Concept Art Projects by Barbara Streiff since 1998 in Communicative Art Exchange International

OCPA/UNESCO.org Communicative Art Project International is not for profit and all rights are held by the organization alpswissart. All use and profit from the project without consent is prohibited. The rights for the use and the profit of the local exhibitions organized by member artists belong to the organizers and participants. For artists from different areas and cultures all over the world. The aim is to encourage more communication, respect, and acceptance by bringing all cultures together.

Konzept Kunst Werk von Barbara Streiff - Intuitive Koerpermalerei - Installation der Elemente - Wasser - Luft - Erde - Feuer - Metall

Die Installation fliessendes Wasser gemalt in einer meditativen Konzentration in 7 X 7 Tagen, intuitive Malerei zum Thema "die Vielfalt des Seins" von der Künstlerin Barbara Streiff zu den Urzeichen der Natur war 2000 im Kunsthauses Glarus - Gruppenausstellung regionales Kunstschaffen
2002 In der Kultur Heritage Center Panarodio Cyprus 2002 bei der Ausstellung in Hommage an die Natur. http://naturewatergarden.blogspot.com
2003 - 2004 World Exhibition for Freedom in der Kirche Saateln Zuerich ausgestellt.
http://worldexhibitionforfreedom.blogspot.com
2009 Raum - Installation mit Bildern zum Thema " Natur - Weiblichkeit - Religion " KonzeptKunstWerk von Barbara Streiff in der offenen Kirche St.Gallen.
Die gemeinsam von Frauen gemalten Bilder zum Konzept intuitive Malerei wurden den Elementen zugeordnet zu einem Gesammtkunstwerk installiert. Sie stellte den Rahmen zur Projektion der Filme zu den Urzeichen der Natur an die Kuppel der Kirche dar.




An der Installation Koerpermalerei beteiligte Kunstschaffende und Frauen; Julie Hauser, Heidi Oberholzer, Claudia Studer, Gerda Kuriger, Regula Schönbächler, Pia Stephenson mit Gruppe von jugendlichen Frauen, Denise dal Fuoco, Ruth Hefti, Gulietta Valentina, Katrin Züst und Freundinnen, Stefanie Hauser, Christina Gullotti, Celine Braunwalder, Heidi van Sprundel.


Einladung für Menschen verschiedener Kulturen und Religionen zum gemeinsamen Werk
Urzeichen der Natur und Ihre Symbole – Völkerverbindende Zeichen - Hommage an die Natur - Konzept Kunstwerk von Barbara Streiff in NYArstBeijing 09



Einladung zum Workshop im Atelier Mollis / Glarus zur Mitarbeit am KonzeptKunstWerk von Barbara Streiff, anerkannt im kommunikativen Kunstaustausch von Ocpa / Unesco Paris 2005

In einem kommunikativen Akt werden Bilder gestaltet, welche später in einer Installation den Elementen zugeordnet werden.
Menschen aus allen Kulturen und Religionen sind eingeladen an dem Werk mitzugestalten, wobei jeder MitarbeiterIn mit Namen auf den signierten Bildern und auch im Projekt erwähnt wird.

Gemeinsame Interaktiven Installation mit Körpermalerei
Jeder malt mit Einsatz seines Körpers und freier Farbenwahl im Rahmen der Einschränkung von den ausgewählten Materialien des Konzeptes, in seiner Art und Weise des inneren Ausdrucks mit der gegebenen Maltechnik seine Vorstellung in Hommage an die Natur auf.

Dachstock - Atelier alte Spinnerei Mollis: Samstags 14 00 - 18 00
Spinnereistrasse 21 / bei der kleinen Brücke an der Linth oben am Flughafen / Eingang im Innenhof des Fabrikareals
Weg von Zuerich - Chur ca. 5 Minuten von der Autobahn - Richtung Glarus

Interaktive Installation zu den Elementen mit intuitiver Körpermalerei /Idee, Konzept und dessen Umsetzung entstanden aus dem Werk – Urzeichen der Natur – von Barbara Streiff
http://retrospektiveurzeichen.blogspot.com/

Interactive Installation in Communicative Art Exchange in Cabaret Voltaire Zuerich 2009 - Conceptual Art Project by Barbara Streiff

Conceptual Art Project - Interactive Installation in Communicative Art Exchange in Cabaret Voltaire Zuerich 2009. organized by artist Barbara Streiff and the crew of Alpswissart will be in the great place of Dada Haus - Cabaret Voltaire Zürich. Date: 14.May 2009. Every artist is invited to bring one work in.

KonzeptKunstwerk von Barbara Streiff im Cabaret Voltaire Zürich mit interaktiver Installation von den geladenen Künstlern im kommunikativen Kunstaustausch. 14.May 2009
http://coartexcabaretvoltair.blogspot.com/

Concept Landart by Artist Barbara Streiff is on the Road all over the World since 1998 - Project in Homage to Nature

Hallo from the Swiss Alps!

You are invited to take part in a world project under the Patronage of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO: Natural Art Installations around the world will represent the communication that occurs between nature, local places and you, the visitors. In canyons and gorges, on islands like Cyprus, near the Amazon River in South America, on the West Coast of the USA, up in the Swiss Alps, in the Himalayas, across the African desert, on the steppes of Russia - wherever artists live or want to go in nature to build art with materials from the Earth - all artists and children from 7 to 77+ are invited to celebrate nature through their own spontaneous creativity.



This action is inspired by Aion primal geometry - 10 symbols found in nature - which joins all cultures and religions throughout history and time. We will build symbols from primal geometry using natural elements and materials: stones, earth, water and fire. The symbols include the following: point, circle, parallelogram, cross, spiral, line, triangle, square, lightening bolt, and three points or stars for the cosmos. For example, we might build a cross with wood, a spiral with stones, a circle with fire, or a line with water. We work only with local materials found in nature and with the natural energy of the place. The concept behind the artwork is to save and celebrate nature through our creative acts.

Barbara Streiff is the artist and curator behind this project. She has created exhibitions and installations with Aion pictures and sculptures in many parts of the world already. She invites you to be part of this continuing communicative art action by building installations with the primal symbols wherever you are in the world.



The installations should take place in nature, and photos of the artwork created around the world will be presented on the Website www.alpswissart.ch.
Please send a photo of your natural art installation by e-mail to: alpswissart@bluewin.ch with your name, place, date and your comments. And send this e-mail invitation to all your friends!

