Exhibition Stjepko Mamić

About the exhibition

The international art exhibition of paintings and sculptures entitled "ART IS LIFE" is open tonight and can be viewed until September 25, 2019. The organizers are the renowned Sebastian Gallery and Stjepko Art Association. Stjep Mamic "ART IS LIFE" whose new paintings will be presented to the audience at this exhibition where this well-known Dubrovnik painter with an enviable international reputation hosts two fine international artists: Israeli-French sculptor Myriam Sitbon-Mendel and Japanese-French painter Yoshie Araki.

Mamic's colorful rhapsodies of images that captivate the audience with the scenes of the beauty of the sea and the depths of the sea since the last Dubrovnik exhibition at the Sebastian Gallery in the winter of 2017, offer refreshments during the Dubrovnik Summer Festival inviting those present to dive into the sparkling blue of Stjepko's staging of the sea in innumerable blue shades. The other two artists also celebrate the positivity in which the arts and life are intertwined and complemented in the best possible way. Reflecting the positive energy and friendship of these three artists, who exhibited together at this year's ART Capital Salon at the famed Paris Grand Palais in February 2019, this exhibition showcased Stjepko's motifs of the beauty of marine fish and turtle life with Yosha's merry fish, and connected everything like the finest amalgam of a refined bronze sculpture by Myriam Sitbon Menedel, Stjepko's picturesque seascape and the veduta of his hometown of Dubrovnik.

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The internationally renowned artist Capt.Stjepko Mamic has attracted international Circle of collectors, drawn by his colourful and mystical style and charismatic persona. He has been drawing and painting since childhood, but life first pushed him for 30 years to the sea where become a ship’s captain in mercantile marine. Eleven years ago, he returned to his first love, painting. He has perfected the techniques of contemporary painting at the Academia du Port-Royal, Paris, France (with Proof. Jean Maxime Relange and Prof. Dina Pickard) and at the Academy D'Arte , Florence, Italy (with Prof. Sonia De Franceschi).

In France he become member of famous Fondation Taylor and Societe des Artistes Independants. He exhibit with Salon du dessin et de la peinture à l'eau and Salon d'Automne as well. (He will be back to Paris as participant at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, October 2018 and Art Capital, at the Grand Palais, Paris, February 2019.)

He is also member of Accademia Culturale Europea, Rome, Italy; The Croatian Association Of Artists-Dubrovnik (HDLU-Dubrovnik): ICAF - International Culture and Arts Federation, South Korea; Art Nation, International Artist Association based in Munich, Germany; Gogyoshi Art Project International and others.

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