The Big Exhibition on the Israeli Art Market Gallery features various Israeli and international artists' work. Both emerging and established artists are featured in the Big Exhibition, including winners of the esteemed GOLD LIST, Published by the International Art Market Magazine.
The GOLD LIST is a special annual edition celebrating the best artists of that year. Many of the biggest names in contemporary art have been featured in the GOLD LIST since it was first released in 2017, Including an exclusive interview with Jeff Koons, Antony Micallef, Lois Greenfield, Antoine Cordet, Sandro Miller, Sasan Nasernia, Philippe Pasqua, Carole Feuerman, Alfred Leslie, Piet Van Den Boog, and Christy Lee Rogers amongst others.
In October 2021, the prestigious Gold List Special Edition #6 featured some of the most fascinating highlights artists worldwide, including Lucio Carvalho, Tim Tadder, Stuart McLachlan, Mark Edward Harris.
We are thrilled to announce some of the Gold List Award artists of the past years' inclusion in the Big Exhibition.
■ PETER FOESTERS
Belgien Artist Peter Foesters, (B. 1968) works in a unique technique and creates Contemporary Urban Abstract with a third dimension. Depth is significant to him, and he expresses it in combination with bright flow colors. That is his trademark. He wants to show the beauty of destruction.
Foesters sees a certain beauty in all ugliness. The artist mainly gets inspiration from music, lyrics, urban architectural buildings, and landscapes. Artists like Klein, Hockney, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Basquiat have significantly influenced his work and inspired him.
■ LIKA RAMATI
Lika Ramati is a visual new media artist, fine art photographer, and designer. Ramati is the founder and decorator of the legendary downtown Yaffa Cafe and Simone Martini Bar in New York and appears in the USA's list of 100 top Israeli influential entrepreneurs.
She is The Artist Of The Year 2020 in Italy, the Gold List of emerging artists by Art Market magazine, and an international book of the most influential Women Of The World. Her Artistic language has no limits, from street art giant images to interior design projects for public spaces to international art exhibits. Lika is exhibiting her art in shows and galleries worldwide, in private collections, and appearing in numerous international magazines and art books. Goddess and Muse.
"People often think of the Goddess as a fertility deity only. Not at all—she's the muse. She's the inspirer for poetry. She's the inspirer of the spirit." - Mysteries of the Feminine Divine Joseph Campbell.
■ ALFRED FREDDY KRUPA
Alfred Freddy Krupa MFA (1971) grandson and student of Alfred Krupa sr. (Poland, 1915 – Yugoslavia, 1989) graduated in 1995 from the Academy Of Fine Arts (ALU) of the University of Zagreb. In 1998/99, as a postgraduate research student, he studied Japanese painting at Tokyo Gakugei University.
Krupa also studied Art History (postgraduate scientific study) at the University of Zagreb (1996/1997, 1997/1998). In 2005 he finished additional art education study and had been given the formal permanent title of "Professor of Drawing and Painting" by the Croatian State Institute for Education. (Today "Education and Teacher Training Agency"-ETTA/AZOO).In his manifesto (New Ink Art Manifesto, 1996), Krupa describes his ink painting as an interpretation of western modern art with the means of East Asian ink technique, as a combination of contemporary painting and traditional Chinese-Japanese calligraphy.
Alfred Krupa celebrates 30 years of public and artistic work (1990-2020). Today, he is considered the leading representative of Modern European ink painting and the pivotal figure in the Western New Ink Art movement.
■ LENA SILVA
Lena Silva is a contemporary, modern artist of Portuguese origin, resident in the United Kingdom. A lover of Arts, sophistication, and simplicity greatly influenced by the Renaissance art period.
Patron to the Florence Academy of Arts. While creating her pieces, albeit using varied mediums, its meaning often becomes clear once the colors absorb light. She often gets a sense of belonging, an escape from the acrimony of daily life and the chaos of society. Through her work, Lena aims to evoke light, love, happiness, tranquillity, a sense of belonging gifted to the observer.
Her work is also an expression of her wondering of human survival, persistence, and perpetuity of life—a fascination with life and its meaning, its consanguinity relating directly to the beauty of the experience. Lena
