Italian Art Collector Concettotimpani, known as Luca Timpani, acquired and artists proof of my abstract artwork “Light inside light, Reflection #7” for his #Concettotimpani project.

About Luca and the Concettotimpani project

Luca Timpani is a lawyer specializing in copyright and protection of intellectual property in Rome. He has a long passion for art but just got his foot in the collecting scene. Luca started collecting in 2010 and is already one of the most loved figures on social media. Especially through his Instagram @concettotimpani! 

In this online-to-offline world, Luca developed his own #concettotimpani project. An interactive and dynamic means of art sponsorship based on social networks. Enhancing lesser known artists’ visibility and finding them a potential audience. His collection is displayed around his home, the appropriately named: “Salotto Timpani”, Timpani’s Lounge. 

How my work wound up in Italy 

Luca saw my abstract photographic work through Instagram and messaged me about one of my pieces acquired for his collection in the @concettotimpani salon.

We exchanged email and he explained that the project aims to sponsor more and less famous authors, in order to help the latter to have visibility and potential customers, arising from the audience attracted by the first, “The artist are very happy, and so am I.” How could I not want to be part of this incredible collection or work that includes Damien Hirst, Mario Schifano, Taner Ceylan, K-Narf, David LaChapelle, Pietro Ruffo, Lucio Fontana

The philosophy 

To further get know him and the project Luca sent me an interview he did on the Larry’s List website. What really spoke to me and engaged me to send work to Concettotimpani was how Luca answered this question.

Would you ever consider showing your collection to the public?
For now, I want to keep all the work for me and for my friends. They belong to me, and I want to enjoy them every morning when I wake up. 

I really believe in living with artwork. It’s potential to relax, energize and hold the space and influence the overall mood of the room. I don’t want my work to wind up in storage and locked away in a museum basement like a hostage. Artwork is for living and enjoying daily, as Luca said “I want to enjoy them every morning when I wake up.”  IConcettotimpani

Read the entire Larry’s List interview with Luca here.

Visit the Concettotimpani website  

Light Inside Light, Day 7

 

#concettotimpani | Luca Timpani | Art Influencer

 

The USPS Art Project is a mail art / artist collaboration project created by Christina Massey. It’s free and open for anyone who wants to participate. The goal is for unique collaborative artworks to be created, allowing the artists to establish deeper connections with others while practicing social distancing. In doing so, this helps the financially struggling USPS by sending and receiving packages. The finished artworks are shared online on the @uspsartproject social media accounts. Click here to participate.

Hundreds of artists have joined in the project, ranging from sculpture to painting, drawing, mixed media, fiber art and more. The artists now have the opportunity to submit their collaborations for several exhibition opportunities. A hybrid traveling exhibition / theme exhibition with locations and dates secured at four venues thus far. This is a non-juried exhibition; artworks are accepted on a rolling submission basis until capacity is reached at each respective exhibition space. Artists who exceed a location’s capacity have the option to enter into the following location.

Please help support the shipping expenses of the project between venues and for return shipment of artworks by making a donation to the GoFundMe page. This helps to ensure no one gallery is over burdened by shipping expenses, and donations go right back into supporting the US Post Office by purchasing more services.

My love for the USPS

The US Postal service holds a special place in my heart. When I was a boy our mailman, “Howie” would arrive every day with a smile. He’d hand down the mail from his cool looking red-white-and-blue mail truck and give me a few rubber bands, paperclips and white mailing label stickers. I loved office supplies, I still do. I was a strange kid, but I used the rubber bands and paper clips on my inventions of paper airplanes and other flying machines. Howie the mailman was a positive part of our community. I’d often see him hop off his truck to help a neighbor or a kid like me with their bike or put a rogue sprinkler back on track.

Please consider donating to help save an institution that’s been hobbled and used as a political pawn by the bureaucracy of the US government.

The process and progression of creating the artwork

I connected with BloodyKnucklesArt via Instagram and they sent a piece of artwork for the collaboration. This very cool textured ripped up strips of paper glued to cardboard backing arrived in a bright yellow green envelope.

The texture of this piece is incredible and it was perfect. Because their name is BloodyKnuckles I decided to use hands for the collaboration. I photographed their artwork and using blend modes in photoshop and some masking our artwork conjoined as was born. I have posted the image progression below. We collectively came us with the title, “Winter Bloody Knuckles in Sunlight.”

The artwork inspired stamp

I made a mock up of a forever postage stamp for the project, just for fun, to see how our work might look as a US postage stamp.

The work is now in Dallas, Texas at Sunset Art Studios and will travel to Art Gym Denver, in Denver, Colorado. I really enjoyed collaborating with BloodyKnuckles and The USPS Art Project in making artwork and standing in support of the United States Postal Service.

