ASSOCIATED ARTISTS
In this Area, we feature our associated artists that are important friends and members of the Visionary Art, Surrealist and Fantastic Realist Movements worldwide.
BENEDETTO FELLIN
Reflections on Fantastic Realism by Benedetto Fellin:
Through it’s capacity for precise realistic portrayal, the human mind is able to move closer to the world of the sensually tangible.
Inspiration does not remain something abstract, but becomes visible.
And so a happy pairing of form and fantasy of mind and design rises from the canvas. [The two are distinguishable, yet inseparable].
The thread of fantastic realism weaves through the centuries of art his-tory displaying hundreds of insights into the labyrinth of human life.
PETER GRIC
The canvas (or board) is for me a vehicle, a kind of a space craft, to journey to unknown places in unknown realities. If the origin of my journey is in the world of the explainable and the describable, then I attempt to leave its orbit. However, the gravity of words pulls me back, that's why I am not taking any questions along on my trip, and consequently I do not expect any answers either. I just want to marvel about the things I see out there. I want to enter and experience new realities, new spaces, forms and dimensions. It's not about words, thoughts and messages, but rather about silent visions.
EROL DENEÇ
A Fantastic Realist Painter, Sufi Mystic and Musician - Erol Deneç is a former student and protégé of the Master Ernst Fuchs. Initially discovered by Anton Lehmden in Turkey during a guest lecture, Erol was taken under the wings of Ernst Fuchs in Vienna and introduced to the secrets of the old masters. He is a contemporary and friend of De Es Schwertberger, and they are members of what is considered the "Second Wave" of the "Vienna School of Fantastic Realism".
MAURA HOLDEN
Maura Holden was born in 1967 in Philadelphia PA. She spent most of her childhood absorbed in a multi-dimensional daydream, which formed the foundation of her visionary quest as it continues today. Dreaming, drawing and water-coloring continually throughout her youth, Maura was able to present her first solo show at age sixteen, in the family home, with a large body of detailed paintings and drawings of inner landscapes populated by spirits and supernatural beings.
HANNO KARLHUBER
I like to show an old painting technique combined with a contemporary focus on the landscape and everyday objects, but with a magic point of view. This may reveal that there is something behind the pure reality, the pure appearance.
Coming from the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism (Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus) I developed in my work the thought that fantasy and poetry can be very real in everyday life.
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