WERNER VAN RECK

WERNER VAN RECK

“Water is poetry. Sometimes hard and sharp, other times soft and elegant. A perpetual motion of attraction and withdrawal, a flirtatious waterline always balancing with its inseparable companion: the land. With a fascinated gaze, I’m wondering what it does to people. Beaches and shores that seem to offer people time, needed to come to themselves. I want to immortalise their moments of reflections. Reflections that create subdued emotions, bring cheerful relation to life or evoke melancholy memories.

I work alone and quietly, with the rushing of the water in the background. All photos are photographed with Polaroid instant film. The images gain a poetic power from the dreamy blur and the fading colours and contrasts, unique to this film process. And I love it.”

Werner Van Reck (1959, Antwerp) studied art direction and photography at the Academy for Fine Arts in Antwerp. Werner works in both communications and photography. Many of his photo reportages have been published in magazines. He shot a serie of images in Africa for Baobab, a Senegalese organization, in support of a fundraising initiative. From 2006 to 2008, he portrayed hundreds of citizens of Antwerp for his book ‚Stadsmussen’ (‚City Dwellers’), a project commissioned by the City of Antwerp.

MICHAEL AHLEFELDT

MICHAEL AHLEFELDT

Michael is a practicing artist who paints and creates freehand art with authentic artistic passion and dedication. In this series of line drawings, he explores the power of intuition and the subconscious. What appears at first glance to be a series of abstract compositions, gradually reveals joy, enthusiasm and dynamic scenes in which multiple figures emerge and invite the observer to come closer. Michael’s approach is shaped by how he views the world around him and allows all this positive energy to find expression on paper.

Michael’s natural curiosity for new techniques and his fascination with form and colour encourage him to strive to bring his drawings to life and make them as vibrant as the scenes they depict. Their transformation into light “tableaux” featuring intense colours allows us to step into the world of the artist and to participate actively in the dance.

His light works are composed with a singular stroke of the pen transformed into light through a Danish company that have assisted him in transforming his pen strokes into glowing LED. The frames for his works are made of carefully selected oak from PA Savværk in Korinth, Denmark.

Michael Ahlefeldt lives and works at Egeskov Manor in Denmark. Over the years, he has received instruction from the renowned artist Ellen Madsen in Hadsund, Denmark, and RAH Craig Ron in Perth, Scotland. He has also studied at the Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, and at the Fyn School of Painting and Drawing in Odense, Denmark.

DAN LAUSTSEN

DAN LAUSTSEN

 

Through his extensive career, Dan Laustsen has worked within many genres, and both contributed to Nordic and American feature films. Many of which have both been nominated and won some of the most prestigious awards within the film industry.

Along with his cinematographic work Laustsen has up kept a fine art practice, which testifies to the many travels that have brought him around the world. These monochrome pieces establish a hidden narrative, which not unlike his films are both atmospheric and captivating.

DAN LAUSTSEN  (b. 1954) is primarily known for his highly appraised work as a cinematographer. graduated from the Danish National Film School in 1979. He has collaborated with directors such as Ole Bornedal and Guillermo del Toro, last and notably on the Oscar nominated for 2022 film Nightmare Alley.

STEEN LARSEN

STEEN LARSEN

Steen Larsen is one of a small group of artists using the mimetic approach in their work – meaning they reflect reality through precision in both detail and expression. Conceptually his work with urban settings center the tracks mankind leave behind in nature.

While driving and traveling in the USA and Europe, Larsen mounts a camera on the windshield on his car and shoots thousands of photos that later serve as sketches for his oil paintings. His photo-based paintings are narratives mimicking a road movie on canvas. Speed is captured at its essences as well as other present-day scenes.

