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Chafa Ouzzani was born on May 9, 1967 in Algiers. He is from Chemini in Kabylia. From his childhood, Chafa Ouzzani was passionate about drawing and painting. From this passion, a continuous artistic career will be born that he will lead in parallel with the exercise of his profession of architect in Béjaïa.

Student, Ouzzani organized his first exhibition at the Institute of Architecture of the University of Blida. First milestone towards prolific production and fair recognition. His style evolves and asserts itself over the years, moving from simple reproductions, portraits, landscapes and other still life to a tormented semi-figurative style that he will develop over a decade. Subsequently, by need, and to free himself from the limits of figuration, the artist will move towards an abstract and / or semi-abstract style dominated by a purely plastic expression, induced by strong compositions of shapes and colors.

Chafa’s work has evolved over the years to take on a maturity that is visible and recognizable at first glance. The line is sure and the compositions of a captivating force. The canvas becomes a support with indefinite limits. The colored material, oil or acrylic, used at the whim of the moment becomes a vector of expression of all the emotions. In his work, abstraction and figuration intermingle, intertwine, collide and come together to suggest a deliberate desire to move towards an aesthetic with multiple manifestations. Ouzzani works his canvas like a blank space. Divisions, ruptures, overlaps or assemblies are worked on in a perpetual concern for harmony and aesthetic balance.

The result often invokes a work of memory where identity is omnipresent.

To his credit, several individual and / or group exhibitions in Algeria and abroad (France, Italy,Spain, Turky, Serbia, Tunisia, India ) … which have earned him praising criticism in the press and television media. He has also participated in numerous international symposia and festivals.

A’aishah love doing painting at the age of 14. Developing her artistic talent with guidance of the late Sir Daud. Shortly after STPM, she continued her studies at Indonesian Institute of Arts (ASRI Jogyakarta, Indonesia) for 4 years in the field of art (B.A. Art).

While in Indonesia she had numbers of exhibitions. Graduated in 1980, then come back to pursue her lifelong dreams to be an artist by joining Anak Alam group and Angkatan Pelukis Kedah in 1981 . Have been exhibiting with Angkatan Pelukis Kedah until now, currently hold the position as President.

A’aishah tends to abstract with oil and acrylic. Balai Seni Lukis Negara and Dato Seri Sanusi Junid collected her artwork. Aged 69, still actively involved in art scene .

Nature is a reflection, her idea is to create.

EXHIBITION

2023

• WANITA ISTIMEWA, KL Jazz & Art, Kuala Lumpur
• ALAM ARTS EXHIBITION, The Ledge, Kuala Lumpur
• ASIA ART SHOW, Sydney, Australia

2022

• PASAR SENI PASCA PANDEMIK, Ruang Seni APK, Kedah
• PASAR SENI XTRA, Ruang Seni APK, Kedah
• ArtEDecor,  World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur
• RENTAS 360, CREATIVE ART HUB BY ASWARA,  Sunway Putra Mall, Kuala Lumpur
• HIJRAH 360 ANGKATAN PELUKIS SEMALAYSIA, GMBB , Kuala Lumpur
• PAMERAN TERBUKA GALERI SHAH ALAM, Shah Alam, Selangor.
• Telor Pecah 2.0, GMBB , Kuala Lumpur

2021

• ARTMARKET MALAYSIA, Quill City Mall, Kuala Lumpur
• LAKAR Online Exhibition by APK
• ASEDAS 2.0 Online exhitition

2020

• Graha Cipta APS, GMBB , Kuala Lumpur

2019

• EKSPRESI KEDAH APK Annual Exhibition, Balai Seni Negeri Kedah, Alor Setar, Kedah

2018

• BERCERMIN DI MATA PEREMPUAN EXHIBITION, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia

2017

• LIMA SAHABAT EXHIBITION
• APK 40^TH YEAR EXHIBITION, Muzium Negeri Kedah, Alor Setar, Kedah
• APK 40^TH YEAR EXHIBITION, Balai Seni Lukis Negara, Kuala Lumpur

2014

• LANGKAWI ART EXHIBITION, Langkawi, Kedah

1982

• SERI PUTERI EXHIBITION, Kuala Lumpur

1980 – 2014

• Angkatan Pelukis Kedah Annual Exhibition

1979

• KELOMPOK 5 PUTERI EXHIBITION, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• CATAN EXHIBITION Arca Anak Alam

1978

• PORSENI EXHIBITION Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• ART JOMBORIAL EXHIBITION Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1976

• KARTINI DAY EXHIBITION Yogyakarta, Indonesia

He is a student of Master sculpture Lewis Dick since 2019. In 2022 Nathaniel participated in an art event in Switzerland and has also participated in 7 local group art exhibition in Mauritius.

