Light Painting World Alliance (LPWA) was a nonprofit organization (NPO). Its goal was to offer the light painting community a cross-border platform to show its art, to set up networks, and to promote social concerns and further training by means of light painting.
For this purpose LPWA established a network of local representatives [1] from currently 30 countries worldwide. It was founded in December 2011 by Russian artist Sergey B. Churkin. LPWA showcases light painting works of its members in the context of exhibitions, conferences and special events using an advisory board of lightpainters for selection.
In September 2014 LPWA was awarded status as an official Collaborating Partner [2] of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL2015) by UNESCO. This happened in accordance with the proclaimed International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 [3] by UNESCO. As representatives of LPWA artists Sergey Churkin, Eric Mellinger, Hugo Baptista and JanLeonardo were officially invited to attend opening ceremonies at UNESCO Headquarters Paris.
Stuart Buchanan Semple is a multidisciplinary British artist working across painting, sculpture, happenings, technology and activism. He is well known for his sociologically engaged works that often discuss youth politics, accessibility and democracy. Semple's work has strong links with Richard Hamilton's Pop Art, but has a contemporary emphasis on latent fear and threat rather than Hamilton's consumer culture and glamour.
Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez.
Shahabuddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi painter. He was awarded the Chevalier De L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres by the Ministry of Cultural Affair and Communication of France in 2014. He was the recipient of Independence Day Award by the Government of Bangladesh in 2000. His paintings are displayed in galleries like Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Municipal Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse, France, Seoul Olympic Museum, South Korea, the National Taiwan Museum and Bangladesh National Museum.
The Espace Dalí is a permanent exhibition in France devoted to Salvador Dalí consisting mainly of sculptures and engravings. The museum, near the Place du Tertre in the Montmartre district of Paris, has around 300 original artworks. The collection features mainly three-dimensional sculptures of Dalí's best known surrealistic paintings.
Gyula Kosice, born as Ferdinand Fallik, was a Czechoslovakian-born and naturalized Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, theorist, and poet. He played a pivotal role in defining the concrete and non-figurative art movements in Argentina and was one of the precursors of kinetic, luminal, and hyrdokinetic avant-garde art. His work was revolutionary in that it used, for the first time in international art scene, water and neon gas as part of the artwork.
Augustin François Guille, called Archiguille was a French painter.
Georgy Shishkin is a Russian painter.
Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa is a member of the Bahraini royal family, an artist and the chairman of Bahrain's National Council for Arts. He is the first president and the current honorary president of the Bahrain Arts Society. He has painted over a period of 50 years, beginning with landscape painting in the late 1960s. His recent work continues to explore his immediate landscape and the traditional architecture of his homeland, through wall based, structural installations created with aluminium. He is widely considered one of the Kingdom's most renowned artists.
Patrick Mimran is a contemporary French multimedia artist, composer, and the former CEO of Lamborghini. He is most widely known for Lamborghini's turn-around in the early 1980s and his art exhibit, "The Billboard Project".
Caziel was a Polish artist who lived and worked in Paris during the inter-war period and who worked alongside a number of important figures of the School of Paris, including Pablo Picasso and the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Huguette Caland was a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer known for her erotic abstract paintings and body landscapes. Based out of Los Angeles, her art was displayed in numerous exhibitions and museums around the world.
Aref El Rayess was a Lebanese painter and sculptor.
The year 1937 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Lola Vyacheslavovna Lonli is a Russian painter working in the style of Russian cosmism. She is a member of the Artists Trade Union of Russia and The International Federation of Artists. Her works are in permanent collections of the International Centre of Roerichs (Moscow), The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum, Simferopol Art Museum, and the art museum of Gorlovka. In 2013, her paintings were included in the catalogue Russian cosmists of the 20th and 21st centuries published by International Centre of Roerichs. Lonli's paintings are extensively exhibited throughout Russia and Ukraine; she has had more than fifty solo exhibitions and has participated in more than one hundred group exhibitions. She created her own method of art education and established the Treasure of the World art school.
The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 or International Year of Light 2015 was a United Nations observance that aimed to raise awareness of the achievements of light science and its applications, and its importance to humankind. IYL 2015 opening ceremonies was held on 19–20 January 2015 in Paris.
Dmitry Alexandrovich Shorin is an artist and sculptor.
JanLeonardo is a German photographer, author and speaker of fine-art photography.
Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov is an artist working in painting, drawing, video, installations, and exploring such subjects as urban space, environment, Soviet history, and historical memory.
Olga Lomaka is a Russian gallerist, contemporary artist and curator. Her style is known for working primarily within the pop-art movement, combining diverse materials and techniques in her pieces. Lomaka is actively exhibiting worldwide, participating in global art-fairs and biennales. She was named the Best Artist of the Year and won The Annual Award at the Aurora European Awards in Moscow in 2014. She was also awarded the title Fashion Artist of the Year by the Fashion TV Channel in Moscow in 2013.
Andrei Mudrea was a Moldovan painter and fine artist. He was one of Mihai Grecu's disciples. He was the creator of paintings, graphics, sculpture, and art-object works. He was the founder and member of "The group of ten". Mudrea's body of work occupies a leading position among the works of Moldovan contemporary and avant-garde art. He was the chairman and a member of various competition panels in the field of fine arts held in Chișinău.