Roster
Our list of artists and creatives with whom we collaborate and who we activate for collaborations with various commissions.
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Abdullah Qureshi 1987
Abdullah Qureshi [b. 1987, Pakistan] is a multimedia artist who incorporates painting into his artistic practice. Qureshi is also involved in filmmaking and uses various methodologies to address personal stories, traumatic pasts, and sexuality. Qureshi has exhibited internationally and has held numerous positions at cultural and educational institutions in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. In 2017, he received the "Art and International Cooperation" fellowship at the Zurich University of the Arts and, in 2018, a research fellowship at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research in Boston.
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Adalberto Lonardi 1987
Adalberto Lonardi [b.1987, Italy] is a London-based artist and creative director, working at the intersection of art and design with a focus on public engagement and community empowerment. Partnering with small and large organisations, his practice interweaves culture with education at all ages and abilities. He transforms people’s voices and their vision into modern art – by the community, for the community. Among his recent projects include participation at a satellite event of the Venice Biennale, and projects with Coin, Vinitaly, Wimbledon Foundation, Foster + Partners, art'otel, Battersea Power Station, Southwark Cathedral, Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, Nine Elms Art Trail, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
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Alanis Forde 1996
Alanis Forde [b. 1996, Barbados] is a surrealist and figurative portrait artist, working primarily with oil paint and collage on canvas. A graduate of Barbados Community College, she has been a full-time artist for seven years. Her art deals with escapism, exploring the tension between feeling at home and the desire to escape paradise. Through the recurring figure of “Bubbles” Forde captures this conflict. Her works have been shown in international exhibitions, residencies and collections in London, Nigeria, the United States and St. Croix. In 2023 Forde completed his third residency with Black Curatorial x ICF in London.
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Alessandro Malossi 1993
Alessandro Malossi [b.1993, Italy] developed his technique at the NABA academy in Milan, although his real journey into the world of art began after graduation when he discovered his unique and peculiar style. In 2016, Alessandro takes a further step and his art meets fashion: he starts working for important international brands such as Calvin Klein, Nike, Trussardi, Hogan and others. The Academy and the collaboration with brands and famous people have given him the opportunity to experiment with both pictorial and digital art: his work fits perfectly into the current era of the social and digital generation.
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Alessandro Scali 1985
Alessandro Scali [b.1985, Italy] is a contemporary artist who graduated in Communication Design from the Politecnico di Milano. After his studies, Scali approached the world of visual arts with a particular interest in conceptual art and design. His artistic career has evolved through a multidisciplinary practice that ranges from painting to sculpture, as well as installation and digital art. Alessandro Scali's work is known for its exploration of the dynamics between space and perception, and for the innovative use of materials and techniques.
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Alpha Odhiambo 1998
Alphonce Odhiambo [b. 1998, Kenya] is a self-taught artist known as Alpha Odh. His creative process spans from abstracts to realism, and only after he picked up a camera that inspiration for contemporary creations has born. On Alpha Odh’s canvases, the world of threatening urban existence is depicted. Introspection and social commentary flow through his works, aiming to spark a dialogue about the human condition.
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Ana Daniela Koch 1992
Ana Daniela Koch [b.1992, Germany] graduated in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Koch is a multimedia artist, but her main means of expression is photography. Her work is an artistic invitation, characterized by the exploration of one‘s own inner and outer world, moments and personal reflections, calls on us to explore a different perspective, to deal with the flowing worlds and to discover them in all their facets. The constant driving force behind her artistic works is capturing scenic, sensual moments, frozen in dramatic light.
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Andrea Crespi 1992
Andrea Crespi [b.1992, Italy] is a physical and crypto artist whose approach develops in the continuous investigation of different media and topics including optical illusion, social transformation and digital revolution. Andrea’s research identifies art as a tool for perception and analysis of truth through the search for beauty. Involved in numerous collaborations for famous fashion brands including Bvlgari, ETRO, ADIDAS, KAWASAKY and OTB, he never misses an opportunity to support important social causes, especially in support of children and women.
