UVNT 2023

Initially Moreira’s practice is a way of solving problems which build on an intuitive work process which can be triggered by contemporary culture endorsing both phycological and political aspects.

Working primarily in small scale with oil pastels and sticks on found cardboard food packages which are collaged, his images have an immediacy often shifting between representative elements to abstract patterns.

The different mediums and surfaces, number of themes and even the scale are all circumstantial, in the sense that it is his day-to-day living that determines the studio processes.

The act of analysis has little space in the specific creative process but looking at the artists oeuvre one can conclude that Moreiras practice is an ongoing commentary and staging of events related to the human condition.

FERAL
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 69 x 83 cm

DEAD MAN’S CHEST
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 69 x 83 cm

VENISON
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 69 x 83 cm

AND I STILL RISE
2022. Ink and varnish on tile. 75 x 60 cm

THE MORON BROTHERS
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 71 x 62 cm

THE FELLOWSHIP
2022. Oil pastel on paper. 60 x 65 cm

THE ANGEL
2022. Oil, oil stick and collage on canvas. 172 x 144 cm

Gabrielle Graessle was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1956 and has been fascinated by painting and drawing since she was a child. She attended the Zurich Art School for 5 years, where she completed a degree in graphic design. The first exhibitions took place while she was still a student. During this time she made mainly black and white charcoal drawings in which she spontaneously depicted her personal imagery.

All kinds of sorts enter into Gabrielle’s drawings and paintings: animals, nature, fashion, films, books, news, also feelings, music, images from childhood up to now, there’s no restrictions. Gabrielle’s paintings can be described as colorful, and figurative. We can find it apparently that she loves large paintings the most, as she explained that it’s such a blessed to be surrounded by her creative paintings.

Her paintings are colorful, figurative, and peculiar, sometimes accompanied by words, sometimes with glitter.

UNTITLED
2022. Aerosol, glitter and oilpastel on paper. 90 x 65 cm

Thomas works within an interdisciplinary practice that includes painting sculpture, drawing and installation. Through a lens that is often self-referential he is keen to explore universal themes in the human and artistic condition and the concept of what he describes as material thought, how consciousness makes its way into an object or a work of art.

He has an affinity with traditional craft practices and the natural world both as a source of inspiration and raw material. Always seeking new territories for artistic comment , he tends to work in series , with the works functioning as modular components of a wider narrative or sentiment.

UNTITLED (UNDULATE 007)
2022. Charcoal and oil on canvas. 192 x 162 cm

Xevi Sola Serra is a Spanish painter working with figuration from a bold and powerful perspective. Thecharacters he depicts are unique, rare and beautiful, each one of them captured in a modest and intimate moment. His works, far from showing just what is there at plain sight, capture a feeling, a sensation that is there and that creates a tacit bond between the onlooker and the painter.

Wearing colorful and eye-catching attires, the people portrayed in his artworks are made using colorful strokes that tend to create even more deepness in their looks and highlight their intriguing and captivating poses. Xevi’s work serves as a reminder of the beauty in boldness and rarity, and how figurative art can still be edgy and aligned with our times.