BEYOND DEMONS AND ANGELS
is Bruce Rimell's first solo show in five years.
​It opens next Friday (10th Feb) at 7.30pm, at Cupola Gallery in Sheffield, UK:
check out this short film he made to talk about his work and the exhibition!

​Promotional film for Bruce Rimell's exhibition 'Beyond Demons and Angels' at Cupola Gallery, 178a Middlewood Road, Sheffield S6 1TD, UK. Opening 7.30pm Friday February 10th. Exhibition continues February 11th til March 11th 2017.

I N V I T A T I O N  T O  T H E  E X H I B I T I O N

SNEZANA PETROVIC’S EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS “ALCHEMY OF LIFE”

Opening of Snezana Petrovic’s solo exhibition of paintings and drawings from the series “Alchemy of Life”
Djura Jaksic’s House (Skadarska 34, Belgrade, Serbia), January 21, 2017 from 19:00h

​The exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled “Alchemy of Life” by Snezana Petrovic will be open on Saturday, January 21st, 2017 from 19:00h at the Djura Jaksic’s House in Belgrade, Serbia (address: Skadarska 34).

Snezana Petrovic is a Serbian female painter and printmaker of the young generation whose artworks belong to the genre of figurative surrealism and fantastic art.
The exhibition will feature the artworks realized in the fine art techniques of painting and drawing on which the artist is currently working and explores, created in the period of 2015-2016. The series represents a metaphoric representation of the invisible energy of nature that surrounds us in symbiosis with human’s unconsciousness.

This cultural event will be opened by Dragan Jovanovic Danilov, a Serbian notable poet, essayist and art critic. The text for the exhibition catalogue was written by Dejan Djoric, a Serbian prominent art critic and theoretician of art. The exhibition will last till January 31st, 2017.

From the text of the exhibition catalogue by Dejan Djoric, an art critic:

“A beautiful girl, with a beautiful name is now audaciously creating not a fantastic, but, perhaps it is better to say, magical art. She is telling an enchanted tale of the dreamy princes and their brides, a fairy tale about the princesses, knights and monsters, fishes and balloons, maidens and spiritual warriors. The imaginarium of Snezana Petrovic is a well of good news, images which please the eye, memories of lovely creatures, ladies and gallant gentlemen of the European courts. Her speech is hidden, alchemical, and her world utterly symbolical, thus inexhaustible. Although it is possible to classify this visual symbolism, her choice of topics and motifs ideally disappears in the inconceivable, secret and poetic, leaving the viewer to feel and experience the work. Finally, ecce pictor, here is the painter whose understandable and acceptable hermetism returns towards the femininity in the best, although the most difficult, way – by using a consummate skill, which is forgotten and, more and more frequently, forbidden.”

About the artist:

Snezana Petrovic was born in 1977 in Novi Sad, Serbia. She graduated from the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad in 2004 in the class of Professor Milan Stanojev at the Department of Printmaking. In 2008 she obtained a Magister of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad in the class of Professor Radovan Jandric. In 2015 she obtained a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia under the mentorship of Professor Zarko Smiljanic. She has participated in 16 solo and more than 90 group exhibitions, both in Serbia and worldwide and has won several awards for her artworks.

​January 24 to March 24, 2017

Reception: Wednesday, January 25 at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CST
​211 W Main St, Tupelo, Mississippi 38804
​

Of particular interest to our member artists:

Joe MacGown will be including this collaborative drawing  in his upcoming exhibition at the
​Gumtree Museum of Art in Tupelo, MS. 

​Antipodes Project 3. 70 by 44 inches. Collaborative drawing by:

Ben Tolman, Joe MacGown, Joseph H. MacGown, Julianne MacGown, Ryan Thornburg, Otto Rapp, Marnie Pitts, Pizo Meyer, Zachary Nolin, Chloe Marsters, Jay Garfinkle, Marcel Bakker, Paulo Cunha, Alexander Bostic, Deborah Valentine, Gil Perry, and Lars Peterson.

Announcement - Invitation for the opening on September 30th

Great write-up in a Bavarian Newspaper covering the Exhibition:

​click photo above to view large image in my Flickr album - opens in separate window

The opening of this exhibition,
announced in my website blog earlier HERE went very well. 

Slide show from my Flickr album :

​Artists in this exhibition:
​Udo Winkler
​Michael Engelhardt - Wolfgang Harms - Hanno Karlhuber - Michael Maschka - Jo und Hans Niklaus - Otto Rapp - Susanne Steinbacher 
Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Reitbahn 3, Ansbach, Germany 
The majority of these photos were taken prior to the opening during installation. 

Previous blog entry on the website of Otto Rapp:  ​MAGISCHER REALISMUS - ANSBACH

Saturday, August 27 at 7 PM - 9 PM
Villasonne Villasunshine
Am Corso 4, 9220 Velden am Wörthersee

A promo for a small scale C31 TV series featuring Visionary Artists who currently live in, or were originally from Australia. This is the second season of this show.
Featuring artists:  Adam Scott Miller, Bonny Hut, Bryan Itch, Chandrika Steinhardt, Kuba Ambrose, Melissa Shemanna, Orryelle, Paulie Mann, Tobius Miller. 

Produced and edited by Bonny Hut
Brought to you by Metro Television
In association with 
Visionary Art Network Australia

Bator Art Gallery Beskidzka Galeria Sztuki 
and
Centrum Promocji Kultury 
w Dzielnicy Praga Południe

invites you to the opening reception of “Magical Dreams III”

opening in Bator Art Gallery: 
19 September 2015 at 7 pm. 
The exhibition continues untill Nowember 30th 2015 
ul. Myśliwska 60, 43-370 Szczyrk

opening in Centrum Promocji Kultury: 
Jannuary 9th, 2016 at 7 pm. 
The exhibition continues untill Jannuary 30th 2016 
ul. Podskarbińska 2, 03-833 Warszawa

this is a article in the German language magazine  Morgen (Kulturzeitschrift aus Niederösterreich) written by Verena Kienast

Auf den ersten Blick haben sie denkbar wenig gemein, die Werke der barocken Meister und die Jahrhunderte später ent­standenen Arbeiten eines Rudolf Hausner, eines Ernst Fuchs oder eines Arik Brauer. Auf den zweiten Blick hingegen stellen die Üppigkeit von Phantasie und Formen und die geradezu traumhafte Verkettung von Objekten und Ereignis­sen durchaus verbindende Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den zwei Kunstrichtungen aus zeitlich recht weit voneinander entfernten Epochen der europäischen Kulturgeschichte dar. Und so gehen auch die Werke phantastischer Kunst der vergangenen Jahrzehnte in ihren unter­schiedlichen Ausprägungen mit dem barocken Umfeld von Schloss Riegersburg im Waldviertel eine reizvolle, spannende Symbiose ein.
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Rothaug Alexander (born March 13, 1870 in Vienna, Austria, † March 5, 1946 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian painter and illustrator. 
In 1884 he began an apprenticeship as a sculptor, however, changed in 1885 to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to study painting at August Eisenmenger, Christian Griepenkerl and Franz Rumpler. In 1892 he moved to Munich, where he worked as an illustrator for the humorous journal the flying leaves. In 1911 he became a member of the Association of the Visual Artists Vienna.

more: Alexander Rothaug - Wien Geschichte Wiki (german)

On Saturday, June 13th 2015 at 11:00 AM the Exhibition METAPORPHOSEN by Peter Hutter opens at the Phantastenmuseum Wien.