Top Selection New York 2024

Raymond Axiaq (Rayban)

Malta

Painting

Raymond Axiaq, (Zurrieq, Malta b. 1960) implies that his work is made of almost automatic gestures and reflexes, an attempt at action painting or better still a fusion of de Staël’s and Pollock’s techniques. Ray is a passionate and bold expressionist painter with a background and long experience in draughtsmanship. He has a natural talent for abstract expressionism. In 2014 he has graduated B.A (Hons) in Fine Arts at MCAST. In 2014 he was chosen to form part of the Creation Project, China. Lately he has graduated M.A. Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Malta. He has organised various solo and collective exhibitions. His work is emotional and a burst of colour.

Manuel Baravex

Italy

Sculpture

Constance Baudot

France

Painting

Constance Baudot dedicates herself to large natural spaces, exploring the line as a central element between figurative and abstract. Her “Horizon” series, with its contrasting colors and textures and its landscapes reduced to the essential, convey serenity and escape. She does not try to be faithful to reality, but invites the observer to interpret. She does not title the works, but numbers them, working with oil and acrylic. Exhibited in prestigious places such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Galleria Antonio Battaglia in Milan, her artworks can be purchased via Instagram. Trained at the Fine Arts and the Louvre School, in 2021 she left her job to devote herself to painting, also supporting women in entrepreneurship.

Natalia Cherkashina

Italy

Painting

Natalia Cherkaschina was born in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and moved to Italy in 1999 where she still lives in Milan.
She began to cultivate her passion for painting at the age of 15, reproducing the works of Alma Tadema with oil technique. For work reasons, she no longer devoted herself to this passion for years. Shortly before Christmas 2018, her life underwent a radical change, having been diagnosed with a serious form of acute leukemia. During the long period of treatment, she found comfort and inspiration in this great passion of hers, which led her to realize her dream of painting. In the last two years she has had the opportunity to participate in some exhibitions.

Marian Comotti

Italy

Painting

From the beginning, while aiming to capture a certain verisimilitude, Comotti developed a personal figurative style that seeks to overcome overly realistic results. Her favorite theme, the female figure, tends towards abstraction and her works are often a sort of allegorical representation. To date she has participated in various in-person, collective and personal exhibitions, especially in Milan, her hometown.

Carlo D’Orta

Italy

Photography

He has been capturing pieces of the world with his camera for more than four decades. He holds a Master’s degree in Photography from the IED Institute in Milan, Italy, and his photographs have a bold painterly influence and focus on architecture, landscape, dance, and portraits. He has presented solo exhibitions around the world, most notably “Beyond the Lens” in Venice in 2015 and at the National Museum of Singapore in 2017.

Angelo Alessandro Ferdico

Italy

Photography

Angelo Alessandro Ferdico was born in Palermo on February 23, 1993. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, with a path characterized by the broad study of different artistic disciplines, which gave him greater awareness in the use of the photographic medium and its realization phase. A work in continuous evolution, multifaceted and variegated that tends to the knowledge of humanity in its many facets. For this reason, his photographs are polythematic. For the artist, photography is a question, an answer, freedom, each shot is an emotion and a life experience.

Louise Gaggini

France

Painting

Louise Gaggini, a multifaceted artist, lives between Paris and Provence. She works with different techniques on glass, ceramics, wood and mosaic, integrating art into everyday life. Influenced by Niki de Saint Phalle whom she met in the USA, she experiments with new languages ​​between painting, sculpture and writing. She has exhibited in places such as Art Basel Miami, NY Chelsea, and the Grand Palais in Paris where in 2020 she exhibited the monumental installation “Babel Réinventée”. In 2023, she won a Contemporary Art award in Milan for her work “Obscurité périrée”. She collaborated with UNICEF on an art book for children.

Sonia Gasser

Swiss

Sculpture

Born with an innate passion for art, Sonia Gasser studied stylistics and sewing, honing her technical skills and developing a strong interest in teaching creative arts. She guides others to explore their artistic potential, drawing inspiration from colors as a tool to express emotions. Her art is a journey in which colors blend together, arousing different sensations. She experiments with various techniques, from painting to sculpture, using light materials such as paper. She participated in the Contemporary Art Prize Paris 2024, entering the Top Sélection of PitturiAmo, and now exhibits in group shows, sharing her art with a wider audience.

