Stoa, Art Gallery, Estepona, Málaga

Gallery Artists

 

The Gallery Background is constituted by several artists who have a special bond with the gallery and whose paintings are exhibited permanently. These artists always receive the maximum support from the Gallery.

 

ARTISTS

 

Julie Alègre

Conchi Álvarez Álvarez

Juan Manuel Álvarez Cebrián

Paz Aymerich

Gloria Ducás

Javier Infantes

Allan Neff

Mª Jesús Ramírez

Belén R. Esturla

Antonia Benítez

 

CONCHI ÁLVAREZ ÁLVAREZ

 

Painter of a kind and personal feminine world, close to symbolism. She is in love with Andalucia, she is an enthusiastic promoter of the new figurative Andalucian art aiming to retake the costumbrist tradition of the 19th century. This is the reason why great part of her actual work revolves about the fascinating universe of the Andalucia´s woman. Her personal experiences form part of her paintings and portraits. Her work captures a subjective an ideal vision, which is not far away from the multiple classical influences. Paintings which overflow with light and intense colours that bring together harmony and balance to the compositions; creating worlds in which reigns optimism, sensuality and beauty…

Patio andaluz Andalusian Patio	Esperándote Waiting for you	Bella opresión Beautiful oppression
El teatro de la vida The theatre of live	Asomándome Arasing	Las dos primeras cofrades The first two cofrades

Papá Daddy	Héctor (7 años) (7 years old)	Héctor (20 años) (20 years old)
Dafne	Autorretrato con mantilla blanca Selfportrait with white mantilla	Boda en Castilla Wedding in Castile

Autorretrato con vidriera Selfportrait with stained glass	Óscar con vidriera Oscar with stained glass	Rui
Dafne y los músicos Dafne and the musicians	El perfume The perfume	Esperándole Waiting for him.

Ramón	Patio castellano Castilian patio

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PAZ AYMERICH

Pintora que inicia su andadura profesional en el mundo del arte de la mano de la Galería Stoa. Adora y vive la pintura con pasión.

She is a painter who begins her professional work in the world of art by the hand of Stoa Art Gallery. She adores and lives art with passion.

Paz´s paintings provoke a very strong impression. It seems that our eyes are before an integral nude, a nude from the soul, a  pure interior world. Her cityscapes reflect her vision of life: lover and friend of people, her friends, but afraid of people, even though when she needs them. Views of impossible but safe attics, from which enjoying the city with living houses full of people, far away almost unnoticeable, without any sign of aggression, but there they are. It is a beautiful and silent vision of the great city but we perceive its human heart beat, its essences, nearly its interior hubbub, but there is no one visible. It is a bespoke world in which every single spectator gives every sight of oneself provoking a different sensation …. “Impression, confusing city".

The execution of the work is fast,  breaking down bushstrokes or tapping on the palette, dematerializing backgrounds or details like mosaics, bringing out impossible colours from that inspiring feeling which pushed her before the board or canvas with decision. They are instantaneous feelings and emotions of a moment... or maybe of an entire lifetime, sketched to be determined by each glance.

Paz Aymerich has participated in two exhibitions in Stoa, in the inauguration of the gallery: “The beginnings” and also in a solo exposition titled: “In the city”.

Lejanía I Remoteness I	Lejanía I Remoteness II	Casares II
Ciudad rota Broken city	Azoteas blancas White flat roof	Tejados de París Paris´s roof tops

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JULIE ALÈGRE

She is a young French painter, author of shocking pieces. Her fascination for the Mediterranean Sea is always present in all her works, both the north of Africa, where she has lived part of her childhood and France where she has been living until today.  She uses formats of different sizes with a light support, canson paper and using a thousand-year-old technique, the ink. The colour inks, on her brushes, seem to explode creating a colourful impulse as old as mankind, the femininity in its different aspects: specially when it has to do with the cult of the mother goddess, the Mediterranean Potnia Theron, considering the theme of the maternity; with apparent naivety, almost childish, in women meetings; sensually and passionately, in the feeling of love and passion of the couple. Doubtless, from the warmth that her works transmit, we perceive an universal and feminine tenderness which does not know about religion, language or race...