Noah is the student of Lewis Dick at Ecole de sculpture de Bambous since 2021.

Since 3 years old, Thea has grown among sculptor and has learn sculpture at a very young age.
She participated in an Art event at Switzerland in 2022 and has participated in around 10 local group exhibition.

Zaki Hadri who was graduated in Art & Architecture and now doing freelance in architecture and interior design and had his artworks showcased in many local and international group exhibitions which has won intensive awards from Shah Alam Gallery 2018. Has Shown a remarkable achievement in his 20-year career as an abstract painter.
Born in Taiping, Malaysia, Zaki is also trained at a skill school in course metal fabrication and enjoys creating sculptures. His current body of work reflects nature, a universal reference point of faith or one’s depiction of life, in multitudes of brilliant colors, representing light or salvation.

ART JOURNEY

2008– Exhibition Group T.V.i.M-Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia & Malaysia at Visual Art Exhibition of South-East Asia’s Artist in Jogja Gallery. Yogyakarta. Indonesia. 

• -Participated Exhibition 1Mcat at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

• – Participated Exhibition Group Ilham ‘Steampunk’ at Pelita Hati Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

2013– Group Exhibition @ Malaysia Eye Art Exhibition @Morne/Nolias Art Gallery, London. 

2014 – 1^st Price Award Competition Sculpture Organized by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL). 

2015-Organized Group art exchange Breakthrough #1 & #2 with PeRUPA (Malaysia) & KERSAN ART STUDIO (Yogyakarta). 

2016 – Curated #144 Malaysian Artist GroupImago Mundi Malaysia organized by Benetton foundation Italy. 

2016 – Participated Exhibition Group ‘Building Bridge’ @Mona Gallery in Tokyo Japan .

2016 – Organized/Participate Groupart exchange Malaysia & Philippines ‘ArtDialogo’ #1 & #2 with PeRUPA(Malaysia) & Nemi Miranda Atelier Arthouse ( Angono Rizal, Philippines).

• – Participate Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 

• – Organized/Participate Group3 Nations Malaysia, Singapore & Indonesia ‘IM3N’ @ Hotel Nuve Heritage Arts Gallery Singapore 

• – Organized/Participate Groupart exchange Malaysia & India ‘Colourful MIND 2017’ #1 & #2 with PeRUPA(Malaysia) & The Art Pivot Foundation.(Udaipur, India). 

• – Organized/Participate Group3 Nations Malaysia, Singapore & Indonesia ‘IM3N-600’ @ HULO ARTS GALLERY KL

2018 – Participate PeRUPA Open Show Malaysia group exhibition “BONDA “ at National Art Gallery Malaysia

2018 –Sharing Goodness & Happiness Art Group Show, 23 Artist From 7 Countries @ Padepokan APEL WATOE, Magelang Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2018 -Organized/Participate Group3 Nations Malaysia, Singapore &

Indonesia ‘IM3N’ @ SUNRISE ART GALLERY JAKARTA

2018 – Intensive Award ‘Open Art GroupShow 2018’ at Gallery Shah Alam, Selangor. Malaysia

• – Solo Piece by Peace Show ‘Art Travel Show 2018’ at Art Pivot School, Udaipur. India

• – Art Group Show Malaysia- Indonesia- Taiwan “The Path of Love’ @

Padepokan Apel Watoe Contemporary Gallery. Magelang Indonesia

2019 –September:  Art Group Show Malaysia- Thailand “Friendship: Art & Connectivity “@ Chang Chui Creative Park Gallery. Bangkok Thailand.

• –December:  Art Group Show 4 Nation-Malaysia, Japan, Philippines and Singapore ‘Hi Izuru Kuni De’. @ Gallery w.k.s .Osaka, Japan.

• – January; Art Group Show: 1^st Anniversary ArtRoom22 @ Lot 18 Gallery, jalan Panggung. KL

2020 – March; Art Group Show: Perupa Open Show (SATU|MASTERPIECE)2020 @ Gallery Shah ALam. Selangor

2020 – Sept; SEKAKI International Art Group Show 2020 @ Kuala Lumpur City Art Gallery.

