China is the biggest manufacturer to produce mosaic, from 200 manufacturers’ years ago to 1000 now, the output and sales volume is double increasing. The output has been increased from RMB10billion to RMB30billion. It is estimated that there will be a fast growth period for the Chinese mosaic market in next ten years.
2010 Guangzhou (International) Mosaic and Artistic Decoration Fair (Mosaic China 2010) will be held during March 26-28, 2010 at Poly World Trade Center, Guangzhou, China. Simultaneous events will be started at the same time such as mosaic cultural forum, the exquisite decoration and design consulting meeting, interior design salon, to promote exchanges and cooperation in trade and foreign mosaic, and the mosaic design of language applications and consultation in order to promote the use of mosaic in more areas
As the mosaic exhibition, there are 200 gathering together to exhibit the latest mosaic products and technique. The exhibition scope contains the glass mosaic, ceramic mosaic, shell mosaic, crystal mosaic, stone mosaic, metal mosaic, coconut shell mosaic, sandstone mosaic, gold mosaic, silver mosaic, bark mosaic, bamboo mosaic etc, you can have a overview of the reсent situation and future trend of mosaic products.
Mosaic China 2010 is the must attend event for peoples eager to find new suppliers and get in touch with market in China. So if 26 to 28 March turns out to be your busiest week in 2010, we’re committed to ensure it’s also your most rewarding one. Welcome to China, welcome to Mosaic China 2010!

 

Biografia

1984-1992 – Professor of mosaic art at the University of Fine arts in Athens, Greece.

1991-  solo exhibitions in the Museums of Tokyo, Osaka and Utsunomiya, Japan, organized by the major publishing group  ” The Yomiuri Shimbun” in collaboration with the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs.

1992-2007 – solo exhibitions, public and private commissions in Belgium, Greece, Germany, France,  Netherlands, USA, United Emirates.

2008 – solo exhibition at the Royal Museum of Art and History, Hall of the Greek antiquities collection, in Brussels.

Since 1995 she lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Museums, public and private collections

Angelopoulou’s works can be found in Museums, in historical monuments of Europe, Japan,USA, as well as in  private and public Collections.

Many essays about her work have been published in newspapers and magazines of Europe, USA, Japan and United Emirates.

About Pelagia Angelopoulou

Dr. Dimitris Papastamos, Director of the National Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum in Athens, wrote:

“In the mosaic compositions of Pelagia Angelopoulou the two trends are blended in an ideal expression. She takes full advantage of her thorough knowledge of the main achievements that constitute landmarks in the history of mosaics, while making the most of her remarkable technical skill and original inspiration……A really talented painter and mosaicist with an unusual mastery of the various techniques of both fields. Angelopoulou introduces a new concept and gives a new dimension to the art of mosaics…”

Prof. Manos Stefanidis (extract from the catalog of Angelopoulou’s works published by the Yomiuri Shimbun):

“Angelopoulou acts by defined choices, avoiding the danger of an easy ìavant-guard” from a safe corner and a rebellion well ”managed ”aesthetically and socially easy to adopt, trying to give modern pieces of work based on tradition, without a mosaic character and to produce synthesis without fear and development of mosaic art to the modern requirements without falling into the trap of imitation.”

Stefan Skowron, art historian and art critic, Aachen Germany (catalog of Angelopoulou’s works published by the Greek Ministry of culture):

“What makes the works of Angelopoulou modern and far superior to those of others is her relentless drive to make them sculptural. Individual elements are stepping out of the surface, joints and shadows become 3-dimensional, hands and plant forms become tangible, small architectural forms are being created, the mosaic receives a volume of its own.”

More than two hundred people participated in the three day opening of Dusciana Bravura’s solo exhibition  “%” from the 4th to the 6th of November. They came to admire the site specific installation accompanied by music composed by Luciano Titi. The show covered the central nave of the Arteficerie Almagià, an ex-industrial compound, that following a prestigious restoration project, was transformed into a multipurpose centre for shows and conferences. Thousands of millefiori telling the story of each individual in the city of Ravenna: men, women and children. A kind of mosaic representing the identity of our city’s social fabric: from fragmentation to beauty. It was a great success for contemporary mosaic. The artist was pleased to receive many important figures such as promoters Giuliana Bruni and Sabina Ghinassi from the RavennaArte Association, as well as two public event promoters for the RavennaMosaico Festival: Alberto Cassani, the Culture Councillor for the municipality of Ravenna and Maria Grazia Marini head of the tourism and culture office. The Director of Ravenna’s MAR Museum Claudio Spadoni and Maria Rita Bentini, Art Historian and Coordinator of the Fine Arts Academy of Ravenna also made an appearance not to mention artists such as Daniele Strada, Elisa Simoni, Rosetta Berardi, Luciana Notturni, Giuliano Babini and Marco De Luca along with Marco Cavalcoli and Luigi De Angelis from the company Fanny & Alexander. Zsolt Pava, the Mayor of Pecs, Hungary, nominated the Capital of European culture 2010, and the Mayor of Tuzla in Boznia-Herzigovina, Jasmin Imamovic were both on an official visit in Ravenna and were warmly welcomed.

A new series of purchases will be on display, produced by mosaicists of Ravenna to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the collection, which will become a part of the contemporary mosaics collections of the MAR and increase the new purchases of the museum.

Dusciana Bravura is one of the artists selected and her mosaic work “Unicorn” will be part of the collection of modern and contemporary mosaics, permanently exhibited in the Loggetta Lombardesca.

The title of the exhibition, “THREE x THREE , a comparison of two generations”, demonstrates this continuity. Three masters: Ines Morigi Berti, Sergio Cicognani, Giuseppe Ventura, who represent the origin, almost in a prophetic sense, of the school, for three students who later became masters: Giuliano Babini, Marco De Luca, Paolo Racagni, who represent the continuation and together the metamorphosis; the change which is in continual evolution with the generation of their students.
The overlapping of these generations in the same state school, the Gino Severini State Institute of Mosaic Art is an indispensable element for understanding the school of thought in Ravenna concerning mosaics.

 

An international audience filled Sala D’Attorre and listened to the presentations given by Fabrizio Matteucci, Ravenna’s Mayor; Alberto Cassani, Deputy for Culture of Ravenna Municipality; Mr. Ismail Ahmetov, patron of the initiative; and by curator and art critic Laura Gavioli. At the end of the presentation, conducted by Maria Grazia Marini (Head of the Tourism and Cultural Activities Office and organizer of RavennaMosaico festival), the President of the A.I.M.C. Manfred Hohen and author Jo Ann Locktov have expressed their best wishes for the future of the magazine.

The central role of Ravenna as the capital of mosaic of Byzantine tradition has been reaffirmed, and its extraordinary contemporary vitality has been recognized and highlighted by the sixteen mosaic exhibitions organized in occasion of the RavennaMosaico festival. Mr. Ahmetov declared that the magazine aims to encourage a wider appreciation of mosaic art, which is presently living a new renaissance. The magazine, with the subtitle “History, Contemporaneity, Technology” contains contributions from art critics, editors and experts in mosaic art, and artists and teachers in the sector. Great attention and care is given to the quality of the photographs which fill the publication. “SOLOMOSAICO” is a collector’s edition aimed at an international public interested in mosaic art and is also intended as a vehicle for renewed interest in mosaics throughout the world.

Published in Russian and English, the magazine explores the potential of an art capable of offering important information about the past and provides an opportunity for study and a wide range of contemporary art. The articles are divided according to the topic on which the respective authors have focused their attention: the section SPOTLIGHT presents an article by Tonino Guerra, poet and eminent cultural figure, which gives us a taste of the oriental art which has fascinated and inspired him so much; the section on contemporary art includes Michele Tosi, author of Mosaico Contemporaneo, (Contemporary Mosaics) who invites us to “listen” to the mosaics of Marco DeLuca; Nall Hollis, an artist from the United States who had Salvador Dalì as his mentor; Giulio Candussio, art director of Trend; Alexander Kornoukhov; Lucio Orsoni; and the Perdomo family in Mexico.

The historic aspect is represented by an interesting contribution by Mohamed Salem, who explores the use of mosaics in Islamic architecture. An excursus on the mosaic schools in Ravenna examines the educational offerings of the city. Every issue gives ample space to the relationship between mosaics and children: the editor Violeta Vasilchina presents the school of Burgas, in Bulgaria, whose founder and ‘soul’, Raina Racheva, accompanies the children in a voyage of discovery of mosaics. The section on conferences, exhibitions and news completes the range of features offered.

