May 31 - BrightMed Open "OUT OF CHAOS" Exhibition
BrightMed will be holding an exhibition titled "OUT OF CHAOS" at Space 92.
A statement from BrightMed follows below:
Since the beginning BrightMed has had the ambition to celebrate the values of Gibraltar using all types of arts. That’s the reason why, in parallel with firstly the Gibraltar World Music Festival and secondly BrightMed events, it has always organised an exhibition at Space 92 linked to the theme of that particular year. According to these principles, BrightMed has asked Justyna Zelazo to select different local artists and create the exhibition around their own interpretation about the theme: OUT OF CHAOS.
The exhibition by a group of talented artists, showing a different approach to art communication through photography, a colourful manifestation of their impatient minds, bringing a powerful message, making their adventures feel like our own.
Pure photography with an attempt to depict a scene or subject in a sharp focus and detail, an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process. Rich, vivid colours and multiplied shapes, unexpected in ordinary places and everyday situations.
A life-enriching journey from very realistic, candid, street and landscape photography, through posed captures and portraits, mysterious fine art photography and conceptual cosmic graphic design to abstract photography. Even for someone who has no direct relation to photographers’ experiences, it is possible to live with them through the same moment in time.
Justyna Zelazo
Justyna Zelazo is an award winning street and fine art photographer. Awarded by Gibraltar Photographic Society as a beginner photographer of the year in 2016, the best digital photography in 2017 and the best print colour portfolio in 2018. She is also laureate of the socially involved photo reportage contest organized by Polish Journalists Society. Her work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life.
Andy Mitchell
Andy Mitchell is a Scottish designer and artist, working by day as full time graphic designer alongside various music and digital art projects. In 2008, he graduated with a 1st Class Honours BA Degree in Creative Digital Media. Andy’s work is driven and shaped by an enduring fascination with cosmology and reality, often portraying subjects as astronauts, lone figures against vast and chaotic backdrops of the universe. He blends realism with abstraction, using layers of digital imagery, drawings, manipulated patterns that appear both structured and psychedelic. Often his pieces will serve as atmospheric artwork to music albums. He finds inspiration around him in the hidden complexities of life; reacting to the time he is living in today and recording through artistic expression his experiences imagined and otherwise.
Gordon Grant
Originating from Glasgow, Scotland, Gordon has had a life long creative passion in art and in music and developed his love for photography over the last ten years. Living and working locally for the last five years, with a love for nature and vistas coupled with a keen eye for detail, he has a talent for capturing a moment beautifully. As the lead creative eye and founder of Colores Andalucia events, between DJing and promoting, Gordon finds himself immersed in the outdoors and traveling, capturing and working on new ideas and shots infectiously. He currently has work on display in Gibraltar Face Frames Gallery and in Cafe Solo restaurant in Casemates Square. His centrepiece is the stunning ´Between and a Rock and a Stargaze´ which was captured and developed with life long friend Gary Thompson. This remarkable photograph shows the sheer scale of Gibraltar in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Andrea Barracu
Andrea Barracu was born in the Tuscan hills, in Italy. He studied graphic design and photography and at the age of 18, he became a designer at Oliviero Toscani’s studio, where he worked with some of the world’s leading brands following the principles of the modern Bauhaus school of the art workshop. His passion for art and photography led him to exhibit his work at the Brick Lane Gallery in London and the Jinx Gallery in Fukuoka, Japan, and many other in Italy, where he also participated as a visual artist in music and art festivals in museums and historical and institutional locations.
Stephen Hermida
Stephen Hermida was born in 1962 and educated in Gibraltar. He initially took an interest in photography as a teenager, and later returned to it in 2004 when affordable digital SLR cameras become widely available. Shortly after he joined the Gibraltar Photographic Society, and today is the current Chairman. In the last fifteen years photography has become a serious passion, and up to last year he combined this with a professional career in banking. It was in 2009 during his first photographic trip to North Africa that he had his ‘damascene moment’ and realisation that people and travel photography would become the core of his inspiration and pursuit as a photographer.
Ethan Delgado
Ethan Delgado is a student at the University of Leicester who studied photography at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. He frequently joins Spéos programs in Paris and London. His passion is street photography, which he is practicing in Paris, Brussels and Gibraltar. He has spent most of 2018 capturing the emerging street art scene of Colombia, including festivals such as Secret Walls and RUDA Fest.
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