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Andrew Orloski 1986
Andrew Orloski [b.1986, Florida] is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works with sculpture. Andrew lives and works in Fresno, California, but he grew up in Philadelphia, where he spent the last ten years working for various colleges and universities across the country, including Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Grinnell College in Iowa, and more recently, California State University, Fresno. His sculptural practice challenges assumptions based on consumption and the disposable nature of things, transforming and translating contemporary objects into permanent forms.
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Beatrice Alici 1992
Beatrice Alici [b.1992, Italy] attended Atelier F under Professor Carlo Di Raco at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice for seven years, where she obtained her first-level diploma in Visual Arts and Performance Studies with a focus on Painting in 2016, and her second-level diploma in 2019. During these years, she developed a language related to the recovery of past stories/memories and old photographs, reworked through painting. Increasingly, she aims to stage and have fun using posed models, costumes, settings, and carefully chosen symbolic objects, creating stories that draw from the artist's personal myth. Since 2016, she has been part of the artistic collective Fondazione Malutta.
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Carlos Enfedaque 1994
Carlos Enfedaque [b.1994, Spain] studied Fine Arts at the University of Zaragoza, the ARCA-EUAC University of Arts in Coimbra/Portugal and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia San Carles in Valencia/Spain, where he graduated in 2016.Carlos‘ main medium is oil on linen. His paintings, consist mostly of human figures and portraits, his interest lies in the ambiguity of identity, playfully questioning the perception of the viewer. He believes in painting as an impulsive and intuitive act in order to create a fresh and direct expression.
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Daniel Ferstl 1982
Daniel Ferstl [b.1982, Austria] studied painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Christian Ludwig Attersee. Daniel Ferstl’s works defy categorization on various levels: painting meets sculpture, high meets low brow, classic composition meets kitschy extravaganza in the choice of motifs and materials. Pop cultural references range from 70s and 80s cult movies to contemporary gamer and meme culture. In his recent works, colorful fabrics are stretched onto frames with stuffed textile elements sewn onto them, giving the works a three dimensional quality.
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Dario Pruonto 1992
Dario Pruonto [b.1992, Italy] is a public artist and poet. Pruonto studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and is a prominent figure in Italian street poetry. His research explores the complex relationship between visual art, language, and urban context, focusing on themes of incommunicability, boundaries, and relationships. Over the years, he has participated in numerous national and international festivals and exhibited in group shows in Italy and abroad.
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Djeneba Aduayom
Djeneba Aduayom [b.1987, France] is a self-taught artist whose work is marked by a sense of movement, performance, and personal interrogation. Her aesthetic is as much influenced by her multidisciplinary training and extensive travels, as it is by her multicultural heritage. Aduayom always seeks to capture layers of emotions contained within people and their relation to landscape, often with hints of abstraction and surrealism. The ability to speak multiple visual languages, both literally and metaphorically, fuels her inspiration and creative output.
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Eliel David Perez 1998
Eliel David Pérez Martínez (b.1998, Mexico) lives and works between Mexico and Italy. He completed his university studies in Venice, where he earned a master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts. Eliel David Pérez Martínez's practice is based on the use of painting and fabric, employed both in two-dimensional form and in sculptural mode. The recurring themes of his research relate to his personal experience, the cultural experiences of Mexico, and social critique, which arises from the analysis of cultural, anthropological, and economic factors.
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Elisa Breyer 1995
Elisa Breyer [b.1995, Germany] studied Visual Communication at Bauhaus Weimar specialising in figurative oil painting in still life and portraits. Through her textile background, in her painting Breyer reflects on pop culture by focusing on textures and vibrant colours. In 2019 he worked with Textile Designer Nadine Göpfert on the BASIC FIT collection.
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Emanuele Tozzoli 1989
Emanuele Tozzoli [b.1989, Italy] is a mixed-media artist who masterfully blends abstraction, cubism, and impressionism to create ethereal and viscerally intriguing works. Emanuele's art is a profound journey of openness and discovery, with each painting materializing an introspective, dreamlike, and extravagant world. His style is characterized by recurring symbolism that echoes the primal forms of childhood and by an instinctive process that often leads to surprising and profound results.
