Ten Tower pop-up gallery is a small and accurate art gallery in Lugano that offers temporary exhibitions with a unique mission: to encourage emerging and non-emerging artists and designers who share the passion for art.

Ten Tower is a project that was born in Tower number 10 in Via Balestra by a private collector. The love for art and the idea of making it accessible to everyone in an urban context of a building in Lugano (the tower number 10, indeed) came after having purchased several artworks in Switzerland and abroad and willing to share them in order to promote the passion for art and beauty.

• Gabriela Azar Rubagotti
  16.11.2023 - 09.02.2024

  Gabriela Azar Rugabotti

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  About the Artist:
  
  Gabriela Azar Rubagotti, (born in Santo Domingo in 1995) is a Dominican emerging artist currently based in Italy. Coming from a family of professional artists, Gabriela grew up within creative environments, art galleries and art studios from an early age. She obtained her BA degree in Architecture at Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and her MA degree at Istituto Marangoni in Milan, Italy. Through the years she has developed interests and experience in several creative fields such as visual arts, fashion, architecture and interior design which all influence her work and artistic endeavors. The artist works in a variety of media, yet her pieces are primarily acrylic on canvas.
  She has participated in collective exhibitions within architecture and visual arts and has had her work featured in several international publications. This exhibition will be followed by both group and solo exhibitions in Italy throughout 2024.
  
  About the Exhibition:
  
  This exhibition entitled “Essence” speaks of serenity, peace and beauty. It is a reflection of the artist and the intrinsic relation between Azar Rubagotti and her work, the essence of who she is, the inner self, that is portrayed through each piece — as she describes “the canvas filled with self reflection.” Taking comfort in beauty, memories, and experiences that translate into delicate artwork compositions.
  “Essence” refers to the intrinsic nature of something abstract. It relates to the most important characteristics of ones self. In this case, seen and perceived through the search of art that inspires new ways of seeing, gestural movements, expressive visual representations evoking emotions, and memories of the invisible. These aspects are achieved in each work through movement, balanced harmony, delicately blending earthy tones with powerful colors, traces of gold, and the abstract representation of natural beauty with figurative flowers.
  
  This series of works vary from large format canvases, medium size paintings to small format mixed media drawings. Each work conveys a dialogue between simplicity, inner nature, and the lasting essence of elegance which invites the viewer to disconnect and experience the feminine and delicate nature of beauty through every detail.
  
  This will be Azar Rubagotti’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

  Gabriela Azar Rugabotti: www.instagram.com/gar.studio

  
  
  

• HORIZON
  14.06.2023 - 23.06.2023

  Riccardo Bandiera, Giulia Gualazzi aka Giulia Frump, Mattia Gravili, Niccolò Misrachi, Mauro Bruschi aka Ego Nauta, Irene Vesentini

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  The horizon, something distant and incredibly fascinating. A line that separates the sea
  from the sky, the earth from the air. How many times have we imagined ourselves far
  away, beyond the horizon. How many times have we touched horizons made of skin or
  have we seeked one beyond a large concrete building. “Horizon”, through the shots of six
  emerging photographers, tells about travels, skin and different experiences, dreams and
  hidden places, how everyone perceives their own horizon and how much they are willing
  to go further to be able to reach it.
  
  ARTISTS ON DISPLAY
  
  Riccardo Bandiera
  Born in 1973, he lives and works in Italy, by the sea between Genoa and Nice.
  After completing technical studies, for some years he has worked as a freelance
  photographer. He is a professional registered with TAU Visual, and alternates commercial
  work with artistic exhibitions.
  
  Giulia Gualazzi, aka Giulia Frump, was born in 1997 in Milan.
  Always passionate about art, she is getting closer and closer to the world of photography
  by participating in Italian and international initiatives and exhibitions.
  
  Mattia Gravili
  He was born in Milan in 1990. After training in Milan, New York and Paris, he began
  working as a photojournalist and photo editor. While on one hand his aesthetics are
  fascinated by the great formal American photography, on the other, the typical imagery of
  contemporary Asian production pushes him to create more visceral and dreamlike
  images, making him an artist in constant experimentation.
  
  Niccolò Misrachi
  Born in 1997 in Milan, he completed his studies at the Academy ACME as an illustrator.
  Since 2017 he has been passionate about the study of photography, especially
  concentrating on landscapes.
  
  Mauro Bruschi, aka Ego Nauta, was born in 1979. He experiments with photography and
  is an autodidact. He refined his technique thanks to his father. His main influences come
  from painting, literature and music.
  
