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Kathrin Longhurst Omar Ortiz Valentina Brostean Benoit Courti Agaphya Belaja

Leslie Ann O’Dell Jan Mark Janiaczyk Ken Pegg Yuehui Tang Ilia Izachic Isaev

ISSUE 22 JUNE 2012



In the middle of the night, under the gloomy moonlight, to the gentle

sounds of violins...we danced the tango. He was wearing a golden mask.

The mask on my face was snowy white.

Step by step, move by move. His body was touching mine. My body was

touching his. He put down his mask. The next one was green...face of the

monster. I put mine down. The next one was purple...face of the gentle

fairy. The violins were playing stronger and louder. We were dancing

more passionately. He put down the green mask and the next one was

red. I put mine down ....Red. He was holding me strongly in his arms.

I could feel the warmth of his body, his breath, his heartbeats. Eyes to

eyes. Suddenly he let go of me and fell down to his knees. He threw the

mask off and I saw a frightened little boy in front of me. He was crying.

I threw down my mask too. I caressed his face.

Are you wearing a mask too? What color is it? Put it down and be your-

self, be proud and strong no matter what others think. What ever hap-

pens, you will never regret it.

I want to thank to my dear friends Ljiljana Bursac, Nini Baseema, Kiyo Murakami, Jelena Grujic, Murielle Mirabelle Velay Michel, Na-

talie Shau, Ian Furniss, Bolek Budzyn, Thierry Bruet, Dejan Bogojevic,

Gines Serran, Mark Sadan and to our dear readers.

Maia Sylba



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o draw public support and to popularize the Russian Academy o Arts I. E. Repin Insti-tute o Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Saint Petersburg “Academy o Arts” Founda-tion has been ounded in 1996.General objective, pursued by Te Foundation, is domestic and oreign promotion o I.E.Repin Institute’s students and graduates through expositions and media projects.

Web site o the “Academy o Arts” Foundation (www.academart.com) has been created in1999. o amiliarize the broad audience, comprising museums’ and private galleries’ per-sonnel, collectors and amateurs o fne arts with the avenues, explored by Te Foundation,

it was urther revised and updated on 2002 and 2011 years.

Website organized as online galleries o the artists graduated, teaching and studying inthe I. E. Repin’s institute. Main goal o the gallery is providing the best creative artworksby academician artists all around the world. Foundation’s online gallery united over 50well known fgurative artists with recognizable manner and progressive style rom Saint-Petersburg.

Worldwide promotion o Saint-Petersburg modern fgurative art is main strategy o theFoundation’s activity.Outstanding paintings o the most o participants in Foundation’s projects combinedclassic traditions o fgurative paintings with contemporary mentality.

In the nearest perspective o the our activity is creating o wide database o I. E. Repin’sinstitute graduates or last 50 years. We also provide online exhibitions o the best works,artists and important art themes.

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MUSETOUCH MAGAZINE June 2012

Editor

Maia Sylba

Graphic designer

Dejan Silbaski

Contributors

Nini Baseema

Kiyo Murakami

Ian Furniss

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Christian Martin Weiss

MUSEOUCH is a magazine about visual arts. It has been created by Maia Sylba out o a love and passion or

art with the hope that people will be able to use the publication and website as a platorm to showcase their

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We would love to see your art so don’t hesitate to contact us and welcome.All artwork in this magazine is copyright protected under the MUSEOUCH Magazine brand or remains

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Benoit CourtiEmbrace

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Valentina BrosteanInner Voice

210Omar OrtizOut o Space and Context

058Yuehui angReal Fantasy

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Agaphya BelajaFar Away

244Ilia Izachic Isaev One has to Feel It

272Kathrin LonghurstReality Escape

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Leslie Ann O’DellEnigmatic

304Ken PeggTe Viewer

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Jan Mark Janiaczyk Forgotten Beauty

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Benoit CourtiBenoit Courti is a rench photographer living in Paris.Fascinated by photography since his childhood, he rst embraced a career as a music com-poser beore becoming a proessional portrait/art photographer in 2010.

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Omar Ortiz Out of Sp

Omar Ortiz was born in 1977 at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico where he still lives. Since he wasa boy he has been interested in drawing and illustration. He studied or a degree in GraphicDesign, where he learned dierent techniques such as hand drawing, pastels, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics and airbrushing. When he nished college he decided to make a living rompainting. In 2002 he attended his rst oil paint classes with the artist Carmen Alarcón, who heconsiders his main teacher. Omar Ortiz currently works with oil painting because he consid-ers it the noblest technique.

