Talent Seekers' Diary

The making of: Artists cooperating with Amalie Wissing

Amalie Wissing   25.01.2008

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

Thank You, Arturo, Thanks To All Of You

This diary will document the most beautiful experience of artists all around the world, that I had the luck to cooperate with in this project. At the beginning, it seemed to be nothing but just an idea. Then the little spark, step by step, gave light to those many eyes and ears, mouths, hands and hearts that deeply feel and express their many focusses on so called "done realities". And please, allow me here to say that artists are the most wonderful story-tellers the world has had and ever will have.
The cooperation with the artists who will be mentioned in this book, gave both to me, great pleasure and deep experiences.
Nevertheless, my first thanks have to go to Arturo Tirador, the initiator of this enormous platform 'Talent Seekers', that opens its great doors to welcome creative and peaceful communication by works of art.
And all the artists, that I had the chance to get in contact with through Talent Seekers, and all those who might read this document of peace and understanding in this immense world we share and have to look after, may hopefully enjoy this little Thank-You-All, our joint "Talent Seekers' Diary".
Amalie Wissing

contact Arturo Tirador view all cooperating artists

About the Project

Before the project was born:

For many years, I experienced, a similarity/coincidence in the "transformation of information" or "expression of impression"
- that is to say in a multitude of artworks - of the many artists in all categories through time and space.

This disparate multitude, being at the same time one and similiar, has its parallel expression in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN FREE AND EQUAL" ....

(see full declaration: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights )



I sought to confirm my intuition:

So I made my way through the www., visited between 5000 to 8000 webpages of artists worldwide (Talent seekers seemed to be the most appropiate platform), trying to find the art works, that I felt would co-express the message of my written words. You may appreciate, that this co-expression sometimes underlines and sometimes contrasts with my text.

Of course, it took its many nights to get the present result, but I have really enjoyed this cooperation with the many artists I discovered. It seemed - and still does - a warm and heartfelt cooperation and I feel proud to have them all on board my ship, that now is sailing beyond all borders.



How it was done:

You see, this cooperation is built upon trust and honesty, respect and welcome, truth and imagination, joy and coolness, knowledge and inspiration.
So in order to celebrate this extraordinary project and us, the cooperating artists, I created in addition the "Talent Seekers' Diary".
There you find all the cooperating artists with an additional personal page, the links for contacting the artist directly and my thanks
expressed in HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.



Looking forward:

And, yes, I admit I feel a little proud, sailing along on the high seas with this most incredible crew of artists, and I can assure you, that all those who want to come on board, are welcome.


Amalie Wissing

Artists Cooperating In This Project

Honour To Whom Honour Is Due

AMALIE WISSING
©reated Amalie Wissing

ANIKÓ HENCZ
©reated Anikó Hencz

BRENDA FARIA
©reated Brenda Faria

CARLA CAMPOS
©reated Carla Campos

CECILIA SCAFFO
©reated Cecilia Scaffo

EDUARDO NUÑEZ VALBUENA
©reated Eduardo Nuñez Valbuena

FABRICE TIGNAC
©reated Fabrice Tignac

FILIP VAN ROY
©reated Filip Van Roy

GEORGETTE VAN NOPPEN
©reated Georgette van Noppen

GISELA BRUNN
©reated Gisela Brunn

GREGG SIMPSON
©reated Gregg Simpson

HELENA AFONSO
©reated Helena Afonso

HUMBERTO de JESÚS VIÑAS GARCÍA
©reated Humberto de Jesús Viñas García

IAN NEWBERY
©reated Ian Newbery

JEAN DOLANDE
©reated Jean Dolande

JOHN SALTER
©reated John Salter

KHALED HASAN
©reated Khaled Hasan

KNUT KARGEL
©reated Knut Kargel

LÁZARO FERRÉ
©reated Lázaro Ferré

LIDIA SIMEONOVA
©reated Lidia Simeonova

LINDA DE SOUSA
©reated Linda de Sousa

MARGARITA MORALES
©reated Margarita Morales

MARIE-DENISE DOUYON
©reated Marie-Denise Douyon

MAURIZIO BACCANTI
©reated Maurizio Baccanti

MÓNICA ARDAIZ
©reated Mónica Ardaiz

NAZIM MEHMET
©reated Nazim Mehmet

OLGA KALASHNIKOVA
©reated Olga Kalashnikova

PAZZA PENNELLO
©reated Pazza Pennello

PEJMAN TADAYON
©reated Pejman Tadayon

ROSSELLA RAMANZINI
©reated Rossella Ramanzini

TON HARING
©reated Ton Haring

VAN QUE
©reated VAN QUE

The Artists' Pages

AMALIE WISSING

Writer, Visual Artist, Germany

©reated by Amalie Wissing

The Author
Die Autorin


Digital Paintings of Amalie Wissing are inserted in the following texts of her:

Ars Moriendi: BEING TO BE
Compass Tuning Facts: DANGEROUS MOOD

ANIKÓ HENCZ

Painter, Digital Art, Hungary

©reated by Anikó Hencz

I was born in Transylvania in 1962.
During my school-years, I was taught graphics and painting by some excellent artists. Later on I took private drawing lessons and was more and more attracted towards abstract works.
I have been drawing and painting ever since I could hold a pencil in my hand…
The most valuable feature of digital art, as I see it, is the endless freedom of artistic techniques, easily allowing to alter hand-drawing with computer,- and photo manipulation. Thus, traditional and abstract elements can live together in harmony.
My paintings are mostly the sensitive creations of my imagination. I keep analyzing and rearranging found and searched for motifs, my dreams, my thoughts, abstract images. These works are full of tension and emotional dynamics, with specific color and form solutions. This way, my work cannot be anything else but “me”, a piece of me, which is continuously recharging and wishing to express itself over and over again. This process carries with it the duality and succession of periods of stormful creation with periods of peacefulness.
As a matter of fact, my work does not belong to any artistic category or trend. All my digital paintings have their own world and their own story.

Digital Paintings of Anikó Hencz are inserted in the following works of Amalie Wissing:

Hinter jedem Satz: BIRD OF PASSAGE
Wer bist du mir: MIDDLE OF NOTHING
Wege: OMEN
Haben und Sein: THE LAME DOG'S DREAM

BRENDA FARIA

Painter, Brazil

©reated by Brenda Faria

Brenda Faria lives in Brazil. Her oil paintings on wood are inspired by the Masters — rereading their works — through detailed research. More than 80 exclusive paintings have been sold around the world.

The work of art by Brenda Faria is inserted in the following text:

Aischa: Pietro Perugino I (cód. 53)

CARLA CAMPOS

Painter/Plastic Artist

©reated by Carla Campos

Carla Campos, was born in Alhos Vedros in 1973.
Emerging surrealist painter and abstract focuses on the sometimes
figurative. Oils, acrylics and watercolors give shape to their works
scattered in private collections nationally and abroad and some retail.
She participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally.
Their artworks are a little around the World, and she is pleased to be
represented in some public and private collections.

All the arts touch .... painting, poetry, music.
I'm all .... all is me.

Carla Campos

Carla Campos is cooperating with Amalie Wissing in
Corazón de menta: Menta gelada

