Category: Surrealism

Austrian Dreamscapes - Surrealismus aus Österreich

9/4/2016

Austrian Dreamscapes - Surrealismus aus Österreich

Eine Gruppenausstellung mit Werken des Phantastischen Realismus und modernen Surrealismus von österreichischen Künstlern.

30.04. - 28.05.2016

Ausstellende Künstler:

Jehan Calvus (Österreich)
Christine Hirschberg (Österreich)
Hanno Karlhuber (Österreich)
Sigrid Nepelius (Österreich)
Otto Rapp (Österreich)

Veranstalter:
callas-bremen e.V.

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IM'AGO PRIMORDIALIS exhibition at Krab Jab Studio, Seattle USA

15/12/2015

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IM'AGO PRIMORDIALIS exhibition at Krab Jab Studio, Seattle USAPicture

July 9 - September 3, 2016
Artists' reception:
July 9, 2016, 6-9 PM
Krab Jab Studio
5628 Airport Way S. Suite 150
Seattle, USA

Artworks by :
Brigid Marlin, Peter Gric, Iain Whittaker, Roku Sasaki, Tomasz Alen Kopera, Steven Kenny, Liba W. Stambollion, Igor Grechanyk, Martina Hoffmann, Amanda Sage, Autumn Skye Morrison, Susannah Martin, Andrew Gonzalez, Otto Rapp, Forest Rogers, Jean Pronovost, Miguel Tio, Benjamin Vierling, Jeff Mihalyo, Don Farrell, Yvette Endrijautzki, William Fahey and Bryan K. Ward.

Curated by : Don Farrell, in association with Krab Jab Studio

"Knowing doesn't reside in the knower,
nor does truth in what is known,
but in between."
- "A Mystical Epistemology", Peter Reason

Mystery has been banished; everything must be defined. And yet, while analytical thought bestows many gifts upon civilization, we remain insatiable. As if the unknown, itself, is the very ferment of community, humility, love....and life.

Embracing mystery as a source of inspiration, Fantastic Realists from around the world present this exhibition of numinous, visionary art - to reawaken feeling and intuition marginalized in today's cynical analyses.

Like the mystical traditions of countless cultures, their works assign symbols to The Unknowable, reaching through the ephemeral illusion we have come to know as reality, to an underlying, timeless, spiritual narrative. Universal mythology is interpreted with vivid imagination, and masterful technique renders it believably real.

Beneath the veil of seeming, an intuitive, visual language suggests that we are all part of something glorious, yet unrevealed. Fulfillment reflects from mystery in the primordial image, encouraging us to find, within ourselves, a unique understanding beyond the grasp of intellect...a feeling of connection...our own personal harmony with an ancient melody that is often unheard amidst the dissonance of perpetual immediacy.

I will be showing my drawing SPIRAL RAPTURE II

This Blog has been updated June 2016
to feature posters produced for this show:

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LUSO - AMERICAN SURREALISM of the 21st Century: Mississippi State, MS

10/12/2015

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click ▲ to open, save and/or download large poster pdf file

Surrealism Now in United States,
Mississippi State University,
Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, MSU Welcome Center.

Artists: American : Jay Garfinkle, France Garrido, Joe MacGown, Kd Matheson, Patrick V. McGrath Muñiz, Shahla Rosa, Olga Spiegel. Portuguese : Santiago Ribeiro, Paula Rosa, Victor Lages, Francisco Urbano.
Additionally, we will have several Mississippi artists exhibiting including Laurie Burton, Ben Grace, Brad Luke, Joseph MacGown, Randi Watson, and Gerard Woods.

During the exhibition, we will also display a huge surrealistic, collaborative pen drawing that features the work by several artists from multiple US states and other countries. Artists who contributed to the drawing include Joe A. MacGown, Ben Tolman, Joseph H. MacGown, Julianne MacGown, Chloe Marsters, Marnie Pitts, Otto Rapp, Paulo Cunha, Pizo Meyer, Ryan Thornburg, Zachary Nolin, Marcel Bakker, Deborah Valentine, and Alex Bostic.

Support for this exhibition has come from:
Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art and Design
Holmes Cultural Diversity Center
Chalet Arts, Starkville, MS

click the invitation for the opening ►

Cullis Wade Depot Gallery is located above the welcome center at the Barnes and Noble building on the Mississippi State campus.

