JEFF KOONS

Jeff Koons, born in 1955 in the United States, is regarded as the most expensive living artist in the world. After studying art in Chicago and beginning his career in finance on Wall Street, he succeeded in merging his market knowledge with his artistic passion to become a leading figure in contemporary art. Influenced by advertising and American Pop Art of the 1980s, he appropriates everyday objects and transforms them into artworks, following the legacy of Marcel Duchamp’s “ready-mades.” His kitsch aesthetic and use of popular icons from Michael Jackson to Hulk to Popeye have captivated collectors around the world. In 2019, his sculpture Rabbit sold at Christie’s for $91 million, becoming the most expensive work ever sold by a living artist. 

FILIPPO TINCOLINI

Filippo Tincolini is an Italian sculptor born in 1976 in Tuscany. Trained at the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts, he has been working for over twenty years in his studio at the foot of the famous Carrara marble quarries. Deeply influenced by this emblematic territory and the Italian sculptural tradition, he primarily works with white statuary marble, exploring it with exceptional technical precision. His work combines technological innovation, aesthetic research, and classical heritage to create symbolic and sometimes surreal pieces, characterized by perfect polishing and meticulous attention to detail. Tincolini blends scholarly culture with pop iconography to question our contemporary era with both visual impact and subtlety. Today, he exhibits internationally and collaborates with various galleries and institutions, while regularly participating in projects and discussions on sculpture and new technologies.

ANNALU

Annalù (born Annalu Boeretto in 1976 near Venice) is an Italian artist and a graduate of the Venice Academy of Fine Arts. Based in her stilt-house studio along the Piave River, she has been exhibiting widely across Italy and abroad since 2001. Her work focuses on sculpture and installation through a language of metamorphosis. Annalù combines diverse materials – resin, paper, fiberglass, bitumen, cement, and more – to create suspended, poetic worlds where imagination, nature, and alchemy intertwine. Positioned between painting and sculpture, her art reveals fluid and vibrant forms that evoke transformation, motion, and transition. Through this approach, Annalù invites viewers on a contemplative, sensory journey, hovering between reality and fantasy.

JULIEN MARINETTI

Julien Marinetti, a multidisciplinary artist for fifteen years, combines painting, sculpture, engraving, and drawing in a style he calls the “syncretism of art.” His three-dimensional works bulldogs, pandas, penguins, teddies, and skulls are modeled in clay and then cast in bronze, reflecting his neo-expressionist painting style. Rejecting easy art, he also works on diverse surfaces such as cardboard, wood, or concrete, which he recycles and transforms with humor, sensuality, and references to major themes in art history. His emblematic work, Doggy John, has captivated international audiences for fifteen years, traveling to iconic cities and sites such as Paris, New York, London, Singapore, Marrakech, and Cannes, celebrated for its color, creativity, and endlessly renewed energy.

ISABELLE SCHELTJENS 

Isabelle Scheltjens has been passionate about art since childhood and studied at SISA, the Institute for Decorative Arts in Antwerp. Inspired by her husband’s glass design work, she began experimenting with the same material and spent years mastering a unique fused-glass technique. By combining countless glass pieces of varying colours, sizes, and textures, melted at around 800°C, she developed a distinctive visual language reminiscent of pointillism. Up close, her works appear abstract; from a distance, they form striking figurative images. Scheltjens’ art plays with perception, placing light and colour at the centre of each composition. Through optical effects and chromatic precision, she captures the viewer’s gaze and transforms glass into luminous portraits full of depth and emotion. 

CÉCILE PLAISANCE 

Cécile Plaisance uses the iconic Barbie doll as a reflection of contemporary womanhood. Through her lenticular photographs, she plays with transformation and perspective, revealing images that shift depending on the viewer’s angle. Her work challenges stereotypes, femininity, freedom, and the role of women in society, blending humour, sensuality, and social commentary. By connecting Barbie to real-life experiences, the artist transforms this childhood symbol into an engaged icon, carrying a message about identity and female empowerment.