KUNST INFO r MATIK 08

2007-12-06T15:34:00.000-08:00

Digitales Verarbeiten von innovativen Experimenten, prozessorientierten Projekten im visuellen Gestalten. Das Internet dient der Information und dem Austausch zum Thema. Mit Hilfe der Informatik, welche die Wissenschaft von der systematischen Verarbeitung von Informationen ist, können wir im kulturellen Austausch das Wissen rund um die Welt ganzheitlich erarbeiten.
Es gibt nichts Neues auf dieser Welt - ausser die Erkenntnis und neue informelle Kombinationen.
Das Sammeln und Zusammenfassung von Informationen für analytisches und wissenschaftliches Schaffen zum Thema sind Voraussetzung. Die digitalen Medien sind ein Hilfsmittel für allfällige Fragen und Informationen, welche beim Schaffen zu einem noch unerforschten Thema entstehen.
KünstlerInnen / AutorInnen

* Barbara Streiff, Künstlerin / Alpswissart.ch

2007-11-15T10:47:00.000-08:00

comics art objekte - cut up of information - neue kombinationen
von bereits stattgefundenem - zum thema " the true is to belive in "

08...INFO.r.MATIK...08...in.FOR.matik...08...INFORMA.tik...08
08...info.R.matik...08...INFORM.MATIK...08...IN.forMATIK...08

es gibt nichts neues auf dieser welt - ausser die erkenntniss und neue informelle kombinationen...

logik - formeln sind bei der suche, sammlung und zusammenfassung von informationen bei analytischen und wissenschaftlichem schaffen zum thema voraussetzung.
in allen gebieten der wissenschaft sind die gesetzte der natur enthalten. um eine neue ordnung zu finden , welche sich informell auf der bestehenden aufbaut.
um dieses analytische denken und dessen umsetzung zu realisieren braucht es informationen. wie kommen wir zu diesen informationen ? Gibt es einen Zufall ?
schon die urvölker dieser erde erzählten sich die neuigkeiten mit trommeln, geschichten, rauchzeichen weiter. die zeit hat heute durch die technischen informationen einen neuen raum bekommen.

in der reduktion aufs notwendigste, fand ich bei meiner arbeit im kunstschaffen in symbolischer wiedergabe der beobachtungen in der natur die definition der urzeichen der natur auf 10 symbole, welche in allen kulturen in aller zeit vorhanden sind.
sie werden vom modernen menschen, welcher oft in den städten lebt, in der grafik, wegweisendenstrassenzeichen alle tage vorgefunden, werden jedoch ebenso vom ureingeborenen in noch unerforschten gebieten im urwald in der kommunikation mit seiner umwelt aufgezeichnet.

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INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL ONLINE ARTSMAGAZINE
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST/PUBLISHER OF NY ARTSMAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL
www.nyartsmagazine.com

Publisher ABRAHAM LUBELSKI

Abraham Lubelski was born in Siberia in the USSR in 1940. In 1950 he immigrated to the United States with his parents. He became a U. S. citizen in 1954. Mr. Lubelski has been a professional artist for more than four decades and over the years has worked back and forth between painting, conceptual projects and installatons. In 1969 he completed a number of street works and performances in conjunction with the Architecture League of New York which were written up in Life and People magazines. In the 1970‚s, among his other projects, he developed theater set designs. In the late 70‚s and early 80‚s Mr. Lubelski exhibited at the Neill Gallery in SoHo. Since the 1980‚s Mr. Lubelski has exhibited internationally on a regular basis. He has exhibited in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, and Hamburg, and, as well, in Poland, Japan, and various countries in South America. In conjunction with these exhibitions a number of catalogues have been produced and reviews have appeared in such international publications as Flash Art. Since 1990 Mr. Lubelski has managed several exhibition spaces on Broadway in SoHo in New York City. He has used the spaces to give exhibitions to underrepresented artists (from the U. S. and abroad) and has, in addition, sponsored the visits to the United States of numerous international artists.

