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MonoKubo was a Japanese illustrator who brought an imaginary world to life through her amazing digital illustrations, where gentle giant animals share a harmonious relationship with humans.

Monokubo got the idea of giant animals from Studio Ghibli’s anime movies and their famous characters. “It came from “Princess Mononoke” and “Totoro.” I liked doing anime drawings in such style since a young age,” MonoKubo shared.

MonoKubo’s work was characterized by its emotional depth and the way in which it brought to life the creatures and worlds she depicted. Her illustrations were not simply renderings of physical forms, but expressions of the emotions and relationships that bound the characters together, complete with story-telling elements in their compositions reminescent of Japanese mythology.

MonoKubo’s work was widely recognized and celebrated, with 5 books of her work published, including “Megalophilia”, “MofuMofu” and “Replicare”. Her illustrations have been featured in many galleries and exhibitions, and have been widely shared online.

MonoKubo passed away in January of 2022. Her art continues to inspire and delight audiences everywhere. She will be remembered as a pioneering and accomplished artist in the field of digital illustration, and as a kind and generous person who brought joy and inspiration to those around her.

Malo is a French photograph artist, who puts his work at the service of a story… Through his photo series, he questions life, family, society, in a way that moves people, and don’t leave them unconcerned. His work, that he calls himself as participative, questions the audience, whom, from spectator, becomes the actor of an exchange between himself and the artist; even an introspection. If the form and content are intimately linked, graphic and technics choices are made to serve the story that he tells us, as a translation of the questions that he brings and asks us.

Antoine Josse is a French artist, born in 1970. His paintings and sculptures express an irrepressible desire for lightness, escapism and to be able to dream the impossible. The use of captivating and revealing motifs, along with the presence of human beings immersed in a dream-like landscape, convey a unique charm to his work. His paintings are alluring for their atmosphere, evocative colours, and tumultuous skies. The minuscule beings are settled in a desolated and dangerous world where the vegetation rapidly spreads, bringing to life dramatic reds, blues, and greens, creating spectacular yet enigmatic feelings.

He comments, “I imagine my paintings and sculptures as the moments of a story and it’s up to you to create the whole story. There are several different scenarios, and that’s what I appreciate: the diversity of your looks. You are an actor of this exhibition: Look! Imagine! Speak! Exchange your opinions! A work exists only by the spectator’s gaze, my paintings exist only thanks to your imagination.”

For almost 20 years, Antoine Josse has exhibited his works all over the world, from his native Brittany (in France) to Normandy, Paris, London, Switzerland, Chile, Stockholm, Luxembourg, and New York.

My pictures are in the whole world, in the private collections of some well-known people. I have exposed my work in many countries of the world. All my expositions had one purpose: love, friendship, charity. Each exposition in my country is dedicated to help the poor and I think to continue doing the same in future.

I am mother of 5 children and live in Berlin with my family.

It makes me happy that my art reaches so many people in the world! Art is what connects us all.

Bernard Saint-Maxent is self-taught, which allowed him to follow his own ideas in the choice of materials and to integrate all new kinds of elements into his creations. His current work revolves around the pranks of an omnipresent slender character with a joie de vivre. He gives movement and life to his sculptures. His inspiration comes from the burlesque scenes of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, from current events to advertising, from the contradictions of modern life and from his own delusions. Even if the subjects he addresses do not always make you smile, they are nevertheless treated with humor and joie de vivre.

He strives to attract attention and then reflection. Each sculpture is different and “unique” because there is no casting. They are created with a metal structure around which he models with resin and then applies a varnish. After a day he applies two coats of bronze paint and after another day he finishes with a patina that looks like bronze. Bernard believes that art should be light and should bring pleasure.

Bernard Saint Maxent has exhibited extensively in Europe. His work has been exhibited in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and New York with Linda Blackstone, with whom he has been associated since 2008. His work appears to appeal to an international quirky sense of humor, and Bernard enjoyed selling out shows during this time.

Leo Manelli is an artist who merges classical paintings with anachronistic elements of art and luxury to create lively artworks that mingle times and cultures. Ace of realistic painting, the talented artist reproduces meticulously masterful paintings, often from the greatest museum collections, and takes them over to create a bridge between centuries. Manelli’s art meets a growing success with the art lovers anywhere in the world. Leo Manelli lives and works in the province of Firenze, Italy.

