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Divining the Dream  by Liba WS

29/8/2014

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DIVINING THE DREAM

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Notes from the Author Liba Waring Stambollion:
“Divining the Dream” is about remembering, reclaiming and rejoicing in our common divinity. It is a thought provoking quest for love.
I have woven the poetry and art of sixty artists and twenty-five poets together with my own, to produce this global expression of love. 
I chose material inspired by dreams, meditations, archetypal stories and icons, social and ecological situations and trance states.
The book has no chapters, but quite shortly you might note that it follows the romance of our divine mother and father as they weave the wheel of the year. Moving through the solstices, equinoxes and the forgotten holydays which originally marked the beginning of our four seasons, we follow both their dance and our own heart. Dancing in the same rhythm, through our familiar humanstory, from birth to growth, decline to death, we rise so high and dip so low. We are on a hero’s journey: harvesting lessons and revelations.
Painters Aloria Weaver and David Heskin along with Delvin Solkinson (editor of CoSM Journal) have gifted the book by proofing it with me.

To see some pages of the book, watch this slide show:

mouse over for slide show controls - may be viewed full screen!
Divining the Dream is now available in London at the bookstore Treadwells and Mysteries. It is also available in Paris museum bookstores: The Pompidou, Musée des Arts Decoratifs-Louvre, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'Art Modern, Halle St Pierre, Maison Rouge. Also available on Amazon and of course my store.
Buying a book directly from me allows me to give 15 euros from each book sold, to the
Dreams & Divinity Travelling Show. 

Liba WS Store


Previously published on Blurb: Dreams & Divinities by Liba WS
Note: these books are officially out of print and may well be deleted from the blurb offering

Dreams & Divinities -
Sacred Expressions from Women

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Softcover edition with Premium paper. Sacred Expressions from Women 13 painters and 8 poets from 7 countries
preview HERE

Dreams & Divinities collector's edition
Sacred Expressions from Women

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Hard back with ‘Proline’ paper. Sacred Expressions from Women - 13 painters & 8 poets from around the world.
preview HERE
Sacred Expressions from Women  is a 120 page visual and poetic journey which unfolds through Love, the Goddess and God, creation, nature, introspection, mythology and compassion.
Aloria Weaver helped me bring together and select images from some of the most talented women painters in the visionary art movement.

Much of the work in here can also be found in the Dreams & Divinities edition: Divining the Dream (also check book preview and links on top of this page)


Participating Artists: 
Martina Hoffmann, Brigid Marlin, Maura Holden, Wessi, Amanda Sage, Gabriela Garza Padilla, Autumn Skye, Helena Nelson Reed, Elisabeth Slettnes, Liba WS, Aloria Weaver, Joanna Angie, Sarah Zambiasi.
I have taken the images and laid them out with poems from a selection of women poets.

Participating poets: 
Hazel Archer Ginsberg, Aleah Sato, Ingrid Andrew, Andrea Freeman, Gabriela Garza Padilla, Helena Nelson Reed, Aloria Weaver, Liba WS.

With these jewels, I have created a book which celebrates our dreams and divinity through beauty.

Vision without action 
is a day dream, 
Action without vision 
is a nightmare. 
- Japanese proverb

SOFTCOVER
HARDCOVER Collector's Edition

Post by Otto Rapp 
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Surrealism Now - From Porto to the Palace.

29/8/2014

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'Guardians' by Martina Hoffmann
International Surrealism Now is a travelling exhibition which showcases works by over 50 artists from 28 countries . This project is organized and curated by Portuguese surrealist painter Santiago Ribeiro. 


The exhibition just left the ‘Galeria Vieira Portuense’ in Porto where it had a month long exhibit. 

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The next stop for the travelling show will be at the 
18th century 
Palácio da Lousã 
in Lousã, central Portugal. 

The opening will be on 
 October 11th, 2014

Adresse
Palácio da Lousã
Viscondessa do Espinhal 3200-257
Lousã, Coimbra, 
Portugal.

Telephone : +351239990800
E-mail : info@palaciodalousa.com




                     A few pieces from the show.

You can purchase a catalogue from Blurb with artwork from the whole show:
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Artists in the show:  


Agim Meta, Ana Neamu, Anna Plavinskaya, Andrew Baines, Asier Guerrero Rico (Dino), Brigid Marlin, Daila Lupo, Dan Neamu, Daniel Hanequand, Daniele Gori, Edgar Invoker, Egill Eibsen, Erik Heyninck, Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, Farhad Jafari, France Garrido, Francisco Urbano, Gromyko Semper, Héctor Pineda, Hugues Gillet, Isabel Meyrelles, Keith Wigdor, Leo Plaw, Liba WS, Lubomír Štícha, Ludgero Rolo, Lv Shang, Maciej Hoffman, Magi Calhoun, Maria Aristova, Martina Hoffman, Mehriban Efendi, Naiker Roman, Nazareno Stanislau, Octavian Florescu, Oleg korolev, Olga Spiegel, Otto Rapp, Paula Rosa, Pedro Diaz Cartes, Rudolf Boelee, Santiago Ribeiro, Sergey Tyukanov, Shahla Rosa, Shoji Tanaka, Shan Zhulan, Sio Shisio, Slavko Krunic, Sônia Mena Barreto, Steve Smith, Svetlana Kislyachenko, Tatomir Pitariu,     Ton Haring, Victor Lages, Vu Huyen Thuong, Yamal Din, Yuri Tsvetaev et Zoran Velimanovic.