Vincent Guillard

France

Painting

Vincent Guillard born in 1964 in Rennes. An artist since childhood, he learned to draw faces with his mother and over the years became passionate about portraiture by reproducing the faces of his family members or friends. His first portraits were done in pencil, pen or oil. In 2019 he discovered the Blob painting technique and devoted his time to perfecting this new pictorial approach to create his works. He draws his inspiration from mainly well-known characters, who become the muses of his artistic life. His pointillism works are a real burst of colors.

Frèdèrique Ilonga

France

Painting

Frédérique Ilonga is a sophrologist and self-taught artist in Paris. After a 20-year career in the healthcare sector, a meditative art workshop in 2020 brought her closer to the artistic world. She let go of everything and let her inner child reveal herself to the world. After group exhibitions in galleries, Art shopping at the Caroussel du Louvre and in Barbizon, the city of artists, it was her participation in the international competition with Pitturiamo and One Art Space gallery in New York that made her enter the TOP SELECTION and crowned her motto, which is “Always believe in your dreams” and “Dream big, the universe will take care of the rest”.

Francisco Javier Korral

Spain

Painting

Javier Korral studied industrial design in Granada, alternating his studies with work in the goldsmith’s workshop of the sculptor Miguel Moreno. For three years he was a student at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos in the same city, where he took courses in drawing and modelling. He began to study technical architecture, while living with poets and writers, who always encouraged him in his creative work. He has had several solo and group exhibitions. Later he graduated in design. He graduated in sculpture and stone carving. He currently devotes himself to painting.

Suze LaRousse

Austria

Digital Art

As an Austrian photographer, digital artist, illustrator and ceramicist, Suze LaRousse revels in the art of accentuating contrasts— in colors, societal dynamics, architectural styles, ethnic motifs, or stylistic disruptions. Through her engagement with social values and the mediums of photography and graphic design, Suze discovered that the essence of simple beauty lies solely in clarity. This pursuit extends beyond visual aesthetics to encompass societal and global political stances, where simplicity becomes the evolved state of individual existence. This realization encapsulates the paradox: “strong and simple is really complicated.” Always with a slightly wink to take life not to serious. She is a member of the professional association for visual arts of Austria.

Frédéric Lena

France

Painting

Frédéric Léna (1970) is a French artist. In 2019, following a meeting with French astronauts and an astrophysicist, he came up with an innovative concept called ‘arscientism’, which consist of using scientific concepts to inspire his art. His work is about the journey of the particles that create all things in the universe and is based on the creation of an astral map, ‘my universe’, in constant expansion until its own end. Every year, on a specific date, he extracts pieces called ‘Cosmic Rhythms’ and offers contemporary paintings linked to each other.

Leo Symon

United Kingdom

Digital art

Born in Bratislava (1956), Slovak Republic. Lives in Trnava, Slovak Republic, and also resides in London, UK. Works as a computer specialist at university. Around 1988, he started working with computer graphics. He replaced the classical techniques of the visual arts with new possibilities unknown to him. Information technology is only a tool. A tool that he enjoyed only to such a degree that he did not control it, but only did what he wanted to do very quickly. It consists of thousands of small gestures that mould lines, surfaces and shapes into a visual form, resulting in the composition of an image.

Lisa

Italy

Painting

Born in 2006, she bases her art on the “many-worlds” interpretation of quantum physics. Create faces represented on two levels of different reality: one in color and one in shades of grey. She has exhibited her works in various European cities such as Vienna, Madrid and Milan and has already been selected to enter the Top Selection of PitturiAmo by gallery owners Dominic Steiner (Steiner gallery – Vienna), Claudio Fiorentini (Captaloona gallery – Madrid) and Denis Cornet (Thuillier Gallery – Paris).

Tiziana Marongiu

Italy

Painting

Tiziana Marongiu has been painting since 2005. She started late, when she suffered a shock, and painting became her way of venting her emotions. She is in fact an impulsive, emotional painter. Her art is abstract, so it is above all the colors and their mixture that evoke sensations and emotions. The use of colors is fundamental for her, it depends on the emotion she feels. In fact, her painting does not follow a single style, but depends on her state of mind. She paints in oil, acrylic and with wax poured onto the canvas. Since 2005 she has produced around 380 paintings and around a hundred sketch “notes” which she prints on aluminium.

Sieglinde Metzler

Germany

Painting

Sieglinde Metzler’s life began on April 30, 1958 in a small village in Lusatia. Her childhood was characterized by nature and freedom; she often lived in her dream world. During school, she started drawing portraits and landscapes. Some of her first works were exhibited in the local museum. After that, she lost sight of painting. It wasn’t until she was 64, in February 2023, that she picked up the brush again. She felt deep happiness and peace with classical music. Since then, she has created many paintings, each one being a part of her.