2007-11-15T07:36:00.000-08:00

*aion-greek the eternal
concept by barbara streiff
in communicative art exchange with

tina zimmermann berlin - san francisco

master in digital-design staate university san francisco

Dancing Emptiness (physis in techne)
Description of Installation Elements:
"Gaia in a Box" Video and Slide Installation of the five elements (fire, water, earth, air, wood) on five perpendicular walls of a room
A large-scale abstract, systematic representation of the composition of matter and the gaia-ecosystem and humanÕs perspective of it. usually these elements are contained within and around the spherical planet body of earth, here they are translated into a square box/room perspective, which enhances the experience of difference between organic (round, flowing) being and artificial (linear,static, confined) construction.
"Water-Dance" Room-size, large-scale video projection with macro-footage of the ever-changing structure and texture of water (as cloud, creek, river, pond, waterfall, ocean)
One-hour video loop projected on a large wall space or hanging screen-structure.
(Water-metaphor: rhythm of life, ever-lasting change, effortless flow of universal energy, endlessly different manifestations of the same substance/being.)

"Firewall" Large-scale video projections of Fire/Flame structures- perpendicular or opposite to Waterdance-projections
One-hour video loop
(Fire-metaphor: Decomposition and regeneration of the same primal substance as different physical properties. Nurturing and destructing aspects of being)
"Himmel-Hoch" (Sky-Paintings) Multi-panel installation of modulated digital photographs of sunsets of the pacific (clouds, sea, colored light). Images of vertical, or angled sunset-skies, taken out of their usual horizontal perspective, become natural abstract-expressive "paintings": Layers of beautiful color-gradients and intricate textures that the eye and mind disassociates with the romantic idea of a sunset and rather indulges in the perfection of color and shading.
(Sunset-metaphors: ending, transience, completion of a cycle and the melancholic awareness of time fleeting, the experience of the inability to capture ever-changing beauty) Wolkenrohrschach (Cloud-association)

Multi-panel slide installation of modulated digital photographs of clouds.
The mirror images of cloud formations make intricate compositions that resemble the images used in the rohrschach-test of psychoanalysis.
(Clouds-metaphor: Clouds are like ideas and imaginations- powerful and dramatic at times or playful and light, but of non-physical substance, primal matter to become materialized in actions and results (rain and rivers)
"Rohrschachtest"- momentary incidental composition of clouds evoke cognitive reactions, distinct associations to known concept and experiences s in our human mind)
"Nature's little people" Large-scale Slide or Video Projections of wood pieces, pebbles, shells and flowers, static or in movement (computer-animated), in isolation or interaction with each other, recontextualized to be viewed as sculptural objects rather than organic debris.
(Metaphor: individuality and uniqueness of each particle, each organism, each human- shaped by their genes, their surroundings and conditioning- each with unique character (-istics), textures and edges. Precious in their singularity, subordinated within a bigger organic system as one of the whole. Flowers: metaphor for pure beauty, innocence and optimism- being "the best one can be")

"Aion"* Digital Collages
In this series of digital collages (printed by Digitograf process on canvas, various sizes) I am combining digital photographs of natural objects like stones, feathers, nuts, shells etc. with layered geometrical linework.
Reflecting upon the inherent geometry of the natural objects by transposing geometrical linework I am exploring the universal language of geometric symbolism.
Geometric structures are the basic building blocks of the material universe- all biological, chemical and electromagnetic particles can be broken down into the primal non-physical structure of geometry. The creation, understanding and application of geometric forms were vital steps towards the development of human culture. Until today art, writing, architecture, science and spirituality all rely on the basic concepts of geometry.
Basic geometry- lines, circles, spirals, triangles etc.- emanate subtle inherent frequencies and trigger intuitive understanding of fundamental concepts within the human's psyche.
By engaging the ancient intuitive rather than the discriminating intellectual perception the mandala-like Aion Collages reflect on the pure visual properties of natural objects and the subtle radiance of geometric symbols- both are very close to the essence of life and thus are visual events that are universally understood, before and after word and language.

