Art Calendar - 23 June 2022 - by Francesca Morelli

Leon Löwentraut - "Volar" - "Painting is like flying".

Latest exhibition from 1 July 2022 at the Salzburg Baroque Museum in the Mirabell Gardens

 as part of the Salzburg "5020 Festival".

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Leon Löwentraut, Photographer: Adrian Bedoy, Rights by Leon Löwentraut

What does an artist feel when he paints?

For Löwentraut, painting feels like flying. Together with students from Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, the star artist developed the spatial experience "Volar", where visitors can experience this feeling in analogue and digital form.

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"volar" (Spanish: to fly) - is a spatial installation that was created in collaboration with the master class of the "Virtual Design" degree programme at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences as well as professors Matthias Pfaff and Christian Schmachtenberg and Leon Löwentraut. The 24-year-old artist had a teaching assignment at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences during the winter semester 21/22. The topic: "Future Exhibition Design".

In addition to the volar installation, other works by Leon Löwentraut will be shown - including sculptures, charcoal drawings and acrylic paintings from his current series "Landscapes".

Background:

Löwentraut painted the work in question in the Virtual Lab at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences. And the students documented the genesis of the painting. Via motion capture (known from animated films), Löwentraut's movements were recorded while painting, microphones recorded the sounds on the canvas and measurements of the brain waves make it "visible" how Löwentraut gets into a "flow" during the creative process: these invisible data of the artwork as well as the emotionality of the artist are made accessible in the exhibition.

A twin of the painting from the 3D printer reproduces the surface structure of Löwentraut's painting and may be touched. The touches start a video projection, the image builds up as captured by the motion capture recordings. You can hear the transpositions of the brainwave measurements, the sounds of brushes and palette knives on the canvas, the music that was playing while painting. 

Professor Christian Schmachtenberg says: "Our goal is to develop intelligent staging formats for the art sector. We make analogue art more 'tangible' with digital possibilities, thus reducing inhibitions and making creative processes more comprehensible."

"With our work, we have helped to open up horizons in which art and science merge in unusual ways to make the creative process accessible to the viewer and the artist themselves," emphasises Dr Martine Hoffmann, Head of Research at the National Institute for Applied Gerontology, Training and Research (RBS Centre for Ageing) in Luxembourg and responsible for measuring Leon Löwentraut's brain waves.

Art Calendar - 25 May 2022

„Im Reich der Stille“

Underwater photography by

 Gaby Fey in Wiesbaden.

The new exhibition in Wiesbaden as part of the art and culture programme "WATER: POWER" for Wiesbaden's "Year of Water".

 Friday, 10 June 2022, until Sunday, 17 July 2022.

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La cene ©Gaby Fey

Marianne ©Gaby Fey

Art Calendar - 31 May 2022

Bronze sculpture by Leon Löwentraut at the largest open-air art festival in the Netherlands. Spectacular art festival in the Netherlands: From Friday 3 June 2022 to Sunday 26 June 2022, the historic centre of Oisterwijk will be transformed into an open-air museum. Under the title "Praat met mij" (Talk to me!), over 30 artists from 12 different countries will present 50 monumental sculptures.

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Leon Löwentraut, ©Adrian Bedoy, Rights: Leon Löwentraut

Art Calendar - 6 April 2022

Heinz Mack - Vibration of Light - Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia - 23 April to 17 July 2022

Back in 1970, Heinz Mack represented Germany at the 35th Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte - La Biennale di Venezia. Now the German sculptor and painter, who turned 90 last year, returns to Venice with an extensive solo exhibition in the Collateral Events section of the Arte 2022 Biennale.

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Heinz Mack in December 2021 in front of a Chromatic Constellation created in the same year, photo / courtesy Archiv Atelier Mack

Klara Katze ©Claudia van Koolwijk

Art / Art Calendar - 19 June 2022

Claudia van Koolwijk "Face to Face", Portraits and Self-Portraits, June 2022. Current exhibition, Lausberg Gallery - 13 May 2022 - 26 June 2022. Claudia van Koolwijk is known for her portraits. Her photographs are the documents of the convergence of a two-man performance between the portrayed and the photographer's devotion. "It becomes clear to me that they carry or symbolise something that thematically concerns me."

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Selbstportrait ©Claudia van Koolwijk

Fashion - 20 June 2022

Rosso Valentino -everything you always wanted to know about the Valentino Red.

Maison Valentino, in collaboration with luxury book publisher Assouline, presents their latest book, the Haute Couture Book Rosso.

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By Francesca Morelli

Photos ©Maison Valentino