galerie arthoff: Das war 2011

MÄRZ 2011
VERNISSAGE:

Astrid Bayer - Hraby

zur hiesigen Ausstellung

„beGEISTert“

Malerei aus der Perspektive einer Tanzkunst-Schaffenden

„Im Tanz, der darstellenden Kunst, malt der Körper durch den Raum unsichtbare vergängliche Muster der Bewegung. In der Malerei stößt man auf den Widerstand des weißen Blattes. In beiden Künsten stellt sich die Frage: was ist die Motivation, der Motor für den kreativen Akt? Für mich ist es die Begeisterung für die Bewegung selbst durch Zeit und Raum, die mich den Beruf der Tänzerin und Choreographin wählen ließ, die KörperBewegung mit dem Pinsel als Solches, die mich zum Malen trieb, in absichtsloser Pinselführung.

In dem deutschen Wort Begeisterung steckt das Wort „Geist“. Das Wort könnte man auch noch einmal übersetzen mit: von Geist erfüllt zu sein. In sehr alten Kulturen spricht man auch von „Geistern“ erfüllt zu sein. In der anthropologischen Heilarbeit, in der Tanz und Heilung als Akt einer Zeremonie eng mit einander verbunden sind, führen einen die Geister zur Trance. Sie sehen in dieser Ausstellung auch einige Bilder in dieser Form der BeGEISTerung“.

Zur Person Astrid Bayer-Hraby

Die bildende Kunst begleitete die Tänzerin Astrid Bayer- Hraby seit ihren künstlerischen Anfängen als Choreographin. Die Produktion „Do kaime pe Tata“ ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Musiker und Maler Thomas Lux entstanden, und einer ihrer Höhepunkte war die Ensemble Produktion „Vox homo“ in den Ausstellungsräumen des Künstlerhauses Wien zu den Objekten von Herbert Albrecht.

Astrid Bayer - Hraby

arbeitete als vielseitige Tanzkunstschaffende der ersten Stunde, der in Wien entstandenen Tanzszene, mit international namhaften ChoreoraphInnen als Tänzerin und leitende Assistentin zusammen. Mit „Trans Danubia“ 1990 schlug sie selbst die choreographische Laufbahn ein. Mit zahlreichen Produktionen, auch preisgekrönt, national und international vertreten, gründete Astrid Bayer 1997 Carambolage als kunstvermittelnden Verein des zeitgenössischen Tanzes. Info: carambolage.ekkaia.at

Vor drei Jahren hat sie sich ganz von der Bühne zurückgezogen und ist nach Orthof gezogen, um hier auf dem Areal Speckbacher Strasse 2 ein kreatives gesamtkünstlerisches Lebenskonzept zusammen mit ihrem Mann, Martin Hraby, zu verwirklichen.

Ein Teil der kreativen Ergebnisse sind neben der derzeitigen Ausstellung „beGEISTert“ in Arthoff , Bahry-Laden zu besichtigen und zu erwerben, der im Wohnhaus des Ehepaares untergebracht ist.

Kontakt: Tel: 02664/200 57, mail: naturwunder@bahry.at

MAI 2011

"Tyroler Adler gonz miad"

Der in Tirol geborene Künstler lebt in Wien und Prein an der Rax.

Nach seiner Ausbildung in der Glasfachschule Kramsach und Auslandsaufenthalten (u.a. Florenz) war er 20 Jahre als Almhirt tätig. Es folgten zahlreiche Europa-, Afrika- und Asienreisen.

Bei Shivatempel in Karnataka (India)

Ausstellungen bisher: Tirol, Steiermark, Griechenland (Paros, Kreta), Kanaren (Gomera).

Einflüsse: Fantastische Wiener Schule, Marc Chagall, belgische und französische Comiczeichner.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!

Das war die Vernissage:

AUGUST 2011

Herzlichen Dank an unsere Sponsoren:

Hotel Hübner, Payerbacherhof

Versicherungsbüro Häring, Gloggnitz

Elisabeth-Apotheke, Payerbach

Pension Baltic, Wien

Sparkasse Payerbach

DIE KÜNSTLER

Prof. Phil Rubinov Jacobson

"my studio"

Philip Rubinov Jacobson was born in upstate New York and is an artist, author, teacher and philosopher. A central figure in both Fantastic Realism and the Visionary genres’ of art. From 1973 -74, Prof.Phil studied old masters techniques of painting and printmaking with his mentor and friend, Ernst Fuchs, the founder of the School of Fantastic Realism in Vienna. He has participated in more than 100 international exhibitions in the USA and abroad. His writings have been read worldwide and he is the author of "DRINKING LIGHTNING - Art, Creativity and Transformation”, which has become a "classic" and will be available in the German language from E.R. Stieglitz, “PROMETHEAN FLAMES - Rekindling and Re-visioning the Creative Fire” from Betty & Books, Bologna, Italy. Rubinov's travels have been extensive, including India, where he studied meditation, Eastern philosophy and wandered naked with a band of Naga Sadhus in 1978. He has studied the World Wisdom traditions and the Martial Arts of Kodakan Judo and Aikido Sword and continues to be a strong voice and active proponent for the power inherent in the fine arts. In 1981 he co- founded and directed what was the first Institute for Contemplative Education and Visionary Art in the United States, located in upstate New York. In 1995, the professor founded and directed the School of Extended Studies at Naropa University in Colorado, where he served as the Dean from 1991-1997. He has been a teacher for 36 years and has been holding his renowned international summer painting seminars: "Old Masters - New Visions" since 1997. His paintings have been acquired world-wide by private and corporate collectors and most recently by the Johfra Museum of Fantastic Art in Holland. He continues to paint, exhibit, write and teach and has spent many years living and working in Europe, particularly in Italy, Austria, Holland, Germany and the Czech Republic. His long-range vision includes establishing a residential integral art center for inspired creative workers from all disciplines where art would be used as a forum and center for peace and cooperation between all nations. You can see more about the artist on his website: http://www.rubinovs-lightning.com, and on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/prjacobson

DIE GASTAUSSTELLER:

(in alphabetical order)

DANIEL FRIEDEMANN

"Heraklesundomphalis"

On the 12th December 1950 Daniel Friedemann was born in Vienna as the second son of Prof. Ernst Fuchs a painter and sculptor and Gertrude Fuchs ,born Baschnegger, then a student of piano and always a poet. After going to school, though without completing high- school, he began to study art in 1967 by going to the "Werkkunstschule" in Mannheim-Germany-,near Freiburg im Breisgau-Germany-,where he had spent the years before. He continued his studies 1968 at the "Akademie der schönen Künste"(academy of fine arts) in Munich-Germany-,in the master class for painting of Prof. Mac Zimmermann-a surrealist of the Max Ernst-generation. In 1969 he pursued his studies on painting in Vienna at the "Akademie für angewandte Kunst" (Academy of decorative arts), in the master class for painting of Prof. Wolfgang Hutter until 1972. In 1976 he joined the class for sculpture of Prof. Wander Bertoni at the above academy, for two semesters.
Many journeys to the USA and Mexico in 1973-75 and all over Europe in the years after, to the Near East and North Africa, have left their traces in the work of Daniel Friedemann.
In New York Hans Arp’s sculptural work and the sculpture of the Greek antique inspired him and he since keeps working with sculpture.
The comprehensive presence of Surrealism in New York and reading Andre Breton’s " Manifest of Surrealism" encouraged him in pursuing his way as an artist. Daniel Friedemann was then also greatly inspired by the great retrospective exhibition of Max Ernst’s work at the Guggenheim-Museum in New York in 1975.
Back in Vienna in the 1980s, he attended lectures at the university of Vienna on sculpture of the Greek classic period and Hellenism by Prof. Alzinger and on roman painting of the Hellenistic period by Prof. Kenner. A series of lectures by Prof. Schmoll - Eisenwerth about the work of Rodin and the impulse of Rodin’s art , closely studied at his museums in Paris and Meudon, were of great meaning for Daniel Friedemann’s sculptural work.
In the 1980es&90s Daniel Friedemann spent much time with the art of the great masters of the Italian renaissance, mannerism and baroque. For the more profound understanding of the painting of these periods, he copied some works by painters of that time. As there are Titian, Tintoretto (renaissance) and Francesco Solimena and Corrado Giaquinto (baroque). Also seeing the retrospective of Claude Monet at the Grand Palais in Paris , in 1980,left its traces in the work of Daniel Friedemann.
In the 1970es right into the 80es, about until 1985, he signed his works with Daniel Fuchs, but since then kept signing his work with Daniel Friedemann.
Also in the 1980es Daniel Friedemann started to work in the medium of mosaic. Thanks to numerous visits to Pompeii, he spent some time at the school for mosaic in Spilimbergo – Italy - Fruli- to learn the technique of mosaic making.
Quotation: "In quite a number of my paintings and graphics I transform the conclusions I draw from art history, without ever denying my surrealist roots. With sculpture, the portrait and the nude is my central subject matter. But I also love painting flowers for the mere joy of the lights appearance in color and form."