Exhibition from January 21 to February 19, 2016.

UPDATE from the Exhibition:
Joe MacGown in front of our collective work Antipodes at the exhibition

Joe MacGown in front of our collective work Antipodes at the exhibition LUSO - AMERICAN SURREALISM of the 21st Century: Mississippi State, MS

Artists who contributed to the drawing include Joe A. MacGown, Ben Tolman, Joseph H. MacGown, Julianne MacGown, Chloe Marsters, Marnie Pitts, Otto Rapp, Paulo Cunha, Pizo Meyer, Ryan Thornburg, Zachary Nolin, Marcel Bakker, Deborah Valentine, and Alex Bostic.

photos courtesy of Joe MacGown

UPDATE:
more about this, plus a zoomable image of the complete panel on my drawing page ANTIPODES

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Some of my artwork recently returned from Canada

2/10/2015

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As you might be aware, I have a residence and studio in Canada, and also in Vienna, Austria. On my last trip to Canada, I took some of my work from there to bring to Austria. This is not a complete list, and there are quite a few works left in Canada.

Images link to Flickr and open in separate window:

MEMORIES OF PABLO AND MAX
- acrylic on paper, mounted on masonite - 1995 - 20x18 cm

BOGOMILS VEGETABLE GARDEN
acrylic on canvas - 1976

BOGOMILS LANDING
acrylic on canvas, 81.3 x 58.5cm, 1976-92

BOGOMILS OCULAR TOMB
acrylic on masonite, 1993, 15x25cm

BOGOMILS CEREMONIAL STAGE: CASPAR AND HIS PROPS
acrylic on canvas, 25.5x35.5cm, 1983

BOGOMIL RISING
acrylic/mixedmedia on wood, 53x38cm, 1995

PARTHENOGENESIS II
acrylic on masonite, 17x28.5cm, 1992

If interested in this, or any other of my work, please contact:

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Exhibition in Novi Sad - "Antilogika Image"

7/2/2015

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I am participating in this upcoming exhibition - Opening on February 9th in Novi Sad, Serbia.

„Антилогика слике“- интеракција визуелног и писаног
"Antilogika Image"
the interaction of the visual and writing
opening February 9th 2015

„Антилогика слике“- интеракција визуелног и писаног 9. 2. 2015.

My work in this show will be Fomorii General

Изложба слика „Антилогика слике“ и промоција истоимене књиге (збирке приповедака) идејног творца сликара Славка Крунића, одржаће се у понедељак, 9. фебруара од 19 часова у Ликовном салону Културног центра Новог Сада.

The Exhibition "Antilogika Image" and the promotion of the book (collection of short stories) curated by painter Slavko Krunić, will be held on Monday, February 9th at 19:00 hr in the Art Salon of the Cultural Center of Novi Sad.

„Антилогика слике“- интеракција визуелног и писаног

Окосница прича у књизи су слике, али сагледане кроз хумор, иронију, гротеску, апсурд… Ово занимљива комбинација подразумева интеракцију слике и текста, па су стога разни писци позвани да напишу кратке приче „према мотивима“ слике неког од предвиђених уметника. По одабиру Крунића састављена је листа од 15 сликара, а по предлогу Мирјане Огњановић, направљена је листа писаца.

Након новосадског представљања слика и књиге, планиране су изложбе и промоције збирке приповедака у другим градовима Србије, као и у Словенији, Бугарској, Црној Гори и Италији.

- „Антилогика слике“ има сасвим посебан положај међу књигама. Она се данас јавља у нарочитој форми пинакобиблиотеке, тј. збирке коју сачињавају сликарска и прозна дела. Збирка обухвата, поред осталог, и врхунске домете цивилизације: сатиру, гротеску, иронију и апсурд, који су посредством једног „породичног споразума“ склопљеног са новим сувереном из династије Хум-ор, послужили за испитивање бескрајних веза ликовних и књижевних искустава – рекао је Славко Крунић.

The backbone of the story in the book are pictures, but perceived through humor, irony, grotesque, absurd ... This interesting combination of the interaction of image and text, and therefore various writers were invited to write a short story, "according to themes" pictures of some of the most anticipated artists. By choosing Krunić composed a list of 15 artists, a proposal by Mirjana Ognjanović developed a list of writers.

