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Invitation to “10 Ans Déjà” exhibition, in Paris
Déjà 10 ans d’art contemporain à Port Tonic Art Center ! We are pleased to announce the preparation of a special edition of ART TONIC HORS-LES-MURS in Paris, running from November 24th to December 4th, 2025, as a retrospective of these 10 years of artist residencies at Port Tonic Art Center. We would be delighted…
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Kim LIM
Kim Lim, born in 1985 in Manila, Philippines, is a visual artist and interior designer with over 17 years of experience in spatial design, creative direction, and visual storytelling. Based in the Philippines, she founded the Kapit-Kulay Foundation, where she organizes art therapy sessions for incarcerated women. These experiences deeply enrich her artistic practice, bringing…
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Luca MARTINI
Luca is an artist whose degree in industrial design influences practice, blending artisanal modernity with cultural and mathematical inspirations. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into a family specializing in woodworking, he developed an affinity for various materials such as wood, plastic, concrete, and metal. His versatility across different mediums results in works that combine technical…
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Maria Camila DUQUE ACOSTA
María Camila Duque’s work explores the intersection between the digital and the analog, highlighting how these two realms influence each other in contemporary art. With a background in psychology and fine arts, María Camila is interested in the effects of screens and social media, particularly Instagram, on our perception and the creative processes of artists.…
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Artwoks of Arvin Nogueras
“The Rest were Reduced to Rubble” “I am creating works that investigate the narrative of supression, resistance and resilience, while taking cues from the topography of the Les Ambres that are filled with interesting terrain and landscape mixed with the imagined location of folkloric elements that is of Ritmo Garote. My works are an amalgamation…
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Yassine BALBZIOUI
Yassine Balbzioui, a versatile artist born in 1972 in Morocco, stands out for his innovative use of media and his challenge to conventions. During the 1990s, he took a variety of art courses and earned several degrees, including an MFA from the École des Beaux-Arts de Casablanca in Morocco, as well as a National Diploma…
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Arvin NOGUERAS
Arvin Nogueras, also known as Caliph8 (primarily associated with early Manila graffiti and hip-hop mutations) is born in 1977 at Manila, Philippines. He sees his work as a continuum. Since the early 90s, his interest in various art forms has allowed him to cross and merge different disciplines. He uses an assortment of modes to…
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Fabro TRANCHIDA
Fabro Tranchida was born in 1987 in Buenos Aires. A visual artist and professor of art history, Fabro holds a bachelor’s degree in art and culture management from UNTREF (Argentina) and a master’s degree in contemporary technological and performative art (University of Pays Basque). He was recently awarded the Guggenheim Museum Prize in New York.…
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Pavel Rtue’s works
Pavel Rtue’s statement in 2023 : The constant process of exploring the environment and traveling through the urban jungle led my artistic essence to be reflected in frequent spelling my own name, and today is realized in the interpretation of accidentally found images, color spots, lines, which subsequently become an impulse to create new meanings…
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Nazar STRELYAEV-NAZARKO’s works
Paramnesia During his residency Nazar enriched his series entitled “Paramnesia”. Paramnesia is a series of still lifes and figure paintings still in progress. It is based on illustrations from the Soviet cookery book (The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food), old toys, TV shows from 90s and 00s and other archival material relating to Soviet…
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Yurii Pikul’s artworks
