Wonderland 2021

The association Arte e Design Venezia presents the Wonderland exhibition at the S. Eufemia Gallery.
Wonderland celebrates the fantastic in all its forms, unites the alternatives of our existence, perpetuates parallel worlds created by each artist, focuses on the detail and beauty of being as if we were using a macro lens.
Through the works, the artists present different versions of themselves and the world. In fact, the surroundings are only a matter of perspective and everything is set to change.
Stephen King, in his book "It" writes "You could start from a path that leads nowhere more fantastic than from your house steps to the sidewalk, and from there I could go ... well, anywhere".
The fantastic is not a subversion, it is a way of understanding existence and learning to merge into the vast perplexity about whether there is anything to be experienced while experiencing it.
Wonderland could be understood as a fantastic field of interpretation, a layered system of sensations, a domain of creation where everything becomes meaningful and fabulous in its particularity.
 
GIUSEPPE PRINETTI
Giuseppe Prinetti lives and works in Bologna, Milan and London, he is 26 years old and he tells us "I started developing my creative side since I was in school, in the Art homework I applied myself to the utmost to do the job diligently, always adding personal notes to what was requested by the professors.
After school I enrolled at the University of London in the Faculty of Economics but the drive towards the creative world was too strong so I abandoned it to go back to dance with art ".
He attended a year at the NABA academy (Milan) but then continued "alone" following his deep feeling of him. He started with acrylics, then worked with ceramics and mixed techniques of which the works exhibited here are part of the research: Dream Catcher.
He emphasizes "when I make art I am inspired by the movement and energy that a work contains".
In the future Prinetti plans to develop his sculptural creativity more and more, experimenting with different materials and consolidating the work done.

ALEXANDRE LUIZ SEGRÉGIO
Visionary and realist Brazilian artist, through his works he promotes a dialogue and the relationship that exists between man and nature, exploring strength, magic and beauty. In an extremely immediate and superficial world, he invites us to "immerse ourselves" in the details in depth to "save" and "reconnect" with nature and its very essence. These reflections generate an "awakening" of the conscience of each one in the duty of conserving the planet. The artist dedicates himself to carefully portraying greatness, revealing his love for nature. In his quest to improve his work even further, he conducts field research. He has a habit of traveling to places where there are forests and where nature is wild in search of inspiration.
The strength, charm and magic of nature present in his paintings connect us to an archetypal universe and towards unity. The magic that surrounds the forests reveals the secrets of a sacred kingdom, which for the moment is consciously recognized by a small number of people, who struggle to preserve life of this magnitude, essential for the balance of the planet and for every being who inhabits it.
The artist currently resides in Sao Paulo in Brazil.

U-KU
U-ku was born in 1989 in Japan.
Artist activities started in 2016 and currently she mainly works as a watercolor artist for solo exhibitions.
She moved to the United States when she was in elementary school and had a hard time getting used to the new environment, “It was very painful for me not to understand what I thought and felt”. But when she returned to Japan, she noticed not only linguistic and cultural differences, but even in Japan people couldn’t understand each other if the environment in which they were born and raised was different. She then thought that there must be many people other than her who suffer from “not being understood by others”. With that in mind, She continued to make artworks to save herself, and moreover, help people in the same situation.
 
CLEBER OLIVEIRA
Cleber de Oliveira was born in 1986, in São Bernardo do Campo. He graduated in Visual Arts from the Unidas Metropolitanas Faculty in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Cleber also studied at Quanta Art Academy, ABRA - the Brazilian Academy of Art where he was followed by renowned artists.
He attended the Lasar Segall engraving studio under the guidance of the engraver Paulo Penna, and the Sesc Pompéia engraving studio under the guidance of Evandro Carlos Jardim.
Cleber also studied academic painting at the Ramarques studio.
The artist was part of the coordinating body of the Biennale Foundation in São Paulo, and led some workshops at Sesc units in the great city center of São Paulo and on the coast of the same city.
He worked as an artist and as an educator in some social projects and in cultural institutions of the municipal education network of São Bernardo do Campo. There, he had the opportunity to work with children, young adults and the elderly; this reflected in his art the theme of everyday-life transformation.
Cleber currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
 
SARAH ALESSIO
Sarah Alessio becomes part of the “Wonderland” exhibition with six of her works taken from the research “The Immense”. When she is asked about the profound meaning of her artistic project, she explains to us: "The Immense takes shape in a moment of creative block and my curiosity to discover MACRO photography". The project is expressed through abstract imagery where the details of the flowers fade. Whoever looks at them is free to interpret, to dream, to fantasize. In front of her subjects, the imagination is free. “My photos are generated by a state-of-the-art digital camera combined with a lens that dates back to the seventies. I don't retouch photos in post production, I love the result of the old lens. From this strong technological contrast comes the incredible effect, it is shown that the new does not always give better results. Whoever photographs is capable of grasping the particular ”.

