"The Renacer", art exhibition in Contemporary Art Museum of Huila, Colombia

 

A large painting exhibition will be held at the Huila Contemporary Art Museum in Colombia.

Sandra Balaguera´s Art

 

Sandra Balaguera is an architect and a self-taught painter, born in Neiva-Huila, Colombia.

By profession an architect, she began to explore the field of visual arts in 2018, focusing her work on landscaping, a topic that has characterized her so far, making this area her most recurrent form of expression through the use of different techniques such as canvas, paper and jute with the application of acrylic techniques in the first place.

Meet Ana K and her new musical projects

 

Ana K has every reason to be EVERYTHING for everyone. She is light and sensual at the same time. She has a charming voice, a unique style and charm that effortlessly reaches your senses. She started in music at the age of ten, in one of the parades produced by her mother Rita Kühnbach, and with a very musical family, Ana K had and is referenced by many music icons ranging from Tim Maia to Rihanna.

Antonio Antolini plans a surprise for the people of NYC MANHATTAN in 2021

The Italian/braziliam writer and lawyer Antonio Antolini, author of the books “A Carta da Vitória do Espírito Santo” and “O Evangelho nada secreto de Antonio” - both still without English translation,  among others, plans to launch part of his literary work in the United States of America in 2021, if the pandemic is under control.

Naïve art by Gabriel Nieto Nieto

Gabriel Nieto Nieto, recognition for his work and artistic career as a professional painter of primitive art landscapes. In the company of the Mexican Ernesto Ríos and the Colombian Mauricio Mayorga Zamora, plastic artists.

Gabriel Nieto Nieto Colombian landscape painter specialized in Naif art. He was born on April 6, 1960, in the city of Ibagué Tolima Colombia, currently he lives and works in Neiva Huila where he actively participates in cultural events and teaches painting.

Announcing the Third Festival of Art without Borders for Peace

The Board of Directors of Art Without Borders for Peace invites you to participate in the Third International Festival of Art without Borders for Peace to open on October 14, 2020.

Maria Florencia Zambecchi

María Florencia Zambecchi 37 years old, (Neuquén, Argentina) She is a Graphic and Plastic Artistic Designer.  It has a wide style, with varied techniques, it likes experimentation.  Leaning mostly on the use of oils in his latest works.  Also acrylics and mixed materials.  She trained in the arts as a child studying the career of Prof. of Artistic Drawing and Painting (from the academy, Conté Grand Arg., With Claudia Franco and Gisela Boneti).  But then she dedicated most of her career to Graphic Design directing her own studio / workshop, as a professional and also as a professor at the University of Flores de Bs As (Comahue headquarters).  In recent years he has been focusing with greater dedication to his true passion, painting.  A participation in a small format contest, a national level located in Santa Fe, specifically leaving the jury.  On the other hand to the collective exhibitions of Neuquén Cap.  And at design and art fairs in Barcelona, ​​Spain.  He currently lives between Spain and Italy, they have their arts in those countries.

María Florencia Zambecchi 1983, Neuquén, Argentina. Diseñadora Gráfica y Artista plástica. Su obra tiene un estilo amplio, gusta de la constante experimentación donde usa técnicas variadas inclinándose principalmente por el uso de óleos en sus últimos trabajos.

Se formó en las artes de pequeña estudiando la carrera de profesor de Dibujo Artístico y Pintura (de la académia, Conté Grand Arg., con Claudia Franco y Gisela Boneti). Pero luego dedicó la mayor parte de su carrera al Diseño Gráfico dirigiendo su propio estudio/taller, como profesional y también como profesora en la Universidad de Flores de Bs As (sede Comahue). En los últimos años está enfocándose con mayor dedicación a su verdadera pasión; la pintura.

Ha participado en concurso de pequeño formato, a nivel nacional situado en Santa Fe, obteniendo mención especial del jurado. Además, ha participado en exposiciones colectivas en la ciudad de Neuquén, en diversas ferias de diseño y arte de Barcelona, España. Actualmente vive entre España e Italia, desarrollando y participando con su arte por aquellos países.

