ARTIST OF THE MONTH – AUGUST 2024 WINNERS

ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the WINNERS of the ARTIST OF THE MONTH – AUGUST 2024, a competition open to anyone and established to increase and develop the art market and the dialogue between collectors, art critics, journalists and art lovers. Making contemporary art accessible to all.

Artworks have been judged based on creativity, originality, quality of work, and overall artistic ability. The winner has been chosen based on the quality of a single entry as well as the quality of overall work.

Winners August 2024
Gís Marí . Portugal
Jean-Pierre Kunkel . Germany
Milena Dimitrokallis . Greece

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH – AUGUST 2024 Winners

Gís Marí . Portugal

Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí [born Gijs Maris in Haarlem, 1991] paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. He was drawn into the world of painting during his study of psychology in Leiden. His apartment and its white walls increasingly served as an atelier, and instead of preparing for his exams, he was occupied with the arts. In his early 20s, he quit university to devote his life entirely to painting. Gís Marí rented his first atelier in Amsterdam [NDSM Wharf], where he worked for 2 years. His increasing discomfort with the gentrifying, speedy and money-driven Amsterdam saw him move to southern Europe, where he fell in love with the city of Porto. He rented an abandoned industrial store in central Porto, which served as an atelier and house, and he worked here for four intense years. In 2019 he moved to an old rice warehouse in the port town of Figueira da Foz, where he currently lives and works.

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Jean-Pierre Kunkel . Germany

To create images on the theme of Advertising Pop Art, Jean-Pierre Kunkel used his pool of motifs from his work as a photorealistic illustrator and placed them in a new context. He combines the works created during his 40-year career in thematically mixed collages, thus creating surreal visual worlds with a completely new message. The expressive re-work of his realistic, idealized advertising works stems from the influences of Neo Pop of the 1980s and 1990s and elevates seemingly banal representational motifs to art by changing their size, material, and context. Kunkel himself calls his style Advertising Pop Art. He is also concerned with making the viewer understand that the starting point – the advertising illustration as such – is already art.

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Milena Dimitrokallis . Greece

I consider myself an impulsive artist and am interested in painting what I feel, not what I see. The canvas is a space where my mind can roam completely free. I create directly on the canvas, with no prior rough sketch, guided by purely exploratory processes. Abstract painting is the inner soul-searching journey that leads me to render human emotions in colours and shapes through an array of techniques. My artwork is part of private collections in Greece and abroad. It has been exhibited at the Athens War Museum, the OTE Group Telecommunications Museum and the Copelouzos Art Museum in Athens, as well as the Carris Museum in Lisbon.

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH – SEPTEMBER 2024
Deadline: September 30, 2024

ITSLIQUID Group officially presents ARTIST OF THE MONTH, a competition open to anyone and established to increase and develop the art market and the dialogue between collectors, art critics, journalists and art lovers. Making contemporary art accessible to all.

The winners will be featured on the ITSLIQUID Platform, promoted extensively worldwide and considered for any upcoming curatorial projects of ITSLIQUID Group.

Click here to read more.

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ABOUT US

ITSLIQUID is a web-based information platform, founded in 2001 by Luca Curci, dedicated to the worldwide distribution of information about calls for entries, exhibitions and events at some of the world’s leading art galleries, museums and foundations selected. ITSLIQUID has already built a readership of more than 300.000 qualified subscribers. Among them architects, designers, artists, collectors, art critics, curators, dealers, and other personalities of the International art, architecture and design world. It provides advertising services, press office services for events and projects, articles and specials published on the website, and media partnership services.

During the last 20 years, ITSLIQUID Group has become a cultural hub between creatives, exhibition spaces and art lovers. Among our international partners, are Art Now Fair, Art Vancouver, Design Tokyo, INDEX Qatar, INDEX Saudi, The Big 5 Construct Dubai, The Big 5 Construct Qatar, Photo LA Los Angeles and international magazines like Art Style. ITSLIQUID Group supports some of the most important no-profit organizations, like UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, SSCS – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, One Tree Planted, The Ocean CleanUp and Plastic Oceans, with the goal to increase public awareness about environmental issues. Click here to find out more.

ITSLIQUID GROUP includes a section dedicated to the organization of international art events, managing exhibitions of painting, photography, video art, installation and performance; it organizes solo and collective shows, art residencies and international contests. Its object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, and to connect artists working in every part of the world.

ITSLIQUID Group manages a variety of art spaces all over the world; among them Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Venice and different historical buildings, THE LINE Contemporary Art Space in the London city centre and other different partners worldwide. Since its beginning, the group has organized more than 250 events worldwide, involving more than 5.000 artists, in more than 60 international venues in Italy, the USA, Canada, the UK, Spain, France, etc. Most of the last events have been realized in museums (CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Spain, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, etc.), galleries and private foundations.

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