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Christine Philipp
E-mail: kontakt@christinephilipp.de
Name of artwork: Kongresshalle - 2004
Technique: Oil on Canvas
Size: 130 x 160 cm

My paintings distinguish [themselves] through my choice of apparently ordinary everyday subjects; bus stops, airport terminals, train stations become abstract scenarios, that always appear deserted. These motives in the foreground become an epic cause for communication through artistic expression that goes far deeper. I analyse immaterial phenomena such as light, air and water and interpret their effects pictorially. I move between reality and the abstract and leave the viewer much room for discovery.

I was born in Berlin. As a child of a big city I am interested in urban life and architecture made for living, working and its functionality for society in every day life. The accompaniments, such as loneliness and anonymity are an important subject of my work.
Jan von Holleben
E-mail: janvh@web.de
Name of artwork: The Peter Pan - 2006
Technique: 35mm Colour Negative
Size: 40 x 60cm

I want to question and challenge traditional views on childhood and how a child defines its own being. I want to show a possibility of documenting childhood in a child friendly and respectable way in opposition to popular visual representation of childhood which is mainly directed by adults. I also want to introduce a very playful attitude to photography. I want to promote a very simple and accessible way of producing art.

Given my subject matter I can say that most of these images are produced through the eyes of my inner child... and also through the eyes of the matured child in memory to those times when I didn't know what childhood was all about!
My childhood was very adventurous and not always easy yet well protected. I guess that I very much enjoyed being a child and was also very much aware of that.
All these experiences nurture my art.
Nadege Meriau
E-mail: nadege@nadege.co.uk
Name of artwork: untitled - 2005
Technique: photography
Size: 30 x 40 inches

These photographs stem from a desire to re-connect with the fantastical world of children's imagination where nature takes gigantic and sometimes threatening proportions, wallpaper is animated and animals are endowed with magical powers and a strong symbolic presence.
Ambiguous narratives where innocence meets darkness and beauty has a sense of menace leave space for the viewer's interpretation.

Both my parents were writers so I needed to find my own voice and I was attracted to the visual arts from an early age. However literature and fairy tales- which I immersed myself into as a child- have always had a strong influence on my work and I like my images to have a sense of narrative.
Nature and animals were also very present in my childhood as I spent a lot of time on my grandparents farm. I remember making dolls out of corn cobs.
Sharon Mor Yosef
E-mail: info@sharonmoryosef.com
Name of artwork: Crying Guy - 2005
Technique: Digital
Size: 110 x 95 cm

My work is about emotions, I'm trying to tell a story using my way working with light - and models... my viewer can solve the mysteries I present to him with his own mind, creativity and background... what one person can notice and see could be completely the opposite [to] another's person[al] explanation. That is art...in my vision.

I was born in a very small village in the Jordan Valley - Israel, so you can say that my childhood experiences have everything and nothing at all with the artist that I am now - and all that in a perfect harmony.
Christi Nielsen
E-mail: crnielsen@gmail.com
Name of artwork: Victory - 2006
Technique: Digital Photography / Light Jet Print
Size: 16x20 inches- 40x50 cm

The psychological effects of trying to reach an ever-changing ideal, whether physical or theoretical, are presented as distorted reality. The courage to confront these distortions peels away the layers of an evolving identity. It is my hope that this work causes young women to challenge societal pressures and to accept themselves by exploring their strength and independence.

I was not allowed to question or disagree with anything as a child without suffering punishment. I quickly learned to silence my opinions and thoughts. As an artist, I have found a way to speak my mind through a visual dialogue that often screams from the image.
Daniel & Pascale Mettler & Wiedemann
E-mail: pwiedemann@magfak.ch
Name of artwork: I love you so much it hurts me 2, 2006
Technique: Photographie - Lambdaprint
Size: 40/40/2 cm

The artist duo Pascale Wiedemann and Daniel Mettler investigate the state of the human body. In their earlier works they portrayed different states of the soul. Nowadays they investigate health and illnesses of the human body; on the other hand they try to simulate reality by photographing their installations.
The photographs are medium sized, digital lambdaprints, the subject of the images is a real human body.
The images should stimulate the awareness of oneself - to the viewer.