The content of this new issue therefore reflects the extensive range of the subject and the complexity of the world of mosaic art.
“SOLOMOSAICO” hopes to do justice, with increasing satisfaction to the readers, to the breadth and variety of mosaic art, thus helping to disseminate knowledge about mosaics in the world.
SoloMosaico can be consulted online at the site www.solo-mosaico.com.

 

Presiding at the opening were Cetty Muscolino, Director of the Museum, Alberto Cassani, Deputy for Culture of Ravenna Municipality, Maria Grazia Marini, Head of the Tourism and Cultural Activities Office and Raina Racheva, Director of the Burgas school in Bulgaria. Dr. Cassani, Ismail Ahmetov and Raina Racheva gave the presentation speeches underlining the importance of opening such a relevant, international festival about mosaic with an exhibition of works by children, that represent the precious future of the world.

The creativity and lyricism of the works exhibited have received enthusiastic approval and appreciation by the numerous visitors and have attracted the attention of the children of Ravenna that came to the show. SoloMosaico has sponsored the initiative, aiming to highlight a school of high educational value such as the Burgas School, founded in 1979 by Raina Racheva.

The Children’s Mosaic school directed by Racheva has become an example not only in Bulgaria but also abroad: exhibitions from Paris to Japan, from Rotterdam to Algeria, have demonstrated the richness of the experience taking place at the school. The Museum Director, Cetty Muscolino, affirms that the National Museum is pleased to cooperate with SoloMosaico in the organization of this exhibition, which is perfectly in harmony with the goals of education and art appreciation that it has always promoted. With this genuine example of youthful art, the activity of SoloMosaico and its President, Ismail Ahmetov, continue to promote the knowledge and the diffusion of mosaic art.

 

Ismail Ahmetov , founder of the  SoloMosaico project, has been received  at the town hall by Ravenna’s major , Fabrizio Matteucci  and by the deputy  for Culture Alberto Cassani.

At the meeting was also present Elettra Stamboulis, deputy for Education department, who has recently visited the Fine Art Academy of St. Petersburg.  The International  office of the magazine SoloMosaico, created by Ismail Ahmetov,  is located since April in Ravenna.

Photo: Zani

In cooperation with AIMC – the International Association of Contemporary Mosaicists – has organized three exhibitions: in San Domenico the panels of the master mosaicists from different continents; in the cloisters of the Casa Oriani the mosaic installations; at the Conference Centre of Largo Firenze a selection of works from all over the world on the relationship between mosaic and architecture.

More than 80 mosaicists coming from abroad have submitted their works. 54 mosaicists and mosaic works from Brasil, USA, Japan, Germany, Austria, France, Israel, Egypt, Canada and Italy have been selected.

RavennaMosaico Festival also includes a series of events, exhibitions, conferences, literary events, concerts and presentations.
A “lectio magistralis” of director Peter Greenaway will conclude the festival. A trained painter, Peter Greenaway is one of the great film directors of our time, an innovative curator and a challenging philosopher of cinema. His multi-media approach surpasses traditional media forms and aims at a visual language in its own right.
http://www.ravennamosaico.it/

In pursuit of his passion for mosaic, he started to collect mosaic art works. He subsequently gave birth to the SoloMosaico project, publishing the first collector’s edition magazine on mosaic art, in both Russian and English, as well as other publications. His collector’s activity spurred him to organize art exhibitions, thus providing splendid opportunities for artists to showcase their talents and for more and more art lovers to discover the appeal of mosaic.

Ismail Akhmetov graduated from Chelyabinsk State University as an engineer-physicist in 1984. In 1989 he started his own business and in 1995 he founded BARS Holding with a total of twenty companies throughout Russia and abroad.

Daniela Lombardi Bravura has always been involved in the arts. She has managed to combine her interest for culture,  specifically that of Mosaic Art, committing herself to promotion and organization in this field with determination and dedication.

She has been actively working with non profit organizations for years, coordinating public relations, events and translations.

Tatyana Dyugurova graduated from the Faculty of History at Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical Institute in 1983 where she was also actively part of the editorial staff of the student newspaper.

She has been working as a teacher at the Municipal Science lyceum and Chelyabinsk Humanitarian Institute since 1983. In 2002 she presented a thesis for her Postgraduate Degree in Pedagogics. Tatyana is the author of more than 30 articles on pedagogical technologies. She is now Editor-in-Chief of SoloMosaico magazine and author of articles about the history of mosaics.

In September 2005, during the Valday Conference, he was invited to the Kremlin by the President of the Russian Federation along with other famous specialists in politics and economics both from Russia and abroad. Loris Marcucci operates in the field of business relations between Italy and Russia.

 

Biography

1949 Was born in Ravenna, Italy

since 1973 Lives and works in Paris

Education

1968 Master Craftsman´s diploma, Istituto Statale d´Arte per il Mosaico, Ravenna
1968–1971 Accademia delle Belle Arti, Ravenna
1974–1978 École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Solo exhibitions

1986 Maison des Arts, Évreux
1986 42nd Venice Biennale
1987 Dogana Cultural Centre, Republic of San Marino
1989 Verdiano Intime, Bagnolet
1990 Galerie du Prévôt, Paris
1991 Tháâtre Paul-Éluard, Choisy-le-Roi
1993 Verdiano Insolite, G. Toffoletti Cultural Centre, Bagnolet
2002 Town Hall, Villejuif
Galleria La Bottega, Ravenna
2003 Mosaici sul Po´, Ca´ Cornera, Rovigo
2004 Saint-Éman Chapel, Chartres
2005 Public Multi-Media Library, Bagnolet
2007 Clair-Obscur, Viaduc des Arts, Paris
Laboratorio Emme Di, Ravenna
2008 Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara
Antao Studio, Architects, Republic of San Marino

Main group exhibitions

1974 Atelier Licata, Maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1976 Rassegna per il Mosaico, 1st International Youth Mosaic Competition, Ravenna
1977 Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
1978 Strafor furniture store, Paris
1980 1ère Biennale des Metiers d´art, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
1986 San Marino artists, Borschette EEC Conference Centre, Brussels
1987 Maison de l´architecture, Grenoble
Galerie La Mesure, Paris
Bagnolet artists, church of St-Leu St-Gilles
1988 Mosaico & Mosaicisti, travelling exhibition, Galleria del Castello di Mesola, Ferrara
Bari, Senigallia, Nantes, Douai and the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris
1989 Dijon and Beaune archeological museums
Labenche Museum, Brive
1990 Fine arts museums in Agen, Vienne, Rouen and Valence
Maubuisson, Auxerre and Payerne (Switzerland) Abbeys
Works produced by the alumni of Istituto Statale d´Arte per il Mosaico G. Severini for its 30th anniversary, Ravenna
Centre scientifique et technologique Côte d´Azur, Nice
International Centre for Stained Glass Art, Chartres
1991 Art and History Museum, Metz
Cultural Centre, Aérospatiale, Toulouse
1992 History Museum, Lausanne
Cultural Centre, Deuil-la-Barre
Salle Chemelier, Angers
1993 Municipal Museum, Saint-Cloud
Cultural Centre, Éragny
Municipal Library, with Raoul Lazar, Bagnolet
Municipal Multi-Media Library, Taverny
Musée de l´Éphèbe, Cap d´Agde
Craftsmen in Seine-Saint-Denis, Société d´Encouragement aux Métiers d´Art, Villepinte Exhibition Centre
1994 5th Congress of the International Association of Contemporary Mosaic (AIMC), Kamakura, Japan
1995 Beirut Decorative Arts Fair, Lebanon
Salon d´arts plastiques de Marne-la-Vallée, Noisy-le-Grand
1996 6th Congress of the AIMC, Alexandria, Egypt
Hôtel du Département, Rouen
Batimat Trade Fair, Villepinte Exhibition Centre
1st International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
National Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
L´art à l´école, Paris
Mosaico – Nuove contaminazioni, Galleria d´arte moderna, Udine
Hospice St-Charles, Rosny-sur-Seine
1997 AIMC Exhibition, Cairo
Egyptian Embassy, Rome
Galerie Crous-Beaux-Arts, Paris
1998 Aime… comme Mosaïque, Paul Charnoz Museum, Paray-le-Monial
2nd International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
International Forum of Interior Design (FIAD), Beirut
1999 Aime… comme Mosaïque, Forney Library, Paris
F.I.A.D., Beirut
Kernault Manor, Mellac, Finistère
2000 Mosaïques de notre temps, Strasbourg
Maison des Arts, Antony
Mosaïque Art Déco, Paul Charnoz Museum, Paray-le-Monial
7th Congress of the AIMC, Ravenna
3rd International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
Mosaïques contemporaines, Château de Saint-Ouen
Giomavepa, four mosaicists from Ravenna, Galerie Crous-Beaux-Arts, Paris
2001 Espace culturel Athéna, Auray, Morbihan
Saint-Égrève Town Hall, Isère
Salon des Arts plastiques, Romainville
Hugues Chevalier furniture stores, Paris
2002 4th International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
Public Multi-Media Library, Bagnolet
2003 Icare, Tour Saint-Nicolas, Paray-le-Monial
Librairie-Galerie Racine, Paris
2004 Viaduc des Arts, Paris
Maison d´Art, Strasbourg
Seeing The Light, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
5th International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
2005 Joël Le Theule Cultural Centre, Sablé-sur-Sarthe
CeramicaMosaico, Ravenna
2006 Mosaïque en fête, Tour Saint-Nicolas, Paray-le-Monial
6th International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
2007 Et voilà le travail! Les bâtisseurs en Seine-Saint-Denis, Aubervilliers
3rd Mosaic Biennale, Obernai
2008 7th International Mosaic Symposium, Chartres
Public Collection of Contemporary Mosaics of the City of Chartres, Chapelle Saint-Eman, Chartres
Chapelle Saint-Éman, Chartres

