My friend Satoshi Sakamoto was recently interviewed on Lila.org by Daniel Mirante.
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Robert Venosa Interviews Peter Gric
After spending time in the Liminal Village at the Boom Festival where he was exhibiting, Robert Venosa made his way over to Vienna. Here he paid a visit to my friend Peter Gric, who he sat down with and discussed his artwork and a little about Fantastic and Visionary movement.
James Gleeson – Australian Surrealist – Dies Aged 92
James Gleeson I sadly discovered last night that James Gleeson, Australia’s foremost surrealist painter passed away last month, aged 92. Gleeson was an early inspiration and influence on my own artwork. His visions in paint motivated me to render my…
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Madeline Von Foerster – Waldkammer – Strychnin Gallery Exhibition
With much anticipation that I awaited Madeline Von Foerster’s exhibition at Strychnin Gallery in Berlin. Her “Waldkammer” series consists of nine paintings that explore humanity’s often destructive relationship with nature, executed in the manner of the Old Masters.
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Promethean Flames – Philip Rubinov Jacobson
Philip Jacobson has released his second and long awaited book, Promethean Flames. It also surveys the situation between the contemporary art world and the modern creative mystic.
Madeline Von Foerster’s Amazon Cabinet
The most entertaining story was how one of Madeline Von Foerster’s artworks, “Amazon Cabinet” was held by customs in Frankfurt Germany, because they thought that it was an Old Master’s artwork and not painted by a living 36 year old American artist.
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Zuvaya Studios
Zuvaya Studios is a project that Daniel Mirante co-initiated as a collaborative studio and exhibition space in a derelict industrial quater of Lewes, UK. The project aims to support the unfolding of talent in established and emerging visionary artists and to strengthen the visionary art current within the UK. Guest artists have included Luke Brown and Jarah Tree.
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Luminopolis London
This week I return to London to exhibit my artwork art at Luminopolis with Jarah Tree and Luke Brown. Alex Lee who works with the event had seen my artwork in the Liminal Village at the Boom Festival and invited me along to Luminopolis.
The Visionary Art Culture Creators Matrix that is the Liminal Village – Boom 2008
The Visionary Culture Creators discussion panel brought together people living all over the world to discuss how Visionary Culture is developing.
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Visionary Art Culture Creators
Boom Festival 2008 is shaping up to be a very potent mix for Visionary arts. The epicentre for this can be found at the Liminal Village where a number of events and activities will take place. I’m looking forward to attending the festival for a number or reasons.
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A Meeting of Minds and Fantastic Visions
After all of this time getting to know Delvin over email and Skype chat sessions, I would finally get to meet him face to face. He was making his way to England to meet with Brigid Marlin of the Society for the Art of Imagination (AOI) to discuss assisting them with their Inscape magazine. I was very happy to offer him a place to stay in my studio while on his travels.
Chet Zar
A social evening at the opening of Chet Zar’s exhibition at Strychnin Gallery London. Strychnin Gallery has published a catalogue of his artwork.
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Peter Gric Catalogue
My good friend Peter Gric has released a catalogue of 55 paintings from 1990 to 2008. I was very honoured that he sent me a copy of his catalogue. We had been discussing Print on Demand (POD) as an option for getting our artwork in to print
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Zozoville
Somewhere between imagination and Berlin lies a special place called Zozoville. The doorway to this land of oddball under the bed monsters, devils and dysfunctionally cute can be found at Mainzer Strasse 21, Friedrichshain, Berlin.
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IFAA Kyoto Exhibition 2008
To our good fortune, the IFAA exhibition had been planned to coincide with the cherry blossom season. The exhibition was situated in one of the popular quarters of Kyoto at the Dohjidai Gallery.
Otto Rapp’s Essay on the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism
Otto Rapp has writing an essay about, “The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism”. This is by far the most succinct and informative writing I have read yet on the Vienna School.
Shinji Himeno
I recently visited Japanese artist Shinji Himeno in Berlin. It was a great surprise to discover him there after I had lived there for three years, never knowing he existed. I wonder who else is hidden there.
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein by Charlie Parker On Lines and Colors I found a post about Roy Lichtenstein by Charlie Parker. Now I did a small amount of study on Lichtenstein for my high school art, and of course have seen…
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International Fantastic Art Association and Shoji Tanaka
How I met Shoji Tanaka the director of the International Fantastic Art Association. His group is dedicated to creating opportunities for Japanese fantastic artists and ultimately bringing them to the wider world
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Katie Noonan – Skin
Katie Noonan, old friend of mine from my home town Brisbane, is soon to be releasing her new album, "Skin". It's been truly wonderful to watch her career grow. And her voice…