Association of Visual Artists.

International Association of Visual Artists. Asociación Internacional de Artistas Visuales. Association des artistes visuels. [email protected] www.iavaarts.org

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World Art Day is an international celebration of the fine arts which was declared by the International Association of Art (IAA) in order to promote awareness of creative activity worldwide. A proposal was put forward at the 17th General Assembly of the International Association of Art in Guadalajara to declare April 15 as World Art Day, with the first celebration held in 2012. This proposal was sponsored by Bedri Baykam of Turkey and co-signed by Rosa Maria Burillo Velasco of Mexico, Anne Pourny of France, Liu Dawei of China, Christos Symeonides of Cyprus, Anders Liden of Sweden, Kan Irie of Japan, Pavel Kral of Slovakia, Dev Chooramun of Mauritius, and Hilde Rognskog of Norway. It was accepted unanimously by the General Assembly.. The date was decided in honor of the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci was chosen as a symbol world peace, freedom of expression, tolerance, brotherhood and multiculturalism as well as art’s importance to other fields. #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcW1SNSu_Z0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Paris Sergiou. Born in Cyprus (2004). Is a young artist who presently lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus. He has been running his own studio since the age of 16. From the age of 4-15 he has produced more than 3500 mainly drawings and paintings which had been documented digitally and stored, as images and videos. He has had two solo exhibitions. He was an invited artist in September 2020 by multidisciplinary artist/scientist Achilleas Kentonis, director of ARTos, a contemporary arts and science Center in Nicosia dedicated to research and creativity. In September 2021 he was an invited artist at Ab gallery for his second solo exhibition. To understand how Paris thinks creatively it’s useful to read through his very concise interview by Kate Davey. Sergiou, he worked for a group show in Thessaloniki at #topikap.kato at mid-January (cancelled due to high covid cases in Thessaloniki-on for coming May 2022) and for a show at the Alexandria Library. He was recently for two weeks residency at Centro Negra, at Murcia area south of Spain (AADK Spain) painting on site. @parissergiou2004 #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Cyprus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcNRn2uuNBE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Paris Sergiou. Born in Cyprus (2004). Is a young artist who presently lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus. He has been running his own studio since the age of 16. From the age of 4-15 he has produced more than 3500 mainly drawings and paintings which had been documented digitally and stored, as images and videos. He has had two solo exhibitions. He was an invited artist in September 2020 by multidisciplinary artist/scientist Achilleas Kentonis, director of ARTos, a contemporary arts and science Center in Nicosia dedicated to research and creativity. In September 2021 he was an invited artist at Ab gallery for his second solo exhibition. To understand how Paris thinks creatively it’s useful to read through his very concise interview by Kate Davey. Sergiou, he worked for a group show in Thessaloniki at #topikap.kato at mid-January (cancelled due to high covid cases in Thessaloniki-on for coming May 2022) and for a show at the Alexandria Library. He was recently for two weeks residency at Centro Negra, at Murcia area south of Spain (AADK Spain) painting on site. @parissergiou2004 #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Cyprus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcNA-aTOA0M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Paris Sergiou - The unwritten play - oil on vintage cloth - 300 x 220 cm - 2022. @parissergiou2004 #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Cyprus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcNAzUNuYMo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Paris Sergiou - The world revolves around me - Oil on canvas - 210 x 245 cm - 2021. @parissergiou2004 #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Cyprus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcNArzHOaEd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Paris Sergiou - Self - Portrait oil on canvas -320 x 250 cm - 2021. @parissergiou2004 #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Cyprus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcNAmf3uogv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher and traditional painter who worked in a bookstore. As a result, Cai Guo-Qiang was exposed early on to Western literature as well as traditional Chinese art forms. As an adolescent, Cai witnessed the social effects of the Cultural Revolution; he grew up in a setting where explosions were common, where “gunpowder [was] used in both good ways and bad, in destruction and reconstruction”. #caiguoqiang #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_37VOja4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar abbreviated as ISI Denpasar is a college of art organized by the Ministry of National Education which is under and directly responsible to the Minister of National Education. ISI Denpasar functionally supervised by the Director General of Higher Education Department of Education. ISI Denpasar was established in 2003 which is the integration of the Indonesian Arts College (STSI) in Denpasar and Study Program of Art and Design (PSSRD) of Udayana University. #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_rg2OWIy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) is a public university of art and design located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The university's beginnings date back to the founding of the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) in 1916. Beginning with evening and Saturday classes, day classes were offered starting in 1926 with Lars Haukaness appointed as the first Head of the Art Department. In 1960, PITA was renamed the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Art Department was renamed the Alberta College of Art (ACA). #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_ndFubpS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) is a university in Chey Chumneas,  Phnom Penh specialising in architecture and fine arts. It is the oldest university in Cambodia, having been in existence since 1917. #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_jWju0rn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Doménikos Theotokópoulos; October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, often adding the word Κρής Krēs, Cretan. #thegreek #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_YG8u_NH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Tucson, Arizona, United States, was founded in 1997, by Julia Latane, James Graham, and David Wright. The museum was founded to create a permanent institution for contemporary art in Tucson's arts district. Originally housed in the HazMat building on Toole Avenue, the museum relocated to the former Fire Department building on Church Avenue in 2010. #moca #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_TjDOyk2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) in the state of Arizona is a museum in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum is dedicated to exhibiting modern works of art, design and architecture. #smoca #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_NgYOzOu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey abbreviated as MARCO, is a major contemporary art museum, located in the city of Monterrey, in Nuevo León state of northeastern Mexico. #marco #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CcM_FZXuRyY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Graciela Durand Pauli. She is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1964). She is a professional Visual Artist with an international background. From a very young age, she loved looking at book illustrations and painting images over and over again. She was happy drawing and had a fascination with colors. She loves reading and like Alice from Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, she didn't understand what a book without pictures is for. Graciela, she moves to live in Córdoba, where she graduated from the University of Economic Sciences, a profession that she pursues from the public administration. However, she never gave up the search for her place in the visual arts. She studied architecture and interior design, where she found me again between drawings and colors until one of her teachers invited her to try with brushes and she felt that she was beginning to find her place in her own life. Since then I have taken classes in workshops of recognized art teachers from Cordoba. When she paints she enters a dimension of time and space of freedom and introspection, a "wonderland" where anything is possible. Lewis Carroll wrote “if it were so, it could be; and if so, so it would be; but since it isn't, it isn't. That's the logic." And all the other way around too. That is my painting. In my wonderland, as in Carroll's, fantasy and reality coexist without conflict. Creating an image or a concept happens in the comfort of the imagination and in the discomfort of reason and in each work the viewer can find different stories depending on the moment in which they find themselves. Graciela Durand points out. @durandpauli #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcKJsBiuj2J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Graciela Durand Pauli – That is not seen - mixed media on canvas – 50 x 50 – 2011. @durandpauli #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcKJgl9uqXF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Graciela Durand Pauli – Get in or get out that is the question - acrylic on canvas – 50 x 60 – 2010. @durandpauli #visualart #iava #iavaart #iavaarts #iavaartsorg (en Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcKJbDauhKl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=