Mosaics: main creations and monumental projects

1970 Via Crucis (80 q. m cartoon of Costantino Spada), Sacred Heart Church, Sassari
1971 Small mosaics after cartoons by Hans Richter, Guido Guidi and Marcello Pirro
1972 Mural mosaic (640×540 cm, cartoon by Zoran Music), Hilton Hotel, Munich
1973 Wall mosaic (244×420 cm, cartoon by Andrei Lanskoy), Canjuers Military Academy, Var
1974 Wall mosaic (4 q. m, cartoon by Jim K. Legros), Cyberexact Head Office, Houilles, Yvelines
1975 Façade (6 q. m, creation), private home, Yerres, Essonne
1979 Wall mosaic (18 m2, cartoon by R. Licata), Bourgoin-Jallieu Vocational Training College, Isère
1980 Sculpture (2.70 m high, creation), grounds, Bourgoin-Jallieu Vocational Training College, IsèreOutside entrance (36 q. m cartoon by R. Licata and T. Guibé), Sault-les-Rethel High School, Ardennes
1981 Façade (9 q. m, cartoon by R. Licata), Social and Training Centre, Perpignan Police, mosaic (1 q. m, cartoon by Fernand Dubuis), Paris
1982 Bas-relief (10 q. m, cartoon by H. Chastanet-Cros), La Bretonnière High School, Vertou, Nantes
1983 86 q. m floor, 21 mosaic tiles on the theme of hunting, Sologne, creation with G. Galli
1985 11 q. m floor, Les Quatre Saisons, private mansion, Neuilly-sur-Seine, creation with G. Galli
1989 Triptych (8 q. m, cartoon G. Galli), Chapel, Janson de Sailly High School, Paris Wall mosaic (30 q. m, cartoon by E. Cail), Les Amandiers pre-school, Paris Memorial stele for the French Resistance (1.80 m high, creation), Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
1991 Façade (1.80×24 m, R. Licata), Aquapol water treatment station, St-Égrève, Isère
1992 Wall mosaic, private chapel (35 q. m, cartoon by R. Licata), Gattinara, Piedmont
1994 General decoration for the Mons Sarts underground station (pavilion and main platform), creation, Lille
1995 Wall mosaic, (25 q. m, with G. Galli), main hall, Ikoma Nursing School, Osaka, Japan
1998 Monumental sculpture (creation), grounds of the B. Frachon Educational Centre, Courcelle, Essonne
1999 Monumental sculpture (creation), entrance, Villars High School, Denain
2001 Decorative panel, (7.32 q. m), main entrance, private apartment building, Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine

Restoration work

1970–72 Early Christian mosaics in Canosa and Trani, southern Italy
1991 Floors, Saint Peter´s, Charenton
Main entrance, 227 rue Lafayette, Paris
Church of St-Saturnin (5th century mosaic, 13 q. m), Antony
1994–98 Floors, Carnavalet Museum (History Museum of Paris) and Palais Galliéra (Fashion and Costume Museum), Paris
1997 Identical reconstruction of the foyer in the Hanoi Municipal Theatre (182 q. m)
1999 Floor, Colonnade de Perrault, Cour Carrée (450 q. m), Grand Louvre, Paris
Background mosaic, bas-relief “Le Triomphe de l´art”, Grand Louvre Museum, Paris
2000 Mosaic in the main pavilion, Saint-Mart Spa, Royat
2003 Facade medallions, Maison des Provinces de France, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris

Competitions and prizes

1987 1st Prize, Premio Murano, international glass art competition, Venice
1990 Grand prix régional des Métiers d´art (Société d´Encouragement aux Métiers d´Art), Paris

Teaching activities

since 1977 Teacher of fine arts and mosaic, workshops for children and adults, Bagnolet Municipal Council, Seine Saint-Denis
since 1994 Creation and running of a mosaic workshop for young people, adults and disabled persons, Louvre Museum
II/1996 Running of a workshop for Tibetan children in exile, Dharamsala, India
1997 Training of staff for three months during identical reconstruction of mosaics (in collaboration with G. Galli) at the Municipal Hanoi Theatre

Bibliography

XLII Biennale internazionale d´Arte di Venezia, catalogue of the Venice Biennale, critical review of Armando Ginesi, San Marino Pavilion, Corderie dell´Arsenale. Electa, Milan, 1986
L. Gavioli, Mosaico & Mosaicisti, exhibition catalogue, Castello Estense di Mesola. Electa, Milano, 1988
G. Galli, L´art de la mosaïque, Armand Colin, Paris, 1991
Association les 3R, Les Rêveurs de Mosaïque, lecture published in the Prix Picassiette catalogue, Chartres, 1996
I. Reale, Mosaico – Nuove contaminazioni, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Udine, Ed. Biblioteca dell´ Immagine, 1997
J. Locktov and L. P. Clagett, The Art of Mosaic Design – A Collection of Contemporary Artists, Quarry Books, Rockport Publishers. Gloucester, Mass. 1998
Association les 3R, Les Nouveaux mosaïstes, lecture published in the Prix Picassiette catalogue, Chartres, 1998
Exhibition catalogue Giomavepa, Galerie Crous/Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2000
Le Courrier des Métiers d´art (SEMA) n° 193, November 2000
Plaisir de peindre, n° 7, February/March/April, 2005
M. Tosi, Il Mosaico contemporaneo, Mondadori, Milan, 2004
V. Marzi and F. Gambrelle, Secrets d´ateliers – Les Mosaïques, éd. Solar, Paris, 2005
Catalogues of the solo exhibitions (Ravenna 2007, Ferrara 2008, San Marino 2008)
Mosaic Art Now, 2009 edition, article of Sophie Drouin

Other activities

Former member of the examiners´ board (Mural Art Section, École Olivier de Serres, Paris)
Former member of the grand prize jury, Société d´Encouragement aux Métiers d´Art (SEMA)
Co-founder of the International Association of Contemporary Mosaic (AIMC), Ravenna
Co-founder of Association Mosaïque aujourd´hui, Paris

 

 

Biography

Marco De Luca graduated from the State Art School for Mosaic in Ravenna in 1968 and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna where he graduated in 1975. From 1976 to 2002 he taught painting and mosaic with the State Art School for Mosaic in Ravenna.

In 2007 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna.

