“Enter into Art” - ARCHIVE
First, we would like to introduce our new website
containing the “Enter into Art” ARCHIVE, where you will also find
the most important information from last year’s exhibitions and
prelude events. Please see the ARCHIVE menu on our website with the
special link and choose the exhibition period 2016/2017!
The main exhibitions
in Cologne, Nassau and Diez are an artistic arrangement mainly
comprising small-format pictures by artists from around the world,
arranged according to color. Germany is represented by the hosts
Gabriele Walter (poet) and Kurt Ries (artist), who have contributed
the artistic conception and design of the installation (including
pictures, poems, sculptures, relaxing music, multimedia and art
objects).
We are grateful to all the artists for their participation in these international exhibitions. We are especially pleased with the high quality of the pictures, and thank all participants for their commitment.
Opening in Cologne and winners 2017
The
opening was a wonderful evening with many exhibition visitors. Please
see the link to the blog post in our ARCHIVE for details of the
participating artists and photos. Thank you again to the artists who
visited from France and Sweden: Jeanne Pannier (Paris) and her
husband visited the exhibition in Cologne on Saturday, while Bo
Cronqvist (Sweden) and his wife attended the vernissage on Sunday.
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Bo Cronqvist in his solo event with the hosts Gabriele + Kurt (r) |
We
again selected a jury comprising 13 participants from 13 countries,
who identified the winners. In an anonymous vote, the jury selected
13 winners. Our team also granted a special award and six honorable
mentions, consistent with our public relations (PR) concept. Please
see all winners in our ARCHIVE 2016/2017!
Rewards and jury
We have already written about the prizes
themselves. The basic prize is free publication within a year of a
meditative blog post about the winning images. The timing of
publication will depend on editorial decisions. Please have a look at
the examples of the rewards for last year.
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Visit from Osaka: Atsushi Matsuoka in Nassau |
The
jury was again digital, so members could decide at their own pace and
completely independently. The jury awards were selected via an
anonymous vote and the result was checked by a mathematics expert.
The editorial awards were selected by the “Enter into Art” team.
Our exhibitions are mixed media and multimedia installations, which
is why variety is very important. Where several colors chime
together, it is called a “chord”, as in music.
Bonus and online events
In the smaller bonus
event for Christmastime of 2016, however, pictures were not arranged
according to “color zones”, but rather in an homage to the famous
poet Guillaume Apollinaire and aspects of his lifestyle. This
extraordinary event took place in our ART RETREAT Studio Gallery in
Bonn-Königswinter and has found many prospective customers online,
especially on our German website. We there published a blog series on
the lifestyle concept “Living with Pictures”. Please see the
“Related links” in our ARCHIVE 2016/2017 and also the bonus video
for the first 60 participants.
Just as in our big exhibitions, the online show of
artworks on our German blog are sorted by color. In April 2017, we
will exchange last year’s pictures for the new ones, which will be
displayed there for one year. On the German blog, we would like to
offer readers a lot of variety. However, the images will continue to
be available on the English archive website forever.
In
addition, we would like to draw attention to the solo exhibition by
Melinda Kostelac from Croatia, which also took place in the ART
RETREAT Studio Gallery in January 2017 and was promoted with three
German blog posts. If you are interested in a solo exhibition, please
request our special Rules for Solo Events.
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