DINO VALLS

                                                       "DIES IRAE"

Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Since 1988, he has lived and worked in Madrid.

Building on a childhood passion for drawing, Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982, Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting.

As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art, Valls' work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being. In the early '90s, Valls began studying the use of egg tempera, adapting and customizing the techniques of Italian and Flemish masters from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries to create new works in combinations of tempera and oil. His paintings elaborate and expand upon the methods of past masters, employing formal figurative techniques as the medium through which to explore the human psyche in a conceptual framework laden with profound psychological weight and symbolism.

Valls has participated in important international exhibitions of contemporary art, and has held numerous showings in Europe and the United States. http://www.dinovalls.com/

                                                         "FLOS"

                                                          "TACERE"

                                                                   "REGRESSUS"

                                                       "GRAVID ALTARPIECE"

                                              "TENEBRAE LESSONS"

                                                    "SOLVE ET COAGULA"

                                                             "AD INFEROS"

                                                        "LIMBUS"

                                                        "NOXA"

                                                     "CRYPTODIDYMUS"

                                                    "HIATUS"

ERWIN OLAF

Erwin Olaf (born Erwin Olaf Springveld on June 2, 1959, Hilversum, Netherlands) is a Dutch photographer.

Olaf is most famous for his commercial and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Microsoft and Nokia. Some of his most famous photographic series include "Grief", "Rain", and "Royal Blood". Never one to shy away from controversy, Olaf's work is often daring and provocative. Humorously however, one of his early photographs was once expelled from a show on the basis of not containing nudity.

His work has received many awards and he has held exhibitions around the world. http://www.erwinolaf.com/index.html

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Thomas Buchta ( Herr Buchta )

The german photographer Herr Buchta turns reality upside down and created his own phantasy of a bizarre and dark visual world where the artist sometimes likes to take the role of the protagonist, the jester, the twisted, takes the spectator on a journey into a grotesque and macabre world which is artfully and perfect staged. His favourite genre of music:EBM, Industrial, Metal.