After presenting the Novi Sad pictures and books are planned exhibitions and promotions collection of short stories in other cities of Serbia, as well as in Slovenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Italy.

- "Antilogika image" has a very special position among the books. It is now common in the particular form pinakobiblioteke, ie. collection consisting of paintings and prose. The collection includes, among other things, the top reaches of civilization: the satire, the grotesque, irony and absurdity, which means a "family agreement" concluded with the new sovereign dynasty Hum-or, were used for testing the endless connection of art and literary experience - said Slavko Krunić.

UPDATE - about the opening on February 9th, posted the following day on the Cultural Center Novi Sad website:

ИЗЛОЖБА СЛИКА И ПРОМОЦИЈА КЊИГЕ „АНТИЛОГИКА СЛИКЕ“
EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK
"ANTILOGIKA PICTURES"

ИЗЛОЖБА СЛИКА И ПРОМОЦИЈА КЊИГЕ „АНТИЛОГИКА СЛИКЕ“

pictures from the opening (text in Serbian) on the Cultural Center website.

Cultural Center Knjaževac - April 24th 2015

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Callas Art Affair 2014

5/12/2014

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Callas Art Affair 2014

My friends and Visionary Artists Sigrid Nepelius and Jolanda Richter are in this exhibition:

click for pdf brochure - klick für pdf Brochüre

Werke des Phantastischen Realismus und des Modernen Surrealismus von zwölf Künstlerinnen und Künstlern sind in der zweiten „callas art affair" vom 07.12.2014 bis zum 25.01.2015 in der Galerie des Kunst- und Kulturvereins callas-bremen e.V. in Bremen (D) zu sehen.

Works of Fantastic Realism and Modern Surrealism of twelve artists can be seen in the second "callas art affair" from 12/07/2014 to 01/25/2015 in the Gallery of Art and Cultural Association callas bremen eV in Bremen (D).

Artikel in Phantastisch - article in Phantastisch (deutsch - german):
Callas Art Affair II - 2014

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BEYOND BORDERS AND OUT OF THE BOX: Endangered Visions

16/11/2014

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BEYOND BORDERS AND OUT OF THE BOX: Endangered Visions

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts Gallery proudly presents Endangered Visions/ International Art Exhibit.
NCCA Gallery,
633 General Luna St. Intramuros, Manila, 1002 Manila, Philippines

November 15th to November 30 2014
Monday to Friday 9am -5pm
Sat-Sunday 10am-4pm,
Contact NCCA

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is the Philippine institution tasked to coordinate & implement the overall policies and program on Philippine culture and arts.

for a complete listing of
Exhibitions by Otto Rapp click

EXHIBITIONS

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Exhibition Ammon-Ra Gallery in Mexico

6/11/2014

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I am happy to be part of this select group of artists in the debut exhibition of this new gallery AMMON-RA in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, Mexico

Gabriela Garza Padilla :
"With great happiness I'm announcing the opening of my art gallery AMMON - RA GALLERY of the Visionary and Fantastic Arts , with this extraordinary group show with 10 of the best worldwide artists of the Visionary, Fantastic and Surreal genres. November 6th. 20:00 hrs"

Lázaro Garza Ayala, 239
(casi esq. con Rio Suichate)
Col. Lomas del Valle,
San Pedro Garza García

Here are my two works that will be shown:

GONZO - IS THAT YOU?

OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT - THE FOMORII UNION

And this is the embedded initial post by Gabriela Garza Padilla from facebook:

Post by Gabriela Garza Padilla.

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New Calendars for 2015 by Otto Rapp

6/11/2014

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NEW 2015 CALENDARS by OTTO RAPP
Makes a great Christmas Present!

Since September 2014 available in my shop at DeviantArt: the new Calendars for 2015 - different artwork of mine is featured in each - a keepsake, premium quality printing!

2015 CALENDAR by Otto Rapp - Version 1

preview and order HERE

2015 CALENDAR by Otto Rapp . Version 2

preview and order HERE

Find more superior quality prints and related merchandise in my
DEVIANT ART SHOP

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Art of the Mystic - Vernissage Photos from the Winehouse Wien

1/11/2014

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Exhibition Opening on October 30. 2014
Winehouse Wien
Schottenfeldgasse 92

This slide show has contributions from several photographers - as more pictures become available, there will be more added, so bookmark this blog page for updates to come within the next few days.