CECILIA SCAFFO

Painter, Uruguay

©reated by Cecilia Scaffo

Maria Cecilia Scaffo, is born in Montevideo, Uruguay the 23 of December of 1964.
Of mother painter, she inherits what later it will be his great passion. Its formation in its beginnings by its mother, shares with its brothers the prettiest creative experiences. In the school already one stands out by his abilities in the drawing, showing a security in the outline and great capacity of observation.
1980 - It initiates his studies like advertising sketcher, dictated by Armand Suberbielle in BURÖ /Study of Communication.
1981 / 84 - It professionally works in Ferrero and Ricani /Publicity and 1982 in IMPETU /Advertising Organization.
1985-1987 - It definitively leaves the world of the publicity to dedicate itself completely to the painting and one registers in the E.N.B.A . National school of Beautiful Arts and later in the Factories of Jose Arditti and Juan Storm in 1987.
1990 - By their work "Snails" obtain Prize in the X Leonístico Hall Youth.
1992 - First individual exhibition makes his in Gallery "Space" where it exposes his series "Hieroglyphic" . It thus denominates them to feel them like a language of a world that is inner, spiritual, mystical. Where the objects of the unconscious one were transformed into forms and symbols.
1995 - It makes two exhibitions you synchronize in "Stroll of the Matrix" where in the first hall it exposes its series of oils "Vibrations" , where Elisa Roubaud of the newspaper "the Country" comments... The painting of Scaffo calls the attention by its colorful intoned, vibrant stop and and valued well. It composes and it structures solidamente as it could not be of another way of a good student of Storm. On this base it runs with his colors to create a world that is inner to the way of nabis, with boldness of color that sends to Fauve painters, characteristics whom they form a strong influence of the French painting and I touch vangoghianos in the circular rates of its pinceladas. Its painting is decorative and gestual she is flat, rythmical, vegetal, organic, plastic, well is conceived.
1995 - In this year it makes studies of Grafico design by computer in PCentro, where thanks to these knowledge and their permanent investigation of the education for the art, take to the creation of educative librillos for titled children " Magical Small box to it" (7 volumes) material didactic oriented to stimulate the creativity and inventiveness of the children of between 7 and 12 years.
He collection "Magical Small box" this directed to the small ones, although the greater ones also can find ideas very original.
Each small box contains activities in paper, fabric or wool, maderitas, cardboard or fine cardboard and a special subject on him COLOR. They are easy to do and they go step by step accompanied and of attractive drawings.
2000 - It exposes individually in the department of Maldonado in bank "COFAC" (Pirlápolis).
2001- individual Exhibition in "Notte Spaghetti" ( Montevideo)
2002 - It along with makes the children of the Simón school Bolivar, a mural, in the walls of this school.
2003 - Individual exhibition in the "Cultural Center of the Dove" , (Rocha) where exposes its series " Dancing Objects".
2004 - Continuous working and studying all the referring one to the Digital art, without leaving and neglecting the drawing and the painting that is its source

Cecilia Scaffo is cooperating with Amalie Wissing:

Eine schöne Geschichte: Jeroglífico III
Wir brauchen keinen Krieg: Jeroglífico IX
Das mit dem Krieg: Mädchen

EDUARDO NUÑEZ VALBUENA

Painter, Mexico and Italy

©reated by Eduardo Nuñez Valbuena

The Quadrature of the World

"We plunge into a colourful world: nature, society, existence, life, daily routine, arrangement systems. We distinguish important essential matters and situations: water, earth, fishes, goats, marine-animals, dogs, horses, human faces, horse carriages, vehicles, tables, fruits and a guitar player. It is all about motifs of the private weekday, originated out of the observance of life, of nature and of the civilisation.

The abstractly curtailed and symbolically condensed picture-themes of Nùnez Valbuena reveal a deeply subjective and symbolically condensed view on the tender and life-determining particularities of the world.

His works are figurative concen-trations on the essential matters that manifest themselves in this same world. Through his selective perception the artist is showing us the extrapolated incidents of life, of nature and of our being."

Dr. Rolf Lauter
Director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim

Obras de arte de Eduardo Nuñez Valbuena son insertadas en los textos siguientes:

Recherchen im Fall L. Fernando Rodriguez: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Fonetix: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

FABRICE TIGNAC

Plasticien, France

©reated by Fabrice Tignac

ART TIGNAC PHOTO ART

Fabrice Tignac plasticien nous présente "souvenir trouvé" un travail photographique qui fouille dans l'intimité de la mémoire , ces moments de souvenir , travaillés par l'artiste avec sa lame de rasoir , n'appartiennent à personne et à tous , c'est un fabricant d'émotions pure qui nous offre un beau moment de mémoire et de frisson intime...

Une photo artistique de Fabrice Tignac est integrée dans le texte suivant:

Ramón oder der Traum von rosaroten Schmetterlingen: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

FILIP VAN ROY

Painter, Photographer, Digital Video Artist, Writer, Belgium

©reated by Filip Van Roy

DE KUNSTENAAR

Froy, pseudoniem van Filip Van Roy, werd in 1970 geboren te Antwerpen. Na de humaniora studeerde hij met succes communicatiebeheer. Na enkele omzwervingen doorheen Frankrijk en Spanje, waar hij onder meer aan de kost kwam als columnist, keerde hij terug naar zijn geboortestad en evolueerde hij als autodidact van proza en poëzie naar beeldende kunst. De taal heeft hij echter nooit volledig losgelaten: elk werk van hem is een ontdekkingsreis, elk schilderij een verhaal of gedicht, een zoektocht zonder einde. Verder volgde hij een doorgedreven opleiding in de digitale videokunst. De boodschap lijkt duidelijk: de creativiteit botvieren door telkens nieuwe ideeën te zoeken of oude in nieuwe vormen te gieten. Momenteel leeft en werkt Froy op Kreta, Griekenland.

After finishing high school, he went on to study Communications management with high achievements. Later in life he travelled through France and Spain, where he worked as a columnist and enjoyed the local culture. After returning to his hometown he evolved as a self-taught man in the field of prosy and poetry to the field of sculpting and painting. Never completely able to let go of the written word he strives to combine his poetry in his paintings: every work of the hand of Froy is an expedition, every painting, story or poem, a search without ending or boundaries. Restless as he is he went on to specialize in the field of digital video art. The message seems clear: Giving free rein to his creativity he searches restlessly for new ideas or improves on his old Works in other forms.

HET WERK EN DE KRITIEK

“Smaak is niets anders dan een kluwen van onverwerkte impulsen,” vertelt de kunstenaar gepassioneerd, “Ik schilder omdat ik wíl schilderen. Punt. Verder stel ik mij de vraag wat kunst precies is, hoe kunst wordt gemaakt, wanneer kunst meer is dan een ambacht of decoratie en hoe kunst functioneert als artistiek gegeven én als economisch produkt.”

“ Zijn werk is puur; een studie van het leven in de rand, van de interactie van het individu met de andere(n) in de Westerse stad, van de communicatie (of het ontbreken daarvan) tussen hedendaagse mensen. De sfeer is dikwijls bevreemdend, de mens wordt dan weer als een dier en een andere keer als een robot afgebeeld, vervreemd van de realiteit.Wat onmiddellijk opvalt, zijn de kleurcompositie en de kleursymboliek, ongeacht of hij met acryl of met olieverf werkt. ” (R. TEN)

“De schilderijen van Froy bekijk je niet enkel. Ze doen je kijken naar jezelf en naar je manier van kijken. Dat is een wezenlijk verschil.” (THE ARTSERVER)

A work of art by Filip van Roy is inserted in the following text:

Der V-Mann: Title: STAMMENOORLOG naar aanleiding van een racistische moord in Antwerpen

GEORGETTE VAN NOPPEN

Painter, Netherlands and Belgium

©reated by Georgette van Noppen

Biography

Georgette van Noppen
28-09-1971, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lives and works in the village of Boekhoute (Assenede), Belgium.
She studied Materials and Techniques in Kentfield, USA in 1992.
However,she is mainly a self-taught artist.

Georgette started drawing and painting when she was a child.
At the age of 11, she already knew, it would be indispensable for her further life.
Her work reflects her inner world; she is inspired by the phases of life, poetry, nature and music.

Her paintings tell about thoughts, dreams and feelings,as well in an abstract as in a figurative way she creates a poetic mood on the canvas.

Georgette’s use of rounded shapes returns in many of her paintings.
Her colourpalet differs from period to period, but is rarely hard or bright.
Working with mixed media, she explores the interaction of the different materials.
She lets the material work by itself, rotating the canvas throughout the whole painting process, observing it, and changing it as the painting evolves. Her work is build up in layers of thinned paint,
where the last layer covers up certain parts of the canvas, creating more depth.

The materials used in her latest work are mostly acrylic paints, crayon and Indian ink, using the surface of stretched canvas or wooden panel.

Occasionally she works with digital photography, and makes lamps and wooden mobiles, made from found and used objects.

A work of art by Georgette van Noppen is inserted in the following text:

Würzburg ist zu katholisch: Title: BIRD-TREE

GISELA BRUNN

Painter, Germany

©reated by Gisela Brunn

Die Dinge sind dazu da,
dass man sie benutzt, das Leben zu gewinnen,
und nicht,dass man das Leben benutzt, um die Dinge zu gewinnen.

