Giulia Seri
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Giulia Seri is an italian artist, born in Rome in 1988. After a master degree in biology she studies painting at the Art Students League of New York (NY, USA). She wins in 2017 a fellowship and obtain the specialization at Il Bisonte International School of graphic art where she worked for the following two years as etching and silkscreen teacher.
Susanne Janssen
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The work of Susanne Janssen can be compared to the work of an archaeologist: In her work as an illustrator, she subtly brings out the different stratas of a known classic text, transfiguring it in depth in order to transform it into a contemporary creation. The dreamlike nature of the images literally explodes the wise framework of the double-page, allowing an unexpected perspective and highlighting of the texts.
Monika Supé
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1967 born in Munich. 1995 Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur, Technical University of Munich. 1998 Architect, Bavarian professional Association of Architects. 1998-2000 Assistant Lecturer in construction and design, Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2004 lectures at universities, at the Bavarian professional Association of Architects and the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and at Fortbildungsinstitut der Landeshauptstadt München.
Philipp Czampiel
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I am an industrial designer and documentary photographer from Wuppertal, Germany. Currently I am studying Strategic Innovation in Products and Services (MA), at the University of Wuppertal. In my design work as well as in my photographic work I have a delicate focus on creating and capturing memorable interactions and emotions.
Aleksandra Velichko
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Born in 1984, Aleksandra Velichko lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. She paints in a realism style and the main object of her vivid colors painting production is seascape. Aleksandra’s artworks could be found in private collections all around Europe, United States and Australia.
Kate Tova
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Kate Tova is a full-time contemporary artist currently living and working in San Francisco. In her recent work, she experiments with vibrant, large-scale multimedia artworks, incorporating reflective mediums and think textures. Kate has earned awards and critical acclaim participating in art exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin, New York, Prague and other cities around the world.
Anna Van Den Hövel
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Growing up between the coast of Menorca, the Alpine landscape of Austria and urban Munich, Anna Van Den Hövel traveled across all the continents collecting mental snaphots that now serve as a blueprint for her paintings. After a long study of materials, Anna has found the perfect mix for her works to create a collage through layering and blending.
Faith47
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Liberty Du, who is widely recognized as Faith XLVII, is a South African Multi-Disciplinary Artist. Her journey into art began on the streets of South Africa in 1979, as a young graffiti writer taking on the name Faith47 (the number being a reference to her grandmothers numerological theorem).
Sam Heydt
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Sam Heydt is an American social practice and new media artist. After completing her studies at Parsons School of Design she founded Jane Street Studio. In addition to this entrepreneurial undertaking, she has attended artist residencies in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand; and has undertaken a range of altruistic, non-profit work.
Manuela Illera
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Manuela Illera is a Colombian Illustrator, painter and sculptor. Part of her work has a clear graphic approach with which she have illustrated several books and communication projects. She studied visual arts in Bogotá and Buenos Aires and since 2016 she’s based in Germany studying Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
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B Jane Levine
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B Jane Levine is a trained biochemist, who studied photography at International Center of Photography, ICP and other photography workshops. Her photographs on the streets of New York and other cities are a composite of the pieces of her life, a self-portrait.
Claudia Maspero
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Claudia Maspero, psychologist and psychotherapist of the developmental age, was trained with the Infant Observation method of premature babies and has given advice in the field of hospital psychology and services for early childhood. Lover of children’s literature, she is specialized in the design of interactive workshops to support parenting.
Yap Kok Hing
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Yap Kok Hing is a Malaysia-born-Chinese and an amateur photographer passionates in b&w fine art, minimalism, architectural & landscapes photography. He started to take photographs almost in every genre of photography from macro, landscapes, documentary and portraits. Yap Kok Hing has been grated an associateship (ARPS) in 2009 and 2 fellowships (FRPS) in 2012 and 2014 respectively; and was announced as the Fellowship of the Year 2015 by The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
Paweł Kwiatkowski
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Born 1981 in Tykocin, he is a graduate of the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Strzemiński Academy in Łódź, where he currently teaches graphics. Pawel is a winner of many prestigious prizes and distinctions. In 2012 he received an artNoble statuette for the best diploma work of state art universities in Poland in the visual arts category. In 2015 he received honourable mention at the Cracow Print Triennial. In 2017 he was awarded on Second Graphic Art Biennial in Romania.
