ARTISTS
In 2023, STUDIO PAON presents a new selection of prestigious fine art.
JULIAN SCHNABEL
DAMIAN HIRST
NICLAS CASTELLO
DAVID LACHAPELLE
JIRI DOKOUPIL
KEITH HARING
HEINZ MACK
ERWIN WURM
TONY CRAGG
GREGORY DE LA HABA
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JULIAN SCHNABEL
Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951) is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, he received international attention for his "plate paintings" — with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale paintings. Since the 1990s, he has been a proponent of independent arthouse cinema.
Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.
DAMIAN HIRST
Damien Hirst, in full Damien Steven Hirst, (born June 7, 1965, Bristol, England), British assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality.
Along with Liam Gillick , Tracey Emin, and Sarah Lucas, Hirst was part of the Young British Artists movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s.
NICLAS CASTELLO
Niclas Castello born on July 21, 1978 in East Germany, is a contemporary artist. Castello’s life was early influenced by the fall of the Berlin Wall what turned his attention to the impressive world of Pop Art as well as the Neo-Expressionism of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which influenced his paintings and sculptures.
The artistic work of Castello is dominated by the tension between the occupation with the sculpture and the expression through painting.
HEINZ MACK
Heinz Mack (born March 8, 1931) is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957.
He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art.
KEITH HARING
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness.
In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
DAVID LACHAPELLE
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American photographer, music video director and film director. He is best known for his work in fashion, photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as "kitsch pop surrealism".
Once called the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for international publications and has had his work exhibited in commercial galleries and institutions around the world.
JIRI DOKOUPIL
Jiri Georg Dokoupil (* June 3, 1954) is a contemporary Czech artist whose work confronts issues of artistic style and, in doing so, deliberately attempts to avoid having any sort of singular aesthetic. Rather, Dokoupil has developed a catalogued body of more than 100 different styles and techniques that he chooses from in a systematized approach that removes notions of distinctive, personal expression. He has declared that his focus is on a search for authenticity, rather than an expression of irony.
Dokoupil attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne in 1976. Hans Haacke and other Conceptual artists have had an important influence on Dokoupil, both as figures to learn from and rebel against as he continues to make work.
ALEX KATZ
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Katz, born in Brooklyn, New York, is renowned for his large paintings with bold simplicity and heightened colors, which were precursors to Pop Art. He studied at the Cooper Union and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
His works primarily consist of portraiture and landscape, often featuring New York City and Maine landscapes, as well as portraits of family members and prominent figures. Katz is known for his flatness of color and form, economy of line, and cool emotional detachment. He has produced over 400 print editions and has exhibited in over 200 solo and 500 group exhibitions internationally. His work can be found in the collections of more than 100 public institutions worldwide.
ERWIN WURM
Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria, and in New York City.
Wurm is known for his humorous approach to formalism.
Wurm's work is often critical of Western society and the mentality and lifestyle of his childhood during post-World War II Austria. Although Wurm's sculptures are humorous and ridiculous, they are actually quite serious. His criticism is playful, but should not be confused with kindness.
He represents his criticism of objects, such as clothing, furniture, cars, houses, and everyday objects to his audience. Common themes in his work include not only our relationship to banal everyday objects, but also philosophers and life in postwar Austria.
TONYT CRAGG
Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg CBE RA (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977.
Having studied art at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology, painting at the Wimbledon School of Art as well as sculpting at the Royal College of Art, Cragg was selected to represent Britain at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988, and won the Turner Prize in the same year.
In the early 1990s, Cragg was awarded the Chevalier des Arts Lettres (1992) and appointed Royal Academician in London (1994). In 2001 he received the now discontinued Shakespeare Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg. He was made a CBE for services to art in the 2002 New Year Honours List, and also won the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture in that year In 2007, he received the Praemium Imperialefor sculpture of the Imperial House of Japan for the Japan Art Association. Since 2010, Cragg has been appointed Honorary Fellow of University of the Arts London (2012); awarded Artist's Medal of Honor of the Hermitage, Russia (2012) as well as the Grand Cross 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany(2012). In 2014 he was awarded honorary citizenship of Wuppertal.