09/09/2025
Opening Saturday Sept. 13th by 6-8 PM
Please join us for the show titled “Artists and their friends” who often prefer to hang out with other artists, are collectors as well...
trading pieces, sharing spaces, supporting one another, exchanging philosophical ideas, while facing challenges and disappointments in life along with the unpredictable art scene.
The term “Loft living” by chance became an option for affordable living and working spaces in abandoned buildings in many countries...including small or larger cities.
They were not at all traditional living spaces...often old factory buildings with a considerable amount of square footage...but needing kitchens, toilets, more lighting yet could usually be found for a cheap price.
Painters, sculptors, writers & musicians would find their way to large urban cities, like for example Paris, New York or Berlin where they could meet other “creatives”. exchanging ideas, inspiration and support with like minded people.
Karl Stirner was one such artist.
He lived in....
And built lasting friendships with other artists such as ....
This exibition inspired designer Bibi Monnahan to put together a new kind of exibition in a casual loft like setting, that could be in any city anywhere...like maybe New York’s Soho or Tribeca in the 70’s.
Louis Lamont’s drawings and paintings have a “harried casual sketch like feeling”...finding his characters in the streets, coal mines, and images of war. Innately feeling bold and audacious.
Yet his work in fact has such charm and honesty. Nothing precious... just raw emotion and confidence in his images.
Lastly, framed by the artist himself in whatever he could find in secondhand frames. Confident, real, unpretentious and ready to hang.