Art Antwerp stages the world's premier art show for Contemporary Art, Jewellery and Design, sited in Antwerp (Belgium) at Antwerp-Expo Forum alongside museums, historical buildings, art galleries, antique showrooms and jewellery crafters. The eight day art event (december 5-12) is defined by its host city and region, its participating galleries, artworks and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions and international partners. In addition to ambitious booths featuring leading galleries from around the globe, the show spotlights the latest developments in the visual and applied arts, offering visitors new ideas and inspiration.

Visiors are invited to discover leading international gallerists, collectors, artists and art professionals, like Gallery L’Entrepot Monaco. The gallery manager, Daniel Boeri aims to encourage creative originality from any artistic background providing an unusual integrative approach to the arts. The gallery is working with artists from all disciplines together who demonstrate and testify to the universality of art :”Art without Frontiers”. Consequently Daniel Boeri is providing a platform for the best of young artists, presenting recent works by Caroline Rivalan, Kriangkrai Kongkhanun, Targo YouWan Istanto, Gérald Panighi and David Gabriel Kavavy at Art Antwerp.

Carolin Rivalan was born in Paris and holds a diploma at the Elite Academies of Esmod Paris and Ecole Nationale Superieur D’Art (Nice). Beyond mixed techniques and an approach to art as a baroque and onirique world, Caroline Rivalan is focused on recycled items into her creation process. Her work is intimately connected with an instinctive and impulsive way of thinking; as she is using the transparency of a veil, the texture of wall paper, acrylic paint. She is also collecting images for an entire year before using them. Increasing the figure of some materials found, grant them the increased value of a new autonomy by way of giving them another life almost in a magical way. Carolin Rivalan is an internationally recognized French artist with conceptual ability to articulate complex ideas in poetical challenging forms and narrative compositions.

Targo YouWan Istanto was born 1975 in Indonesia and studied Fine Art at the Indonesian Institue of Art in Yogyakarta. In 1997 he was awarded with the best sketcher Prize of Faculty of fine art Indonesian Institute of Art. Targo YouWan Istanto develops storytelling in his work with influences from the history of painting as well as pop-culture, building narratives around his characters of good and evil. About his works the artist mentions:”Painting is a single part of my life throught the line I try to chapter and visualize my life surround and color just symbol of images and passion about life that I am doing.” As a result, the artist delivers a complex imagery of two and three-dimensional objects, transforming our perspectives and experience of the familiar.

François Paris was born 1975 in France and was graduated DNSEP in Villa Arson, Nice, France. Francois Paris drawings are telling stories. But his work can not considered as realist nor do he currently have any interest in creating an entertaining magic trick of illusionist experience for the viewer. The easy descent into nostalgia for past art forms which much ‘realism’ today provides does not satisfy his needs from contemporary painting. The artist is more concerned with the difficulty of creating emotional responses through the work and with the drawing process, of moving and experiencing graphite in different ways of engaging the viewer in an emotional narrative. François Paris’s work makes our communication easily recognizable and thus rely on a ‘realistic’ language but primarily focus on its subliminal emotional effect at the same time.

Kriangkrai Kongkhanun was born in 1980 and graduated with a Masters degree from Silpakorn University..Recently, he also collaborated with a Colombian artist for a project organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and he will participate in the 16th international Biennial of Engraving Sarcelles in France in 2014. On returning to Thailand, Kriangkrai’s art has combined his knowledge of western art with his Buddhist upbringing. Kriangkrai Kongkhanun brings a renewed sense of confidence to his work as he translates his personal reflections on cultural displacement through explorations in material, form and scale. Kriangkrai Kongkhanun works present multi-layered references of time measured and re-imagined through the individual’s selective memory of past, present and futures. They consider the textured nature of time – diverse and chaotic yet capable of developing our consciousness of time and existence.

Gérald Panighi uses labels, tattoo transfers, that he puts in the middle of large used, stained and yellowed paper sheets. The images he recycles usually come from popular culture, mass media and cartoons. His work consists in increasing the figure of these visual objects found,grant them the increased value of a new autonomy by way of crossing over. Made with pencil, enhanced with watercolour or oil, the works become alive on the paper, where they are sometimes accompanied with aphorisms. Lost in emptiness, the thin and delicate line becomes a fragment, an absurd life moment, mixing the familiar with the incongruous, reveals a a worrisome strangeness.  In his career he has connected his fiction-based artistic practice to this new and visually body of work. Through the use of word and image, he encourages the viewer to engage with the work.

David Gabriel Kavafy is a rising Rumanian contemporary artist who engages with his audience in a playful and thought provoking manner. He explores the notions of reality and fiction by experimenting with dimensions, concepts and shapes. The Rumanian-born artist moved to France at age of 30 and since that time, creates, exposes and publishes in both countries. His creation field is quite wide: photographer, writer and plastic artist, he likes exploring unusual territories. As a photographer, the mainstream of his work goes to abstraction. He uses camera as a visual tool, in the way a painter uses his pencil. Thereby, light, colour or movements become magic. Most of the time, reality disappears and the viewer find himself in front of some abstract piece of art which could be painting, drawing or photography.

LOCATION

Art Antwerp – International Art & Design
December, 5-12, 2014
The Antwerp Expo Forum
Jan van Rijswijcklaan 191,
2020 Antwerp, Belgium
www.artantwerp.com

Fair Hours & Program:

Friday, December 5th:           20:00 -24:00 Opening Vernissage, VIP Invitations only
Saturday, December 6th:       11:00 - 17:00
Sunday, December 7th:         11:00 - 16:00 & 19:30 - 23:00 Nocturne Event
Monday, December 8th:         12:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, December 9th:        12:00 - 18:00
Wednesday, December 10th: 16:00 - 21:00
Thursday, December 11th:     12:00 - 18:00
Friday, December 12th:          12:00 - 19:00

General Admissions:
One-Day-Pass: 10 EUR
Students, Children, Senior Citizens: 7 EUR
Art Antwerp Magazine: 15 EUR
Vernissage Viewing (VIP Reception):: 82 EUR (incl. Art Antwerp Magazine)
Tickets orders: http://www.artantwerp.com/tickets

CONTACT GALLERY
Gallery L’Entrepot Monaco
Director
Daniel Boeri
22, rue de Millo
MC 98000 Monaco
Phone + 37 793 501314
dboeri@lentrepot-monaco.com
www.lentrepot-monaco.com

CONTACT AUTHOR
Source/ Copyrights

Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund
info@arthistoryconsulting.de
www.arthistoryconsulting.de

About the Author:

Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, born in Zurich/ Switzerland, is an art historian, art critic and Managing Director at Art History Consulting (AHC). She studied Art History at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Germany), University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy) and London Guildhall University (UK).