Ivan De Menis was born in Treviso in 1973 and studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. De Menis generously covers his work surfaces with paint, working in thick layers, allowing the highly pigmented acrylic paint to run down the sides. With his works, he produces small-format, rectangular or square picture objects that develop an intense colour and luminosity and give an idea of ​​the artist's working process, as the various layers appear visible at the sides. The appeal of his work is shown in the contrast of an almost silky smooth surface and the rough sides, marked by colour streaks and drops and peeled layers of paint. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections at home and abroad.

French painter Catherine Seher (lives and works in Paris) conjures a powerful sense of anonymity and isolation within her body of work. Capturing the essence of a given environment - striking views that often depict figures within various landscapes - but extracting from it any signifiers of meaning, Seher thus reduces the art of both the landscape and the figure to its most element, forcing the viewer of her work to consider the very mechanics by which each component of the work is created. The result is a body of work that taps into the universality of art itself, one anonymous figure or vista at a time. Born in Paris in 1958, Seher graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1983. Today she is based in Paris but has enjoyed the showcase of her work in locales across Europe. Recent exhibitions of her work include those at Galerie Christine Colon, Liege; Galerie GNG, Paris; Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Berlin and Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne.