International Contemporary Masters

The Exhibitions

International Contemporary Masters is the creation of art curator and painter Despina Tunberg: an annual publication that presents the spectrum of the visual arts being created all over the world today. To date, the work of hundreds of contemporary artists, known and unknown, have been presented in the pages of this series of books, which has won critical acclaim and is beginning to be recognized as an important forum in the international art scene.

With this exhibition International Contemporary Masters comes full circle: for the first time, the works presented in the pages are being presented physically together. We believe that it is an extremely important exhibition, for various reasons.

Firstly, it is highly unusual for so many superb and diverse works of so many talented artists from all over the world to be exhibited together in the same space.

Secondly, the breadth of talent and originality and the huge range of style and perspectives constitute a crucial statement: no longer is there a center of the art world in the sense that Paris and New York once were. Nor is there a dominant school or direction or perspective in modern art. Rather, the fine arts have become planetary; original and noteworthy art is being created everywhere. Likewise, the style and content of art have become almost infinite in extent; labels such as abstract expressionism have become more historical terms rather than descriptions of art being created today. Instead, each work demands to be viewed and judged in its own perspective.

So, like the books, this series of exhibitions is a celebration of the globalization of art, globalization not in the sense of control and shrinking of content, but precisely the opposite: liberation from constraining norms and rules, expansion of form and content, and recognition of the equality of every region of our world.