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Showing posts with label Moscow. Show all posts
Ben Heine Exhibitions in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Omsk, Arkhangelsk and Tyumen
In 2015 and 2016, Ben Heine had a major itinerant exhibition in Russia, which started in June at Moscow Planetarium and moved every 3 months to Arkhangelsk, Omsk, Saint Petersburg and then Tyumen. The show featured over 30 large size Pencil Vs Camera signed canvases along with eight interactive installations, which enabled the visitors to literally travel inside Heine's world. Heine also made a public Flesh and Acrylic live performance for the opening of the exhibition at Moscow Planetarium. Ben Heine music was also broadcasted for the first time in public during these events.
Flesh and Acrylic Abstract Project at Moscow Planetarium
This is a Flesh and Acrylic project Ben Heine made in June 2015 for the opening of his exhibition at Moscow Planetarium (more info).
In Flesh and Acrylic, Heine creates abstract acrylic paintings on large wooden panels. A living person is integrated in the artwork and is part of the whole abstract composition.
When the painting is complete, the model seems to have completely evaporated. The end result is often very colorful, intuitive, wild and eye-catching. There is something choreographic about Flesh And Acrylic.
In Flesh and Acrylic, Heine creates abstract acrylic paintings on large wooden panels. A living person is integrated in the artwork and is part of the whole abstract composition.
Ben Heine Solo Exhibitions in Russia - Photos from Fans
Here is a selection of photos from fans and visitors who visited Ben Heine's solo itinerant exhibitions in Russia. You'll find more pictures on instagram with the hashtag #benheinerussia and in this blog post (press releases and videos about this event can be viewed here). Heine's exhibitions started at Moscow Planetarium in 2015 and moved to Arkhangelsk National Museum, then at Tyumen's Fine Arts Museum, then at Omsk State History Museum and finally at Art Muza in Saint Petersburg later in 2016. The show featured over 30 large size signed canvas prints and 8 interactive installations. Heine made a Flesh and Acrylic live performance and his music was broadcasted for the first time at Moscow Planetarium.
Tell it, if You can
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Can we suppress the old Remorse
Who bends our heart beneath his stroke,
Who feeds, as worms feed on the corse,
Or as the acorn on the oak?
Can we suppress the old Remorse?
Ah, in what philtre, wine, or spell,
May we drown this our ancient foe,
Destructive glutton, gorging well,
Patient as the ants, and slow?
What wine, what philtre, or what spell?
Tell it, enchantress, if you can,
Tell me, with anguish overcast,
Wounded, as a dying man,
Beneath the swift hoofs hurrying past.
Tell it, enchantress, if you can,
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To him the wolf already tears
Who sees the carrion pinions wave,
This broken warrior who despairs
To have a cross above his grave
This wretch the wolf already tears.
Can one illume a leaden sky,
Or tear apart the shadowy veil
Thicker than pitch, no star on high,
Not one funereal glimmer pale
Can one illume a leaden sky?
Hope lit the windows of the
But now that shining flame is dead;
And how shall martyred pilgrims win
Along the moonless road they tread?
Satan has darkened all the
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Say, do you know, the reprobate?
Know you Remorse, whose venomed darts
Make souls the targets of their hate?
Witch, do you know accursed hearts?
The Might-have-been with tooth accursed
Gnaws at the piteous souls of men,
The deep foundations suffer first,
And all the structure crumbles then
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed.
Often, when seated at the play,
And sonorous music lights the stage,
I see the frail hand of a Fay
With magic dawn illume the rage
Of the dark sky. Oft at the play
A being made of gauze and fire
Casts to the earth a Demon great.
And my heart, whence all hopes expire,
Is like a stage where I await,
In vain, the Fay with wings of fire!
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.--> The person represented in the drawings is Ejenia Spasskaja, a Moscovite artist.
--> See Ejenia's paintings on DeviantART
--> See Ejenia's photos on DeviantART
--> Poems’ source : poetry-archive
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