A minimalistic - hyperrealism characterizes his work, where white colors, human body and a

magical abric play predominate. “His paintings act like intimate pieces, trapped in themselves,outside o space and context” He has showed in Mexico, Spain, Netherlands and London.

“Since I started painting I have always liked to represent things as real as I can, sometimes I succeed sometimes I don’t, what is a act is that it is very hard or me to do the opposite. I enjoy the challenges o trying to reproduce natural light and the nuances that gives us, particularly inbright environments. I like to keep the simplicity o the pieces because I think excess makes us poorer rather than richer.”

Omar Ortiz

Exhibitions2005 “Petalos y Espinas” - Espacio del Arte elevisa - Guadalajara Jalisco Mex2005 “Artistas Plasticos Contemporaneos de Guadalajara” - Culiacan Sinaloa Méx.2008 “algo mas que realismo” - Zaragoza España

2009 “lijst-in gallery” - Roosendaal Holanda2009 “summer exhibition 2009” - blackheath gallery - London UK2009 “the gure” - blackheath gallery - London UK2009 “christmas exhibition 2009” - blackheath gallery - London UK2010 “Petalos y Espinas” - Museo Regional de Guadalajara- Guadalajara Jalisco Mex2010 “summer exhibition 2010” - blackheath gallery - London UK2010 “in your ace” - blackheath gallery - London UK2010 “Colectiva”- Plus One Gallery - London UK2011 “Winter Show”- Plus One Gallery - London UK

2012 “Art Revolution aipei”- World rade Center, X Power Gallery -aipei aiwan2012 “Summer Show”- Rarity Gallery - Mykonos Grecia



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“Te Mexican painter Omar Ortiz, despite his youth, should be considered as an unquestion-able gure o realistic painting. His beginnings in the oil back to the year 2002 and since then hasshown a mastery that lis him among the greats.echnically was ormed with the painter Carmen Alarcon, though its stylistic and thematic in-spiration is closer to the hyper-academic painters like the Chilean Claudio Bravo and Hungary Painter Istvan Sandor.

In his work we nd our constants:- Te pursuit o beauty - Concern the tactile- Printing o apparent simplicity - And the love o color.

Beauty is an essence that emanates rom each o his paintings. In the search or emale nudes inthe classical tradition in exquisite proportions in serene aces and a touch o sensuality. In hisstill lies, the ideal o perection is shown in minute detail, o honest patient, who invites us to

refect in silence on the passing o time.Enjoy these oils with the view, but the meaning is really excited touch. Seeking hands caress, eel-ing the thin skin o the models, check the quality o the abrics or take one o the ruits stacked.Te brush gets deceived. Light and shadow create a corporeal entity. We eel the calm breath o young women. Te cloth hanging out o the box appear. Te shells are edible ...No ancy distracting the viewer’s attention. Bodies and objects are presented in simple composi-tions but not hollow. Figures are individualized, they do not need a und or support. Tey aloneare the protagonists in their own right. Te painter has no doubt o its expressive and so themagnicent large ormat.

Color is another o his hallmarks. Te target is almost always present and illuminates in athousand shades his work conveying purity and energy. In the series o paintings are hung withcloth variety. Here not only interested in the texture o the object but also create beautiul play o colors. When you use the red is passionate and brilliant. Its yellow and gold are bold and luxuri-ous. Te black in his paintings is not the absence o color.”

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Yuehui Tang Yuehui ang was born in 1974 in Mulan city, Heilongjiang Province. He studied at Art Col-lege o Harbin eacher’s Univeristy, Major in oil painting. In 1999 he graduated rom Herbineacher’s Univeristy art department. When at school, the reprehensive artworks are “DicultYears”, “Hundred o Years”, “Slent Wind”, “Isolation” which have won several prizes in Herbinprovince.

In 2003 “Spiritual ree” won the second price o National CDV Wacom Art show. In 2005“Flying to the Moon” won the prize o the Excellent Single Piece in the First Chinese CG In-ternational Show. In 2006 “Rain o Petals” won the gold price o Shenzhen First CG Show. In

the same year “ang Yuehui CG Arts Collection” was published. In 2007 “Mermaid” won theNomination Price in the AACC Asian CG Competition.

