Every year we go through the catalogue to point out the artists who best combine their work, their track record and the road still ahead. This is the 2016 selection: original work by living artists, within reach of anyone starting a collection.
GUILLERMO CARBAJO
Born in Moreda de Aller (Asturias) in 1946, Guillermo Carbajo lives in Gijon since he was ten years old. He is a self-taught painter, who works mostly with watercolor, since 1976 when he started studying with Ramón Cuevas. His watercolors portrait the Asturian landscape. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions.
Erika Seguín Colás
Olga Armand Ugon
Born in Montevideo (Uruguay), Olga Armand Ugon started painting at the age of 17 and was trained by great artists such as Clever Lara, Guillermo Fernandez and Gerardo Acuña. She studied fashion design but after a while she quit and decided to dedicate full-time to painting. Since 2005, she has had exhibitions in Uruguay, Buenos Aires and New York, winning numerous prizes that recognize the greatness of her work.
Felipe San Pedro
Felipe San Pedro was trained in the school of the painter Jose Luis de Antonio, and was the winner of the VI Oil Competition organized by the Catalan Dalí Circle. Recently, he has exhibited his works in La Casa del Reloj del Matadero and in La Fundación Progreso y Cultura.
The bright and colorful painting of Felipe San Pedro reproduces the forms of those everyday moments that usually go unnoticed, extolling the beauty and mystery in its essence and tempting the viewer to capture those secrets that may remain hidden in their strokes.
Antonio Perez Bornot
Antonio Perez Bornot was born in Santiago de Cuba and lives in La Habana. He began his adventure in the world of art as an amateur more than 20 years ago, with initial training basically self-taught, he later studied painting. Bornot has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his works are in private collections in different countries. Lately, he has been working on his art full-time so he hasn’t participated in any exhibition.
Gisela Gaffoglio
Gisela Gaffoglio was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1966 and her artistic training started with the lead of Marcos Aquistapace and continued with her collaboration with Duilio Pierri, Maggie de Koenisberg and Ariel Mlynarzewicz. Her prolific work has an original style with special focus into expression, movement and color.
She has fulfilled lots of exhibitions in galleries and cultural centers of Argentina and New York.
On 2013 she received a painting recognition in the Salon M. Algieri, organized by the municipality of San Isidro and APSI.
Ricardo Cruz Fuentes
Ricardo Cruz Fuentes is a mexican self-taught emergening artist who has sold his paintings to mexican, spanish, colombian and north-american collectors. Nowadays he’s being represented by Art Fusion Galleries in Miami (USA). He has received some artistic recognition such as the 3rd place in the national graffiti awards “Violencia en las relaciones de noviazgo” and the 1st place on the painting contest “Juan Soriano” on 2013.
His sarcastic sense of humour is the basis of his paintings and tries to involve the observer into quotidian and funny moments that remind how ridiculous can human nature be.
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