Nimm die Welt von der leichten Seite,
und der Geist wird frei von jeder Last sein.
Miss den Zehntausend Dingen keine Bedeutung bei,
und dein Herz wird nicht verwirrt sein.
Lass dir Leben und Tod gleich wichtig sein,
und dein Verstand wird ohne Angst sein;
nimm gegenüber Wandel und Beständigkeit die gleiche Haltung ein,
und nichts wird deine Klarheit trüben. (Lao-tse)

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Works of art by Gisela Brunn are inserted in the following works of Amalie Wissing:

As time goes by: Number I
Die Schwatte/Cover: Number II
Die Schwatte/Text: Number III
Dedicatoria: Number IV
Ich liebe Götz George/Cover: Number V
Zwielicht: Number VI
Mein Herz blüht wie ein Mandelbaum im Licht: Number VII

GREGG SIMPSON

Painter, Jazz Drummer, Visual Artist, Canada

©reated by Gregg Simpson

A prolific and critically recognized artist and musician, Gregg Simpson has exhibited his paintings, drawings, and works on paper throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work is included in several academic studies, art history books and journals published in Canada, Europe, and Australia and has been exhibited in several historical surveys on surrealism and abstraction.
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He is also the subject of a BRAVO TV Documentary: "A New Arcadia: The Art of Gregg Simpson". The artist has received numerous grants and awards and is represented in both museum and private collections across Canada, Asia and Europe.

Nicole Donnely, a curator in Mexico City, wrote that “Simpson’s paintings flux between the solid, rooted world and the ethereal.”

Parisian art critic, José Pierre, who worked with André Breton, founder of the Surrealist Group, wrote that “Simpson knows how to add pyramids and clouds,
geometry and the breeze, the palpable and the impalpable, the visible and the invisible.”

Co-Exhibitors

International: Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Alexander Calder, Jorge Camacho, Salvador Dali, Adrien Dax, Marcel Duchamp, Amy Ernst,
Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Robero Matta, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies, Andy Warhol, Victor Vasarely, Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich.

Canadian: Leon Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Paul Emile Borduas, Kittie Bruneau, Marcel Ferron, Roland Giguerre, Don Jarvis, Jock MacDonald, Guido Molinari, Alfred Pellan, Ivan Eyre, Jean Paul Riopelle, Toni Onley, William Ronald, Jack Shadbolt, Tony Urquhart, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Joyce Weiland, Jack Wise, Alan Wood.

Works of art by Gregg Simpson are inserted in the following texts:

Große Wanderung/Cover: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Papermoon: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Apo und Theken: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

HELENA AFONSO

Photographer, Portugal

©reated by Helena Afonso

Due to my work, for an airline, I have travelled around the world for the last 30 years. Being a photography passionate, my job allowed me to take photos from everywhere. Not being a professional, but just an amateur, I developed a sense of knowing and learning the distant parts of our planet, specially, the proximity to other cultures. People, customs, traditions and cultures are my maine goal, combined with the natural beauty of the earth.

I do still travel a lot, but as a traveller and photographer. I love to show my views, and share my emotions throught my photos to those who love photograhy and travells.

I am therefore very happy to be able now through this link to share with you my works and the take you to see the beauties of the world! Your visits and comments will be a great reward!


Photographs by Helena Afonso are inserted in the following texts:

Miss Africa: Title: WHITE WINGS
Die Kaiserliche Größenfeststellerin: Title: BAI GIRL

HUMBERTO de JESÚS VIÑAS GARCÍA

Painter, Cuba

©reated by Humberto de Jesús Viñas García

HUMBERTO de JESÚS VIÑAS GARCÍA:
PINTOR AUTODIDACTA. NACE EN: CIUDAD DE LA HABANA. CUBA. EL 5 DE JUNIO DE 1963.
1985- REALIZA ESTUDIOS DE ORFEBRERÍA Y TRABAJA POSTERIORMENTE COMO ORFEBRE EN EL TALLER KATEY. CIUDAD HABANA.
1987- DISEÑO DEL CATÁLOGO Y PROGRAMA DE LA EXPOSICIÓN, PRIMER ENCUENTRO DE LA CULTURA ÁRABE EN CUBA. GALERÍA EMIR ABDEL KADER. C. HABANA. CUBA.
1987- REALIZA VARIOS MURALES EN NUEVOS CÍRCULOS INFANTILES CONSTRUIDOS EN LA HABANA VIEJA.
1987- REALIZACIÓN DE UN MURAL COLECTIVO EN EL VESTÍBULO DE LA CASA DE LA CULTURA DE LA HABAN VIEJA. 1988- REALIZA CURSO DE FOTOGRAFÍA EN LA UNIÓN DE ESCRITORES Y PERIODISTAS DE CUBA. 1989-1990- CURSO DE CERÁMICA EN EL TALLER DE CERÁMICA DEL CERRO. PERTENECIENTE A INDUSTRIAS LOCALES VARIAS.
1994- REALIZA CURSO DE PRODUCTOR DE TEATRO, DANZA Y ESPECTÁCULOS MUSICALES. CERTIFICADO POR EL MINISTERIO DE CULTURA Y EL TEATRO NACIONAL DE CUBA.
1994- ILUSTRACIÓN DEL LIBRO DE POESÍA. ANAGNÓRISIS. AUTORA: LISETTE CLAVELO. EDITORIAL: CASA EDITORA ABRIL. IMPRESO: A.B.R.N. PRODUCCIONES GRÁFICAS. BUENOS AIRES. ARGENTINA. PINOS NUEVOS.
1995- TRABAJA COMO PRODUCTOR DE TEATRO. GRUPO IRRUMPE. DIRIGIDO POR
EL MAESTRO ROBERTO BLANCO. TEATRO NACIONAL DE CUBA.
1995- CREADOR INDEPENDIENTE DEL FONDO DE BIENES CULTURALES DE CUBA.
1999- REALIZA SEIS CUADROS AL ÓLEO/LIENZO PARA LA PREMIACIÓN DEL EVENTO GUITA TROVA AUSPICIADO POR EL MUNICIPIO DE CULTURA DEL MUNICIPIO PLAYA. C. HABANA. CUBA.
2000-2004- REALIZACIÓN DE ATREZO ARTÍSTICO PARA INTEGRANTES DEL GRUPO CUBANO DE MÚSICA ANTIGUA “ARS LONGA. UTILIZADOS EN IMPORTANTES CONCIERTOS Y FESTIVALES EN CUBA, ITALIA Y FRANCIA.
2006- SUBASTADA UNA OBRA DEL ARTISTA EN “SUBASTAS CASTELLANA” MADRID. ESPAÑA.
2006- SUBASTADA UNA OBRA SUYA EN “SUBASTAS CASTELLANA” MADRID. ESPAÑA.
2007- SUBASTADAS DOS OBRAS SUYAS EN “SUBASTAS CASTELLANA” MADRID. ESPAÑA.
2007- SUBASTADAS CINCO OBRAS SUYAS EN “SUBASTAS CASTELLANA” MADRID. ESPAÑA.
2007- INTERVENCIÓN PERMANENTE EN EL BLOG DE arte DEL CRITICO DE arte, EL ESPAÑOL GREGORIO VIGIL-ESCALERA ALONSO.
2007- MIEMBRO DE “REPÚBLICA DEL ARTE” RepARTE QUE DIRIGE EL GALERISTA Y PROMOTOR DE arte SEÑOR VIKTOR EKIX. LA RIOJA. ESPAÑA.
2007- CRITICAS REALIZADAS A SU OBRA POR EL CRITICO DE arte, EL ESPAÑOL GREGORIO VIGIL-ESCALERA ALONSO. GOYO-VIGIL.BLOGSPOT.COM Y EN ARTISTASDELATIERRA.COM

EXPOSICIONES PERSONALES 1991- FORMA I. GALERÍA DOMINGO RAVENET. LA LISA. C. HABANA. CUBA. 1997- PINTURA AFRO-CUBANA. CAFÉ ATENEO. MOLINA DE SEGURA. MURCIA. ESPAÑA.

Obras de arte de Humberto de Jesús Viñas García son insertadas en las siguientes obras de Amalie Wissing:
Violeta: expof20
Song for my friends: Los sueños de un habitante despierto
Briefe an Frau D.: 1cartULINA
Zuhause: 7cartULINA

IAN NEWBERY

Sculptor, Sweden

©reated by Ian Newbery

About
As well as his membership of the RBS he is a member of Artists Centre of Sweden, Artists Association in Smaland, Swedish Sculptor Union and BUS Sweden, a veritable Artistic giant having exhibited his work on such far flung places as Germany, Norway, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Brazil, USA and Britain where his monolithic artistry is in such demand. He somehow cathces the sheer spirituality and strength of his raw material and tranforms it mightily yet delicately.

