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'Dreams of Eternity' at Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Recent Work by Victor Safonkin

December 6, 2008 - January 1, 2009

Opening Reception: Satudray, December 6, 8pm - 11pm

"Victor Safonkin's art confronts the human condition head on with powerful mythic images all sumptuously rendered in an unapologetic classical style that reaches back into an ancient past to rub shoulders with the likes of Brueghel and Bosch." - Terry Gilliam

Merry Karnowsky Gallery

170 S. La Brea Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Victor Safonkin is one of 50 Artists featured in our first publication entitled Metamorphosis.

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Promethean Flames - Philip Rubinov Jacobson

Philip Jacobson has released his second and long awaited book, "Promethean Flames". His book approaches art and spirituality with theoretical and impassioned reflections on the highest calling of the visual arts.

It delineates the boundaries and bridges between the creative process and illumination by exploring, expounding and integrating the fields of art, creativity, psychology, religion and philosophy.

It also surveys the situation between the contemporary art world and the modern creative mystic, between the artist and the responder, the states and stages of illumined artistic vision and the very path of art as a tool for the transformation of consciousness.

"It is a great pleasure to be friends with Philip. He is a great Artist, Writer and a man of action. Philip has dedicated a massive amount of energy into a movement that is very close to my heart. The global Fantastic & Visionary Art movement would be more than a man short without Philip's energy. Phil has published books on our movement, featuring many great artists, he's produced an impressive body of work and he has exposed people to the magic of Visionary art with his personable, hands-on seminars. It is my pleasure to Recommend this passionate man to the art world (and the world at large)." Jon Beinart, Director & Editor, beinArt Publishing

An excerpt from Philip's book, "Promethean Flames" can be found in the essay, "Promethean Flames - Rekindling and Re-visioning the Creative Fire".

"Promethean Flames" can be purchased from Philip's MySpace page.

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News from Inside Artzine:

Mighty scum from the depth of the creative sewer:

ARTSCUM OVER DRESDEN

INSIDE artzine exhibition

Start-Up-Party: 02.11.08 · 18h

Exhibition: November 2008

Hours: Wednesdays and Sundays: 18:00 - 21:00

Location: Gallery Knark Art, Torgauer Str. 24, Dresden/Germany

INSIDE artzine - International Artscum Magazine:

Paintings, collages, sculptures, stories, photos…. of doom.

Huge canvas prints of…

Mike Bohatch/Eyes of Chaos (USA), Fabrice Lavollay (BEL), Viron v2.0 (ITA), K.D. Matheson (USA), Johnny Chunders (UK), Naoto Hattori (JAP), Tristan Schane right (USA), R.S. Connett (USA), jenzzz (GER)

…and many more "Best of" trash from the INSIDE artzine issues!!!!

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Jay Dee will be exhibiting from November the 2nd, 2008, until November 23rd at Workshop Bar in Melbourne.

The show opens at 6pm on November the 2nd.

Workshop

413 Elizabeth St.

Melbourne, VIC

Australia

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Atticus Gallery Presents…

"To The Attention of Nobody" - new works by Emilio Subira

November 7th - December 12th, 2008

Opening: November 7th, 8:30pm - 11pm

Atticus Shop and Gallery

Lledo St 10, 08001

Barcelona, Spain

Subway: Jaume 1

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Otto Gerstenberg, the founding president of the German Victoria insurance company, assembled a fabulous art collection in Berlin. During the second world war, the collection was stored in a bunker. Much of the collection was destroyed or seized by the Russian Army during the battle for Berlin in 1945.

What remained of the collection was passed to his daughter Margarethe Scharf and, after her death, to her two sons, Walther and Dieter, where it became a starting point for their own art collections. Dieter upgraded the inheirited collection with exquisite examples of surrealistic art by Max Ernst, Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, and with works by Odilon Redon, Paul Klee and Jean Dubuffet.

The Scharf-Gerstenberg show encompasses 300 works of “Surrealism and its predecessors,” and has created excitement with its spectacular examples of dark architectural prison scenes by Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

There is also a selection of surrealist films on show, such classics of Surrealist cinema as ‘Un Chien Andalou’ by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí will be shown alongside selected films by contemporary artists.

The “Surreal Worlds” exhibition is not permanent, but is on a ten-year-loan, with conditions attached.  One such condition is that that the artwork does not disappear into depots but remains on display on a permanent basis to the public

The exhibition sports some fine examples of Max Ernst’s decalcomania technique and quite a few Dali sketches. I found the works of Hans Bellmer exquisite.

The collection is well worth a visit and makes a great change from the dominance of modern contemporary artwork that prevails in Berlin.

Contact
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Schloßstraße 70
14059 Berlin
Phone: +49(0)30 - 3435-7315
Fax: +49(0)30 - 3435-7312
www.smb.museum/ssg

Opening Hours
Tues - Sat 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Tickets
11 July 2008: free entrance
from 12 July 2008: 8 Euro, discounted admission 4 Euro

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Strychnin Gallery recently held a stand at Art Fair 21 in Cologne Germany. One would have thought that now Yasha Young, the owner of the gallery is now a member of Art Fair 21 selection committee, all would have run smoothly. The customs officers at Frankfurt had different ideas.