David Mondedeu
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David Mondedeu is an artist born in Houston, Texas and lives in Madrid. He is currently working on the series Twenty Interpretations of Light, which marks a return to painting after many years of working exclusively on monotypes and photopolymers on linen. His work can be seen at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The National Library of The Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Francesco Ferrante
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Francesco Ferrante is an ICT consultant based in Milan but born in Acquaviva delle Fonti (Bari). Pushed by the urge to express his inner voice, he started wandering through the streets of his city with a camera looking for scenes and subjects he feels deeply connected to. Connections are what is going to define his visual voice, full of cold shades or dark shadows.
Oliwier Gocel
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I was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland and it has been my place on earth ever since. I graduated from Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce with a degree in Political Science. My greatest passion though is photography. I love taking photos of nature, landscapes and old abandoned houses as much as portraying people. I can see and notice beauty where nobody else can. Such places magnetise me, make time stand still.
Huibo Hou
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Geli Schulze
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After completing a university degree in Art presently working as a freelance artist and grafic designer. The exposition of basic topics of being human forms the center of her drawings and sketches. Having studied the human anatomy intensely her works are now focussing on connecting abstract illustrations, conditional descriptions and expressions of movement of the individual.
Elina Traiforou
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Elina Traiforou was born in Thessaloniki and raised in Kavala, Greece. She studied BA Film and Drama in Reading, UK and MA Screen Arts in Sheffield, UK. Since 2005 she has been living in Athens, Greece. She has published 5 poetry collections (one bilingual in English and Greek) and made 3 documentaries that have been shown on TV and at Greek festivals. In 2017 she started making collages.
Michelle Viljoen
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Michelle Viljoen is the creative director | agency principal of Studio Co and photographer based in Cape Town. She focuses on brand development and design and works both independently as well as through her agency as a consultant for agencies and independent brands both locally and internationally. Michelle’s Papercitylife was originally created as a personal photo diary in order to share the moments she have captured.
Vermibus
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Vermibus,1987 is a Spanish contemporary artist who uses the public space as a channel to criticize, in an innovative way, the aesthetic value of the consumer society and its cruel dehumanization which takes away a person’s identity to replace it by the one of the brand. Vermibus collects advertising posters from the streets and use them in his studio as the base material for his work.
Antiniska Pozzi
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Born in Milan in 1978, Antiniska Pozzi worked for several years as a translator of incunabula from Latin, graduating in Modern Literature. Editor and journalist for various newspapers and websites, since 2008 she has been editing the news of the cultural association “ChiamaMilano”. She published the novel Where iguanas go when it rains and the theatrical monologue The tomato salad, which won “Per voce sola” prize in 2008.
Mario Henrique
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Graduated in Design from Lisbon’s University of Fine Arts, he started his career in online marketing and web development agencies. Later on, as a creative director, he recruited and led teams in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. A prolific portraitist, Mario is fascinated by the unpredictability of the human behaviour: the brief glances, the impermanence of facial expressions, the sudden movements.
anna Raisa Favale
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Anna Raisa Favale is a Director and TV Producer. She graduated in Directing and Writing for Theatre from the National Academy of Dramatic Art “Silvio D’Amico” in Rome, then she specialized in Directing and Writing for Cinema in South Africa, at AFDA. She worked in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories filming documentaries, and in South Africa in Cinema Production Companies.
Riccardo Gemma
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Riccardo Gemma was born in Rome in 1963, he is a graphic artist and designer. After high school he graduated at the IED and later worked as an assistant for some established artists. As a graphic designer freelance he works mainly in publishing for contemporary art. He has collaborated with countless artists, galleries, foundations, museums. Still, among others, he collaborates with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
Valentina Zlatarova
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Valentina Zlatarova attended a Secondary Art School at the age of 13, in her hometown of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where she specialised in sculpture. Valentina moved to Italy in 2004 and studied at The Florence Academy Art’s Sculpture program. She moved to London in 2007 to pursue a career as a professional artist and teacher. Valentina’s work has been well recognised and has received several awards for her sculptures including the Founder’s Sculpture Prize and the Tiranti prize for young artists.
