What to chose: not to be seen because you don’t have a name,
or
because you do have a name?
Myriam
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What to chose: not to be seen because you don’t have a name,
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because you do have a name?
this page can take a few moments to download...♦ |
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PORTRAITS van Chapman
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Contact in Belgium: Photo shops in Gent, Focilux and
Man and Nature Gallery schilderijen – aquarel – grafiek - tekenkunst – portretkunst natuurposters – natuurprentkaarten – natuurpoëzie - filosofie
Organisatie: Arnold Eloy arnold.eloy@skynet.be Kunstenaars: * Myriam Vandenberghe * Geraldine van Chapman * Miejef Callaert * &
Organisation: Arnold Eloy arnold.eloy@skynet.be & Exhibition open from 16 September 2006 Normal opening hours of the Gallery: Thursday and Friday from 14 to 19 hours, Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 18 hours, (or by appointment).
address: Maenhoutstraat 77 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
Organisation: Arnold Eloy arnold.eloy@skynet.be
Photos: Myriam Vandenberghe and the Webmaster : van Chapman
Thank you Vera Dua, for your beautiful presence at the opening of the Gallery and your understanding and encouragement.
We depend on support from persons like you to be able to surmount the enormous difficulties we face as nature loving artists without official support in the times we are living. Here is a text I wrote for the opening, but it will not be published on the website I am making for the Gallery, (www.mens-en-natuur.com because Miejef, the third artist, and Arnold, the organiser found it not always relevant or not their style. But I send it to you anyway as my personal view, with which Myriam agrees. I think you will agree with what I wrote.
Be welcome to the atelier garden ! Geraldine
Meditation: Opening words
When opening a gallery of contemporary art, it is relevant to ask: What is contemporary, or modern? What is art?
More than ever in human History is the need to care for nature, if we care for each other.
It may be a contemporary fashion in art to break away from aesthetic, ethic and compassion.
But the need to overcome the limited views of our ego is timeless. The need to overcome our personal ego pride, which separates our hearts from one another, is always modern, always actual.
Art , or politics, or beliefs that promote the arrogance and pride of non spiritual values, instead of love and reason, are not creating but retarding the evolution of mankind.
In some closed circles, modern artists are supposed to follow the fashion, or they are not considered artists. Bureaucrats are supposed to be loyal to forms and formularies. Politicians must swear loyalty to the Constitution law of their country. Religious fundamentalists and terrorists should sacrifice their reason to their Belief.
But love is none of that. What is love? It is true: one knows his true friends, when one has no money.
We may earn money with what we do, with art or anything else. But we cannot create beauty and peace in our lives nor in the world, if we only work for money, without ethics.
The value of a person, of an artist, is not in his bank account. Love is the value of a true person, and of a true artist.
For humanity to find true union and peace, we all ought to be concerned with the sensibility that can treasure the beauty of Nature, the beauty of the spirit, and of the heart.
St Augustine once has said: 'Love, and do what you want'. If we can clearly see that certain fashions, traditions or cultures are based on futilities, why should we imitate them?
If we clearly see that certain rules, even if in our constitutional laws, are in conflict with love, why should we follow them? For example, if a country takes in, legalizes prostitution, as long as it is an income-bringing profession, but denies to take in or legalize an artist if he is not commercial and has not an income bringing profession, then this country's reasoning is not better than that of prostitute. When people or artists, are concerned with futilities, they have forgotten that before we are artists, bureaucrats, politicians, we are humans. And we ought to be humane, in order to deserve the title of being humans.
More than ever in human history is the need to care for nature, as a way to care for all living consciousnesses.
Love is the light of Nature: the beauty of Nature. Love and nature are our teachers. What I am saying is that every one is an artist, because they must follow the inspiration of the love in their hearts. and that no one is an artist when he does not. Be welcome to help us to better serve the world, to grow in inspiration and in the quality of art.
Love to you.
(By van Chapman
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Iris flower essence - Photo van Chapman LOVE IS ONE, BELIEFS ARE MANY.
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