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A fortuitous encounter led me to figure out the next CatenArt residency after 2 years of inactivity due to the recent pandemy.   It so happens that a dear neighbour of mine in our place in Madrid, a French architect, Françoise Schneider, finds her origin in Alsace and more precisely in Wesserling, 35 km drive… Read More »

Lucas REINER – Interview Lucas Reiner, a painter, engraver and photographer,  gave this interview for CatenArt. Since 2001, Lucas Reiner has focused on what he calls the « portrait » of curbside trees in his hometown, exploring the formal collision between organic growth and the constraints of modern urban life. He is the one who will guide… Read More »

SERHIY SAVCHENKO – RESISTANCE AGAINST DEATH. “Art is a form of resistance. And the principal subject matter of resistance is resistance against death.” Nicolas Bourriaud   Serhiy Savchenko’s series “Ruins and Reproduction” was created over a one-year period between 2018-2019. It consists of 6 large scale diptychs each portraying the landscape of major cities destroyed… Read More »

Dying Warriors / Ruin and reproduction Erik Mai / Serhiy Savchenko   “War destroys and wipes out any kind of individuality. Savchenko’s paintings are about the city’s recognizable landscape that is transformed into a monotony of ruins that has no personality anymore. This is symbolic and inherent in today’s world: demolishing and equalizing personality as… Read More »

The project includes works by famous Ukrainian artists Oleksiy Khoroshko and Serhiy Savchenko. The works of both artists united by one theme – the existence of matter (material) in the process and the existence process in the matter. The artist consciously chooses material (matter) to create their own images, but the process of creation leads… Read More »

On September 6th 2018 took place the opening of the exhibition of works by Vasyl and Uliana at the art space of Pigment Gallery in the splendid 5 star Miramar Hotel located on the top of Montjuic close to Barcelona and overlooking the whole city. This is the second CatenArt art event taking place in… Read More »

“I had never seen anything like this before, neither in Tokyo nor in New York…” These words were pronounced with a visible emotion by Tetsugo Hyakutake, a photographer and video artist from Japan, at the end of the ‘CatenArt Residency’ in Lviv, from June 20th to June 30th. He was speaking to a group of… Read More »

From June 20-30 took place an international artists residency in Lviv, Ukraine, from June 20-30, 2018. Here is a small video-souvenir of the residency: Catenart Lviv 2018  

I unveiled this painting a few days ago and, almost immediately, the inevitable question arose: – “Why this cross on the top of the lemon?” What kind of an idea do you want to convey? Justified as the question may be and willing as I am to always answer it, I do not like to explain… Read More »

Olena Smaha (Ukraine) exhibited her paintings at Pigment Gallery, in Barcelona. Brief introduction to an exceptionnal contemporary art form rooted in the tradition of Slavic iconography. Paul Evdokimov famously wrote that “abstract art originates from iconography, Islamic arabesques, and the transcendental.” If Malevich made this affinity clear enough, Olena Smaha gives us a fresh understanding of this connection while still holding on to the figurative dimension of icons.  How… Read More »