CONCEPTUAL ART PROJECT IN EXCHANGE GALLERY SPACE NY ARTS BEIJING ARTISTS FROM CHINA - SWITZERLAND - EUROPE 09

Celtic Cirkel to walk in and out by Homage to Nature by Barbara Streiff Switzerland in Communication with Artists from China
Communicative Art Installation by Interaction for all the Visitors in Gallery Space NY Arts Beijing comes out Workshops and Exchange in modern Art Technique by Artist Barbara Streiff.




Artist Barbara Streiff Residency in China, she was creating in Communicative Art Exchange - Performance with Body Painting in Modern Art Technique - Workshops and by art exchange with Zhang Xin Beijing City and togehter with the great Artists from the Art Garden 318 Hegezhuang, special input was by the artist Song Gui Yu and his wife, Artstudents from the Village Hegezhuang for the Installation with Wishes for the Future of Beijing.

Abraham Lubelski - Song Gui Yu - Yang Liao Han - Simon - Peng Li - Zhang Xin - Xu Wan Ru - Shao Xin An - Xue Tin Ran - Ren Jing - Zhao Jin Xing - Xue Bin Ran - Lu Cheng Bin - Zhang Xin Xie - Cao Zhi Xin - Wang Xi Lo - Xue Tian Ran - Barbara Streiff



All Childrens and Students from Hegezhuang down Village was invited to create her Wishes with overpaintings on the artwork of Artist Barbara Streiff`s paintings by Homage to Elements.

In Communicative Art Exchange with the Artist group from Italy in Gallery Space NY Arts Magazine International.

最新展览：The Flag
策展人：Stefania Carrozzini
参展艺术家：Loredana Alfieri, Caterina Arciprete, Daniela Billi, Cristina Cary Alessandra Cocchi, Adriana Collovati, Irene Dipre’, Miriam De Berardis Ruggero Maggi, Antonio Massari, Vittorio Presepi, Brigitta Rossetti Eugenio Vignali, Rosita Zagoreo
招待酒会：2009年3月5日 周四下午3-6点
展览时间：2009年3月3日-3月27日
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Conceptual Art Project Experiment UV - Light on DAW 07 ETH Zürich by Swiss Artist Barbara Streiff

The artist Barbara Streiff was invited with her Conceptual Art Project in Experiments UV-Light for Art Exchange with artists in New Media International.

http://netzspannung.org/database/411184/de

2007 Artist in International Digital Art Project from the University Technology ETH ZUERICH / Invitation by Artdirectory Art Clay / NYC - CH


2008 Documentation of the Coceptual Art Project in Experiments UV - LIGHT of the Projects Digital in New Media on the Network from the Universities Europe.
http://netzspannung.org/database/411184/de

Labyrinth of Elements - 48 Paintings - Meditation Nature - Concept Art by Barbara Streiff in NY Arts Beijing Gallery Hegezhuang China February 09

The Labyrinth of Elements – to walk into the interior, turn round and return on the path to the exterior. Allowing life and the recognition of everyday symbols and events to be as they are. Nothing is perfect and everything has the ability to change.

An installation to be experienced
Conceptual art by Barbara Streiff in communicative exchange with artists and visitors on place.
Organizing international art exchanges comes out my AION artwork. The philosophy behind AION is the primal geometry taken from symbols in nature: the first signs found in all ancient cultures throughout the world. Primal geometry connects ALL cultures over ALL time.
Primal geometry - ten symbols found in nature - has been a spiritual awakening and an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Empowered by the symbolic energy in primal geometry, Barbara Streiff's work reflects all cultures, all religions, and all time.
Born on 1 August 1955 in Lucerne - the heart of Switzerland - Barbara Streiff spent her childhood in the Swiss Alps in the Linth Valley of Glarus. From her first contact with art at age seven, she began learning traditional art techniques from her family and older artists.
Later she studied art at l' École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the School of Art and Design Zurich, and the Centre of Cultural Heritage in Cyprus, where she also taught. Travels relating to her work and exhibitions have taken her throughout Europe and the World - from Asia to the Arabic states, from California to Africa, and most recently from Cyprus to Brazil.
Barbara Streiff's primal geometry art not only reflects the profound meld of nature and human cultures worldwide, but each piece also symbolizes her own personal passion:
To further the evolution and transformation of traditional art into innovative and modern forms by communicating with artists all over the world without forgetting the forests of the Swiss Alps.
In homage to nature and the everyday experiences which lead us on the path of insight and realisation.
The Labyrinth of Elements consists of 48 pictures painted while meditating on the elements water, air, earth and fire. A square copper bowl, on which the archaic symbols of nature have been burned, is located in the centre of the labyrinth.
In observing nature and her workings, I have found ten symbols which appear in all cultures and religions and span all ages.
Each of these symbols can be interpreted positively or negatively, and often a time of plenty is preceded by massive destruction. A volcanic eruption can destroy many living creatures. However volcanic soil is the most fertile, out of which new life will grow.

Performance Zhang Xin NYArts Beijing - Sound Jackomo - Concept Art Babara CH

Conceptual Art by Barbara Streiff - Intuitive Motion Painting - Performance Chinese Artist Zhang Xin in the Gallery Space NY Arts Beijing China Artgarden Hegezhuang 318 / Digital Art on Action - Intuitive Painting with Body.. Digital Art Movie by Barbara Streiff in Communicative Art Exchange with Zhang Xin Art Designer Beijing / Sound Jackomo

北京 艺术 日报 Concept Art by Barbara Streiff in Chinese Art Factory Beijing 798

http://performancemotion.blogspot.com /
The Swiss artist Barbara Streiff with her Performance Action by Ink Drawings in Art Factory 798 in time of her Residency in Ny Arts Beijing to contact the Chinese Artists in Communicative Art Exchange.
China Art Garden 798 is a Art Space of Contemporary Chinese Art in Communication with selected International Artists. 画展 日报
http://www.china-observer.de/index.ph...