Stefania Pancani

Italy

Photography

After graduating in set design, she specialized in 3D graphics and currently works as a Graphic Designer. He approaches photography preferring naturalistic photos. He has exhibited his photographic works at prestigious Italian art galleries, in Rome in via Margutta, and in Florence, at the Dantebus art galleries. One of his photographic works was published in the magazine Fifteen vol. 4 published by Psicografici editore. He took part in the video exhibition at the One Art Space art gallery in TriBeCa, Manhattan, with the works “Lights and dark” and “Clouds and Chatedral” and in October of the same year he exhibited in Brera, at the Mad4Art gallery.

Elisa Pietripaoli (Lesia)

Italy

Photography

Elisa Pietripaoli, known as Lesia, was born in Rome in 1989. As is often the case, the passions that arise from play are the ones that last a lifetime, and so it was for her with photography. It started as a game when she found herself, at a young age, with a professional camera in her hands. Over time, photography became the language she chose to perceive and describe reality with its extraordinary consistencies, contradictions, and beauties. It is through this tool that her ideas and aspirations take shape. There is no single subject she draws inspiration from, but she allows what surrounds her to emerge and give meaning to the image itself.

Juan Jose R. de Guzman

Spain

Painting

Juan Jose R. de Guzman, retired at 67, was born on 24/11/1956 in Malagón, Ciudad Real, Spain. He began painting in 2007, inspired by the Valencian painter Gandía Peris Carbonell. After experimenting, he discovered the use of recycled paper to create relief in his works. His art, both delicate and powerful, transforms matter into pure expression, revealing a cosmos of emotions. The series “Corazones Desgarrados” (Heartbreaks) conveys the depth of pain through color. As a FAUVE painter, his NATURALISTIC ABSTRACT MATERIAL FAUVISM expresses his unique understanding of life through emotions, with vibrant colors symbolizing the joy of life. His paintings speak with vitality and emotion.

Reina Raven

Swiss

Digital Art

Reina Raven, also known as Reven, was born in Switzerland. She had a very traumatic childhood within a toxic family. In 2006, when she was placed in a foster home, the only thing that kept her alive was escaping through drawing. She could bring her emotions to life on paper to avoid suppressing them. At school, she was always the top student in art and plastic arts. She enrolled in different art schools without success, but she persevered in this field with passion. In 2021, she started exploring digital art by purchasing a graphic tablet. Finally, she was able to discover herself and let her art reflect a part of her. Thanks to someone dear to her heart, her life took a new turn.

Cristiano Scano

Italy

Painting

Cristiano Scano, born in 1964 in Sardinia, has overcome life’s adversities to emerge as an icon of contemporary art. His innovative fusion of drawings, acrylic, and resin on unconventional surfaces has captivated Europe, with 14 exhibitions showcasing his originality. His works convey deep emotions through plays of light, color, and texture, inviting viewers to contemplate the beauty and meaning in life’s simple things. Scano is not just an artist but a visionary who has transformed challenges into a powerful expression of life.

Gregory Staub

Belgium

Painting

Born in Brussels in 1977, Gregory Staub pursued studies in the advertising industry. It was through his experiences in various advertising agencies such as “McCann & Erickson” and “Equator” that he developed his love for visual arts. While developing his own artistic style, Gregory does not deny the influence of street art, pop art, and punk art on his work.

Riccardo Testa (IOL)

Italy

Painting

Riccardo Testa was born in Bra in 1965 and from a young age developed a passion for drawing and painting, inspired by a family friend. He began with wood sculpture, which remains a constant in his work, and then focused on painting, working with oil and acrylic techniques. His art also extends to chalk, watercolors, and especially experimental and innovative mixed media techniques. He has participated in numerous artistic events, receiving recognition from contemporary critics, and has exhibited in local, national, and international competitions and shows. He lives and works in Bra, Italy, continuously experimenting with new techniques.

Andreas Tzanoudakis

Greece

Sculpture

Andreas Tzanoudakis, born in 1960, draws deep inspiration from nature, from Thessaloniki’s streets to Mount Olympus. A self-taught artist, he began with painting and later embraced woodcarving, creating unique sculptures, instruments, and ecclesiastical works. With over a decade of teaching experience, he has showcased his art in exhibitions across Greece and beyond. Recently, Andreas has evolved his style, and is now excited to present his latest works, reflecting his enduring connection to nature and his mastery of woodcraft.