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100 Issues

Reaching the 100th issue of an independent magazine is far more than a milestone. It is the result of an idea that has endured the passage of time, change, uncertainty, and the many challenges that inevitably accompany any project built on conviction.

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Domenico Sepe

Domenico Sepe (Naples, 1977) is one of Italy’s leading contemporary sculptors, internationally recognized for a body of work that combines technical excellence, profound spirituality, and a strong commitment to historical memory and social issues.

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Jorge Egea

A Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, as well as a professor, researcher, and sculptor, Egea has developed a career focused on form, corporeality, and classical modeling. Since 1992, his work has been exhibited in Spain, France, Italy, the United States, and Japan, earning numerous awards and distinctions.

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Editor´s Letter

The Guide Artists is a contemporary art publishing house with over a decade of experience dedicated to producing art books, magazines, exhibitions, and promoting emerging and established artists on an international level.

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Editorial – Special Sculpture

This new edition presents an extraordinary special dedicated to sculpture, featuring acclaimed Spanish sculptor Jorge Egea on the cover.

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Marcin G. Otapowicz

Marcin G. Otapowicz, born in 1978 in Białystok, Poland, is a multifaceted and compelling figure: an artist, inventor, entrepreneur, and sculptor.

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Nicole Bruce

Nicole Bruce is a sculptor who explores the human condition through clay, creating conceptually charged and deeply emotive works that invite viewers to reflect on existence and the complexity of the human soul.

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Julia Eichbauer

Julia Eichbauer (b. 1986) was born and raised in a small Austrian village near the Czech border. After completing high school, she devoted herself to languages and literature, studying Romance languages at the University of Graz.

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Maudie Brady

Maudie Brady is an established mid-career sculptor whose distinctive artistic voice is rooted in the classical tradition while remaining deeply connected to contemporary approaches to portraiture and the human figure.

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Eric Vanel

Eric Vanel seeks to touch the soul. His vivid figurative sculptures, defined by powerful and expressive attitudes, tell stories that provoke emotion, raise questions, and take us on a journey between reality and imaginary worlds. The artist’s favorite themes are the strength and intensity of the feminine, as well as the personification of the wild world and its instinctive energy.

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Francesca Dalla Benetta

She was born in Florence, Italy, on a hot summer day. Her childhood was shaped by her grandmother, who took her to museums throughout the city and told her wonderful stories about the lives of the great Renaissance artists. When she was not with her, she spent long afternoons drawing, painting, or making small sculptures.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Editorial – Issue 87

Why this editorial is special to us. This editorial comes from a very different place than usual. It is not driven solely by professional reflection or the desire to share ideas, but by a profound change in our lives that has reshaped the way we understand work, projects, and the future. In recent months, we have received news that has completely changed our course: the arrival of a new life that will make us parents for the first time. An experience that is already teaching us, even before its arrival, that there are priorities that go beyond any professional goal, and that true success is not always measured by results, but by the meaning we give to each step.

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Editorial – A Season of Renewal

In this issue, we are especially pleased to present new talent defined by freshness, elegance, and, above all, delicacy. We believe art reveals itself most powerfully when it is allowed to exist in its perfect moment, when its presence feels both immediate and lasting. It is through that sensitivity that we are able to appreciate the new visual languages, refined approaches, and emerging perspectives that continue to shape both the professional and emerging spheres of figurative art. Over the years, our community has brought together outstanding figurative artists whose work reflects a remarkable range of expression and technical ability, from deeply sensitive portraits to sculptures of extraordinary naturalism and presence. Each new edition becomes, for us, another opportunity to continue that dialogue between mastery, discovery, and artistic evolution.

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Editorial – Issue 86

We have entered the fourth month of the year, and with the arrival of spring, we step into a new chapter for our magazine with an issue defined by renewal, intention, and a forward-looking vision. This moment represents more than a seasonal shift; it marks the beginning of a new stage shaped by clarity, evolution, and a deeper commitment to excellence.

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Editorial – Issue 84

It seems that nowadays art is measured with a calculator in hand. Every canvas, every sculpture, every installation is first considered for its investment potential and only then, if at all, for what it might evoke in the viewer. What was once an intimate encounter with creativity, an almost sacred experience between the work and the observer, has gradually been transformed into a transaction. Art has become a financial product: it is auctioned, speculated upon, collected... and, far too often, forgotten.

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Editorial – Issue 83

Sometimes the world seems to move too fast. Uncertainty, anxiety, and the constant rhythm of everyday life can easily overwhelm us. In the middle of that noise, art appears as a refuge: a place where we can breathe, pause for a moment, and reconnect with something deeper within ourselves. This month we celebrate painting as that vibrant and protective space. Color, light, and form have the power to move us, to slow our thoughts, and to remind us that wonder still exists. Each artwork becomes a small pause in the day, an invitation to look carefully, to imagine freely, and to rediscover the quiet pleasure of contemplation.

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