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Artist Statement:
BOGOMIL'S UNIVERSE - the Inner
Universe of Otto Rapp
Bogomil's Universe is an
excursion into the realms of
the Inner Universe - a
parallel universe that exists
in the mind, and glimpses
thereof are presented here. I
am increasingly reluctant to
speak of my work as strictly
and exclusively surrealistic.
While Surrealism provided the
initial spark, and some of the
methods of Surrealism are
employed, I do not suppress
the influence of the rational
and selective focus. Thus,
particularly in later works,
there is to be found a
conscious juxtaposition of the
complementary forces of
inspiration and reason.
I do not concern myself with
the elimination of the
rational, the exclusivity of
the irrational and the absurd,
but presentation of the
conscious and subconscious
world as an inseparable whole.
I draw my inspirations from
the layered labyrinth
underground which represents
the other side of life, which
is an inner
imaginative-inspirational
counterpart to the outer
world, expressed with the help
of logic-alogic associations,
analogisations and symbolism.
The paintings in the cyclus
Bogomil's Universe are derived
by creating textural surfaces,
the method of Decalcomania as
pioneered by the Surrealists,
letting color, consistency and
flow of the paint determine
initial ...
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Artist Reviews:
TALES FROM THE CRYPT BY OTTO
RAPP
Excerpt from the critique by
J. Brooks Joyner, Editor
Visual Arts, The Albertan,
Saturday, May 29th, 1976
The exhibition is an
omnipresent reincarnation of
surrealist forms, attitudes
and content painted what can
only be termed as a
magic-realist formula. Rapp
capitalizes on ...
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Collections:
Alberta Government Provincial
Art Collections, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
The Nickle Arts Museum,
University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
Beinart Surreal Art
Collective, Melbourne,
Australia
Mr. and Mrs. Filanti, Medicine
Hat, Alberta, Canada
Mr. and Mrs. Lencucha,
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Mr. A. Daiken, Lethbridge,
Alberta, Canada
Mr. and Mrs. Kajari,
Innisfail, Alberta, ...
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Otto Rapp Biography:
| Biographical information for Otto Rapp 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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Age
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63
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
not provided |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Surrealism - (1924 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Ernst Fuchs
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| Favorite Work of Art |
not provided
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born in 1944 in Felixdorf, Lower Austria, I lived and was educated in Vienna, where later I worked as a clerk in the Transport and Insurance Business. After completing service in the Austrian Air Force, I traveled throughout Europe, eventually settling in Stockholm, Sweden.
As a Painter I was initially self taught, studying in the various Galleries and Museums. In Vienna, I was often ‘hanging out’ at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, where I admired the work of the Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus represented there by the Professors Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner and Arik Brauer. In Stockholm, I found out that I was washing dishes in the very same Restaurant where years earlier another Viennese Artist, Fritz Hundertwasser , the ‘Austrian Gaudi’ as he was later known as, had worked the same job. Encouraged by an art dealer in Gamla Stan, I began to paint more seriously. Busking on the streets of Gamla Stan with a Dutch artist, my very first painting was sold to a passer-by by my artist friend while I stood in the employment office line - this paid for a lavish meal for both of us that day.
Traveling around in 1968, I wound up in Western Canada where eventually I settled in Lethbridge, Alberta, the place I still call home today. It was in Canada where the majority of my mature work was produced (under the sponsorship of a small Lethbridge Gallery).
Working for the Canadian Pacific Railway, I quit in 1977 to attend the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program at the University of Lethbridge, graduating (with great distinction) in 1982.
In Canada, I participated in many exhibitions, and held several Solo Shows, culminating in the pivotal 1994 showing at The Prairie Art Gallery in Grande Prairie, Alberta, which earned me the moniker The Mystic .
Throughout my years in Canada, I had been the subject of many reviews and newspaper articles as well as local television shows in Calgary and Lethbridge while being active as an Artist, Art Instructor, Curator, Studio Technician, Art Critic and Juror. |
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