Jordy Kerwick
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1982. Currently lives and works in Albi, France.

Jordy Kerwick is a self-taught artist who began his painting career in 2016. He cited French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse as a major influence of his work. Kerwick has quickly acquired global recognition for his bold, raw and unapologetic approach to palette and pattern, executing vivid, expressionistic and highly-stylised compositions.

Known for his colourful, eclectic still-life paintings from earlier, Kerwick's latest body of work explores the fantastical elements and storied visions of the artist's interior imagination where new and unknown terrains collide. Using a variety of materials, from oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, to oil stick and collage on paper, the artist's "the more mistakes, the merrier" approach rejoices by unexpected combinations of colour, texture, and form. 

Kerwick's striking visual language stems largely from his homebody, domestic lifestyle—his son’s freehand doodle inspired him in the first place. His work draws on the contours of organic forms in domestic settings. Texture and colour inhabit his canvas, often centred on a potted plant. Sometimes traces of human life present themselves in way of an abandoned cigarette or a pile of books, their titles written playfully on their spines almost as if conversing with the viewer. The artist utilises a decisive use of impasto paint in blocks of colour combined with anarchic references to mythical figures, punk, and the odd romantic poet or philosopher. Kerwick’s paintings go beyond simply beautiful subject matter to reveal deeply personal stories like an inside joke.

1982年出生於澳洲墨爾本，在法國阿爾比生活和工作。

Jordy Kerwick是一位自學成才的藝術家，於2016年在藝術家內子鼓勵下開始了他的繪畫生涯。Kerwick曾透露自己畫風深受法國野獸派畫家馬蒂斯影響—Kerwick以大膽、原始的用色和圖案，執行生動、非常風格化的構圖，迅速風靡全球。

Kerwick早期以其色彩繽紛的靜物畫而聞名，以油彩、丙烯、噴漆及油畫棒等多種材料，充滿富想象力的奇幻元素和神話式敘事擦出火花。他以將錯就錯的心態作畫，會對顏色、質感和形式撞出的意外組合感到欣喜。

Kerwick奪目的視覺語言主要源自他的家庭生活—他受兒子無拘無束的塗鴉啟發。他的作品借鑑了家庭環境中常見物件的輪廓，經常以盆栽植物為中心，洋溢著紋理和色彩。 有時，Kerwick的作品中會遺下煙蒂或一堆書等生活的痕跡，更透過書脊上書名俏皮地與觀眾交談。 藝術家厚厚塗上大片油彩，揉合了神話人物、龐克和浪漫派詩人或哲學家的引言，果斷地帶出無政府主義的意味。 Kerwick的畫作不單外觀綺麗，背後更是潛藏深刻軼事，比較像一個圈內笑話。

Kazuma Koike

Born in 1980 and lives in Osaka, Japan.

Koike spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, attended a high school in Barcelona, Spain, and graduated from the Department of Sculpture, College of Art at Nihon University. Growing up in a multi-cultural environment, Koike is interested in mixing between cultures and religions.

Koike started his first attempt of deconstructionism sculpture by compiling various dismantled found objects, removing their physical meaning, and reforming into a sculpture. In the recent decade, Koike created most artworks by mixing images from different space and time, creating “fictional ancient artifacts” as if they do not belong to any era of the recorded history.

Motifs of divinity, big cats, plants and pineapples are repeatedly appears in Koike’s works, among them, the element of big cats are inspired by the tiger paintings of Japan's Edo period — there was no tiger in Japan at that time. Tiger paintings then were imaginary creatures made with reference to chinese paintings, furs brought back and cats. Koike always aims at the state where “different elements coexist in harmony”. He once joked that future scholars from 2000 years later will discover a whole new culture from my buried works.

小池一馬

1980年出生於日本大阪。
小池一馬於阿根廷布宜諾斯艾利斯度過了他的童年，並在西班牙巴塞羅那完成高中學業，從西班牙雕塑家Josép Clarà的作品獲得啟發去製作雕塑，後畢業於日本大學藝術學部雕塑系。受其多元文化的背景影響， 小池熱衷於混合各種文化和信仰的創作元素。

在創作初期，小池嘗試以各種現成物的部件拼湊出一件雕塑 ― 消解了物品本來的意義，單純以藝術的角度重組，是他對解構主義的嘗試。而近年他把不同地點和時期的影像混合創作「虛構的古器物」，賦予作品一種不屬於任何時空和地域的獨特漂浮感。

神靈、大型貓科動物、植物和菠蘿幾種元素常常被混合使用，其中大型貓科動物的選用源於日本江戶時代的虎圖 ― 其實當時的日本還沒有老虎。 這段時期的虎圖是參考從中國傳入的畫作和毛皮、結合貓的姿態創作而成的想像。小池一直追求着「不同元素和諧共存的狀態」，曾經笑言假若他的作品被埋到土裏，希望2000年後的學者會從他的作品中考古出一個全新的文明。