• – Dec; Thousand Faces of Art Show 2020 @ National Taiwan Arts Education Center

• – March; UNWRAP (Open Art Group Exhibition) @ Creative Art Hub Space Putra Mall. KL

2021 – April; THE ASIA INTERNATIONAL ART EXCHANGE EXHIBITION 2021 “The Joy of Yunlin (Taiwan)

2021 – April; Virtual Art Exhibition Rotary International Online Art Festival Theme – “World Peace”

2022–   October: ‘TELUR PECAH ‘Art Group Exhibition @ GMBB Mall Kuala Lumpur

• – October: Tashkent International Biennale of Art Contemporary @ Tashkent Uzbekistan 

• – August: Double Solo Zaki Hadri / Suzlee Ibrahim *Discovery through Abstract Expressionism Painting @ Gallery of ASWARA organizer by Music & Fine Art Faculty ASWARA

She was born in Nevşehir-Avanos, where the Fairy Chimneys and Pottery homeland, also called as ‘’Cappodocia’’ is. She worked at Central Bank of the Republic of Turkiye in Ankara in 1981 and went on both her education and working.  She tended to the painting and graphic design.  She graduated from Practical Art and Fine Art at  Gazi University in Ankara, Turkiye in 1986. 

She has vocational and technical education faculty as she graduated from the Department of Applied Art, as a teacher. She taught painting & graphic design in various schools in Istanbul. 

She retired in 2007.  She has been going on her artworks in Istanbul , in workshops called Emos & Artwork-Art House in Istanbul.  She has been searching and studying on ‘’Basic Design’’ as a textbook which is on the nature of research. The textbook about design consists of the associations from the creative topics of design made by the students.

ABOUT HER ART CREATİVE 

The artist always pursues the adventures of her own enthusiasm and colours. It is sometimes childish, sometimes the reality of her dreams and sometimes behind the fantastic dreams of natural life. She refers to the reality and the realities beyond reality in her paintings. She sometimes uses lyrical poetic language in her works. She sometimes tries to oblige the audience to chaos and their dream world with her rich imagination. Her works are a combination of metaphysics and the philosophy of modern romance. TOKMAKKAYA names this style ‘’Metaphysical Romance’’ as fantastic processes. 

The artist addresses the audience who understand her artistic intentions and will give place their fantasy and imagination to the freelance, colours and texture graphics. In her works she uses colours vigorously. In the press, she is known as ‘’THE QUEEN OF COLOURS.’’

Textures, bubbles, spiral compositions and cosmic backgrounds in her paintings are remarkable. She is performing all her challenging dreams and ideas by creating the subject in her inner depths.

Vibrations driving to the unknown and secret journey and background which consists of colourful tones have been expressed by forcing the imagination. A smooth transition in colours has been provided as if it is provoking the naturalness of the universe. Expressions and themes with light games and bright and shiny graphical vibrations that texture graphics are see-sawing are shown. Dancing figures with passionate love are playing a game with the imagination based on the legends in a changing world. In this game, an everlasting historical struggle and achievement are transforming. In her figures dramatized traces of feminine freedom longing can be seen.                                                      

 The artist usually works on ‘’nature and woman’’ in her paintings. In addition to these animal figures and especially the themes of fish have drawn attention recently.

You can see evil eye beads and the images of beady-eyed fish in her compositions.

Shafique Farooqi was born in 1942 in Sialkot, Pakistan. After his training at the National College of Arts, he went over to Turkey and completed his Master’s degree at Istanbul University. Later on he was bequeathed an honorary doctorate in Spiritual Arts from Royal American University in Spiritual Arts.

In the 60 years of his art career he has done more than 13,000 art pieces and 107 solo shows in USA, England, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, Sudan, France, Canada, Holland, Turkey and Pakistan. He has mastered the art of Free-hand Sketches, Calligraphy, Landscape, Watercolor, Etching, Symbolic Art, Ceramics, Symbiosis concept of art (Journey of Line), and Spiritual art (Whirling Dervishes). Recognizing his contributions to the field of arts, the government of Pakistan conferred on him the  President’s Pride of Performance, in 2021.

Among his passions, earlier in his career, Farooqi had taken up calligraphy, in which his emphasis was the Arabic alphabet.

Invoking Rumi, Shafique Farooqi’s Whirling Dervishes transports the viewer to a spiritual realm in an ecstasy of colour. His images swirl and melt into the heavens above joining mind, heart, and body as they seek oneness with God. Having spent a significant part of his life in Turkey, Farooqi’s art has been deeply inspired by Sufism. His recent endeavor is his book on art and mysticism “The Tale of Drunken Flute in Whirling Dervishes”.

