Andrew Scheglov

Classroom Revisited

2023

This oil painting is part of the artist's ongoing exploration of imagery that draws upon the private and collective memories of expatriates from Soviet Russia. Formally, the work att...

This narrative figurative painting was painted during the height of the pandemic and depicts the artist's very small quarantine "bubble" at the time: his partner and their two roomma...

This image is part of the artist's early series of portraits depicting queer figures in domestic or outdoor settings. The pose makes a humorous allusion to the trope of Venus in clas...

This image is part of the artist's early series of portraits depicting queer subject matter in domestic or outdoor settings.

This image is part of the artist's early series of portraits depicting queer subject matter in domestic or outdoor settings, painted in a classical style against a blank black backgr...

This image is part of the artist's early series of portraits depicting queer subject matter in domestic or outdoor settings, offering something of a private, snapshot-type aesthetic....

ABOUT Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture. Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance. Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident. “Queen Kong...

Oil on canvas

Figurative painting of a male museum guard with portrait 19th century paintings of women in white dresses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Empire and Cotton," painted by Judith Wyer...

The young Dutch artist Lars van Wieren is seen by many as a great talent. We get that! Through one of our artists we were made aware of Lars' work. W...

Noemi Martín belongs to a generation of young painters for whom the avant-garde of the mid-twentieth century is just another feature of the history of art, capable as they are of obs...

Henk Helmantel probably does not need an introduction to a lot of worldwide art lovers. After all, the artist from Westeremden even has its own museum. ...