*aion-greek the eternal
concept by barbara streiff

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Barbara Streiff, in her work AION, the Eternal, unites all religions and cultures through ten symbols which appear in different religions. By using these symbols (gr. syn-ballein: throwing together) the different parts of the piece are brought together creating an inner connection between an image and its original form,. The panel hangs in the middle of an empty wall, whose backlighting allows the symbols to be portrayed. We aren't directly aware of the light, but rather of the reflection made by it. In the center is the Point, the symbol for creation and for the individuality of every person. Surrounding this Point is the the Star, the symbol of heavenly light and then the Circle, which represents perfection or eternity. These three symbols form the core of the panel. The Spiral winding counterclockwise radiates out from the core and represents the path which every man follows or for the labyrinth in which he is led. Time and growth are contained within the Spiral. It symbolizes the basic truth that in life we are always standing in the same place and yet always going further. The form the Circle is seen in the Spiral expanding into infinity. The Square encloses the Spiral, which creates in each of the four corners a Triangle, the symbol of heavenly power in many religions. The Lines of the Square themselves represent the path or the movement which all things make. They intersect in a point which symbolizes peace or stability within constant change. The Square represents the earth, the world, or life itself. The four corners are the four cardinal points, the four elements Earth, Air, Fire, Water, the four seasons, and so on. The horizontal parallels of the Square signify the water of life or the contact with eternity. The vertical parallels are decorated with two crosses. The Cross, the Christian symbol of the Passion, is also found on the old Celtic stones where the five points denote the higher life. At the center of the Cross is the Point, the intersection of two paths, the point of decision. The Crosses lie not in the center, but rather on the Square, and point away from the center, so that the first awareness is not of the Crosses but of the Point. The unique perfection of man is protected by the earthly rectangle from the cross, and the cross is simultaneously the symbol for the higher life as well as earthly life. At the top and the bottom are the Lightning bolts, symbolizing conception or energy which comes from the heaven above and is carried down by the iron plate to the earth below. Between the Lightning bolts the tiny stars of the cosmos are suggested by the holes cut into the plate. The Rust on the iron plate should remind one of the transciency of life to which we are all subject and show the yearning of all material things to return to their original form

Translation by Julia Donchi

Kunst in der Stadt Glarus
Eisenplastik "Aion" (1998) von Barbara Streiff, die den immer wiederkehrenden Kreislauf von Werden und Vergehen darstellt.

2003 Organisation World Exhibition for Freedom
Die am 13. September 1999 von der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen verabschiedete Erklärung über eine Kultur des Friedens unterstreicht in Art. 8, dass bei der Förderung einer Kultur des Friedens schöpferischen Menschen und Kunstschaffenden eine Schlüsselrolle zukommt. Die an diesem Projekt beteiligten KünstlerInnen beweisen durch ihr Engagement für Frieden und Versöhnung, dass sie diese Rolle wahrnehmen.

Für diese "World Exhibition for Freedom" präsentiert jede Künstlerin und jeder Künstler seine Arbeit in seiner gewohnten Umgebung: Anne A. Vogt in Italien, Sergio Tilleria in Chile und in der Schweiz, Mantilios Mantis in Zypern, Erwin Schatzmann in Zürich, Abraham Lubelsky in New York, So Un Lee in Korea, Makudy Sall in New York, Tina Zimmermann in San Francisco und Berlin, Barbara Streiff und Bruno Kaelin in der Schweiz und im Ausland, Kurt und Regula Suter-Droz wo ihr Schiff gerade geankert ist. Meistens sind auch einige der anderen KünstlerInnen an den jeweiligen Ausstellungen beteiligt. Das Bindeglied zwischen ihnen ist Barbara Steiff, eine "Swiss Artist on the Road".

Dieses Projekt trägt zur Verständigung, Toleranz und Solidarität zwischen den Völkern bei. Gleichzeitig fördert es die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit von Kunstschaffenden, wofür sich die UNESCO immer wieder einsetzt.
Weitere Informationen hier (21 KB, english) oder direkt bei:

Barbara Streiff, Alp Swiss Art, P.O.Box, CH-8750 Glarus,
alpswissart@bluewin.ch
www.alpswissart.ch

2007-11-15T04:59:00.002-08:00

08...info.r.matik...08...in.for.matik...08...informa.tik...08
es gibt nichts neues auf dieser welt ausser die erkentniss, und neue informelle kombinationen...
logische formeln sind bei der zusammenfassung von informationen bei analytischen und wissenschaftlichem schaffen voraussetzung.
in allen gebieten der wissenschaft sind die gesetzte der natur voraussetzung um eine neue ordnung, welche sich informell auf der bestehenden aufbaut zu finden.
um dieses analytische denken und dessen umsetzung zu realisieren braucht es informationen.
in der reduktion aufs notwendigste, fand ich bei meiner arbeit im kunstschaffen in symbolischer wiedergabe der beobachtungen in der natur die definition der urzeichen der natur auf 10 symbole, welche in allen kulturen in aller zeit vorhanden sind.
sie werden vom modernen menschen, welcher oft in den städten lebt, in der grafik, strassenzeichen alle tage vorgefunden, werden jedoch ebenso vom ureingeborenen in noch unerforschten gebieten im urwald in der kommunikation mit seiner umwelt aufgezeichnet.

