Z Contemporary

Happy Friday from the studio of our artist Bea Garding Schubert! ☀️@beagardingschubertart Browse through available work @wdwlls (link in bio). •••••••••••••••••••• Bea Garding Schubert creates abstract artwork that is driven by the idea of inspiring hope and happiness.  After finishing her studies at Braunschweig University of Art,  she travelled around the world for 8 years - on foot, with her life's possessions in her backpack. No cell phone, nothing but the things she truly needed. Gathering food, water, making fire, living in and with nature. This period of her life defined her. Bea wants to encourage people to open their eyes, minds and hearts and to inspire them to change or see things in a positive way.  „I am a dreamer believing in a better world. This positive attitude deeply influences my working process: Free-flowing expression is the basis for my paintings, even determining which side up limits me. Brush, draw, spray, drip, squeegee. There are no limits." - Bea Garding Schubert •••••••••••••••••••••• #beagardingschubert #studiostories #artiststudio #contemporaryartist #womenempowerment #abstractexpressionism #zcontemporary #gesturalabstract #germanartist #contemporarypainting #kunstinhamburg #zcontemporary #abstraktekunst #abstract #artgallery #abstractart #artadvisor #artcollector #kunst #abstractpainting #femaleartist

STUDIO STORIES series with Uruguayan artist Marcelo Mendizabal - the „thread magician“! Today, a small look behind the scenes and a few insights about his work. @mendizabal.marcelo Artworks available through the gallery @wdwlls •••••••••••••• Artist Statement „First it was the cord, the thread, the rope, which I used to sew small papers with a needle, thus creating wefts that interacted with the signs applied directly on the support. Those wefts began to grow and occupy more space, making up a texture and a warp that I found deeply expressive. One day, I discovered that the back side of the sewn paper had stitches and knots, so I began to explore the reverse side of the weft, the other side of the coin. The idea of a flat translation for that weft became then a recurrent thinking. I began to incorporate digital technology, and confronted the digital format with the real one, looking for a contrast. The thread loses its volume and flattens, I print the weft of threads on larger canvases using screen printing, and then I work the printout with acrylic paint, using color to demarcate the spaces that are formed in the crossings. From there on I began to apply the threads directly on larger canvases, while the surfaces became more texturized after incorporating the threads directly into the paint. Later I explored the trace, the mark left on the surface by the object - the thread is removed from the support, leaving an uneven hollow demarcating different spaces and volumes. Some of the works highlight my persistent obsession for the opposites - outside/inside, plane/volume, front/reverse, reality/virtuality." - Marcelo Mendizabal ••••••••••••••••• #contemporaryart #marcelomendizabal #zcontemporary #emergingartist #artgallery #abstractart #abstractpainting #threadart #kunst #abstraktekunst #kunstgalerie #kunstinhamburg #artinhamburg #interiordesigner #artdealer #kunstwerk