I am happy to have been selected to participate in this exhibition in honor of Serbian artist Milena Barilli

I am participating in this invitational exhibition in honor of Serbian artist Milena Pavlovic Barilli with one  painting and one drawing. 
https://www.culturalplaces.com/tour/the-gallery-of-milena-pavlovic-barilli
Official opening is on November 5th, the birthday of the artist. 
The exhibition will be opened by Dijana Metlic, art historian, Snezana Petrovic, artist and selector for this years event, and Vladimir Dunjic, artist who won the top prize last year. 

Milena Pavlović Barili was one of the most prominent Serbian artists of the first half of 20th century. She was well acclaimed in artistic circles of Europe and USA.
The gallery houses nice selection of here works from all the periods of her short life including posters and covers she did for Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and other famous magazines and some of her personal belongings.
The gallery is open from 7 to 15h from Tue till Fri and from 8 to 16h on Sat.

I am participating with these two works - both completed in 2023 - a drawing and a acrylic painting

In connection with the OPEN STUDIO at the KUNSTQUARTIER WIEN MEIDLING, a selection of artwork from our house was placed at the nearby Cafe Cosmos which will be there for about two or three weeks.
​The Open Studio was held on September 30th 2023 and was quite a success.

Yesterday I received a Email from my POD Merchandise ART OF WHERE to inform me that the associated web page for my products will not be maintained anymore after April 2023. 
This announcement came via Mailchimp. 

It is a bit frustrating - on Facebook I wrote:
According to the latest update from my AOW Print-on-Demand place, the store web page will no longer be maintained after April 2023. I would have to host my own store (pages?) on my own website, or else join Etsy or Shopify to offer my products via API from AOW. All rather complicated and time-consuming work to make those changes. This is frustrating.
For anyone to check out within the next few weeks, here is my existing store on the AOW website that will be no more after a month (get it while it lasts - I will still be able to sell my creations, but have to make other arrangements): MY AOW STORE PAGE ART OF THE MYSTIC OTTO RAPP

After some time of being idle, I just recently created a number of items so maybe check them out while my store page is still up. Still available to order from my store page until end of April. 

I am honored to have one of my major drawings selected to be part of this large First Biennale of Fantastic Art in Serbia, (as one of two foreign guest artists, the other being Reinhard Schmid of Germany) to take place in Belgrade at the Kolarac gallery and later in Novi Sad at the Cultural center (where I exhibited before in a group show Antilogika Slike in 2015).

5 Years ago (2017) after I created this work at the Pigmalion Artist Colony - it is in the collection of the founder of Pigmalion, Gorazd Cuk who will lend it to this exhibition.

October 16th to October 31st 2021

FACEBOOK PAGE

On their website and even more on the Facebook page you see some work by my Serbian colleagues.
I featured the image of my drawing selected by the jury, EROS THANATOS II â—„ check it out on my website, where you also find a zoom image to get all the details.

'Phoenix Collection Mihajlović'
'Phoenix Collection Mihajlović' is an imposing, family collection, lovingly selected authentic paintings and drawings, which in the right way represents the best contemporary artists in Serbia. It combines representative works of renowned artists of different generations and sensibilities, successors of cultural heritage - in favor of the traditional, fantastic but also out-of-appearance. The uniqueness of this collection, which includes over 140 oil paintings and more than 50 drawings, lies in the refined, careful selection of individual works, from the rich opuses of contemporary painters.
Maja Zivanovic

part of this content was posted on my blockchain blog on PeakD

I was interviewed for a statement about my art and this exhibition by the organizers:

March 14th 2022 
​On Instagram, the organization posted this about me
​ - it is Serbian, the full interview is above, translated to English

​The inaugural Exhibition in Belgrade was posted on Facebook

The Show in Novi Sad will be posted separately
for other exhibitions, check my Exhibition Calendar

I've been on Instagram for a while now - probably not doing it right, since half the time I don't even add hash tags. Here I show some stuff of mine, posted/shared by others that I found and saved - it is nice to have at least a few fans on there .......

Flattering also that someone would take a posted selfie of mine and make a artwork out of it:

I am happy to have a fan like this - thank you Dack Oenemaus!

My friend Tea Slavica shared this studio shot of mine, as I was working on a drawing where I had used her as the model. 

Another one I appreciate very much:

Lastly - I do enjoy the company of pretty ladies:

11th ANNIVERSARY Exhibition

11 YEARS of the International Surrealism Now Exhibition at CAE.
​125 participant artists from 52 countries - May 5 to July 11 of 2021

​125 participant artists from 52 countries: Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, India.

​ The initiative comes from the company MatosCar, an automotive group present in the Portuguese cities of Guarda, Fundão, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Évora and Beja. Official representatives of 24 brands.

​The  Arts and Entertainment Center (CAE) was opened in 2002. Large cultural structure (2 200 and 800 seat auditoriums - outdoor amphitheater, foyer, breakout rooms, studios, 4 exhibition halls) was thought of as a centrality with European Community funds and its programming tends to go through major national and international shows and this structure is also linked to other programming centers and events, in an anchor logic that disperses without losing continuity.