Hallo from the Swiss Alps!

You are invited to take part in a world project under the Patronage of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO: Natural Art Installations around the world will represent the communication that occurs between nature, local places and you, the visitors. In canyons and gorges, on islands like Cyprus, near the Amazon River in South America, on the West Coast of the USA, up in the Swiss Alps, in the Himalayas, across the African desert, on the steppes of Russia - wherever artists live or want to go in nature to build art with materials from the Earth - all artists and children from 7 to 77+ are invited to celebrate nature through their own spontaneous creativity.

This action is inspired by Aion primal geometry - 10 symbols found in nature - which joins all cultures and religions throughout history and time. We will build symbols from primal geometry using natural elements and materials: stones, earth, water and fire. The symbols include the following: point, circle, parallelogram, cross, spiral, line, triangle, square, lightening bolt, and three points or stars for the cosmos. For example, we might build a cross with wood, a spiral with stones, a circle with fire, or a line with water. We work only with local materials found in nature and with the natural energy of the place. The concept behind the artwork is to save and celebrate nature through our creative acts.

Barbara Streiff is the artist and curator behind this project. She has created exhibitions and installations with Aion pictures and sculptures in many parts of the world already. She invites you to be part of this continuing communicative art action by building installations with the primal symbols wherever you are in the world.

The installations should take place in nature, and photos of the artwork created around the world will be presented on the Website www.alpswissart.ch.
Please send a photo of your natural art installation by e-mail to: alpswissart@bluewin.ch with your name, place, date and your comments. And send this e-mail invitation to all your friends!

2007-11-15T04:59:00.001-08:00

Informatik ist die Wissenschaft von der systematischen Verarbeitung von Informationen, insbesondere der automatischen Verarbeitung mit Hilfe von Rechenanlagen.
Historisch hat sich die Informatik als Wissenschaft aus der Mathematik entwickelt, während die Entwicklung der ersten Rechenanlagen ihre Ursprünge in der Elektrotechnik und Nachrichtentechnik hat.
Dennoch stellen Computer nur ein Werkzeug und Medium der Informatik dar, um die theoretischen Konzepte praktisch umzusetzen. Der niederländische Informatiker Edsger Wybe Dijkstra formulierte „In der Informatik geht es genauso wenig um Computer wie in der Astronomie um Teleskope.“

2007-11-15T04:51:00.000-08:00

Communicative Art Project International

A project of alpswissart

Conditions for Interested Artists all over the World

For artists from different areas and cultures all over the world, this is the beginning of a new direction in communicative art: working as a group – organizing exhibitions, traveling art, or art exchanges. The aim is to encourage more communication, respect, and acceptance by bringing all cultures together through different works of artistic expression and character.

Thank you for believing in my work as a curator. I have worked freelance for over 20 years organizing exhibitions worldwide. Years ago I learned how to do this at the Kornfeld Auction House in Switzerland and also in New York with Abraham Lubelski. My last international project was the World Exhibition for Freedom under the patronage of the Swiss Commission for Unesco in 2003. By searching on the websites: www.alpswissart.ch or www.unesco.ch under Fly Gallery, you can learn more about my work as an artist and as an organizer of exhibitions from 1999 – 2004.

The idea and theme of respect and acceptance in communicative art came out of my travels and work as an artist. I've worked for years gathering contacts with artists and cultural centers in order to be well connected, and my thanks goes out to all cultural centers open for these art-exchange exhibitions. Through all my contacts with different artists in Indonesia, Italy, French, Germany, Spain, San Francisco, Africa, China, Russia, etc., I learned to be myself in character, philosophy, craft, and design.

Organizing international art exchanges comes out my AION artwork. The philosophy behind AION is the primal geometry taken from symbols in nature: the first signs found in all ancient cultures throughout the world. Primal geometry connects ALL cultures over ALL time.

