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From Galerie Flash website: 

"Paris-based artist Antoine Cordet‘s art touches on melancholy and nostalgia but his general outlook is positive because art gives him liberty to be who he has always wanted to be. Antoine Cordet created his personal style through intense trial and error and a work ethic that makes him one to really keep an eye on. His images are haunting and calming at the same time. It is almost like Cordet knows something we do not and is constantly hinting at what we should be aware of even when it is not overly conspicuous.

Working primarily with acrylics on canvas, his style is a synthesis of realism and abstraction and with a highly accomplishment in aesthetic. His portraits feature subjects coloured with mute tones of blacks, whites, and greys, that are then injected with dashes of electric blues, greens, and reds. He also applies thin layers of semi-transparent white pigment across his subjects’ faces, rendering them devoid of emotion.'

Web: http://antoinecordet.com/

Instagram: @___antoinecordet

Mentioned in this episdoe: 

Photographer Olga Anna Markowska

@markowskaolga

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In this episode, I break my commitment to only interviewing European artists to talk with my great friend and muralist Nicole Salgar. In this conversation we discuss studio compared to public work, the lawless nature of the art market, how she began making murals, painting public art in other countries and much more. 

IG: @nmsalgar

Web: http://nscbstudio.com

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In this episode, I have a conversation with Paris based, multimedia artist Johanna Tordjman. We discuss her growing up in Paris, being a female artist, alternatives to galleries, DIY and more. 

Web: www.thetordjmaniac.com

IG: @j.tordjman

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In this episode, I sit down with painter/sculptor Daniel Martin at the Arthouse Holland/Project 1606 Residency house to discuss his beginnings in art, philosophy and practice. It was the last day of the 4 week residency and a perfect way to wrap things up.

Daniel (1982) lives and works in Leiden, the Netherlands. In his current work he searches for the transmutational properties of matter. The portraits and sculptures do not have a definite form and posses different realities on how they can be perceived. In order to come to new forms Daniel cuts up paintings, finds things on the street and uses creations made by others. The loose elements from these endeavours are used as disjointed brushstrokes that are reassembled in coherent shapes again, creating an object which holds no truth in shape.

His work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include, the national museum of revolution, Cuba; Duo Phillip Akkerman, Sis Josip Gallery, Den Haag; Havana Biënnale (collaboration with Karang (Karina Alonso); Forma prima, El pez soluble Gallery, Mexico; Bloom, Booth Gallery, New York.

http://www.danielmartin.nl

@daniel_martin_art

Plastic artist based in Mexico City. His work covers multiple disciplines, such as digital graphics, painting, drawing and sculpture, but he is especially dedicated to exploring drawing, experimenting with different materials, supports, processes and aesthetic and formal solutions. His work shows a clear obsession to structure the anatomy of animals and people as if it were a functional and harmonious architectural space. His paintings are a mental logbook, usually based on portraits inspired by personal, social situations, the study of anatomy, as well as the identity, borders, roots and belonging of people with spaces, structuring the strokes as if they were gears that build a larger machinery, building true visual maps with the image of the bodies.

Ricardo Santos is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (2002-2007). His work has been exhibited in exhibition and outreach spaces such as Affordable Art Fair Mexico, Gallery Weekend, Roma-Condesa Cultural Corridor. Currently working with the artist Pierre Fudarylí in the joint project #noesunagaleria that currently has two editions # noesunagalería and # noesunagalería: Catalog of existence, which seeks the exhibition, and circulation of the work itself as well as other artists to national and international level independently. Throughout his career he has made 5 individual exhibitions and around 30 collective exhibitions in museums, galleries and cultural centers of different parts of the Republic such as the Museum of Modern Art of the CDMX, FranzMayer Museum, Round House Museum, Desert Museum , Barre Land Art, Intersection Contemporary art, Crocodile art editions, the Italian Institute of Culture among others. His work has been disseminated through print and digital media such as Cultura Colectiva, Forbes and Architectural Digest.

www.noesunagaleria.com

@ricardosaga

My interests range from the smallness of the entomological world to the grandiosity of the cosmos.

The themes that are recurrent in my work are insects, celestial bodies and portraits; the later becoming the spectators and metaphorical meeting point between the other two worlds.

Recently I have focused on the portrait series “Personal Universe”, which is inspired by anonymous characters and memories of people stored in our subconscious throughout our lives and the idea that sometimes while awake and other times during our dreams, these anonymous visitors will be recalled by our minds to interact and influence our story once again. Lately I have found myself very connected to this concepts and ideas, which makes the production of these pieces be very organic and visceral.

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Santiago Pani (1990) Mexico City. Lives and works in Leiden, The Netherlands.

https://www.mymindbysantiagopani.com

@santiagopani

Born in Padua Italy (1980), Italy.

Valter currently lives and works in London. He has worked on numerous TV productions as a camera operator and TV format creator. He has worked as senior prosthetic makeup artist in the film industry, on films such as Harry Potter (D. Yates), X-Men: First Class (M. Vaughn), Prometheus (R. Scott) and The Hobbit (P. Jackson). Running parallel to his work in the film industry, he has contined to work on his own personal projects, including design work, painting, video projects and sculptures. Visually inspired and influenced by a combination of William Turner's pictorial art, H.R Giger's visionary surrealist work and Bernini's Baroque sculptural art, his preferred techniques are those of video and sculpture which he recently brought together in his project ‘We Will Never Meet at that Age’. He created a self-portrait of his own ageing physiognomy and had it applied to himself, documenting his parents’ reaction to seeing their son at an age they will never meet in real life with a moving image piece, thus creating an impossible time breach in the fabric of his parents’ existence.

https://www.valteradamcasotto.com 

@valteradamcasotto

While here in The Netherlands I sit down with artist Daan Noppen and discuss his work, transitioning from commercial to fine art, and the artist residency here at Arthouse Holland. 

Daan Noppen is an international artist mainly working in drawing and photography. He is best known for his realistic larger than life drawings of portraits and bodies. Physics and it’s relation to our being, our emotions, plays a big part in his work. The artist plays with notions of reality by projecting time as a physical dimension. Rather than becoming something ‘scientific’ this opens up a visual world of our hidden layers of our desires, our pain and our cry for being loved.

www.daannoppen.com

www.arthouseholland.com

www.project1606.space