INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 SURREALISM NOW

A Afterword to the Opening of the
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 SURREALISM NOW
by Otto Rapp

It looks like it was a tremendous opening! The interest for Art in Europe has always been great (lining up behind crowds at museums at any time of the week), particularly for special shows like this! You probably get more visitors in a week than my local art gallery gets in a year! Which is not surprising, considering the kind of shows they put up (still slavishly following the Clement Greenberg doctrine) !!!!!

ART FOR THE PEOPLE - BRINGING ART TO THE PEOPLE THAT ENGAGES THEIR MINDS AND GRABS THEIR INTEREST:
 
you will have people actually LOOKING at the artwork, and not just stand around at a opening bored half to death - this picture here speaks a thousand words: people are LOOKING AT THE ART - contrast this to pictures from so many other vernissages being posted on the networks and in newspapers from time to time - there, people have their backs turned to the art and are mingling, not paying much attention to what is on the walls. If there was nothing on the walls, they wouldn't even notice........ BUT NOT HERE! Here we have art that feeds a long pent up hunger, that engages and stimulates, makes people question and wonder! It speaks to their innermost emotions, sates a long suppressed curiosity. SURREALISM IS A LIVING ART and no matter how often its opponents try to put it down, it resurges with even greater vigor to interact with the people and feed their longing for wonder and tripping the light fantastic, in a visual sense; to take home with them a lasting memory of a wondrous universe that resides within all of us and being made visible and accessible by means of skill and inspiration by so many truly gifted artists!

I waited a lifetime for this time to come, and believe we are at the cusp of a new age, where we leave Modernism and Post-Modernism behind us, and again embrace and be embraced by the people, reaffirming that art is not dead and boring, but a vibrant and vitally alive force at the dawn of a new and truly exiting age!
 
What a glorious day, and what a glorious show! Congratulations to all participants - you have made your mark!

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........in case you missed it, read the INTRODUCTION by Keith Wigdor.

OTTO RAPP IN CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND:

It can't be a one-person effort, Joseph.
Santiago did a great job on this, but I imagine the work must have been overwhelming. I did lend a hand as much as I could with the resources available to me. It is when everyone pulls together, instead of working against each other and "protecting" their individual territories; when we set aside petty jealousies and work towards a common goal, then great things can be achieved. It is all about pooling resources, and it is all about subordinating individual egos to a greater cause. A formidable task to accomplish amongst artists, since individual egos are part and parcel of artists personalities. Once we each understand that this cause is not "all about me and my greatness", but "all about us and our greatness", then there is no limit to what can be accomplished!

Love, Peace and Happiness
Otto  

VIDEOS
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 Surrealism Now

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2010 Surrealism Now - Coimbra

PRESS CLIPPINGS

Conference Call via skype with the Portugese Press:
Shala Rosa - USA, Oleg Korolev - Russia, Otto Rapp - Austria/Canada

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