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Kathrin LonghWho are you Kathrin?

I am a gurative painter living in Sydney Australia. I grew up in Communist East Berlin. Ihave been drawing and painting my entire lie. I started taking lie drawing classes at the ageo 14. I was selected by the local school authorities to partake in extracurricular art activitiesbut there was no room or “Freischaende Kuenstler” – independent artists – in East Ger-many. Te plan economy called or industrial designers, which would have been my destiny i I had stayed in East Germany.I grew up under constant Stasi surveillance. My divorced mother, desperate to escape the

imprisonment o East Germany, started gambling with our welare and saety by liaising withWesterners when I was about 7 years old. I remember returning home rom a holiday andnding our apartment had been searched. Te Stasi, the East German Secret Police, had gonethrough all o our belongings. On another occasion my mother had been taken in or inter-rogation. She was held or 24 hours and was threatened to loose her children i she didn’t co-operate and give up inormation on the Westerners she was seeing.Also my dad had run-ins with the Stasi whilst doing his military service near the border. Ona drunken night he told his best riend, that he was wondering what it would be like to jumpthat wall, even though he’d never intended to. Te next day he was given 20 min to pack hisbags and was moved to a dierent post in the country. Everybody was reporting and spyingon everyone else.As a child I was blissully unaware o any o the gruesome things my parents endured andhappily joined the Red Pioneers, a communist youth organisation established to gently pre-pare children or a lie dedicated to communism. Here and through the public education Irst came in contact with communist propaganda art. Many school excursions led to the Pal-ace o the Republic with its extensive art collection o epic paintings o activists, sport heroesand reedom ghters, war heroes, soviet cosmonauts and more. Trough these excursions I

was also introduced to the German romantics like Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Spitzweg,who’s art were hailed in both East Germany as well as during the ascist regime in pre-warNazi Germany. I had never seen an abstract painting. Not until I was 17 I learned aboutabstract art at the Louisiana Museum o Art in Denmark. Abstract art was banned as beingbourgeois and capitalist privileged to only a ew, not or the people.We were able to leave the country and moved to Scandinavia aer a Swede married my mother two years beore the wall nally came down in 1989.

Tose early childhood experiences, such as living under constant surveillance and being in-

tegrated into the communist youth organisation heavily infuenced my lie and later my pathas an artist. Art or me became a kind o reality escape. Sometimes a Western relative wouldsmuggle in a Western ashion magazine and I would devour it in secret, dreaming o placesar away, beautiul dresses, jewellery and luxury.



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Tis imagery would then ll my canvass. Te paintings becoming an act o rebellion.

For a long time I shunned my past. I remember lying about my origin when people asked me.I did not want people to think I was the poor cousin rom the East, nor did I want them toask questions and label me as ignorant, brainwashed or naïve. I didn’t want to be judged by where I came rom - stereotyped. It is not until recently that I have ully embraced my roots

and my history. I realise now that I witnessed an important part o our history.

Te result is that I now bring the heroines rom my childhood back onto canvas in slightly changed orm. My heroines are a satirical take on the propaganda images I was surroundedby. Tey are by no means meant to be taken seriously or meant to be a historical depiction o the time. I happily blend eras, countries and symbolism to create an eclectic mish-mash o propaganda and pin-up. I’m experimenting with dierent mediums and am currently work-ing on a series o paintings on Perspex that include stencilling and grati spray painting. I amusing this technique to replicate some o the poster style art I saw when I grew up.

I eel immense ullment in being able to contribute to the Australian art scene. I have beeninvolved in numerous artistic ventures, I started an artist collective, ran a gallery, given artworkshops to bereaved parents, raised tens o thousands o dollars or Children’s MedicalResearch through my art and am now actively involved with Portrait Artists Australia as VicePresident, helping organise exhibitions around the country, running their website, promotingour over 100 members and educating the public about the ne art o portraiture.

When did you realize that you are an artist?

I believe in maniestation. I have elt I am an artist my entire lie but have not been able to say it with condence until I printed it on my business cards – Kathrin Longhurst: artist. I mani-ested it to be and it was.

What’s the best and worst parts o being an artist in today’s world?

Being an artist is not an easy choice. I’m an idealist and like most artists I’m driven by thedesire to change the world and to leave a mark on this planet. A decision I requently doubt

especially since income is so fuctuating.

What is the contrast between the intent o your art and the perception o it?