Stefanos Regkas
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Luciano Canova
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Luciano Canova is an economist who was educated at the Bocconi University of Milan and at the Paris School of Economics. He teaches behavioral economics and deals mainly with happiness and well-being measurement, a broad construct that encompasses multiple dimensions, which can essentially be divided into two large domains: objective and subjective well-being.
ANASTASIA CHERNYAVSKA
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Daughter of art, inherited a passion for the arts by his father Volodymyr Chernyavskyy, painter, member of the Academic Senate at the AIAM. Following a degree in architecture and design, Anastasia worked for three years in an architectural office as Project Manager. She traveled to Japan and Korea, a factor that has influenced the evolution of a personal style with typical oriental features.
Chiara Criniti
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Italian artist and illustrator graduated in stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce. She started creating illustrations for children but over the years her focus has shifted to issues related to the psyche, tand the daring connections between words and images. She works with mixed media on paper, and her artworks have been featured in several exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
SARA DE GIORGI
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Sara De Giorgi, born in Nardò (Lecce) in 1983 and graduated in Modern Literature, then lived in Milan and Madrid working in the world of communication and for various newspapers. Now she is in the third year of the Doctorate in “Languages, Literatures and Modern and Classical Cultures“ of the University of Salento. A lover of classical and contemporary music, she has collaborated with writers and actors playing the piano and the electric keyboard.
Tara Dinic
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Tara Dinic, is a British Serbian artist. Born in 1991, she had spent much of her childhood between Saudi Arabia, Greece, the UK and Serbia. Exposed to vivid colours, landscapes and history throughout her childhood, Tara was inspired by Ancient Greek and Byzantine mosaics, particularly their craftsmanship and detail, not visible upon first glance. She is currently represented by Sister Gallery and Gabriel Fine Arts in London.
Roberto Diodato
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Roberto Diodato is full professor of Aesthetics at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. He is the author of several books, including: Aspetti dell’estetica Italiana nel secondo Novecento. “Sub specie aeternitatis. Luoghi dell’ontologia spinoziana” (Milano, 2011). “Logos estetico” (Brescia 2012). “Aesthetics of the Virtual” (Albany-New York, 2012). “Relazione e virtualità” (Bologna 2013).
Giuseppe Goffredo
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Giuseppe Goffredo is a poet and writer. He was born in Alberobello in Puglia. For poetry he published: Fra Muri e Sogni, Einaudi, 1982; Paesaggi di Maggio, Mondadori, 1989; Elegie Empiriche. Guerini e Associati, 1995; Alle Porte di Alessandria (poesie 1977-2000), ed. La Mongolfiera, 2003; Contrade Madri di Aprile ed. Lieto Colle, 2007. In 1987 he was awarded with the Pier Paolo Pasolini Prize.
Escapista
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Diego Artioli was born in Bolzano to a spanish mother and a mantuan father. He has lived in Bologna, Spain, Germany and Greece. At the present time he lives between Trieste and Bolzano. Alpino. His pictures have appeared on the Financial Times, El Pais, Vanity Fair, Style, Lucky Peach, and Visionaire. He has exhibited his works through Italy and Spain. He has published a book for the kinds of Bompiani titled “The seas of Trieste”.
Mary Barbara Tolusso
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Mary Barbara Tolusso lives between Trieste and Milan, where she works as journalist. She published several poetry collections including “L’inverso ritrovato” which won the Pasolini Prize and “Il freddo e il crudele” which won the Fogazzaro Prize. She collaborated with “Almanacco dello Specchio”, the most important Italian publication of poetry and her new novel “L’esercizio del distacco” was published by Bollati Boringhieri in 2018.
Marta Vedruccio
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Marta was born in Lecce and graduated in History of Philosophy at Università del Salento and then studied dance and theatre. From 2012 to 2015, she collaborated with the TerramMare troupe, at Teatro Comunale di Nardò, meeting with great Commedia dell’Arte masters Ferruccio Merisi and Claudia Contin who both become constant reference points for her research.
