Steven Marshall, Visual Artist
Roberto
Ferruzzi
Roberto Ferruzzi is regarded as the finest living Venetian
artist. He was born in 1927 into a family of artists
and after studying art in Venice, he launched himself
into an international career traveling and painting extensively.
As
a young man, he knew Albert Marquet and was a member of
a circle of artists that included Raoul Dufy, Francois
Desnoyer, Rolph Nesch and Germain Bonel.
Whilst
benefiting enormously from his association with this group,
he developed his own style.
After
living in Paris, London, Scandinavia and South America,
he returned to his beloved Venice to paint work unsurpassed
for their image and colour.
We
believe Roberto Ferruzzi's contribution to Venetian painting
to be as important to this century as Caneletto's was
to the 18th and we are very privileged to represent him
in the United Kingdom.
During
a recent conservation with Bobo in Venice, whilst musing
as to whether he had made a signficant contribution by
his life, he said, " I feel I have created my own
style and have copied no-one".
Fernando
Costa
Fernando is
a French sculptor, who lives and works in the Dordogne,
France. He creates unique oeuvres using old French
enamel ware to produce exciting contemporary sculptures.
We held his first major UK exhibition at Gallery 2 in
2006.
Glassworks
The
glassworks are an extension of Steven Marshall’s on-going
Pedestriana series which focuses on people in spaces,
individuals that form groups that form crowds that form
societies. The artist’s refusal to depict their props
and environment draws the viewer’s attention to their
peopleness, to their body language and their attitudes.
The space in these paintings is suggested only through
the choreography of their subjects.
In
the glassworks, the figures are rendered on multiple layers
of glass which creates actual space between the figures.
This can either exaggerate the illusionistic space in
the picture, or in some cases, contradict it. The layered
glass also creates a sense of movement and time. As the
viewer moves in front of the picture, so the figures shift,
from the recent past, through the present to immediate
future. These pictures use moments as motifs.
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