Ha, I love how people interpret my work and I love how it evokes eelings in the viewer. Irather have people reacting negatively than being indierent. Especially my latest body o work gets quite a ew reactions.Someone commented on one o my paintings: “Tis almost made me vomit – I hate com-munism“, obviously this person had projected their own story and interpretations onto the

artwork and didn’t recognise my intended satire and irony.



What aspiration as an artist is most important to you?

As a painter I want to document contemporary conceptions rom a very personal and emo-tional perspective in a way that other mediums cannot do, eventually being a catalyst orchange.

Where do you see yoursel in let’s say...10 years?

I’d love to head overseas more and showcase my work internationally. I love where I am at,love the galleries I am working with – I think there’ll be some un years ahead.

MS

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Ken Pegg The Viewer

“I had a slightly auspicious start in lie, being born in the transit lounge o Hannover airport.Like many young boys, I received my rst camera in my early teens and soon started developing my own lms and prints, eventually mixing my own developers.In my twenties, I worked or two, now long deunct, London photo libraries. I specialised intravel photography, producing images that were used in travel books, advertising and V newsbackdrops. Aer about eight years, the ‘work’ aspect had completely killed my interest in what once had been my hobby and I put my cameras (Bronica S1, Linho echnika, Pentax K1) away.It wasn’t until about 5 years ago, that by chance, I discovered how ar digital cameras had comeand on impulse, I bought a Nikon D70 and not looked back. By coincidence, I had le photog-

raphy or computing and amongst other things had written a DOS based graphics program, soPhotoshop tted me like a comortable old shoe.Ironically, I had spent my early photography career excluding all human activity rom my im-ages, because this dramatically reduced the shel-lie o images. oday I shoot exclusively people. I am determined that my avourite past-time shall never again become a job. Tere is no commer-cial pressure and I have the good ortune that I only need to please mysel. I am requently told that my photographs have a painterly quality and this is probably due to the act that I lled my past-time, prior to returning to photography with portraiture oil painting. My principal camerathese days is a Nikon D3, but I have recently acquired a Nikon D800 and expect that it will soonbecome my main body.”

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Valentina Brost Valentina Brostean is an European painter & illustrator who currently lives in urin (Italy)and works between Europe - USA; Strongly inspired by urban culture, and pop surrealismmovement she has developed her own, very personal, technique and style. Valentina has beeninvited to participate in collaborative art projects all around the world in diverse solo andgroup gallery shows. She has more than ten years o experience on illustration projects withseveral agencies, print and educational work (teaching assistant on university she beore at-tended - the Academy o Arts Novi Sad).Currently she works as an independent artist ocusing on developing her personal sel expres-sion through painting process and collaborating with worldwide talents and galleries on vari-

ous art projects which allow her to apply her eclectic creativity.

Education :MFA 2009 (Master o Fine Arts)Academy o Arts Novi Sad / department or graphic design and illustrationArea o Specialization: ILLUSRAION | BOOK DESIGNBFA 2006 (Bachelor o Fine Arts)Academy o Arts Novi Sad / department or graphic design and illustration

Solo shows :2012 “Dorothy Circus Gallery”, Rome, Italy - serial o paintings “Last drop o innocence” /April/2012 “Galo Art Gallery”, orino, Italy - serial o paintings “visiONs OFF an empty mind” /February/2011 “Pagus gallery”, Philadelphia, USA - serial o paintings and drawings ”Circle o lie” /July/2011 “Fache Arts” Gallery Miami, USA - serial o paintings and drawings - “Meaning o lie”

/December/2010 “Belgrade cultural center” - serial o mixed media illustrations “Why ladybirds eat peo-ple?” /January/2009 Gallery “Fache Arts” Miami, USA - serial o paintings and drawings “Stories rom aNeverland”

Group shows:2012 SWAB, international contemporary art air, Barcelona - Spain2012 “Game over”, the Nova Belgica Art Gallery, Saint ruden - Belgium

2012 “Illustrated”, Pretty Portal gallery, Düsseldor - Germany 2011 “Summer show”, Hive Gallery, LA - USA2011 “Alterazioni Visive”, Arcidoso - Italy 2009 “Golden Pen o Belgrade”, International rienalle o Illustration, Belgrade - Serbia



2009 “Cut & Paste / postcard exibition” international exhibition, digital graphics, Stockholm-Sweden2009 “Graphocalypse” exhibition on EXI music estival, digital graphics, Novi Sad - Serbia2006 Group exhibiton o Teatre posters & maniests, Budapest - Hungary 2006 “Outside Project”, multimedia exhibition, Florence - Italy 2006 “Golden Pen o Belgrade”, International rienalle o Illustration, Belgrade - Serbia

Published works internationaly / magazines, e-publications :Juxtapoz, New Web Pick, Castle, Candy, Digital Ink, Chew, Art Nectar, Empty Kingdom,Catapult Art Mag, Dailyartxx, Sweet Station NYC, Upperplayground, Living Design, ecc.