Solo Exhibitions

1996 “Opere Musive” Mosaic Bech-Kleinmacher Gallery, Luxemburg
2000 Arte Studio Gallery, Udine
2002 “Ascoltare il Mosaico” Patrizia Poggi Gallery, Ravenna
2002 “Ascoltare il Mosaico” Arte Studio Gallery, Udine
2003 “Mediterraneo” The Library of Alexandria, Egypt
2003 “Aquae Lucis” Patrizia Poggi Gallery, Ravenna
2004 Mosaic: Saint Eman Chapel, Chartres, France
2005 Arte Studio Gallery, Udine

Group Exhibitions

1969 1st International student’s prize for artistic high schools and art institutes for painting, Palazzo Reale, Milan
1976 Participation at the first modern mosaic exhibition, Ravenna
1980 Pollak Chapel, University of Pavia
1986 “Ortografia Mosaico”, Art First Fair, Bologna
1988 Curated and organized the exhibit “I mosaici di Ravenna” for the Municipality of Ravenna in S. Francisco, USA
1990 “Loggetta”, Municipal Gallery, Ravenna
1990 “Musica da Camera”, Istanbul
1990 “Paraxò 90″, Municipality of Andora, Savona
1993 “De Umbris Idearum”, Galleria dei Tribunali, Bologna
1993 “Mediterranea”, Toni de Rossi Studio, Abitare il Tempo fair, Verona
1994 “Collettiva”, Ozaru, Hokkaido, Japan
1994 “L’arte del Mosaico”, Palazzo della Provincia, Ravenna
1994 “Il Viandante”, Galleria dei Tribunali, Bologna
1995 “Ravenna Bella Dentro”, Palazzo della Provincia, Ravenna
1997 The Romagna Art Biennial, Cesena
1997 “Nuove Contaminazioni 2″, Udine
1997 “Sculture per S. Leo e per Cagliostro” (in collaboration with Arnaldo Pomodoro), S. Leo
1998 “Nuove Contaminazioni 3″, Udine
1998 “Trasalimenti” Castelbasso, Teramo
2000 Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England
2000 Graves Gallery, Arts Sheffield, England
2000 “Giomavepa”, Crous-Beaux Art Gallery, Paris
2001 “Opus 5″, Paray-Le-Monial, France
2006 Collective exhibit in Concordia Saggittaria, Venezia
2007 “Mosaici contemporanei nei luoghi del mosaico antico”, Quarto d’Altino
2007 “Biennale de la mosaìque”, Obernai
2008 “International exhibition of Mosaic”, Artplay, Moscow

Publications

1989 “Il Mosaico per immagini”, Edizioni Essegi

Restoration Work

1996 Participation as restorer for the exhibition “Mosaici di Via d’Azeglio” in Ravenna working with the ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets and with the Superintendence of Archaeological assets of Emilia Romagna.

 

Biography

Alexander Kornoukhov was born in 1947 in the family of artists.

Antonina Fedorovna his mother worked with V. A. Favorsky and P. D. Korin. In 1965 Alexander finished Architectural Art School where S. L. Ter-Gregoryan was his teacher.

He then entered Moscow Polygraphic Institute together with A. D. Goncharov and P. G. Zakharov. After graduation from the Institute he worked in the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

His first exhibition was held in 1976 in the Exhibition hall on Remizov Street 10 where oil paintings were exhibited. In 1977 Kornoukhov became member of the Art Union in the section of monumental painting because as a student he worked in the stained-glass window technique, mosaic and mural techniques (hydroelectric power station in Belovo, culture centre in Krasnoyarsk region, ATZ in Togliatti). Alexander´s first work in the Monumental Decorative Art Plant were eight mosaics for Culture Centre in Reutovo on the topic still life landscape with elements of antiquity. Alexander Kornoukhov received the Art fund prize for the Best work of the year for these mosaics. His further works were done together with L. Kurilo. In 1980 Alexander Kornoukhov created the architectural mosaic of natural stone in the clay stratum of adobe wall of the Administrative building of NPO Vega, Moscow.

He continued the historical (sometimes archaic) theme in the mosaic (total area 130 sq. m.) of the winter garden of the CHPZ plant in Cheboksary. Alexander Kornoukhov received the KHF Diploma for this mosaic. In the meantime Kornoukhov and Kurilo worked on architecture in Dubna, Centre of Space Communications, station 2, the body of which allowed to interpret the architecture as free sculpture of glass, steel, devices (radars) and architectural volume in the natural landscape. The Health Centre in Vladimir-30 (sculptural composition of glass and concrete) and German Centre in Karaganda can be interpreted partially in the same way. In 1985 as a dedication to 50th Anniversary of Moscow Regional Union of Artists Alexander Kornoukhov created a composition of separate mosaics to be interpreted not as easel paintings but as testimonies of fragments of invisible architecture. Alexander Kornoukhov treated natural stone in the project for Italian international mosaicist competition in 1982 and in 1986 created the mosaic stele for Ravenna park according to the project.

In 1989 the artist used mosaic in the church art and created tympanum for the Tbilisi Cathedral. This artistic trend was further expressed in works in the Moscow Metrophanes Voronezhsky Church, the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Tushino, the Church of the Holy Sign in Krasnogorsk. In 1994 the artist received the Degree of Laureate of the State Prize in 1994 for the mosaic (1200 sq. m.) in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Tushino. Thanks to such experience of creating church art he could create several mosaics in the Vatican Papal palace, particularly in the Raphael loggia, in Redemptoris Mater Chapel dedicated to 2000 Anniversary. The artist strived to unite the mosaic experience of the Eastern and Roman art in the architecture of the late Renaissance (1580). The architecture of the Roman Sant Ugo church made of monolithic concrete had a different character, the mosaic artist made new technological developments allowing to combine the foundation of monolithic concrete with soft traditional ground.

Alexander Kornoukhov has been member of the Artistic Council of the Monumental Decorative Art Plant since 1978 and member of the monumental section bureau of Moscow regional union of artists since 1984. Alexander went on business trips and attended conferences in other cities, wrote articles, carried out experiments and arranged creative conferences in art centres.

Curriculum

Аlexander Kornoukhov was born in 1947.
1965 – Finished Architectural Art School, entered Moscow Polygraphic Institute, the faculty of Art and Technical Typography of Printed Material.
After graduation worked in the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Since 1977 – Member of the Art Union in the section of monumental painting.
Since 1978 – Member of the Art Council of the Monumental Decorative Art Plant.
Since 1984 – Member of the monumental section bureau of Moscow regional union of artists.
1986 – Laureate of the prize of the International mosaicist competition, Ravenna, Italy.
1994 – Laureate of the state prize for achievements in the field of art.
Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Architecture.
2002 – Gold medal of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts.

List of works

Mosaics in the Culture Centre of Reutovo, 1978
Spatial-volumetric structure in NPO Vega, Moscow, 1980 made together with L. Kurilo
Architectural structure in the Centre of Space Communications, 1980–1982 made together with L. Kurilo
Mosaic in winter garden of the Culture Centre of Cheboksary Instrument making plant, 1982 made together with L. Kurilo
Stained glass window, Health Centre, Vladimir 30, 1984, made together with L. Kurilo
Mosaic composition, Health Centre, Vladimir 30, 1986, made together with L. Kurilo
Architectural structure, kindergarten, Health centre, Vladimir-30, 1986 made together with L. Kurilo, Liebhaber, Goncharov
“Nature and Human” stele, international competition, Ravenna, Italy, 1986
Mosaic composition in the winter garden, “Artek”, 1987, made together with L. Kurilo
Mosaic composition in the Culture Centre of Cherepovetz ATZ, 1988, made together with L. Kurilo
Mosaic of the tympanum, Cathedral, Tbilisi, 1989
Mosaic in the apse, the Church of Metrophanes Voronezhsky, 1989–1990
Mosaic of the dome and quarter of the dome. The Church of Transformation, Tushino, Moscow, 1990–92, together with L. Kurilo
Frescoes and mosaics. Private house, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, 1992, together with L. Kurilo
Mosaic of the dome and quarter of the dome, mosaic icons and the sanctuary doors
Znamenskaya church, Krasnogorsk, 1992–1994
New Jerusalem mosaic, Redemptoris Mater Chapel, the Vatican, 1994–98
Mosaic The Last Lord´s Supper and frescoes, the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, Gazetny lane, 1998
Mosaic Saint Kosma and Damian in the Church of Saint Kosma and Damian, Moscow, 1998
Mosaic The Last Lord´s Supper in the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Gazetny lane, 1999
Mosaic in the Strogino Health Centre, 2001
Mosaic in the Church of Rededication, Danilovsky lane, 2001
Mosaic interior in private mansion, Kozikhinsky Lane, 5, 2003
Mosaic in the Church of Resurrection in Zurich, 2003
Mosaic in the Church of the Mother of God “The Joy of All Who Sorrow” in Belgorodskoe village, Donetsk region, 2003
Mosaic in the Church of Three Saints in Arkhangelskoe village, present day

