Showing posts with label OTTO RAPP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OTTO RAPP. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2024

SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE GALERIE ESTHER - ERNST FUCHS MUSEUM, VIENNA

Prior to my 80th Birthday, I am proud to be showing at this prestigious gallery in Vienna. Showing many of my works that were never shown in Vienna before, together with some of my best work from the decades of art since the seventies.



One painting that was never shown in Vienna was this: 

THE SURROGATE MOTHER OF WISDOM

More information on my wordpress blog.

MY ARTWORK POSTED ON FLICKR

I had posted most of my artwork to several albums on Flickr - one of them is my main album that holds all my work.

Here is a embedded view of this album:


Artwork
I strive to keep this updated. The works are not in any order, some are early works, some most recent. The leading image is of course my signature image, a Surreal Selfportrait called SELFPORTRAIT WITH THE CRITICAL EYE.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION – WARSAW, POLAND

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Two of my paintings and one drawing  are touring with the Magical Dreams V exhibition organised by the Bator Art Gallery.
The next exhibition opens in Warsaw, Poland, Jan 9. 2020.

Opening January 9th, 2020 at 7 PM.
  Centrum Promocji Kultury ul. Podskarbińska 2, 03-833 Grochów, Warszawa, Poland

 The exhibition will continue until January 30th 2020.
The exhibition is under the patronage of Tomasz Kucharski,
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw.

INVITATION FOR THE OPENING - PDF

MY ARTWORK IN THIS EXHIBITION


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​YGGDRASIL acrylic on canvas - 2019 - 60 x 90 cm

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BOGOMIL'S AVATAR REVISITED acrylic glazes on panel - 2018 - 40 x 50 cm

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EMRAKUL graphite and charcoal on paper - 2019 - 42 x 29.5 cm

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

WEIHNACHTSAUSSTELLUNG - CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION - INFELD HAUS DER KULTUR - INFELD CULTURE CENTER

WEIHNACHTSAUSSTELLUNG  INFELD HAUS DER KULTUR
CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION - INFELD CULTURE CENTER



ERÖFFNUNG - OPENING
Freitag 29. November 2019 um 19:30 Uhr
Friday November 29th 2019 at 7:30 PM



OTTO RAPP


Über meine Werke: Das sind universelle Archetypen, die tief im Inneren eines kollektiven Unterbewusstseins zu finden sind; während scheinbar ausserirdisch und fremd, sie sind gleichzeitig auch seltsam vertraulich. Ich nehme die Betrachter in ein Gebiet, das sie nur vorher noch in einer anderen Existenz, wie auch in Träumen, betreten haben. Es ist eine 'Methode in diesem Wahnsinn' doch entsteht Alles durch Ausschluss von bewusster Führung. Die Arbeit wächst scheinbar von alleine, wie Eisblumen auf einer Fensterscheibe.

About my work: These are universal archetypes that may be found deep inside our collective unconscious. While seemingly extraterrestrial and alien, they are also strangely familiar. It will take the viewer into an area that they might have been before in another existence or have entered in their dreams. It is a 'method in this madness' but everything arises  by elimination of conscious guidance. The work grows seemingly by itself, like frost flowers on a windowpane.


BOGOMILS GEMÜSEGARTEN - BOGOMILS VEGETABLE GARDEN

TIAMATS NACHKOMME - OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT

DAS BIEST VON BABYLON - THE BEAST OF BABYLON

DE ES SCHWERTBERGER

2015 habe ich einen neuen Werkabschnitt begonnen ,das „Neolithikum“, in dem ich das Thema der „Steinperiode“ (1970-1980) wieder aufgegriffen habe.
Mein Bestreben  war es aber, durch Einbeziehung meiner abstrakteren Malweise der letzten Jahrzehnte ,  neue Vorstellungswelten, also frisches malerisches  Terrain zu entdecken.
Das Zusammenspiel der Metaphern MAUER und STERNE eröffnet eine neue PERSPEKTIVE DER TRANSZENDENZ ,die in eine kollektive Lebenswelt  jenseits der Mauer weist. 
In diesem Sinne zeigen die ausgestellten Werke auch , wie ich durch die "Methode der Verwandlung“ meine Inhalte erweitere.

I started a new body of work in 2015, the „Neolithic“, in which I picked up the theme of the „stoneperiod“ (1970-1980) again.
Yet it was my intention to discover new minds capes, fresh painterly territory through the integration of my more abstract painting style of the last decades .
The interaction of the metaphors WALL and STARS opened up a new PERSPECTIVE OF TRANSZENDENCE into a collective sphere of life beyond the wall.
In this sense the exhibited works show also, how I expand my contents through the „method of transformation“.


ENTGRENZUNG -  DISSOLUTION

JENSEITS DER MAUER  -  BEYOND THE WALL

TRANSZENDENZ  -  TRANSCENDENCE

CORNELIA SIMON-BACH


Erstellt der Künstler tatsächlich seine Bilder oder ist seine Vorstellungskraft letztendlich nur eine Art magischer Empfangsapparat, Antenne und Verstärker? Der Künstler ist Empfänger zahlreicher Botschaften, Weisheiten, Symbole und Gleichnisse und kennt den Absender nicht. Der Träumer ist eine Brücke zwischen Schlafen und Wachen. Er ist die Brücke, die die beiden Ufer verbindet. Aber jeder für sich ist nur eine Hälfte, bis beide zusammen ein Ganzes ergeben.

