Juan Petry's Blog (218)

zweiblum - ice bears - series 1

Chaos defeats order because it is better organised.

Every tourist wishes to discover the typical and characteristic feautures of a landscape or region.

Following this principle, i wanted, as a photographer, to find the right motif, and, as a gourmet, i wanted to eat the appropriate food as…

Andreas Hagenkort - objects kids - s1

At the end of 2011 we were invited to set up a vending machine in the Picture Book Museum in Troisdorf. The exclusive museum for book illustration in Troisdorf is a highly recommended place for art lovers. The museum is also well visited by younger generations. The management suggested developing a…

Sonia Eva Domenech - Olive Trees 1

revival

series 1 | x/100 | 8x5cm | 2011

I am a catalan artist. I love my country. I love the forest, the plans and I love the old trees

In Catalunya we call the very old olive trees “millenarios” and we are proud of them. Some of our regions are full of this beautiful old plants.

I am a…

Luzia Sassen - diverse - Painting

The Sassen Gallery in Bonn and Cologne represents some well-known artists from the Rhine region and beyond. The gallery owner always knows how to open up her broad program to new young talents and often does pioneering work for young, up-and-coming contemporary art. In this series, the gallery owner…

Luzia Sassen - Nepomuk Heinzon S1 - Foto

People coming and going. Trends showing up and are fading out. The rhythm of society is changing. While the average lifespan of people almost doubled between 1900 and 2000, the life expectancy of consumer goods has almost atomized. In the past, a bicycle was passed down to the next generation,…

E.Brons Acrylic Letters Painting

Acrylic letters

There is a language people can understand all over the world without having to learn it laboriously! IMAGINATION is the magic word. It was my idea to invent a script that every readers mind can transform immediatly into pictures.

Instead of using e.g. Cyrillic letters, i simply…

Juan Petry - uploads - S1

Whenever humans start to develop their tools, they want to extend the range of their senses. In modern cities you see them outsourcing their thinking to build a new virtual interbrain. Guarding the social networks as their new Tamagotchis the nerds start to transform into real cyborgs.

More and more they feed this…

Juan Petry - See You Soon - S1

When I was a young child I had nightmares about pattern fields. I was frightened about seeing so many and so beautiful pattern fields and I saw clearly, that they did not fit together.

The amazing patterns, the variation of colour and space, the speed, this all was exciting. Only the tragedy that they did…

Elena Ploetz - Drawings - S1



I do not have a message to all mankind. I have no answers to any important questions. I can not show you the right way or bring happiness into your life. My art is not about making loud statements or shocking for the sake of pure shock or teaching all viewers a valuable lesson.



My art is only about sharing -…

Jaume Munoz - s1

El todo en la nada.

Poetry. Art. All. Nothing.

"Munoz is a Spanish artist and a talent for languages. He speaks more than 5 languages ​​fluently and if he has the opportunity, he learns a new one in a few weeks, at least the basics.

Munoz is also a lover of literature and his contribution was the first…

Sonia Eva Domenech - s2 - love in civil wars

love in civil wars

series 1 | x/100 | 8 x5 cm | 2011

"love in civil wars - driven by the theme of a large exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCBE) in Benicarlo (Spain) in September 2011 I have combined military green and red colours with hearts, painted on wood from olive…

Lillemor Mahlstaedt s1

ARTSURPRISE's credo is to produce unique works of art in series through the choice of means, the choice of work process and the technologies used. This respects the rules of the art market, to create serious, comprehensible offers as well as the intention of potential art buyers to acquire unique works.

All of this…

Katrin Walschek Photo S1

There are photographers who manage to get a message across in a contemporary way using their visual language. Walschek often worked as a freelance editor for television and knows how to handle images. Walschek was the first photographer to put together a series for ARTSURPRISE. And the selection of her images probably…

Jo Pellenz Paintings S1

Po Pellenz is one of the important contemporary social artists in Germany. He is living and working in Cologne. The artist is a friend of CASAdelDRAGON and was already involved in the cultural activities before the gallery opened. When the idea of ​​ARTSURPRISE was formulated in the think tank of the House of the…

in the year of the DRAGON !

all this art will move into the…

Juan Petry - Amazing - S2



Amazing citizens in civil wars



Future generations will consider the fall of the Berlin Wall as the true beginning of a new European migration of the peoples. Europe s powerful attraction to the world is fed by its attractive social system and its low birth rate.



Europe is becoming a…

Mareike Felsch - s1 - Miniart - 2011

miniart by mareike felsch

The techniques used in my miniart are the same as those used in my big sized collages:

for instance monotypes, frottages, the usage of napkin fragments as well as natural pressed flowers, grasses, ferms etc. from all over the world.

Certain Details and colour…