Juan Petry's Blog (185)

Andrea Barbiero - Feng-Shui - S1

The Italian artist Barbiero lives and works in Barcelona. The Spanish metropolis with its connections to the Mediterranean and far beyond is both home and a challenge for the artist. The desire for enjoyment, joie de vivre and celebration is deeply rooted in his culture. Barbiero paints large pictures, often in…

Sonia Eva Domenech - circles

circles

x/100 | 8x5cm | 2012

Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub;

It is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges.

We make a vessel from a lump of clay;

It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

We make doors and windows for a room;

But…

Juan Petry - el cuadro del pueblo



In winter 2011 we celebrated Christmas, as part of an exhibition, in the old ermita Sant Sebastia in Cervera del Maestre. We showed a very large combined painting (12 x 0,6 m) and gave each visitor a passe-partout.



Everybody selected his preferred fragment of the painting, put the passe-partout above it…

Olaf Rauch - Photo - s1

I created this series - beneath two other series for ARTSURPRISE - especially for this project.

For the motives of "Industrial Lights" I used long exposure and sometimes a zooming technique.…

E.Brons - Breeze - S2

"Edgar Brons is one of the hidden champions in the german comic art scene over the last 50 years. As a multi-discipline author, drawer, photographer and painter he likes to play with all kinds of materials and themes. One of the most important values of his character is his fine and deep humor, in which he is even able to…

Fiona Tinn - Drawings - s1

"suddenly it happend - my cute monster"

In 2011, the Artsuprise project was able to place one of the machines in the foyer of the picture book museum in Troisdorf.

The important and famous museum represents a hotspot in Europe for book illustration and book design aimed at young people and children and is…

Juan Petry - How many ways to draw the Mona Lisa - s1



Paying for attention switches to paying with attention. The Mona Lisa as one of the best known paintings attracts millions of visitors every year. The value of this work is more defined through visitors attention than through money.

Living in the post information and post communication…

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…