[Daniel Friedemann, Vienna 2002]

MICHAEL FUCHS

"Daphne und Apoll"

Art is the very mirror of who we are, our aspirations and hopes, our fears and struggles, our loves and hates. She reflects our inner self, our dignity and weakness, our inadequacies as well as strengths. But art is also a window to a world envisioned by faith alone. The world of the saints and angels, the heaven of God. It is from the Creator that we originate and have our being. And so the world of art we create, is also His gift of inspiration to us. The gift of His tender love.

Michael Fuchs

Curriculum vitae:
Michael Fuchs was born in Paris, France in 1952. He spent his childhood and youth with his mother, Geraldine Krongold, in New York City and Los Angeles. In 1970 he left America to study painting with his father Ernst Fuchs and Anton Lehmden at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, earning a Masters degree in Fine Arts in 1976. In 1980 he commenced with studies in architecture under Gustav Peichl at the same Academy, receiving a Masters degree in Architecture in 1987.
Since 1971 the artist has travelled throughout Europe and the USA showing his work in numerous group and one-man exhibitions. Among the many commissions Mr. Fuchs has received, he has persued portraiture with special intensity. The human face, he maintains, is the culmination of nature. He is especially known for his portraits of celebrities, nobility and public leaders as well as private persons and families. His commissions hang in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Diego, Knoxville and Washington D.C. as well as Boca Raton, Denver and Santa Fe. In Europe portraits of his hang in in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Vaduz, Paris, London, Hamburg und Zürich as well as Maastricht and Berlin, Lübeck and in Bremen.

Together with oil painting, Michael Fuchs studied the old-masters technique of etching and has, since 1970, worked continually to build up an impressive repertoire of copper-plate etchings, which has received international recognition. Since 1990 the artist has lived and worked in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna. In 1998 he was honored by giving his Holiness Pope John Paul II a painting of the Holy Family, during the Pontiffs visit to Austria.1999-2002 design and completion of a chapel in Graz, Austria as well as paricipation in exhibitions of the group Imago in Sevilla and Rom.

2002 - 2003, One-man show in the City Museum of Klosterneuburg, a retrospective of the artists work of the last 35 years. Extensive travel in the USA and Italy. Exhibitions in Austria and Slovenia as well as the usual commissions from domestic and international clientele. The artist ventures into the world of fashion and portrait photography, a project for a book and exhibition are in progress. Illustrations for the Book of Hours of the Cistertion Abby in Heiligen Kreuz near Vienna
Preparations for exhibitions in Chile and Bolivia in 2004. The artist takes a studio in Florence with his son Clemens-Maria, himself a very promising young artist. Michael Fuchs lives and works in Klosterneuburg near Vienna and Florence, Italy.