Does the artist actually create his imagery or is his imagination in the end only a sort of magical reception apparatus, antenna and amplifier? The artist is the recipient of numerous messages, wisdoms, symbols and parables and does not know the sender. The dreamer is a bridge between sleeping and waking. He is the bridge connecting the two shores. But each by itself is only a half, until both together make a whole.

INNENWELT/AUSSENWELT - INNER WORLD/OUTER WORLD
TRAUM DER UNERLÖSTEN - DREAM OF THE UNREDEEMED

NACH DER FLUT - AFTER THE FLOOD

besuchen sie die Webseiten der Künstler - visit the websites of the artists:


INFELD HAUS DER KULTUR

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Another one bites the Dust

I have not checked lately about some of the art sites I joined, but until just now, there was a link listed here on my Blogger to a site ZEIGDEINEKUST: it does not exist anymore, except for some remnants that make no sense - see it here: http://www.zeigdeinekunst.de/ ◄ but careful, it may not be safe, so check it out in safe mode. I find it sort of goofy that they actually maintain a domain like this with bad web pages.

Checking the Internet Archive for my particular page, I found this: https://web.archive.org/web/20130821093647/https://www.zeigdeinekunst.de/zdk-portal/userProfile/show/6830


Thursday, September 13, 2018

Exhibition Anderswelt und Zeitenwende


Pünktlich zu Halloween - am 25.10. bis 9.11.2018 ​
just in time for Halloween  - coming up 25.10. to 9.11.2018

ANDERSWELT UND ZEITENWENDE

Ausstellung mit Werken von Otto Rapp, Klaus Schöberl, Demetrius Staykoff und Anna Wischin
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SOME OF MY WORK I WILL BE SHOWING IN THIS GROUP EXHIBITION

...these and several more...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

MAGICAL DREAMS IV - Exhibition in Viechtach - INVITATION


The vernissage will take place on Friday, March 9th at 7 pm 
in the Old Town Hall Viechtach. 
Afterwards, the exhibition runs until May 12th. 
Admission is free.
Address:


Old Town Hall, Viechtach




I am showing the following works:





Monday, January 29, 2018

REMINISCING - 35 YEARS AGO

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Notepad
​I had often said that in my days at the University of Lethbridge, I rarely took notes. I did not see any use of it at that time, since based on the course outlines, I studied the subject in advance, and came to class already prepared to add my own 2 cents worth in comments - even prepared to argue.........

But just for looks, I did have my notepad open. I may have written down a few things, but for the most part, I was doodling. Checking through a pile of old papers, I found this - probably from a English or a Mythology class I took, around 1980 or so (we had some advanced classes where several departments were involved - they were called 'Colloquial Studies').

Notepad
This is the only notepad page that I kept, mixed in with a pile of old photos and stuff.
In case you are wondering about the writing on top: it's my own version of shorthand.
​I have not used it in decades, and frankly, I cannot even read it myself anymore!
​You may think (as many of my fellow students did) that I am just a goof - but the end results were that I graduated with a GPA of 3.96 out of 4.0, second highest in my class of 82.
I initially posted the note pad images on Steemit



Monday, August 7, 2017

ARTWORK by OTTO RAPP - slide show


ARTWORK by OTTO RAPP - slide show 

 
On Google Drive I have a document that is a listing (in table form) of most of my artwork.
 The titles link to the respective image in this album on Flickr. Werksverzeichniss Otto Rapp

Friday, December 9, 2016

VAG VISIONARY ARTISTS OF THE MONTH


The Visionary Art Network Artists of the Month, from when this feature was first introduced when the public website opened in August 2009 to presently December 2016. The private network was started on the Ning platform in January 2009 by Otto Rapp with a handful of friends. As the network grew, we eventually mirrored the best content from our network in the public Visionary Art Gallery (VAG): VISIONARY ART GALLERY Represented are Surrealist, Visionary and Fantastic Realist artists from around the globe. Associated with the VAG is the spin-off Visionary Art Exhibition (VAE) site: VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION - there you find guest blogs and special selections of artworks from our network. The section of Featured Artwork is regularly updated: FEATURED ARTWORK Visit the VAG page for Artist of the Month ► Slide Show here: ARTISTS OF THE MONTH SLIDE SHOW - the images link to the respective artists pages. Soundtracks by JASON SHAW www.audionautix.com under a creative commons attribution license all images are © by the artists video produced by Otto Rapp ART OF THE MYSTIC OTTO RAPP

Sunday, October 9, 2016

MAGISCHER REALISMUS in Ansbach - Update

Announcement - Invitation for the opening on September 30th
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Exhibition Kunsthaus Reitbahn 3, Ansbach, Germany
September 30. to October 23. 2016
Great write-up in a Bavarian Newspaper covering the Exhibition:
Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit - Magischer Realismus
​click photo above to view large image in my Flickr album - opens in separate window

The opening of this exhibition,

announced in my website blog earlier HERE went very well. 

Slide show from my Flickr album :
​Artists in this exhibition:
Udo Winkler
​Michael Engelhardt - Wolfgang Harms - Hanno Karlhuber - Michael Maschka - Jo und Hans Niklaus - Otto Rapp - Susanne Steinbacher
Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Reitbahn 3, Ansbach, Germany
The majority of these photos were taken prior to the opening during installation. 

Previous blog entry on the website of Otto Rapp:  ​MAGISCHER REALISMUS - ANSBACH

Sunday, September 11, 2016

MAGISCHER REALISMUS – ANSBACH

Magischer Realismus
Udo Winkler und Freunde

my works in this exhibition:

Parthenogenesis II 

Bogomil’s Monastic Retreat

Revelation 20

Pablo's Last Concert

Hour of the Cock

Bogomil's Landing

The Visitor


prints are available here: