano (PV) on 24th
December 1973. After his professional studies, he acquired and perfected
the pictorial techniques “on the field” at the laboratory and
painting school of the art teacher Mariangela Marotta in Vigevano, and
afterwards from the academic master Emilio Beghi. His study of the works
of François Bucher ed Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun at the museums of Paris,
London and Edinburgh lead him to take care of the particulars of the
figures and initially he made himself known as a portrait artist and
started to reproduce canvases of the greats of paintings, such as
Caravaggio, Renoir and Dalì. In 2005-2006 he taught drawing,
physiognomy and oil painting techniques at his private atelier. Starting
from 2003 he started his research period ranging from monochromatic
figurative art, abstract and informal, as well as starting to use
materials different to the colours on canvas, such as sand, shells,
glues and paints. In the end he joined the neo pop movement, without
abandoning, though, the experimentation which led him to creations
defined “pop baroque”. He participated in several contest and
exhibitions. The last ones, “Beyond the neo pop”, a personal
exhibition at Spazio Symposium21 in Milan (2007-2008), “How to drink a
glass of water”, collective at Spazio Zerouno in Barletta (BA). Awarded prize for painting with the picture
“Vertical nude” at Sant’Ambrogio
Contest 2005 in the Milan Province. First prize for monochromatic painting with
the picture “Woman with coat” at the Amici
del Quadrato Contest organised at Tromello (PV, Italy) in April
2006. Awarded prize for the best figurative with
the work “To the light of my thought” at the first national painting contest of Montecchio Maggiore (VI, Italy)
in May 2007.. Runner up at the Settembre novigliese painting contest at Noviglio (MI, Italy)
editions of 2005 – 2007. Recognition plate issued by the Pavia
Province for the picture “To the light of my thought” at the Third
Carlo Beghi national painting contest (Tromello, 22nd
October 2006). Latest exhibitions.
Collective
Exhibition: “Artists in
comparison”, June 2006 at Villa Gargantini (Paterno Dugnano (MI,
Italy). Personal exhibition at Sibari (CS, Italy) in August 2007. Pubblications
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