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SURVEY OF THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE ART OF PAINTING

based on medium-specific, intrinsic criteria

S  E  C  O  N  D    E  D  I  T I  O  N

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Art Initiative Verfhond

 

dedicated to the next generation of painters,

the future of real human vision

 

 for the previous edition: click here

876. Leon Matthew Benn

(1981, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania /> New York City, US)

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I do not consider my work didactic, but rather, I strive towards a re-thinking of the idea of the romantic and sublime within painting. – Leon Benn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait bt Jeff McLane) (1-3)

877. Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba

aka Aboudia (1983, Abidjan /> Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast)

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 We can ‘see’ everything through the new media, but if the human eye has a heart, isn’t that heart called ‘painting’ ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

878. Oliver Flössel

(1977, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland- Palatinate /> Berlin, Germany)

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What about…  when painting is a process to start the process of vision?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

879. Ryan McLaughlin

(1980, Worcester, Massachuchetts, US /> Berlin, Germany)

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Is painting worlds that depends on codes and fixed rules not the same as painterly humor?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait, with Davia Maag and Claudia Groeflin) (1) (2) (3)

880. Thomas Falstad

(1977, Trondheim /> Olso, Norway)

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What if painting is about the image as a ruin?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1-2) (3)

881. Lars Elling

(1966, Oslo /> Oslo, Norway)

Is painting not about time itself: a massive bridge between past and presence – and at the same time about the moment?

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 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

882. Ben Reeves

(1969, North Vancouver /> Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada)

If pointillism was banal and transmedial at the same time, answering photography… then why shouldn’t paint nowadays - likewise – answer pixels… and why should we just laugh about (or despise) transparent and seemingly obvious shortcuts and attemps in painterly strategies to do so?

 

 

 

 

 

  (currently no portrait available) (1) (2) (3) 

883. Sergei Sviatchenko

aka Sergey Nielsen (1952, Charkov, Ukraine /> 1990, Denmark)

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It is a monolog. (…) there are times when you are heard, and suddenly you are not alone, you are connected with many people on different levels (…) you think you are heard, but suddenly, you are alone. – Sergei Sviatchenko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1+2) (3)

884. Jonathan Apgar

(1977, Los Angeles, California, US)

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 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

885. Tom Ackermann

(1984, Gera /> Weimar, Thuringia, Germany)

not the same person as 

Thomas Ackermann (1952, Bad Hersfeld, Hessen, Germany /> Ontario, Canada)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

886. Sofia Bohltingk

(1976, Buenos Aires /> Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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Is painting not always about the eternal dynamics of chaos and order?

  

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1-3)

887. Sanya Kantarovsky

(1982, Moscow, Russia /> Los Angeles, California, US)

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‘There’s a sign for everything … author’s block, emptiness, loneliness, awe, dilemma … It gets interesting when this vocabulary is framed through a more hermetic language.’ – Sanya Kantarovsky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

888. Evren Tekinoktay

(1972, Copenhagen /> Copenhagen, Denmark)

Can painting (an art near the womb, yet freed from reproduction) re-create one’s childhood iconography?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1-3)

889. Satoshi Ohno

(1980, Gifu prefecture /> Yamanashi prefecture, Japan)

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Is painting not a way of returning to the primeval forest, the womb, life’s original place?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2-3)

890. Lyle Carbajal

(1968, Los Angeles /> San Francisco, California, US)

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Has painting not always been the visual vernacular wherein the ’urban’ and ‘primitive’ meet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

891. Mark Dutcher

(1963, Newport Beach /> Los Angeles, California, US)

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Doesn’t painting allows you to write your name by using the whole alphabeth?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

892. Claudia Loclair

(Leipzig, Germany)

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  (currently no portrait available) (1-3)

893. Ruth Kroll

(1986, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt /> Weimar, Thuringia, Germany)

 

 

 

 

 

  (currently no portrait available) (1) (2) (3)

894. Gimena Macri

(1986, Buenos Aires /> Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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Where to find imagination within the ruins of imagery?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

895. Jill Mulleady

(1980, Montevideo, Uruguay /> London, UK)

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Is the eye not all about expectations, and painting not the opposite?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1) (2-3)