Ink Drawings on News Paper Concept Art by Barbara Streiff since 1998 on the Opening Ceremony Olympic Games Beijing China

Ink Drawing on Chinese Newspaper with the date 08.08.08 from the Olympic Ceremony Beijing China by the International Artist Barbara Streiff
Expressive Motions Sketchs direct painted from the Happenings with black Ink on Newspaper by the view on the Opening Ceremony from the Olympic Games in Beijing China.
Some selected Grafics by Performance on the Airport and by the Opening will be next in the Gallery in Beijing China - http://www.nyartsbeijing.com
and Installed by the " project all is hanging online " on the road since 1998 all over the World. OCPA/UNESCO PARIS
This is a Artaction out the project of the International artist Barbara Streiff paintings on News Paper on public places in communicaztion with people.
1999 - 2008 Installation "all is hanging on line." Performance expressive Motions paintings with black colour on News Paper from the happenings of the moment on public places.
Installation „ all is hanging on line „
1999 was the beginning of the project motions paintings and portraits in the station of Glarus, where the artist Barbara Streiff lives and works. Sketches from the people, they was waiting and moving on the place. She paints and makes the Exhibition directly on the wall in the waiting room. The work "expressive motions paintings of happenings" gives a new importance to the place. This art is not freshened, emotions and movement are allowed, and every body is welcome to be a part of this action. In the dark and quiet waiting room, where before was only the clock "tic-tac", comes live in.
2000 - 2004 Performance with Exhibition - Installation on the place. Barbara Streiff travels around Switzerland and made Stop by all stations for her work expressive motions paintings from the happenings on public places in Zurich, Romanshorn, Locarno, Sargans, Appenzell, Einsiedeln etc.
2000 - 2001 Performance in New York. (Text: NY ARTS December 2000) She sits at the Grand Station, at Broadway, China - Down, Central Park, at Place Pigalle, a current newspaper on her knees. The daily rags around the world are her canvas. The intent of these action "Comics"is the expressionistic "free flow of everyday life. " They speak of passion, pathos, and skill. This "boulevard performance" mirror from the inside of what passes outside. The process of the action "Comics" is intuitive.
2002 Invitation of Kartause Ittingen, to live and work in Art - Performance on place.
2001 - 2004 Performance in Italy, Germany, Berlin and Konstanz, Cyprus, airport Amsterdam, Budapest, etc. By all her art travels Exhibitions, Natural Art Installations and work as curator for the project, "World Exhibition for Freedom "she did her performance, like a journalist in paintings from the happenings of the moment on the place. Photos of work are online under communicative art in the website:
www.alpswissart.ch

ART PROJECT COMICS STREET PAINTING BAHIA BRASIL

Conceptual Art by Swiss Artist Barbara Streiff in
Communicative Art Exchange Bahia, Brazil

Barbara Streiff, international artist from Switzerland, is the curator of this project. Bahia Artist Jacy Schrepfer by UNICEF is kindly helping with the organisation of the project in Brazil. For the past 20 years, Barbara Streiff has been working as an art teacher with children and students in art and cultural centres all over the world: Switzerland, Italy, New York, Berlin, Cyprus, Asia – just to name a few. Her art courses are recognised by the University of Zurich and institutions in Cyprus, Italy and New York. You can learn more about her work under World Exhibition for Freedom 2003 at www.unesco.ch.



Barbara Streiff by Comics Street Painting with Children in Public Places

Bahian artist Josy Schrepfer and Barbara Streiff have conceived this project of art workshops, happenings and street-artwork in Bahia as a communicative art exchange. The artists will go into the streets and public places to work and paint directly with streetchildren, teaching them art through comics. The children will be given assistance (when requested) in painting stories from their daily lives, the wishes and dreams of people today, the fairy tales of their country, or the culture and life in Bahia, for example. The location of these art happenings in Salvador, Bahia will be Mercado-Modilo in Cidade Baixa,

- Street painting with children in public places - comics of life painting -

All children and young people from the streets, will be invited to participate in this project. Donations from tourists and visitors viewing the art action will be used for materials and will go directly to support the children who are taking part in the project. Art exchange will take place wherever the children paint modern Brazilian culture in comics.



At the same time, a contest for comics street painting will be held in Brazil. The best and most original works, photos of which can be sent to Alpswissart International Artschool will receive a prize. The two criteria are fantasy and craft. The jury will consist of the team from the artist Josy Schrepfer from Bahia, Gernot Huber Foundation Hamburg,
Dr. Franz Ehrensperger, Gallery by Kunsthaus Zürich, Abraham Lubelski Publisher NY Artmagazin International, Gallerys berlin Kreuzberg, Broadway NY and Hongkong and the artist and teacher Barbara Streiff from Alpswissart International Art School. After April, the Bahian artist Jacy Schrepfer will carry on and support the street painting project. Atelier Artes Visuais Sonia Courto, Rolf Bamert and Roosivelt Pintheiro masters and art teachers in Art Rio de Janeiro

Alpswissart invites Brasilien artists to her artfabrik in Switzerland by artexchange.
Gernot Huber Foundation offers artstudys in Teneriffa for the best artist by the comicsproject.
The Fumetto Comics Festival Luzern CH made a Installation with Photos of artwork in Bahia

All rights reserved by the organisation and the curator Barbara Streiff www.alpswissart.ch

Art Exchange in Heritage Center Cyprus Island in Concept Art UV - Light by Barbara Streiff

Conceptual Art Project by Barbara Streiff in Exchange Experiments UV - Light in Panarodio Heritage Center Cyprus Island
http://fluorescenceart.blogspot.com
Installation from the Art Exchange in fluorescence Art in the Front of
Panarodio Heritage Center Cyprus by the Artists from Switzerland.
Recycling Art Objects by Artist Antifrost Bern,
Photos from Insectlife by Ruedi Kuchen,
Scetches in Black and White from the Stonesculptor Mischa Mueller,
repainted Net by Heidi van Sprundel Glarus,
Paintings and Installation on Place by Barbara Streiff.



With Invitation of Panarodio Heritage Center Mantilios Kalopanayiotis.
You can found this Cultural Heritage Center on Cyprus Island in Kykko Mountains on the Way from Nicosia to Kykko Monastery.
The Fluorescene Art Installation is a part of the Summer Exhibition by Artists from Russia, Arab States, Cyprus till England and Switzerland in Communication with Nature all over Cyprus.
Sponsoring Kulturfond Glarus / Heritage Centre Panarodio Cyprus / Alpswissart

World Exhibition for Freedom Unesco.CH 2003

World Exhibition for Freedom

Die am 13. September 1999 von der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen verabschiedete Erklärung über eine Kultur des Friedens unterstreicht in Art. 8, dass bei der Förderung einer Kultur des Friedens schöpferischen Menschen und Kunstschaffenden eine Schlüsselrolle zukommt. Die an diesem Projekt beteiligten KünstlerInnen beweisen durch ihr Engagement für Frieden und Versöhnung, dass sie diese Rolle wahrnehmen.

