Heidi Melano was an unassuming woman and a talented artist who dedicated her life to an ancient art form – mosaics. From the 1970s, after having produced several artworks in her youth, Heidi worked for years alongside her husband Lino and devoted herself to great artists such as Fernand Leger and Marc Chagall. Heidi also…
Gérard Economos was born in Paris in 1935. He studied architecture for a few years and devoted himself to painting in 1958. His meeting with Jean Cocteau was decisive. He illustrated many works by writers such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Giono, Yves Navarre, Henry Queffelec, Lawrence Durrell, Roger Peyrefitte as well as Nobel prize-winners. In…
Passionate about live art, this puppeteer, director and poet has created new puppets inspired by the dreamlike world of Heidi Melano. His first puppet show was in 1987. He creates visual and poetic shows, for all audiences, with string puppets from 30 cm to 2 metres, costumes and masks. Self-taught, Loïc Bettini fashions all of…
Giuliano Mancini, was an artist and sculptor of great talent. Born in Rome and settled in Saint-Paul de Vence from 1973, he sadly passed away on April 7, 2015. Very attached to Saint-Paul de Vence where he lived for more than 40 years, Giuliano Mancini left several sculptures in the village including “The Cat”, with its…
Chang Jiahuang is a contemporary Chinese artist who inherited a family artistic tradition. He is the son of Chang Shuhong, a Chinese painter and protector of the Mogao Caves, and Li Chenxian, an artist in Dunhuang. He taught art in Tokyo and at the Hangzhou Conservatory of Music. His art is influenced by other Chinese…
Précédent Suivant Qiu Shengxian is a world-renowned Chinese artist. His exquisite paintings subtly blend themes from the Chinese dynasty and Buddhism in a strikingly contemporary way. The style and colours are captivating, the workmanship is fresh, and the message is clear. The artist was strongly imbued with Chinese culture, its traditional painting, calligraphy and literature,…
Francis GUERRIER is a contemporary artist with multiple talents. Son of artist Raymond Guerrier and sculptor and ceramist Francesca Guerrier, art has been present in his daily life since childhood in a profusion of forms. Several experiences in the fields of theatre and dance have provided him with a training in scenography, another creative environment…
Deanna Gao is a contemporary artist who devotes herself to transmitting the heritage of Chinese Art to the West. Deanna Gao was born in Shanghai to a Chinese industrialist father and an English mother. She grew up in a family of renowned artists, which allowed her to learn traditional Chinese painting (flowers, birds, mountains and…
Nicola Zamboni is one of Italy’s most famous contemporary sculptors. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he is an all-round sculptor whose works are located in Italy and further afield, from Austria to the United States. Former President of Fine Art of Brera, he has worked for several years with his…
Piero Sbarluzzi is one of Italy’s most exceptional sculptors. Heir to the great Tuscan Renaissance ceramists, of that generation at the start of the fifteenth century, who alternated terracotta, marble and bronze, “he learned his trade in the workshop, where he developed a strong and accomplished manual ability, like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael,” said Vittorio Sgarbi….