Awards and Prizes
2006 Special Invitation, Beijing Sculpture Institute, China
2006 Aji International Stone Craft Contest, First Prize, Japan
2003 Honourable award, Yuzi International Sculpture Awards, China
1999 Raumars artist in residence, Rauma, Finland
1999 Hanasaari scholarship, Helsinki, Finland
1998 The Längmanska Culture Fond, Sweden
1998 Lessebo Municipal, Sweden

Self Portrait by Ian Newbery

A sculpture by Ian Newbery is inserted in the following text:

Rosas y Azafrán/Cover: Title: RED CHROMOSOME

JEAN DOLANDE

Painter, Performance Artist, France

©reated by Jean Dolande

As an actor having worked by the Actor Studio method, you enter the anteroom of your unconscious.

You then feed yourself with this emotional universe and you either re-sue emotions already inscribed, or you re-create emotional paths. As seeker after emotions, I have experienced the word, then the gesture of the mime; I wanted to transpose the same emotion on the canvas.

I work with mineral and vegetable powders which are therefore alive and which I feed with Gregorian chants: the powders become saturated with these. To revive the colours, I have some of the paintings drying up under a wooden pyramid reproducing the Keops scale. After having performed such preliminary works, I begin my emotional search. According to the emotional scale within which I decide to work through letting go I try to reach emotional purity, just like the ultimate sound of a violin string just about to break.

To be a painter brings me the privilege of not being dependent on anyone, to be alone with my canvas, the freedom of going as far as I wish, with no restriction, and with the entire intensity I long for.

I'm dedicated to emotion like priesthood.The human being is emotion, and the artist must transcend one's emotions. The emotion is pure, ultimate and vibrant and enables you to approach some truth, it projects you beyond yourself: it embellishes all those who are touched by its grace. Colours have
a vibratory impact on each of us and allow us to reset our energies. Imagine life as a system made up of multiple and infinite vibrations among which human beings act as transmitters, receptors of vibrations.
All these vibrations mingle, intermingle, blend and go away: in this way we are then all linked to one another in a medley of vibrations. Our thoughts circulate. Our emotions vibrate. Imagine that positive thoughts represent the specificity of being extremely radiant and colourful; then negative thoughts would only be mist, indiscernible from one another. Observe this vision which surrounds you and allow yourself to dream.
Interview by Mary CARON

Permanent Galleries
SHANGHAI - Nancy's Gallery, NO.5 Lane 210 Taikang Road
PEKING - Gallery 8, Feng Liu, B-2 Creation Art Center, Xiaopu, Songzhuang, Tongshou
NEW YORK - Marumo's Gallery, 137 Grand Street, Corner of Broadway and Grand Street
PARIS - Galerie Vera Amsellem, 48 rue du Roi de Sicile Paris 75004

Paintings by Jean Dolande are inserted in the following texts:

Entre palmas y palmeras/Cover: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Blukaat: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Warum oder auch nicht/Cover: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

JOHN SALTER

Peintre/Painter

" Non la peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer les appartements, c'est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l'ennemi " - Pablo Picasso

Le peintre doit être engagé, doit retrouver sa place comme guerrier, comme défenseur de la beauté de son environment.
Il doit célébrer ses peuples, ses bêtes et ses paysages.
Il doit dompter la cruauté et l'ignorance, tout par la transcendance du naturel, qui est son Art.
Il doit chercher son inspiration dans la nature et non pas dans les tendances.
Voila là dessus mon CV:
tout ce que j'ai appris dans ma vie d'artiste - inutile de faire une liste ennuyeuse de mes diplômes et les façons par lesquelles j'ai gagné mon pain.

"Painting isn't done in order to decorate apartments, but for making offensive and defensive war against the enemy" - Pablo Picasso

The painter must be socially committed, must become a warrior, a defendeur of his environment and its beauty:
he must celebrate its peoples, beasts and landscapes;
he must attack cruelty and ignorance, through the transcendance of nature, which is his Art;
his inspiration must always come from nature and not from artistic fashion.
Thus, the above is my CV:
all that I've learnt in my life as an artist - no need to make a boring list of my diplomas or the many ways in which I've managed to earn a living
- John Salter -

Cooperation avec Amalie Wissing
Songbook: Testimony. Best before 2525 Dommage Collateral

KHALED HASAN

Photographer, Bangladesh.

©reated by Khaled Hasan

Biography:

Khaled Hasan

He was born in Dhaka, in 1981. In 2006, he joined Pathshala which changed his life in a new way. He graduated from Pathshala in 2009. He always wants to show a documentation of a culture with his photographs, to tell a story with his photographs with a messenger of the community. His philosophy is that it is essential for the photographer to create communication and trust with his subjects.

His photographs has been published in Sunday Times Magazine, American Photo, National Geographic Society, Better Photography, Saudi Aramco World Magazine and The New Internationalist.

He has been awarded as a 2008 All Roads Photography Program of National Geographic Society for his Documentary Project (Living Stone), Alexia Foundation Student Award (2009), Grand Prix winner 2009 of “Europe and Asia – Dialogue of Cultures”, Mark Grosset Documentary Prize (2009). His photographs have exhibited in Bangladesh, London, Canada, USA, Mexico, Russia and France.

Photography has the visual power to educate by allowing us to enter the lives and experiences of others. Through photography, he hopes to help the society to empathize with hidden social, political and environmentally suffered people. His ongoing projects are ‘Jihad, a fighter of Disability’, ‘Living Stone’, and ‘Burning Nature, Warming Earth.’. It is important to realize that no documentation will ever be finished. This work informs his identity that has started from one point but has no ending.

Photos by Khaled Hasan are inserted in the following texts:

Im Frühjahr: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Wir: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Wissen: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Das Opfer: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Rot: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART


KNUT KARGEL

Painter, Performance Artist, Germany

©reated by Knut Kargel

Atomstromfreie Kunst
Unsere Beleuchtung, sowie elektrische Maschinen bis hin zum Kaffee-Bereiter, aber auch der Computer, mit dem digitale Kunstwerke erstellt oder Webseiten programmiert werden, laufen mit »grünem Strom«...


Kunstwerke von Knut Kargel sind in folgende Texte eingebettet:

Aus dem Herzen Deutschlands/Cover: Titel: HIRN
Dear Barack Obama/Cover: Titel: MULTIPLE
A Letter from Claire: Titel: PHONOLITH
Pattern: Titel: PATTERN
From Germany With Love: Titel: YES WE CAN TOMATO SOUP
Sadika: Titel: LUFTSÄULEN
Ich liebe Götz George/Text: Titel: ICH LIEBE GÖTZ GEORGE
Hielo Negro: Titel: SPALTE
Sueno para Sarah: Titel: GEBETSFAHNE
De Héroes y Heroinas: Titel: OHNE TITEL
Cristo Crucificado: Titel: GEBETSFAHNE
Calle Goya o El Arte de Olvidar: Titel: GEBETSFAHNE
Gastfeundschaft: Titel: EMPTY HOUSE
Sobald: Titel: KUH-FACTORY
Kinderlied: Titel: ROTECKCHEN
Der Floh: Titel: NAHSICHT
Sag dem Sommer Ade: Titel: REM (Rapid Eye Movement)
Abschied: Titel: MURRAY STEPS
Indian Summer: Titel: L'OISEAU DE FEU
Lass die Worte: Titel: THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

LÁZARO FERRÉ

Painter, Spain

©reated by Lázaro Ferré

The Artist Statement and Education

I think the easiest way to define my activity as an artist and my intellectual approach to art would be to quote Apollinaire’s thesis in his Les Peintres cubistes: méditations esthétiques, especially the following sections:
... Therefore, as an offer to the spirit, in the plastic arts, the fourth dimension should be generated by the three known dimensions: represented by the immensity of space eternally present in all the dimensions of a given moment …
... Cubism differs from the painting that came before it because it is not the art of imitation, but the art of thought raised to the level of creation …
... Scientific cubism is one of the pure trends. It is the art of painting new compositions with elements taken not from visual reality, but from the reality of knowledge …
... Physical cubism is the art of painting compositions with elements taken primarily from virtual reality …

In my painting, I work with geometric figures arranged on different planes that overlap one another and blend into real shapes (bottles, cats, birds, fruit), fabricated objects (small origami birds and paper boats) and everyday things (hats, shoes, etc.) to create a world of mystery and sensuality. The lines I draw are devised and expressed as sensual, mystic happiness.
My works are full of shapes and visual configurations that diversify, overlap and repeat to activate an imaginary world that is also real in order to create an emotional charge and an atmosphere of poetic expression.
Works in which paint and air combine to create plastic expression.