Für diese "World Exhibition for Freedom" präsentiert jede Künstlerin und jeder Künstler seine Arbeit in seiner gewohnten Umgebung: Anne A. Vogt in Italien, Sergio Tilleria in Chile und in der Schweiz, Mantilios Mantis in Zypern, Erwin Schatzmann in Zürich, Abraham Lubelsky in New York, So Un Lee in Korea, Makudy Sall in New York, Tina Zimmermann in San Francisco und Berlin, Barbara Streiff und Bruno Kaelin in der Schweiz und im Ausland, Kurt und Regula Suter-Droz wo ihr Schiff gerade geankert ist. Meistens sind auch einige der anderen KünstlerInnen an den jeweiligen Ausstellungen beteiligt. Das Bindeglied zwischen ihnen ist Barbara Steiff, eine "Swiss Artist on the Road".

Dieses Projekt trägt zur Verständigung, Toleranz und Solidarität zwischen den Völkern bei. Gleichzeitig fördert es die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit von Kunstschaffenden, wofür sich die UNESCO immer wieder einsetzt.
e-mail: alpswissart@bluewin.ch

Conzept Art in Atelier by Communicative Art Exchange

Church According to McLuhan, 2000 - 2007

Art Clay (USA) & Urs Jaeggi (CHE)

The Church is a conglomeration of messages in the form of icons. The most apparent and the one that is at the root of the design of the church is the stereotypical form of the TV. The steps fo the church, indicating an ascent to enlightenment in the form of ultimate delusion, bring the electronic consumer of "the message" (i.e. the- try-me-and-buy-me-world-belief) to the pinnacle of necessity: adjusting the TV antenna. The metamorphoses of the TV into the symbol for death (pre-Christian) is seen as an ascent to a modern g.o.d. (global omnipresent delusion).

The TV antenna itself is actually the new Consumer Cross in the form of a traditional TV antenna. The metaphorical use of the word "cross" indicates a balance of the mind and the body. The cross in its pre-Christian form had balanced parts. The Latin cross places more importance on mind over body wtih a vertical beam longer. The post-Latin cross, (TV-antenna) places more emphasis on the body by doubling the horizontal line.

The version of the Church on display here is in the form of a „spiral“. Mirrors, chalk bpard services as well as the icons and the „wortbild“ from Urs Jaeggi can be fully enjoyed by just walking around or sitting on the church. This version of the Church installation was created especially for the black light artist, Barbara Streiff.

- Art Clay




Interaction in Installation Church Spinoza of Art Clay NYC and Urs Jaeggi CH
by Rap-performance of Moritz Hidalgo
in Kunstfabrik of alpswissart.ch in Mollis Switzerland

Anerkennung der Bundesrat Präsidentin Calmy Rey für das Brasilien Projekt

Anerkennung der Bundesrat Präsidentin Calmy Rey für das Brasilien Projekt 2005 - 2006
von Alpswissart.ch Bruno Kälin und Barbara Streiff

Liebe Frau Streiff
Vielen Dank für Ihre freundliche Nachricht, die Sie auf meiner Homepage hinterlassen haben.
Ich habe mir im Gegenzug Ihre Website www.alpswissart.ch angeschaut und mich mit Interesse über Ihre weltweiten Kunstprojekte informiert. Insbesondere Ihre Arbeit mit Kindern und Kunstschaffenden in Brasilien hat mich beeindruckt. Ich bin überzeugt, dass die Kinder durch die Teilnahme an Ihren Projekten viel Kreativität entwickeln und dadurch auch eine positivere Lebensperspektive erhalten.
Auch der Bund engagiert sich seit vielen Jahren in Brasilien. So hat die schweizerische humanitäre Hilfe ihre Aktionen in den letzten Jahren ebenfalls schwergewichtig auf die Arbeit mit Strassenkindern ausgerichtet und die diesbezügliche Arbeit von Terres des Hommes unterstützt. Der grosse Einsatz von Schweizerinnen und Schweizern durch Projekte wie Ihre verstärkt diese Anstrengungen noch und trägt damit direkt zur Umsetzung des schweizerischen Solidaritätsgedankens bei.
Ich möchte mich deshalb herzlich für Ihr Engagement bedanken und wünsche Ihnen für Ihr weiteres Schaffen viel Glück!
Mit freundlichen Grüssen,

Micheline Calmy-Rey

Communicative art exchange OCPA/Unesco Paris para Projeto no Brasil de Alpswissart

.Projeto no Brasil de Alpwissart Barbara Streiff
Communicative art exchange OCPA/Unesco Paris

Apresentação em Salvador e em toda Bahia do tema:
Intercâmbio de culturas Suiça-Brasil.
(Patrocinado por) Renato Lima - Pelourinho Salvador, Markus Meier Pandoro - Dorfplatz e restaurante Trancoso. Com produção dos artistas locais e da Suiça/Europa.
Veja: www.alpswissart.ch





Pintando Comics com crianças de rua em todo Brasil. Performance do expressivo Motionspaiting (pintura em movimento?!) / Viagem com ônibus e avião pelo Brasil, onde mostrarei os acontecimentos locais de todos os lugares por onde eu passar, através da minha pintura no jornal diário.

Assunto: Exibição "Tudo está concentrado num só lugar(canto)" Saudações!
Eu tenho interesse em apresentar esse Projeto(Installation) "Tudo está concentrado num só lugar". Esses 40-50 esboços/pinturas, cuidadosamente selecionados, (de um total de 100 numeradas e assinadas), dentre as mais expressivas -Motionspaitings- de localidades públicas de todo o mundo, serão expostas, penduradas em um painel de tecido.
5 anos de trabalho rodando pelas estradas de Nova York até os países árabes, mostrando a percepção(visão) e a pintura de uma maioria silenciosa(silenciada?).



