Rabarama in Holland, solo show

(text in Dutch below)

After the recent and successful participation to Artsit-IQ in Amsterdam (January 2015), the internationally renowned artist Rabarama (www.rabarama.info) is back to Holland in a solo show that will be held at Van Loon Galleries (www.vanloongalleries.com) from April 18th to May 31st .
Rabarama is recognized worldwide as a leading contemporary sculptor thanks to her numerous public exhibitions in cities like Florence, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Miami, Cannes and for her participation to the 54th Venice Biennale.

The liaison between Rabarama and Holland is one of the most significative in her career, has Rabarama states:
“Holland is one of the first Countries to have appreciated my art at the beginning of my career. My first exhibition here dates back to the year 2004 and in these years so many Dutch Collectors have acquired my works. I can easily say that an important part of my career has now a record in the private homes, in the offices, halls and art galleries of The Netherlands, like a diffused museum.
I must say that for me it was a pleasure to have direct contacts with the Dutch people and collectors because I feel a real and genuine interest towards art mixed with an elegant and discrete personal attitude. Your Country is famous around the world for the History and the achievements in the present about freedom, culture, society and science and for the everlasting bright colors: I think Holland is a great example of what I'm trying to achieve with my art, to bring vital energies in my sculptures and painting through the universal meaning of Beauty. Thank you to Van loon Galleries and to Holland”.

Van Loon Galleries have a long lasting history of successfull collaboration with Rabarama and the exhibition that is now occurring is representative of the Artist's career, with “historical” works along with the newest ones to testimony the most recent creative phase of Rabarama, as Joris van Loon from Van Loon Galleries declares”Rabarama is a major artist for Van Loon Galleries, we always wanted to organize another solo exhibition with her after the successful exhibition in March 2012. ”

The exhibition's opening weekend will take place at Van Loon Galleries (Taalstraat 53 • 5261 BB Vught ) on 18-19th of April and will last until May 31st (opening hours of the exhibition: 12.00 - 17.00. The official opening will be on sunday the 19th of April at 14.00 at Van Loon Galleries

Information:
T (0)31 073 - 684 00 15
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Na de succesvolle deelname aan Artist-IQ in Amsterdam (januari - februari 2015) is de internationaal bekende kunstenares Rabarama weer in Nederland. Ditmaal voor een solo expositie (van 18 april tot en met 31 mei) bij Van Loon Galleries te Vught. Rabarama wordt wereldwijd gezien als een voorloper op het gebied van moderne kunst. Ze heeft al op verschillende plaatsen geëxposeerd met haar werk waaronder steden als: Florence, Parijs, Shanghai, Beijing, Miami and Cannes. Daarnaast heeft ze ook deelgenomen aan de 54e Biënnale van Venetië.

De band tussen Rabarama en Nederland is zeer bijzonder. Zelf zegt ze daarover: “ Nederlands is een van de landen die ik waardeer vanaf het begin van mijn carrière. Mijn eerste expositie in Nederland dateert alweer van 2004 en sindsdien zijn er vele kunstverzamelaars die mijn werk hebben aangekocht. Ik heb de communicatie met Nederlanders altijd als zeer plezierig ervaren omdat ze oprecht geïnteresseerd zijn in kunst.
Jullie land is beroemd om zijn historie en tolerantie en jullie staan tegenwoordig bekend als een land waar vrijheid, cultuur en wetenschap de boventoon voeren. Ik denk dat Nederland ook als voorbeeld geldt voor wat ik probeer te bereiken met mijn kunst, ik probeer bepaalde energie in mijn sculpturen en schilderijen te leggen. Ik wil via deze weg Van Loon Galleries en Nederland bedanken voor het vertrouwen”.

De succesvolle samenwerking tussen Van Loon Galleries en Rabarama duurt inmiddels al 8 jaar. De aankomende expositie bij Van Loon Galleries is een verbond tussen mijn nieuwste creaties en beelden uit het verleden.