 

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Recent exhibitions, recidencies and fairs:

Solo Exhibition,

”Shapes of Rain”, Ramfjord Gallery, Oslo, 2022

”Nevertheless” Gallery NB, Viborg, 2021 Denmark

Scope Art fair Miami, 2021

Group exhibition selected at Vertical Gallery, Chicago, Hangar Seven, Salzburg, 2019, and Van Der Plas Gallery N.Y.C.

Ramfjord international recidency, Oslo, 2019, 2021,2022

Artist Residency at ESKFF located at MANA Contemporary Art Centre, NJ, USA, 2016

CAMILA ECHAVARRIA

CAMILA ECHAVARRIA

Her relationship with Art began at a very young age when her mother, a professor in Art history, introduced her to this fascinating world. When she was 5 years old, she started her education in art.

In the series bar codes, the jungle and nature of her native country – Colombia – have inspired her work. Her artistic reflections have been deeply influenced by plants of significant importance to her region, such as Ceibas, Wax Palms, Guayacanes, Yarumos and Heliconias. Echavarría imagines nature that grows in unthinkable places.

Echavarría, is best known for her unthinkable, and unimaginable creations that merge opposite concepts.  Her works are based on nature, the simplification of shapes, repetitions and Fibonacci.

The artist creates a world influenced by the natural sorroundings that has captivated her since childhood, and her current fascination with the relationship between birds and plants. She works in black and white, but she experiments with highlights of color in an attempt to achieve those bright tones of tropical colors, which in the green jungles serve to attract birds.

Echavarría’s Art celebrates life that manages to overcome adversity. Her hands shake, except when she paints,  that why she states“her works make the impossible possible” .

Camila Echavarria (b.1980) lives and works in Medellin, Colombia. She was educated as Product Engineering at the EAFIT School in Medellin, and has worked with the medium since 2006.

MARKUS KLINKO

MARKUS KLINKO

 

Markus Klinko is an award-winning, fashion/celebrity photographer and director, who has worked with many of today’s most iconic stars of film, music, and fashion.

Klinko has photographed the likes of Beyonce, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kim Kardashian, Naomi Campbell, and Iman. His editorial clients include Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, and Interview magazine. Brands such as Lancôme, L’Oréal Paris, Nike, Hugo Boss, Anna Sui, Pepsi, Skyy Vodka, and Remy Martin have hired Klinko to create advertising campaigns. His campaign for Keep A Child Alive raised over one million dollars for children with AIDS in just 3 days.

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Born in Switzerland of French, Italian, Jewish, and Hungarian descent, Klinko spent his early years training to become a classical harp soloist. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Later, Klinko signed an exclusive recording contract with EMI Classics, as well as a management contract with Columbia Artists Management. He received the Grand Prix de Disque for his recording of French harp music, with members of the orchestra of the Paris Opera Bastille. Klinko performed in recitals and as a featured soloist with symphony orchestras around the world. He was also regularly featured in such publications as Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, GQ, The New York Times, Madame Figaro, Stereo Review, and Ongaku no Tomo.

After a hand injury, Klinko decided to become a fashion photographer and retired from his international concert and recording career. During that time, he met Indrani, who later became a regular collaborator in her role as his studio’s digital post production artist and photo editor.

Isabella Blow discovered Klinko’s work while at the London Sunday Times and commissioned cover stories from the emerging photographer. Around the same time, Ingrid Sischy, at Interview magazine hired Klinko for various shoots. Iman and David Bowie followed, giving the up and coming photographer a chance to photograph them for their respective book (I am Iman) and album covers (Heathen).

From there, he went on to create some of the most iconic album covers of his time, including Beyonce’s Dangerously in Love, and Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi.

Many of Klinko’s famous celebrity photographs can be seen in his coffee table book ICONS (Perseus). Lincoln Center in New York presented an art exhibit showcasing many prints from the book and since, art galleries and museums around the world have featured his work.

  • Klinko has appeared on E! News, Access Hollywood, Fashion Television, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight and Larry King Live and has been the subject of the reality show Double Exposure on the Bravo network.

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