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The making of this Peace poster happened because of the latest war in Ukraine and wanting to show solidarity for  all the innocent people who are having their normal lives torn apart due to this new crisis, and to support all the people who have been affected through war or conflict through the years.  It comes from a long standing of artistic support for friends who have become victims of war. 

Avant Arte, 2022

Choose Love, 2022

Libreria, 65 Hanbury St, Spitalfields, E1 5JP

London

Choose Love, Westfield, Ariel Way, Shepherds Bush, W12 7GF

Lighthouse Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, EH8 9DB

Edinburgh

Terry Bleu, Van Ostadestraat 233, NN, 1073 TN

Amsterdam

Allouche Gallery, 82 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014

New York

Allouche Benias. Kanari 1, Athens Greece 10671

Athens

Paul Insect, 2022

Tim Craig, 2022

Throughout history, art has been a witness to war and a champion for peace. A new collaboration with Paul Insect stands in solidarity with everyone impacted by conflict worldwide.

Paul Insect - Peace

I'm always having a conversation with the past but really, my work is about looking to the future.  

Studio 2

Nigel Howlett, 2022

The Face Before You Were Born

Studio 5

A solo show debut in London marked a tangible moment of inflection for Nigel Howlett and his faceless figures. In parallel, we collaborated to archive works from the show with a series of limited edition books and hand-finished prints.

Magnetic Flux, Ix Shells, 2021

N3URAL1NK v.10, NessGraphics, 2021

Stem III by David Rudnick

 Casco Viejo by Ix Shells

What would a society look like if everything was based on technology?

Ness Graphics

My hope is that this sets a precedent for women doing more work in the community. I try to make people see what I see in the work.

Ix Shells 01

Ix Shells, 2022

We’re not ‘saving’ the world. But what we are doing, all of us cumulatively, is creating and re-creating the world of the now.

Index 01

NessGraphics 01

Avant Arte’s core purpose is to make discovering and owning art radically more accessible. In 2022, we’re adding NFTs to the picture.

Avant Arte & NFTs

This week of editions offers collectors a rich and varied  group of practices – each artist absolutely amazing in their own right. 2022 marks an exciting year for all of them.

Jessie Makinson 02

Jessie Makinson 01

I am interested in clothes having no relation to modesty or function.

Stickymonger 02

Stickymonger 01

I want to capture the never-ending moments and feelings that inspire me.

Arghavan Khosravi 02

Arghavan Khosravi 01

I liked the idea of juxtaposing a three-dimensional object and a painted two-dimensional image of the same object.

Esiri Erheriene-Essi 02

Esiri Erheriene-Essi 01

It’s the greatness of these people who are just living their lives.

Super Future Kid 02

Super Future Kid 01

I like to play with objects that relate to nature or that come from my own environment. I don’t want to dictate too much how to read the objects and motifs as symbols for any specific ideas.

Antonia Showering 02

Antonia Showering 01

No memory is singular. I think the more information you learn, the more every other memory you have stored is at peril of shifting and morphing.

IWD 01

6 editions in 6 days, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley

International Women's Day

All of these artists have a desire to create work that is more than just pretty – they are creating work that seeks to provoke a dialogue, question the status quo and explore what is possible when one asserts their agency.

Gisela McDaniel 01

Gisela McDaniel 02

I’m gifted these stories. People trust me, and I don’t take that lightly at all.

For this launch, I was drawn to artists that push past a painting being ‘just a picture.’ The use of audio in Gisela’s work makes it impossible to overlook the depth and nuance of her sitters’ stories. Her edition is a self portrait, so in this case the story is her own.

When you punch holes through time, what do you find?

Patrick Quarm 01

Patrick Quarm 02

I'm drawn to the rigour with which Patrick addresses his subjects, and the layered depth of his mixed media canvases. It’s exciting to see these layers translated into edition form.

Khari Turner 02

Khari Turner 03

The water that’s on the earth is the same water that’s always been on the earth. Water holds history.

While others address specific subjects, Khari’s portraits are guided by energy, feeling and memory. I appreciate the way he follows his instinct and intuition, and in doing so asks the same of his audience.

Khari Turner 01

With a collection of hand-finished works, curator Larry Ossei-Mensah considers storytelling as provocation.

Inner Visions 03

Gisela McDaniel 03

Gisela & Gemma 01

Ahead of a hand-finished debut collaboration, Gisela McDaniel explains the enduring and vital precedence of her sitters' stories.

Gisela McDaniel & Gemma Rolls-Bentley

Cactus Man Video Cover

Cactus Man collage 01

Cactus Man collage 03

Cactus Man collage 02

Cactus Man shoot 01

Cactus Man shoot 02

Cactus Man shoot 04

Cactus Man shoot 05

I'm attracted to things that challenge or move me.

"Modern art is great, but you have to take care of plants – right?"

