- Dec. 17 to Jan. 8, 2016 in Bonn-Königswinter (our bonus event this year)
The bonus event will take place with about 140 participants! Since it is our first "Art Retreat" and we have a larger number of participants, the creative implementation phase of different ideas takes a little longer. The "Art Retreat" can be visited from Dec. 25, 2016 until Jan. 8., 2017 by prior appointment.
See also: EXHIBITIONS 2017 and our FAQ!
Homage to a famous poet
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| About 1 km from our Art Retreat away the villa in which Guillaume Apollinaire worked as a tutor. |
Just
as we combine the performing arts with poetry, music, sculpture, art
objects, light and meditation at our large art installations in
Cologne and other cities, we would like to do the same at our
Christmas Prelude event. At the Prelude event, however, images are
not arranged by color. Meditation instruction is available, but the
meditative concept is introduced instead in the form of an homage to
a famous poet. We are inspired in this regard by Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe's famous verse "poems are painted windows."
The Prelude exhibition is included in our offer for the year 2017. The number of participants for this Bonus event is limited. Registrations will be considered on a first come, first served basis, so book your place as soon as possible by your payment. If you like to participate in this Bonus event: Original artworks must be received as soon as possible. (Regular deadline wihout Bonus is December 31, 2016.)
The event aims to
convey our idea of a cozy Art Retreat (in an artistic garden), which
we also communicate through our art book. The names of the
participating artists will be published on this website! A studio and
garden exhibition without vernissage will serve as the basis of the
event’s online PR in our German blog journal. The website will include several videos and
blog posts about the event, which we will also share on Facebook and
YouTube.
The texts of a
chapter of our art book, "Refuge of Muse," will be
published in connection with this first Art Retreat event on our
German blog. There will be a blog post series on "Living
with Pictures."
Homage to Guillaume Apollinaire
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| At the entrance of the villa is reminiscent of Apollinaire's residence from 1901 to 1902. |
Additionally, future Prelude events in the Art Retreat studio will be based on the artistic conception of Apollinaire and this artistic flair of our surroundings will be incorporated.
Even his origins imply an intercultural way of
life. As the son of an Italian mother and father who was a Polish
nobleman and emigrant of Russian origin, Apollinaire spent his
childhood in Rome and Monaco. As a youth he learned Latin, ancient
Greek and German. He lived and died in Paris.
Shortly before his famous poetry collection
"Alcools," which was subsequently set to music by a number
of musicians (including Francis Poulenc and Arthur Honegger, among
others) after his death in 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire published his
"Méditations Esthétiques." In this book, he coined the
term Orphism to describe the tendency towards absolute abstraction in
paintings by Robert Delaunay and others. The colorful
“Fenêtre-Images” of Delaunay, for example, portrayed the Eiffel
Tower as seen through a window.
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| House "Neuglück" in Königswinter, closed to Bonn - only a short walk away from the art studio. |
Shortly before his death, Apollinaire published
the poetry collection "Calligrammes" including so-called
figure poems that reveal an additional layer of meaning through the
shape of the text. The first figure poems originated in ancient
times, their meditative development being reflected in medieval grid
poems. In the exhibition design of our Prelude events, we will allow
ourselves to be inspired by such innovations (as we will with other
poet-themes in the future).
The fusion of image and poetry and communicative aspects are also reflected in the concept of our art installations. The concepts of our art installations will thereby all show some points of contact with Apollinaire.
The fusion of image and poetry and communicative aspects are also reflected in the concept of our art installations. The concepts of our art installations will thereby all show some points of contact with Apollinaire.