Otto Rapp wrote: I attended the exhibition opening of my good friend. Many of the paintings were portraits of our large circle of artists. He had told me that the portrait he painted of me was the second one in the series.

video from the opening ▲

Exhibition from August 29 – September 10 at the Phantastenmuseum Wien
Josefsplatz 6, 1010 Vienna, Austria

photos from the exhibition ▲

Zoltan Molnos is a member of our Visionary Art Network - visit his page:

This year's group of international students (mostly from Canada and the U.S.A) have out-done themselves, exploring phantastic and sacred themes in their works while celebrating the Academy's ideals of beauty, craftsmanship and style. Together, these meticulously rendered paintings by Elizabeth Banker, Martin Cash, Kevin Campeau, Dominique Hurley, Rachel Lubeck, Julianna Richey and Hadley Seymore form a stunning example of a new, Idealist art – an exhibition not to be missed, with many of the original works priced for sale. The Opening will include Live Painting and Collaboration by the exhibiting artists. 

For three trimesters, these emerging artists have explored Old Masters drawing and painting techniques through classical academic methods. Guided by an international faculty of well-known Visionary artists, they have explored three distinct traditions: The Humanist Style within the 'Western’ Canon of Classical Greek & Renaissance Art, The Hieratic Style within the ‘Eastern’ Canon of Ancient, Islamic & Hindu-Buddhist Art, and the newly emerging Visionary Style, which carefully combines the best elements of the Humanist & Hieratic traditions. Coming from Australia, America, London, Paris and Vienna, members of the academy's faculty will also be on hand to exhibit their works: Timea Tallian, David Heskin, Aloria Weaver, Daniel Mirante, Kuba Ambrose, Vera Atlantia, Amanda Sage, and Laurence Caruana. The result is a masterful collection of paintings where each work manifests the artist’s unique vision while also pursuing the Academy’s ideal of “AD SACRUM” ~ Toward the Sacred.

Located in the Palais Palffy - home of The Phantasten Museum, Viva Art Gallery, and Professor Ernst Fuchs Studio - The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art opened its doors in September 2013. With English as its primary language of instruction, this international private school was founded by The Visionary Guild, a circle of recognized Visionary artists who had learned the “Mischtechnik” (an egg tempera and oil glazing technique) with Professor Ernst Fuchs - and who are now transmitting their knowledge of this special technique to a new generation of talented artists. The Academy offers a Three-year Programme, as well as Single Trimester studies, week-long Intensives and bi-weekly Life Drawing classes open to the public. Their classical curriculum focuses primarily on Historical Techniques of Painting and Approaches to the Figure, Colour and Composition within both Eastern and Western cultural traditions. By learning the sacred styles of different cultures, the students are able to create original compositions based on their own ideas, visions, and designs. 

As Guest Lecturers, local Viennese artists such as De Es, Michael Fuchs, Peter Gric and Otto Rapp have revealed a distinctly Austrian dimension to the students’ European experience of art-making in a cultural capital. Now in its seventh year, the academy's special summer programme in Italy - The Visions in the Mischtechnik Seminar - has further enhanced the students' classical knowledge of art and technique.

After the culmination of this exciting inaugural year, the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art will again open its doors on September 21st with an Opening Party, before classes recommence for the Fall Trimester with instructors Laurence Caruana, Autumn Skye Morrison and Daniel Mirante. With no entrance examinations, the academy is open to all lovers of the newly-emerging trend in world culture called Visionary Art. 

Practical Information:

INNER WORLDS
From June 14th until 28th, 2014
Monday – Sunday from 11:00am – 6:00pm
Free Entrance

Opening on Saturday June 14th 2014 at 6:30pm 

The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art
2nd Floor of the Palais Palffy
Josefsplatz 6, 1010, Vienna

Website: http://academyofvisionaryart.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheViennaAcademyOfVisionaryArt


Contact: 
Florence Ménard
Managing Director
Email : office@academyofvisionaryart.com
Tel : ++ 43 (0) 660 377 98 71

read more in this associated blog by Dominique Hurley HERE

LENA
BRAUER - HEXEN Lena brennt BILDER

September 29th 2012 to October 14th 2012
open daily 10:00 to 18:00 hr


Österreichisches
Kulturzentrum
im Palais Palffy
Josefsplatz 6, 1010 Wien
www.palais-palffy.at
www.phantastenmuseum.at
info@palais-palffy.at 

