Stephen Dean

Stephen Dean is a French American artist based in New York City. His time-based works, installations and watercolors summon physiological and anthropological approaches to color. Often working from existing forms or events, Dean focuses on the immediacy of color and it’s ability to precede language and cultural codes. His contemplative and immersive works engage the chromatic spectrum as a spatial and social matter while pursuing structures, patterns and moments of chromatic intensity, in the everyday world.

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Matisse Mesnil

Born in 1989, Matisse Mesnil is a Paris-based artist whose practice challenges the traditional notion of painting as a “window on the world.” Drawing from his background in photography, he focuses on the frame as both a limit and an opening. Working with metal through industrial processes such as welding and grinding, he transforms surfaces into pictorial fields where marks become traces of interaction. His works create immersive situations that blur the line between object, image, and environment.

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Andy Massaccesi

Andy Massaccesi is an italian photographer and director based between Paris and Milan, whose work ranges from fashion and portrait to intimate personal projects. Andy studied graphic design at ISIA Urbino and art direction photography at ECAL Lausanne. His images often revolve around a social exploration of subjects, animated or still, and he skillfully masters the deep context and intricate interplay between reality and the photo realm.

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Marco Host Ivessich

Marco Host Ivessich began his photographic journey in 1978 as an assistant to Ginka Cordara and Rudi Molacek. In the 1990s, he further refined his practice working alongside Fabrizio Ferri. His transition from assistant to photographer was marked by a project for Vanity Fair, where he worked as a set photographer for Roman Polanski. For over two decades, he focused on portrait photography, capturing actors, models, and entrepreneurs. In 2011, he shifted toward a more introspective artistic exploration, focusing on the materiality of his work.

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Antonio Peluso

Born in San Giovanni Rotondo in 1993 and raised in the rural landscape of the Gargano, the artist’s painting emerges from a peripheral context marked by rawness and material immediacy. His work reflects a practice rooted in manual discipline, shaped by early training in fashion and artisanal craftsmanship. After working in design, he turned to painting, seeking a language grounded in singularity rather than reproducibility. He currently lives and works in Italy.

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Rita Soft

Born in 1998 in Nefteyugansk, Siberia, the artist developed an early and uncompromising commitment to drawing. Raised in a context largely removed from cultural infrastructure, she began her training in a modest local art school before rejecting academic conventions in search of a more personal language. Her practice is driven by an irrepressible necessity to paint, developing works embedded with coded meanings that remain intentionally undisclosed.

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