One of Madeline Von Foerster’s artworks, “Amazon Cabinet” was held by customs in Germany, because they thought that it was an Old Master’s artwork and not painted by a living 35 year old American artist.

The situation proved farcical as they demanded a huge import duty to release the painting. Customs had unwrapped the top half of the artwork, but not the complete thing, which if they had done so, they would have perhaps noticed the chainsaw in the painting. After many phone calls it was finally proven that artwork was indeed a modern work by Madeline. Her painting finally made it to the art fair, hung on the opening night and duly sold.

Congratulations to Madeline on all counts.

Madeline has an up coming show at Strychnin’s Berlin Gallery on Friday 7th of November. More details can be found the the Strychnin Gallery website: http://www.strychnin.com/.

Madeline Von Foerster was interviewed previously on beinArt.org .

Madeline is one of 50 artists featured in our second publication Metamorphosis 2.

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Re-Art and Cabinodd present: Dreamscape

Imaginary realism from 15 countries: international group exhibition and book presentation

29 November – 7 December 2008

Opening reception: Saturday, 29 November, 2pm – 4pm

The Dreamscape exhibition features paintings from over 50 international masters in imaginary realism. Dreamscape unites magic realism, fantastic realism and surrealism under the collective name imaginary realism and brings it with various projects under the worldwide attention.

During the opening reception the presentation of the third edition of the new Dreamscape book will take place with the renowned artist Lukas Kandl as the guest of honour. A special guest will receive the very first copy of the book.

Participating artists:

Michael Parkes, Lukas Kandl, Bruno Di Maio, Gerard Di Maccio, Herman Smorenburg, Michael Cheval, Ans Markus, Bodi, Fabrizio Riccardi, Victoria Francisco, Imke Meester, Richard van der Koppel, Jake Baddeley, Bas Sebus, Jolanda Richter, Ray Donley, Gabriela Garza-Padilla, Adam Rote, Daniel Merriam right, David Bowers, Gabriel Meiring, Igor Grechanyk, Jean Thomassen, Kinuko Y. Craft,  Micha Lobi, Michael Hiep, Olivier Zappelli, Patricia van Lubeck, Paul Jaarsma, Reinhard Schmid, Rene Zwaga, Shiori Matsumoto, Siegfried Zademack, Steven Kenny, Wim Kuenen, Zeljko Djurovic, Christophe Vacher, Sjaak Kieft, Helene Terlien, Ton Haring, Peter Gric, Sergej Aparin, Viktor Safonkin, Yu Sugawara, Iurie Matei, Boris Shapiro, Tomasz Kopera and Michael Maschka.

Opening Hours:

Mon - Fr 1pm – 6pm

Sat and Sun 11am - 8pm

and on appointment

Location: Loods 6, Bagagehal, KNSM Laan 6 t/m 311, 1019 LB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dreamscape exhibition is organized by Marcel Salome (Re-Art) and Ella Buzo (Cabinodd)

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Chet Zar's next exhibition, "Postapocalysm", will be opening on this Friday, October 10th at Roq La Rue gallery in Seattle. Chet will have 7 pieces in this show. Also showing that night will be Dan Quintana and Jeremy Bennet. You can see a preview of the show on the Roq La Rue gallery website.

Featured in the exhibition will be two paintings from the live painting events he did with Alex Grey, "The HyperCoSMic Painting Jam" and the "Visionary Art Los Angeles".

Chet also has 3 new small pieces in a show at the Noxious Fumes show in Columbus, Ohio at Rivet Gallery.

Chet is also now offering larger format prints on his very popular pieces, "Black Magick" and "I Want You". Included are some new pieces from a couple of his most recent shows, "We Are The Shadows" and "Ugly American". These are the first prints issued from these shows.

Chet Zar is one of 50 Artists featured in our first publication entitled Metamorphosis.

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Distinction Gallery Presents: "Autumn's Delights"

A tri-artist showing by Scott Brooks, Andy Haynes, and Marie Barr Brooks.

Reception Saturday October 11, 6-11pm

Distinction Gallery strives to bring the brightest and most unique artists to the Southern California region and will expose its latest finds in a three artist showing entitled, "Autumn's Delight". The displays share a common theme in the artist's ability to portray the human character while all showing an appreciation for surrealism and the importance of narrative in painted works. All three of the artists will be attending the opening reception on Saturday, October 11th from 6-11 PM and will be on hand to answer questions and talk about their art. Music, beer, and wine will highlight this event so we hope you will join us in this intense tri-artist showing.

The entire "Autumn's Delight" exhibition will be available for viewing through Saturday, November 1st.

Distinction Gallery, 317 East Grand Avenue, Escondido, CA, USA

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