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MAGAZINE is dedicated to showcasing the work of artists of all mediums, and to discuss trends and ideas of art communities. KNACK Magazine’s ultimate aim is to connect and inspire emerging artists, working artists, and establishes artists. We strive to create a place for artists, writers, designers, thinkers, and innovators to collaborate and produce a unique, informative, and unprecedented web-based art magazine each month.
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FEATURING
Sinenkosi Msomi Nahid Rezashateri Paola Tornambè Stephen Oni Seigar Monazza Fatima Naqvi
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SINENKOSI MSOMI In 2015, Sinenkosi Msomi, with the help of his mentor, Clifford Dludlu, began a photography and clothing movement called Swag Syndroam, which translates to “changing style while maintaining personality.” On behalf of Swag Syndroam, in 2017, Msomi was selected as a winner in the Swaziland Beverages Kickstart initiative, which is focused on promoting business awareness among young people in Eswatini. He was also listed in The Young Independents SADC “Top 100 of 2019.” Sinenkosi Msomi was born in the capital city of Mbabane, Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland. He studied at the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Eswatini. Msomi is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Eswatini. He recently won the Social Justice Prize at the Boma of Africa Festival 2020.
“Photography and art has taught me that anything is possible if you let your imagination run free. Art has enabled me to trust myself more and to continue to strive for growth. Through photography I seek to document my own personal experiences and I find purpose to create from my imagination. The reason I choose to focus on conceptual and staged photography is because it helps me express myself and to identify ways to help me let go of things that cause emotional unrest.�
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FRAGMENTS OF COLOUR..ALBINISM IS BEAUTIFUL
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MUSIC OF THE SUN
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PATRIARCHY DOWN
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THE MIGRATION
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WHEN WARRIORS PRAY
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THOUGHTS OF A MESSENGER
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NAHID REZASHATERI Nahid Rezashateri was born and raised in Iran. She studied at an Iranian university where she attended a study group called “The Yellow Flowers” (Gol-e-zard )درز لگ. Each member wore a small yellow flower in their hair. Those were years of great dreams, hopes and deep friendships for Rezashateri. After finishing her studies, Rezashateri found herself faced with a crossroads. Her choice was to leave. First to Tehran and then, finally, to Italy.
THE WIND WILL TAKE US AWAY “This work is a tribute to my beloved Yellow Flowers. To their smiles and youthful energy, which I will never forget. It is a journey back to the memories: the desire to reconstruct plots, faces, spaces, moments, and fragments of a life that often seems distant to me, and at other times so intensely close.�
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PAOLA TORNAMBÈ Paola Tornambè was born and grew up in Rome within a Sicilian family. Her connection to Sicily has always been strong, and her origins have played an important role in her upbringing. This influence is reflected in her work, especially with light and Baroque-style poses. Her works have been featured on several websites and in both Italian and International photography and art magazines, such as Fotografia Moderna; Spazio Art; Micro Arti Visive; Artonweb; Bagzine; F-Stop Magazine; and Shots Magazine. She won Conceptual Artist 2018 from WebArt Expo by Grifio Art Gallery. She has participated in many personal and collective exhibitions, including the Velli Palace Expo in Rome 2019; Cluster Photography and Print Fair by Ugly Duck in London 2020; and Imagination, a curated international group photography exhibition by PH21 Gallery in Budapest 2020. Tornambè was also a national finalist at MarteLive 2019.
STRALUNATICA
“My photography is obsessed with time and long exposure so that my images look intentionally faded, foggy, or ‘in movement.’ I photograph for the opposite reason that is normally expected - not to stop time, but to show its flow. Introspective, dreamlike, and surreal, my pictures are located at the edge between ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ and can represent deep emotions and feelings, dreams, and the agony of being. It is, in fact, in this field that I can totally express myself and my artistic soul. Stralunatica is the title of this series, which refers to the mental condition, the vulnerability to mood swings, the uncertainty of life, and the coping mechanism of dissociation. The main character of this series is extraneous to reality, lost in her own dreamlike world. It is the story of an internal trip. The desire to escape is so strong, that her mind starts to see what is not actually there.”
