Cover Artist: Danco Duportai
Back Cover Artist: J Louis
Issue 80, the first issue of the year, opens as a territory of beginnings, a space where everything becomes possible again. January is not merely a turn of the calendar; it is an essential question: from where do we look? At this point of origin, color appears as the first gesture, the first pulse. Not as decoration, but as a profound language that precedes form and concept, capable of moving us even before it is understood.
The cover of this issue is led by Danco Robert Duportai, an artist who does not work from noise or outward display. His painting emerges from interiority, from thought, from the emotional weight of memory and a lucid awareness of the fragility of existence. In his work, color does not shout; it breathes. It becomes an emotional state, a psychological atmosphere, a space where the figure is not presented but sustained.
This first issue of the year celebrates color as the origin of the artistic gesture and as a silent bridge between the creator and the viewer. Because art does not begin with form nor end with concept. It begins when color passes through us, activating memory, body, and gaze. That is where everything starts. That is where art begins.
Specs Print Version:
21,3 x 27,3 cm (8.25" x 10.75")
120 pages | Soft cover
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Cover Artist: Danco Duportai
Back Cover Artist: J Louis
Issue 80, the first issue of the year, opens as a territory of beginnings, a space where everything becomes possible again. January is not merely a turn of the calendar; it is an essential question: from where do we look? At this point of origin, color appears as the first gesture, the first pulse. Not as decoration, but as a profound language that precedes form and concept, capable of moving us even before it is understood.
The cover of this issue is led by Danco Robert Duportai, an artist who does not work from noise or outward display. His painting emerges from interiority, from thought, from the emotional weight of memory and a lucid awareness of the fragility of existence. In his work, color does not shout; it breathes. It becomes an emotional state, a psychological atmosphere, a space where the figure is not presented but sustained.
This first issue of the year celebrates color as the origin of the artistic gesture and as a silent bridge between the creator and the viewer. Because art does not begin with form nor end with concept. It begins when color passes through us, activating memory, body, and gaze. That is where everything starts. That is where art begins.
Specs Print Version:
21,3 x 27,3 cm (8.25" x 10.75")
120 pages | Soft cover
Shipping
Includes shipping tracking.
Reproduction in whole or in part without the express written permission of the director is prohibited.
Artworks are of their respective owners.
2016 – 2026 The Guide Artists® is a registered trademark . All content is copyright with all rights reserved.
