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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 event 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.