September and Oktober, 2004, one man show in the Instituto Cultural de Providencia, Satiago de Chile

August, 2005, beginning of the oil painting series “The Muses”.

2006, beginning of the series of paintings “Trees”

2007, 9. September, Meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Heiligenkreuz, Austria and presentation of the Book of Hours with illustrations by the artist.

2007, December, Michael Fuchs beginns work on a book of poetry. These poems will in part be posted in the english section of this website. Projected year of publication of about one hundred poems set for 2010.

OTTO RAPP

"Revelation 20"

Born in 1944 in Felixdorf, Lower Austria, Otto lived and was educated in Vienna, where later he worked as a clerk in the Transport and Insurance Business. After completing service in the Austrian Air Force, he traveled throughout Europe, eventually settling in Stockholm, Sweden.

As a Painter he was initially self taught, studying in the various Galleries and Museums. In Vienna, Otto was often ‘hanging out’ at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, where he admired the work of the Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus represented there by the Professors Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner and Arik Brauer. In Stockholm, Otto found out that he was washing dishes in the very same Restaurant where years earlier another Viennese Artist, Fritz Hundertwasser , the ‘Austrian Gaudi’ as he was later known as, had worked the same job. Encouraged by an art dealer in Gamla Stan, Otto began to paint more seriously. Busking on the streets of Gamla Stan with a Dutch artist, his very first painting was sold to a passer-by by his artist friend while Otto stood in the employment office line - this paid for a lavish meal for both of them that day.

Traveling around in 1968, Otto wound up in Western Canada where he eventually settled in Lethbridge, Alberta, the place Otto still calls home today. It was in Canada where the majority of Otto's mature work was produced (under the sponsorship of a small Lethbridge Gallery).

Working for the Canadian Pacific Railway, he quit in 1977 to attend the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program at the University of Lethbridge, graduating (with great distinction) in 1982.

In Canada, Otto participated in many exhibitions, and held several Solo Shows, culminating in the pivotal 1994 showing at The Prairie Art Gallery in Grande Prairie, Alberta, which earned him the moniker The Mystic .

Throughout his years in Canada, Otto had been the subject of many reviews and newspaper articles as well as local television shows in Calgary and Lethbridge while being active as an Artist, Art Instructor, Curator, Studio Technician, Art Critic and Juror.

ARTIST STATEMENT

BOGOMIL'S UNIVERSE

the Inner Universe of Otto Rapp

Bogomil's Universe is an excursion into the realms of the Inner Universe - a parallel universe that exists in the mind, and glimpses thereof are presented here. I am increasingly reluctant to speak of my work as strictly and exclusively surrealistic. While Surrealism provided the initial spark, and some of the methods of Surrealism are employed, I do not suppress the influence of the rational and selective focus. Thus, particularly in later works, there is to be found a conscious juxtaposition of the complementary forces of inspiration and reason.

I do not concern myself with the elimination of the rational, the exclusivity of the irrational and the absurd, but presentation of the conscious and subconscious world as an inseparable whole. I draw my inspirations from the layered labyrinth underground which represents the other side of life, which is an inner imaginative-inspirational counterpart to the outer world, expressed with the help of logic-alogic associations, analogisations and symbolism.

VESNA KRASNEC

"mother and child 3"

1972 born in Balingen, Germany

childhood in Croatia and Germany

autodidact

Exhibitions in Vienna and environs:

2003	Raiffeisenbank Schwechat
2006	Autodidact fair in Tribuswinkel Castle near Baden
2007	International Exhibitions "Dreams and Visions" mentored by Prof. Ernst Fuchs (Newspaper article)
2008	Castle Margaretten am Moos (Newspaper article)

2007 and 2008	Assistant to Prof. Ernst Fuchs working at the Chapel of St. Egid in Klagenfurt, Corinthia (Photos)
2008	Commencement of the series Faces
2009	Painting course with Michael Fuchs (Photos)
2009	Group exhibition Gallery 10, Vienna

The Artist lives and works in Vienna, Austria

"As a child I drew the faces and figures that appeared to me in the patterns and stains on
the walls and desks of my class rooms.

