OTTO RAPP
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ARTISTS 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.
Otto Rapp, September 1983
ABOUT MY WORKS
"These are universal archetypes that are found deep in the interior of a collective subconscious. While seemingly extraterrestrial and strange, they are also strangely familiar. I take the viewer into an area that they perhaps previously entered in another existence or just in their dreams. It is a 'method in this madness' but everything is created by exclusion of conscious leadership. The work seems to grow on its own, like frost flowers on a windowpane. "
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.
Otto Rapp, September 1983
ABOUT MY WORKS
"These are universal archetypes that are found deep in the interior of a collective subconscious. While seemingly extraterrestrial and strange, they are also strangely familiar. I take the viewer into an area that they perhaps previously entered in another existence or just in their dreams. It is a 'method in this madness' but everything is created by exclusion of conscious leadership. The work seems to grow on its own, like frost flowers on a windowpane. "
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