The room is dim. A clarinet calls from the curb. On Seurat’s stage, the act hasn’t started—yet the mask is already doing its work.

Japan’s studios buzz—ink, pixels, welded steel, algorithms. A postwar avant-garde tradition mixes with post-internet fluency, and the product is at once ceremonial and neon-slick.

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Sara Gonçalves is a painter whose works evoke a sense of familiarity through an ethereal lens on everyday objects, scenarios, interactions, and ways of living. She creates dynamic, emotionally charged compositions with bold expressiveness, blending technical precision and creative freedom.

Born in 1982 in Severodonetsk, Ukraine, Oleksandr Topchyi is a contemporary painter based in Kyiv. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, where he now lives and works.

We live immersed in information — and it’s exhausting: newsletters, blogs, social feeds, chats, ads. While being bombarded with desaturated meanings, we slowly suffocate

Mediocrity. Few words cut as sharply. For an artist still searching for their voice, it can feel like a final sentence.

I didn’t even need to trust my judgment on that one… the universe had decided for me. I bought the piece on the spot through the platform. 

The recent sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana and subsequent eating of the latter caused a fresh wave of contemplation on what art is and why it is. 

Have you ever noticed that a work of art does not so much “communicate” a meaning to you as it changes the atmosphere around you? This is especially true of abstract art.

I have often been called & labeled as a ‘creative’ person. And I love beautiful things, be they small or large. At the same time, I am logical and analytical.

Have you ever stood before a painting and felt like it was looking back at you? Not just something you admire from a distance, but something that senses you too?