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Kevin Francis Gray was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. He currently lives and works between London and Pietrasanta.

Kevin Francis Gray has generated bodies of work which address the complex relationship between abstraction and figuration. At the core of the artist’s practice is an interrogation of the intersection of traditional sculptural techniques and contemporary life. Rather than working towards ideals of beauty or memorial, Gray attends to the psychological effects, often relying on textural surfaces rather than facial or bodily expressions. Furthering Gray’s decade of working with marble, his new work pushes the possibilities of the artist’s sculptural practice into new territories of physical and psychological expression.

He received his BA from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin (1995) and the School of Art Institute in Chicago (1996), and then went on to earn an MA in Fine Art from the Goldsmiths College in London. He works closely with the Giannoni marble studio in Pietrasanta, renowned for its use of sculpting techniques that date back to Canova and Michelangelo. His works have been included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London, UK; Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art of the Val de-Marne, Paris, France; Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam; Palazzo Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy; Musee d’art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France; ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; and Art Space, New York, USA.

Levi van Veluw was born in the Dutch town of Hoevelaken in 1985 and studied at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. He lives and works in Amsterdam. Since graduating in 2007, he has produced multi- disciplinary works that spans scenographic installations, photographs, videos, sculptures and drawings. Van Veluw bases his practice around the idea of an alternate reality, creating a visual laboratory where both order and chaos are present. The artist has extensively investigated the relativity of matter and draws on scientific theories and physics to approach various existential dilemmas. His dark and sensory installations encourage the viewer to reflect on the development of a new knowledge, stemming from the desire for a regulated universe, while acknowledging the rational impossibility of total control.

Among his personal recent exhibitions we remind: Videocittà Rome, Italy (2021); Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy (2020); Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede,The Netherlands (2020); Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2020); Het HEM, Zaandam, The Netherlands (2020); Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, Lucca, Italy (2019); Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France (2018); La Galerie Particulière, Paris (2017); Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (2019); Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London (2016). Among group shows we remind: Museo Kranenburgh, Bergen, The Netherlands (2017); labellisée Normandie Impressonniste, Jumièges, France (2016); Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, the Netherlands (2016); Maddox Arts, London (2015). Van Veluw’s works have also been widely shown at international art fairs such as Zona Maco (2018); The Armory Show, New York (2017); Art Brussels (2016); Chicago Art Fair (2016); Volta Basel (2012) and the Barcelona Loop Fair Barcelona (2014). The work of Levi Veluw has been exhibited internationally in leading museums and institutions, and is included in both public and private collections, including the Borusan Contemporary Collection, Caldic Collection, Ekard Collection and KPMG Art Collection.

Richard Dupont was born in New York in 1968. He lives and works in New York.In the 90s he attended Princeton University, Departments of Visual Art, Art and Archeology.

Dupont’s multifaceted artistic practice includes installations, sculptures, drawings, reliefs, animations and prints. Dupont’s work draws from a variety of themes and references, and engages the Postdigital in relation to the history of sculpture and the Body art, Process art and Systems art movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Richard Dupont’s work draws from a variety of themes and references, and has been described as “post-digital” and “post-internet”. His work references the Body art, Process art and Systems art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. However, he uses 3D digital models of bodies and objects rather than things themselves. Dupont had his body scanned at a General Dynamics facility on The Wright Patterson Air Force Base in 2004, and has been working from these images, translated into both two and three dimensions, since then. An interest in the implications of biometric technologies underpins much of his work. Interested in the way we scrutinize ourselves, Dupont sees his reproductions of the human figure as a way to highlight the idea of “self-surveillance,” and to note the way in which we map our lives through accumulating details.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Richard Dupont Show, ARC Fine Art LLC, New York (2021), Biometries, Heads and Islands, ARC Fine Art LLC, New York (2021), Solo project, Untitled Miami (2019), Fictions #1, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence (2018); Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York (2015); Object Ritual (Offsite), Queens Museum at Bulova Corporate Center, New York (2014); Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence (2014); Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York (2013); Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York (2011); Independent Project per The Armory Show, New York (2009); Lever House, New York (2008); Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), Peekskill (2008); Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York (2007); Art Positions, Solo Project, Art Basel Miami, Miami (2005).

Recent group shows include: Planthouse Gallery, New York
(2017); Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, New York  (2017); Planthouse Gallery, New York(2016); The New York Academy of Art, New York (2015); Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester (2013); The Richard Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, New York (2013); Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York (2012): The Flag Art Foundation, New York (2010); Charest Weinberg Gallery, Miami (2010); International Print Center, New York (2009); New Prints Autumn 2007, International Print Center, New York (2008); Six Degrees of Separation, Stux Gallery, New York (2006); Center Gallery at FAU, Boca Raton (2004); Space 101, Brooklyn, New York (2003).

Alfredo Pirri was born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1957. He lives and works in Rome, is one of the best-known artists working there. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and graduated with a degree in Painting.

His work, between painting and sculpture, architecture and installation, gains international recognition in the mid-80s. Color, matter, volume and space are instrumental to his practice which finds, in the relationship with light, the origin of a research which continuously reinvents itself. The work of Alfredo Pirri harmonically confronts architecture and constantly tends to the creation of an archetypal place, a space for dwelling connected to a public function.

Alfredo Pirri has exhibited in several museums and biennials, in Italy and abroad, among which: Eduardo Secci Milan (2021); Castello Maniace, Siracusa (2021); MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2017), Nomas Foundation (2016-2017), Museo Novecento, Florence (2015); London Design Festival (2015); National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome with the semi-permanent installation “Passi” (2012-2016); Palazzo Te, Mantova (2013) e Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground Konjic, Bosnia Herzegovina (2013), where “Passi” is permanently exhibited; National Archaeological Museum Reggio Calabria (2011) with his permanent installation “Piazza”; Visual Arts Centre Pescheria, Pesaro (2007); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Parigi (2006); Havana Biennial (2001); French Academy in Rome -Villa Medici (2000); MoMa PS1, New York (1999); Korrespondenzen, Walter Gropius Bau, Berlino (1992); Venice Biennial (1988).

His recent collaborations with architects Nicola di Battista (director of Domus) and Efisio Pitfalls (Studio PROAP, Lisbon) were exhibited in 2015 at the British School in Rome.

He has taught at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, at the Sapienza University in Rome, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. He is currently teaching Painting at the Academy in Frosinone and Visual Arts Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.

In 2015 AMACI (Italian Association for Contemporary Art Museums) selected Alfredo Pirri as guiding artist for the eleventh contemporary art day.