Saudações Cordiais,
Barbara Streiff
e-mail: alpswissart@bluewin.ch,
Tel: 0041 55 610 47 08

Projeto (Installation) com a Cultura da luz "Aion", marca da natureza em Caraíva, a arcaica colônia localizada na costa norte do Brasil, meio a uma região de proteção ambiental, próximo da reserva indígena na Bahia. Nessa região, orinalmente uma colônia de pescadores, tudo ainda continua como antigamente(sem influência da modernidade), os transportes são feitos com Burros-táxi e, as pessoas daqui querem continuar a viver sem energia elétrica.



Nessa localidade, de kilômetros de praias, florestas, montanhas e rios intocados, foi montada pelo governo da Bahia, uma área de proteção ambiental; afim de manter preservado esse mundo cheio de maravilhas naturais.
Esse é o lugar, onde há 500 anos atrás o país foi descoberto pelos primeiros portugueses, que viram a primeira montanha da floresta, alcançada com apenas alguns passos. Espantoso que, esse lugar permaneceu oculto à civilização. A aldeia de pescadores Caraíva se manteve bem conservada até os dias de hoje. E o turismo aqui, realizado nos meses de dezembro e janeiro, é uma boa alternativa.

Ruas de areia, nenhuma energia elétrica e transporte com burros não permitem lucros rápidos. Individualidade na forma de ser, jeito interiorano e moderna arquitetura integrada à natureza, fazem parte do dia-a-dia daqui. Pessoas do mundo todo ficaram por aqui e construiram a casa dos seus sonhos, em algum lugar da praia ou bem escondida na floresta. Aqui, nesta localidade, durante a minha estadia, estabeleci contatos interessantes.


As pessoas daqui já se alegram com minhas instalações de esculturas de luz, as quais eu instalarei em homenagem às pessoas, à natureza e ao lugar. O Tema das esculturas com sinais da natureza e seus elementos, estão ligados ao dia-a-dia daqui, vivido de maneira simples e consciente, voltado para a natureza.


Pela noite as pessoas terão aqui luz pelos caminhos e nas paredes das casas simples. Assim como, na areia das ruas, serão projetadas sombras das marcas de fogo. Essa apresentação acontece em conjunto com os turistas e com a organização de proteção a natureza da Bahia. Juntamente com a escola, com os nativos, que lá moram e trabalham. A escola para as crianças da região é uma escola-elite, com aulas modelo, organizada a partir da iniciativa da cidade de Salvador, voltada para crianças do futuro.

Eu fui convidada por esta escola, para ministrar aos sábados, oficinas (Workshops). Farei com eles um trabalho com temas locais; com materiais da natureza, produziremos -mobiles-, pintaremos Cocos, instalações "primae geometrie" de fundamentos da geometria, produção de um labirinto na areia. Arte meditativa sobre a história local em forma de pinturas da visão de como eles vêem o passado.
Como foi festejado nos 500 anos do Brasil, com um protesto dos Indios que afirmam possuir uma história muito mais antiga no Brasil. Isso é pesquisado no Brasil somente pelos novos cientistas. Poucos indícios apontam para uma cultura do passado, a qual essa cultura padrão de como os Golfinhos realmente viviam, sem deixar para trás marcas assim como outros valores, nós europeus, buscamos conhecer. Sem quase nenhuma construção ou outros traços culturais encontrados, embora milhões de pessoas tenham vivido nessa floresta. Aqui, nesse lugar, na floresta, junto a árvores antigas, na cintilante luz do sol, nas nuvens e nas dunas do Mar, eu posso sempre encontrar marcas de vidas passadas (que aqui viviam originalmente) e assim tentar expressar tudo isso em figuras.

O começo disso já está registrado na página: www.alpswissart.ch. Uma parte dessas futuras idéias já foram iniciadas e eu irei me aprofundar nelas.

Installation Church Spinoza of Art Clay NYC and Urs Jaeggi CH by Fluorescence Art Exchange

Church According to McLuhan, 2000 - 2007

Art Clay (USA) & Urs Jaeggi (CHE)

The Church is a conglomeration of messages in the form of icons. The most apparent and the one that is at the root of the design of the church is the stereotypical form of the TV. The steps fo the church, indicating an ascent to enlightenment in the form of ultimate delusion, bring the electronic consumer of "the message" (i.e. the- try-me-and-buy-me-world-belief) to the pinnacle of necessity: adjusting the TV antenna. The metamorphoses of the TV into the symbol for death (pre-Christian) is seen as an ascent to a modern g.o.d. (global omnipresent delusion).

The TV antenna itself is actually the new Consumer Cross in the form of a traditional TV antenna. The metaphorical use of the word "cross" indicates a balance of the mind and the body. The cross in its pre-Christian form had balanced parts. The Latin cross places more importance on mind over body wtih a vertical beam longer. The post-Latin cross, (TV-antenna) places more emphasis on the body by doubling the horizontal line.

The version of the Church on display here is in the form of a „spiral“. Mirrors, chalk bpard services as well as the icons and the „wortbild“ from Urs Jaeggi can be fully enjoyed by just walking around or sitting on the church. This version of the Church installation was created especially for the black light artist, Barbara Streiff.

- Art Clay




Interaction in Installation Church Spinoza of Art Clay NYC and Urs Jaeggi CH
by Rap-performance of Moritz Hidalgo
in Kunstfabrik of alpswissart.ch in Mollis Switzerland

Dancing Emptiness 99 by Tina Zimmermann Master Staate University San Francisco - Concept Art by Barbara Streiff

Dancing Emptiness (physis in techne)
Description of Installation Elements:
"Gaia in a Box" Video and Slide Installation of the five elements (fire, water, earth, air, wood) on five perpendicular walls of a room
A large-scale abstract, systematic representation of the composition of matter and the gaia-ecosystem and humanÕs perspective of it. usually these elements are contained within and around the spherical planet body of earth, here they are translated into a square box/room perspective, which enhances the experience of difference between organic (round, flowing) being and artificial (linear,static, confined) construction.
"Water-Dance" Room-size, large-scale video projection with macro-footage of the ever-changing structure and texture of water (as cloud, creek, river, pond, waterfall, ocean)
One-hour video loop projected on a large wall space or hanging screen-structure.
(Water-metaphor: rhythm of life, ever-lasting change, effortless flow of universal energy, endlessly different manifestations of the same substance/being.)

