Trophy artists
Kyriaki Moustaki
Kyriaki Moustaki is a Vallauris-based ceramist whose work is inspired by Greek mythology. Originally from the Greek island of Naxos, part of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, she remains attached to her homeland. While Naxos is rich in marble and emery, the land devoted to agriculture is scarce and precious, as on the Greek islands. The clay also reminds her of her first childhood toys, which she made herself from clay. This artist creates works using the Raku or glazed clay technique. She has an exhibition space in Vallauris and continues to take part in international pottery markets and exhibitions in France and abroad.
Store: 9 rue Clément Bel, near Place de l’Homme au mouton by Picasso, Vallauris.
Ernesto Novo
Born into a French-Vietnamese immigrant family, Ernesto Novo grew up in a family of eleven children in Arianne, a neighborhood with a strong cultural mix. As a child, he discovered in drawing a place of freedom and refuge. As he grew up, he trained at the Villa Arson in Nice, while at the same time enjoying incredible travel experiences around the world, where he drew on the ground with chalk. This was the beginning of his relationship with public space as a place of expression and protest, but also as a place of interaction with the people who pass through it.
Today, Ernesto Novo is a talented painter and street artist whose work, both studio and fresco, pays tribute to music and to people in the shadows, celebrating living together and the richness of the hearts of those who work for peace. He does not hesitate to commit himself, for example, to the restitution of African works of art, to the cause of migrants and integration, and to raising awareness of climate change. To this end, he has just created a fresco in Bombay on the theme of sustainable development.
Ernesto’s Instagram: @ernesto.novo
Olivia Barisano
At the heart of her sculptural and performative work, Olivia Barisano explores identity, filiation and memory through a physical commitment to the repetition of ancestral gestures. She questions our relationship with the world and with time by observing the wear and tear of everyday life, the transformation of matter through the imprint of touch. With ceramics, she puts the action of time in abyss, confronting traditional know-how with the contemporary world. This dialogue between past and present anchors her in the soil and links her to her roots, while evoking the fragility of memory in the face of oblivion. In a world riven by social, political and ecological upheaval, her work resonates as a reminder of our vital link to the earth and to the gestures that shape us.
Olivia’s website: http://www.oliviabarisano.com
Instagram: @oliviabarisano
Photo of Olivia ©Patricia Lascabannes
Nelson Doutres
Illustrator and engraver Nelson Doutres comes from a craft background. His grandfather introduced him to drawing and typography, which led him to create stories by combining images and letters. He scribbles, writes, engraves, composes, prints and shapes. His inspiration comes from painting, literature and cinema of all genres and eras. Like a Frankenstein, he deconstructs and assembles them. Perhaps going against the grain, his figurative practice is rich in interpretation, questioning the environmental and societal issues of our time.
Nelson’s website: www.nelsondoutres.com
Instagram: @nelsonmanufacture
Julie Dalloz
Julie Dalloz is a visual artist. Observing, searching, understanding, seeing and showing is the aim of her exploration of life, which she chooses to approach from a luminous and colorful angle. Driven by an immense curiosity for everything that surrounds her, particularly the links between human relationships and nature, Julie interprets living things in a sensitive and joyful way, combining balance and aestheticism in organic forms. The nuances she assumes are a way of celebrating the vibrations of existence, its obviousness and its most mysterious contrasts. For her, creation lies in the ability to connect with herself and express her inner movements in tangible form, embodying values of truth, authenticity and freedom.
After 10 years as an expatriate living between Dubai and London, and numerous travels that have constantly enriched and renewed her view of the world, Julie has now set up her studio gallery in Grasse, where she organizes a variety of events related to art and culture.
Julie’s website: www.juliedalloz.com
Instagram: @julie.dalloz.art and @atelier27_grasse
Abderraouf Smaili
Abderraouf Smaili, trained at the Beaux-Arts in Algiers and Tourcoing, is a painter and sculptor whose universe oscillates between graffiti and Figuration libre. Inspired by his childhood memories and his deep connection with nature, he translates the energy of the living world into shapes and colors. His grimacing faces and expressive animals reflect a tension between playfulness and instinct. At times, these portraits become a reflection of raw spontaneity, capturing the emotions of the living world.
fleeting moments. He draws on nature and his memories for moments of freedom and discovery to create a vibrant universe in perpetual motion.
Abderraouf’s Instagram: @zvin999