Exhibitions

Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1971, together with Lazarevitch
Exhibition hall, Zheltovsky Street, 5, 1974 together with Lazarevitch, Kharitonov, Buch, Kurilo
Exhibition hall, Remizov Street, 10, 1976, together with Kurilo, Lazarevitch
Exhibition hall, Vavilov Street, 64, 1986, together with Kurilo, Buch, Tabenkin, Mirenskoy
Mars Gallery, 1989, together with Lazarevitch, Karter and Bashenin
Artmif Arena, Ariadne´s Forest Gallery, 1991
Artmodern Gallery, 1992, together with Krasulin, Shakhovsky, Muntz, Masharov
Ravenna, Italy, 1992, together with Kurilo
Triest, Italy, 1998, together with Rupnik
Seasonal exhibitions of Moscow Regional Union of Artists and the exhibition in Poland, 1989; UAE, 1990
WAM Gallery, 2004

 

Biography

Mosaic artist Sonia King creates one-of-a-kind, contemporary mosaics for gallery, architectural, community and home settings. Her award-winning art is exhibited nationally and internationally and represented in private, public and corporate collections. Mosaics are created using the finest materials gathered from sources around the world: smalti, gold, marble, vitreous glass, ceramic and more.

Sonia recently created “Nebula Chroma” for the new main lobby of Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, winning a second Spectrum Award for her creative use of tile. One of Sonia’s first four mosaic walls at Children’s was featured on the cover of Healthcare Design magazine.

Sonia King’s first contact with mosaics was as a child when her mother worked in the medium. Her fascination with the color, texture and surface of mosaic art has remained constant. Sonia received a BFA from California College of Arts and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. After a successful business career, Sonia returned to the arts, working on a contemporary interpretation of the ancient art of mosaics as a fine art medium.

Sonia is a founding member and past President of the Society of American Mosaic Artists as well as instructor in mosaics at the Creative Arts Center of Dallas. Sonia has been granted membership and serves as a Vice President of the Associazione Internazionale Mosaicisti Contemporanei (AIMC) in Ravenna, Italy.

Fortunate to have an extensive travel background, Sonia has visited ancient mosaic sites and studied with modern mosaic artists around the world. She has spoken on mosaic art in England, France, Australia and Brazil and teaches advanced classes internationally. Sonia has been featured on HGTV’s popular show, “Modern Masters”, and in numerous books. Sonia is the author of the bestselling book “Mosaic Techniques & Traditions” from Sterling Publishing and is currently co-authoring “Mosaic Master Class: The Advanced Techniques”.

 

 

Biography

1931 Born in Bourgas, Bulgaria

1954 Graduated from Institute of Architecture – Sofia, Bulgaria

1955–59 Works as an architect in a Designer´s bureau – Bourgas, Bulgaria

1959–66 Finished the faculty of mural painting at Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria

1966–67 Specializes in Paris, France in George Patrix´s atelier

1969 Becomes professor of mural painting at Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria

1970 One month artistic trip in Finland

1985 Participation in a monumental and mosaists symposium “Senege” – Moscow, Russia

1987 Solo mosaics exhibition – Sofia, Bulgaria

National prize for decorative arts “Ivan Penkov”

One man exhibition “Mosaics and plastics” – Sofia, Bulgaria

1989 Membership in the International Association of Contemporary mosaicists (AIMC) – Ravenna, Italy

1990 Full professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria

Becomes Chief of Department of mural painting, mosaics and stain glasses at the Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria

Head of the Department of Mural painting, mosaics and stain glasses at the National Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria

Medal Cyril and Methodi

1991 Visiting professor in the South Illinois University – USA

One man show (glass mosaics) – South Illinois, USA

1996 Participation in the Mosaic show AIMC – Alexandria, Egypt

2000 Participation in the VII Congress and mosaic exhibition in Ravenna, Italy

2003 Participation in a “Dante” mosaic exhibition in Ravenna, Italy

Solo mosaics exhibition – Sofia, Bulgaria

2004 Solo mosaics exhibition – Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Solo mosaics exhibition – Bourgas, Bulgaria

Participation with a poster at the AIMC exhibition in Brazil (Victoria)

2005 Visiting professor at Veliko Tarnovo University, Bulgaria

Winner of the Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA) competition and two month stay in Paris, France

2006 Participation with a poster and mosaic at the AIMC Exhibition in Skopje, Macedonia

Prize of UBA And Union of Architects in Bulgaria (UAB) in the competition “Arts for the social forum”

2007 One man mosaic exhibition “Nature and Geometry” in “Seasons” Gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria

Participation in mosaic exhibitions in Serbia with the group “Ametist” in Pirot, Vrania and Beograd

Participation in mosaic exhibitions “Mali Format” with the group “Ametist” in Beograd, Serbia

2008 Participation in MALI FORMAT – Beograd, Serbia

Participation in 3R exhibition – Chartres, France

Oral presentation and poster in XI AIMC congres-Gazantieb – Turkey

Participation in the mosaic exhibition “Planet earth” – EXETER – England

Since 1967 until now Prof. Ilia Iliev has been participating in all national exhibitions of applied arts as well as at the Department of Mural painting.

A total of over 80 of his works are realized in architectural space. A considerable part of his easel works is in National Galleries and private collections in Bulgaria and USA, France, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, etc.

 

Biography

Nall was born Fred Nall Hollis on April 21, 1948, in Troy, Alabama. He received a BA degree in Art, with minors in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and spent four years studying at the Ecole Nationale Superiore de Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He had Salvador Dali as a mentor in 1972, 73, and 74. Nall has an international reputation working in many mediums:

Mosaics – Monumental “Sunrise & Sunset Pensee” for the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

Sculpture – Violata Pax project in Assisi & Pietrasanta, Italy; Menton, France; Monaco Cathedral, Monaco; Mobile, Alabama. Monumental “Peace Frame” for the Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi, now in Monaco and the Pisa Airport, and permanently installed in Pietrasanta, Italy; “Violata Pax Colombe” Sculpture in Miami Dade College and in the permanent collection of Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Line engravings – Nall has produced over 150 copper plate etchings from 1971 to 1990 which are in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Pau, France; Birmingham, Montgomery, & Huntsville Museums of Art, and a complete collection of all of Nall´s line engravings in the Nice Museum of Fine Arts, Nice France and the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama. There are about 20 other museums containing Nalls works.

Mixed medium paintings – for 6 RSA Hotels in Alabama, and he realized the “Alabama Art” Project, with the book Alabama Art, now permanently housed in the Mobile Museum of Art.

Porcelain – 3 different dinnerware designs for Haviland and Parlon of Limoges,France. Coffee mugs and plates for the Puccini Foundation, realized by Tunisian Porcelain Co. Gift plates for the Monaco Lions Club, by the Monaco Porcelain Makers.

Nall is currently working on a new line of Limoges Dinnerware Porcelain of Alabama Camellias, produced by the Tunisian Porcelain Company, including six of Mobile´s Bellingrath Gardens Camellias. He has also started a new Book entitled The RSA Permanent Collection of Alabama Art, which includes more than 150 Alabama Artists.

Sets and costumes for “The Girl of the Golden West”, and “La Rondine” opera productions for the Festival Fondazione Pucciniano in Torre del Lago-Puccini, Italy.

Carpets – a new collection of carpet-tapestries were hand woven in silk and wool buy the finest artisan for Kamyar Moghadam in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Barbara Paci Galleria in Pietrasanta produced 3 carpets 4mx4m in wool.

International Art Fairs – FIAC, Paris, France; Miami Art Fair, Palm Beach Art Fair, Hamptons International Art Fair, NY.

Artist-in-residensy – University of Alabama 1999, Troy University where he was awarded an honorary doctorate (2001, 2002), Mimia Dade University in Miami, Florida (2007) – New World School of the Arts.

Nall lives and works in Fairhope, Alabama, USA, and has a studio at the N.A.L.L. Art Association in Vence, France which helps train and educate young Alabama artists, many who are recovering from alcohol, drugs and XXI century abuses.

Nall´s works have been acclaimed by CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time Magazine, the Italian Republica, the French La Figaro, and The LA Times.