"Firewall" Large-scale video projections of Fire/Flame structures- perpendicular or opposite to Waterdance-projections
One-hour video loop
(Fire-metaphor: Decomposition and regeneration of the same primal substance as different physical properties. Nurturing and destructing aspects of being)
"Himmel-Hoch" (Sky-Paintings) Multi-panel installation of modulated digital photographs of sunsets of the pacific (clouds, sea, colored light). Images of vertical, or angled sunset-skies, taken out of their usual horizontal perspective, become natural abstract-expressive "paintings": Layers of beautiful color-gradients and intricate textures that the eye and mind disassociates with the romantic idea of a sunset and rather indulges in the perfection of color and shading.
(Sunset-metaphors: ending, transience, completion of a cycle and the melancholic awareness of time fleeting, the experience of the inability to capture ever-changing beauty)
Wolkenrohrschach
(Cloud-association)
(click here for more artwork samples)
Multi-panel slide installation of modulated digital photographs of clouds.
The mirror images of cloud formations make intricate compositions that resemble the images used in the rohrschach-test of psychoanalysis.
(Clouds-metaphor: Clouds are like ideas and imaginations- powerful and dramatic at times or playful and light, but of non-physical substance, primal matter to become materialized in actions and results (rain and rivers)
"Rohrschachtest"- momentary incidental composition of clouds evoke cognitive reactions, distinct associations to known concept and experiences s in our human mind)
"Nature's little people" Large-scale Slide or Video Projections of wood pieces, pebbles, shells and flowers, static or in movement (computer-animated), in isolation or interaction with each other, recontextualized to be viewed as sculptural objects rather than organic debris.
(Metaphor: individuality and uniqueness of each particle, each organism, each human- shaped by their genes, their surroundings and conditioning- each with unique character (-istics), textures and edges. Precious in their singularity, subordinated within a bigger organic system as one of the whole. Flowers: metaphor for pure beauty, innocence and optimism- being "the best one can be")

"Aion"* Digital Collages (click here for more artwork samples)
In this series of digital collages (printed by Digitograf process on canvas, various sizes) I am combining digital photographs of natural objects like stones, feathers, nuts, shells etc. with layered geometrical linework.
Reflecting upon the inherent geometry of the natural objects by transposing geometrical linework I am exploring the universal language of geometric symbolism.
Geometric structures are the basic building blocks of the material universe- all biological, chemical and electromagnetic particles can be broken down into the primal non-physical structure of geometry. The creation, understanding and application of geometric forms were vital steps towards the development of human culture. Until today art, writing, architecture, science and spirituality all rely on the basic concepts of geometry.
Basic geometry- lines, circles, spirals, triangles etc.- emanate subtle inherent frequencies and trigger intuitive understanding of fundamental concepts within the human's psyche.
By engaging the ancient intuitive rather than the discriminating intellectual perception the mandala-like Aion Collages reflect on the pure visual properties of natural objects and the subtle radiance of geometric symbols- both are very close to the essence of life and thus are visual events that are universally understood, before and after word and language.
*aion-greek the eternal
concept by barbara streiff

"Art has its meaning just like any other words," so der Projektleiter Abraham Lubelski vom "Berliner Kunstprojekt"

"Art has its meaning just like any other words," so der Projektleiter Abraham Lubelski vom "Berliner Kunstprojekt". Er sei kein Galerist und das Berliner Kunstprojekt (BK) sei keine Galerie. Seit einem guten halben Jahr experimentiert Lubelski in der Gneisenaustraße 33 in Kreuzberg mit dem selben Konzept wie in seiner anderen – nennen wir es doch Galerie – in New York.
Von der gleichnamigen Malah Lubelski Culture Stiftung und einer IMI Corp. werden die finanziellen Grundrisse für seine Projektideen unterstützt. Es ist Lubelskis Art, die Antwort über das Leben zu suchen. Für ihn soll das Leben nicht von einem Beruf graviert werden, sondern er ist eine Person, die gleichzeitig viele Identitäten hat. Die Unfertigkeit des Lebens und die Sehnsucht nach Erweiterung oder Grenze des persönlichen Horizonts werden zum großen Teil von der Unternehmensphilosophie des Berliner Kunstprojektes zum Ausdruck gebracht. Die etwa 200qm große Räumlichkeit bietet nicht nur jungen Künstlern eine Chance, ihren ersten Schritt in die Öffentlichkeit zu wagen. Sondern der Ort sollte auch als Sammelpunkt neuer Ideen und Experimente funktionieren.
Wer zu dem monatlich wechselnden Ausstellungsprogramm etwas beitragen möchte, kann sich mit seiner Idee bei Abraham Lubelski vorstellen. Diese ungewöhnliche Offenheit, die er anbietet, dient als Unterstützung der Gegenseitigkeit, dass das Nonprofit-Konzept in einer sehr geschickten Weise doch irgendwie für die Teilnehmer Profit bringen könnte. Wenn Sie keine Ahnung haben, wie es geht, oder wenn eine geniale Idee über Kunst in Ihnen steckt, dann schauen Sie vielleicht dort mal vorbei.

Berliner Kunstprojekt | Gneisenaustraße 33 | 10961 Berlin
Öffnungszeiten: Mittwoch - Samstag 13-18Uhr

more communication in atelier of barbara streiff artfabric swiss mountains
communicative art installation
action artexchange of alpswissart international

Stegähuus Usstellig
Treppen Haus Ausstellung
Step exhibition


Installation im Treppenhaus der alten Spinnerei Mollis

Kultureller Austausch mit Kunstschaffenden aus aller Welt,
Bilder von Menschen für die visuelles Gestalten realer Alltag ist.



CH-Project alte Spinnerei Mollis
Barbara Streiff Po.720 CH-8750 Glarus
Mit über 100 Werken, welche ich bei der Zusammenarbeit, im kulturellen Austausch
bei verschiedenen Ausstellungen und Besuchen von Kunstschaffenden erhalten habe,

All die verschiedenen Malstile und Techniken zeigen die Vielfalt des
visuellen Gestaltens auf und wirken auf den Betrachter anregend.
Auf die Kunstschule bezogen, welche in der Vernetzung der Kunst Hochschule Zürich im gestalterischen Unterricht für Kinder und Jugendliche angeschlossen ist, lernen die Menschen, welche den kulturellen Ort besuchen eine Einsicht in den gestalterischen Unterricht zu gewinnen. Bei soviel Originalität auf eigene Art und Weise zu arbeiten, lernen die Menschen spielerisch Ihre eigene Vorstellung zu entwickeln.