Claudia Marchetti
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Claudia Marchetti is a free-lance conference interpreter and translator. After many years spent interpreting and voicing other artists’ words and thoughts, she felt the urge to express her own feelings, to reveal herself. She will hold her first solo exhibition at Dispensabile, in Rome, in March 2019. She will show her drawings populated by fugitive memories, invented creatures, sensual phantasies, creeping fears and unrealistic colours.
Filippo Mutani
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Worldwide contributor for Getty Images and Contour, based in Milan Editorial clients: T-The New York Times, Financial Times, Newsweek, Internazionale, Touring/National Geographic. Fashion editorials clients: Vanity Fair, IL, Vogue Italia, Corriere Della Sera Style. Corporate/advertising clients: Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Campari, Pirelli, Fendi. Teaching photography at Milan’s IED Institute.
Teresa Schiattarella
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A restless soul that finds peace by teaching Italian literature, interpreting the classic Neapolitan song according to a rigorously philological approach and always writing on the edge between reality and fiction. Expert in Neapolitan esotericism, since 2020 Teresa Schiattarella curates the blog NapoliFantastica, with the aim of making known the hidden face of her city.
Gabriella Grasso
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Gabriella Grasso teaches Italian Language and Literature at Secondary School. She writes reading commentaries for the column “Limoni” on Bibliovorax blog and she collaborated with Letteratitudine and the magazine Lunarionuovo. Her first work, entitled “Quale confine” was published in 2019 (Edizioni Kolibris). Many of her poems have been translated in English (by Gray Sutherland) and in Spanish (by Emilio Paz, by Antonio Nazzaro).
Dario Melissano
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Autore di cortometraggi e documentari. Il suo primo film, A san Nicola preferisco Santa Claus, è vincitore del premio Salento Creativo 2012.
Nel 2014 indaga il rapporto fra uomo e natura attraverso il documentario Mare Amaro ed il film breve Nenepytka. Realizza un lavoro sul femminicidio, tratto da una storia vera, e nel 2016 esplora con un nuovo film il complesso tema dell’eutanasia. Nel 2017 pubblica il libro fotografico sulla morte di Fidel Castro a Cuba, Fin de la Historia (Lumera Libri). Appassionato di arte, vita, coscienza e ambiente, pubblica nel 2022 per Eretica Edizioni la silloge Un altro inverno.
Paolo De Falco
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Musician, performer, visual artist, writer. Since 1987, he began his career, founding Grad zero in ’94, a nomadic association dedicated to the contamination of the arts and creative pedagogy. With Grad zero he worked intensively for about 25 years in many countries by creating several shows, films, concerts and performances, taking care of even the artistic direction of events, festivals and recognized innovative projects of national interest.
Titos Patrikios
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Poet repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize, he was born in Athens in 1928. Graduating in law in Athens, he studied Sociology and Philosophy at the Sorbonne and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris where he worked as a lawyer, sociologist and researcher. He has also collaborated with UNESCO and FAO. He translated works by Spinoza, Lukács, Majakovskij, Neruda, Saint-John Perse, Valéry, Stendhal, Balzac.
Chiara Spinelli
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I am an illustrator, born in 1992, graduated in Painting at the G. Pellegrino Art Institute in Lecce, where I continued my studies in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2017. I attended several training workshops, as Illustration with Pietro Corraini, publishing with Lupo and Bruschter, self-publishing with Atelier Vostok and Information Design with Martin Foessletiner.
Cristina Patregnani
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Cristina Patregnani is an Italian poet and free thinker. In 2020 she conceived RIVISTA, an independent and self-produced project of a multilingual literary magazine, aimed at collecting the voices of other free writers and poets from all over the world, focusing on translation as a creative act.
Dario Talarico
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Dario Talarico was born in 1990. His works appear in various anthologies of contemporary poetry, including Il Segreto delle fragole (LietoColle, 2015). He has participated in radio and television programs. In 2013 he held the artistic craftsmanship report in Trieste. He has collaborated with blogs and literary magazines such as La Poesia e lo Spirito, EstroVerso and Monolith Volume.
Costis
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A prolific artist, Costis has had 30 solo shows in galleries and museums in Europe and has participated in more than 100 international group shows • He is also engaged in a variety of projects and conferences / symposia on art, new technologies, and poetry. His works are held in public museums and private collections, most notably in Greece, France, Belgium, and Germany.
