Konstfabriken biography
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René Luckhardt
Swiss-German artist
René Luckhardt (born 1972) is a Swiss-German artist. Luckhardt holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Painting from Chelsea College of Arts, London.
Luckhardt's art often deals with positions in art history, most recently with those of Man Ray or Marjorie Cameron. His practice has been described as "ricerche" (Peter Weiermair).[1] Luckhardt uses the source materials for "multiple transformations." "The archaeological process is not obscured, but becomes part of the work itself by raising questions about the original and the copy."[2] In other series the paintings are "sculpturally transformed". Undergoing a process of endless reproduction and anamorphosis, the painting sculptures appear like "totem(s) of cultural history".[3]
Luckhardt counts Lewis Carroll and Aleister Crowley among his influences.[4] In 2010, he reproduced the latter's Chambre des Cauchemars of the Abbey of Thelema in a gallery space.[5] In 2010, he initiated the international artist salon Wonderloch Kellerland in Berlin, satellites of which existed in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Wonderloch Kellerland is included in the Art Spaces Directory of the New Museum, New York. Luckhardt is co-author of HER, the Hermetic Exper
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Biography
Irina Gabiani: Curriculum vitae
Born 1971, Tbilisi (Georgia), lives and works in Luxembourg
Education:
Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art, Amsterdam, 1994-1997
Academy of Art of Tbilisi, 1990-1994
School of Art of Tbilisi, 1986-1990
Exhibitions
Selected Group exhibitions
2013
Nudi su tele, (upcoming)
2012
Video Dia Loghi 2012, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art – Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania
Le 3 du Trois, Irina Gabiani: Slow movements, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
La Collezione dell’Associazione Culturale Darko Store, Sala Mostre Municipio, Carignano (Torino), Italy
Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
Sguardi Sonori 2012, Gino on my mind, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Sguardi Sonori 2012, Gino on my mind, Teatro Colosseo, Roma, Italy
Letters from the Sky, National Arts Festival 2012, Grahamstown, South Africa
Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Time is love.5, International Video Art Exhibition, Ku
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