Die Arbeiten haben kein Anspruch auf Vollendung, da sie oft skizzenhaft sind und in der Kommunikation zueinander stehen. Ich habe bei der Installation im Treppenhaus den Versuch gemacht die verschiedenen Kunstschaffenden einander zu zuordnen, wobei dies auf die Zeit, den Ort, die Technik, oder gemeinsame Ausstellungen zurückzuführen ist.

Da die alte Spinnerei von vielen Kunstschaffenden und kreativen Freizeitgestaltern besucht wird, ist beim Treppenaufgang eine visuelle Begegnung entstanden.
Diese alltägliche Begegnung mit dem visuellen Gestalten von all den Kunstschaffenden aus aller Welt wird auf meine Anfrage hin begrüsst und als farbige und interessante Bereicherung des Ortes empfunden.


Geschaffen von Menschen für welche das visuelle Gestalten realer Alltag ist.

Diese Ausstellung ist seit 2004 im Treppenhaus der Kunstfabrik Mollis,
alte Spinnerei alle Tage frei zu besichtigen, wenn im Hause gearbeitet wird.

communicative art exchage in conceptual art projects by barbara streiff

Conceptual Art Projects by Barbara Streiff
in Communicative Art Exchange International

Conditions for Interested Artists all over the World

For artists from different areas and cultures all over the world, this is the beginning of a new direction in communicative art: working as a group – organizing exhibitions, traveling art, or art exchanges. The aim is to encourage more communication, respect, and acceptance by bringing all cultures together through different works of artistic expression and character.

Thank you for believing in my work as a curator. I have worked freelance for over 20 years organizing exhibitions worldwide. Years ago I learned how to do this at the Kornfeld Auction House in Switzerland and also in New York with Abraham Lubelski. My last international project was the World Exhibition for Freedom under the patronage of the Swiss Commission for Unesco in 2003. By searching on the websites: www.alpswissart.ch or www.unesco.ch under Fly Gallery, you can learn more about my work as an artist and as an organizer of exhibitions from 1999 – 2006.

The idea and theme of respect and acceptance in communicative art came out of my travels and work as an artist. I've worked for years gathering contacts with artists and cultural centers in order to be well connected, and my thanks goes out to all cultural centers open for these art-exchange exhibitions. Through all my contacts with different artists in Indonesia, Italy, French, Germany, Spain, San Francisco, Africa, China, Russia, etc., I learned to be myself in character, philosophy, craft, and design.

Organizing international art exchanges comes out my AION artwork. The philosophy behind AION is the primal geometry taken from symbols in nature: the first signs found in all ancient cultures throughout the world. Primal geometry connects ALL cultures over ALL time.

You are cordially invited to join this group of world artists. As a member artist you can organize exhibitions in your local area, documenting the different artwork and mentioning your connection to this project. Organizing artists should also invite some of the other member artists to take part in their exhibitions. We could also organize free studio exchanges for a time.

The project Communicative Art Project International is not for profit and all rights are held by the organization alpswissart. All use and profit from the project without consent is prohibited.
The rights for the use and the profit of the local exhibitions organized by member artists belong to the organizers and participants.

There is a lot of administrative work to do in administration and coordination. Everyone is free to help by working and organizing, or to help pay for the promotion, transport, etc. Payments for the art exchange, exhibition, or traveling art for the organization have to be made before the exhibitions. There is no title or responsibility by alpswissart.

Every artist who subscribes to the above definitions and principles and wants to definitely take part in the Communicative Art Project International is free to participate. I have taken the liberty, since I was asked to, to mention your name on the tentative list published on my website, in cultural centers, and at events and art exchanges for the Communicative Art Project International.

I believe that we need a meeting to intensify and strengthen the contact within the group in order to launch this communicative art project all over the world in the coming years.
If you have good ideas, suggestions, problems or misunderstandings, please send an e-mail to
alpswissart@bluewin.ch . It is important to have good communication among ourselves and to respect and accept each other - just as we respect and accept all religions and cultures.

We will do our best so that these exhibitions, traveling art, and art exchanges of communicative art will be a project of respect and acceptance.

With friendly greetings from Switzerland
Barbara Streiff

SWISS ARTISTS FROM GLARUS AT BROADWAY IN NYC CONCEPT BY BARBRA STREIFF

SWISS ARTISTS FROM GLARUS AT BROADWAY IN NYC

projectorganisation during 2001 by barbara streiff

SWISS ARTISTS FROM GLARUS IN NYC THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF ART:
75 years of art history visits NYC. The project Swiss Artists From Glarus will show at Gallery Abraham Lubelski 450/473 Broadway, March 6-17, 2001.
The more than 20 artists all live and work in the Swiss mountain valley of Glarus. Last year they teamed up to do a valley-wide exhibition on eight historical sites throughout their mountain Canton. Quite a number of the participating artists are former students and gallery artists of Glarus' Art School Center, Fly Gallery, headed by artist Barbara Streiff in the gods of the old railway station in CH-8750 Glarus in Switzerland.
The NYC exhibit is conceived and organized by the Head of the Glarus Art School Center and Fly Gallery, Barbara Streiff. For the last ten years, she has been working in the cultural heart of Glarus, as artist, sculptor, art teacher, and curator of socio-interactive exhibitions recognized throughout Europe. A major concern is the socio-cultural animation of art - the kind of Vernetzung or Verflechtung that also marks her sculptural work. The Vernetzung/Verflechtung sculptures are now internationally known as AÏON or primae geometrie sculptures. In 1999, Streiff was invited to her AÏON work at the Abraham Lubelski Gallery. Out of this contact the idea of a joint visit in the same gallery emerged.
With writer, art critic and academic Astrid Brunner, the project Swiss Artists From Glarus has found its journalist. Brunner, who commutes regularly between Glarus and Canada, has devoted much of her writing to The Forgotten Children Of Art. This aspect of her art writing is a tribute to her childhood valley.