With immense talent, Yuri Pikul is painting images stamped with photorealism. He mixes signs belonging to the Soviet era with scenes from modern life like a minibus driver of marchroutkas, the most popular means of transport during the old Soviet era that continues even today. A great admirer of Vincent Van Gogh, Yuri also paints…
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Yurii Pikul
Born in Kiev on 1 October 1983. Since the age of 15, Yurii Pikul has had a passion for photography and, at the age of 18, for painting. Trained in painting by attending courses and working closely with painters, he also taught himself theory. In 2005, he entered the National Academy of Fine Arts, but…
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Pavel RTUE
Pavel Rtue was born in 1989 in Sevastopol, Ukraine. Pavel kept searching for his style, took painting lesons, studied the art of avant-garde and postmodernism. He began to move away from standard ideas about graffiti, discovering new approaches,experimenting with forms and materials.The main medium of his artistic practice is painting. Rtue is not limited by…
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Nazar STRELYAEV-NAZARKO
Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko is born in 1998 at Kharkiv in Ukraine. He is living and working in Milan, Italy. He works in a variety of media, but the basis of his practice is easel painting and drawing, which are occasionally accompanied by installations and readymades.. Strelyaev-Nazarko graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts,…
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ART TONIC 2022 – Opening
Nous sommes très heureux de vous convier à l’ouverture de l’exposition ART TONIC 2022, Jeudi 28 juillet 2022 de 19h à 21h, en présence des artistes en résidence. Cet événement sera un moment de convivialité autour d’un Sunset Cocktail sur les terrasses de Port Tonic Art Center. Résidence: Antonio Della Guardia (artiste), Giuseppe De Mattia…
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Giuseppe DE MATTIA
Giuseppe De Mattia (Bari, 1980) is an artist who employs a dialogue of mediums to investigate the relationship between memory and contemporaneity. Photography, video, sound, drawing and painting can all be found and often blend within his work. As a keen observer of the contemporary artistic landscape, De Mattia’s work often touches upon structural issues…
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Stefano SERRETTA
Stefano Serretta is a visual artist born in Genoa in 1987. He currently lives and works in Milan. After graduating in Modern and Contemporary History, he specialized in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, where he currently teaches the Public Art course. His research reflects on the…
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Antonio DELLA GUARDIA
Antonio Della Guardia (1990) lives and works in Naples. He develops an investigation into the impact of contemporary forms of work on the body, on cognitive processes and on the most intimate spheres of our private life, identifying their signs and, at the same time, imagining poetic forms and strategies of shared emancipation. Among his…
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Michela LAGALLA
Michela Lagalla (1994) is a translator and poet. She studied Literature at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. In 2017 she was the winner of the ALUT plaque awarded by the Università degli Studi di Trieste and in 2021 she was credited with the first place at the Concorso Internazionale di Poesia Castello di Duino. Her…
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Giorgio BARTOCCI
Born in Jesi in 1984, Giorgio Bartocci lives and works in Milan. His career began early in the world of writing, painting walls and trains in his hometown. After studying graphic design and visual communication at ISIA Urbino, he developed a hybrid practice combining urban art, design, installation, and painting. For over fifteen years, Bartocci…
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Le Port Tonic Art Center, resolutely focused on the future…
An inspiration drawn from the spaces envisioned by the architectural firm A.P.ARTs, to design a welcoming, friendly place dedicated to artistic expression.
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INSIDE ART, Il Magazine d’arte contemporanea – 6 avril 2020
“Nel blu dipinto di blu” By Alessandro Caruso – 06/04/2020 An old shipyard has been transformed into an artist residence. The NM-Contemporary gallery is bringing these creators together for an exhibition in Monte Carlo.
