Plus One Gallery announces a mid-year group show to kick off the summer season.

Participating artists:

Antonio Castelló
In today’s fast-paced and hectic world, Antonio Castelló Avilleira offers us a rare moment of reflection in his superb new paintings. He arrests fleeting moments, such as the ripeness of fruit, to great effect, thus exploring nature at its most fragile. Yet his artwork is not just another memento mori since he also invigorates new life into the classic still life genre; he seamlessly blends a classical technique of painting with a modern photographic approach of framing and documenting. The result is a take on the world that is both fresh and timeless.

Fernando O’Connor
Argentinean artist Fernando O’Connor started his career as a hyperrealist painter in the early 90’s as a result of his interest in the human figure. In time, that interest spread to other shapes and forms. Today, O’Connor’s work reflects the marriage of these two interests as it remains consistently evident in the unique composition of each painting. O’Connor continues to live and work in Buenos Aires.

Alexandra Klimas
Artists have been depicting animals for millennia. For example, the donkey and the ox in nativity scenes, or the snake in depictions of the Fall of Man. However, animals have rarely played the lead role in works of art. Horses have played the role of servant in nearly every painting they have featured in, either dragging a plough or carrying their master. Sometimes, animals are simply part of the background, like a tree or a rock.

In Alexandra’s work, the relationship between humans and animals is a constant yet indirect element. This relationship is often an interesting one.

Alexandra Klimas lives and works in The Netherlands.

Gustavo Fernandes
Gustavo Fernandes was born in 1964. He has an academic and professional career developed in Canada and Portugal over 27 years, largely devoted to painting that led him to expose and develop contacts in several countries. He attended the Montreal School of Fine Arts Mission Renaissance, the program Art and Graphics at Dawson College. He specialized in Betty Edwards technical methods “Drawing from the Artist Within” and “The Natural Way to Draw” for NIcolides. Made training under the guidance of Portraiture Francisco de Oliveira. Gustavo Fernandes is self-taught, creative and bold, in his work stand out objects, landscapes, peoples and details that give to his work a real hyper-realistic touch.

Christian Marsh
Christian Marsh has been described as one of the most ‘humane’ (in the proper sense of the word) of all hyperrealist artists. For the people in his superb paintings are not impersonalized antlike beings, who merely serve the technical purpose of clarifying scale; but in contrast, are based on and portray genuine human emotions and concerns. This narrative provokes questions from the viewer such as who are they, and what are they doing- and it ultimately enriches and adds vivacity to his work. (From John Russell Taylor in: "Exactitude, Hyperrealistic Art Today")

Martin La Rosa
In today’s world where it is the biggest and boldest that reigns, where garish adverts vie for attention in a cacophony of visual noise; Martin La Rosa’s paintings offer us a rare moment of stillness and reflection.

Pedro Campos
Campos did not have his first solo exhibition until 1998, when he had a showing in Salamanca and A Coruña. The results of this were so encouraging that the following year he determined to give up all other activities and become a full-time painter- and with considerable success. His meticulously executed snatches of the real world are executed with the minute precision of higher mathematics; and yet what seem to be very cool, unemotional artworks, embracing a quietist aesthetic, turn out to set off an intensely emotional experience.

What begins in mathematics, ends in a subtle and a virtually indefinable magic.

From “Exactitude: Hyperrealist Art Today” By John Russell Taylor

Luis Perez
Luis Perez was born in Spain in 1978. In 2004 he moved to London, where he started to dedicate himself full time to the creation of his realist works.

He has become renowned for his urban landscapes, Americana and Pop Art paintings, although is always challenging himself with different subject matter like classic airplanes, cars… Especially here, in these photorealistic works, is where Luis shows that certainly knows how to handle light, with the reflectivity of each surface faithfully represented.

His paintings have been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the world, and are in public and private collections in: Spain, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, United States, Australia, Japan.