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Epie 1986
Epie [b.1986, Italy] is an artist who, from a young age, learned to imagine different realities and create parallel worlds. Who says the sky must be blue and not pink or yellow? The meaning of his works is never revealed; for Epie, there is not just one meaning and truth but many, each with equal worth. However, it is easy to understand how his art is a tribute to freedom and respect. Indeed, the artist aims to bring to the forefront those who are often considered the last and the different.
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Evgen Čopi Gorišk 1994
Evgen Čopi Gorišek [b.1994, Slovenia] did not receive a formal art education, but embarked on his artistic career after visiting an exhibition of the masters of pop art. His style focuses on portraiture where faces lack three-dimensionality and have unclear features, contrasting with more detailed arms, legs, clothes and backgrounds. This contrast creates irony and symbolises the lack of true communication in contemporary society.
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Fabio la Fauci 1977
Fabio la Fauci [b.1977, Italy] begins with an exploration of the figurative to transform the body into flesh. His painting strives to break and question the clarity of the image by making the subject unrecognizable and challenging the very notion of oscillating between abstraction and figuration. The first impression when observing his works is the presence of a clear German influence, both in terms of form and concept. Some of his works can be linked to German abstract expressionism, introducing into painting a distorted, violent, and tragic view of the world.
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Francesco Bellina 1989
Francesco Bellina (b. 1989, Italy) is an Italian documentary photographer based in Palermo. His work primarily focuses on contemporary political and social issues, with a particular emphasis on migration themes. He began his studies at the Faculty of Law in Palermo while simultaneously dedicating himself to photography. His aim to deconstruct and reinvent the contemplative and static work of nature favors an active engagement, a "humanized" relationship between the viewer and the artwork itself, facilitating a deeper connection with the subjects of the photographs.
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Francis Agemo 1986
Francis Agemo [b.1986, Nigeria] studied Fine Arts at Delta State University in Abraka majoring in Sculpture. Agemo's art explores the duality of tradition and contemporaneity and is in fact deeply influenced by the cultural heritage of his village. His works have been exhibited in the Republic of Benin, London, Morocco and Zanzibar.
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Frank Coffie 1992
Frank Coffie [b.1992, Ghana] studied Fine Art at Ghanatta College of Arts and Design, and in 2017 embarked on studies at Ruth Prowse School of Art in South Africa. Conceptually, he’s exploring the idea of belonging through semi abstract and figurative bodies in temporary spaces. By using random photographs from his own experience and visual memories combining the imperfections that comes from using Yarns and oil paint to create generalized outlines, shape and forms weaved or stitched. Immediate interaction with the work shows an expression providing a platform for his self-declared impatient character impressing an energy into the work.
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Giuseppe Lo Schiavo 1986
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (b. 1986, Italy) studied Architecture at La Sapienza University in Rome with a specialization in visual design. The artistic research of Lo Schiavo finds form, as a starting point, in photography and then contaminates other media such as installations and videos. His passion in the field of evolutionism and biology is fundamental in his most recent artistic production where he analyzes the inseparable bond between man and nature. Lo Schiavo’s photography moves away from the documentary vision of reality to arrive at a careful staging of his personal vision.
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Giuseppe Palmisano 1989
Giuseppe Palmisano (b. 1989, Italy) began his career as an actor and clown before turning to photographic research. Through this journey, he combines theatrical experience with photographic exploration, creating impactful and aesthetically rich performances and collective works. In 2015, he published his first book, "Oltrepensare." In 2017, he created "Vuoto," an artwork involving 150 women. In 2019, he sold his artistic identity "iosonopipo" in an auction on eBay.