  Irene Vesentini
  She was born in Verona in 1996. After completing her artistic training she graduated in
  photography at the LABA academy in Brescia. In her quest nature plays a predominant
  role together with an attention for colour, composition and light.

  Riccardo Bandiera: www.instagram.com/perfectunhappiness

  Giulia Gualazzi aka Giulia Frump: www.instagram.com/giulia_frump

  Mattia Gravili: www.instagram.com/mattiagravili

  Niccolò Misrachi: www.instagram.com/misrachi.illustrator

  Mauro Bruschi aka Ego Nauta: www.instagram.com/egos_nauta

  Irene Vesentini: www.instagram.com/ireeeeene_ph

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Bubins
  09.03.2023 - 02.06.2023

  Bubins

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  Gregorio Müller, aka Bubins, is a Swiss artist who lives and works between Lugano and London.
  Born in 1992, he has developed his own unique and distinctive style ranging from pop art to street art and focusing on continuous experimentation with new techniques and visual applications in a market already saturated with copies of copies. His background of university studies in the field of communication and marketing are clearly visible through the aesthetics of his works with their clear advertising imprinting and strong emotional impact. These, which are nothing more than the result and the very testimonies of an artistic passion born at an early age, refined over the course of time, matured and officially materialized in 2021 with the opening of his first studio in via Somaini 6 in Lugano, Switzerland. Constant references to pop culture and the contradictions of modern society are his interpretative lifeline and an integral part of his portfolio, which is summed up in an irreverent cynicism and an unsettling irony with a bitter taste. Its aim is indeed to make wake up and make the interlocutor think. After all, is this not the ultimate purpose of art?

  Bubins: www.instagram.com/bubins.art

  
  
  

• Tao
  01.12.2022 - 19.02.2023

  Oliver Della Santa aka ODDSGUY

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  Oliver Della Santa / aka ODDSGUY is a Swiss artist born in Lugano on July 21, 1993. He started photography at the age of 14 and graduated as a Graphic Designer at the School Center for Artistic Industries in Lugano, Switzerland. His work, after a path focused on traditional reportage, deals with abstract photography with a pure evolution in the research of the emotional aspect.
  
  ODDSGUY tries to represent and arouse emotions through his work that seems a collision between an analog past and a digitized future, where the figurative imprint of human beings in the world (lights in the night) merges with the most ancestral aspect of ourselves and the world, the emotions. His artistic process as well as being very free, is a fusion and balance between what you can and cannot control, as in life.
  
  «When I take my pictures I have a general knowledge of what I am doing. I can control my body and the process, but control and out of control mix like in life, where there is no beginning and no end but only transformation» says Oliver «The method of abstract photography is a natural outgrowth of a need, I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.»
  
  Drawing inspiration from artists such as Jackson Pollock – artist who worked with movement and dripping art – his contemporary work produces a feeling of vibration, static and movement at the same time and he wants the viewer to draw his own experience and conclusion; that's why all his works are "Untitled" just to leave free interpretation and fruition to each of his viewers. In conclusion, ODDSGUY's work seeks to unite, merge and bring photography closer to Fine Art.

  Oliver Della Santa aka ODDSGUY: www.instagram.com/oddsguy

  
  
  

• Always Question What You Sea
  08.09.2022 - 06.11.2022

  Gabriele Scanziani

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  Gabriele Scanziani is a contemporary Swiss and Italian painter. A self-taught artist who possesses a strongly personal work with a dreamlike influence and childish reminiscences.
  Scanziani’s painting is characterized by the presence of figures with macrocephalus and filiform extremities, creating surreal scenes and a world of unusual characters that despite their drama and deformity, show tenderness and kindness.
  We can observe in his work the studies of the figure of the protagonists, with a focus on the countenance and the way few features can portray a strong force of expression. The figures are mostly settled on a neutral, light blue, orange or dark background and in each scene, there is no line that cuts the vertical plane of the background with the horizontal plane, focusing the attention of the viewer mainly on the characters.
  Gabriele Scaziani’s work is currently represented by Galeria Azur, Context Art Gallery and Young Artist Hunters.
  Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1980, he is the son of a writer and a teacher. His father, who was 72 years old when he was born, started suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease when the artist was 14 years old and died 8 years later.
  He was chosen among the special mentioned artists for the Thomson Art Prize in 2021 by the Thomson Gallery in Zug.

  Gabriele Scanziani: www.instagram.com/gabriele.scanziani.art/