You are cordially invited to join this group of world artists. As a member artist you can organize exhibitions in your local area, documenting the different artwork and mentioning your connection to this project. Organizing artists should also invite some of the other member artists to take part in their exhibitions. We could also organize free studio exchanges for a time.

The project Communicative Art Project International is not for profit and all rights are held by the organization alpswissart. All use and profit from the project without consent is prohibited.
The rights for the use and the profit of the local exhibitions organized by member artists belong to the organizers and participants.

There is a lot of administrative work to do in administration and coordination. Everyone is free to help by working and organizing, or to help pay for the promotion, transport, etc. Payments for the art exchange, exhibition, or traveling art for the organization have to be made before the exhibitions. There is no title or responsibility by alpswissart.

Every artist who subscribes to the above definitions and principles and wants to definitely take part in the Communicative Art Project International is free to participate. I have taken the liberty, since I was asked to, to mention your name on the tentative list published on my website, in cultural centers, and at events and art exchanges for the Communicative Art Project International.

I believe that we need a meeting to intensify and strengthen the contact within the group in order to launch this communicative art project all over the world in the coming years.
If you have good ideas, suggestions, problems or misunderstandings, please send an e-mail to
alpswissart@bluewin.ch . It is important to have good communication among ourselves and to respect and accept each other - just as we respect and accept all religions and cultures.

We will do our best so that these exhibitions, traveling art, and art exchanges of communicative art will be a project of respect and acceptance.

With friendly greetings from Switzerland
Barbara Streiff

some Artists and places by communicative art exchange you will found
on project WORLD EXHIBITION FOR FREEDOM 2003 www.unesco.ch

WORLD EXHIBITION FOR FREEDOM 2003
a project of Alp Swiss Art Barbara Streiff

The exhibitions will be presented during the year 2003 at the various places where the participating artists live and work, in locations such as ateliers, galleries, churches, public spaces and shopping malls, in order to touch a wide range of people.
Each exhibition will present works from other participating artists, thus building a worldwide network of artists promoting peace, freedom and intercultural understanding.

Participating artists

ANNE A . VOGT, ARTIST AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER IN ART, ATELIER INNER PEACE CENTRE FREUDWIL ZURICH/SWITZERLAND, WORKSHOPS HEALING CENTRE GANCHEN RIMPOCHE ALBAGNANO.

SERGIO TILLERIA FROM CHILE, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS WORLDWIDE, ATELIER SCHAFFHAUSEN/SWITZERLAND. HE LIVES AND WORKS IN SWITZERLAND AND SOUTH AMERICA.

SO UN LEE, HAN-KYANG/KOREA, CALLIGRAPHIC PAINTINGS, TRADITIONAL MIXED MODERN STYLE, EXHIBITIONS IN EUROPE, KOREA AND NEW YORK. ATELIER AND GALLERY IN ZOFINGEN/SWITZERLAND.

ERWIN SCHATZMANN, ARTIST IN PAINTED WOODCUT, ATELIER IN WINTERTHUR/SWITZERLAND, EXHIBITIONS INSTALLATION WITH PAINTED WOOD SCULPTURES IN THE CITY CHURCH SAINT-JAKOB ZURICH.

MAKUDY SALL, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL ARTIST IN MODERN ART, EXHIBITIONS AND ATELIER IN THE SOHO GALLERY, NEW YORK.

SOFRONIOS MANTIS, CULTURAL CENTRE PANO ARODES PAPHOS, CYPRUS, PHOTOGRAPHER SPECIALIZED OF AKAMAS WILDFLOWERS, SAVE THE NATURE.

ALP SWISS ART, BARBARA STREIFF AND BRUNO KAELIN, WORLDWIDE MONUMENTAL NATURAL ART INSTALLATIONS WITH NATURAL ENERGY FROM THE ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH AND DESIGN OF THE PRIMAL GEOMETRY.

ABRAHAM LUBELSKI, PUBLISHER NY-ARTS-MAGAZINE, CURATOR, ARTIST IN WRITTEN PAINTINGS, COLLAGES AND INSTALLATIONS. HE WORKS WITH ARTISTS FROM ALL CULTURES AND RELIGIONS IN MUTUAL RESPECT AND ACCEPTANCE. WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION.