Cinzia Pistoia
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Attracted by the all-round visual culture, Cinzia Pistoia has a degree in visual arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and, later, a specialization in Visual Cultures and curatorial practices. She has followed numerous projects in the field of interdisciplinary research, works as a freelance author for TV and radio broadcasters and writes for online and paper magazines.
Vito Russo
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Vito Russo was born in Putignano (Ba) in 1981. Since 2008 he lives and works in Milan. In 2011 he published the collection of verses Between the eyelid and the eye (LietoColle). His poems and critical interventions have been published in magazines, including Lo Specchio de La stampa, Poesia, Incroci, Punto.
Silvia Monti
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Silvia Monti (Morbegno, 1971) lives between Valtellina and Brianza. She has published several plaquettes and poetry collections, including: più primavera che paranoia Lietocolle 2006, Buoni propositi, Fuori dal coro – Mendrisio (CH) 2012, e Persino semplice, Interno Poesia 2023.
Always looking for the “right word at the right time”, she tries to share and spread poetry, even in an unconventional way.
Michela Minen
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Michela Minen, is an Italian artist and illustrator based in Hamburg, Germany. Born in Udine, she graduated in Architecture, has studied and worked in Venice, Berlin, Barcelona, and attended the International School of Illustration in Sarmede. She has published as illustrator some children’s picturebooks and has won several awards and mentions, including the Annual Award Gold 2017 of Autori di Immagini.
Davide Brullo
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Davide Brullo has published, among other things, the novels Il lupo (2009), Rinuncio (2014), Pseudo-Paolo. Lettera di San Paolo Apostolo a San Pietro (2018), Un alfabeto nella neve (2018). He published the poetry collections Annali (2004), L’era del ferro (2007), Abbecedario antartico(2017), Gries (2019). He translated the Psalms; he writes about culture on the pages of the daily newspaper “Il Giornale”, he founded and directs the cultural newspaper “Pangea”.
Chiara Anghilieri
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Chiara Anghilieri was born in 1984 and graduated in Modern Literature (Master’s degree in Filologia) at Università Cattolica in Milan. She teaches Italian, history and geography in a secondary school. She is also a journalist, and in her works she tries to give the perspective of Brianza, her native land.
Dina Kafiris
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Dina Kafiris was Writer in Residence and Guest Lecturer at Kingston University London. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in Wild Court, American, British and Canadian Studies, The Journal, Horizon Review, Odyssey Magazine, among others. She is the author of the poetry collection The Blinding Light Circling Elpida, in one act, from the forthcoming trilogy 21st-century Modern Greece: The First Decade. She holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of Wales, Bangor.
Marianna Gefen
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Marianna Gefen is a multi-dimensional artist and illustrator whose works employ different mediums such as watercolour, collage, ink, vintage paper, various textures and layers. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Marianna is currently based in Berlin, having previously lived in Madrid and different cities of Germany, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Pasquale Vadalà
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Pasquale Vadalà is a learned and brilliant man. Through academic studies and personal researches he has been developing a deep knowledge of several humanistic disciplines, ranging from law to history to international politics, crossing literature, poetry, critics, sociology. Editor of several books, writer for italian newspapers and agency, event manager, amateur photographer. Bataille’s ‘Non serviam’ is one of his favoured quotes.
Mirtya Huizzi
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I was born in the beautiful city of Mérida in Venezuela, I studied the degree in Bio-analysis and worked in a clinical laboratory, specifically in the area of MedicalGenetics. Parallel to my profession I dedicated myself to art and how I love watercolorto learn this highly sensitive technique. My artistic activity is reflected in my participation in numerous artistic exhibitions bothindividual and collective, in Spain and outside Spain.
Marie Higashi
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Born in Japan, Nagasaki Prefecture, 1991. Fuelled by personal desire, I started painting in 2017. All is the act of releasing the oppressed mind.With an internal motive, I try to draw a spirit that can not be expressed in words and has no form.
Sonja Joseph
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The University Studies of Sculpture and German Philology in combination with History of Art are my educational background. Beside my art works I am currently working as an Editor, Writer and Graphic Designer. I live with my family near Graz in Austria. With my art objects I want to tell stories which don’t need words. Of course, the stories are changing with diverse observers and places.