Anne A. Vogt, art teacher at the Glarus High School. One of her achievements in the Glarus art community was her success in having art at school evaluated on a par with the traditionally more highly evaluated subjects on the academic curriculum, such as mathematics and languages. Her worldwide workshops and performances in the spirit of Buddhism represent the tenth of Tibetans that make up the population of the Canton Glarus. Workshops and performances in Switzerland, Italy, Paris, Germany, GB, Spain, New Zealand, Guatemala, Habitat II Istambul, Tibet China, Amazon Brasil, Borubudur Java. Her newest art work, "Viara-Icones", are microsized prayer paintings in mixed tenique on wood panels, continuums, triptichons and diptichons with spiritual energy through the space as inspiration.
Roberto Koch, a professional computer instructor at the KV Zürich Business School, has assisted the Swiss Artists From Glarus project by designing and constructing for its own commercial website, actually at http://www.alpswissart.ch.
Paul Lohnke, aged 95, is the oldest participant of the Glarus-to-NYC project - the youngest is performance artist Sarah Burger, aged 18. Lohnke's career reaches back to Zürich's Dada art scene of the mid-twenties. "It is only a play with form and color, I never wanted to say anything more than that," he says to this day. He still paints incessantly. Jakob Schneider lives in the hindmost village of the Glarus valley. He paints religious allegories and expressionist landscapes; his technical handling of chiaroscuro reminds of Segantini. A poor boy from the alps, he later, as a young artist, managed to travel all over Europe. A portion of his allegorical work is installed permanently at a church in Stuttgart. Though Swiss Artists From Glarus presents a multiplicity of styles, the overall project is a coherent whole born from the mutual respect for each other's work amongst the participating artists. The naturalistic approach is seen in the watercolors of Sr. Hadwig Vogel, the large silk and cotton batique canvases of Heinz Bächler, the natural stone sculptures of Hansueli Knobel; a number of artists work in expressionist to abstract techniques in various media and diverse professions, such as architecture, jewelry, teaching, graphic design, sculpting, performing, and photography. Fridolin Walcher is a realist photographer whose special approach and themes put him at the forefront of the European photographic scene. He also works on commissions for industry and tourism.Very different is photographer Ruth Zweifel. Her poetic photo-pictures are meticulous and highly skilled technically. Her subjects are the landscape of the Glarus valley, its mountains and distinct natural character traits. Heinz Bächler pursues the same theme, but extends the natural world into often anthropomorphised fairy-tale dimensions. Bächler's work is historically significant as well in that it tunes in with the age-old textile industry for which the Canton of Glarus is famous worldwide. Susan Honegger takes as her concerns with the traditional Glarus textile industry inside the textile factories. In an expressionist-poetic style she sketches, draws, and paints its history from inside out. After years of rendering the local textile history, she has ended up working in a totally abstract style based on the rudimentary tools of industrial textile making - spindle, warp and woof. Architect Pierre Haefelfinger presents himself in a purely abstract manner with his Slidepictures, with which he invites the viewer to touch and manipulate his movable paintings and to rearrange them constructively into new individual constellations. Armin Simon's monochrome paintings, worked with pigments made from scratch, present a reductio ad absurdum of abstract technique and thinking. The almost fundamentalist purism of this artist is well illustrated by his painstakingly constructed website. Greth Spälty's work lives from the structure of color put on in layers, which are then incised in various techniques. Her untitled work is a kind of radical expressionism. Sculptor Alfred Knobel jun. works in extreme 3-D abstractionism, which amounts to a direct inner dialogue with the essence of any given rock material. The logical radical step of this dialogue is to deconstruct the stone to its powdery particles, which are then painted on plexiglass surfaces. Design-jeweller and interior designer Peter Oberholzer works in precious metals, mostly on one-of-a-kind commissions. His abstraction are not unlike the cut precious stones that are part of his art material.
Barbara Streiff and her Glarus Art School Center presents tachist and surrealist student work with Heidi van Sprundel, Valerio Manfré, and Martha Mayhensek. Heidi van Sprundel with her fantasy pictures from trees, flowers, women and landscapes she gives back her sensitive impressions of nature, expression in strong bright colors and forms. Her technique is mixed in different coats, colors and styles. Valerio Manfré favorites are the motion paintings in surrealism. In a long time process, he brings the 3d dimension in his intuitive paintings. Martha Mayhensek, her mystic paintings tell the story of her live. Her concentration of color and form is like a ritual of intuition. Her favorite technique is to paint with selfproduced pigmented colors and the use of different materials.
Many of the youngest Glarus artists showing in NYC have been formed by the Glarus Art School Center with Barbara Streiff's Fly Gallery, either as students or exhibitors, often both. Another influence is Anne A. Vogt, art teacher at the Glarus High School. Owing to these influences are Katrin Hotz, Ingrid Käser, Frederick Rossmann and Sarah Burger. These are the new generation of Glarus artists - sculptors, graphic designers, performers - some of whom already with exhibitions and art studies throughout Europe to their credit.
The future of The Forgotten Children of Art from Glarus may not be forgotten, thanks to the chance given them by Abraham Lubelski's invitation to host their work in his international gallery space on 450/473 Broadway, NYC, March 6-17, 2001.




MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST/PUBLISHER OF NY ARTSMAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL

ABRAHAM LUBELSKI

Abraham Lubelski was born in Siberia in the USSR in 1940. In 1950 he immigrated to the United States with his parents. He became a U. S. citizen in 1954. Mr. Lubelski has been a professional artist for more than four decades and over the years has worked back and forth between painting, conceptual projects and installatons. In 1969 he completed a number of street works and performances in conjunction with the Architecture League of New York which were written up in Life and People magazines. In the 1970‚s, among his other projects, he developed theater set designs. In the late 70‚s and early 80‚s Mr. Lubelski exhibited at the Neill Gallery in SoHo. Since the 1980‚s Mr. Lubelski has exhibited internationally on a regular basis. He has exhibited in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, and Hamburg, and, as well, in Poland, Japan, and various countries in South America. In conjunction with these exhibitions a number of catalogues have been produced and reviews have appeared in such international publications as Flash Art. Since 1990 Mr. Lubelski has managed several exhibition spaces on Broadway in SoHo in New York City. He has used the spaces to give exhibitions to underrepresented artists (from the U. S. and abroad) and has, in addition, sponsored the visits to the United States of numerous international artists. For several years Mr. Lubelski has been supporting and developing a traveling exhibition called Re: Duchamp which presents the work of 250 artists (the list is still in progress) and has already been viewed in New York City, Poland, Turkey, Italy (during the course of the Venice Biennale as part of the Biennale sponsored event Markers) and Israel.