• Owanto
• Emma Fernandez
• Robbert Fortgens

Owanto, Paris 1953

International artist based in Monaco, was born in Paris in 1953 to a French father and Gabonese mother. Her work can be found in private and public collections around the world. Owanto represented her motherland, the Republic of Gabon, in their deput at 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2009.

Owanto uses pop, conceptual and minimal art in her creation of universal symbols, which remind spectators of where the solutions to our world may lie and how a society lacking moral strenght may begin to heal.

Using her sculptures as starting points, Owanto creates a series of icons which she presents in highly tecnical formats such as: light-boxes and traffic signs - mediums previously explored by Maurizio Cattelan, Rogelio Lopez Cuenca, Gabriel Acuna and Michael Pinsky. Owanto's discourse focusses on images of a family group and a child playing, which suggest a happier world to come.

The pieces have the double intention of alerting us to solutions to our global predicament, and of suggesting a change in governing attitudes and rules. The light-boxes, like torches and lighthouses, illuminate a future characterised by tolerance, unity and hope. "Fernando Francés, director of the CAC Málaga - Contemporary Art Center of Málaga, 2009).

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Emma Fernandez

Emma Fernández (Gijón in 1961). She is living in Madrid since 1974. Férnandez has a BA in Fine Arts, specialised in painting by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Emma uses for her creations women as an aesthetic argument, referring to feminine categories that are opposite such as docile, innocent, dependency, arrogance, seduction and excess, self-sufficient. Fernández synchronises art and technology by exploring the possibilities of technology with images from painting. Emma captures the image through video, photographs made by the artist with a digital camera, digitalization of photographic images by scanner and after she manipulates the image with software applications. Fernandez’s drawing and composition skills, her sensibility for textures, her photographic sense and collage have allowed her to develop her technique. Her vision is still a painter’s vision but full with the expressive possibilities that digital art gives. The work of Emma Fernández has been in many art fairs: FIART Valencia, Estampa, Art Madrid, and Fecha. Fernández has taken part in many solo and group exhibitions and her work is part of private collections such as: Telefónica, Banco Santander Central Hispano, and Foundation Kutxa. Throughout her career Emma has received many prizes.

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Robbert Fortgens

As a ‘born to be’ an abstract expressionist, Fortgens creates in his paintings a gesture that already encloses composition, movement, emotion and corporeity. He does not claim complicated games of form and colour looking for balance of opposite forces. For Fortgens, everything can be expressed in this only and dynamical element that appears to flow on a background of colour and texture. He seems to integrate himself into the artwork through the movement of his body-arm-paintbrush on a canvas. Body (action) and mind (creation) meet together in this element, as well as gesture and decision, passion and concept.

To the spectator, it’s been left the task of covering the drawn up trajectory, and that of feeling the pleasure of a soft fall or the dizziness of a gap over the emptiness, with all the emotions that emerge between one and another sensation. All without detriment of the interest that causes a surrounding scene full of plasticity. Born in 1960 in Utrecht, the Nederland, Robbert Fortgens works in IJmuiden, near Amsterdam where he lives.

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SOLO EXHIBITION GERTI BIERENBROODSPOT

PHOTOGRAPHY

23/1 - 3/3 2009

BEYOND DIFFERENT WORLDS

12/12/2008 - 20/01 2009

GLASS AND SCULPTURES

ECHOES IN TIME

30/10/2008 - 9/12/2008

RELATED SPACES | PAINTINGS SCULPTURES

5/8/2008 – 10/9 2008

CONTEMPORARY SLOVAK ART

13/09/2008 – 21/10 2008

In cooperation with the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum we will show a special collection of contemporary Slovak Art of Mr. G. Meulensteen

ILLUSION

25/6/2008 – 12/8 2008

Joonsung Bae | Combination of painting, photograph and acryl

PHOTO OR NOT PHOTO

4/6/2008 – 24/6 2008

JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

24/4/2008 – 2/6 2008

PAINTINGS, MIXED MEDIA, AQUARELLES, SCULPTURES

THE FLAMBOYAND WORLDS

14/3/2008 – 22/4/2008

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