by: Loredana OPREA
Date of publication: 17/01/2012

The Holotropic Art exhibition is opening today. The works can be admired until 12 February.

Professional artists from four continents – Europe, USA, Asia and Africa – will exhibit at Iasi. Their creations will be presented at the third edition of the exhibition “Art holotropic Annual International”. The opening is scheduled today at 18 o’clock at Dana Gallery in Str. Prof. Cujba.

The exhibition brings together paintings by artists from France, Denmark, Switzerland, Romania, USA, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria and Algeria. Among the exhibitors this year are painters who participated in previous editions: Attika Boubezari (Algeria), Muriel Desgardin (Switzerland), Marina Kulik (France), Edi Apostu, Zamfira Birzu, Gabriela Drinceanu, Ana Gabriela Dulgheru and Dorin Lehaci (Romania). For the first time participating artists Wale Ajay (Nigeria), Helle Antonsen (Denmark), Smaranda Bostan, Sabin Drinceanu, Roxana Irina Odobasa, Lucian Sebastian Radu (Romania), Nadine Bertulessi (France), Anton Buttler (South Africa), Dumas Hufreesh (India), Damaring Ferasmara (Indonesia) and Dave Dazzlin Peterson (USA).

In making their creations, participants used inspirational music composed especially for this event by the initiator of this artistic trend, Edi Apostu. In his opinion, holotropic art is the art which is the result of transpersonal experiences and which can transpose the beholder into states of overconsciousness.

“His music influences my work: usually I let myself be inspired by a combination of my mood, sound, the light, the weather and the behavior of my paint, transparent aquarelle, which is thin as water and mixes, blends, drips and flows. The “look and feel” is organic, natural. For this project I concentrated mainly on music, which is new to me and cannot be compared. In order to express what I experience with Edi Apostu’s music I have chosen a mixture of smooth oil and opaque acrylics, which give me more control, and deeper tones. The transparency and the suggestion of depth and volume that I use in my “regular” paintings appear in this work too – the music requires that”. says artist Marina Kulik.

The exhibition will be presented by Edi Apostu and will be hosted by Dana Gallery until 12 February.

Galerie Oscar is a galerie for contemporary, modern art. They work in an original and different way with their artists and  for example regularly have events around the art, with speakers, music and great food. They also organize yoga classes in the mornings and arrange art rentals.

You can visit the exhibition and Galerie Oscar on 9 Rue Fodéré, 06300 NICE
For more information visit http://www.galerieoscar.com

 Out of hundreds of entries, one of the two paintings that Marina Kulik entered in the Grand Prix d’Aquarelle has won the prize of the Culture Council! Her other painting (MCRose 13) received a honorary mention.

‘This year I am trying out several contests to see if that works as well for publicity as exhibiting does. So far there wasn’t much worth mentioning, I ended up in the last fifty in the ‘Power of Self’ art contest (with self-portraits) and just missed the finals of the Saatchi Showdown (3 votes short, ouch!). This fall I  was invited to participate in the Grand Prix d’Aquarelle 2011. It was an interesting contest, with a theme that I found appealing: ‘Roses without thorns’.

There were strict rules, the work should be made specifically for this Grand Prix, and it was not permitted to show it anywhere else before it was judged. That’s why it hasn’t been on my website until last week! I have actually produced three works for it, but one, though great fun to create, didn’t come through my own ballot. I painted the singers of the Dutch song ‘Rozen Zonder Doornen’,  Gert en Hermien Timmermans… very lame but now kind of cult- But it would only mean something to older Dutch people.

Ok, and the other two that made it were a new version of my McRoses, number 13, a big one on handmade paper. Certainly no thorns there, as it is a painting suggesting an estranged rose, from fabric, or ‘pillows’ as many people say.
The second was more complicated, and I am very happy that it is this one that won the prize: it’s name is ‘Farewell’ because I painted it like the roses we dropped in the water of the North Sea, after we scattered the ashes of a dear friend. And, it has as a subtitle  ’Such roses do not exist, but you can hide the thorns’. Hence the ribbon around it.