Coordinator of the project:
Barbara Streiff
ALP SWISS ART
Bahnhof
CH-8750 Glarus
Tel. 0041 610 47 08
alpswissart@bluewin.ch

The World Exhibition for Freedom was awarded the Patronage of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO because in nurtures mutual understanding, tolerance and solidarity between people and is an example of international artistic collaboration.

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SWISS ARTISTS FROM GLARUS AT BROADWAY IN NYC 2001

projectorganisation during 2001 by barbara streiff

SWISS ARTISTS FROM GLARUS IN NYC THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF ART:
75 years of art history visits NYC. The project Swiss Artists From Glarus will show at Gallery Abraham Lubelski 450/473 Broadway, March 6-17, 2001.
The more than 20 artists all live and work in the Swiss mountain valley of Glarus. Last year they teamed up to do a valley-wide exhibition on eight historical sites throughout their mountain Canton. Quite a number of the participating artists are former students and gallery artists of Glarus' Art School Center, Fly Gallery, headed by artist Barbara Streiff in the gods of the old railway station in CH-8750 Glarus in Switzerland.
The NYC exhibit is conceived and organized by the Head of the Glarus Art School Center and Fly Gallery, Barbara Streiff. For the last ten years, she has been working in the cultural heart of Glarus, as artist, sculptor, art teacher, and curator of socio-interactive exhibitions recognized throughout Europe. A major concern is the socio-cultural animation of art - the kind of Vernetzung or Verflechtung that also marks her sculptural work. The Vernetzung/Verflechtung sculptures are now internationally known as AÏON or primae geometrie sculptures. In 1999, Streiff was invited to her AÏON work at the Abraham Lubelski Gallery. Out of this contact the idea of a joint visit in the same gallery emerged.
With writer, art critic and academic Astrid Brunner, the project Swiss Artists From Glarus has found its journalist. Brunner, who commutes regularly between Glarus and Canada, has devoted much of her writing to The Forgotten Children Of Art. This aspect of her art writing is a tribute to her childhood valley.

