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Wave Of Unity Consciousness ~ 17and18 July

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:29:58 +0000

Bashar – 2012 Truth Bashar Zeta Reticuli Symphonica Trance ReMiX

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:14:39 +0000

i am having 30 minutes or so to write this one, trying to talk about the Earth Ascension. The way i see it is in me, in my supper high levels of attentions. I am doing so much on the conceptual level and wanted to share with you.

The first thing that is standing out there so loudly is that ascending can be also in the ideas that we share, or rather learning which ideas there are and how it all works, how people work.

But then, living the life as it is, we have gone through enough mind sets and trying, and we were very obstinate in our need to be free, in every way each of ours proceeded there has been this thrive for fulfillment and truth.

Now it seems that we are standing on the truth, in that we understood first; that no plan has ever worked for anybody, never ! You could have perhaps have chickens and they lay a few eggs for us and we can get in the car and drive and meet and so on but there is nothing to do really when it comes to life, it never is what you thought it would be and you are far even if you think you know whats going on this very moment, if you really paid some attention here…

SO, this sense of logic is loosing in points, and with every blow it looses more of its sustainability. instead it becomes clear to some people here and there and perhaps it even occurred to you, that life by its very nature is unrelated to human sense of life. We as race are learning that the whole time we were presented with foolish and repeating ideas as far as history goes and to any direction human thought has allude him her.

that sense or thought or feeling do dismiss all structured thought patterns at the level of presence of the heart. Still many think their serving the religion or under the country in so many ways, with all the benefits that go with it; but eventually you are serving the evil in us, or if you like you are serving those who are plotting against our kind, against any kind of life on this planet.

Is it possible that another species want to annihilate everything for some reason Or can man be so brutal, or you don’t see any of this happening ?

* first posted on http://opensala.com/mornings/earth-ascension-july-17-18-2010/

The dynamism of kinetic art

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:13:52 +0000

The dynamism of kinetic art [Artprice Apr 10]

Kinetic art goes back a long way. Its origins – from a multitude of groups and movements – go back to the 1910s and 1920s, an era highly impregnated by the cult of progress and the myth of the machine. Europe, the United States and Latin America were the main cradles for the development of an abstract language that eschewed static art and sought to emulate or trigger movement, whether real or virtual. During the last decade (2000-2010) kinetic works have gained considerable value. Inflated by their first 7-figure results, the price index climbed 128% over the period.

A decade of records Today, kinetic art has the wind in its sails more than ever before. One the movement’s key figure, Victor VASARELY, signed his two best ever results in the first quarter of 2010 including a spectacular record for his painting Altaï III. The work, created between 1955 and 1958, came from the Lenz Schönberg collection that was dispersed by Sotheby’s on 10 February last. It fetched nearly five time its low estimate at a final hammer price of £470,000 ($734,000) more than doubling the artist’s previous record of approximately $300,000. This high quality sale, organised around the Zero group, generated a number of records including one for the Dutch artist Jan SCHOONHOVEN who signed his first ever $7-figure result (Weißes Strukturrelief R 62-1 sold for £660,000).
Three months before the dispersion of this collection, Yaacov AGAM’s new record had prepared the ground. His historical work 4 Themes Contrepoint (1959) generated an excellent result of $270,000 at fives times its estimate and double his previous record (on 24 November 2009, Sotheby’s). Another father of the kinetic art movement has also seen spectacular inflation: Naum GABO, who described the movement for the first time in the Realist Manifesto 1920, signed his first $7-figure sale on 5 February 2007 with Linear Construction in Space No.3, with Red which fetched £1.1m ($2.1) twice its low estimate at Sotheby’s.
In fact the first kinetic art result above the $1m line marking the start of this inflationary trend dates back to 2002. That was for Marcel DUCHAMP’s famous Roue de bicyclette dated 1913. This precursor work had kinetic potential… but was clamped to a kitchen stool for a pedestal. In May 2002, Phillips de Pury & Company sold the wheel on its stool for $1.6m in New York. According to Duchamp, it is the reflection of the viewer that must be kinetic, in constant movement in front of artworks. This enthusiast for optical physics also created Rotoreliefs boxes (1963) which fetch between €2,000 and €3,500. Each box contains 6 optical disks of silkscreen printed cardboard.