PHANTASTEN MUESEUM WIEN - AUSTRIA
Palais Palffy
1010 Wien 
Josefsplatz 6

Email: info@palaispalffy.at
WEB: www.phantastenmuseum.at

AUGUST 4  - 26, 2012. 10 AM - 6PM DAILY 

‘VERNISSAGE’  OPENS SATURDAY AUGUST 4 . 2012 @   11:00 AM

This museum of the ’fantastic’ and  it’s Director, Erich Peischl, supports  and provides a daring mettle in accepting, promoting and presenting this unique  exhibition. One that will continue as an ever expanding annual venue and event.  When people tap into “the muse,” they make contact with a higher source of  creative inspiration.  It is in this spirit that the artists represented in this  show offer their work and the life of their art to you. The intention of this  exhibition is to show the generational life that Fantastic Art and Artists have  propagated in 20th and 21st century art.  It is important to realize that the  artists selected for this exhibition only represent a mere fraction of the now  global branches of vision that has its origins in the roots of Fantastic  Realism. It is equally important to offer the public an opportunity to realize  the past, present and the generations of artists to come that share a common  passion that inspires an enormous spectrum of uncommon visions. That the seed of  Fantastic Art has spawned such a vast visual language and spectrum of truth,  beauty and goodness that will remain not only a remarkable imprint on the spirit  of humanity but navigate and express our story, our diary on this little blue  pearl in the forehead of the universe.

In Service with great respect
Prof Philip Rubinov Jacobson, MFA

FASZINATION DER ZEICHNUNG
 
Über die Wichtigkeit und Wertigkeit der Zeichnung in der Kunst wurde viel  diskutiert. Die wichtigste Arbeit haben jedoch grosse Künstler, wie Leonardo,   Raphael, Goya, Dürer, Picasso geleistet. Sie waren alle großen Zeichner  und  haben die Rolle der Zeichnung als wichtigstes Mittel zur Abbildung der  Wirklichkeit oder der Ideen betont.
Das Zeichnen  wurde als der  kreativste künstlerische Akt bezeichnet. Es zaubert Wirklichkeit aus Nichts, schafft Ordnung aus dem Chaos, oder bringt das Wesentliche aus der Wirklichkeit hervor. Die Zeichnung ist des Künstlers Handschrift.
Salvador Dali  bezeichnete das  Zeichnen als „der Erhlichkeitsakt der Kunst“ wo Täuschung  und Betrug keinen Platz hat. Die Zeichnung ist entweder gut oder schlecht.
Der eigenständige Wert der künstlerischen Zeichnung wurde schon in der frühen  Renaissance erkannt und in der Kunsttheorie des Barocks und der Romantik  hochgejubelt. Zuccari (anfangs 17 Jahrhundert) hat die Zeichnung mit dem  göttlichen Schöpfungsakt verglichen. Für Hegel war sie eine der höchsten Künste.
Obwohl in der Moderne von einer Krise der Zeichnung gesprochen wird, griffen  auch ihre „Größen“ (Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse) oft zum Zeichnen und reden  darüber, wie wichtig der Rückkehr zu dieser Ausdrucksform ist. 
So darf  man die Zeichnungsproduktion des 20. Jhdts. auch nicht geringschätzen.
Die  Zeichnungen gewinnen in Museen und Kunstsammlern immer höheren
Stellenwert.
Wie bekannt, hat die Wiener Albertina eine der wichtigsten und  größten Sammlung der Welt.
Das PhantastenMuseum Wien bringt mit der Kurzausstellung „Faszination der
Zeichnung“ einen kleinen Beitrag zu diesem Diskurs.

 

Es werden ausschließlich original Handzeichnungen oder Graphiken ausgestellt.  Zu sehen auch eine kleine Sammlung mit Originalgraphiken von den 5 Gründer der  Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus: Erich Fuchs, Aric Brauer, Wolfgang  Hutter, Anton Lehmden und Rudolf Hausner. 
Kunstliebhaber und Sammler haben die Möglichkeit Ihre Sammlungen mit Werken  von der Ausstellung zu erweitern.
 

Vernissage: 22 Mai 2012 um 17,00 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 22 – 31 Mai

Ort: Galerie des PhantastenMuseum im Palais Palffy, Raimund Saal – 1.
Geschoss, Josephplatz 6, 1010 Wien

Kuratorin: Melinda Chelu (Kunstverein Mirandolarte)

Geöffnet täglich ab 12,00 bis 20,00

Die Ausstellung nimmt am Galerienrundgang – 1. Bezirk Wien
( www.galerienrundgang.at) vom 24. Mai 2012 teil.
Spezielle  Öffnungszeit an diesem Tag bis 24 Uhr.

 Kontaktdaten:
info@phantastenmuseum.at
artmirandola@gmx.net

photos by Cornelia Hagen-Fuchs