The New Collectors Selection 2012

The New Collectors Selection exhibition will feature:
Knut Peter-Hofffmann, Tommy Jensen, Bernadette Kirsten, Jean James, Boris Kacic, Alexandra Khan, Gaby Koeter, Yara Buyda, Gunilla Larsen, Reija Karjalaine​n, Gunilla Daga, Peter Drakö, Alexey Marroquin, Maria Kisook Kim, Saskia Weishut , Barbara Palka Winek, Sofia Ocaña, Eva Koethen, Eva Buchrainer, Swen Dudek, Dagmar Göğdün, Lorena Ulpiani,Charlotte Widmark, Asa Maria Hedberg, Eva Westman Linné , Bengt Johansson.

The New Collectors Selection exhibition will start January 7th, 2012 and continue until February 6th.
Basak Malone LLC will hold a reception party on January 7th, between 7-9 pm.

Barbara Palka Winek

Alexandra Khan

Knut Peter Hoffmann

Peter Drako

Alexey Marroquin

Gaby Koeter

Sofia Ocaña

Eva Westman Linne

Asa Maria Hedberg

Lorena Ulpiani

Dagmar Gogdun

Saskia Weishut

http://www.saskia.weishut.com

Maria Kisook Kim

The focus of my current work is abstract. Conceptually, it deals with the human condition. My signature style is a combination of western abstract and oriental painting which I have developed through my studies and personal experiences in both the west and the east. I usually paint with Japanese colour and mixed media, focusing on form, colour, composition, and movement. Ultimately, the materials with which I work must complement the feelings I am trying to convey.

When I move the brush across the surface of the canvas my intuition guides me. Central to my work are the spontaneous forms that appear on the canvas which I often leave unchanged. Thus, my compositions are usually subconscious renderings of genuine emotion and instinctive ideas which seem to find their own form on canvas.

The genesis of the series, “In Silence” was motivated by the spirit of creation. It began as a passageway through myriad emotions and evolved into a mixed metaphor for living my life in truth, faith, and compassion. This body of work was designed to evoke thoughtfulness and meta-cognition revealing itself through delicately applied colours and textures.

“In Silence #7:REBIRTH” represents the transition from intolerable darkness and silence through rebirth and revival. Developing the abstract requires a combined effort of intense concentration and meticulous handiwork to unite form and movement harmoniously.

I create my own canvas of several layers of Japanese paper and complete the abstract with Japanese colour and more layers of Japanese paper. The abstract is cut into various shapes and painstakingly repositioned to create a unique new image. The pieces are laid down in reaction to one another so that a natural dialogue is created, complementing the overall tenor of the piece and hopefully telling its own story.

http://www.kisookmaria.ca/

Eva Koethen

Eva Koethen is known for her painting-installations with objects and her photographs on the floor. Reflecting from a philosophical background she also uses the medium of writing and performance. She consequently develops her artistic language but likes to interact with the atmosphere of special places - as "Artship" (San Francisco) or "Aktionsraum" (Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin). Being invited as German artist for contemporary "concrete art" in Japan or participating in "Mozart- Experiment Aufklärung" (Albertina, Vienna) her works were exhibited in various contexts.

http://www.eva-koethen.de

Gunilla Daga

‘The creative mind never sleeps’ but to start a conversation whit a split new canvas is a big move, you hesitate in front of the white piece of textile, very well know that you are in the beginning of a flow that will go back and search into your most secret rooms, inside your brain and body.
Images are born out of relationships, confrontations with people, forms naturally. Strange how every image comes out of the previous often in a multilevel switching between two. Give birth to new ones year after year in a never ending story… be an artist.

www.gunilladaga.se

Reija Karjalainen

I knew nothing about painting when I took my 2 year old son by his hand and ran to the shop next door to buy oil-colors. Then a life crisis: moving to a new town, needed a new job, but the desire and urge to paint burned inside me.

As a little child I promised myself a long and happy life. I try to see the beauty in even small things. I try to think good thoughts; There´s my inspiration.