Born in Barcelona 1945

He begins his studies in the Baixas Academy.
San Jorge Art College.
Mural painting school in San Cugat del Vallés, under the teacher Miquel Farré, with a scholarship from the Barcelona Provincial Council.
He studies engraving at the Art College.
He collaborates with the painter Ramón Vincens on the Bankisur mural in Barcelona (Chamber of Commerce).
Assistant to Professor Francisco Ribera Gómez at the San Jorge Art College.

PRIZES

1968 First prize for drawing San Jorge Art College
First prize for Christmas cards San Jorge Art College
1969 First prize for drawing San Jorge Art College
Second prize for painting San Jorge Art College
1970 Prize from Barcelona City Council for the most distinguished student of the 1969-70 academic year.
Scholarship from the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation in Granada.
1971 Study scholarship in the Paluar de Segovia, silver medal from the Regional Council of Segovia.
1972 XIV Painting Prize, Joven Sala Parés. Premio F.Gimeno
1976 Picasso bronze medal. Málaga
Second prize for painting in the “Premio Miguel Carbonell”, in Molins de Rey.

A painting by Lázaro Ferré is inserted in the following text:

Die Tasse: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

LIDIA SIMEONOVA

Painter, Sculptor, Bulgaria and U.S.A.

©reated by Lidia Simeonova

About me:

I was born and grew up in Bulgaria, and earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Velico Tarnovo University of Fine Art. I have lived in Czechoslovakia and Germany and came to the United States in 1994. My paintings have been in many national and international shows, where I received recognition and numerous awards. Today my portfolio reflects a variety of mediums and style. My paintings from Bulgaria differ greatly from what I produced in Germany or America. I spent many years as an abstract artist, but the human figure has always persisted in the creative process. Now human expression and relationships are the leading thoughts when I take a brush or pencil. I am trying to create work in which life and painting blend in a perfect existential poem. I want to present the viewer with a harmonious, contemplative image, which speaks to the spiritual complexities of our existence. Edmond Demirdjian
I'm passionate about:
Women - with all their emotional inner word and the way they interact with the rest of the world


BEING AN ARTIST IS A LIFE FORCE, NOT A CAREER CHOICE

My artwork is a reflection of my life. I have projected frozen moments - good and bad - onto the canvas. As my style and personality matured, I traveled the world. My artwork tells a story - my story - of the different periods in my personal and creative life.
I was born and grewup in Bulgaria, where I obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Velico Tarnovo University of Fine Art. My free spirit, and lust for discovery and exploration fueled a worldwide journey. From Bulgaria, I moved with my family to Czechoslovakia and again to Germany in 1991. Uprooting our lives with two children proved both adventurous and challenging for me.
Once we arrived in Germany, I found myself eased and inspired by many traditions, culture and good friends there. I kept painting and managed to put on a couple of shows in Germany while trying to explore different parts of Europe too. My paintings hung in galleries in Paris as well as different international shows in France.
When we moved to the United States in 1994, I discovered another world-the world of electronics and computers. I became a graphic designer for a couple of years and then a clay modeler for General Motors, where I have been for the past 5 years. Here I found the opportunity to show my artwork at many national andinternational shows, where I received most recognition and awards.
Today my portfolio reflects a variety of mediums and style.
My paintings from Bulgaria differ greatly from what I produced in Germany or America. I spent many years as an abstract artist, but the human figure has always persisted in the creative process. Now the human expression and relationship are the leading thoughts when I take a brush or pencil.
One thing I am trying to achieve is creating a work in which life and painting blend in a perfect existential poem. I will present the viewer with a harmonious, contemplative image, which speaks to the spiritual complexities of our existence.

AWARDS
1993 Diploma, International Contest for Alkyd Paintings, Venice, Italy
1993 Silver Medal for Illustration "Parrot in the Forest" Fernsehwohe, Germany
1994 First Place Art Contemporain - Chatelerault, France
1995 Award of Merit - Douglaston, New York
1995 Honored in The Artist's Magazine Portrait Competition
1996 Windberg Enterprises Achievement Award, MI
1999 Lyra Award - Chapter 103, Colored Pencil Society of America
2007 3rd Place in "The power of the portrait" ArtRom Gallery, Rom Italy
2007 Medial 2 Art Biennial - Diploma of Excellence
2007 Art Interview 10 International Competition - Honorable Mention
2007 First Prize Winner in 2007 International Art Contest, Australia
2009 Best of Show Award in the 2009 Art Inter/National Exhibition.

Paintings by Lidia Simeonova are inserted in the following texts:

Annas Chauffeur wartete: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Medizin für Dr. Yang: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

LINDA DE SOUSA

Pintora/Artes Plásticas/Colaboradora de Revistas de Arte

©reated by Linda de Sousa

Nace en Lisboa, en el 70 se traslada a Madrid, donde ejerce como docente de artes plásticas.
Corresponsal en Madrid “Beaux Arts European Club” de Béziers.
Colaboradora de la Revista Correo del arte.
Comisaria exposiciones en España, Estados Unidos, México, Portugal y República Dominicana

Expone individualmente en: Madrid, Guadalajara, Segovia, Soria, Cantabria, Palencia (España) y en Cos, Lisboa, Guimarães y Porto (Portugal).

Expone colectivamente en: Argentina, China, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia, México, Portugal y República Dominicana.

2006 Instalación “Transparentes” para “La Noche en Blanco” Museo Thyssen Bornemisza.
Con esta instalación inicia un ciclo de exposiciones y conferencias sobre maltrato a al mujer en diversas salas y países.
Actúa como jurado en diferentes certámenes nacionales e internacionales
Premiada en múltiples certámenes su obra se encuentra en museos y colecciones privadas de distintos países.
2008 - 1º Premio con la Instalación “¡Biocombustibles! ¿Vida o Muerte? en la Bienal de la Universidad Chapingo, México “Arte con Raíz en la Tierra”
Directora de Artes Visuales de ComuArte España.
2009 – Vicepresidenta de ComuArte España
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Cooperación con Amalie Wissing
Poem-Walker Number 1: Planta Original del Prado

MARGARITA MORALES

Painter, Mexico and Germany

©reated by Margarita Morales

Margarita Morales was born in Mexico and today lives and works both in Berlin and Mexico-City.
She studied Visual Communication and Free Art at the Academy of Art in Mexico´s capital city. Margarita considers her artistic form as being mainly abstract expressionism, although some of her work is correctly described as “Neo Pop Art”. Her outgoing personality is such that she is able to vary her artistic ability in many different directions. Just as Margarita lives in two such diverse continents, so she changes her colour scales and brushwork to suit her mood.
Her art shows an enormous amount of power and originality with a strong use of colour, thereby giving her work a uniqueness all of its own.

Margarita Morales, gebürtige Mexikanerin, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Mexiko.
Sie studierte Visuelle Kommunikation und Freie Kunst an der Kunstakademie in Mexiko-Stadt. Ihren Stil bezeichnet sie als abstrakten Expressionismus. Aber als eine vielseitige Malerin sind ihre figurativen Abstraktionen mit „Neo Pop Art“ auch immer richtig benannt.
Es ist ihr Persönlichkeitsmerkmal in viele Richtungen zu gehen, für alles offen zu sein.
Wie sie in zwei so verschiedenen Kontinenten lebt, so wechselt sie auch immer wieder ihre Farbskalen und ihre Pinselführung.
In alle ihre Werke bringt sie ungebrochene und ungebändigte Kraft ein, die ihre Bilder ursprünglich und einzigartig erscheinen lassen.

“Margarita Morales is an extremely versatile artist. Her work is deeply rooted in traditional Mexican culture and at the same time an expression of the modern experience of life in a metropolis. These pictures radiate a fascinating richness of colour and astonishing energy. Next to abstract expressions there are depictions of animal figures dealing humorously with childlike fantasies.”

“Margarita Morales ist eine ausgesprochen vielseitige Künstlerin. Ihre Werke sind tief verwurzelt in der traditionellen mexikanischen Kultur und gleichzeitig Ausdruck eines modernen Lebensgefühls in der Metropole. Faszinierend ist die Farbenprächtigkeit und unglaubliche Energie, die diese Werke ausstrahlen. Dabei stehen neben abstrakten Expressionen figürliche Tierdarstellungen, die einen humorvollen Umgang mit kindlich anmutenden Phantasien zeigen.”