 

Name: Giulio Candussio
Place of birth: Paularo (Udine)
Date of birth: September 03, 1945
Resident of: Spilimbergo (Pordenone)

Biography

As a young boy, Giulio attended the Mosaic School of Friuli. Since then, he didn’t have any real artistic formation, so in fact he is a self-educated artist.

Since his early apprenticeship, he developed his unique individual perception of the art of mosaics. Open to experiments, he vastly applied various materials and techniques, which set him apart from the conventional craftsmanship mainstream.

Still, his personal aesthetic and creative search should be traced back to his painting of the sixties. Since then, he has been participating in numerous art exhibitions on a going basis.

In 1980, he became the Art Director of Bisazza, an industry leader in the production of glass mosaic for floors and walls. In this capacity, Giulio became a real trendsetter promulgating artistic experiments and creative research. He coordinated implementation of a number of key mosaics projects designed by modern artists (some recent projects include pieces of mosaic art based on the sketches created by Hoffmann, Hopkins, Tadini, Sabonet, Mendini, and Pozzati).

The spectacular mosaics for Tottenham Court Road tube station in London designed by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1983) is probably the most challenging and impressive mural project in Candussio’s portfolio.

Further, the 1980s were the decade of the pioneer applications of computer graphics and multi-media technologies in mosaic art. Mural mosaics for the pavilions of the Bisazza building in Spilimbergo became one of the most innovative high-tech projects. To make these gigantic murals, an enlarged copy of Piero Dorazio’s picture (1989) was projected onto the building’s facade. Encountering with Dorazio’s art works meant a new trend in Giulio’s creative evolution as an artist. This trend is characterized by “cooldown” of forms, and a search for new vibrating colors, aggressive and sophisticated. Reiteration of minute graphic symbols, similar to pieces of tesserae, made his works look like mosaics.

In 1994, Giulio became a member of the teaching staff of the Mosaic School of Friuli, and in 1999, as a member of R&D Committee, he was appointed a person in charge of planning the curriculum activities. Since 2004 he has been the Art Director of the Mosaic School of Friuli till date. His office as the Art Director at Spilimbergo school contributes greatly to renovation and professional retraining which are underway in the recent years.

A combination of personal artistic investigations and training expertise are the factors behind his comprehensive research in the domain of mosaic expressiveness. His many-years research which goes back to his attempts to revaluate and renovate the techniques used by ancient mosaic artists has ultimately resulted in Stele, a project he has been involved in since the 1990s. The project owes its success to powerful, three-dimensional imagery and vitality of mosaic texture which is achieved by the process of progressive simplification and purification of a sign.

In 2002, he implemented a number of large-scale art works at FIAT R&D Centre in Turin for the Art Park.

The next impressive project which is worth mentioning is a 37 meters long and 4 meters high panel. This artwork, named Iridescent Rainbow (Saetta Iridescente), presented by Giulio Candussio to the New York City, is located at the Temporary World Trade Center PATH station. Saetta Iridescente is an explosion of colors symbolizing energy and distant view into the future.

Currently, Giulio Candussio is the Art Director of Trend S.p.A. in Vicenza. In this capacity, he cooperates with internationally recognized craftsmen. He is committed to applied research in all spheres of mosaic art.

 

“Working is my favourite way of expressing myself. I use the mosaic technique because it is based on a continual breaking down, a shattering of the old “Order”; I then reassemble it in another way capable of liberating emotions”.

Biography

Marco Bravura was born in 1949 in Ravenna, a city where he still lives and works. He attended the State Art School for Mosaic in Ravenna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

Bravuras works have been acquired by various Institutions, Banking Houses and private collections both in Europe and the United States of America. He founded the Institute Artistique Antonin in Beirut, Lebanon, in cooperation with Ravenna Municipality, the CPFP and the Pere Antonin.

Public works

Fountain ‘The Snail’ S. Agata Feltria (1994)
Flying Carpet Fountain for Cervia (1997)
‘The Moon in the Well’ fountain, S. Agata Feltria (1998)
Fountain in the F. Agosto Park (1999)
Fountain ‘Purple Ardea’ in Beyrouth, Lebanon (1999)
Le impronte della memoria (Imprints of Memory) (in Sant’Agata Feltria (2002)
Butterfly Fountain for Sogliano sul Rubicone (2003)
Romagna aqueduct fountain in Rimini (2003)
Fountain “Purple Ardea for Ravenna” (2004)

1989 “II Giardino delle Sette Stufe” – Sala dell’Arengo-Municipio di Rimini, Italy
1992 “The Art of Living” – Armory, New York, USA
1996 “Collettiva” – Ozaru, Japan
1996 “Ravenna Bella Dentro” – Palazzo della Provincia, Ravenna, Italy
1997 “S.Giovanni in Monte” – Universita di Bologna, Italy
1997 “Mosaico – Nuove Contaminazioni” – Galleria d’Arte Modema – Udine, Italy
1997 “Oggetti del Desiderio” – Mosaico e Design – Loggetta Lombardesca – Ravenna, Italy
1998 “International Mosaic Exhibition” – Alexandria, Egypt
1998 “Grand Opening” Blodwell Gallery – Beverly Hills. CA-USA
1999 “Collettiva” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Skopje – Macedonia
1999 “II Respiro della Pietra” – Accademia d’Egitto – Rome, Italy
2002 “Sailing to Byzantium” – S. Maria delle Croci – Ravenna, Italy
2003 “Suggerimenti di Tonino Guerra” – Magazzini del Sale – Cervia, Ravenna
2005 “Ceramicamosaico” – Chiostri Francescani – Ravenna, Italy
2006 “Mosaique en fete” – Tour Saint Nicolas – Paray-le-Monial, France
2007 “A la Lumiere de Ravenne” – Tour Saint Nicolas – Paray-le-Monial, France
2008 “International Exhibition of Modern Mosaic”, Artplay, Moscow, Russia

Awards

First Prize at the Biennale Art of Romagna, 1998

 

Biography

The artist Dusciana Bravura was born in Venice in 1969. She graduated from Ravenna’s Mosaic Art Institute and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

Following a family tradition, she began to work with her father Marco Bravura, taking part in nine important works commissioned by local administrations.

Famous for her works from “A Thousand and One Nights”, she combines wedges of murrhine glass and other elements into an elegant harmony of colors and shapes.

The observer’s eye is inexorably drawn to the subtle gradations of shade in designs that are at times geometric and defined and at other times curvilinear and abstract.

Bravura’s great success has been in merging the artistic gesture of the age-old mosaic technique in a contemporary context, giving life to a highly imaginative universe, populated by mirrors and animals.

The common thread running through her art is a mosaic that has been re-interpreted in a contemporary key, the recurring theme of nature re-told and described like a fairy-tale.

Her works recall the arabesques of antique Islamic decorations, which contributes to the captivating and evocative nature of her works.

Since 1998, she has exhibited in many solo and group shows in Italy and abroad.

Public works

Mosaic panel – Piazza Dora Markus – Marina di Ravenna 1997
Mosaic panel – Historical Diving Museum – Marina di Ravenna 1998

Solo exhibitions

1998 Palazzo della Provincia, Ravenna
1999 Ex Chiesa in Albis, Russi (Ra)
2001 “Specchio delle mie brame”, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venezia
2005 “L’allodola e gli specchi”, Galleria Catartica, Torino

Group exhibitions

1990 Trentennale Istituto d’Arte, Chiostri Francescani, Ravenna
1994 Palazzo della Provincia, Ravenna
1996 Concorso Internazionale “Picassiette” ‘96, Chartres (2° premio)
1997 Biennale d’Arte Romagnola, Palazzo del Ridotto, Cesena (2° premio under ‘30)
1998 “White and Bright”, Salone del Mobile, Milano
2001 “S..Trani Sensi”, Castello Svevo, Trani
2002 Biennale Postumia Giovani, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Gazoldo di Mantova
2003 “Suggerimenti di Tonino Guerra”, Magazzini di Sale, Cervia (Ravenna)
2003 Sofa Expo, Berengo Fine Art, New York
2004 “Sailing to Byzantium”, S. Maria delle Croci, Ravenna
2004 Sofa Expo, Berengo Fine Art, New York
2005 “Ceramicamosaico”, Galleria Oriani, Ravenna
2006 Miart, Galleria Berengo, Milano
2006 “Premio Michetti 2006″, Fondazione Michetti, Pescara
2006 “Mosaique en fete” Tour de Saint Nicolas, Paray le Monial, France
2006 “Facing 1200°”, Museum Moderner Kunst Karnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2006 Glass Art Festival, Hsinchu, Japan
2006 “Mirabilia fiunt”, Galleria San Ludovico, Parma
2007 “13X17″ Padiglione Italia, Murano, Venezia
2007 “A la Lumiere de Ravenne”, Paray Le Monial, France
2008 “International exhibition of Modern Mosaic”, Artplay, Moscow
2008 “Fresh Glass”, Poznan, Poland

