We missed the opeing of the exhibition, but we took the chance to visit the finnisage. the alp gallery in frankfurt had presented paintings from daniel baer. Here you get some impressions of his work and for information about the gallery and my exhibition in 2013 please click here.
Gus Kopriva was born in Baden Baden, but after his mother married an american soldier, the family with the then 8 years old Gus moved to the United States. He became an engineer and worked for Dow Chemical, he married sharon (watch her video here) and discovered his passion for art. He promotes artists and exhibits their work in his gallery „redbud“ in houston heights. He also collects -among others- prints from the german expressionists. He works as a curator of exhibitions worldwide and is an excelent networker – what we experienced during our visit. He introduced us to the art scene and to many artists in houston, he took time to show us museums and interesting sites. Currently he organizes a sculpture project on the heights boulevard. (i will report). The encounter with him was a highlight of our recent trip – thank you Gus. © n.g.
Wayne Gilbert and his G Gallery was recommended by a guy at the Artfair “Untitled” in Miami Beach.
Thank you Wayne, for taken us to the station museum where the exhibition “degrees of separation” is being installed. The Opening of the exhibition will be held on Jan.17th and by the way: what we already had seen promises to be exciting! Wayne Gilbert has been searching many years for a truly original idea in his personal artistic expression until he finally found it in1998: He uses the remains of human beings after they were cremated in the pigments for his pictures. His work thus moves on the edge of life and death and it gives those people, whose remains he integrates into his art, a degree of immortality.
For 5 bucks you get into the small exhibition spaces of the new orleans voodoo museum. Hopefully voodoo helps against pneumoconiosis as well, because the cleaner of the museum is indisposed since decades. It looks like a shabby german ghost train, except that us cents swell out of the skulls. Voodoo is one of the huge religions and it`s not just about to maltreat dolls with needles. As in any other religion it´s about stoking fears and earn money. ©n.g.
The work of Salvatore Dali consists not only of the melting clocks, this you can find out in the excellent Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. And also that this eccentric man had not a straightforwardly childhood: his older brother Salvatore No.1 died before completing his second year and nine months before Dali’s birth. So he became a kind of representative for his identically named brother in the family history. At the age of 17, he also lost his mother
He was very fond of her and she had tryied to balancing the severity of his father.
After Dali controlled the the old masters painting style, he allowed himself new ways of painting, which made him finally become the leading representative of surrealism. A lack of self-consciousness has not bothered him: at age of 22 he had to leave the Academia San Fernando in Madrid. Dali had refused to participate in the exam because he was convinced that his teachers were unable to judge him. © B.G.
“Where is the VIP Entrance?” grumbled a visitor at the entrance-gate of the VIP pre-access Art Basel Miami Beach, where the queues were admitted before they got access in spurts. “Right here!” was the reply. “But there is a line!” “Right Sir, we expect more than 2,500 VIPs today, so please line up.”
There are days in miami, on which it´s just raining or it’s no “art basel” in town. On these days it`s recommended to visit the Rubell Family Collection. A “must see” – and completely unusual for miami: there is no entrance fee! © n.g.