Matthias Kleinert,
Senior Vice President,
DaimlerChrysler AG

News:
28. Jan 2009 - 30. Juni 2009
Exhibiton individual
Residenz of the United States of America in Berlin, Germany

28. Jan 2009 - 30. Juni 2009
Einzelausstellung
Residenz der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in Berlin, Deutschland

04.07. - 01.10.2008
Museo METRO - Galeria Arte Contemporaneo
Exposición individual
Tampico, México

04.07. - 01.10.2008
Museum METRO - Galerie Zeitgenössische Kunst
Einzelausstellung
Tampico, México

Ein Gemälde von Margarita Morales ist in folgenden Text eingebettet:

Herr X macht blau:
Titel: BLAUES FEUER

MARIE-DENISE DOUYON

Painter, Visual Artist, Haiti and Canada

©reated by Marie-Denise Douyon

Short Bio on the visual artist
Marie-Denise Douyon

Nomadism very early marks the course of this Haitian artist who at the age of three leaves with her family, her native land., Haiti. Fleeing the Duvalier regime of Papa Doc. and his fearsome Tontons Macoutes *, in 1964 her parents exile themselves towards North Africa and settles in the town of Medea, in Algeria, with their three children. In 1966, the family crosses the Moroccan border and the Douyon establish themselves in Casablanca where they will remain for the next fifteen years. The childhood and the privileged adolescence of the youngest child Marie-Denise run out peacefully paced with summer vacations across the Gibraltar Detroit in Spain. Her childhood years embrace the throbbing accents of the oriental culture and Marie-Denise will grow up sharing part of her Moroccan universe, being educated in French schools and embedded of her family Haitian culture. These three cultural flavors which intermingle in her daily youth will develop in this future artist a keen taste for diversity and interculturalism.

Upon completing her secondary courses, Marie-Denise Douyon chooses to pursue her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology of New York where she graduates with honors in visual arts.

When the Duvalier Regime collapses in 1986, she joins her mother and sister, recently established in Port au Prince and discovers a land overwhelmed with faith and euphoria.

Since she immigrated to Montreal in 1991, her artwork has translated an identity rooted both in her country of origin and her adopted country.

*Papa Doc and his Tontons Macoutes : Francois Duvalier president and dictator of the Duvalier Regime was in power from 1957 to 1971. He establishes the fearsome parallel force the tontons macoutes. In June 1964, he proclaims himself president for life and designates his sun Jean Claude as his successor before dying in 1971.

Works of art by Marie-Denise Douyon are inserted in the following texts:

Love Parade: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Texte aus dem Bilderbuch/Cover: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

MAURIZIO BACCANTI

Audio-Visual Artist, Painter, Italy

©reated by Maurizio Baccanti

Maurizio Baccanti
è nato ad Ancona il 15 Dicembre del 1962. Vive e lavora a Sirolo (AN).

Si è diplomato presso il Centro Sperimentale di Design CNIPA di Ancona, con la qualifica di Progettista d'Immagine (Grafica, fotografica, audiovisiva), con una tesi su animazione e disegni animati. Maurizio Baccanti è essenzialmente pittore autodidatta, fortemente attratto da artisti come: Vedova, Burri, Pollock e Herbert Pagani.La sua attività pittorica ha inizio, in modo continuativo e deciso, a Perugia nel 1985,durante lo svolgimento del servizio civile sostitutivo a quello militare presso una casa albergo per anziani, periodo questo che lo segna profondamente. Dal 1985 ad oggi ha partecipato, per propria scelta, soltanto a mostre collettive ed è apparso al pubblico con la sua prima personale all'Atelier dell'Arco Amoroso di Ancona, nel 1997, con i lavori del filone espressivo "EVOLUZIONE". Negli ultimi suoi lavori, riconducibili ad un nuovo filone espressivo: "NATURA & ARTIFICIO", evidenzia il rapporto distruttivo che esiste tra l''uomo, che si pone come artefice del nuovo, e la natura che cerca con tutte le sue forze di alienare la dimensione dominante dell'artificio su di essa. Natura e Artificio comprende una serie di sculture bi/tridimensionali assemblate e realizzate con materiali di recupero, tutti rigorosamente recuperati lungo la spiaggia e la foce di fiumi. Non "IMMONDIZIA" ma "RELITTI", "TESTIMONI" che questa società consumistica abbandona e la natura trasforma ma non riesce a distruggere.
Maurizio Baccanti, professionalmente svolge l'attività di Guida Ambientale Escursionistica che lo porta a contatto costante con l'ambiente naturale. Il suo vivere quotidiano, in cui alterna periodi di vita "urbana" a periodi di vita più "naturale", è alla base del nuovo filone espressivo "Natura e Artificio", dove questo passaggio continuo tra "CITTA'/CONSUMI" e "NATURA/ESSENZIALE", diventa per l'artista la molla scatenante per la produzione dei suoi Assemblaggi. Alla sua professione lega anche la passione della fotografia naturalistica e della "FotograFFia" (rielaborazioni artistiche su materiale fotosensibile), grazie alla quale ha già realizzato numerose dia-proiezioni.

Ammassi… oggetti… semplici “cose”, usate, consumate e rifiutate ….
Rifiutate da una società che tutto ingurgita e tutto rigurgita in un continuo e incessante ingranaggio che tutto vuole schiacciare, sotterrare, soffocare.
Sono apparizioni, spettri …. ma soprattutto testimoni di noi stessi, delle nostre memorie queste opere nate dalla sensibilità e dalla capacità espressiva di chi sa guardare il
mondo con un occhio diverso, di chi non vede un crudo e scarno cumulo di immondizia, ma singoli pezzi di una
stessa anima che prende vita sotto il calore delle proprie mani; sotto un impulso cieco e quasi frenetico … tutto prende forma.
Sono loro, sono gli avanzi di nessun valore, sono gli scarti che chiedono di riappropriarsi della loro anima, come a volere rivendicare quell'esistenza negata così improvvisamente. E' un richiamo in questo mare di Ulisse
che pochi riescono a sentire e questo scultore del nulla, dell'inutile, incessante interlocutore di due mondi ci rivela
ciò che non siamo più capaci di vedere e ci svela in una sorta di metafora, l'immagine dello specchio del tempo, il nostro…..
Eugenia Marletta
Fotografa di architettura

Opere di arte di Maurizio Baccanti si trovanno nel gli texti a continuazione:

Simultan: 4 Verse zum V. Akt: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Am liebsten (1): NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Am liebsten (2): NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Am liebsten (3): NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Ilses Romanze: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART




MÓNICA ARDAIZ

Painter, Argentina

©reated by Mónica Ardaiz

BIOGRAFIA______________________________________________________________________

Mónica Ardaiz Petro nace nace en Cutral-Có Provincia de Neuquén, Patagonia Argentina. En su adolescencia se traslada a la Ciudad de Neuquén para ingresar a la Universidad Nacional Del Comahue, donde finaliza sus estudios de Lic. en Servicio Social. Ya ejerciendo su profesión se inicia en el arte estudiando dibujo y pintura, experimentando con distintas técnicas y realizando muestras colectivas.
En el 2003 se instala en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y continúa sus estudios, dejando lo figurativo para incursionar en el campo de lo abstracto. Desde el año 2005 trabaja en los talleres de Pintura e Investigación Plástica de los maestros Zorrilla-Distefano y paralelamente, a fines del año 2006, también participa en el taller del Maestro Surrealista Jorge Kleiman.
A partir del 2008 incursiona en el Collage y Tècnicas Mixtas en el taller de Silvia Flichman y ese mismo año se diploma en Gestoría y Produccción Cultural.
Poseen sus obras colecciones privadas de España, Costa Rica, Irlanda, Israel, Estados Unidos y Argentina.

CONCURSOS Y PREMIOS________________________________________________________________________

• Primer Premio Salòn Otoño Galeria R.Van R - Abril 2008 - San Telmo, Buenos Aires.
• Seleccionada Concurso Nacional "Arte en el Abasto" - Enero 2008 - Buenos Aires.
• Seleccionada Concurso Nacional XI Aniversario Palacio de las Artes - Junio 2007, Buenos Aires.
• Segundo Premio V Salón Aniversario - Galería Desde la Plástica – Mayo /2007, Buenos Aires.
• Seleccionada III Salón Primavera - Galería Desde la Plástica – Octubre 2006, Buenos Aires.
• Gran Premio de Honor en Pintura VII Salón Primavera - Galería de las Naciones. – Septiembre 2006, Bs. As.
• Mención en Salón Primavera - Galería Arte Braque - Septiembre 2006, Buenos Aires.
• Encuentro Manchas de Otoño en la Recova de Posada, integrada a circuito Gallery Nights. Mayo 2006. Bs. Aires.

Una obra de arte de Mónica Ardaiz se ha insertado en el siguiente texto:

Collagen der "S" Klasse: Título: VERDADES Y MENTIRAS

NAZIM MEHMET

Painter, Turkey

©reated by Nazim Mehmet

Nazim Mehmet

1979-1983 Azerbaijan State High School of Painting
1986-1992 BFA and MFA, Azerbaijan State Academy of Art

1997 Started to works as a Faculty Staff in Painting Department of Fine Arts Faculty of Erciyes University, Turkey

Nazim Mehmet has solo and group exhibitions in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, USA, France and Germany. Artist has many works in private collections in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Litvania, Latonia, India, Japan, Dubai and Ukraine.


Metaphysical worlds

Nazım Mehmet who has an academic art education always mentions his admiration to Renaissance Art. However, it was Paul Eluard’s poems he was fascinated by and became the main source for his paintings. Paul Eluard was one of the announcers of Surrealist manifest. Being affected by the surrealist artists such as De Chrico, Dali and Matta, Mehmet adopts the surrealist principle of scrutinizing and leaving free the creative subconscious. Intensifying his work around this principle, artist takes the subconscious dream images and makes them to exist isochronally as they are in a dream letting them to spread on the surface without any judgment.
Mehmet has a fantastic style which he presents unrelated objects in an aura. It is not predictable to see impossible objects in his paintings as we see in the paintings of Dali. On the contrary, he chooses objects from daily life that we are familiar with but a relationship can not be interpreted between them. Such as a lobster, a key, a pomegranate, a sword, a pigeon or a sundial are being presented as they are creatures of a fantastic world. What we see in his paintings is daily objects are described in a manner that they reflect such a reality that does not belong to this world.
In the works of Mehmet whose aim is to present a world which is surrealist, dreamlike and out of mind, human figures give the sense of being belonged to this world at first sight. However, we realize that they are related to another world when we see the figures raising from the ground with shining aureoles over their head. We can never see faces of human figures; either their faces are hidden behind a cover or their back is turned us. This is another aspect increasing the mystery and intensifying the sense of them being belonged to another world. Time to time, these figures appear to be winged angels surrounded by a spiritual light.
Book, birds and sundial are the common objects Mehmet uses almost in all works. Book is the symbol for wisdom as well as justice; birds are the symbols of freedom; sundial indicates the life time passing by. It is observed, artist mostly spreads the objects over the rocks in a surrealist surroundings. Rocks and stones are the important issues in his works. According to him “stones and rocks have their own stories and experiences with in themselves. They are witnesses to the places where they sit and they are embedded with the memory of that place and layered with its history”.
Silence dominates the world of Mehmet. Neither pain nor happiness is not the part of his world. Everything is like flowing in a silent eternity, and in that sense pectoral meaning of silence indicates metaphysical meaning. The gates suddenly appearing in the middle of the painting becomes evident as the passageway to a different metaphysical world and to the other dimensions.
Mehmet opens out the doors towards the new creativities peculiar to his style with the surrealist world he creates in his paintings.
Nurdan KARASU GÖKÇE /artist/


Works of art by Nazim Mehmet are inserted in the following texts:

Eine Familienangelegenheit: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Afghanistan ist überall: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Im Vorübergehen: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART


OLGA KALASHNIKOVA

Painter, Russia

©reated by Olga Kalashnikova

The Russian painter Olga Kalashnikova was born in Moscow.
As a child she used to spending her summer holidays in Pereslavl-Zalessky, an old Russian town to the north-west of Moscow. The painter’s mother was born here. The region is known for its endless dense forests and clear waters of the river Veksa.
Olga’s esthetical passions were formed in this region.
Olga’s father was a well known painter. He could not spend a day without his sketch pad and paints.
His daughter inherited the tradition.
Her route to painting was not straight forward. After school she chose a career of a ... mathematician.
She studied Applied Mathematics at the Moscow Aviation Institute. After graduating in 1977 started research into the algorithms for cruise missiles.
But Olga’s love for painting did not vanish. Every evening after work Olga started attending art classes to learn more about her real passion in life.
Soon, she left her profession of mathematician and went to the Moscow Academy of Art. In 1988 she graduated at the top of her class. Then she worked in an Art College teaching drawing and painting.
Years of painstaking work, thoughtful and exigent attitude for her creations allowed the painter not only to perceive the figurative language of fine art, but to find her own way to express herself in art.
Olga became a member of the Russian Assiciation of Painters, which is an honor for a painter in Russia.
Russian nature and Russian life became the main themes of her paintings. Her canvases are full of light and poetic harmony. She tries to establish a direct link between the painter and viewers.
This task makes her think about visual methods of art. The painter is sure that art should depict reality, not just give us indications by hints or rebuses.
Olga Kalashnikova is always concerned about painter’s responsibility. From her point of view, a painted picture has a life of it's own and thus affects the viewers. If a painter deforms the beauty of God’s created world, voluntary or not, he spreads a deformed understanding of life.
That’s why Olga tries to choose subjects which are particularly beautiful. Nowadays many artists want to paint differently from the ‘old school’, but she really enjoys following the old realist tradition, which appeared in Russia in the XIX century.
She learned from them how to feel and paint. They were her teachers.
A new phase in Olga's painting carrier started in 1997 when Olga began to work on a theme that perhaps is a little unusual for a woman – the military campaign of famous Russian general Alexander Suvorov who led Russian army through the Alps in 1799 to fight French army.
Despite the fact that Olga was not a painter of battle-pieces, she decided to show in a simple, precise and honest way Swiss and Russian soldiers who fought and died there. She wanted to show paths, bridges and and villages the Russian heroes passed by during the military campaign, as well as the cemeteries where perished Russian soldiers had been buried. She wanted to show the feeling of the Russian soldiers, who came to the Swiss mountains from a flat country.
Olga has had three one-artist exhibitions in Switzerland of her paintings.
As lyrical realist, her focus is on Russian nature and everyday life. Her canvases are full of light and poetical harmony.
Olga’s paintings are like an open door from the noise of the capital city to a borderless homeland where you can hear church bells at sunrise and sunset, where there are living, joyful and suffering human beings.
One of Olga’s art admirers left a comment on Olga's web-site: "you have a talent so heartfelt, colourful and spacious. Let God send you a good health and work. What else can I wish to a creator of joy?".
In November 2006 Olga Kalashnikova brought an exchibition "Three Generations" to the United States to a russian gallery in North Caroline. Americans warmly greeted Olga's works, as well as works of her farther Victor Egorov and her son Egor Kalashnikov.
Olga conducted a number of master-classes.
Next visit in March 2008 brought back old friends as well as new admirers.
Olga Kalashnikova is a member of the Artists Association of Russia. She is a participant of the Moscow, republican and group exhibitions.
Personal exhibitions also took place in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008 (Moscow, the White House - Russian parliament Duma, The Unites Sates etc).
Olga's works are in private collections and galleries in Russia, Austria, England, China, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Japan, USA and in other countries.