The pictures, colors and patterns are coming to me… I just paint and I live.

www.reija.se

Gunilla Larsén

“Like in a fairytale, there are pictures which once upon a time were living in the childhoods world. Dream and reality were not separated, sometimes close and real, then gone and fabulous. Play and fantasy play on the illusion of carelessness, while restlessness and the danger lies under the surface.”
Curator Louise Ljungberg
The women and the girl are the focus in Gunilla Larséns artwork.

www.gunilla-larsen.se

Bengt Johansson

Nature is my inspiration. I am an expressive painter, I am also a lyric and poet as well as a romantic and colorist; the worries, love like wind, rain, snow and sun are my source of inspiration when I paint. I paint as I feel and think. The world around me, natural motifes as the landscape, still life, and free compositions from every day , living in the present time, here and now, often I paint it over and over in my paintings. The light is swift here in northern land, it can be sun shine in the morning and snow after a short time. I called it moving light and it interests me. I have learned from the old painters Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Matisse, Delacroix, Bonnard, Turner, Constable, Hopper, Pollock and all fine Japanese artists and also my friends at the art school. I live in an old school where I have my studio. I study at Valand academy of fine art, MA.

I am represented at museums of art and communities in Sweden.

www.bengtjohansson.se

Yara Buyda

Yara Buyda was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1980, but is of Ukrainian nationality. She lived and grew up in several countries, including Russia, Mongolia, Hungary and Ukraine. She graduated in Mining Engineering in her hometown. Since 2004 she’s been living in Italy and here she’s began to work artistically with personal and group exhibitions since 2009 in various cities (Milan, San Remo, Rome, Florence, Taormina, Venice, Albenga, Torino, Sorrento, Neptune, etc.). In February 2011, the distinguished art historian Prof. Carlo Franza invited her in the project “The Museum of Museums” to hold a personal exhibition (The memory of the game), in Florence in the historical “Palazzo Borghese”, and Others are planned in Rome in 2011 and later in Berlin. She was also a prize nominee at the Arts Awards for Culture of the Press Club of Milan Edition XXIII IN 2011 Always thanks to Prof. Carlo Franza.

www.yarabuyda.com
Yara Buyda, Via Carlo Pisacane
44 20129 MILANO, ITALY
Tel: + +393284828048
e-mail: nik280280@yahoo.it

Håkan Fredén

The computer has revolutionized the art of printmaking. The creative possibilities have expanded enormously. I started making computer based prints in the middle of the 1980′s. The most significant change since that time is the increased longevity of the prints. Nowadays, using acid free paper and pigment based ink, prints may last for generations without noticeable changes in contrast or brilliance. My prints are mostly, but not always, based on photographs which in various ways been treated with the help of data programs. I live in Ystad, in the south of Sweden.

www.diggingprint.com

Boris Kacic

"How can I explain? What I paint? Why I paint? Do I really have to do it?Painting is a need! A spiritual need! I explore my inner self. I leave a trace in the world. Painting is an answer, an answer to me that I exist. I paint – I live. This is my diary."

Exciting and a challenge. Creating new areas, patterns and balancing and uniting all parts into one totality. I am not trying to paint any realistic portrait, but a playful, imaginative, fictitious face. I create a visual balance, meeting my own aesthetical standards. Fictitious, invented, humorous forms. Fantasy. No limitations. Musicians have tones, time and pauses when they create. I have colours, areas, forms. I am looking for rhythm in my painting and a tone. I try to compose beautiful and poetic pictures, full of feelings. Pictures are as poems with a lyrical touch, poetic feelings and atmosphere. Fragments from reality or the subconscious. My paintings may produce a thought, an encounter, a dialogue or a story. Then it is up to you, the onlooker, to pass the story on.


http://boriskacic.se

Bernadette Kirsten

Art is the ideal way to sense the beauty of life and the universe. Spirituality takes a central place in my paintings and evokes a meaningful life and love.”

http://www.bernadettekirstein.com

Tommy Jensen

I often tell myself that the art is irrational. Arts only exist in a culture which creates a surplus. That’s why the artist is privileged, he works at the expense of others, it puts the arts in a social perspective and I am indebted to my surroundings and they may require of me that I pay something back. What I can pay back for goodwill is very simple: experiences! We love the myth even though we know it is a lie.We love the romantic dream even though it can never be realized.That is how we often regard the artist as a lonesome rider. But the real story is that the artist is working in close contact with his surroundings. He is a subjective reflection of the time. It is the experiences, reflections and, at best, the visions that I can pay back.


www.tmj-arts.dk