Tag: Vienna

Transmission Exhibition Ready to Open

Kevin Campeau and David Heskin

The art angels have been busy and finished hanging the “Transmission” exhibition at Galerie 10.

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Studio Update

Studio

This is a snapshot of my current Vienna Studio.

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Painting Party

Elizabeth Banker

Often painting is a very solitary past time or career. So when there is an opportunity paint with other artists, it is something special.

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Painting Collaboration with Kevin Campeau

Kevin Campeau Painting Collaboration

Recently I started a collaborative painting project with Kevin Campeau. In this video we briefly discuss how we worked together and what we did with the canvas.

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Studio Video Report

This is a short video report from the studio in Vienna, after returning from the Galerie Atelier III exhibition in Barmstedt, Germany.

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Changing of the Guard

Kuba dropped in to lend a hand. (photo: Timea Tallian)

Since December last year I have had my artwork hanging in Dancing Shiva on Nuebaugasse in the Vienna 7th district. With exhibition season having begun, it was time to take my artwork down in preparation for sending them of to far flung destinations once again. But more about those exhibitions in future articles.

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Art Universities – the Future of Art?

Vienna Art Academy, Schillerplatz

This past weekend I attended the open studios (Rundgang) of the Vienna Academy of the Fine Arts (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien). In the unending push to remain abreast with the current art trends, the past is cut off and cast aside as worn out worthless rubbish. That is, unless, it earns some money, like the Painting Gallery, which houses valuable Old Masters artworks from Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Hieronymus Bosch and Titian.

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Max Ernst Retrospective Exhibition – Albertina Vienna

"Temptation of St. Anthony" Max Ernst

It’s a Tuesday night in Vienna. What to do? Go to the premier opening of the Max Ernst retrospective exhibition in the Albertina, of course. Thanks goes to Celene and Jutta Venosa for making this possible. Otto Rapp and Timea Tallian were also there to gaze, point. Pick the artists!

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Juxtaposition – When New Ideas Happen

Vienna Studio Corner

Those moments of empty minded clarity, when not much is happening, lounging on the obligatory comfy studio sofa, looking at the artwork. In my Vienna studio, two unrelated paintings suddenly took on a new meaning together.

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Smell the Coffee

Passenger Espresso

Living in Berlin, I know all of my favourite and interesting corners. So if I want something, I know exactly where to go. For instance coffee. Now I find myself in Vienna and I am on the hunt for good coffee.

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The Irresistible Flow of Time – Galerie 10

The Irresistible Flow of Time – Galerie 10

Today Dennis Konstantin, Karl Person and I drove all the way from Berlin to Vienna. Dennis and I are exhibiting with a selection of 11 artists from the Fantastic Art movement, this September in Austria at Galerie 10.

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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.

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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.

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Galerie 10: Group Exhibition

My good friends, Luigi La Speranza , Amanda Sage and Peter Gric are exhibiting with Wessi currently at Galerie 10, Vienna, Austria.

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Return to the Source

I spent a hectic but thoroughly enjoyable time in Vienna over December, staying with my good friend and colleague Amanda Sage (www.amandasage.com). She was very gracious to allow me the use of her studio, and so for the first time

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