Among the more contemporary creators, motorised sculptures by Jean TINGUELY and mobiles reacting to air currents by Alexander CALDER also fetch millions: Métamatic No.7 by Jean Tinguely sold for £920,000 ($1.8m) on 1 July 2008 at Sotheby’s and Alexander Calder’s mobile Baby Flat Top fetched $4.2m on 10 November 2004 at Christie’s NY (from 10 February – 16 May 2010, fans of kinetic art can see their living sculptures at the Tinguely Museum in Basel during the exhibition entitled Movement. From cinema to kinetic art).
However, the most spectacular prices are generated by the works of Bridget RILEY, whose primary market is in London. Heiress to Victor Vasarely’s optical effects, Bridget Riley beat Alexander Calder with an auction result of $4.5m on 1 July 2008 with her Chant 2 (1967). Bridget Riley is indeed the most sought-after Op artist on the international scene. Her works produced 7 results above the million-dollar line between 2006 and 2009 and only a few small format gouaches are still affordable at $10,000 to $15,000.

Latin America revival The last decade also brought a number of Argentine and Venezuelan artists to the fore via major exhibitions such as Inverted Utopias (Museum of Fine arts in Houston Texas, 2004), L’œil moteur, art optique et cinétique de 1960 à 1975 (Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art in 2005) and La Utopia Cinetica (Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid in 2007).
Latin American artists are now commanding higher prices and over the last two years they have been closing the price gap versus their European peers. Leno by the Venezuelan Jesús Rafael SOTO fetched €430,000 ($555,000) on 12 February 2009 at Casa de Subastas Odalys in Madrid; Alejandro OTERO’s Coloritmos fetch between $130,000 and $340,000 (vs $20,000 in the 1990s); his compatriot Carlos CRUZ-DIEZ signed an auction record of $210,000 for his Fisicromia on 18 November 2008 at Sotheby’s; Julio LE PARC set a new record of $260,000 in May 2008 for his Ordination d’une surface, vitesses progressives de rotation, and the Argentine Hugo DEMARCO has a top auction price of $55,000 for his 1966 Relief à déplacement continuel (30 May 2008, Sotheby’s).

Talks on Ascension

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:33:25 +0000

YOS said:

Hey Opensala, My idea is to invite and allow each of us to have his perspective on the Ascension of Gaia or whatever you call it if you feel you share the ascending. So i wanted to invite each of us on Opensala and others perhaps to reflect on the part our community takes. Artists, who have been creating in groups for ages but never had a chance to become a worldly pronounced family until the Internet; at least not with such ease;)

Watch relevant video:

New Realities:

I hope you are well and that we can have a discussion here on opensala itself..

what do you think ?

WIL said:

High, Yos! As it appears to me, the place of the artist[ in my current occupation,as painter] is to somehow gain x-ray vision of the conventional illusion commonly agreed upon. That vision as described by true mystics of all ages is perfectly beautiful. I must first somehow, SEE! Then release the desire in me [ the artist's fire] to freely communicate that beauty, that dynamic, peaceful, contentedness to another. I must use all means available to as nearly as possible recreate that natural-beauty and make it available to that other. Four years ago,or so,I came out of my Ivory-tower to work with other artists. About a year later, we met @ the Fire-fly. You have been co-creating with other painters, mostly, for much longer, and have been able to leverage your efforts with the computer-world, a land into which I am a common immigrant. so be it. I do have the desire to somehow give what I’ve managed to come up with, so far, to Opensala, and the other creative folks I’ve happened into along the way. I’m sure you can be counted on to help me unfold & present my meager gifts. ON this last trip to L A, I had a realization. My Hungarian friend, Robi has the same magnetism which you have. It’s some kind of gift. Perhaps it ‘s the actor’s gift. Both you & Robi can pull people’s attention, & you are good @ dramatizing your ideas. I’ve enjoyed watching [& disagreeing] in many cases with the both of you. I think you guys could come off quite well on video. There’s a painter named John Cantu, @ Cannery Row Studios, in Redondo Beach, who’ll agree with me; we’ve talked about it not a little. Remember those heated arguments we’ve had? I disagree with you on many things, but never when it comes to basics, like surrendering to puppy-love. I love you ’cause I can’t help myself! Vicente returns from a climbing job in Idaho, today! We’ll come back, soon.

wil

Esculpindo o Silêncio / Alberto Oliveira

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:29:17 +0000

Announcement on NEW WORKS by Alberto Oliveira will follow !