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Davide D’Elia ‘s works
Of stateless water. We need ports to dock, sailing boats and fins for swimming. We are fish out of water. Port Tonic Art Center is an international artist residence and contemporary art center on the French Riviera, and has replaced the original functions of the settlement for the repair of pleasure boats. The artificial marina,…
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Davide D’ELIA
Born in Cava de ‘Tirreni in 1973, he currently lives and works between Rome and London. In his works, Davide D’Elia proposes experiments on passing time. Between the contamination between different languages, from photography to complex multi-material installations, D’Elia reasons about the balance of power that governs the world around us, for example the interaction…
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Leonardo Petrucci’s works
Leonardo Petrucci resided for a month and a half at Port Tonic Art Center and produced consistent number of new works thanks to the strongly inspiring place and the solitary location by the sea of this old shipyard. The light also influenced the work during his stay as it is the typical very bright light…
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Leonardo Petrucci
Born in Grosseto (03/05/1986), he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and began painting with Professor Costantino Baldino. He obtained his university degree in 2009 with a thesis in art history entitled “Arte dell’Alchimia e Alchimia dell’Arte”, with an evaluation of 110/110 th Lode and with Giovanna Dalla Chiesa as his supervisor.…
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Gabriel Chaile
Gabriel Chaile, an Argentine artist, studied visual arts at the National University of Tucumán. In 2008, he participated in the “Pensados” program in the city of Salta and, the following year, he moved to Buenos Aires where he created the artist program at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. Aires. In 2010, he was…
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Ramiro Quesada Pons
“What interests me is that I generate images that are not governed by a specific discipline. It is good that contemporary art allows you, within the same corpus, to work in different formats “. Ramiro Quesada Pons, Argentine artist born in 1987, studied visual arts at the National University of Cuyo (2005-2009). After developing his…
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Valerio Nicolai
Valerio Nicolai is an Italian artist born in Gorizia and living in Milan; he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011, he received a scholarship from the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. He has exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions, including Treti Galaxie, Turin, Italy, Clima Gallery, Milan. In 2015, he was part…
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Project : ARCHITONIC 2017
The 2017 intervention is intimately linked to the landscape, a place of contemplation of the various elements of the Port Tonic environment: the wind, the horizon, the light, etc., an invitation to live a space experience that highlights our meaning. Delicately arranged on the dock of Port Tonic, the installation comes to inhabit the space…
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Pavillon Port Tonic – An adjustment on the perspective
For the installation in Port Tonic the two artists Cécile van Hanja and Jeroen van der Beek gathered their ideas on perspective. Cécile van Hanja, who has traditionally made paintings of modern architecture, made the connection between the construction of the Port Tonic Pavilion and the constructions of Modernist architects such as Mies van der…
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Cécile Van Hanja & Jeroen Van Der Beek
Cécile van Hanja was born in Corsica (1964). She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) in 1993. She currently lives and works in Haarlem (the Netherlands). In 2005 she was selected by the La Napoule Art Foundation for a artist in residence at the Château La Napoule, France. “In my paintings, the images of…
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L’atelier de Jigger Cruze
Reçu en résidence à Port Tonic Art Center en 2018 et présenté pour ART TONIC 2018, l’artiste philippin Jigger Cruze nous fait le plaisir de nous recevoir dans son atelier de Manille.
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Project : “Rinvigorito” by Davide d’Elia
For a competition that invited artists to present their projects, Davide d’Elia proposed “Rinvigorito”, an ambitious work combining spaces, perceptions and technologies. We are now looking for sponsors to finance this project. IOBOA (1) : IOBOA, an anthropomorphous floating plastic buoy. The standard buoys are generally composed of the union of two solid cuneiform specular…
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Juan Manuel Rodriguez
Born in 1980 in San José de Mayo, he currently lives and works in Montevideo. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts, attended the Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo and the workshop of Carlos Capelán. The work of JMR takes up the legacy of drawing and painting as cultural legacies of art history, addressing in…
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Rita Fisher
Born in 1972 in Uruguay, she graduated from the center of industrial design then from the National School of Fine Arts of Montevideo, she then received a scholarship for the international residency of artists in Saint-Etienne and obtained a degree in plastic arts at the University Paris VIII. His artistic practice is defined by…
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Federico Tosi
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Jigger CRUZ
Born in 1984 in Malabon City, Manila, Philippines. Lives and works in Manila, Philippines. Jigger Cruz explores the primitive memory of the figurative in contemporary painting. The paintings rework many of the stylistic quirks and formal concerns of classical painting, employing their basic composition and approximating their processes. His pursuit of the idea that a…
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Julien TIVERNE
Born in 1989 in Aix-en-Provence, Julien Tiverné lives and works in Marseille. It was during his business studies that he discovered a passion for photography, which shapes his perception of the world. In 2016, he decided to fully dedicate himself to it by launching a postcard publishing project in Nice.In 2017, he expanded his business…
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“Love at first sight”, with Global TV Saint Tropez
Tonic first thanks to the three initiators of the project: Michele, Paolo and Xavier. Tonic then as a place of Contemporary Art located between sky and sea, Tonic finally because the visit ends or begins… with a shot of Vodka! A relaxed and open atmosphere in this old shipyard converted into a venue for exhibitions…
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Art Pamplonne
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