Zhu Ye (China)
Solo exhibition, June 2013
Pantocrator Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of the great Shanghainese artist Zhu Ye / Juliet.
Zhu Ye advanced her knowledge and appreciation of Western culture when she studied art in England. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, but travels regularly to Europe where her work is positively received.
Her large canvases capture a virtuosity deeply rooted in an ancient culture; while her subtle Western influences allows for a universal artistic reading of her work.
Zhu Ye develops a harmonious aesthetic using elaborate mixed media: organic materials, acrylic and pure pigments mixed with traditional Chinese ink, which results in an accumulation of stains, layers and transparencies that despite the apparent final abstraction, transport the viewer to crisp landscapes, mystical and comforting.
Her brushwork revolves around blue as the base color, on top of which the use of ink highlights the subtle tones of the artist’s work, thus emphasizing the overall drama of her pieces.
Pantocrator 画廊欣然展出伟大的上海艺术家 朱晔/ Juliet的个人展览
朱晔在英国学习艺术时，加强了对深厚的西方文化的知识了解与欣赏。她目前在上海工作和生活, 不过她会经常去欧洲, 在那里她的作品得到许多正面的回应。
在她的大画布里，捕捉到一个根深蒂固的古老文化，然而微妙的西方影响，让她能够贯通世界艺术的语言。
朱晔利用了繁杂不同领域的艺术材料，展现了和谐艺术，
例如：有机材料，丙烯酸和纯颜料，其中夹杂着传统中国水墨，导致了着色的堆积层和透明透明性，可是最终的抽象展示， 描绘给观画者清新风景，
神秘感和舒适感。
她的作品围绕着蓝色， 利用蓝色作为基调色，顶部使用油墨作为加强她作品的微妙的色调，由此强调整幅作品的戏剧性。
Zhu Ye, born 1977 Shanghai. After graduating from Shanghai University, the College of Fine Art, Zhu Ye continued her MA studies in Kent Institute of Art & Design, England. From 2005 to 2010 she was lecturer at Shanghai Arts and Crafts Vocational College. Currently Zhu Ye is a professional artist who having her studio at M50 Shanghai. Her artworks been exhibited in China and Europe and due her very individualistic style of painting she has been appreciated by local and foreign art collectors.
朱晔，女，1977年出生于上海。2000年本科毕业于上海大学美术学院中国画系。2002年硕士毕业于英国肯特艺术与设计学院艺术系。2004年至2010年七月任教于上海工艺美术职业学院, 现为职业艺术家, 在莫干山路50号艺术创意园区内的工作室进行艺术创作。她的作品曾在中国和欧洲展出, 并被国内外的收藏家所收藏.
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Raúl López (Mexico)
Resident artist July 2013
Raúl López was born in Mexico City, where he completed studies as a graphic artist. During his stay in Germany from 1990 till 2000 he attended the art school Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart and he worked as an artist and graphic designer. He has participated in different international exhibitions in America, Asia and in Europe, where his work has been selected for different publications and received diverse awards such as the first prize in the II International Salón ACEAS Barcelona 2004 or the Best in Show - at Rhonda Schaller Gallery in New York 2007.
From 2001 he has lived and worked as an artist in Paris, Barcelona and Stuttgart.
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Francesco Liberti (Italy)
Resident artist July 2013
Francesco Liberti 1981 Naples, Italy
Lives and works in Rome and Naples
The artistic research of Francesco Liberti arises from the awareness that Art has a cathartic effect on human passions and, hence, it can dissolve the numbness which some issues stagnate in. However, as an artist, Liberti pursues a sort of formal and substantial purity: this peculiarity, while guaranteeing esthetic beauty, never forgets the importance of the message to be conveyed. His primary interest lies in exploring and investigating into the energies and vital forces animating the natural subsoil as well as, through a process of metaphorization, in the strength of human individuals.
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Lilian Beidler (Switzerland)
Resident artist July 2013
Lilian Beidler is a composer and new genres artist born in 1982 in Switzerland.
Sound being a fundamental component of her work, she ranges from installation, performance and acousmatic composition. She is interested in the relation between sound and body and object as mobile parameters in a particular space. Functional objects like machines or devices with modified uses often serve as basic materials for her artistic interventions.
She completed her Masters Degree in Contemporary Arts Practice from the Bern University of Arts in 2010. She has been an artist in residence in the US, Finland and China. She regularly performs and shows her work internationally at sound art and performance festivals as well as in galleries and visual art fairs, such as ZKM Karlsruhe DE, Fondation Beyeler in Basel CH, Substitut in Berlin DE, "Taming Technology" in Florence IT, "jungkunst" in Winterthur CH, "Contemporary Art Ruhr" in Essen DE, Penclub Gallery in Budapest HU, "Arteles Creative Center" in Hameenkyrö FI and "I-Park" in East Haddam USA.
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Erico Wakamatsu (Japan)
Resident artist July 2013
Erico Wakamatsu is a sound creator from Tokyo. Lives in NY.
She mainly make ambient/noise style sounds, Experimental look performance.
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Luciano Benites Fiusa Lima (Brasil)
Resident artist August 2013
"Art should propose projects and works to activate specific sectors of our society. Thereby, art´s challenge would be to create an efficient and constructive dialogue between citizens.
Architectural knowledge gives you the credentials to talk, question and suggest things referring to the urban and social quality in the cities, topics that I am most certainly keen on investigating. Caotic cities have very strong and abrupt frontiers, abandoned lands, interstices on the urban grid that should be eliminated or solved so as to diminish the socioeconomic impact that these situations generate. Art has the power to claim and build a more equal environment, a place where culture can speak up because it will be heard."
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Javier Martín (Spain)
Solo exhibition September 2013
Javier Martin has a prolific career in the avant-garde art world. His work has been seen regularly in various fairs as well as in national and international lounges in Paris, Miami, Berlin and Chicago.
After passing through several European exhibitions this year, and at the hand of Pantocrator Gallery, Javier Martínpresents his art in Asia for the first time. More specifically, his works are in one of the most important and highly visited art centers in China, Shanghai's M50, where a large number of national and international galleries are located.
Javier Martin, a self-taught artist from the age of seven, already is rich in experience. His work combines traditional techniques with new technologies using all kinds of materials, from vintage objects to LED lights.
The 2D character of his early works have distincly evolved into a clear conquest into the 3D space. Whether an installation or sculpture, there are new art formats generating in his exhibitions. They include a world of realistic and identifiable textures, from paintings, sculptures, and collages—to subtle chromatic installations generated with light.
The over-exploitation of natural resources, the two faces of the fashion industry or an individual's appearance in this globalized system, are some factors that the artist takes as a stimulus to develop his creative process, resulting in some works with evident critical appraisal.
As of October 27, Javier Martin's only current exhibition will appear at Pantocrator Gallery, M50. Shanghai.
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Javier Martin 在前卫艺术世界里有着很成功的职业生涯，他的作品常常在各种各样的博览会上展出，在西班牙和世界各地如巴黎、迈阿密、柏林、芝加哥的酒店、机场里都能看到他的作品。
今年在欧洲举行过几次展览之后， Javier与Pantocrator画廊合作，第一次向亚洲展示他的作品。具体地说，在中国有名的艺术文化中心--上海莫干山路50号（M50)展出，那里有无数国内国际画廊艺术家云集。
Javier七岁开始学画，作为一个自学成才的画家，已经是一位经验丰富的艺术家，他将传统技术和最新科技相结合，广泛运用各种材料，从古懂到LED灯都是他进行创作的材料。
他已经从早期作品2D角色动画很显著地发展到向3D空间挑战。无论是装置艺术还是雕塑艺术，总会
有新的艺术形式在他的作品里诞生，包括形象逼真的以及可识别的材质，如绘画，雕塑和拼贴，还有
用灯光创造的精致的色彩装置作品。
在这个全球化体系里，对自然资源的过度开采，时尚工业的两面化或者个性艺术家的出现，这些都成
为推动艺术家发展其自身的艺术创作的动力，这些也激发了艺术家有影响力的作品的产生。
10月27日，Javier Martin唯一一个正在进行的展览会在Pantocrator画廊里举行，画廊位于上海莫干山路50号。