Sayder SDR, music and solidarity of Brazil

 Sayder SDR, brazilian singer and humanitarian activist

Carlos Souza, known artistically as “Sayder SDR,” was born in Ribeirāo Pires in the state of São Paulo Brasil, the son of Nilo and Claudia Sousa. He is a singer, composer, music producer and humanitarian activist living in São Paulo. His grew up in a family of singers and musicians in Mauá, a city in Gran ABC SP, where his uncles from São Paulo often accompanied them during bohemian nights.

Mauricio Mayorga, "Art as a factor of change in society"

Environmental activist and artist

By William Richard Muenzer 

I cannot imagine how our days would be in this confinement due to the pandemic, without art in all its manifestations to distract us, accompany us, take us by the hand and show us a sensible world, a world beyond our solitude and our thoughts? Music, books, photography, videos, movies, memes, messages, will allow us to understand the above question.

 If we go back to prehistory, cave paintings can be considered as the great writings and great masterpieces of that time, the main legacy that allows us to understand the dialectic in the history of humanity and describe it, as it was presumed, extrapolating the information that appears from our reading and understanding of it.

In this context, the role of art at this time, takes on greater importance and a more transcendental role when one or many works are developed through a concept, creating greater satisfaction for the artist, more forceful works and effective communication directed towards the public.

The degree of identification of the artist, then, with the message that he wishes to transmit with his work, empowers him and if his personality and the theme warrant it, he becomes an activist in relation to the theme that he loves, his muse and the means of expressing himself: Peace, environment, nature, water, animals, etc.

Having said that we find that the role of art in relation to the problems that the artist focuses on is increasing. In the specific case of Mauricio Mayorga Zamora, his love for the sea and the peace that it transmits, leads him to look at the garbage that contaminates it and projects the negative footprint, galloping on the face of the earth, the fauna, the flora, the environment and the global scenario.

He learned from his indigenous older brothers from Colombia, tribes such as (the Arhuacos, Muiscas, and Guambianos) and from Peru and Bolivia (the Quechuas and the Aymaras) that the well-being of the Pacha Mama (Mother Earth) is closely related to the respect for nature and the environment and so around the year 2000 Mauricio decided to gradually focus his actions and works to spread this philosophy. Consequently, his art and efforts are linked to initiatives focused on nature, the environment, the well-being of the seas, and the peace as a life objective, creating international alliances to work together, which is why he was invited to participate in the exhibition called Mother Nature organized by Jesno Rengi curator of the art4you gallery in Dubai.

Colombia was designated by the UN as the host country for the World Environment Day Celebration, on June 5, 2020, and "art4you gallery" selected Mauricio, to represent Colombia, having learned of his work and management worldwide regarding the garbage pandemic and the toxic plastic islands, which was a good match to the theme of their exhibition.

As a conceptual artist Mauricio focuses his work on the sea, the garbage that contaminates it and his relationship with peace, with different artistic techniques which lead the observer to evaluate his footprint on the planet, making him participate in collective interventions of which he is a benchmark, as well as the performer (Relational art).

His work has previously been exhibited on more than 200 stages in 30 countries, mostly at official events in Celebration of World Earth Day EDN, World Water Day WWD and World Ocean Day WOD. He has had the endorsement of the Colombian diplomatic corps in the exhibitions of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Venezuela, the United States, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Italy, and France. 

Mauricio has also participated in International events such as: 2019 XIX Congreso Internacional Gestión Residuos Perspectivas Ambientales, (International Residues Management Congress), 2012 Universidad Gran Colombia, ECCI. II Seminario Internacional en Biodiversidad, 2012   Jardín Botánico de Bogotá: Encuentro Distrital, análisis de la implementación de las políticas de educación ambiental. In Museums : 2017  Museo Histórico, Centro de Memoria y reconciliación, Celebración del Día Mundial de Naciones Unidas.  Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Huila, Neiva, Festival Internacional de Arte sin fronteras por la paz en Colombia; 2017    Museo San Juan de Nepomuseno Santa Marta; Museo Naval de Coveñas; Museo Nacional de Colombia; Museo de arte contemporáneo de Bogotá, just to name a few.