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Golnaz Payani 1986
Golnaz Payani (b. 1986, Iran) is a contemporary artist whose work revolves around themes of disappearance, trace, and perception. Payani recalls years after the war ended, the media regularly broadcasted lists of missing people and those found after years of captivity. Her childhood was a constant conflict between ostensible appearance and invisible privacy. Payani’s work captures moments to reveal various temporal realities. She extracts the object from time, analyzes and dissects it in its precise state at a given moment, like a surgical slice. She closely examines this reality and ponders the connections that persist between the object, its trace, and its trajectory.
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Graziano Locatelli 1977
Graziano Locatelli (b. 1977, Italy) is a self-taught artist who soon starts to test assembling techniques with “poor art” materials, such as aluminum and broken glass. Since the start of his career he begun producing three-dimensional works and developing a strong attraction for broken objects and ruins of abandoned mountain villages. In those places, what most strucks the artist is the expressive power of broken tiles and walls that soon become his design signature and trademark. His works have been appreciated and shared around the world on social media and sites, also by Banksy and the London Saatchi Gallery.
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Graziano Panfili 1971
Graziano Panfili (b. 1971, Italy) is a multifaceted artist whose journey to photography followed years of dedication to drawing, painting, and comics. He pursued his studies in Arts and Communication and later specialized in reportage at the Graffiti School of Photography in Rome. Panfili’s work spans editorial photography and artistic research, leading to personal projects and fine art works that have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. His talents have earned him recognition in prestigious national and international contests.
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Greg Ito 1987
Greg Ito [b.1987, California] transports us into a reality rich in intrinsic meanings through his works. Ito creates dreamlike worlds where bright colours and symbolic images make us reflect on the present. His compositions are often simple in appearance but charged with meaning and narrative, inviting viewers to interpret and reflect on the underlying stories and transforming ordinary spaces into immersive environments that evoke dreams and emotions.
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Gregory Gangemi 1990
Gregory Gangemi è un artista di Computer Grafica (CG) di alto livello, regista e fine artist con oltre 15 anni di esperienza. Ha conseguito un MFA in Design e Tecnologia presso la Parsons nel 2007 e ha iniziato la sua carriera presso The Mill a New York, lavorando poi sia negli studi di Los Angeles che in quelli di New York e ricoprendo infine il ruolo di Lead CG Artist a New York. La sua esperienza spazia dagli effetti visivi, all'animazione, al design e al compositing, con un'esperienza di supervisione sul set per clienti come Sony, Toyota e Coca-Cola e serie televisive come Dickinson (Apple+) e Billions (Showtime). Tra i lavori premiati di Gregory figurano i titoli per l'OFFF By Night Festival (2016) e le animazioni di Greenpeace (2019). Ha esposto in gallerie come Young Projects a Los Angeles e Plexus Projects a Brooklyn. Insegna anche alla School of Visual Arts di New York e condivide il suo lavoro visivo sperimentale su Instagram.
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Iva Lulashi 1988
Iva Lulashi [b.1988, Albania] graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and now represents the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Her images are powerful and stand in a border zone between memory and imagination, a place where strong erotic tension becomes a manifesto for individual freedom. With her deep brushstrokes, Iva creates strong pathos and realism in the bodies that observe us and that are projected towards a horizon that we are not allowed to know and that we can only imagine.
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Jacques Manga 1988
Jacques Manga [b.1988, Senegal] started photography in 2018, but only turned professional two years later. He decided to document African history through portraits of marginalised communities, capturing unique and emotional moments. He has collaborated with major fashion brands, such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton, and magazines such as Blanc Magazine, GQ Middle East and Dazed UK.
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Januario Jano 1979
Januario Jano [b.1979, Angola] is an interdisciplinary visual artist working across sculpture, video, photography, textiles, sound installation and performance. His work is included in important public and private collections and his practice reflects on the delicate balance between fiction and reality. His cultural and social commitment led him to found Pés Descalços, a cultural and philanthropic collective focused on the development and promotion of artistic and cultural projects in Angola.