Centro de Artes e Espectáculos - Rua Abade Pedro 3080-084 Figueira da Foz 
​Tel: 233 407 200 Fax: 233 407 209

My Artwork with INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM NOW

Participating Artists:

Achraf Baznani, Morocco / Agim Meta, Albania-Spain / Aissa Mammasse, Algeria / Alessio Serpetti, Italy / Alvaro Mejias, Venezuela / Ana Neamu, Romania / Ana Pilar Morales, Spain / Andrew Baines, Australia / Asier Guerrero Rico (Dio), Spain / Axel Blotevogel, Germany / Brigid Marlin, UK / Bien Banez, Philippines / Can Emed, Turkey / Carlos Sablón, Cuba / Cătălin Precup, Romania / Chuang Chih Hui, China Taiwan / Cristian Townsend, Australia / Conor Walton, Ireland / Cynthia Tom, China / USA / Dag Samsund, Denmark / Daila Lupo, Italy / Dan Neamu, Romania / Daniel Chiriac, Romania / Daniel Hanequand, France / Canada / Daniele Gori, Italy / Delphine Cencig, France / Dean Fleming, USA / Domen Lo, Slovenia / Edgar Invoker, Russia / Efrat Cybulkiewicz, Venezuela / Egill Eibsen, Iceland / Erik Heyninck, Belgium / Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, Italy / Fabrizio Riccardi, Italy / Farhad Jafari, Iran / France Garrido, USA / Francisco Urbano, Portugal / Gabriele Esau, Germany / Genesis Cabrera, USA / Graça Bordalo Pinheiro, Portugal / Graszka Paulska, Poland / Gromyko Semper, Philippines / Gyuri Lohmuller, Romania / Hector Pineda, Mexico / Hector Toro, Colombia / Henrietta Kozica, Sweden / Hugues Gillet, France / Isabel Meyrelles, Portugal / Iwasaki Nagi, Japan / James Skelton, UK / Jay Garfinkle, USA / Jay Paul Vonkoffler, American / Argentine / Jimah St, Nigeria / Joanna Budzyńska-Sycz, Poland / João Duarte, Portugal / Keith Wigdor, USA / Leo Wijnhoven, Netherlands / Leo Plaw, Germany / Liba WS, France / Lubomír Štícha, Republic Czech / Ludgero Rolo, Portugal / Lv Shang, China / Maarten Vet, Netherlands / Maciej Hoffman, Poland / Magi Calhoun, USA / Marnie Pitts, UK / Maria Aristova, Russia / Mario Devcic, Croatia / Martina Hoffman, Germany / Mathias Böhm, Germany / Mehriban Efendi, Azerbaijan / Naiker Roman, Cuba / Spain / Nazareno Stanislau, Brazil / Nikolina Petolas, Croatia / Octavian Florescu, Canada / Ofelia Hutul, Romania / Oleg Korolev, Russia / Olesya Novik, Russia / Olga Spiegel, USA / Otto Rapp, Austria / Paula Rosa, Portugal / Paulo Cunha, Canada / Pavlina Boroshova, Switzerland-Germany / Pedro Diaz Cartes, Chile / Penny Golledge, UK / Peter MC LANE, France / Philippe Pelletier, France / Radhika Menon, India / Richard Shannon, USA / Roch Fautch, USA / Rodica Miller, USA / Ruben Cukier, Argentine / Israeli / Rudolf Boelee, New Zealand / Russbelt Guerra, Peru / Sabina Nore, Austria / Sampo Kaikkonen, Finland / Santiago Ribeiro, Portugal / Sarah Zambiasi, Australia / Serge Sunne, Latvia / Sergey Tyukanov, Russia / Shahla Rosa, USA / Shoji Tanaka, Japan / Shan Zhulan, China / Shia Weltenmenge, Germany / Sio Shisio, Indonesia / Slavko Krunic, Serbia / Sônia Menna Barreto, Brazil / Steve Smith, USA / Stuart Griggs, UK / Svetlana Kislyachenko, Ukraine / Svetlana Ratova, Russia / Tatomir Pitariu, USA / Tersanszki Cornelia, Romania / Tim Roosen, Belgium / Ton Haring, Netherlands / Victor Lages, Portugal / Vu Huyen Thuong, Vietnam / Yamal Din, Morocco / Spain / Yang Sumin, China Taiwan / Yuliya Patotskaya, Belarus / Yuri Tsvetaev, Russia / Zoltan Ducsai, Hungary / Zoran Velimanovic, Serbia.

TEA PORTRAIT - Details
a "teaser" preview - a larger video including the process is in the works

Video by Otto Rapp  - Music by Frederick J Benjamin - "World Jam 2"  - free music from Pixabay
This is a short teaser about my fantasy drawing, showing details only.
See the full drawing here on EasyZoom in high resolution ​

This work was especially created for the Sulamith Wülfing Exhibition and Book project. More about it:
Sulamith Wülfing - eine Vorschau - a sneak preview

CORONA VIRUS ALERT:
if you need to wear a mask, it might as well be stylish - at my AOW shop
​you find many models in my facemask collection. Scroll down for examples, description and sizing.

A few examples of my masks are shown here, but there are many more designs found on my
AOW Mask Collection Page

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For the very reasonable price of US$ 8.50 maybe get several - perhaps find matching apparel as well?

double knit face coverings modelled by my artist friend Liba WS  

​​It’s important that your face covering fits as snug as possible to your face. Take some time to do the following measurements before you order. Don’t assume that your face size is similar to your clothing size! Face shapes can vary significantly from person to person.
• Measure from the beginning of one ear, over the tip of your nose, to the start of your other ear.

Sizes for Double Knit Face Coverings

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 I have been a member on Pinterest for several years now, and had created some boards that highlight not only my art, but also many different interests. The first board I published already in 2015 was "Fantastic Art by my Friends" - here I show you my artwork, posted on the board from a variety of sources, so you may find work that is not on my website here or otherwise easy to find.  
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​I have other boards also, you can see them here:
Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp on Pinterest