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Artist. Dongni Hou
Artist. Dongni Hou

She now lives and resides in France. Her works are presented at Laurence Esnol Gallery. Her works reveal under the brushes all the poetic nuances of the human soul, even in the darkest corners, even if supported by bright colors. Behind sometimes a wise appearance, a second reading of her work may twist the neck of sentimentality and take us with dark humor into another universe as singular as it is fantastic.

A very personal work about the virtue of the human being, confronted to loneliness, about all the poetry of its dramatism and irony of life.

Where do you find inspiration?
From my personal experiences, from life, emotions (pain, joy…). I try to feel and understand the human condition. I aim at representing human as a whole, from its psychological background to social definition, attempting to see what in us, is intemporel and unlimited, from the light to the darkness. 

How do you create your paintings?
Each painting is a reflection and emotion overflow, to create a painting is to create (or rebuild) myself, I don’t really focus on how to create but what I want to transfer with the technique that fits, usually when the idea is there, the creating will do it by himself.

What motivates you to create?
The will of living, the way of self finding, as a sensitive soul, what I learn and feel pushes me to express myself to go further. Each time I’m in front of a canvas, to give a feeling and a sense of existence, it’s a more of self-creating than just the making of an image. 

How do you organize your day? Do you have a routine?
Hear, observe, feel, think, reflect,  read, think, paint, walk… I spend most of the time alone, that makes me think more clearly and deeply.

I saw your works in Paris. What is fascinating for you about that city?
This is a cosmopolitan and dynamic city, a collision between different cultures and great minds, I admire the monuments, museums and exhibitions and its splendid history, complexity that stimulate the life and the mind.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve; 50x70cm, 2022
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve; 50x70cm, 2022

Have you ever exhibited in Vienna? In the mood for it?
I haven’t yet, It would be with great pleasure.

What are you working on?
Now I’m in a period of self reflection, something will change, in a better way, something maturing, hopefully coming soon.

Dongni Hou – www.instagram.com/douni_hou/

On the occasion of Tom of Finland’s birthday, the Foundation and The Community have curated AllTogether, a group presenting Tom of Finland Foundation’s permanent collection to the public.

Han Xiao was born in China. In 2021, his family moved to Spain. In 2005, he graduated from the Design Department of the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, majoring in Landscape.

The exhibition gives us insights into the spectrum of expressive forms of art. The artworks shown are based on what had happened, memories and perception, spanning from the past into the future.

Lavinia de Rothschild is an artist, art collector who has never felt like she belonged to any one culture or nationality. Lavinia has always felt closer to animals and nature than to humans and our mechanical world.

Kalina Horon is an artist painter from Poland, who has been living in Vienna since 2014. Although she received classical music training in her childhood and youth, she decided to give it up in favour of painting.

Kenji Lim graduated with a BFA from Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, in 2002 and with a Masters in Sculpture from The Royal College of Art, London, in 2019, and has lived many lives in between.

Dan McCleary is a Los Angeles based artist. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and frequently travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he makes etchings at the Taller Sangfer.

This is Liza. A 23-year-old girl. Also an illustrator, graphic designer, and explorer of all things circling in our brains. She visually describes thoughts which have their own existence.

Carlos Vergara is an artist from Barranquilla, Colombia, currently studying at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Within his work, he positions himself in the periphery of diverse scenarios.

Pati Baztán is a Spanish artist, based in the middle of the countryside near Barcelona. She paints as she lives, with wild abandon. She is more interested in being led by the desire, emotion, and primal instincts.

Elke Foltz is a French painter. Her work is a search for balance within a constant chaos. All the elements aim to be in harmony and in perpetual renewal in spite of the prevailing disorder.

It was William Burroughs who, in the early 1960s, in his eponymously named cut-up novel, described the human body as a ‘soft machine’, constantly besieged ‘by a vast, hungry host of parasites’.

Olga graduated on the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and has also studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. She has realized dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Austria and in other European countries.

Due to the fusion of digital life with the physical they have become part of our lived reality. The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality is addressed through artistic positions.

Feels so warm that you can walk around with your transition jacket. We are invited by the artist Nives Widauer to her studio, and I arrive there with Cornelius, who backs me up in documenting this conversation.

Kim Dorland pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. Drawing heavily from the Canadian landscape.

In Impuzzibil, there are these bodies struggling and folding and stretching in stacked boxes. They didn’t disappear but they’re not fully there either. And there is no magician present to help out.

From one art fair to the next, from Vienna to Milan. Therefore, the impressions of the second edition of SPARK reach the reader a little late. I deliberately visited the site of the art fair three times.