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John Blond 1991
John Blond, [b. 1991, Italy] is an artist and designer working on multidisciplinary projects. As a "doodle artist," he is known for his works and collaborations with brands, urban regeneration interventions, and street art. John has collaborated with entities such as Rinascente, RedBull, Ostello Bello, and Farm Cultural Park, creating iconic and visually impactful works and performances. Blond is constantly seeking new contexts and surfaces to apply his unique style, creating immersive experiences that evoke deep and engaging visual emotions in the audience.
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Johnson Uwadinma 1982
Johnson Uwadinma [b.1982, Nigeria] is an artist known for his paintings and installations featuring tessellating hues and multiple textures. His work explores themes of truth, morality, memory, history, and human co-existence, shaped by past and present experiences and current events. Uwadinma studied art at the University of Port Harcourt, bachelor's and master's degrees in 2005 and 2013. He won the First Prize in the NNPC/EPNL World Environment Day Art Competition (2005) and has exhibited extensively in several group exhibitions and three solo exhibitions.
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Jorit 1990
Jorit [b. 1990, Italy] is an artist specialising in urban art, who combines deep realism and a great technical mastery of the medium of painting with strong social messages. He started to make a name for himself with a series of graffiti in 2005 in Naples. With time, he then focused on a figurative style, the depiction of the human face, where writings and words are hidden, expanding the meaning of his works. International publications such as The Guardian, BBC and Middle East Eye have written about him.
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Joseph Awuah Darko 1996
Joseph Awuah-Darko [b.1996, United Kingdom] is a Ghanaian interdisciplinary artist, Alumnus of Forbes 30 Under 30. Awuah-Darko explores historical and autobiographical narratives through various mediums, including Kente fabric works that fuse Asante heritage with Afrofuturism and oil paintings on sticks that reflect everyday moods. His works can be found in important collections around the world. Awuah-Darko also curates and directs the Noldor Artist Residency in Accra, Ghana.
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Justin Yoon 1991
Justin Yoon [b.1991, California] is a Brooklyn based painter. Early childhood memories of American junk food, late night old Hollywood movies on the TV, and listening to jazz in the car with his family on long drives significantly affected him to create a world of romantic melancholia, synthetic colors, and casual lostness of being. With no specific emotions provoked, the group of characters reoccur over and over in a deeply synthetic yet ambiguous dream-like landscape, continuing on this never ending "Highschool Reunion". The viewer becomes a part of this experience, which is vaguely both universal yet deeply personal.
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Ken Nwadiogbu 1994
Ken Nwadiogbu [born 1994, Nigeria] is a multidisciplinary artist who combines hyperrealism and contemporary elements. Initially a civil engineer, he switched to fine arts, achieving immediate success with his hyperrealistic charcoal drawings. His art has evolved towards more conceptual works, exploring themes such as identity, uprooting and socio-political control. A pioneer of the “Contemporealism” movement, Ken combines intellectual rigour and light-heartedness, creating illusions that challenge viewers' perspectives.
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King Ereso 1993
King Ereso [b. 1993, Nigeria] is a contemporary artist, whose artistic journey flourished under the influence of his familial artistic heritage, culminating in a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nigeria. Fashion plays a pivotal role in Ereso's oeuvre, seamlessly interwoven with textiles and branded materials to portray vibrant and youthful figures. Symbolic of introspection and the discovery of inner resilience, this signature motif encapsulates the essence of self-awareness—a central theme in Ereso's artistic expression, inviting viewers to embark on their own journey of introspection. King Ereso's art transcends mere visual aesthetics, serving as a catalyst for self-reflection and the realization of personal empowerment.
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Logan T. Sibrel 1986
Logan T. Sibrel [b. 1986, Indiana] explores themes of identity, intimacy and everyday life. Logan's painting expresses the complexity and beauty of human relationships, it’s a poetic work composed of intimate and personal moments that explore identity, memory and perception creating a visual dialogue that invites the viewer to reflect on their own emotional experience. A monograph of Sibrel's work entitled “But I'm Different” was published by DCV in 2022.
