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Artist Statement:
Reality meets myths. Personal
visual impressions of chosen
English gardens, ut lately
also Mediterranean seaside,
are coming together in
imaginative collages and
alchemic transformation.
The beauty of forms and
colours in nature and,
occasionally poetic and mythic
archetypes (for example
Heliogabale, Persephone
andArtemis) are elements of an
internal building, creating
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Artist Exhibitions:
Future exhibitions:
2009: 'quintessential color',
group exhibition in Agora
Gallery 530 W 25th Street
Chelsea New York NY 10001
March 21 - April 10 2009 with
exhibition catalogue March 26,
6.00 pm reception party in the
gallery www.agora-gallery.com
tel 212-226-4151
2009: Group exhibition in
Infusion ...
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Artist Galleries:
Latest gallery representation:
- USA: Gallery AGORA,
Chelsea/Manhatan/New York, NY
- Gallery Infusion, Los
Angeles down town USA
Past Gallery - Representation:
- Trevisan Arte Gallery,
Ferrara Italy, Paola Trevisan
- NY Studio Gallery, NY NY
- Marziart Gallery,
Hambourg/Germany
- Art gallery H Egonopoulos,
Athens
- Galleria 'Graphio' 'M
Leoni-D Whitman, via S ...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Architect Helmut Croce, Graz,
Austria
Architect Ingo Klug, Graz,
Austria
Dr Candidus Cortolezzis, Graz,
Austria
Art Historian Dr Ulli Jenni,
Vienna, Austria
Solicitor Dr Ingrid
Mitteregger, Vienna, Austria
Musician Gerald Seilinger,
Vienna, Austria
Opera Singer and Vienna Opera
House Director Johan Holender,
Vienna, Austria
Gallerist Egonopoulos, Athens,
Greece
Insurance broker ...
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Commissions:
In the past I have been given
commissions on a volounteer
basis to paint an d design in
London and Vienna. A mural in
a psychiatric clinic in
Vienna, a mural in a hospital
of the R.A.F in London, a
garden design for a Steiner
Kindergarten in Vienna ...
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Alkistis Wechsler Biography:
| Biographical information for Alkistis Wechsler can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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| Gender |
Female
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
painting,travel,history,photography, multimedia,writing and illustrating,film making, art-aktions with children, read good literature,cinema, ballet shows, |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Surrealism - (1924 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Q Blake, V Gogh, C Larson, Egon Schiele
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Portrait of young man by V. van Gogh
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
19th century French symbolists, 20th century German expressionists, Viennese fantastic realism, popart and collages; the Austrians Egon Schiele and Raoul Hausman; English William Blake, Tate; cartoonists such as Guido Crepax, Quentin Blake and Sphar; the Swedish Carl Larson, The English Turner,and the Pre-Raphaelites. The Athenians Spiros Vssiliou and Jannis Tsarouchis. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I always liked to create images that were telling stories. I always was revewing my life by painting events and impressions. I could not live life without turning it into a painting.
Also I enjoy the transformation of colour during the painting process. That is one of the reasons why I prefered the watercolour for the last ten years, but now I am back on oil painting as well; the watercolour exercise gave a new refinement to my oil paintings. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Female architect, writer, painter and multimedia artist.
- Born in Athens/Greece, Austrian citizen,living in London since 1995.
- The environment plays its part in my feelings and the themes and ways I express myself when I paint.
- Other arts are important influencs and factors of my paintings, such as music, dance and gardening, of which I have direct experience, but also some times the art of weaving has to do with the way I used thin lines of brush.
- Artistic talent and skills are in the family.
- My laurea in Architecture in Italy (Palermo and Florence) contributed in my drawing education. Not only draing open spaces in the old cities but also an initiatory study of stage painting developed in me a sense of perspective vision and urban harmony. Self education through Museums and Galleries visits but also experimenting with a variety of material, has been integrated by technical knowledge of painting learned in artist's ateliers in Athens, study of nude in Graz and studies of dancing movements in various ballet groups training.
- The need for making sense of the world's events through figurative representation manifested itself early in life.
- Being for a long time a single child contributed to a natural inclination towards isolation in a world of imagination and pictorial creativity.
- Apart from the external geography,it has been developed in me the thirstfor the esoteric travels through myths and tradition in initiating rituals. Symbols seen in architectural proportions, shapes and details entered the personal code of painting although did not diminish spontaneity, intuition and improvisation.
Other artistic projects, apart from the mentioned exhibitions of paintings:
- In Vienna, N.Oe, London and Devon, mostly volunteer and charity artwork -
Painting in a hospital, interactive painting with psychiatric patients, work with mental disable and, supported by the Oe.K.S., imaginative garden projects with school children, inclusive dance and music (Project: Lluvia.
- In the large gap between the exhibitions, I made in London historical research, writting and illustrations,for two books, 'Black Dogs' and 'Contessina on the balcony', which I published as digital material in our own publishing house, 'Delphi Books Publishing London'(www.delphi-books.co.uk)
My interrest for symbols and esoteric rituals of the Seasons, the 4 Elements etc are manifested in my book 'Contessina on the balcony' and in most of my recent paintings.
Painting is my real-life's path!
I am looking forwards to more exhibitions. |
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