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Jara Marzulli
Retrospective art book by Jara Marzulli featuring works from 2004–2026. A visual journey through her artistic evolution and poetic universe.
Kimi Kuruhara
Discover Kimi Kuruhara, a captivating art book showcasing the delicate and emotionally resonant work of one of today's most distinctive contemporary Japanese figurative artists.
Kamila Gruszecka
Discover the new book on Kamila Gruszecka, featuring her contemporary figurative paintings exploring femininity, identity, and motherhood.
Interview with Luis Enrique Toledo
Luis E. Toledo invites us into a universe where memory, spirituality, and imagination converge. Through masterfully crafted compositions, he creates dreamlike narratives populated by luminous figures, symbolic elements, and mysterious atmospheres that blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Paco Martín
Paco Martín is a hyperrealist artist working primarily with colored pencils. Although his academic background lies in forestry engineering and mathematics, drawing has been a constant presence in his life since childhood, driven by a deep need to observe and interpret reality.
Interview with José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez (Durango, Mexico, 1981) is an artist trained at the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Crafts of the Juárez University of the State of Durango (EPEA-UJED). His practice has developed consistently over more than two decades, establishing a visual language deeply connected to the observation of the social environment, collective memory, and the cultural dynamics of his context.
Kevin Slaby - Curator´s Choice
Born in Nebraska in 1966, Kevin Slaby is an American realist figurative painter whose work explores the strength, beauty, and presence of women through imaginative and often surreal visual narratives. Combining technical precision with a refined sense of storytelling, he constructs paintings that merge realism and imagination, transforming carefully observed details into atmospheric compositions rich in symbolism and emotional depth.
Editorial – Issue 91
In this June issue, we are especially pleased to present new talent defined by freshness, elegance, and, above all, sensitivity. We believe art reveals itself most powerfully when it is allowed to exist in its most honest state, when its presence feels both immediate and enduring. It is through that sensitivity that we are able to appreciate new visual languages, refined approaches, and emerging perspectives that continue to shape both the professional and emerging spheres of art. Over the years, our community has brought together outstanding artists whose work reflects a remarkable range of expression and technical ability, from deeply intimate works to pieces of extraordinary presence and material strength. Each new edition becomes, for us, another opportunity to continue that dialogue between mastery, discovery, and artistic evolution.
Anne-Stéphanie Le Roy García
Born in Almería in 1973 to a French father and a Spanish mother, Anne-Stéphanie Le Roy García, artistically known as Almeriane, has developed a deeply personal artistic path rooted in an early and intuitive connection with art. A self-taught painter educated between Spain and France, she began drawing at the age of three and soon found in portraiture a profound territory of expression, where the gaze becomes the emotional and spiritual center of the work.
Interview with Eduardo Landa
Eduardo Landa approaches painting from a position that feels uncommon today: that of an artist who prefers the work to preserve its silence, its mystery, and its own authority. In his case, painting does not mean constructing a narrative around each image or explaining literally what should first emerge through the act of looking. His work moves in another direction, more restrained, more honest, and also more demanding: allowing the painting to sustain, by itself, everything it contains.
Editorial – Issue 90
At The Guide Artists, we believe that art deserves serious, carefully curated, and visually powerful spaces where it can be presented with the dignity it deserves. For this reason, this catalogue has been conceived as an editorial and commercial platform designed not only to showcase artworks, but also to bring them closer to the international art market through a refined, professional, and carefully structured publication.
BENITO GARCÍA
Born in Mexico City in 1999, Benito García is an architect and visual artist whose work combines technical precision, poetic sensitivity, and symbolic depth. His artistic language, rooted in realism and magical realism, reveals a strong interest in atmosphere, memory, and the emotional resonance of images.
EDITORIAL JUNE 2026
Art Held Hostage by Reputation
Something deeply uncomfortable is happening in the art world: we stopped talking about art and started talking about reputation. The problem is not recognition itself. The problem begins when reputation is no longer built on the strength of the work, but manufactured within circles where money, fear, and exclusivity determine who is culturally allowed to exist.
We have been sold an elegant lie: that artistic value emerges from a sophisticated system of legitimacy. Yet too often, that system resembles a private club more than a space for discovery. Risk, honesty, and innovation are not necessarily rewarded; proximity is. Proximity to certain names, certain dinners, certain institutions, certain silences.
Because yes: fear governs the art world too.
THIERRY CARRIER
Thierry Carrier has built a deeply introspective body of work, defined by silence and an emotional tension that is difficult to fully name. His paintings place the viewer before solitary figures, suspended within bare landscapes, where gesture, gaze, and posture seem to contain a story that is never completely revealed.
MANUEL MARTÍ MORENO
Manuel Martí Moreno, born in Valencia in 1979, has developed a sculptural language where matter, emptiness, structure, and existential reflection converge with remarkable intensity. His work stands out for its ability to transform strong, resistant materials into forms that appear light, fragile, and almost suspended in time.
MEGAN ELIZABETH READ
Megan (Mae) Elizabeth Read is an American figurative artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Largely self-taught, she began her artistic practice working in charcoal and pencil before transitioning to oil painting, which now serves as her primary medium. Her work ranges from intimate still lifes to large-scale figurative paintings, with a particular focus on the female form.
Interview with Lisa Rickard
Lisa Rickard’s artistic practice is rooted in Imaginative Realism, a language in which the human figure becomes a symbolic vessel for expressing invisible realities. Her paintings often begin with abstract ideas developed through graphite drawing, before evolving into luminous compositions where light appears to move, breathe, and dance across the human form. Born in Philadelphia, Rickard discovered her fascination with the allegorical figure during her teenage years, when she began drawing regularly from a live nude model who was also a ballet dancer. This early experience shaped her sensitivity to movement, gesture, and the expressive potential of the body.
Editorial – Issue 89
Throughout the history of painting, wings have been far more than a simple aesthetic or narrative device. They are a persistent metaphor, a symbol that moves across cultures, periods, and styles, carrying meanings that range from the divine to the profoundly human. To speak of wings in art is, in essence, to speak of freedom: that constant longing, at times luminous and at others painful, to transcend the limits that define us.
Sculpture Covers Vault
Discover a curated archive of the most iconic and influential sculpture covers. This collection features artists such as Candice Angelini, Irina Shark, and Angela Mia De la Vega, highlighting expressive forms, contemporary aesthetics, and diverse approaches within today’s sculptural art. Designed to inspire and engage, this selection offers a focused insight into the visual language and emotional depth of contemporary sculpture.
Interview with Ignacio Chávez
Ignacio de Jesús Chávez stands as one of the most solid and distinctive figures in contemporary Mexican painting. His career, marked by decades of international exhibitions in Mexico, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Ecuador, and the United States, reflects a path built on technical rigor, conceptual research, and a profound understanding of visual language.