Anne A. Vogt, art teacher at the Glarus High School. One of her achievements in the Glarus art community was her success in having art at school evaluated on a par with the traditionally more highly evaluated subjects on the academic curriculum, such as mathematics and languages. Her worldwide workshops and performances in the spirit of Buddhism represent the tenth of Tibetans that make up the population of the Canton Glarus. Workshops and performances in Switzerland, Italy, Paris, Germany, GB, Spain, New Zealand, Guatemala, Habitat II Istambul, Tibet China, Amazon Brasil, Borubudur Java. Her newest art work, "Viara-Icones", are microsized prayer paintings in mixed tenique on wood panels, continuums, triptichons and diptichons with spiritual energy through the space as inspiration.
Roberto Koch, a professional computer instructor at the KV Zürich Business School, has assisted the Swiss Artists From Glarus project by designing and constructing for its own commercial website, actually at http://www.alpswissart.ch.
Paul Lohnke, aged 95, is the oldest participant of the Glarus-to-NYC project - the youngest is performance artist Sarah Burger, aged 18. Lohnke's career reaches back to Zürich's Dada art scene of the mid-twenties. "It is only a play with form and color, I never wanted to say anything more than that," he says to this day. He still paints incessantly. Jakob Schneider lives in the hindmost village of the Glarus valley. He paints religious allegories and expressionist landscapes; his technical handling of chiaroscuro reminds of Segantini. A poor boy from the alps, he later, as a young artist, managed to travel all over Europe. A portion of his allegorical work is installed permanently at a church in Stuttgart. Though Swiss Artists From Glarus presents a multiplicity of styles, the overall project is a coherent whole born from the mutual respect for each other's work amongst the participating artists. The naturalistic approach is seen in the watercolors of Sr. Hadwig Vogel, the large silk and cotton batique canvases of Heinz Bächler, the natural stone sculptures of Hansueli Knobel; a number of artists work in expressionist to abstract techniques in various media and diverse professions, such as architecture, jewelry, teaching, graphic design, sculpting, performing, and photography. Fridolin Walcher is a realist photographer whose special approach and themes put him at the forefront of the European photographic scene. He also works on commissions for industry and tourism.Very different is photographer Ruth Zweifel. Her poetic photo-pictures are meticulous and highly skilled technically. Her subjects are the landscape of the Glarus valley, its mountains and distinct natural character traits. Heinz Bächler pursues the same theme, but extends the natural world into often anthropomorphised fairy-tale dimensions. Bächler's work is historically significant as well in that it tunes in with the age-old textile industry for which the Canton of Glarus is famous worldwide. Susan Honegger takes as her concerns with the traditional Glarus textile industry inside the textile factories. In an expressionist-poetic style she sketches, draws, and paints its history from inside out. After years of rendering the local textile history, she has ended up working in a totally abstract style based on the rudimentary tools of industrial textile making - spindle, warp and woof. Architect Pierre Haefelfinger presents himself in a purely abstract manner with his Slidepictures, with which he invites the viewer to touch and manipulate his movable paintings and to rearrange them constructively into new individual constellations. Armin Simon's monochrome paintings, worked with pigments made from scratch, present a reductio ad absurdum of abstract technique and thinking. The almost fundamentalist purism of this artist is well illustrated by his painstakingly constructed website. Greth Spälty's work lives from the structure of color put on in layers, which are then incised in various techniques. Her untitled work is a kind of radical expressionism. Sculptor Alfred Knobel jun. works in extreme 3-D abstractionism, which amounts to a direct inner dialogue with the essence of any given rock material. The logical radical step of this dialogue is to deconstruct the stone to its powdery particles, which are then painted on plexiglass surfaces. Design-jeweller and interior designer Peter Oberholzer works in precious metals, mostly on one-of-a-kind commissions. His abstraction are not unlike the cut precious stones that are part of his art material.
Barbara Streiff and her Glarus Art School Center presents tachist and surrealist student work with Heidi van Sprundel, Valerio Manfré, and Martha Mayhensek. Heidi van Sprundel with her fantasy pictures from trees, flowers, women and landscapes she gives back her sensitive impressions of nature, expression in strong bright colors and forms. Her technique is mixed in different coats, colors and styles. Valerio Manfré favorites are the motion paintings in surrealism. In a long time process, he brings the 3d dimension in his intuitive paintings. Martha Mayhensek, her mystic paintings tell the story of her live. Her concentration of color and form is like a ritual of intuition. Her favorite technique is to paint with selfproduced pigmented colors and the use of different materials.
Many of the youngest Glarus artists showing in NYC have been formed by the Glarus Art School Center with Barbara Streiff's Fly Gallery, either as students or exhibitors, often both. Another influence is Anne A. Vogt, art teacher at the Glarus High School. Owing to these influences are Katrin Hotz, Ingrid Käser, Frederick Rossmann and Sarah Burger. These are the new generation of Glarus artists - sculptors, graphic designers, performers - some of whom already with exhibitions and art studies throughout Europe to their credit.
The future of The Forgotten Children of Art from Glarus may not be forgotten, thanks to the chance given them by Abraham Lubelski's invitation to host their work in his international gallery space on 450/473 Broadway, NYC, March 6-17, 2001.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST/PUBLISHER OF NY ARTSMAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL

ABRAHAM LUBELSKI

Abraham Lubelski was born in Siberia in the USSR in 1940. In 1950 he immigrated to the United States with his parents. He became a U. S. citizen in 1954. Mr. Lubelski has been a professional artist for more than four decades and over the years has worked back and forth between painting, conceptual projects and installatons. In 1969 he completed a number of street works and performances in conjunction with the Architecture League of New York which were written up in Life and People magazines. In the 1970‚s, among his other projects, he developed theater set designs. In the late 70‚s and early 80‚s Mr. Lubelski exhibited at the Neill Gallery in SoHo. Since the 1980‚s Mr. Lubelski has exhibited internationally on a regular basis. He has exhibited in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, and Hamburg, and, as well, in Poland, Japan, and various countries in South America. In conjunction with these exhibitions a number of catalogues have been produced and reviews have appeared in such international publications as Flash Art. Since 1990 Mr. Lubelski has managed several exhibition spaces on Broadway in SoHo in New York City. He has used the spaces to give exhibitions to underrepresented artists (from the U. S. and abroad) and has, in addition, sponsored the visits to the United States of numerous international artists.