Catalogues

“A la Lumiere de Ravenne”, catalogo, a cura di Daniele Astrologo Abadal, 2007
“Giovanni Adulti”, catalogo, a cura di Gianni Romano, 2006
“Facing 1200″, catalogo, a cura di Alessandra Redaelli, 2006

On April first, the opening event saw the presence of 800 people that filled the three sites of the Schusev State Museum for Architecture where the art exhibition had been held. After the introductory remarks by Mr. Ismail Ahkmetov, patron of the exhibition, the poet Tonino Guerra took floor inviting the audience to applaude the initiative. David Sarkysian, Director of Schusev Museum and Mr. Alberto Cassani, Deputy of Culture from Ravenna Municipality gave their presentation speech about the peculiarity of the exhibition that covered different aspects of mosaic art: from the glorious tradition of the past, exhibiting the Copies of the byzantine mosaics, declared Human heritage by UNESCO, to the contemporaneity expressed by the poetic “translations” into mosaic technique of Tonino Guerra’ designs and a selection of 13 valued and renown artists from various countries and continents.

The evening was also the occasion to present the second issue of SoloMosaico magazine, the collector’s edition about the mosaic world, featuring articles about history of mosaic and contemporary artists. The publication, hailed by the exhibition’s visitors, will be published in the English and Italian versions and presented in October during the Ravenna Mosaico Festival. More than three thousands people visited the exhibition, so confirming the success for the SoloMosaico project, whose objective is to focus attention on the world of mosaic, an art that is presentely living a world wide Renaissance.

The visitors are met by the white fairy-tale bird of amazing beauty with feathers made of smalt and small stones – the work of Duscana Bravura, contemporary mosaicist. A few steps upstairs and you are surrounded by the wonderful world of mosaics…

 

Opening: 1 April 6 p. m.
Address: 5/25 Vozdvizhenka Street, Moscow, Russia 119019
Metro stations: Lenin Library, Arbatskaya, Alexandrovsky Garden
Working hours: 11 a. m. – 7 p. m. Tuesday–Sunday

 

Dugald MacInnes and Lucio Orsoni spoke animatedly of proposals for future exhibitions. Lucio Orsoni is giving positive support in arranging an Extravaganza exhibition in Cannaregio, Venice, with Pino Bisazza – dates have yet to be arranged but watch this space!

The texts of the three Presentations follow (EMG, DM & TK).

Elaine M Goodwin – What is TE-21? Statement, Chartres, 25 October 2008.

What is TE-21? It is a new art movement created solely to give established professional artists of personally expressed mosaic the possibility of exhibiting together – internationally. We hope that what we have formed is an exciting opportunity for artists working in an otherwise marginalised facet of mosaic.

At present, we, the progenitors, are the first four founder members – myself (from England), Toyoharu Kii (from Japan), Dugald MacInnes (from Scotland) and Lucio Orsoni (from Venice) – four very diverse artists from four different countries but with one singular and exclusive aim. As this aim becomes more established, we wish to entice like-minded artists to join us, thus building up a core of artists worldwide who use mosaic solely as their means of self expression, i.e., where the content or voice of the work is paramount.

We are well aware that self expression is a minority aspect of mosaic, yet we are driven to create this new movement as we become ever more aware that mosaic is still not considered a worthy medium for addition to National Art Collections. For example, there is no contemporary mosaic work in the Tate Gallery in London. The Curator, Sir Nicholas Serota, has responded to any correspondence by continually saying that mosaic belongs to the Victoria and Albert Museum, an excellent museum in London but for the applied and decorative arts only.

Is mosaic ever to be accepted as a fine art medium? Yes, of course, aspects of mosaic do, and must, belong with the decorative arts, but one specific aspect of the medium, which is ignored or largely unexplored, belongs also to National Art Galleries and Collections. The example from England which I have just given is but one of many instances of a Curator of a leading National Modern Art Collection having a blinkered vision as to the full potential of the mosaic medium. MOSAIC is not recognized as a serious art form, and this is a lamentable situation.

One crucial element has not helped this predicament.

The very word ‘mosaic’ conjures up for many people a preconditioned understanding of the medium – that is, one which they recognize as either functional, utilitarian, decorative or having a religious content. Aware of this preconditioning, we – as a group – have deliberately dropped the word ‘mosaic’ from the movement’s name. TE-21 stands for Tessellated Expression for the 21st Century – which fortunately translates well into French and Italian.

We are indeed grateful to Chartres as a city with the foresight to have initiated an International Collection of contemporary works of personal expression, in the spirit of an enlightened Fine Art collector. This vision for the medium can be doubly witnessed today, both by the present exhibition of the city’s founding works here at the Galerie Chapelle St Eman; and by the very fact that we have been invited to give launching papers to this symposium!

I would like to expand a little more on what we mean by using the medium of mosaic for self expression. I know many of you, familiar with the many facets of mosaic, will be all too well aware of what I mean, but for clarity, please allow me to elaborate.

The creation of such a work is primarily concerned with concepts – with conveying deeply felt emotions or closely perceived ideas, and creating a work of art not through painterly or sculptural media, but through the unique materials to be found in the timeless medium of mosaic. The long lineage from which we all work is universally acknowledged to be rich and wondrous – but we must attach equal cultural importance to the expressive present period for mosaic.

So, each artist in the movement must have a profoundly-developed passion for mosaic, individually expressed through an established ‘voice’, i.e., a recognizable working style, where each can explore their realm of being through abstraction. By coming together and by creating a unified front, we feel we can form a strong and diverse force to fully re-present the medium.

Thus, to sum up, we have but one simple aim – to join together to present international mosaic exhibitions solely pursuing personal expression, and with crystal clarity to divorce mosaic from the ornamental and the functional and to establish a cerebral and visual genus for the medium as a potent one for contemporary expression.

Thank you.

Dugald MacInnes – TE-21 Statement, Chartres, 25 October 2008

I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the city of Chartres, in particular to Patrick Maquaire and his colleagues, for once again organising magnificent exhibitions in such beautiful venues. Chartres is indeed becoming synonymous with international mosaic and it is a most fitting venue for the launch of TE-21. Gratitude also goes to Chartres for providing a platform for Elaine, Kii, Lucio and myself to speak today about TE-21, the reasoning behind its conception and its hopes for the future.

Elaine has very succinctly defined TE-21, established the reasons for the creation of the movement and firmly laid out the criteria for TE-21 artists. TE-21 is not an elitist movement. It is merely an avenue through which, as Elaine has clearly stated, to give established professional artists who are working in an expressive manner, the opportunity to exhibit together. That is all TE-21 purports to be. We are not in any way elevating our art above that of other practitioners.

TE-21 is not a movement born out of hot headed youthfulness. The four of us are far too long in the tooth for such actions. There are no Marinettis setting out to throw away the art of the past and change the world! The movement, rather, has been born from considered and thoughtful responses to the simple fact that there is a desire for those expressive artists who are working in the wider body of the mosaic world to have a distinctive voice.

It has taken time to reach where we are today. Just over three years ago, although it now seems a longer age away, Elaine, Robert Field, my wife, Anne, and I sat around an outdoor table of a Glasgow restaurant discussing the issue of the relatively small band of mosaic artists with an expressive bent and how best to present the work of such artists. At this Glasgow venue the title TE-21, Tessellated Expression for the 21st Century, was born and the name, written down for the very first time, was committed onto a white napkin.

Where do we go from here? We do wish for other artists to join with us. There is, however, no manifesto, no committee, nor is there a selection criteria for the inclusion of other artists and definitely no desire for interminable meetings.

