USEUM has partnered with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy), to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting and illustration to the heart of the Art World in London. Le Dame Art Gallery will be exhibiting in various events the best of USEUM’s thousands of contemporary artists from 100 countries around the world. We are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event on Tuesday the 6th of October at 6.30pm and the exhibition will be on display for one month on the first floor of the prestigious Meliã White House 5-star hotel in Regent’s Park.
This collection is comprised by the 23 artworks exhibited by USEUM and Le Dame Art Gallery, on the first floor of Meliã White House from the 7th of October to the 7th of November and by many more artworks that were very close to be selected.
Joy 2015
Acrylic on canvas · 100 x 70 cm
£2,000
‘It all came out one rainy day, I was in my car, with my wife and son, waiting for my daughter in front of her high school. The battery from my son’s iPad went out, and he was kind of freaked out. After a while, below my driver’s seat, he found a small bottle full of liquid, you know, for making soap bubbles...and it was a revelation for him. Even though it was pouring rain, he jumped out of the car, and started to blow bubbles. He was so happy. His face was full of joy. No iPad, no wifi, nothing but the bubbles in the rain. That is what I saw through my window, that is what I wanted to paint - pure joy.’
About the Artist: Eugen Varzić (1972) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (Croatia) in 1999 with a degree in Painting. That same year his work was featured in the Cromatismo Ermetico Art Project in Italy. Ever since, Varzić has exhibited his work in over a hundred solo exhibitions and group shows both in Croatia and abroad. In his paintings, soft and flowing elements such as fabric, skin and hair are replaced by patterns of geometrical shapes that organically seem to conform to the original matter. Varzić establishes a fascinating colour scheme in his work, with tones that both complement and contradict each other.
text by Jesse Voetman