Voloshyn Oleh
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Giuseppe Zoppelli
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Giuseppe Zoppelli (b. 1958) currently lives and teaches in Turin. His literary work focuses on threeareas: the history and criticism of literature in dialect and modern Italian poetry, metacriticism, and poetry writing. His latest works include Oru puor. L’ultima poesia in friulano (Campanotto Editore, Udine, 2014), Una stretta di mano.
Kim Goldstein
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Kim Goldstein is an abstract artist living near Baltimore, Maryland. Kim has always been a lover of art and has spent many hours of her life visiting art museums and galleries in various cities in the US and abroad. Eventually she decided to try her hand at making artwork for her own home and signed up for several online classes. Over time she started to develop her own unique style which included layers of color, texture and interesting marks.
Stephen Travers
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Stephen Travers has been a full time artist for six years. Originally working exclusively in oil paint depicting local Australian flora, a trip to Paris two years ago started him on a journey of drawing. Location sketching while in Paris gave way to using his trip photos as reference material when he returned to Australia. The initial pencil sketches gave way to ink, and then, ink and tone.
Vincent Giarrano
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Vittorino Curci
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Vittorino Curci is a poet and saxophonist. He received his artistic training during the 70s at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, city where he exhibited his first conceptual works of art at the Jartrokor Gallery, directed by Sergio Lombardo. Starting in the second half of the 80s, he began collaborating with avant-garde jazz musicians, and in 1994 in Reggio Emilia he was among the founders of the performing poetry Group Baobab.
Giacomo Leronni
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Giacomo Leronni (Gioia del Colle, 1963) is a teacher of French language in Secondary School. He assiduously works as a cultural operator and cooperates with the poetry magazine “Avamposto”. Amongst many others, he won, with an unpublished poetry collection, the National Award for poetry “LericiPea” (1998). In 1999 he attended the “RicercarE” conference/laboratory in Reggio Emilia.
Antigoni Katsadima
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Born in Volos, I lived in Aspra Spitia of Viotia until 18 years old. 2003 Bachelor’s degree in Communication & Media Studies, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2009 Master’s degree in Political Communication & new technologies, Mass Media culture. Since 1997 reviews, interviews, essay articles, translations and poems have been published in various reviews and newspapers.
Gianfranco D'Elia
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Luca Camurri
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Luca Camurri was born in 1963 in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy). He has published the poetic collections “Le parole testuali” (2007) and “La natura dell’estate” (2009); the sports book “L’Inter per me …” (2007) and the thriller “Al cuore del problema”.
Alfonso Guida
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Alfonso Guida (1973) lives in San Mauro Forte. His texts have appeared, among others, in the magazines Poesia and Forum Italicum. Publications: for the types of Poiesis Il dono dell’occhio (2011) and Irpinia (2012); A ogni passo del sempre (Aragno, 2013); L’acqua al cervello è una foglia (LietoColle, 2014); Poesie per Tiziana (Il Ponte del Sale, 2015). Various plaquettes: Via Crucis, Therapy Notes, Nous ne sommes pas les derniers.
Maria Fragkouli
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Maria Fragkouli (Samo, 1980) studied Archeology and History of Art at the University of Athens. She leads a Masters in Cultural Management. She lived for a period in Milan, where she collaborated with the Lalla Romano House and Archive and with Crocetti Editore, with whom she also currently collaborate.
Giovanni Peli
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Briahna Wenke
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Raised on the Connecticut coastline, Bri began painting murals for local businesses by age 16. After graduating from the University of Connecticut with a degree in history, she spent her early twenties painting commissioned murals, landscaping, and embarking on travels to Australia, Europe, Asia, North Africa, and Central America.
Omar Di Monopoli
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Omar Di Monopoli, born in Puglia 1971, has published Uomini e cani (ISBN, 2007), recently re-edited by the Adelphi publishing house; Ferro e fuoco (ISBN, 2008) and, for the same publishing house, La Legge di Fonzi (2010). Nella perfida terra di Dio, for Adelphi, it dates back to 2016, while his new novel Brucia l’aria is about to be published with Feltrinelli.