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THE KEYHOLE
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HINT ON STARS
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MENTAL TRANSFORMATION
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THE DEPARTURE
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MOON LANDING
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STEPHEN ONI Stephen Olamide Oni is a prolific Nigerian artist who focuses on visual art and art therapy. He earned a BA in Fine and Applied Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University (Adeyemi Chapter). Most recently, Oni shared his artwork in the African Covid Virtual Exhibition in June 2020. Oni was featured in Art Works (US) online All Media Show 5.2020 called Mother, May I?. His artwork was also accepted by Bougie Art Gallery (CA) for the virtual art exhibition called Painting Color. Oni has participated in many other exhibitions from the Nigerian National Museum (Lagos); Thought Pyramid Art Center (Abuja); Didi Museum (Lagos); National Council for Arts and Culture (Lagos); National Gallery of Art (Lagos); Brick Lane Gallery (London); the Center for Black Culture and International Understanding (Osogbo); the Lagos Business School. He won 1st prize at the United Nations (MDGs) Poster Competition held in Abuja in 2005, and the Caterina de’ Medici Painting Award in 2010. He was featured in African Week, an exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in 2015. Oni is a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists, Araism Movement, Nymdis ART Gallery, among others. Instagram: @oniartist
“My creative renditions exceed mere aesthetic: I focus on great African themes, styles, and culture. This reflection has the capacity to ignite positive change and to act as therapy to humanity. I explore this idea through painting and mixed media techniques.�
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LOVING MOTHER
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SEIGAR Seigar is a philologist in English, a high school teacher, and a curious photographer based in Tenerife, a Spanish island of the Canary Islands. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, details, and religious icons. He has participated in several exhibitions: FotoNoviembre TEA; TenDíez; Círculo de Bellas Artes; Phe Gallery; Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos; Espacio Cultural Castillo de San Felipe; ULL Rafael Ramos García International Photography Awards; Tank Festival; Sala Fleming Art Gallery; Loosen Art Gallery, Rome; Haze Gallery, Berlin, and more. His work has also been featured in many international publications such as Blanc Magazine, PhotoVogue, Dodho Magazine, Semi Magazine, Latent Image Magazine and others. He has collaborated with VICE Spain and WAG1 Magazine. He writes for The Cultural Magazine (Spain) and for Memoir Mixtapes (Los Angeles). Website: seigar.wordpress.com Instagram: @jseigar
#SOLITUDE
“This series explores and reinterprets the figure of the harlequin, a comic servant character from the Italian Commedia dell’arte, popular in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century. Now the young man in disguise is a millennial and he is lonely, almost becoming a pierrot, another character from the same tradition. His beauty, talent, and success are diminished by isolation. We find him completely alone with only the company of his pompous reflection in the mirror moments before going on stage. This is the sacrifice this modern performer has to pay. He is doomed to live in this solitude forever.” Team Credits:
Idea, Art direction and Photography: Seigar @jseigar Model: Daniel Eleazar @eleazardani Make-Up and Hair Artist: Alba Martín Pérez @__albamartin__ Make-Up and Hair Artist Assistant: Besay Moremi Montelongo Brito @besay_ montelongo
Wardrobe Designer: Diazar Atelier @diazar_atelier Accessories Designer: Julia Brito @juliabritotocadosycomplementos Brand: Isla Bonita Moda @islabonitamoda Location: El Sauzal Theatre @teatrosauzal
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MONAZZA FATIMA NAQVI Monazza Fatima Naqvi, 32 years old, is a visual artist & teacher by trade, and a traveler & performing artist by heart. Based near the Indus River and Arabian Sea, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. Currently, a lecturer in the department of visual studies at the University of Karachi & an entrepreneur at Sareer Films. Though the primary focus of her work is on aesthetics, political & cultural perspectives find way into her work effortlessly.
He asked a gypsy, from where she was … who is she...! She answered, “Why bother me, to make me encage myself in a definition … & then trouble … & encage yourself, in an interpretation of me!! By the age of 4, at every hundred blinks I saw colors, shapes .. faces changing, by 15, every ten blinks I saw them changing by 25… every five blinks … Now at 32 … at every blink … they change … Every scar & bruise I have is different from each other, from different lands … I have not found a land yet, which my soul finds native… I might not find it ever, I might not belong here … To none of these lands … Can I be a guest in your land for a while … ?”
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The spring songs are heard no more, usurped by roars of glory, & Anthems of war! All hail the iron birds, rulers of sky... ‘The Saviours,’ they say! All hail ‘the Saviours’ ...the spring songs are heard no more!
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“…A Brahmin has Forecasted…this is a year of gain…” –Mirza Ghalib
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“O, Bulleh Shah, let’s go to a place…where everyone is blind… Where no one knows our caste. Neither does anyone hold me in high respect. O, Bulleh Shah, let’s go to a place…where everyone is blind!” –Bulleh Shah (Punjabi/Sufi poet)
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Shrine Bahauddin Zakariya (13th century Sufi Saint)
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“Multan & my Paradise are the same… Step slowly (here), as the angels are in prostration (worship)”
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TRANQUIL, Murad Memon Goth, Malir, Karachi, Pakistan
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THE BLACK CHIRAAGH (GLIM), Multan (City of Saints), Punjab, Pakistan
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Wali Muhammad Mosque, Chowk Bazar, Multan (City of Saints), Pakistan
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SEVEN O’ FIVE AT THE SECOND FLOOR (T2F), Karachi, Pakistan
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THE YELLOW IN ME, Karachi, Pakistan