Le dernier des Surréalistes - The Toit de la Grande Arche presents Luis Navarro
The last contemporary surrealist encouraged by Pablo Picasso himself
The Toit de la Grande Arche presents the first retrospective of Luis NAVARRO life’s work that includes today more than four hundred oil paintings and more than four hundred drawings, gouaches, watercolours, pastels, engravings as well as sculptures. Born in 1935 in Barcelona, this musician and painter started off in Tudela at the Academy of Fine Arts… In 1969, Luis Navarro showed his work to Pablo Picasso where they regularly met up at the “Auberge La Musarde” in Mougins. The master declared: “You have found the most difficult thing for a painter to find: a recognizable style without seeing your signature… With painting like yours, you can go everywhere”. Some years later, he won the Albrecht Dürer Prize, obtained gold medals of the Grand Prize of Goya and won the Rubens Grand Prize… “Do you want to know what strikes me in the work of Luis Navarro? The obvious fact that surrealism is not dead!”, explains Jean-Marie Tasset, renowned European art critic. Effectively, from November 10 to January 15 2006, surrealism will be alive and well at the The Toit de la Grande Arche for the largest exhibit to date of Luis Navarro’s work, the last of the surrealists… Luis Navarro, painter, musician and poet… through his art shows us an infinite imagination! “IMAGINATION! For me, it is the vital element. If there is no imagination, there is no creator, and if there is no creator, there is no painter”. At this exhibition, you will also be able to discover the book devoted to this artist (edited by the Editions Cristel) as well as the first lithograph of Luis Navarro created specially for this event! [ read more ] >>
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Johannes Larsen & Bruno Liljefors - Life in Nature
The beauteous forms of Nature wrought
Two great Nordic painters are united this May when ARKEN opens its summer exhibition “Life in Nature”. This is the first time that Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors are presented alongside each other in Denmark. Sunny, serene fields juxtaposed with the struggles in the dark forest; Danish lyricism versus Swedish drama. This is how the relations between the two painters Johannes Larsen (DK 1867-1961) and Bruno Liljefors (SE 1860- 1939) are described. In the summer exhibition “Life in Nature” ARKEN explores the philosophies of nature immanent in the two artists’ depictions of their local nature. [ read more ] >>
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Group
CJ Wood – sculpture,
Barbara Mason – prints,
Pamela Cremer – glass,
J Grace Rim – painting/mixed media.
special guest: Beate Sandor (Austria), painting
exhibition opening: Thursday, June 2nd at 7 pm
gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10am - 17pm
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