Art Market Magazine

Dafna Navarro, CEO and Founder, Art Market Magazine. Curator and art appraisals, Editor in Chief at Art Market Magazine. Dafna Navarro is a known figure in the international art world as the Founder, CEO & Editor-Chief of two leading international Art & Photography Magazines, Art Market Magazine and Lens Magazine. Navarro is an Israeli - Spanish citizen, born in Jerusalem and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her education started at Technion University, studying interior design followed by general design studies with the artist Ilana Goor. She later obtained a diploma in curatorial studies and art appraisals. Dafna has lectured at visual art and design academies with years of experience working in advertising and media. Navarro serves on the Jury Panel of International respectable Art & Photography competitions, Including The 'GOLD LIST' Special Edition, Featuring…

When it comes to discovering young, up-and-coming art, it's hard to miss the Discovery Art Fairs. The popular German art fairs are held annually in Cologne and Frankfurt, two metropolises mainly known for their lively and traditional art scene and home to many art collectors. The Discovery Art Fair's unique characteristic: A carefully curated selection of renowned and young galleries, projects, and solo artists present themselves under one roof. In this way, the Fair reflects the spirit of the times and current developments in the international art market. In addition to established galleries, increasingly innovative projects such as pop-up stores, alternative art spaces, or online platforms are playing an important role, and numerous highly talented artists are choosing the path of self-marketing. For new buyers as well as experts or experienced collectors, every edition…

”IN 2006, I CREATED THE FIRST "SPECTRA," LIFE-SIZE HEAD SHAPES CAST IN RESIN. THEY THEMATIZE, I. A. THE DIALECTIC OF INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. THE IDEA OF THE LAYERED, "ONION-LIKE" STRUCTURE HAS BEEN EXPRESSED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES IN THE CONCEPT OF "… IN SMALL AS IN LARGE…" THE MICRO/MACROCOSM. I TIE THIS THOUGHT TO MY IDEA OF THE NATURE OF MAN. THE HUMAN PERSONALITY IS LAYERED LIKE AN ONION, FROM THE INFINITELY DIVISIBLE TO THE INFINITELY EXPANDED, WITH NO DEFINED END IN BOTH DIRECTIONS." - OLIVER CZARNETTA ”The "I" as a putatively static core emerges as an illusion, as another microcosm in a further macrocosm. Our personality is, therefore, to be understood as a process that takes place in the correspondence of outer and inner, in the tension between the layers. The processuality of the "spectrum" lies…

”I AM INTERESTED IN THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN TEMPTATION AND POISONING. IN MY WORKS, I ENACT THE ESTRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AS POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO OUR VISION. WHILE DOING SO, I INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POWER AND HELPLESSNESS." The installation is composed of two different units: sculptures and wall objects. The first unit of the installation is the serial work NIPS consisting of several granule-filled sculptures with latex skins, which are irregularly distributed in the room. They stand, sit, lie, curl up, etc. The installation is composed of two different units: sculptures and wall objects. The Cubes/I-V are covered with transparent latex coats, which remind us of human skins. A flexible tube of approximately 1-2m in length protrudes from the middle of each cube's frontal part. Barbara Koch was born in Wuppertal…

“I DEFINITELY AM A CONTRADICTION! I HAVE TWO CONTRADICTORY IDEAS IN MY HEAD, AND I BELIEVE IN THEM BOTH. I LIKE THEM BOTH, AND THEY BOTH LET ME DOWN. I SEE MYSELF TRYING HARD TO KEEP THE BALANCE BETWEEN THEM AND FIND MYSELF BENDING BACKWARD DOING ALL SORTS OF ACROBATICS ON THE THINNEST POSSIBLE FILAMENT, YET MANAGING TO BRING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF MY CREATIVITY: PARADISE AND HELL ALIKE." Jon Kraja (b.1970) is an Albanian artist working on painting, sculpture, installation, and set design. He emerged in the art scene in the 90's, after the fall of communism in Albania, producing surprising concepts in set design and working on large-scale gestural abstract and figurative painting. He is known for his constant personal research in identifying new ways of expression and experimenting with…

”MY ART EXPRESSES A SHARP SOCIAL CRITIQUE, FOCUSING ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TRAUMAS RATHER THAN PERSONAL ISSUES. THIS IS THE DARK SIDE OF THE CONSUMER SOCIETY WE ALL LIVE IN. TO BE EXCEEDINGLY COMICAL, BURLESQUE, DARK HUMOR HAS A SUBVERSIVE EDGE, AND I SINCERELY LIKE GROTESQUE AESTHETICS."- JULIANE HUNDERTMARK Vita Juliane Hundertmark (b.1971) is a Berlin-based artist who mainly focuses on social critique in her Satir artistic style. Hundertmark graduated as a designer after specializing in shaping and plastics at the Johann-Friedrich Böttger Institute in Selb, Bavaria. She later continued her design studies at the College of Design and Stage Design in Bayreuth and graduated in 2005. Since 1994, Hundertmark has exhibited her work in countless solo and group exhibitions around the globe, including at the Knight Webb Gallery in London in 2013,…