Both artists spent their childhood and youth in a very rural environment, in the mountains of Graubünden, Switzerland. They were deeply influenced by the beautiful landscape and spent most of their time in nature. In a very early stage of their lives they started creating their own fantasy world by investigating the woods, the river, the snow and the rocks.
Both artists were very particular children, who had difficulties finding their place in society.
Christian Junghanns
E-mail: mail@neopop.de
Name of artwork: Sevenmiles - 2006
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 50 x cms

I believe in the universal language of art and the fact that we are more alike than we are unalike no matter where we come from. I want to make people smile, to evoke human connection and stimulate their sense of who we are in creating colourful, cheerful icons of life. As such, I believe that my work is both a communication event and a way to build communication by balancing the interaction of mind, imagination, and spirit.

At the age of 5, I was sitting at my Grandmother's desk, making drawings and writing letters with a broad stroke felt tip marker. Today, at the age of 36, I am still doing it, just the desk has changed.
I am trying to keep my childhood's view and sense of simplicity while I am working on my pictures.
Elena Rondini
E-mail: elena@fastwebnet.it
Name of artwork: La vita è un mozzico - 2006
Technique: Hand sculpted marble
Size: 30x20x8 approx.

The feelings often arise in a grotesque" form (strange
Eleonora Rossi
E-mail: eleonorarossi76@yahoo.it
Name of artwork: 12 years old
Technique: Bitumen
Size: 40 x 60 cm

I have decided to speak about the weak people and of the discriminates, [those] that are living in the industrialized world and [also] where they are [in the] majority: in Cent[ral] and South America, in Asia, in Africa. Not in sympathetic way, establishing skillful vicinities: I make it creating images not destined for today, not only finalized to the urgency of the denunciation, but above all aware of one scandalous difference, as civil and religious concept together.
Achim Körfer
E-mail: a.koerfer@unikatfabrik.de
Name of artwork: Mirror-Glance 2006
Technique: Shot with a mirror-reflex camera to preserve the authenticity of conventional photography
Size: 90 x 60 cm

PHOTOGRAPHY IS MY PASSION
The photographs from my travels right across Europe put everyday subjects in novel contexts and thus direct the beholder's view from the realities captured and subtly enhanced on film to new and refreshing perspectives. The intriguing effects of my compositions are actually attained through exclusive use of the techniques of conventional photography. It is only occasionally, whenever colour effects need heightening, that digital techniques are applied. The essence of the subject is nonetheless preserved, the viewer's perspective simply shifted with the aid of a subtle nuance put the motif in a completely and refreshingly new light.
Bjarne Barne
E-mail: bjarne@barebjarne.no
Name of artwork: Andrzej - 2006
Technique: Digital Photograph, printed and mounted on aluminium.
Size: 46 x70 cm

[I b]egan full time photography in February 2006, after years of painting. [In] May 2006, after returning from a three month stay in Asia, I staring working as an assistant at Hole Artcenter in Norway. In August 2006 I started assisting two photographers full time. As I type this (January 5th 2007) I pack my things, and leave for Cairo, to explore the people of the Arabic world. Planning to explore Jordan, Syria and Iran. My camera is the best travel companion.

I photograph people. People make the world. Every person on the planet has her/his own thoughts. What do the random person on the street think when she/he is alone? I think all people are interesting. All of them have some story. When portraying people, I seek that thoughtful" expression
Branislav Nikolic
E-mail: bbbbb@eunet.yu
Name of artwork: Planets - 2004
Technique: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 100 x 80 cm

As an artist I'm trying to communicate with a wide public. I'm using well known images and trying to present them in a new way, clear and strong. A bit of humor and good spirit is always present in my works and that's what I'm trying to share with the public on this show and on every other show I'm taking part.

Since my father was also painter, I didn't notice when I became an artist myself. My childhood influenced my artwork as well as art influenced my childhood. For me, that's the same thing. Artists should never grow up. We are still playing, and I hope that's the freshness you can still see in my works.
Francesco Brunotti
E-mail: francesco_brunotti@hotmail.com
Name of artwork: Walls of my Heart
Technique: Digital print- Forex 10 mm
Size: 50 x 70 cm

These are the words that best describe my photographic work and vision:
feelings, isolation, creation, colour, reality, unreality, neon lights, cold places, emptiness, life, love, regret.