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Luca di Maggio 1977
Luca Di Maggio, [n. 1977, Italia] è un artista di strada con sede a Milano e rappresenta la cultura urbana creativa che fiorisce nelle città di tutto il mondo. I suoi personaggi in acrilico possono essere visti lungo le strade di Tel Aviv, sui tetti di Brooklyn, sui muri fatiscenti di Milano e su serrande e cartelloni pubblicitari.\nTra i media più bizzarri utilizzati troviamo il telaio di una bici che si è trasformato in una tela. Con pennarelli e spray, il signor Di Maggio ha trasformato una bicicletta Titici in qualcosa di ancora più unico: un'opera d'arte in movimento. L'artista stesso trascorre ore pedalando per le strade di tutto il mondo sulla sua opera d'arte.
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Luca Staccioli 1988
Luca Staccioli, [b. 1988, Italy] is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice is research-based and process-oriented, merging videos, photos, sounds, sculptures, embroideries, drawings, and collages. Conceived as narratives, his hybrid artworks question the processes of aesthetic and identity homogenization and their influence on competitiveness, worth, expectations, and the exploitation of emotionality by mass media. His works de-functionalize products, shifting their scales, transforming their materials, often using found objects as molds to create new forms and stories.
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Lucia Love 1988
Lucia Love [b. 1988, New York] is an American artist that attended the School of Visual Arts on a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, where she studied painting and animation. Lucia Love has been working with myth, legend, symbolism, crayons, Leipzig school techniques, talking dogs, Shooby Taylor, and hours of sleep, to create a series of Doomerangs. Through composition and refinement of surface, and the occasional performance of Copernican Revolution, interwoven narratives will continue branching through style and time. Themes of eternal recurrence, and renunciation of frozen waffles will be explored through energetic tableaux.
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Manuel Rossner 1989
Manuel Rossner [b.1989, Germany] is an artist who has been creating digital spaces and virtual worlds since 2012. Manuel explores the impact of technological advances on society and art, and is known for his site-specific digital works, where virtual reality drawings are superimposed on physical buildings. His digital exhibition ‘New Float’ is located at the construction site of the Museum of the 20th Century next to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His works have been exhibited around the world, in Paris at the Grand Palais Éphémère and in Zurich at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and Kunsthalle.
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Matthew Eguavoen 1988
Matthew Imuetiyan Eguavoen [b. 1988, Nigeria] obtained a degree in Civil Engineering and Structures, but at the age of 25 he followed his passion and developed his talent for art through self-study. Today, his works can be found in collections throughout West Africa, North America and Europe. Matthew uses oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphite pencil and paint compositions to raise questions on issues of gender, race and history, particularly related to Africa.
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Mattia Sarti 1988
Mattia Sarti, [b. 1988, Italy] embarked on his journey in the world of creativity more than ten years ago, starting as an automotive designer where he participated in the design of the interior and exterior of various well-known sports cars. This first chapter of his career led him to dive deeply into design and technique, honing his aesthetic sense and ability to transform complex ideas into tangible realities. The influence of pop marketing and his attention to design merged, creating a distinctive artistic language. His body of work guides the viewer on a journey made of fragments of memories, building a bridge between past and present, between youth and maturity.
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Mattia Sugamiele 1984
Mattia Sugamiele, [b. 1984, Italy] is a contemporary artist who graduated in Production and Audio-Video at IED in Milan. Following this initial degree, he developed a particular interest in artistic practices and decided to enroll at the Brera Academy in Milan, where he earned a degree in Visual Arts with a focus on painting. His research centers on installation and the use of various mediums, including painting, sculpture, new technologies, and video. In the digital realm, forms and objects tend to dematerialize and merge to become intangible; his works embody the paradox of a physical, soft, and hybrid restitution, not purely virtual.
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Max Serradifalco 1978
Max Serradifalco, [b. 1978, Italy] is an artist who works with satellite photography. The Web Landscape Photography project, which began in 2011, gave rise to the artistic exploration of virtual images dedicated to planet Earth, its landscapes, and its forms, sometimes revealing seemingly recognizable figures. Through unaltered screenshots, the artist unveils to the public natural imaginaries that our planet hides from most people, thus evolving into an aesthetic, but above all, ethical and environmental investigation.