Cactus Man

Everything great that you can perceive in an image, or a painting is nothing more than a projection of what emanates directly from you

Tomás Sánchez

Tomas Sanchez, 2022

Frederic Church, "Cotopaxi", oil on linen

Caspar David Friedrich, "Drifting clouds"

Leon Spilliaert "Trees", watercolor and gouache on paper, 1929

Antonia Eiriz, “Paisaje”, oil on linen, 1993

The quality of these prints and how they respect the light and color of the originals allow a broader public to have a closer contact to my work. 

Tomas Sanchez

In conversation, Cuban painter Tomás Sánchez illuminates the spiritual underpinnings and sustainable production of his debut timed release.

En el paisaje interior by Tomás Sánchez

Ghana 1

Ghana 3

Isshaq 1

Kwesi 1

Adjei 1

Adjei 2

Doku 1

Paa Joe 1

Paa Joe 2

Kofi 2

Akweley Ricco 2

Amoako 2

Amoako 1

Ghana 4

Accra Story Cover

A series of studio visits in the Ghanaian capital.

Avant Arte in Accra

Edinburgh Castle 01

Tara Houska 01

Tara Houska 02

Every bit of life comes from Earth and everything is returned to Earth.

Eric Rignot 01

Eric Rignot 02

The challenge for the human mind is to accept that what we do at this moment will have enormous consequences for decades to come.

Robin Wall Kimmerer 01

Robin Wall Kimmerer 02

Restoration is a powerful antidote to despair. It’s not enough to grieve.

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye 01

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye 02

I made a decision to protect the only place I call home, Earth.

Elizabeth Kolbert 01

Elizabeth Kolbert 02

Really waking up has become urgent. The world is in danger and we need to act immediately to survive.

In a series of monumental light projections, HURT EARTH, art icon Jenny Holzer prompts urgent environmental action. Words from more than 40 global climate activists appear across the UK to coincide with COP26.

Jenny Holzer: HURT EARTH

HURT EARTH

Pins

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Install 08

Not a lot changed for me working during the pandemic, other than the phone not ringing all the time. I work alone in my studio, always have done, and continued to do so through lockdown. 'Personal Effects' is a culmination of work from that quiet time. A series of polaroids document the making of various works – large paintings, sculptures and videos. I've always seen myself as a multidisciplinary artist, I enjoy working with all forms and materials, collaging them like ideas, and this show touches on some of those interests.

Install 01

Paul Insect Studio 03

Paul Insect Studio 04

Paul Insect Studio 05

Paul Insect Studio Shoot 2021 05

From 18th November – 3rd December 2021, Paul Insect arrives in Amsterdam to exhibit the results of more than a year lived between novel circumstance and old routine.

New paintings and sculptures appear alongside their associated effects, effects which – from jig dolls and studio debris to video snippets and polaroid frames – act at once as reference, document and artwork.

https://avantarte.com/story/personal-effects

Video by TIm Craig, with additional footage provided by the artist.

Paul Insect: 'Personal Effects' | Exhibition film

Paul Insect arrives in Amsterdam.

'Personal Effects'

Aindrea Emelife

History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.

Shannon Bono

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2021

Sola Olulode Studio, 2021

Art historian, writer and curator Aindrea Emelife introduces hand-finished editions from Shannon Bono, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones and Sola Olulode.

Curated by Aindrea Emelife: We Are History

Jose Parla at the studio, 2020

It's Yours at the Bronx Museum of Arts, 2020

This art form brought us together, we made a lot of friends, and it provided a path to make connections with other writers and all kinds of artists throughout the world.

Jose Parla – The Founders

Read a text written by José Parlá to accompany the timed release of our our latest collaboration, The Founders.

The Founders by José Parlá

For Freedoms Awakening Campaign

Four Freedoms

Four Freedoms by For Freedoms

Christine Wong Yap

For me the project is a prompt, a provocation, and I’m really excited about seeing the artwork take space in billboards and posters in the UK. I hope people see it, think about it, and actually engage in some self reflection.

How Do You Keep Your Heart Open? (For Susan) by Christine Wong Yap

Hank Willis Thomas Studio 01

Placing images in the public that are designed to encourage critical thinking and uplift joy and celebration is paramount to us. We believe that art is a tool for social change and inner meditation.

Who Taught You To Love? by Hank Willis Thomas

Christine Studio Shoot 01

Our collaboration with the trailblazing, artist-run collective.

Avant Arte & For Freedoms

Roby Dwi Antono, 2021

Sarah Lee Studio Shoot 2

Studio Shoot 0249

Studio Shoot 3

Work on Paper Week, 2021

Our first Work on Paper Week presents an unmatched opportunity to access works by Roby Dwi Antono, Sarah Lee, Alexis Ralaivao and Antonia Showering.

Work on Paper Week August '21

Tau Lewis, 2021

The Church of Mantic Plants by Tau Lewis - Inner Visions

This series is very much rooted in and pulling from the imaginary, but made with commonplace materials.

Inner Visions

I hope that through my practice I can teach viewers new ways of looking and understanding the meanings of our culture, keeping it alive and regaining our power.

Ludovic Nkoth, 2021

For the second instalment of Inner Visions, Larry Ossei-Mensah introduces a series of unprecedented works by New York-based artists Tau Lewis and Ludovic Nkoth.