The subtlest deviation in a line can change the character of a face completly.
That is what is so fascinating about the human face"

DIE STUDENTEN:

(in alphabetical order)

DANA TANASESCU

"selfportrait"

So, I am from Romania, living in Belgium right now, started painting by my own since I was a child. I worked as graphic designer making advertising for some magazines in Romania and for Nikon company. But one day I've decided to leave my country and looking for another job in Europe, where I was hopping to study painting also. My works are made with oil colors mostly, and I have few pastels. I'm very happy that I'll be painting and exhibiting in Austria this summer.

JODY FLORMAN

"Archangel Michael"

“My artwork is a journey of expanding creativity. Working in various mediums from 2d to 3d, painting has been, and is, the focus of my passion. I utilize an extensive array of finishes to enhance any home or business. I also create commission fine art painting and photography to accent your interior design. In collaboration, I have welcomed and worked with Architects, Contractors, Interior Designers, Artists and Clients for over 25 years.” Visit me at my home Studio in Sedona or on my website: www.jflormanartgallery.com

Artist statement

My paintings are a combination of intuition and deep inner listening. Each piece is an invitation for you to explore the energy that in-forms the images. As each painting unfolds I am in awe of what chooses to manifest through the energetic alchemy of vision, oil and color. From the first internal impulse I begin to ask : What are you? What comes next? What are you expressing? And, the painting begins to flow with each stroke.

JÜRGEN SWART

"The breast"

Jürgen Swart began his drawing-study in the year 2000 with Prof. Phil Rubinov Jacobson and has expanded his studies in the old master techniques of painting at his summer academy in Reichenau since then. He is inspired by the female form as a muse but also by the faces of the north american indians ..

MARCELLA DI MICHELE

"presagio"

Marcella di Michele has been born 1980 in Teramo in Abruzzo, (Italy). From 2001 to 2004 she has attended the „l' academy of Fine Arts dell' Aquila“. Currently she teaches artistic education and support in the medium school in Vicenza, close Venice. She has been participating already four times in the „Old Masters – New Visions“ seminary with master mixed technique of Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson.

MONICA RUS

"selfportrait"

''I grew up in a small village in Romania . Although I grew up under Communism I had a happy childhood and was fascinated by the beauty and nature of my surroundings. Plants, animals, people, clouds, wind, rain and the changing landscape were all dear friends in my childhood. I discovered my passion for color and drawing early on in Primary School. A great Romanian painter, Dragos Vitelaru, was my first art teacher. Romanian artists such as Nicolae Grigorescu, Sabin Balasa and Tonitza served as early sources of inspiration for me. But it was when I first saw the sketches and paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, that I knew I wanted to become a painter.

An extraordinary event happened to me when I was 19 and for the next 20 years I put my brushes down and did not paint at all. A chain of circumstances led me on to another path and for many years I worked as a Nurse. In 2003 I decided to study psychology, and now I am a Psychotherapist with competencies in Integrative Psychotherapy. Through my own personal process and development I rediscovered the spark for painting. It was indeed a great shock. Psychotherapy helped me to understand the dynamics of my mind, the need for artistic expression and sublimation. This process naturally incorporated archetypal symbolism which in turn initiated a personal healing process. I realized the awesome power art can have in this healing process. At this time, C.G. Jung served as a strong influence and opened the flood gates to Visionary Art, Symbolism and Alchemy. Currently, I have a strong attraction to the work of Dali, Ernst Fuchs, Steven Kenny and many others,and of course the unique opportunity to study with Professor Philip Rubinov Jacobson. I think the "Mische Technique" will help me to improve my visual language. I am honored to meet the artistic world of Vienna, the wonderful artists there and to be part of this exhibition is a veritable dream come true.''

