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Artvera’s Gallery Geneva
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Rue Etienne Dumont 1
1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)22 311 05 53
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ARTVERA’S GALLERY PRESENTS CONTEMPORARY BOOM!
Patrick Mimran, Dollar, 2003, inkjet on Hahnemuhle rag barite paper 310gr, Diasec, 200 x 85 cm
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND − Artvera’s gallery has its grand opening event on Thursday,
November 27th at 6 pm.
The exhibit will highlight the works of nineteen contemporary artists including the famous
French multimedia artist Patrick Mimran working with painting, photography, video art,
sculpture and installations. He mixes contemporary references with historical films.
Justine Smith through her collages,
prints and sculptures examines our
relationship with money in a political,
moral and social sense, exploiting as well
the physical beauty of the note. Award
winning and internationally renowned, her
works are at Collections of the British
Council and the UK Government Art
Collection.
of the world through comics and streets
complete sentence.
Jean-Luc Sollberger, Switzerland Medicin Man, mixed media on
canvas, 122 x 156 cm
Justine Smith, Bigger Bang Black, 2014, Diamond Dust Edition.
Inkjet print on 330gsm Somerset Satin Enhanced paper, with
black diamond dust, 92 x 120 cm
Award winning artist Loz Atkinson,
provocative hopeful her visions adopt
themes of mortality, emotion, truth, time,
movement, environment and morality. She
plays with perceptions of what is seen and
not seen, using bold shape, line, form,
colour and symbolism.
Photographer Zoe Childerley finds
hidden beauty in otherworldly portrait and
landscape.
Loz Atkinson, Untitled, 2014, Exterior Eggshell, Acrylic,
Metallic Ink on Canva, 50 x 70 x 4 cm
While Roys People is all about creating
images and installations using miniature
figures, taxidermy and everyday items.
Zoe Childerley, Impossible triangle. Solar Fields, Nevada, 2014,
photo collage, 80 x 60 cm
The Swiss based street art painter JeanLuc
Sollberger
with
its
bold
coloured canvases depicts playful images
Roys People, Graffiti, mixed media, 52 x 52 cm
Emily Gray, Twiggy, 2014, Perspex, 72 x 50 cm
Yanko Tihov gained recognition with his
passport series that are unique examples of
contemporary cartography.
In this age of ubiquitous “Selfies” Lisa
Cirenza explores the latest digital
technologies to unify the human society
culturally, emotionally and physically. She
is an award winner of east-west art price in
Kyoto Japan.
Yanko Tihov, Europe Cold War, 2014, archival print, hand
gilded with 23 carat shell gold, 61 x 83.7 cm
Emily Gray with its bold, bright distinctive
images in layered laser cut Perspex create
a wall sculpture.
Lisa Cirenza, Tubers, 2014, acrylic on Board, 70 x 100 cm
The exhibit also included the famous Swiss
photographer Patrick Weidmann who
for more than 20 years captures objects
persuading us that we live in the realm of
commodities, in a world that is so
mercenary that it now fills the entire life of
everyone on the planet.
Patrick Weidmann, 291-32-1998-2, 1998, photographie et
Diasec, 115 X 174 cm
The show presents works by French artist
Marion Six who explores the nudes and
captures emotions and moods of the
bodies.
Elliot Henning, Ice Cream, 2014, peinture à l’aérographe sur
toile, 100 x 70 cm
South Korean Sangsik Hong whose
sculptures of lips, eyes and faces symbolize
semantic relationships and the structure of
desires connotes the pathos of reality.
Marion Six, Tendresse, 2014, huile sur toile, 162 cm x 114 cm
Graffiti artist Eliot Henning reflects the
worlds through bright spray painted
objects.
Sangsik Hong, Lips, 2014, straw, 49.5x49x18.5 cm
Myung Nam An, South Korean
ceramist, whose abstract appropriated
images from todays culture and translates
these onto the surface.
Adam Green, Crosstown Monitors, acrylic on linen, 100 x 100
cm
Myung Nam An, Eyes, 2014, ceramics
Aurélie
Menaldo
constructs
nonobjective assemblages from found objects.
Aurélie Menaldo, Mur de Glaces, 2014, mixed media, 160 x 100
cm
Adam Green plays with repetition and
colourful images to unite material and
visual.
Ant Pearce's practice, influenced by
Freud’s theories, focuses on the concept
that man is condemned to exist imprisoned.
Through his work. He explores the fragility
of life, drawing on human psychology.
Ant Pearce, Kate #1#3, 2014, cotton thread sewn on paper, 59.4
x 84.1 cm
Drawing influence from Punk, Situationism
and the Goons, Tim Carson constructs
mechanisms and machines on boards to
promote a physical interaction between the
viewer and the work.
Tim Carson, It’s not worth it, airbrush on canvas, 17.5 x 22 cm
Frederic Béziat, jeweller himself,
depicts precious stones and fine
jewellery pieces in his compositions.
Frédéric Beziat, Profils, mixed media, 2014, 140 x 70 cm
ABOUT ARTVERA’S
Artvera’s is a Geneva-based art gallery specializing in European and Russian masters of
modern art. Since opening its doors in 2007, Artvera’s has offered museum-quality exhibitions
and promoted the discovery and rediscovery of prominent artists, sometimes overlooked by art
historians and scholars. To complement the stable of twentieth century Modern masters,
Artvera’s also showcases noteworthy nationally and internationally established and emerging
contemporary artists. The 5,400 square-foot gallery occupies a lovingly restored medieval
building in the heart of Geneva’s old town.
The gallery has presented individual and group exhibitions, including “Der Blauer Reiter, Die
Brücke, The Knave of Diamond” (2008-2009), “Serge Charchoune: Retrospective” (20092010), “Pointillism” (2011), “Friedrich Karl Gotsch” (2011-2012), “Gérard Schneider” (20122013), “René Rimbert” (2013-2014), “S.P.R.A.Y” (2014), “Swiss Photo” (2014), “Lavrenty
Bruni” (2014) and “Metaphysical Landscapes” (2014).
Artvera’s collaborates closely with museums, and regularly lends artworks to prestigious
exhibitions worldwide. The gallery is led by director Sofia Komarova. Schooled in St.
Petersburg and Geneva, Komarova possesses a vast wealth of knowledge and a wide range
of expertise in acquisition and appraisal.