I am very happy with this acknowledgement!

One more contest-like happening to go, I have also entered for the second time in the Holotropic Art Symposium, held in Rumania, and this year it has prizes too.

Fingers crossed and I’ll tell you all about that in another post…’

The galerie is open every day from 10am – 7pm

Casablù
Rue Eugène Giraud
06560 VALBONNE

Aquarellista Marina Kulik is one of the chosen artists. She will show her large size abstracts, big multicolour roses and  a preview on her ‘Glam Women’ portraits.

“I participated in the first edition and I had a great time with the other artists, we had inspiring talks and of course tremendous fun… In the picture below (ripped from the official brochure) you can see me (middle, right), looking at the work of another participant. The number of visitors could have been higher and the organisation promised for the second edition to promote better and louder. 
This year more galeries are exhibiting and the overall quality seems to be higher, the ‘ballotage’ being more strict. I got selected, phew! My stand will be next to that of my Dutch sculptor-friend Ineke Velsink. Our work looks great together and I look very much forward to showing it to the many international visitors. I expect to sell and get commissions for Glamorous Women Portraits”
The entry to the Contemporary Art Fair ‘Franchement Art’ is free, more information on their website

nb: if you are looking for painters (like me) go to ‘Plasticiens’

From March 1st onwards, until 2012, six aquarelle watercolours created by the Marina Artist Team will be on display in the Dutch Consulate in Nice. The Marina Artist Team are Marina Kulik, Marina Teding-van Berkhout and Cathie van der Stel, three aquarellistas, who work together on commissions for houses, portraits (of people and pets) and wedding bouquets.
The Consulate already owns a portrait in aquarelle of her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, made by Marina Kulik.

Shown are a Berner Senner puppy and Grapes by Marina Teding van Berkhout, portrait of a black woman and poppies by Cathie van der Stel and portrait of a little girl and Cat & Frog by Marina Kulik. The exhibition is open to everybody visiting the Dutch consulate. Click the dutch flag on the upper right hand side to read the Dutch translation…

The show is initiated and organized by Ambre International,  an association promoting “quality contemporary art by famous international artists whose work contributes to the Mediterranean and European cultural influence“.  It will feature Marina’s existing myDNA series as well as her recent work on “Planets”.

The exhibition is open on working days from 8 AM to 7PM.

Les Terrasses d’Antipolis
300 route des Crêtes
06902 Sophia-Antipolis
Tel : 0493006060

From 10 to 24 December, the yearly exhibition “Petits Formats” takes place in the Salle Saint-Esprit in Valbonne.
A group of around 15 artists show their smaller work and sell it for very interesting prices: starting at 10€, the maximum is 250 €.
Marina Kulik is one of the exhibiting artists. She will show poetic aquarelles, with high quality hand signed prints that can be used as exclusive Christmas cards.

“I am working on a series of “Christmas decorations” right now, it is great fun to do and I have really fallen in love with the concept of Xmas balls, they look so great, I may produce a couple of real ones. and definitely some big artistic handpainted beads for the Dutch jewelry brand Merrl that I design for. But I can’t say for sure what I will end up with in December, I’ll keep you posted.
If you are interested in ordering a couple of cards, drop me an email via the contact page and I’ll get back to you!”

In the Terminal 1 and 2 business centers of Nice Aéroport, the exhibition “Femmes du Monde” can be admired. It is an interesting collection of paintings and sculptures by a heterogenuous group of  artists with the same intriguing theme, known as “the woman”!

Three of the participating artists are related to the Pink Ribbon charity - they are Wim Teunissen, Fiona Biziou both painted one month in the Pink Ribbon calendar, as did Marina Kulik, who has painted several aquarelles in support of Pink Ribbon, the association helping women and men around the world in their fight against breast cancer

“For this exhibition, Nice Aéroport has chosen three of my « Pink Ribbon » portraits, picturing Amanda, Francien and Minou! They are on display on a prominent spot, with a couple of other portraits of women…

The exhibition is open until the 22d of October