The Connor Brothers is the pseudonym for British artists James Golding and Mike Snelle. The duo came to prominence in 2012 and for several years maintained their anonymity by using a fictional biography. Best known for their Pulp Fiction series, the pair are also known for their activist work and their playful hoaxes. In 2014 they created a fictional museum -The Hanbury Collection, which fused truth and fiction in such a way as to render it impossible to work out which exhibits were real and which were not. This obsession with truth and fiction can be seen throughout their work, and is particularly relevant in the current climate of fake news, post-truth, and social media obsession.

The Connor Brothers have exhibited internationally from New York, Sydney and Dubai to London, Hong Kong and Berlin. Their work frequently appears at major auction houses where a record price was achieved in 2020. Works can also be found in major public and private collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum and The Penguin Collection.

The artist in every culture takes on some of the roles of the shaman. The artist walks the fine line between the conscious and the unconscious, the obvious and the hidden. My background (Ph.D. in psychology) led me to the study of consciousness, meditation and spirituality. After years of teaching I left academics to apply what I had learned to the realm of art.

I had been the school photographer all through high school and college, but put it aside during my psychology days. I returned to photography this time as art rather than photojournalism, in 1976. I returned, not because I was inspired by other photographers, but rather because I wanted to express my new understandings that came about through my studies and my teaching.

I began the Bodyscapes in 1976 with the intention of showing that it is possible to hold two different perceptions at the same time. The images are also a play on “figure-ground reversals” where the figure (in this case the body) becomes the ground (or landscape)! Two different perceptions, I felt, indicated that it possible to hold two different levels of consciousness – or two different realities… and that was the inspiration behind this work.

The body as landscape reminds us that nature’s shapes repeat throughout the universe. Nature’s forms are similar in landscape and in the human body. In making these images I am always aware of the viewers experience. If I want the viewer to see a “mountain” then it is important that I also see the body as a mountain. It becomes an interesting discipline for me – forcing me to see beyond the body to the landscape that it represents.

I choose black and white because the point of the work is the design, the lighting, the shapes – not the details of the objects. As such, black and white seemed to be more effective. Also, the color of the body didn’t match the color of the landscape that I was portraying. I tried using color at one time, but quickly stopped.

The images sometimes begin when I find a miniature which I could use in a Bodyscape. Other times, I have an idea and have to find the appropriate miniature. I sometimes have a shot planned ahead of time, but usually I have only a general feel for what I want and try out a number of different locations/angles etc. Sometimes the model offers ideas and helps with the composition! My technique is simple. Lights on booms are aimed at the white background. The model lays on a table in front of the background.

The figurines that I place on the body are from model railroads, Christmas ornaments, doll houses or collector miniatures. It is very important that I use high quality, detailed miniatures, or the illusion of a real landscape is lost. The images are done with toys set on the body and a single exposure, rather than with multiple exposures or photoshop.

Some people see humor, eroticism, or beauty in my work. Others notice the “ah ha!” experience. Everyone brings their own consciousness to bear as they react to what is in front of them.

Peppone is a 50 year old artist living near Aix en Provence.

“Basically, my universe is made up solely of references to childhood in the broad sense. Everything starts with a digital drawing on the model of the clear line, dear to Hergé and according to precise specifications where I mix my childhood characters in the heart of a referring situation which must immediately awaken the memories of the spectator. Without excessive intellectualization, I invite him to immerse himself in his own general culture to identify the “ref” at the risk of seeing his interest in my work dull. Then, I let him interpret the “second degree of reading” of the staging of the two parameters, situation and characters.

From Pop-Art I borrow the popular, encounters with large paintings during visits to museums, cinema, TV series, music but also from sports victories, historical moments, advertisements and even iconic brands. In short, everything that gave a link to my youthful years in the 80s and 90s.

From the world of Street Art I borrow spray paint, stencils and paintmarkers. Then I want my viewer to have the impression of appropriating a piece of wall, as some did when the Berlin Wall fell, with the idea of ​​tearing off a piece of himself.”

Peppone explains that man is the only living being who knows he is going to die and that, to escape his condition, he reproduces, communicates and dreams; a kind of cyclical link between past, present and future.