Marrakech	Leïla Saïda	Té a la menta Tea mint
Oasis rosa Pink oasis	Suspendidas en el aire Hanging in the air	Mujeres "lavas fluídas" Women "flowing lavas"

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GLORIA DUCÁS

 

She is a plastic artist, an excellent engraver. She is in the posession of a refined, clean and meticulous technique, and meticulous detail proper of the great masters, but at the same time free, fresh and energetic, powerful and fresh, exuding contemporanity.

What a beautiful combination Gloria gets! In these times full of people and cultures, she syncretizes on the paper  the line of work along the History. From the monochromatic ethnical simplicity of the Assyrians to the fantastic richness of colour found in the organic Andalucia’s mountains; from the beautiful ambition disguised of sin, in her religious themes to her dreams of  imaginary impossible forests, all of them inspire without any limit of object, or drawing , to unify in visual effects all what we are. Part from today and part from the past, from here and from there, sometimes quietly and sometimes laudly, her dreams boil in our mind through her engravings.

Bajamar Low tide	Campanarios de Madrid  II Madrid´s bell towers II	Carmona I
Las Tres Gracias II The Three Graces	Susana y los viejos Susan and the old men	Otoño Autumn

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JUAN MANUEL ÁLVAREZ CEBRIÁN

 

He is a painter with a wide experience in the market of the art and several prizes and awards. 

He is a prolific, disciplined and indefatigable worker. His muse knows that he is always prepared, willing to hear her whisper. He is a lover of painting above all, his work reflects real near worlds. His diversity of styles varies from hyperrealism and surrealism to the symbolism, with a hint of Pop Art. His thematic is also wide: from the everyday-life viewed from his personal point of view of several still lifes paintings, passing to the reviewed classic mythology but checked and updated. The oneiric world appears in his kind painting....with great ideal dreams as background but difficult to be reached. He loves and plays with the symbols: beautiful signs and codes. His apparently simple landscapes contain worrying insinuations, and his self-portraits reveal a fascinating personality. The final balance: in his work, there is always an optimistic beat, a positive vision of life.

Orquídeas Orchid	El walkman The walkman	CD, cinta, pluma y concha sobre papel CD, cassette, feather and shell on paper
Palomar I Dovecot I	Palomar II Dovecot II	La cinta roja The red ribbon

Secuencia de bombillas Light bulb sequences	Secuencias I Sequences I	Rosaleda Rose garden

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JAVIER INFANTES

 

He is an artist coming from Estepona of great versatility: paintings,  digital work and drawings,some of them already published.

In painting, he uses mainly mix techniques in a certain informality very personal (Group “Deep”), coexisting with the geometric games of the group ( “Labyrinth”)  and the figurative canvas  from the group (“Haiku”). The digital work dazzles by its contemporary clasicism, while the drawings show a Javier Infantes close to surrealism and caricature,  as well as hints of Pop Art.

 

Profundo nº 5 Deep nº 5	Laberinto nº 5 Labyrinth nº 5	Laberinto nº 3 Labyrinth nº 3
Haiku I: en el jardín (in the garden)	Haiku 2	Haiku 4

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ALLAN  NEFF

 

 

A complete artist, renaissance, not only for the completeness of his artistic spectrum: painter, sculptor, writer, musician... but for the intensity of his devotion to the art, his passion.

Stoa Art Gallery exhibited the retrospective of Allan Neff’s work, first time shown to the public,in an exhibition called “Creation...” In total a group of twenty four paintings from 1992 to 2006. He uses acrylic on a large scale format canvas or sackcloth. It is to highlight the categorical drawing of the forms and the sculptural power of his figures, together with a range of intense colour hues unexpected for the acrylic, obtained by means of a patient and premeditated way of painting by endless layers of paint.  The composition, very neat and classical, achieves to transmit harmony to the viewer through anonimous figures, almost abstract and anthropomorphic natures, born of a thematic emerging sometimes from the artists personal life experiences and other from meditated and philosophical reflections, strongly emphasizing the group dedicated to Adam and Eve.

Un día en el Paraíso A day in paradise	El ojo que todo lo ve The I is all	El fracaso (El hijo pródigo) The failure (The prodigal son)
Adán y Eva suben la montaña Adam and Eve climb the mountain	Eva atónita Starled Eve	El despertar del hombre Awakening man

Atardecer en St. Mondrier Sunset at St. Mondrier	Salida de la luna en St. Mondrier Moorise over St. Mondrier	Danza en la jungla Jungle dance

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