Works of art by Olga Kalashnikova are inserted in the following texts:

Die geordneten Verhältnisse der Lea B.: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Aus dem Herzen Deutschlands: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

PAZZA PENNELLO

Painter, Ucrania

©reated by Pazza Pennello

coming soon

Works of art by Pazza Pennello are inserted in the following texts:

Widmung: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
An die Weggefährten: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Meine Worte: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

PEJMAN TADAYON

Painter, Musician, Iran and Italy

©reated by Pejman Tadayon

La Vita

Nasce ad Esfahan nel 1977. Inizia a disegnare a soli tre anni. Da suo nonno apprende la passione e la tecnica per il disegno, è il suo primo maestro. In giovane età impara la pittura figurativa, si cimenta in ritratti e nature morte. Notato il precoce talento, i genitori lo affidano agli insegnamenti del maestro di disegno Ustad Davati.
Nel 1987 dipinge il suo primo quadro naturalista ad olio, sotto la guida del suo nuovo maestro Ustad Nasr, famoso ad Esfahan per essere stato uno dei primi ad usare la tecnica figurativa realista per ritrarre la natura, usando la tecnica ad olio. Durante l’adolescenza continua a dipingere ad olio adottando soggetti sempre più complessi come ritrarre le complicate architetture della sua città. A soli 17 anni diventa maestro di pittura presso la scuola del nonno.
A 18 anni con la tecnica figurativa realista ha raggiunto livelli altissimi, ma arriva ad un punto in cui non riesce più a completare i suoi quadri, non trova più soddisfazione in quel tipo di pittura, è in questo momento che si avvicina alla musica e vi si appassiona.
Inizia a studiare la musica tradizionale dell’Iran e il setar (strumento a corde tradizionale persiano), con un giovane ed ispirato maestro che lo conduce in un nuovo mondo che gli dona le soddisfazioni che la pittura non gli dava più.
Ma in questi anni non abbandona del tutto la pittura, continua ad insegnare presso la scuola del nonno, senza però dipingere. Nel 1994 prende il diploma di maturità e nello stesso periodo inizia la lettura di vecchi libri d’arte moderna del nonno.
Nello stesso anno si iscrive all’ Università, presso la facoltà di Ingegneria, ma continua a suonare e a leggere avidamente libri di filosofia e storia dell’arte. Improvvisamente torna in lui l’impeto di dipingere, ma non come aveva fatto per tanti anni, ma ricercando lo spirito che aveva trovato nella musica, la stessa libertà, vuole dipingere la musica e le sue canzoni trasformarle in quadri.
In quel periodo riprende lezioni di pittura presso il maestro Akbar Mikhak, che per 30 anni aveva vissuto e studiato in Italia presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, e poi era tornato ad Esfahan. Passavano ore ed ore a parlare, grazie a lui comprende che cosa è la pittura.
Determinanti per la sua svolta artistica sono inoltre le letture su Marcel Duchamp, passa le sue giornate a dipingere freneticamente studiando gli stili e i materiali più diversi e invece che abbandonare la pittura, la scoperta di Duchamp lo spinge a dipingere sempre di più. Ciò che ritrova è la passione e una nuova ispirazione: la voglia di dipingere il rapporto tra la musica e la pittura che sono dentro di lui, l’ispirazione è la musica tradizionale persiana e la ricerca continua del colore dei suoni e degli strumenti antichi persiani.
Nel 2003, dopo alcune mostre personali e collettive nella sua città, lascia il suo paese e si trasferisce in Italia, inseguendo il suo sogno d’infanzia: studiare arte a Firenze. Si iscrive presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze e studia con il Prof. Andrea Granchi docente di pittura.
Partecipa ad alcune mostre collettive in Italia.
Attualmente vive e studia presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.

Le opere

La forma (spesso cruda e tagliente) che prende vita sulla tela rappresenta la voce dello strumento, il colore diventa il simbolo del suono, la sua voce e il gesto da cui è scaturito.
La materia ( come lo stucco, il cemento, l'acrilico, il pastello...) è al servizio della voce dello strumento, del gesto e dell' impeto del tocco del musicista.
Il colore simboleggia la semplicità manifatturiale degli strumenti orientali, l’imperfezione della loro voce (rispetto gli strumenti occidentali come ad esempio il pianoforte) è mistica, perché più vicina all’imperfezione dell’uomo, spesso questa semplicità è rappresentata attraverso l’uso del colore bianco.
Negli ultimi quadri la forma tagliente diventa ancora più semplificata, più astratta, prevalgono, sui colori, la matita e la materia, come lo stucco, che pone in rilievo sulla tela, giocando con le luci e le ombre che esso genera.
In altri quadri lavora sulla nitida immagine degli antichi strumenti iraniani, o sui particolari di questi; consegnandoli ad un contesto astratto, diventano anch’essi astratti.
Usa sempre meno colori, prevalgono, invece, la materia come il bitume e lo
stucco.


Opere di arte di Pejman Tadayon si trovanno nel gli texti a continuazione:

al segno: Titolo: CANZONE GRIGIO
Un bel di: Titolo: DASHTI -SOL
Mary goes fishing: Titolo: TOCCHI FELICI
Talent Sekers' Diary/Cover: Titolo: FIAMMA

ROSSELLA RAMANZINI

Painter

©reated by Rossella Ramanzini

CRITICA (DI MARCO GRADI)
Il registro del lavoro di Rossella Ramanzini pone un problema legato alla concezione canonica della sezione aurea
Percettivamente le forme si definiscono e si cancellano proponendo un percorso mimetico all’osservatore, rappresentazione e presentazione coesistono nello spazio.
Nelle sue opere, di matrice astratto - geometrica - optical, l’idea di Rossella Ramanzini e’ quella di mimetizzare forme organiche a forme “non oggettive”
Il risultato e’ quello di ottenere una sorta di percezione retinale dilatata attraverso un gioco mimetico.

BIOGRAFIA

Rossella Ramanzini nasce a Brescia dove intraprende studi tecnici, vive e lavora a Desenzano del Garda

E’ nel 1996 che inizia a dipingere nonostante la sua passione per l’arte inizi molto prima, essendo nipote di Vittorio Trainini.

Negli ultimi due anni ha iniziato a presentarsi al pubblico artistico attraverso mostre e concorsi. La sua tecnica complessa si avvale di forme geometriche, forme organiche e silhouettes tra loro intrecciate con l'uso di colori acrilici. Soprattutto nell’ultimo periodo la sua pittura si rende chiara e riconoscibile ai terzi per la sua particolare idea di mimetismo

Partecipa a diversi concorsi tra i quali

* Premio celeste - Italia
* Embracing our differences – Florida USA
* Art Interview competition – Berlino -Germany (dove ha vinto una Menzione d’onore)
Rossella Ramanzini
* La Seconda Luna – Italia
* Concorso Arte mondadori – Italia
* Concorso Yicca – Italia
* Premio ArteLaguna - Italia
* Aqua Art Miami – Usa dove e’ rappresentata da MyArtSpace.com
Rossella Ramanzini
* Premio Ceres4art 2010


Mostre collettive

* 2008 Collettiva di pittura Comune di Sarezzo
* 2008 International Art Contest – London
* 2009 Venticirca collettiva presso Spazio Hvox – Brescia
Rossella Ramanzini
* 2009 Venticirca collettiva presso Spazio Overseas – Brescia


Mostre personali

* 2008 La danza dei colori - La tana degli elfi-Brescia
* 2008 Playful – Elithouse – Padenghe sul Garda - Brescia
* 2009 Playful one - Gallery 24 - Berlino
* 2009 Playful – Galleria Testoni - Verona

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Hexenbilderbuch: No Admittance without Respect

TON HARING

Painter, Musician, Netherlands

©reated by Ton Haring

Ton Haring

has been active as an artist in the professional field since 1994.
His main styles are surrealism and magic realism. He finds inspiration in nature, science,arts, life etc.
There is a lot of attention for detail in his work. The techniques are quite similar as the techniques used by painters during the middleages, a timeperiod when attention to detail was important.
The most important tools of trade are brushes for painting, pencils, ink and digital stuff.
At this moment he is actively involved in collaborationprojects especially the Exquisite Corpse drawings.

Ton is also very active in music. Playing different instruments like basguitar, guitar, synthesizers and doundouns[West African Percussion].
Currently he is a member of Barafoli and Dundunba Dordt and Drainair. Barafoli and Dunumba Dordt are specialised in West African music.
Drainair is a project with Pascal Smeels. They use modern techniques to produce music in various styles.

THE EXQUISITE CORPSE

The Exquisite Corpse is a game invented by the surrealists in the first part of the 20th century.
For example: One person makes half a drawing and covers it in such a way that only a small strip of the drawing is visible.
The next person starts with that strip to complete the drawing, to uncover it only when the drawing is completed so that the final result will be a surprise.


Works of art by Ton Haring are inserted in the following texts:

Mi Más Allá: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Facettez: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART
Und: NAME OF THE WORK OF ART

VAN QUE

Painter, Aquarellist, Vietnam and France

©reated by VAN QUE

VAN QUE Art featured in World of Art Contemporary Artists series

The book includes 103 artwork and several essays. Size 12¼ x 10 in / 31,5 x 25 cm, 112 color pages and hardcover, Printed in Europe. Marketing and distribution is through large book wholesalers and ecommerce channels, in US bookstores and eCommerce internationally including Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Amazon in USA, Amazon Canada, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon Australia and others.

Editor and Publisher PETRU A. RUSSU (fine artist)

A work of art by VAN QUE is inserted in the work of Amalie Wissing:

Songbook/Cover: Title: WOMAN WITH GUITAR

Painting ©reated by Pejman Tadayon