I grew up in a small, industrial, suburban town. In a certain way, I always tried to shy away from this reality, ever since I was a child; In order to do so, I used my mind a lot, creating a different reality to the one that I usually inhabit. Growing up, I applied this concept to my works, drawing inspiration from past experiences and from the feelings that these aforementioned environment(s) evoked - and still evoke - inside me, turning this reality into something different and darker.
Yiorgos Tsalamanis
E-mail: tsalamanisg@gmail.com
Name of artwork: Waveform
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 200 x 80cm

I just want to help, when it is possible. [My childhood] built my character.
Gulcan Senyuvali
E-mail: senyuvali@hotmail.com
Name of artwork: Vanessa's girls... -2006
Technique: Acrylic on paper
Size: 21 x 29cm

Currently my works are based on image of woman and body. Thanks to this organization, I would like to share my experiences which are related to this issue with public.

There is no doubt that my childhood sensibilities ha[ve] determined my artistic process. Today imagination of my childhood affects my attitudes and approaches.
Jason Gibilaro
E-mail: info@jasongibilaro.com
Name of artwork: Biker - 2005
Technique: Acrylic
Size: 76 x 102cm

I am based in London [and] from 2002 to the beginning of 2006 was based much of the time in New York. A lot of the imagery for current work is derived from that. At present I am interested in the urban environment covering areas such as: visual presence through its architecture, effects on individuals as well has the general population.

I spent a lot of my childhood abroad in different places. I remember that it was during these periods that it seemed to unlocked my creative potential and I always did my best art. I have positive memories of doing art as a child. I still find that traveling has a big influence on my creative process.

Presently I enjoy working with children and young people in various Public Art Project that I have been involved with.
Jayne Stokes
E-mail: jaynestokesuk@yahoo.co.uk
Name of artwork: Lagoon - 2006
Technique: Acrylic and collage on canvas
Size: 50 x 100cm

I am interested in exploring aspects of the environment in which we live through observation, collection and documentation. When people look at my work I want them to think about the changes happening in the world around us, and; to reflect on personal experiences and memories of places they have visited. I spent my childhood in Albrighton, a rural village in Shropshire. I was exposed to the countryside, [and] it's vari[ations] from an early age and we also traveled abroad as a family. My parents were active in politics and took a keen interest in environmental issues. My father, a civil engineer before retirement, is also a keen artist. All of these factors influenced my creative process.
Jorge Alejandro Tedesqui
E-mail: atedesqui@hotmail.com
Name of artwork: Untitled 1 - 2006
Technique: Oil Based paint, resin
Size: 24 x 29 cm

My work starts with a basic question: Abstract or Figurative? My aim is not to answer this question but to play with the idea that nature offers infinite range of images, some of them familiar, identifiable, others less obvious, the ones I call abstract. I like finding the abstract in nature, be it microscopic, 1000 of meters underwater or the intricateness on an insect's wing. People nowadays look for the blatant picture. I look for the minute, the insignificant.

I was lucky to grow up in Bolivia where modern commodities were (and still are) limited. This was not such a bad thing, it encouraged me to spend most of my time outside exploring a little universe, endlessly observing and making up stories with the simplest of things. This has been a constant throughout my professional life, it made want to keep alive the child inside me as the engine of imagination and perception.
Rossella Canuti
E-mail: rossellacanuti@tiscali.it
Name of artwork: Burqa_9 - 2006
Technique: Digital art
Size: 200 x 36 cm

I think it's very important to fight against poverty, wars, child [labour] and it's necessary to think about it and to try to resolve the enormous problems in the world. I think that art in general, and this show in particular, can aid people to think about it.

Childhood is a very important part in my creative process because children are helpless and they suffer more than an adult. Often I start from newspapers, I choose some image printed in bad, bad, quality and (most important) only in black and white. Than I cut some little details, and I move many part of the image while I put on different colors. We all forget the news from newspaper. With my work, I would like to not forget and remind others.
Sari Tenni
E-mail: stenni@welho.com
Name of artwork: Oula, Verner, Venni, Tarzan, and Batman -2005
Technique: Cartoon pages and oil on canvas
Size: 120 x 120cm

The meaning of the {New Generation] exhibition is to make people think about manhood with the help of antithesis. The exhibition draws a parallel between the past and the present, between the intellectual achievements and the beautifulness of the body. The backgrounds are cartoons and pages from a Cambridge University 1975 published book: Man of Achievement" and Finnish Technical Assembly 1965 published book: "Graduated Engineers and Architects"