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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.
Jara Marzulli
Retrospective art book by Jara Marzulli featuring works from 2004–2026. A visual journey through her artistic evolution and poetic universe.
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.
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.
Editorial – Special Sculpture
This new edition presents an extraordinary special dedicated to sculpture, featuring acclaimed Spanish sculptor Jorge Egea on the cover.
Yuriko Shirou
Yuriko Shirou is a Mexican contemporary illustrator known for her distinctive visual universe blending manga, American comics, and figurative art. This monograph by The Guide Artists presents a curated collection of her work from 2017 to the present.
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.
Daria Kropacheva
Discover the new Daria Kropacheva art book exploring realism, symbolism, and the human body through emotionally charged contemporary painting.
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.