As a spokesperson for children from different countries, he leads the initiative that if recycling is taught from the moment all children on the planet enter school, the main cause of this toxic pandemic will be attacked at its roots and in about 10 years the problem would be minimized, which is why he was invited to make a presentation in 2011 at a world event at the United Nations central building in NYC. In 2017, he was appointed Allied Spokesperson of the United Nations Information Center in Bogotá and thus obtained the endorsement of UNESCO, having been appointed by the Colombian Ocean Commission (head of the Vice Presidency of the Republic of Colombia) to lead International level activities in celebration of the WOD. Some 200 events were visited by about 120,000 people.

Presently he has put forward this initiative to be adopted by Rotary clubs around the world. This is a widely spread, immediate, and low-cost action that as he estimates will change the history of humanity related to the environment.

In order to strengthen ties with art4u, Mauricio has extended them an invitation  to participate in the Virtual Cambass Museum exhibition, where he acted as a strategical ally and ideologue of this initiative until its inauguration on  July 20, 2020, opening doors of alliances with groups of artists, environmentalists and pacifists from Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and the United States, with whom Mauricio has been working: In Colombia Arte sin fronteras por la paz y Bogocine; in Brazil journalist Antonio Márquez, in  Argentina Premio Nevado Solidario, in México Organización Mundial de artistas integrados y Centro Cultural Baupres, and in the United States La Locura del Plástico.

The transcendental message that Mauricio leaves us as his most important legacy, is his peaceful approach to a global problem such as the environmental chaos which reigns in the world now, and that by utilizing art or any means at our disposal we engage ourselves and participate in a more aggressive and active way so to find solutions that are indeed long overdue. 

Dory Perdomo, the simplicity of a woman and the complexity of her art

By César Rincón

Dory Perdomo is a visual artist and Colombian-Mexican chemical engineer who has been forged with tenacity. Living with her family in Mazatlán and with a nearly thirty-year career in the art world, Maestra Perdomo has defined a singular style that characterizes her abstract art, which has been exhibited and praised in over twenty countries.

Dianne Hofner Saphiere, an American Attracted by Nature

Dianne Hofner Saphiere 

*By Guillermo Martín Moreno

Dianne Hofner Saphiere, an experienced and talented US American photographer with almost 50 years of experience, has been able to capture natural beauty through her photographic camera during her travels as have few other artists.

Interview with Dianne Hofner Saphiere

Dianne Hofner Saphiere 

Dianne Hofner Saphiere was born and grew up in a southern Wisconsin farming area between Chicago and Milwaukee. She lived a major portion of her life in Japan, a country she adores and where she absorbed its culture and philosophy. She now resides in Mazatlán, a beautiful city in the Pacific Northwest of Mexico, where she is a photographer and promoter of social and cultural causes, among other activities.

Biography of the painter Guillermo Martín Moreno

Guillermo Martín Moreno during the opening of the "International mosaic of arts without borders for peace", Southcolombian University in the city of Neiva Huila

Guillermo Martín Moreno, whose pseudonym is “MEMO”, is a visual artist born in Gachetá, a town belonging to Cundinamarca, Colombia.

His artistical formation was developed in Neiva, a city from Huila where he is also located and has been for the last 15 years. During this time, he has been working on a vocational project focused in cultural promotion and artistical education. 

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Great launch of VR CAMBASS Museum this July 20

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How to explore the art and cultural heritage of Europe from home in a time of pandemic

With Covid 19, a large number of people is currently teleworking, confined to their homes for who knows how long?

Without borders the art of Dianne Hofner Saphiere

Hofner Saphiere is a photographer with a broad and creative repertoire: she loves the beauty of nature, the nuances of culture and the liberty and randomness of abstract art. Born in the USA, she lived over a decade in Japan and resides in Mazatlán since 2008, raising her son, Danny, there together with her husband, Greg. She has been an international member of the artists’ collective Baupres for the past eight years and has six years as a curator and arts manager. She complements her artistic vocation with a very active career as a community organizer and photojournalist, and worked 40 years in intercultural organizational development.