Art in Action (Art Auction)

ART IN ACTION ( ART AUCTION)

Ubud, Bali, from 7pm on Saturday May 1, Gaya Art Space in Sayan, one of Bali’s most exciting art and design establishments and exhibition spaces, will host an evening of art in action featuring some of the finest artists currently working in Bali. World famous abstractionist and _King of Action Painting_ Theos will splash and daub his way across a 10,5 x 2,25 metre canvas, while Nico Vrielink, one of the greatest large-format portraitists working on this or any island will create a very different work on an adjacent wall. Alongside will be Ukraine-born, award winning portrait painter Galina Schierholz, who is well known for her lush, evocative works; the internationally celebrated Bali-born artist, Ida Bagus Indra, and his long time artistic collaborator, poet and painter John O’Sullivan. While the artists work, accompanied by the sounds of the fabulous Jazz Café Bali Blues Band, the audience is invited to sit back and watch while enjoying a wonderful candle-lit buffet dinner. At the end of the evening, action will turn to auction as a bidding war for the finished pieces begins. All proceeds will go to the Balinese children’s scholarship program at the Pelangi Community School in Ubud.

Well-known art expert Bruce W. Carpenter will take on the role of auctioneer in what promises to be a spectacular evening of creativity and fun. As Bruce says: _This event is special because it features acclaimed artists painting in a diverse variety of styles. Ida Bagus Indra is well known for his dynamic depictions of dancers, women and children. Dutch artist Nico Vrielink paints large often sensuous portraits. Theos is an action painter, the equivalent of a wild jazz band who thrives on improvisations. While the talented John O’Sullivan comes from a point of abstract chaos and freedom inspired by the likes of Cy Twombly and Conceptual Art without pretense_.

Theos – In addition to his studio practice, over the last decades Prof. Dr. Theos M. B. Sijrier (Columbia University) has set out to develop the performance potential of gestural abstraction, in the process justly earning himself the title _the king of action painting’. Theos has painted to music in a range of settings all over the world from 3000-seat concert halls and galeries, and during this event will daub, splash and gesture his way across an enormous 10,5 x 2,25 metre canvas. Upon completion of this huge work it can be cut into smaller works for auction.

Nico Vrielink _ Nico is one of the world’s greatest large format portraitists and figure painters. Nico’s greatest muse is his wife Jeane whom he met in Singapore in 1985. He has since produced more than 5000 large scale portraits of her. Nico regards the world as his working territory. Countless newspapers, magazines, books and television documentaries have given him worldwide fame and he has held more than 500 exhibitions. In recent years his intense focus on his wife has expanded to include their two sons, animals and explorations seeking to address the search for balance between good and evil within ourselves.

Ida Bagus Indra _ A self-taught painter Indra has quickly established himself an international reputation for his talent in reflecting Bali’s unique ability to bridge the gap between the sacred and the profane. In the last two years Indra’s paintings have been generated directly from his spirituality and come to him from Niskala _ the intangible world. His works invite social commentary and provoke review of personal attitudes and stereotypes. Indra has exhibited throughout Indonesia, and in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Germany.

John O’Sullivan _ Born on the west coast of Ireland in 1962 John began writing poetry in 1974. In 2000 he began painting and says _Words and images are meant to be together. They have the ability to qualify each other and amplify each other’s resonance… music, words and art…remain to this day my defining…_

Galina Schierholz _ Ukraine born and educated Galina studied and taught art and art history before moving to Germany in the early _90s. Galina has painted award winning portraits of contemporary celebrities such as Lady Di, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Galina has won prizes in the national German Painting Award _Flower For Life_ and a special prize for her participation in the _Flower for Life_ community painting.

Bruce W. Carpenter – Well known art expert Bruce W. Carpenter has been an ardent advocate of ancient, traditional and contemporary Indonesia art for more than 20 years. Author and co-author of more than 18 books and scores of articles on related subjects, his most recent work is a large critically acclaimed volume, Javanese Antique Furniture and Folk Art (2009). Carpenter, who is a long time expatriate living in Bali, was also the co-founder and co-curator of the Ganesha Gallery located on the grounds of the Four Seasons Resort Bali in Jimbaran, the island’s most active non-profit gallery dedicated to the promotion of young Balinese and Indonesian artists.

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. DINNER TICKETS Rp 150,000.


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