CÉU D'ELLIA
Born in Brazil, São Paulo in 1963, Céu started his career in 1979 making commissioned animation films.
His first experimental short film, “Farewell” (1988) received many awards and it was chosen by the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (France), in 2004, as one of the most outstanding Brazilian short films ever.
His most recent animated short is “Love Will Rescue You” (2015), a film about child trafficking. From 2015 to 2017 Céu worked in New York City as an art director for animated films, translating that period in the series of conceptual drawings “America in the eyes of an Alien O-1”.
Presently, Céu is preparing a retrospective exhibition of his work to be open in São Paulo, as well as developing an animated feature film he will fully direct.
 
SU KROKER
Su Kroker studied Metal Design in Germany and completed an apprenticeship as a silversmith and master silversmith. After an internship in the Netherlands, she continued her studies at the Academy of Arts in Den Hague but had to interrupt them because she got pregnant.
Later the artist and her family moved to Blokzijl where she started her own workshop in 2004.
 
FLORA MC
Flora Marcella Cusi, stage name Flora MC, began the photographic experience starting from the analog world and then moving on to digital.
She studied commercial photography, realistic photography, digital editing and visual communication between America and Sweden.
She has been chosen for international publications and exhibitions by famous fashion brands and she has taught in graphics academies and fashion schools.
The artist specializes in commercial still life, but she also deals with introspective, landscape and photomontage photography.

VANESSA SPRIO
Vanessa Sprio lives in Germany. She has studied with a Stipendium for Art-Director, Stylist and Fashiondesign in Munich and Stuttgart at the Deutsche Pop Akademie. At the age of 14, she had her professional exhibition in the castle Unteres Schloss Vellberg.  Vanessa also shares a passion for music. Singing as a Lead and Backgroundsinger in several Bands & Projects; singing studies with Chan Chan Wang (Oper Stuttgart) & Fola Dada ( Vocalcoach Dsds) Stuttgart, are only some of her experiences in the music industry.
She is a hard-working and passionate artist. She claims to love seeing good results and satisfied customers. As an art and music lover, she always wanted to give the world the same amazing and positive feeling she gets when she is making art. She feels glad for having the chance to realize her dream and follow her passions.

FERNANDA VOLKMANN
Artist of the image and its nuances, of the meanings and the surreal, of what impacts the retina and of what is dispersed by the imagination, of the real and of the dream, of the art that impresses and of the pop art, of the manual visual art and of the digital visual art. In 2010 she started making manual collages. Her motivation was the need to live from art and to bring a little poetry to people’s daily lives. For years she developed and perfected his own technique of treating the image, expressing senses and feelings, joining parts and gluing each other to assemble a single object with immense meanings. Fernanda Volkmann has a degree in Graphic Arts from Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná and also in Art Direction from the International Film Academy. In addition, she was the Best Student in the Specialization Course in Cinema, Video and TV, honored by Centro Universitário Belas Artes in São Paulo.
Her goal is to inspire people to express themselves more through their talents.

Studio S. Eufemia has as resident artists:
 
LAURA LO VERSO
Laura Lo Verso was born in 1962 in Venice, where she still lives and works. In her city she attended the Art School and subsequently, she moved to Milan where she attended the European Institute of Design. After a long experience in the field of publishing as a designer for Walt Disney Italy, she returns to her hometown to undertake an artistic research linked to the recovery of the classical language. As part of this choice, she still stands with her work, aimed at the study of the landscape and nature according to the language of the ancient Venetian masters.
 
ALBERTO LO VERSO
Alberto Lo Verso was born in Venice in 1971. Graduated in ancient literature with a philological address, he has always cultivated a passion for ancient drawing and for classical painting. His role models Guardi, Canaletto, Tiepolo and all the great Venetians of the past inspired his graphic work, executed in ink and pastel on prepared paper.
 

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