Mr. Shafique Farooqi fascination with Calligraphic art over 60 years, His artistic journey simultaneously Travers twin paths, virtuosity and wisdom Mr. Farooqi has published his 6th book “ لا الہ الا اللہ” and  working on his 7th book  “محمد رسول اللہ” which his Knife and hand truly reflects Calligraphy as seen.

In Shafique Farooqi’s landscape paintings, there is always a central object, perhaps a tree that has attracted the artist’s full attention. He has treated it in the spirit of a portrait, and has generally succeeded in revealing the whole atmosphere of the landscape in reference to the single tree.

Symbolism is an art movement in response to Realism and Impressionism. Mr. Shafique Farooqi used Symbolism to express meaning in an indirect manner. He wanted their painting to depict a meaning beyond just the figures they drew.

Mr. Shafique Farooqi spent almost 17 Years of his life in Turkey from 1983 to 1999 and honorably represented Pakistan at all levels.  He received 5 prestigious awards during his stay in Turkey. He taught Islamic Calligraphy and Landscape of Pakistan to hundreds of students. In Turkey, he creates the concept his work is influenced by Sufi mysticism. In this series of paintings, he uses the whirling dervish “SEMA” of the Mevlevi order as his inspiration. During his stay in Turkey he also create a new concept in the field of art “Symbiosis concept of art (Journey of Line)”

During his stay in Turkey, he worked as an Advisor in Floyra Istanbul center for Rehabilitation of Disable Children and made it a model center in Turkey with help of the Lions Club and foreign funding. Further his paintings on disabled persons have won him honor and distinction in Turkey, England and Germany, and Holland have been prized most for his compassion for the retarded and handicapped children.

Mr. Shafique Farooqi’s 260 painting has been commissioned in USA, England, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, Sudan, France, Canada, Holland, Turkey and Pakistan.

Mr. Shafique Farooqi donated 10 Master Pieces for Diamer bhasha dam.  These were sold and the proceeds were presented as contributions towards the dam funds.

Mr. Shafique Farooq received 29 National and International Awards and 14 honors in the field of art and also received (President’s Pride of Performance award)

Mr. Shafique Farooqi has published 7 books in field of art.

Mr. Shafique Farooqi nowadays is working on his series “Journey of line” in which he will endeavor to project the thoughts/vision of Allama  Iqbal through his art.

As an artist he has succeeded in bringing anguish in the soul to his art of painting. Though trained on conventional lines, He has evolved his own vision of creative consciousness and has completed a work which affirms his originality and commitment for beauty which lies hidden in the visual scenes, and which has been released only by him. His paintings have given something creative to his age, and in this lies his own fulfillment and satisfaction as an artist.

RESET

“Everything in the universe is in change, transformation and motion.

Man lives by choosing to live by holding on to the story he created for himself and to create a safe space for himself.

People resist change, they do not want to change and develop easily and become conscious.

In his own shell, he finds it difficult to get out of his comfort zone due to ready-made patterns, and habits and sticking to it,

He is far from the idea that he will be free when he breaks the idols he has created.

Only sudden shocks and events can bring the Human who clings to the Matter dimension of the world to himself.

When the things they hold on to are gone, they fall into a great void, and usually, at this point they begin to question everything that exists.

The scenario, the scenery, and the scenery, the roles change and this cycle continue by increasing its violence until people realize that they are just guests in the world and they have to learn to be human.

The reset and change process we have entered with the pandemic environment is an indicator of the world’s desire to renew itself.

All patterns, all old knowledge will be RESET so that all Humans and creatures on Earth can live in better conditions and

The Changes To Be Experienced Will Happen With The Liberation Of Humanity From Their Consciousness

First.

Humanity will build a new future worthy of itself.”

MORE OF HER ART –

Ashok Kumar is a Visual Artist working freelance in New Delhi, India. He has born on 1st Feb 1965 in Bihar, India. He has admitted to the college of art, Patna, Patna University, Graduated and accomplished his study as a bright and brilliant student of the College of Art in the year 1987. 1990, he has received a Scholarship for higher study in fine art at L’Ecole Superieure des Beaux-arts de Marseille, France.

He has received an award senior fellowship in painting for 2015-16 from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India 2017. It was amazing to exhibit his work on ARTSY PAGE by ACS Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2017.

Ashok Kumar’s creation explores a new vision through the imagination of the human being as an origin that belongs to our cultural diversity with many symbols and signs. What we indulge or experience in the surrounding nature with positive vibes and thoughts are usually creates ecstasy in our minds.

He depicts the semi-figurative human form with the relevant combination of nature and other organisms in his creation to explain high consciousness and spirituality.