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Mei Mei 1984
Marta Corada, known as MEI MEI [b.1984 ,Spain] is a sculptor celebrated for her intricate felt creations that fuse human and animal elements, creating hybrid beings with a sense of myth and magic. With a background in photography, she goes from capturing reality through the lens to shaping her vivid imagination into tangible forms. He has exhibited in numerous international shows and his detailed and realistic works bridge the gap between fantasy and reality, inviting viewers into an intimate universe.
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Mosa One 1997
Mosa One [b. 1997, Italy] is a multidisciplinary artist who weaves his artistic practice between hand-sewn textile works, murals, and installations. Mosa’s dual nationality (Italian and Egyptian) has always been a recurring theme in his artistic research. He constantly strives to translate his cultural heritage and sense of belonging to two lands, two cultures, and two seemingly different ways of life. Through his creative vision, he seeks social redemption and aims to represent those who, like him, have or have had this cultural conflict within themselves, who feel marginalized and discriminated against, or who live in difficult situations of any kind.
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Patrick Akpojotor 1982
Patrick Akpojotor [b. 1982, Nigeria] works in painting, drawing, printmaking, installation and sculpture, exploring the relationship between built space, identity and perception. He studied fine arts at the Federal Polytechnic in Auchi and Lagos State Polytechnic in Ikorodu, specialising in Graphic Design. From 2003 to 2017, he worked with Dr. Bruce Onobrakpeya at the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation (BOF). Since 2017, he became a full-time artist and has participated in various exhibitions including "IN-TER-ACTIONS" (2018) and Art X Lagos (2017).
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Paula López-Bravo 1986
Paula López-Bravo [b.1986, Spain] is an artist who combines her acting skills with painting and performance. Her works are characterised by a spontaneous use of colour and an abstract play of luminous and vital backgrounds, allowing the viewer to lose themselves freely in the vast colour palette. His mixed media, which includes acrylic, oil on canvas, spray and pastel, is characterised by an energetic improvisation and a focus on the background brushstrokes, maintaining a casual but precise trace.
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Raphael Votte 1994
Raphaël Votte [b. 1994, France] is an artist who lives and works in Paris, delving into the themes of matter, colour, the relationship with the body and belonging to the living world.He studied illustration at the Ecole de Condé, but the pandemic rekindled his passion for painting, a quieter but expressive narrative. Raphaël's art navigates between dream and reality, challenging the boundaries of the acceptable and the repressed, inviting the viewer to ask questions.His work has been exhibited in Paris, including the Salon Contemporary Drawing Now (2016), Les Grands Voisins (2017) and the François Mitterrand National Library (2019-2020). He also completed a residency at 59 Rivoli (2019).
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Rick Dick 1990
Rick Dick [b.1990, Italy] a creative talent in the fashion world, has fused his experience in advertising graphics with a passion for art and technology, exploring the comic side of memes. As a professional graphic designer he collaborates with brands and magazines, creating content that is always fresh and current.
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Rocco Ferraro 1984
Rocco Ferraro [b.1984, Italy] is a contemporary artist known for his multidisciplinary practice, which spans painting, sculpture, installation, and digital art. Ferraro studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he developed a deep interest in conceptual art and social dynamics. His work is characterized by a careful exploration of the interactions between space, form, and perception, often using unconventional materials and innovative techniques. Ferraro's artworks reflect a continuous investigation into identity and collective memory, with a strong commitment to social and environmental themes.
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Rufai Zakari Jabre 1990
Rufai Zakari Jabre [b. 1990, Ghana] lives between Accra and Bawku, Ghana. He completed his apprenticeship under Mozzay, an artist from Nima, Accra, and graduated from Ghanatta College of Art and Design in 2011. His work explores consumerism, environmental pollution, trade and the risks of industrialisation in contemporary Ghanaian society. Founder of the Rujab Eco-Art Foundation in Bawku, Zakari bases his practice on recycling waste. His works can be found in important public and private collections, including the Pizzuti Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art (US) and the Nubuke Foundation (Ghana).
