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I t’s all about fusion. The Myconian

Collection Villas host a new
generation art project that combines
graffiti inspiration, calligraphy, art
photography, twisted narratives 6
and optical illusion, in a series of Young and promising, the
artists experiment with
14 powerful visual tableaux by old and new techniques.
eight different artists. It all began 5. christine Auger,
6. Arnaud Bruyère,
when Maia Kerchache, the Fine 7. christophe Malus,
Art manager based in Paris, came 8. Nicolas Peyron
with her family to Mykonos for
her summer holidays and fell in
love with the island. The daughter
of the late art expert Jacques 3
Kerchache, founder of the Quai The
Branly Museum Jacques Chirac
in Paris, Maia Kerchache is a
young businesswoman recognized Summer
today by established experts
in her field. After working for of the 7
more than 13 years in the music
industry, she decided one day Arts
in Miami to broker the sale of
a Basquiat with a friend. Since
that first sale, Maia has advised
important collectors, but also What happens when
sought to promote young artists. the artfully designed
“Here in Mykonos I aim to give
artists the opportunity to have villas of the Myconian
4 their work seen by people from
They simply paint collection are
what they perceive, all over the world”. Free spirit is
because it allows a common quality of this project. transformed into an
them to create 8
without constraints. Cecile Loa, the 25-year-old French exhibition space? The
That is their photographer, plays with editing
modern spirit as if using a paintbrush- a tool that result is an exclusive
1.cécile Loa.
2. Nicolas Peyron. allows her to assemble segments art project, a mix
3. Nathalie Massa. of reality into an imaginary world.
4. Maia Kerchache, of the avant-garde
the art manager of Nicolas Peyron engages reversed
the project optical illusion to great effect. He and accessible art
also draws from the animal world to
represent the madness of humanity. that completes the
Nathalie Massa is inspired by unparalleled living
‘mother nature’ that surrounds experience.
her. French artist Christine Auger
loves colour-saturated, powerful by Despoina Sampson

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