Blog entry by
Liba W Stambollion
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Visionaries - Seers of the Soul

27/8/2014

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Visionaries - Seers of the Soul

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Wandlung by De Es Schwertberger

27/8/2014

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Wandlung by De Es Schwertberger
Wandlung, a book by De Es Schwertberger
Sinnbilder 1963 - 1973
Small Square (7 × 7 in / 18 × 18 cm) 88 pgs Standard Paper


posted by Otto Rapp
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ARTSPEAK - from the sublime to the ridiculous

22/8/2014

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ARTSPEAK
from the sublime to the ridiculous - or is it the other way around?

Post by Otto Rapp
I had recently posted a tongue in cheek spoof about a 'artspeak generator': 
INSTANT ARTIST STATEMENT
OK, now I am trying to get a bit more serious here - 
below is a picture and quote from the blog Translating Artspeak (who in turn took it from an article in the Arts & Culture section of the ChicagoMag (January 2014): 
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The quote:
“With his keen knowledge of paint’s spatial effects, the artist exploits the transformative qualities of color applied directly to the architectural frame.”

The Translation:
 The artist painted a mural. 

I think we need to explore this more seriously, 
so here as an update to my earlier blog, read all about 

INTERNATIONAL ART ENGLISH 
by Alix Rule & David Levine

Of this English upper-middle class speech we may note (a) that it is not localised in any one place, (b) that though the people who use this speech are not all acquainted with one another, they can easily recognise each other’s status by this index alone, (c) that this elite speech form tends to be imitated by those who are not of the elite, so that other dialect forms are gradually eliminated, (d) that the elite, recognising this imitation, is constantly creating new linguistic elaborations to mark itself off from the common herd.
—E. R. Leach, Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure, 1954
........................read MORE
but to be fair, here is the critique, if you will, of the above essay, by Ben Davis:

INTERNATIONAL ART ENGLISH
 - THE JOKE THAT FORGOT IT WAS FUNNY

INTERNATIONAL ART ENGLISH
“International Art English” is back. 

The essay of the same name, penned by David Levine and Alix Rule and published in the online journal Triple Canopy one year ago, touched off a minor furor with its attempt to prove scientifically that the art world was a hive of pompous windbags — that is, that the official language of art was a linguistically meaningless jumble of buzzwords written in a tortured style imported from French theory, a claim the authors said they could verify through running 13 years of press releases through a computer. 
..................read MORE


But if you prefer humorous, then by all means, check my earlier blog 
INSTANT ARTIST STATEMENT

ART OF THE MYSTIC OTTO RAPP
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Strange Lands by Andrew L. Paciorek

15/8/2014

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Strange Lands
A Field-Guide to the Celtic Otherworld
Post by Otto Rapp
Strange Lands A Field-Guide to the Celtic Otherworld
396 pgs Black and White printing (on cream uncoated paper)
Click the image for a preview of the book
About the Author:
Andy Paciorek is a graphic artist, drawn mainly to the worlds of myth, folklore, symbolism, decadence, curiosa, anomaly, dark romanticism and otherworldly experience. He is fascinated both by the beautiful and the grotesque and the twilight threshold consciousness where these boundaries blur. The mist-gates, edges and liminal zones where nature borders supernature and daydreams and nightmares cross paths are of great inspiration.

About the book:
Strange Lands is a deeply researched and richly illustrated information guide to the entities and beasts of Celtic myth & legend and to the many strange beings that have entered the lore of the land through the influence of other cultures and technological evolution. 
At nearly 400 pages and featuring over 170 original illustrations, Strange Lands is an essential accompaniment for both the novice and seasoned walkers between worlds.
The following text from the foreword by Dr Karl Shuker ~ 
"Right from a child, I have always been fascinated by mythology and folklore, especially the rich corpus originating in the British Isles, and I have read very extensively on the subject. However, I can say in all honesty that Strange Lands is one of the most comprehensive single volumes on British mythological entities that I have ever encountered. Even Dr Katharine M. Briggs’s essential tome, A Dictionary of Fairies, universally acclaimed as the standard work on such beings, now has a rival in terms of the sheer diversity of examples documented. 
And where Strange Lands effortlessly outpoints even that classic work is of course in its illustrations, which are truly breathtaking in their beauty, intricacy, and vibrancy" from the foreword by Dr Karl Shuker

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De Es Schwertberger Weltwandelbild

15/8/2014

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WELTWANDELBILD - a book by De Es Schwertberger
Post by Otto Rapp
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Standard Landscape (10 × 8 in / 25 × 20 cm) 48 pgs Standard Paper
Published at Blurb - preview the book HERE

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Peter Gric - Paintings From the First Decade of the New Millennium

14/8/2014

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Post by Otto Rapp

Peter Gric - Paintings From the First Decade of the New Millennium (Hardcover)

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FOREWORD BY DE ES SCHWERTBERGER
Hardcover 
large format landscape 13 × 11 in / 33 × 28 cm - 80 pages, premium paper, lustre finish.

also available as
Softcover 
standard landscape  10 × 8 in / 25 × 20 cm - 80 pages, premium paper, lustre finish.