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Samuel Awuku Darko 1997
Awuku Darko Samuel [b.1997, Ghana] is a conceptual photographer hugely inspired by his culture and the people around him. He began studying visual arts when he was at Nifa Senior High School, which he graduated from in 2017. He borrowed smartphones from friends to take photos until he was gifted with his own smartphone. He began exploring photography and what the medium can do as a visual storytelling method. Though he has experienced many different mediums, like African printmaking, leatherwork, and ceramics, he prefers photography because of its relative speed to materialize the ideas in his head.
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T-Yong Chung 1977
T-Yong Chung [b. 1977, South Korea] is an artist whose sculptural and installation art is influenced by Classicism, Arte Povera and Minimalism. His works explore the formal balance between Western culture and Eastern essentiality. His sculptures, which depict human faces in plaster, ceramic, resin, wax and bronze, evoke abstraction and continuous presence. Recently, he has been experimenting with printing on fabric, discovering new spatial forms. He has exhibited in several important galleries and spaces, including Careof, MAMbo, and the Milan Triennale.
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Timothy Van Oorschot 1979
Timothy Van Oorschot [b.1989, Netherlands] studied fine art and advertising, but describes himself as a 'naive brut', someone who has to free his mind and face his own identity. he is an artist whose work is characterised by speed, by imperfect lines that create the unexpected. Right now he is focusing on the theme "who am I?" through the human face, mainly using black and white to get back to basics. Timothy's work includes 3D creations and works that explore identity and the freedom to be oneself.
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Tomoko Nagao 1976
Tomoko Nagao [b. 1976, Japan] is a graduate of Chelsea College of Art & Design and received an MA in Fine Art in London in 2003. Her work, influenced by Neo-pop and Superflat, mixes the Japanese tradition of Anime with Western myths, mocking contemporary brands. She captures female figures and Western beauty myths through kawaii aesthetics, exploring the female condition and personal artistic experience. In 2016, she participated in the Botticelli Reimagined exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Will Percillier 1999
Will Percillier [b. 1999, France] is an artist of versatile creativity who recently started his journey in the world of digital art and graphic design, moving with great skill in the field of visual expression. He fuses art and technology in his works, thanks to his diverse background and creative skills. Percillier has the ability to chart a new course in the world of contemporary art through cutting-edge technological tools, resulting in highly dynamic moving images.
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Williams Chechet 1981
Williams Chechet [b.1981, Nigeria] is a visual artist who explores cultural icons and black identity through a Pop art lens, focusing on African folk imagery and Afro-futurism. He uses digital tools to create new visual narratives by isolating photographs on coloured planes. His work, which pays homage to 1960s pop art and artists such as Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat, has been exhibited internationally in cities such as London, New York, Cape Town and Marrakech.
the selection:
Roster selection happens by call or application. Becoming part of the Spaghetti Boost Roster means belonging to our community of selected artists who adhere more to SB's objectives. To share our goals of activating new frontiers for artists, and to reach a much wider audience.
Entrare all'interno del nostro Roster consente di essere facilmente attenzionati da partner Spaghetti Boost e dalle nuove committenze per collaborazioni su arte e merch, progetti valoriali e royalties. Candidarsi è semplice. Basta cliccare sotto e includere le tue info e un portfolio aggiornato del tuo lavoro, compreso l’indicazione di qualcosa che non hai mai fatto e che vorresti realizzare in partnership con noi. Siamo attenti a idee out of the box.
Another democratic method to access the Spaghetti Boost Roster, is to participate in published calls and especially to the Artist Calls. Applying means proposing yourself for a selection that will allow you to enter a list of artists who will first be proposed for collaborations with companies and brands or projects of public and social interest.
The selection of those who will make up the Spaghetti Boost Roster will be carried out first by our team, our curators and the Scientific Committee, which will assess their quality and the concrete design of proposals and ideas.