REBECCA DASH

"Riggor Mortis Delivered with the Morning Paper"

Just shy of 25 years old, Rebecca Dash grew up in a small community north of Seattle, Washington and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Though she has been making art since before she could speak, she only decided to pursue painting seriously at the age of 23. Virtually self-taught until now, Rebecca inclines toward the slightly fantastical, surreal and macabre in subject matter, but prefers the use of these styles within a solid and grounded framework. Her fascination with the mische technique and its ability to convey the macabre led her to the Old Masters, New Visions seminar. The painting “Rigor Mortis Delivered with the Morning Paper” was her first attempt at the technique, completed before arrival.

Perhaps due to her educational background, Rebecca finds primary inspiration in the narrative rather than the visual. In the future, her plans for art include reflecting her feminist beliefs by completing a series of paintings of fascinating historical and literary women she has studied; women who, despite their importance and intrigue, were left out of the narrative or relegated to footnotes and side characters, likely due to their sex. The drawings of Lola Montez, Anne Boney and Mary Read are preliminary drawings for future paintings.

GORDON FRY

"Moonwalker 2"

South Africa

My paintings are an expression of my journey through inner soul landscapes of eternally unfolding beauty and a deeply intuitive exploration of subconscious images of divine vision …

MAGDALENA MANTRACORA
"gate"

Live as if the world ends tomorrow.

Live as not to regret anything.

Through compassion and unconditional love we are fulfilled.

For me, art is a creative fire that lights up the Eye of Spirit and is nothing less then a map for an extraordinary adventure.

PRESSE & FOTOS

„SPIRIT OF ART“ öffnete den Himmel!

Die „crème de la crème“ des phantastischen Realismus gab sich in der Galerie Arthoff die Ehre. Als die Künstler und Gäste der Vernissage am Arthoff eintrafen, hatte sich pünktlichst nach einem verregneten Tag der Himmel geöffnet und brachte die gewohnte mediterrane Atmosphäre im Arthoff am Orthof für diese außerordentliche Zusammenkunft.

Prof. Phil Rubinov Jacobson und seine internationalen Schüler der Sommerakademie (zur Zeit im Gh. Flackl, Reichenau):

Jody Florman – USA

Dana Tanasescu – RUM

Rebecca Dash – USA

Marcella di Michele – ITA

Jürgen Swart – AUT

Magdalena Mantracora – POL

Gordon Fry – Südafrika

Monica Rus - RUM

bekamen prominente Unterstützung: Michael Fuchs, Otto Rapp, Daniel Friedemann und Vesna Krasnec ergänzen mit ihren Werken die eindrucksvolle Kollektion der Ausstellung.

Mit den ausstellenden Künstlern durften die Gastgeber Veronika und Christoph Wölflingseder u.a. folgende Gäste begrüßen:

Galeristin Silvia Steineck, Architekt Peter Achorner, Palais Palffy-GF Erich Peischl, Kabarettist Richard Weihs mit seiner Margit, Hotelier Raphael Machinek mit Gattin Yaris, die Künstlerkollegen Peter Gric, Joseph Askew, Rose-Gabriel de la Lyre, Paul Allan Ballard und Mag. Ludwig Dragosch, Mimin Nina C. Gabriel, Sängerin Coco Herden, In-Log-GF Erich Wirtwein mit Gattin Ella, Hotelier Josef Wagner, Redakteur Eberhard Fuchs, Dr. Wolfgang Eichler mit Gattin, Susanne und Peter Neuer.

Die Ausstellung endet mit der Finissage am 25. August 2011 ab 17.00h.

FOTOS: OTTO RAPP

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