“I’ve always had a sharp eye and strong emotional attraction or the strange beauty and the grotesqueries o lie. My inspiration comes rom a need to tell a story, to search deep into thesubconscious layered realms o my soul and hear what it has to tell me, listen to that inner voicewhich has a need to break outside! For me art is lie itsel, but lie in the very essence o it, with

all the good and bad that it carries along the way.. it demands courage, it demands vision, it demands aith, love and devotion! Tereore I nd mysel, in ront o every new canvas, like amodest, honest missionary and like a earless warrior, on the side o light against darkness, insearch or answers o lie, love, meaning, bonds.. in ront o every new canvas, over and over again I am brave beginner on the exciting quest o discovery and creation! My art is strongly ocused on gurative narration which on a rst look can be a ar distance airy dreamy world set in a antastical landscapes o imaginary which echoes o her own, but I rather like to see themas a simple refection o us - modern society without it’s masks, without the ake presentationsthat make us acceptable no matter which group we are part o. Yet I strongly believe that the only

place where we are truly revealed the way we are is one rom the inside and that’s the one that I try to capture on the canvas. I welcome you to my bitter, yet sweetly coated prescription or mod-ern lie!”

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Agaphya BelajaAgaphya Belaja was born in Leningrad and was graduated rom I.E.Repin institute o Paint-ing, Sculpture and Architecture, Monumental Studio in 2001. She has been working on acreative workshop, Mylnikov AA. Now she is a member o the Artists’ Union o St. Peters-burg. Her painting are in dierent styles like impressionism, realism, naturalism, postmod-ernism and antastic realism.

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Ilia Izachic IsaTell us who is Ilia?

Ilia Izachic-Isaev started his way to photography through proessional design. Tis explainshis clear, sharp, rened raming that strikes with it’s nearly surgical precision. Yet it’s notsomething that could be learned. One has to eel it. Ilia’s eye like a scalpel clears out the silt o the routine and grunge attitude that covers people, objects, events... Bringing to light the trueand essential meaning that very oen is not recognised by the characters themselves. Ilia’spictures are neat and polished. Each one o them is a sel-contained realm where lights areplaying with shadows and time - with lie. Currently Ilia exhibits his works all over the globe,

creates customer designs, oers exiting workshops.

How did you frst get into photography?

I had a small digital camera seven years ago. At that time I was not interested in photography much. In two years I’ve realised I need a proessional camera ‘cos by that time I was ully im-mersed in photography.

What cameras or techniques do you use?

Camera: Canon 5D Mark IILens: Canon 24-70 mm /2.8 L, Canon 50 mm /1.4ripod: Manrotto 728BFlash: Yongnuo YN560-II + fash sync (Yongnuo RF-603)Filter: Marumi C-PL

What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?

On one side - a lot o things changed in that time. On the other side - I’m not sure that all my knowledge because o photographs. And on the third side - I don`t remember already, what Iknew many years ago.

What are you trying to say with your photographs? I sense the message behind each o

them...

I don`t want to say anything with my photos. Photographs are emotions. Tey don`t need

words.

What do you hope to achieve with your photography?



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I try to live now and here, though not always successul.

What’s your dream photography project?

At the moment, I do not have specic projects. but I want to travel the world and show my emotions and eelings rom what I saw.

Do you maybe have your avorite photographer...somebody you admire?

Gregory Colberte. I really like the esthetics o his photographs.

MS

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Leslie Ann O’D

“I am at heart, an intuitive visual artist. I observe and create mostly with my camera. My workis emotional, tense, and a bit enigmatic or me. Centered around humans, nature, and my ownidentity...”

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“I paint in oil with palette knives. I seek to represent the light and heat o summer, I invite every-one to wander and dream in these landscapes, I paint reely, with color and contrast.”

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