What do we ask of the TE-21 artist? Do we ask for integrity or deeply felt emotional responses to a particular context, or an awareness of the development of modern art, or a long involvement in art, or that the artist holds true to their art; or do we ask for all of these things. There is no clear answer and perhaps there never will be. If we seem more than a little vague with regard to expansion of TE-21then this is possibly deliberate. Many of you here may have witnessed the rise and fall of the well-intended group or movement where its aims have been subsumed in a mire of bureaucracy.

We do plan our first full exhibition in Venice in the near future, and perhaps after that – and following any reaction to the show – we can think about next steps. In the meantime, we welcome comments, suggestions and any questions that you may have. Thank you.

Toyoharu Kii, Japan

Kii is one of Japan’s leading mosaic artists. He has had a long experience in producing mosaic murals.

He states:

‘The main theme of mosaic is to think of it as a language of expression. This must be the theme for all TE-21 artists.

Similar, perhaps, to most other artists of mosaic, I consider the main feature of mosaics to be the use of tesserae. The size, height and the form of tesserae, coupled with the width of grout line, are the elements that, for me, define the features of mosaic art. These features have the greatest visual impact when only one colour of material is used. This is the very strict, but personal regime I have been working under for more than ten years. Recently, however, I have been extending my exploration of mosaic by introducing more colours. I have experimented this way by making “tableaux” [portable pieces]. This recent work will be reflected in future mosaic murals of mine

Unfortunately, mosaic murals have gone out of fashion in Japan. It would appear that architects no longer wish to introduce mosaic into their architecture. However, I do not think that the role of mosaic in architecture is finished yet….’

Announce the 5th International Competition:

A): on the project of a mosaic to be set up in a Park or indoor.
This project is opened to all mosaic students from Art Academies, high school specializing in art subjects, Art Institutes and public or private Schools of Art.

B): for the knowledge and study of contemporary mosaic, addressed to all students of Contemporary Art and to all university students who have passed a History of Contemporary Art examination with reference to contemporary mosaic and its situation, and also to students who will be preparing a dissertation on artistic expression and/or who wish to develop a deeper understanding on this issue.

C): on the knowledge of old and contemporary mosaic,
addressed to secondary school students who have had the opportunity of learning about mosaic during their studies and want to develop this further.

D): on the realization of a mosaic with free topic and measures, addressed to young mosaic students under 30 years and older than 18 years on June 30, 2009.

Announce of the 5th International Exhibition for Students:
March 31 /May 10 2009 – Chiostro degli Agostiniani – Museo Civico di Bracciano
Inauguration: on Tuesday, March 31 at 11 a.m.
(tel.:+39-0699805106 – Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. 10/13 a.m. – Sat. Sun. 10 a.m./06 p.m.)

The Association Mosaico Oggi and its collaborators
Proclaim A Study Seminar
(with credits)

Regulations

1) All projects, proposals, ideas, and brief dissertations as well as the mosaics must be sent , with self addressed packaging and postage, not later than Friday ,March 20th 2009 to the following address:

Concorso “Mosaico Oggi”
Chiostro degli Agostiniani – Museo Civico – via Umberto 1° – 00062 Bracciano (Rome – Italy)

2) All the Mosaic works are sent at their own risk and paid for by the participants, and collected at the end of the Meeting on Saturday May 10th 2009 or not later than May 15th 2009 (or at a date arranged with the organization).

3) All the works not collected in time will not be returned and they will become property of the Association ” Mosaico Oggi” and could be used by it, at its unobjectionable judgment, for future art exhibitions in Italy or abroad and/or for a future Contemporary Mosaic Museum.

4) The works of this announcement, which arrive as paper works or DVDs will not be returned.

Awards:

“Mosaico Oggi” Award Plate, offered by “Mosaico Oggi” to the winners of every class.

Anton Panov Award, offered by “National Institution Culture Center 46th Fine Arts Colony, Strumica-Macedonia”.
This prestigious international award exists for 46 years; every year it gathers between 15 and 25 winners from every country in the world and consists of a three week workshop in Strumica (Macedonia) from 1st to 20th August 2009.
During their stay in Strumica the winners will accomplish mosaic works that will be exhibited together with the works of other participants at the Macedonian Symposium that will take place in September to mark their National Liberation celebrations.

“Orsoni – Bracchiano” Awards – for 2 mosaic students over 18 years of age called “Orsoni Award”:
it will consist of one week workshop in Bracciano (March 31st – April 7th 2009). During this period two winners will be attending the Congress, visiting the Exibition and experimenting a full immersion in the “Mosaico Veneziano”by using the vitreous tesserae of the factory “Orsoni” of Venice, while tutored by a supervisor of “Mosaico Oggi”.

“Orsoni – Nardo” Award – a further prize for mosaic students over 18 years of age “Orsoni Award”:
it will consist of a stay of one week in Nardo (LE) seat of the “Museo del Mosaico Contemporaneo” (it shall be inaugurated on December 28th in the Acquaviva Castle) and seat of a State School of Fine Arts. During this period two winners shall do a full immersion using the vitreous tesserae of Orsoni Factory of Venice.

“La Sapienza-Valle Giulia” Award:
Addressed to students of Contemporary Art and to students in Project and environment Administration or Architecture, winners of section B of the international competition.
It consists of a stay of one day (and one night) for a visit to art works of contemporary mosaics in one Italian city.

Further awards will be assigned, by eventual sponsors, before the dead-line: March 20th 2009.

The Seminar

This will take place in the Conference Hall of the Archivio Storico of Bracciano.

The prize-giving ceremony for the winning projects and works chosen by the Scientific Committee will take place at the end of the meeting

The primary aim of the Contest, now in its fourth edition, is to stimulate a new interest in Contemporary Mosaic and to encourage creativity among younger people.

For the realization of this project, the Scientific Committee will be formed by:

Organization: Simona Nardelli – Cooperative “Le Muse“ info@lrmuse.it, tel/fax: +39 06 99805106
Press and info support: “Mosaico Oggi” (Roma) +39 687361558

“Mosaic Today” Cultural Association of art and design
Address of the registered office: Via San Girolamo Emiliani, 15, 00152 ROMA
Ph.: 0686908269 – Ph/fax: 069985236 – ph.: 3687361558; www.mosaicooggi.it;fernandatollemeto@quipo.it

The Grand Prize Winner of the Orsoni Prize will receive Euro 1,000; a round trip ticket to Venice, Italy to attend a one week Orsoni Master in Mosaic course between Oct 2009 – October 2010; and six nights at Domus Orsoni, the bed & breakfast located at the Orsoni foundry in Venice. In addition one Honorable Mention and three Finalists will be awarded a total of six kilos of Orsoni 24k gold mosaic.

“It has been fascinating to see the international mosaic community flourish with unimaginable vitality and energy”, contends Lucio Orsoni. “It has been my dream to acknowledge the work that is being done with this significant prize that has become part of the Orsoni legacy”.

Artists may apply in two categories, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional through Juried Art Services (www.juriedartservices.com) starting January 12, 2009. The application deadline is June 12, 2009. The winners will be announced, September 9, 2009. For further information, please contact JoAnn Locktov,joannlo@orsoni.com, telephone: #415.383.1399 in the US, or www.orsoni.com.

Master in Mosaic classes are taught at the Orsoni foundry in Venice, Italy. They are limited in size to six students, so that everyone learns at their own pace. Students have access to the entire library of 2,000 colors of Orsoni smalti and numerous shades of 24k gold mosaic. The class involves instruction in mosaic technique and application as well as field trips to San Marco and the island of Torcello. Two special thematic classes are currently taught in Portraiture and Micro-mosaic. For more information visit: www.orsoni.com or write master@orsoni.com.

It seems that art exhausted itself. The human eye is looking for something new. Wants to blaze up in admiration, but in our dynamical world everything is already known. Fortunately, nature is generous; in a moment of despair it presents us the joy of contemplation of unbelievable beauty we’re craving for so much. XXI century promises to be the century of the New Renaissance and it’s reborning again in Italy. Dusciana Bravura’s mosaics are arousing shock we want to experience. Her Venetian splendour is amazing and attracting, her imagination is paradoxical. She’s worthy of her Great father indeed.

Dusciana Bravura’s study is characterized by the use of the antique mosaic technique, that still embraces enormous expressive potentialities. Her works, in elegant frames depicting fantastic animals, do not need too much separation or precise conformist borders, her creativity originates in the mind and emotion until it finds its own way: the rhythm of mosaic, with all its rites, is an ideal opportunity to cultivate the mind.