STOA Gallery will participate in the next edition of the art fair LA Art Show 2018, in California, United States, and which will be held between the 10th and the 14th of January. It is the 23rd edition and will feature 100 international art galleries, from 18 countries, and an estimated 70,000 visitors.
STOA gallery, from Estepona, continues the international projection that led to the participation in 6 international art fairs in the past year 2017: LA Art Show (Los Angeles - USA), Art New York (USA), Scope Basel (Switzerland), Art Marbella (Spain), KIAF (Seoul, South Korea) and Scope Miami (USA).
For the STOA booth at LA Art Show 2018, we present a project of four artists with whom the gallery works regularly: the Swiss Franco Scalese, the Spanish Paz Aymerich, the Frenchman living in Malaga Eric Aman, and the Spanish Conchi Álvarez.
Paz Aymerich. is a painter from Madrid, who has been working with STOA gallery from the beginning. Her painting is circumscribed to the most intimate urban landscape. Her work is the result of quiet and calm and an intimate relationship with the urban habitat. Her particular urban experience goes to boards and canvases with a spasmodic drive, reflection of the passion and intensity of the author, but also a result of a deep spiritual stillness that entails that apprehension of the urban reality that characterizes her painting, producing compositions of the scope figurative with a subjective, very personal, vision, in which her experiences pass to the support with the freshness and ease provided by the spatula and the brush. Far approaches are predominant, with perspective, as well as visions and views from rooftops and roof. These are the distant perspectives in which the horizon line fuses impossible embraces between heaven and earth, where Paz achieves sublime moments that invite us to dream and reconcile with the city. It obtains corporeal atmospheres in which dialogues, murmurs, laughter, crying… are glimpsed and horizons with silhouettes of a forceful plasticity that happen to become the own identity of each city.
Franco Scalese. is a Swiss artist of Italian descent who lives and works in Zurich (Switzerland). We will present works in which he tackles a universal and timeless theme, the memory, and at the same time personal, the remembrance, small sculptures of a joyful and nostalgic remembrance. They are golden memories, elegant objects in which old photographs are submerged in a transparent and golden viscosity to remind us of what Jorge Manrique said, "... any time in the past was better”, because every frozen, premeditated and posed moment always shows the best, only a part, which we want to teach and, at the same time, the one we want to believe, which we cling to feel that there is that kind and lovely part in our history. Franco Scalese recalls the almost legends and stories that his grandmother told him and, once apprehended, internalized, forming part of his innermost self, as a second skin, emerge in his art in that magical ritual of mixing elements and, as a great demiurge, achieving elegant and enigmatic pieces. They are works that attract by its old flavor and that sensation of "déjà vu" that provoke in us the old photographs.
Conchi Álvarez. Spanish painter who works in the field of figuration in several series. For LA Art Show, we will present works from her series “The Ritual of the Woman” ("El Ritual de la Mujer"), the flamenco woman. A ritual that has developed in all cultures and that, in the case of the Flamenco woman, has a spectacular plasticity and beauty. The oils on canvas of great size stand out, where the portraits of flamencas wearing magnificent ruffled dresses, and of sublime elegance, remind us of the galleries of family portraits. They are women with a rich inner life, full of insecurities, fears, desires. Queens of their own dreams, proud of their background, adventurous of life, prisoners of love ... The series has deepened in the feminine interior and the author has been investigating increasingly complex questions: the reason for this ritual, for whom, why... Right now the work is generating works of art in which, sometimes the mind, others, the most, the heart of the Flamenco woman, makes her own catharsis wondering about herself, about her loved one, doubting, mocking, tearing... and she is no longer just the Flamenco woman, she happens to represent, in reality, the female gender.
On the other hand, we will exhibit acrylics on panel of her series "Urban Dreams". A magical realism that can not be more subjective, only for the beloved cities. It is never the city, but "its" city, and always the historical center, where urban history is concentrated, where they overlap, as layers, essences and experiences that explode in her paintings, in a metamorphosis of color that does not affect the shapes, as corners and streets are recognized. Moments and lonely spaces, without people, but loaded with absent humanity. Her passion for archeology explains her creative process: spaces loaded with an incommensurable code of forms, lights and colors only accessible and interpretable by the discoverer, who strata to stratum, unravels, studies, in a vital itinerary because the artist's gaze towards the city becomes a mirror of the own existence, or of its own longing, returning to it the kindest and most beautiful image, the most optimistic.
Eric Aman. We present the new series in which the French sculptor based in Spain, Eric Aman is working on. The original idea is part of the book "Iconology" by Cesare Ripa, the great classic of the seventeenth century on the theory of images, essential to enter the world of allegories, as well as the reason of images in a given context. Eric takes the text by Ripa as a starting point to elaborate a mythology of his own, in which anthropomorphic beings represent concepts, moods, virtues, vices, passions... For Ripa, all allegory must be enigmatic, and should not be easily understood. Faithful to that advice, Eric endows his works with enigmatic letters and signs. Therefore they are epigraphic sculptures in which incised letters and signs of ancient alphabets not deciphered, or legible, appear like the Iberian or the Etruscan, whose reading is possible, but not its translation. Like Ripa, who used for his book numerous sources of information, emphasizing the classic mythology, Eric resorts to multiple channels, product of its formation, eminently classic. Sculptor trained in France first, in the principles of French classicism, later completed his training in Italy, country where he has lived for 17 years and where he has a workshop in Carrara. All this flow of influences is synthesized in this series.

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