What Is Contemporary Art?

(I) oil on canvas - 90 x 60cm

(II) oil on canvas - 64 x 44cm

Those two parts of What Is Contemporary Art? series is an introduction to the Letter Art by putting a simple, but at the same time very controversial, question on the art table. The answer seems pretty clear but it is very blurry if you come ''closer''.

Last Supper?

oil & collage on canvas - 90 x 50cm

Was Jesus one of the first anarchists?

This imaginary party combines the past with the future. The use of the question mark in the title captures the wonder of existence and implementation, the continuity of an utopian situation which seems to be the future, but in which reality, where and with who?

Every last supper has its ''Judas''.

Compass (Homage to Wassily Kandinsky)

oil, metal, sand, brick, feathers on canvas - 62 x 62 cm

This painting is a homage to Wassily Kandinsky's geometrical analysis, which influenced the way that points, lines and levels are applied on a canvas and the meaning they have. Moreover, it was an innovative analysis for the general art movement of its time.

According to Kandinsky, each part of a canvas is not the same, in terms of the tension it has. The right low corner, has the biggest tension, where the objects are ''trapped''. On the other hand, the left upper corner is the calmest one, where open space and freedom are vivid. Kandinsky resembled the four sides of a canvas, with thre sky (north), the road/freedom (west), the ground (south) and home (east).

Holy Family

mixed media installation
(vintage drawer, vintage dolls, sand, glue, paper, tags)

How sacred is the family institution? It is easy to love the members of your family. It is more difficult to substantially esteem them. But how possible is to admit that you do not? Sand is a very fragile material, which can also be used as a surface hide-hole. The drawers are a limited space trap. Masks do always have a double role; they can hide and change at the same time.

''Holy Family’’ is a part of Home Sweet Homes series. It was first exhibited as an installation in the 4th TOAF in London.

Super-human

oil on canvas - 78 x 90 cm

''The only thing we have to fear is the ‘culture of fear’ itself''. Initially motivated by the high popularity of a Nazi political party in Greece, this artwork deals with ''the culture of fear''. What is the ''super-human'' willing to sacrifice during its internal fight against fear?

Mine

oil & manila rope on canvas - 76 x 51 x 6 cm

My kid, My son, My child, My daughter, My baby, My, My, My...Nobody is a property of anyone. 

How much advantage do we take of the fact that a 5-year old kid cannot survive on its own?

Last Image

mixed media (oil & collage) on 3 canvases -  90 x 42 cm

This triptych creates a meeting between a kid and a soldier who have switched their natures. How much in common do they have? Two nations got two heroes. Two individuals got nothing. But they both experience the same ''last image''.

Yellow, Red, Green, Blue, Black...the creation of a painting

The oil on canvas ''Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (the Ego and his Own)'' included the painting of 240 flags (238 country plus 2 political ones) and the word ''I'' in 75 different languages on top of them. Each individual color was fully painted on the canvas, following by the next one. The order was light to dark colors, as it comes by the following photos.

The completion of this painting was, simultaneously, a geographical lesson. Lots of known, strange and stupid conclusions were made. The first ones that comes into mind are the following.

- 16 of the countries have the UK flag as part of their own one, as a result of the colonies history

- The most colourful flags are the Africa ones, where GREEN plays a vital role.

- The colour that dominates is RED

- The most complicated symbols exist in Asia flags and in the ones of islands.

- Only the following five color have been used for the main body of the flags (no grey, brown, purple, pink, etc).

          Step 2: Red

    Step 1: Yellow

    
                                                                            

                                          Step 4: Light Blue

Step 3: Green  

                                                                     

   

                                          Step 6: Black

 Step 5: Dark Blue
                                                                             



                                                        Step 8: Art
 
   Step 7: Symbols                

      

                           

''Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (The Ego and His Own)''

oil on canvas -  91,4 x 122 cm

My ego is property of my own and of nobody else. I do not belong to any country, family or religion. I belong to myself and I am the only owner of me.

A group of people, in any form (country, society, family, religion), is consisted of individuals and it depends its existence on those. Therefore, it cannot exist without the individuals.On contrary the individual does exist without it. 

The title of this artwork is from Max Stirner's homonymous book ''Der Einzige und sein Eigentum'' (translation ''The Ego and His Own''), first published in 1844.

What is happiness / Sur le bonheur

Howdy gals and guys, 

You know how each of us has his life's leitmotivs? Well, mine is happiness (I'm pretty sure most people dwell in this subject, too). I live, breathe and eat chocolate for happiness inside a body. So, I wanna know what happiness means to you. 

Should you be interested in my project, please send me a letter, a postcard, a mail (iamhappiness.inc@gmail.com), a Couchsurfing or a Facebook message, a tweet, a pigeon, a message in a bottle. 

Your views will be published in your mother tongue language here: http://pinterest.com/dasmatia/fericire-bonheur-hapiness-gluck-felicidad/ to start with and then, when I'll launch my fashion brand, I will impregnate the clothes I design with your words. 

I believe in people, in stories and in dreams and this is my way of self-empowering and broadening my view through the eyes of others. 

Thanks for taking the time to read and hope to hear from you soon. 

& here is a French description: 

On a tous des lait-motifs qui nous tiennent à coeur. Le mien est le bonheur (comme pour pas mal d'entre vous, j'imagine). J'y pense et j'y réfléchi et j'essaie de décrypter ce bonheur humain. Et surtout, je crois que le bonheur n'est pas un droit, mais une exigence  Maintenant, je voudrais savoir ce que vous pensez, qu'est-ce que le bonheur pour vous. 

Si ça vous intéresse de participer à ce projet, merci de m'envoyer un petit mot dans votre langue maternelle par carte postale, lettre, mail (iamhappiness.inc@gmail.com), message Couchsurfing ou Facebook, via Twitter ou un pigeon voyageur. 

Je vais publier votre perspective sur le bonheur ici : http://pinterest.com/dasmatia/fericire-bonheur-hapiness-gluck-felicidad/, en attendant que je crée ma marque de vêtements & accessoires pour que je puisse imprégner mes créations de vos mots. 

Plus que tout, je crois à l'humain, aux histoires et aux rêves et ceci est ma manière de croire et d’élargir ma perspective en regardant à travers les yeux des autres. 

Merci d'avoir pris le temps de lire tout ça et j’espère que mon projet vous intéressera. 

anca

''Walkers''

mixed media on paper -  65 x 51 cm

''Walkers'' is a mixed media artwork (oil painting, photography & collage), dedicated to some of the greatest artists who changed the history of art throughout centuries, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Marcel Duchamp. Taking place in Bergamo's Citta Alta (old city), this piece of art also criticizes the commercial approach of art in our times.

Barcelona

A photographic tribute to the city of art and architecture, of the grand surrealists, of Antonio Gaudi and his imaginary buildings, of the narrow streets and the numerous cafes, of the huge sports tradition, of Barceloneta and the fish village atmosphere. A different tribute to the capital of Catalunya.

               

Buildings

                                            

  
   
  
                                              Bicing 

  

                      Musicians

            

  

                            Pink & Green

    

                             Parc Güell                            

                             

                                                                                        Barrio Gotico  

                Travellers

                                                                                                                  

Plaza Real

            

        Gracia

                                                                                     The Subject of Art

       

             Roy Lichtenstein                                                                                                                                                                         Emotions                                            

                                                                                         

''Bubbles''

oil on canvas - 50 x 32 cm

The main theme of this painting are the bubbles people put themselves into, in order to avoid facing reality. These bubbles are created by ourselves or by any form of society (family, friends, state, etc.) with people having personal benefits or being unable to realize and resist.