My path
Despite widespread public indifference, contemporary art is still influenced by spectacular events, exhibitions and displays promoted by intense media campaigns. On the sidelines, largely ignored, are the many artists who are “born from nothing and capable of everything”. *
For decades, I have dedicated what I have learned in years of activity in the arts to a small group of these ignored visual artists.
I have been their spokesperson, the promoter of their works, defending their right to continue their personal research without concessions to styles and conventions.Helen Arts- Gallery, the website I created to promote their names, has become a boundless space where the works of just three artists will be exhibited:
Eluxes – Manuel Lagoa – Paolo Stefani
Creative and touche à tout, their expertise has been recognised by collectors and institutions that have acquired their works, gallery owners who have exhibited them in solo and group exhibitions, and prestigious institutions that have welcomed them as part of events.
*Jean Clair. “The Winter of Culture”
TERRA/CIELO
Torcello Island until 31 July
From 12 May on the island of Torcello, lodged among its architectural treasures, inserted in its nature and its history, the works of eight contemporary artists dialogue until 31 July.
Designed and curated by Simonetta Gorrieri Casini, president of the Artlife for the World association, the Terra/Cielo event is intended as a tribute to the island and a call to deepen its origins.
Helen Arts Gallery, among the partners of the event, points out the works of the artist Paolo Stefani installed in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta - 7th century
OPENING « CASA DI VITA »
Villa Maser
Villa di Maser 15 June: an elegant and attentive public attended the opening of the event that included among the installations, the «DRACO PROJECT» by PAOLO STEFANI who abstracted a constellation to adhere to the Mistica Natura idea dormant in human nature for stimulating the feeling of beauty. His attention to constellations and stars has been part of his artistic way for many years. The project consists of 13 square canvases 40 x 40 cm designed for the wall of the entrance porch to the Villa.
The exhibition will remain open until September 15, 2019.
Paolo Stefani Ateliers
Como at first, now Paris: each of these places transmits to Paolo divergent but
complementary stimuli and energies. His new works are enriched, new formes
emerging and original amalgams make colors more intense.
For upcoming atelier activities in Paris contact us.
ANNY FERRARIO, MANUEL LAGOA, PAOLO STEFANI, invited by Regis Rizzo who directs the AMANDIER STUDIO, will show their work from the 6th to the 9th April, 2018: three days of sharing and direct contact with collectors and art lovers in a space where painting and sculptures are created on a daily basis.
We are pleased to bring you news of our forthcoming events:
LES ATELIERS PARTAGE, Brussels, open their doors to MANUEL LAGOA and PAOLO STEFANI, artists of Helen Arts Gallery.
BLAISE PATRIX who created the ateliers in 1990 to have a space where he could share his passion for the arts and understanding others, where he practices what he defines as “artsocia(b)le”. He wishes to include in his journey, for one week long, two artists applying different ways and methods defend the same postulate.
Opening: Thursday 22 March 2018 at 18
Edificio Bosco
Garage
Toribio Sosa, a versatile architect, has discovered the pleasure of painting murals.
Putting his work of carving old trunks of abandoned, decaying trees on the back burner, he paints using acrylic and glue on all supports (think of his large canvasses shown several times in Europe already) He is now dealing with a wall of reinforced concrete 10 meters long. With left-over industrial paints and few colours, Sosa gives a new visual reality to a generally neglected space: the garage!
Front
Back
Paolo Stefani’s new work in progress.
Here is a preview from his atelier: a front/back painting on a support of cotton based paper (33 x 52 cm) that will be part of a visual stories series.
Venice 2017: exhibitions at Artlife
Art Life for The World Gallery
Manuel Lagoa and Paolo Stefani were invited by Artlife for the World Gallery to exhibit their latest works.
(During 2017 Venice Biennale opening)
Pictures from "The stars threw down their spears..." vernissage - Venice May, 11.
Helen arts gallery is proud to offer a preliminary view of a detail upon a large work by Manuel Lagoa commissioned by a private collector. Iit's consists in a ceramic and enamel wall, 2,60 x 2,14 meters high.
The project, conceived and realised in partnership with the artist Caroline Gutierrez, is a work in progress.
Anny Ferrario at MINIARTEXTIL
Helen Arts-Gallery is delighted to inform its followers that the piece "Flight over the last snow of March" by Anny Ferrario has been chosen for the 26th edition of MINIARTEXTIL, an international show of contemporary fiber art, dedicated to the theme WEAVING DREAMS.
It will be shown in the Ex Church of San Francesco – Ratti Space in Como - from 1st October until 20th November 2016. The exhibition is curated by Professor Luciano Caramel, art historian and critic of renowned fame.
PANDORA
acrylic ink on serigraphed paper 70x50
VITRIOL
acrylic ink on serigraphed paper 70x50