Mandala Phenomena / Wilfred Sarr

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:41:02 +0000

One sunny afternoon in late spring,1968,………..standing in my studio in Hermosa Beach, California…..with no purpose in mind…..I closed my eyes and relaxed in the sunlight. Somewhere within some other somewhere, there arose a gorgeous wheel of light. It was like looking straight up some Lazar-beam of pure light. Dancing points of light, in intricate geometrical patterns not unlike snowflakes, but in full-color and then some was what I saw. Much amused I vowed never to forget this most most beautiful experience. Somehow, I realized this ‘epiphany’, this great wheel of light was from the same source as the swirl-patterns in our fingerprints…..both absolutely common as well as unique. That to me was profound and puzzling. About two years later,information coming at me from all directions, I came to know a little ab out the ‘mandala’ phenomena. These interior lights, or visions had a name, and there has developed some very sophisticated science devoted to these ‘mandalas’ over thousands of years in some cases. ………now, I began to wonder about this great blessing…….many ideas,…..many questions volunteered themselves……Here is only one……….What if the eye decided to ‘see’ itself, to look IN- ward, rather than out? What experiments might it conjure up?…..Just how does one see behind, beyond, or through all conventional visual phenomena, and by extension, all imaginings, as well? A ‘real’ mandala comes from an illumined mind. That’s not me! I can only hope to one day cough-up a real, holy image.Ancient civilizations, and religions, and other systems for seeking out and refining truths have employed the mandala for focus and stabilizing of their seekers. To me this is ample testament to their validity as a worthy subject for the artist of today. Having painted some one hundred of these diagrams, since 1972, my zeal has not diminished. I’m still looking toward my own ‘real’ mandala.

[image title="mandala-slide(01)" size="half" id="635" align="center" alt="Mandala by Wilfred Sarr" ]

ALBERTO OLIVEIRA / OFF PARATY EM FOCO / Dec 2009

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:23:41 +0000

[image title="Alberto-Oliveira 09-2" size="full" id="633" align="center" linkto="http://www.offparatyemfoco.com/" ]

aS Convida: OFF PARATY EM FOCO | EXPOSIÇÃO FOTOGRÁFICA

Responsável: Helena Ruschel
Agradecimentos: EMBATUCADORES | MARCOS ALMA | RODRIGO VIEIRA | LUIZ EGIDIO | ESTUDIO 227

espaço AS | Alameda Campinas, 737 – Metrô Trianon MASP

Abertura: Sábado, 5 de dezembro | Das 12h às 00hs

Domingo 20 de Dezembro | Das 12h às 00hs

Horário de Funcionamento: Quinta|Sexta: 12h às 18hs
SAB/DOM: 14hs às 20hs

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Quest for studio finds

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:23:07 +0000

Following our quest for a Studio, we have been traveling and crossing unmeasurable quantities of matter and land. Now we are at the ‘End of the West’ . We heard Eastern Seekers of the past forcefully conquered this land and since had to reach beyond it .

But this land here have indeed exceeded our dreams , showing unprecedented patterns and vibrations, we feel we have something substantial to offer to Opensala .

Spiritual Creators and friends are invited to email Yos or Wil at Opensala to find out more . This is our first unofficial invitation to settle and build YOUR OWN studio as living entity in this astonishing garden.

Yos / yosyama@gmail.com / Yucca Valley / California
Wil / wilfredsarr@gmail.com / Santa Cruz / California

Invitation to The Bright Side of Life / Alberto Oliveira / FRIDAY 27Nov, SP, Brazil

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:42:39 +0000

[image title="The Bright Side of Life" size="full" id="625" align="center" alt="The Bright Side of Life / Alberto Oliveira" ]

Invitation – A Galeria Nuvem surge como um novo local de circulação de arte contemporânea onde a produção emergente encontra espaço. read more see details >>

BEST VIBRATIONS GO TO ALBERTO OLIVEIRA

Opensala quest for a friendly live-in studio

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:31:59 +0000

@ Opensala.com we have in mind the banding together of a group of friends. If YOU FEEL you are a friend of any of us please consider this is an invitation. What inspires and moves you most, one is only really good at doing what one truly loves. Now, with this second phase, the next development for Opensala is about what our friends wish to accomplish, what are our visions.

For example we have Noa Levin who wants to return to design& fabricate Conceptual Modern Flamenco costumes. And she would love to co-create with other artists in this vein. We appeal especially you who have worked with her before; you are welcome to come forward.

At this moment Noa, Yos and Wilfred begin in earnest the quest for a friendly live-in studio with a garden – plot in California.

We are all life-long, committed artists who are by now long into our careers. We have come to realize how collaboration is the next, natural step in the evolution of the arts.

We encourage all our artist – friends to begin thinking seriously about getting involved.

Please submit your ideas as best you can in & about your chosen media. Perhaps we can use them in the quality presentation we are currently working up. This presentation is meant to facilitate the securing of a proper studio physical base of creativity as well as sanctuary for the friends of Opensala who are also looking at this precious times in the same directions.

** We are inviting friends to write their ideas about a studio and then will be putting together and presenting them as a portfolio for studio with everybody plans ( artistic as they maybe ) as package to EVERY ONE who is interested to help us locate; preferably in California.

yosyama@gmail.com