In the early nineties Peter Gric started to discover the possibilities of computer graphics for his paintings. From then on his organic-surreal visual imagery was enriched by complex architectural structures and artefacts. In place of using pencil and sketchbook he began to design his compositions with a 3D visualization software, he started to transfer the virtual reality into painting and consequently found within this fusion to his very unique and distinctive stile.
This method is most obvious in his “Artificial Spaces” series. These paintings are based on three-dimensional geometries built with something like a “virtual building block system” or other mathematical and algorithmic concepts. The creation of these images becomes a play with complex spaces and perspectives in order to create normally non-accessible places in a completely artificial arrangement of space and light. By translating these virtual concepts into paint, Gric attempts to enter into those artificial spaces, and render them tactile. He seeks to give form and substance, bringing them out of their virtual state to a substantial manifestation.
In addition to his Artificial Spaces Gric also experiments with the human nude combined with mineral, technoid and architectural structures. Despite the fact, that the bodies of this “Mnemosyne” series are often dissolved and fragmented, he wittingly obtains or even emphasizes the erotic component. In this series his fantastic and surreal origin is most apparent.
In this book, Gric shows most of his works that he painted during the years 2000 to 2010.
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25 Disturbing Art Pieces that Challenges People's Sanity

7/8/2014

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Post by Otto Rapp

25 Disturbing Art Pieces that Challenges People's Sanity

Deterioration of Mind over MatterDeterioration of Mind over Matter

Deterioration of Mind over Matter

Unbelievable - to be listed among some of the worlds famous artists - and for the List25 author Petr Habarta to pick my work as the title image! This work is one of my earliest, dating back to 1973 and it is from a phase that I jokingly refer to as my "Scare thy Neighbors" period.

here it is on DeviantArt - with the background story: 
http://fav.me/dser0i
acrylic on canvas, 20"x28", 1973

One painting, entitled “The Deterioration Of Mind Over Matter” is a frightening picture of a decomposing human scull firmly ensconed on some devilish birdcage in which the raw gore of mans physical being lies lifeless at the base. The parting flesh of the scull is secured by a tromp-loeil safety pin. This is truly an image that could have been utilized in the former issues of “Tales From The Crypt”, in fact it brings to mind in its own scary way the imaginations of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem, “The Conqueror Worm” comes to mind immediately:
But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes! - it writhes! - with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

Excerpt from the critique by J. Brooks Joyner, Editor Visual Arts, The Albertan, Saturday, May 29th, 1976


Here is the twitter posting from List25

25 Disturbing #Art Pieces That Challenges People's Sanity - http://t.co/fPsFQRs52b #Art #Bizarre pic.twitter.com/snrcDbUVKh

— List25 (@list25) August 4, 2014
on my facebook wall
Author Petr Habarta on List25
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Instant Artist Statement

5/8/2014

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Post by Otto Rapp

Instant Artist Statement

I can't help it - whenever I find something totally insane on the internet, I have the irresistible urge to pass it on.

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Tired of racking your brain trying to squeeze out yet another artist's statement extolling the unique virtues of your latest net.art joint? Do you lapse into fits of involuntary muscle spasms every time you hear the word "immersive" in casual conversation? 
Then search no further -- 

http://www.playdamage.org/market-o-matic/


I could have added my own work, but I just love the insanity of this! 
Check out Rebranding on Computer Fine Arts  - and their re-branding of Teletubbies


NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, BUT THIS IS WHAT I GENERATED 
using this above mentioned program:

Work of Post-Art in the Age of Symbiotic Reproduction

The matrix creates, the empire permeates. In the trans-gender hallucination, art objects are resurrections of the imaginations of the matrix -- a matrix that uses the empire as a zeitgeist to deconstruct ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the rationalization of the electronic environment, the matrix is superseding a point where it will be free from the empire to transcend immersions into the parameters of the delphic hallucination. Work of Post-Art in the Age of Symbiotic Reproduction contains 10 minimal flash engines (also referred to as "memes") that enable the user to make mystic audio/visual compositions.

measuring chains, constructing realities
putting into place forms
a matrix of illusion and disillusion
a strange attracting force
so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it

Otto Rapp's work investigates the nuances of vibrations through the use of fast motion and close-ups which emphasize the Symbiotic nature of digital media. Rapp explores abstract and scenery as motifs to describe the idea of infinite hallucination. Using loops, non-linear narratives, and interactive images as patterns, Rapp creates meditative environments which suggest the expansion of art...



OK, so all I need to do now is create a video installation to go with this. 
Piece of cake..... I just film myself sleeping under a bridge .....

Update August 22nd 2014
for the sake of balance and fairness, I penned a new blog exploring this a little more seriously:
ARTSPEAK - from the sublime to the ridiculous

Otto Rapp
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