Het openingsweekend van deze bijzondere expositie zal plaatsvinden op 18 en 19 april. De officiële opening zal zondag 19 april om 14.00 aanvangen in het bijzijn van de kunstenares Rabarama. De gehele expositie zal uiteindelijk nog duren tot en met zondag 31 mei.

T (0)31 073 - 684 00 15
E info@vanloongalleries.com
www.vanloongalleries.com

HSIEN: I'Ching inspired artwork

31 - HSIEN

A lake on the mountain:
The image of influence.
Thus the superior man encourages people to approach him
By his readiness to receive them.

A mountain with a lake on its summit is stimulated by the moisture from 
the lake. It has this advantage because its summit does not jut out as a peak 
but is sunken. The image counsels that the mind should be kept humble and 
free, so that it may remain receptive to good advice. People soon give up 
counseling a man who thinks that he knows everything better than anyone 
else.

The series of my works inspired by the hexagrams Chinese oracle I'Ching has so impressed the Cirque du Soleil that in 2013 yjey have made a part of their show with the artists who wore suits made in the likeness of my works  in a performance on water, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas Palace, an amazing sight !! (a little moment here and  here you can also see my artwork donated to the charity auction)

Cirque du Soleil performance inspired to Rabarama's works. Bellagio Palace, Las Vegas, March 2013

I present my mixed media on cardboard, "Hsien", 2014, and to have a global view of my works inspired by the I'Ching you can see here 

HSIEN
page on the website: http://www.rabarama.info/#!mixed-hsien-b/c112h

HSIEN

Medium: mixed technique on cardboard, cm: 29 x 20

year: 2014, unique piece

On the I'CHING: http://www.ichingonline.net/index.php

ON THE TRACKS OF DESTINY : Rabarama and the I’ Ching

“Just as causality describes the sequence of events,so synchronicity to the Chinese mind deals with the coincidence of events. (...) Even to the most biased eye it is obvious that this book represents one long admonition to careful scrutiny of one’s own character,
attitude, and motives.” Carl Gustav Jung, foreword to I’ Ching

front: Rabarama's I'CHING series artwork at 798 Art Space in Beijing

The more “philosophical” side of Rabarama’s work, which moves steadily in short, lucid swerves, continues in the confutation of reason as the primary instrument of knowledge and interpretation of reality, both extrinsic and interior, as far as human beings are concerned.
The striving after the conquest of an alternative thought leads in an almost natural way to the I’ Ching, the famous work on the ancient Chinese art of wisdom.

Rabarama, WEI CHI, 2008

Besides assuming synchronicity and not causality as the interpretation of events,  the I’ Ching indissolubly links its validity as a method of revelation and divination with the knowledge of themselves, a theme around which Rabarama’s work always revolves.

Rabarama, HSIEN, 2008

If the other pole of her study is the persuasion of the looming presence of a “destiny”, then oriental wisdom seems to offer the artist’s creatures new possible solutions: with a view to prophesying them, the recent protagonists of her works seem to associate the thought of their interiority with the immersion in an impalpable, but enveloping melancholy, the likely superior condition of a greater capacity to “see” and of the same creativity.

Rabarama, TUI, 2008

From a purely expressive point of view the light can return to gently caress the surfaces, revealing less bold and contrasted chromatic shades in favor of other more muted and uniform ones.

The intimation of a new sensitivity, which had begun to spread earlier progresses into the femininity of “Hsu”, suffused by the subtle outstretching of her forms by a mild and at the same time painful tedium that characterize the figure.

Rabarama, CHUNG FU, 2008

The extensive use of the hexagram motif, part of the divinatory aspect of I’ Ching, customarily establishes a game midway between their purely decorative importance, the meaning of which they are originally the bearers, and their reference to the artist’s creative development.

 Their intermittent linearity appears effectively to summarize Rabarama’s artistic production, undertaken along the line of a thought, which through suspensions and reconversions has always found itself and its own matrix.

Rabarama, KEN, 2008

(artworks available on Rabarama official website)