善美藝術（長安街）

卡弗拉斯(生于1985年)自幼就受表演艺术家父亲的影响，经常看他亲手绘制自己的装扮。他充满感情的回忆着那些日子说道：“我经常陪着他去表演现场，并一直被颜色包围着。就在那是我学会了颜色的真正意义。对于我来说，色彩就是情感。”

从那时起，卡弗拉斯就觉得自己应该做一些通过色彩和艺术表达自己的事情。当他带回画布和颜料时，一些画作就成形了：“我可以为我的艺术作品倾注所有。我无法用语言来表达的东西，我可以用绘画表达出来。这几乎成了一种附加条件：我挑战自我并融入到日常生活中。”

卡弗拉斯使用各种各样的绘画技法应用在不同的层面上，从而创作出不同的绘画特征。他会在同时创作不同的几幅画作。“我会固定下来第一层面：一种颜色，形状，不管是对立的还是一种释放性质的，然后我就把画布放在一边。也许一放就是一个月，甚至是半年，直到我再次看到它然后意识到我接下来要对它做的是什么。”

对于卡弗拉斯来说，旅行是最大的灵感来源。“遇见新的人物，发现新的地方，形成新的思维，这些都是我的创作动力。”他的梦想是环游世界，并在所到的城市进行创作。卡弗拉斯目前生活工作在上海。他之前在阿姆斯特丹拥有自己的个人画廊，并在巴黎、哥本哈根，阿莫斯特丹和上海举办过艺术展览。

Growing up Merijn Kavelaars (1985) watched his father working as a performing artist and painting his own decors. He thinks back fondly of those days: “I always accompanied him to his shows and was constantly surrounded by color. That‟s when I learned the true meaning of color. For me, color is emotion.”
From that moment on Merijn felt he would some-day express himself through colors and art. When the day came he bought a canvas and some paint, the pieces fell into place: “I can pour everything into my work. What I can‟t express with words, I can say with paint. It‟s almost an addiction: I challenge myself and evolve on a daily base.”

Merijn uses all different kinds of paint and applies many layers to create character and dept. He works on several paintings at a time. “I set down the first layer: one color, shape, contrast or relief, and then I put the canvas away. Maybe for a month, maybe for half a year, until I see it again and know: this is what should happen next.”

For Merijn traveling is his biggest inspiration. “Meeting new people, discovering new places, forming new thoughts and motivations; that is what drives me.” His dream is to travel the globe and work in the cities he's visiting. Merijn cur-rently lives and works in Shanghai. He previously ran his own gallery in Amsterdam and exhibited his work in Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Shanghai.