Virtual Steinbeck Country Global Festival accepted my abstract image, Northeast,Day 13, for their annual festival. During the pandemic although things are mixed and many changes abound the Steinbeck Museum held their show virtually. The exhibit is housed in the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California. The virtual aspect allows for people all over the world to attend and be influenced by the words and life of author John Steinbeck. The photographic image the the show reminds me of the opening line Of Mice and Men, “A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green.”

The Exhibition is virtual

Making a virtue of necessity, officials at the National Steinbeck Center have announced that the August 1-2, 2020 Steinbeck Country Global Festival will move online, motivated by COVID-19 and the need to think globally while acting locally to support the arts in John Steinbeck’s home town of Salinas, California. An annual event for more than a quarter of a century, the festival has experimented with dates, formats, and marketing strategies in the past, all in an effort to engage two contrasting constituencies—the multicultural community of Cannery Row and California’s Central Coast; fans of Steinbeck’s fiction from other states and countries—in honoring the famous local author who attracted the latter during his life by celebrating the former in his work. To visit the please click this link.

About John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer. His works often dealt with social and economic issues. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Read more about hime here.

How to purchase the work

The work above is available for sale. Living with this photograph will inspire your thoughts to wander and drift into a meditative relaxation. How do you put a price tag on this type of daily connection? To purchase please send me a note through the contact form.

Floorr Magazine artist directory is a fun place to gather my thoughts, view and read about other artists’ work, and contemplate my art practice. Click here to view my listing. 

I went through a selection process the first year I submitted to Floorr. The independent publisher accepted my work and it felt important to get my new abstract photographs out and into the international community.

Pandemic discovery

I’m reserved when it comes to writing about myself and the work I create. During the pandemic I’ve found it helps to relax my mind. Writing affords me the opportunity to approach new work with a set of rules and theories for discovery. The writing process, now standard in my practice, is an easier way to discover and bring light to creation. I sit for long hours quietly thinking about light, color and shadows, watching nature and the power of her resounding resilience. It comes through in my written artistic approach to creating work on the Floorr directory. 

Process discusion

I work best in silence. I never thought I would be typing this statement but being alone in thought with no distraction or external sound is best. Blasting music is always fun and it gets me sketching and rolling through ideas and seeing shapes stacked up but the real work, my best work, is done alone in silence. 

I retain what I see and read best in this silent space. What I enjoy the most about silence is the pace time chooses to fabricate. Time stops for me when it’s quiet. I watch shadows move across stones in my yard or pieces of sunlight wander along a wooden wall. Their journey the only marker that time is running and spinning. 

A fun 5 minute challenge

Visit the Floorr Magazine artist directory page and find one artwork. It doesn’t have to be mine, and sit and look at it for five minutes. Click here to contact me about your experience. If you wish title the email “5 minutes.” I’ll add you to the mailing list and we can chat. I’ll be giving away smaller artworks toward the end of the year and quarterly throughout 2021.  

Stay safe and have fun viewing the artwork. 

https://www.floorrmagazine.com/directory#!biz/id/5b614d02afd691dc7a34cb94 

Reconstruct PrideART Berlin exhibition to benefit all living things accepted three pieces of work and one self-portrait this year. One of them, North East Day, 35 is featured here. 

About the Expo 

This expo is organized by the pride art founder Lars Deike and the pride Art team Richard Schemmerer and Aaron Holloway, they agreed the show is a big success.

I wish I could have been there in person, but due to travel restrictions with the Covid-19 pandemic, I could not travel to Berlin.

The journey for my family and me is a long and, at times, painful and joyous process. Arriving at understanding that we are all complex and unique, no matter your gender or sexual orientation is vital, and to approach others different than you with kindness and not hate, the world can be harmonious.

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“The artist in this exhibit try to set an example of how too manifest a new mission and change the worlds order to benefit all living things to a greater degree. We are not our behavior nor our identity, and we all learned in a hurry how to adjust to the new circumstances. As Queer folks we have an opportunity to show the world how essential we are to the creative reformation of our daily interactions as many of us are in the artistic fields. We live in emotional times and we cant survive on our own, that much we have been shown. RECONSTRUCT as a call to start within and implement what’s learned in our surroundings.”

Richard Schemmerer

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Reconstruct Exhibition PRIDE Berlin is a call to creatively implement what we have learned in our environment. 

This event is a PRIDE ART team exhibition organized by pride art founder Lars Deike and his pride art team members Richard Schemmerer, Aaron D. Holloway, curated by Richard Schemmerer. (Text R.Schemmerer)

Vernissage July 11, 3 p.m. – 11 p.m. (according to the current legal requirements of the current C guidelines) and Sunday 3 p.m. – 9 p.m.
The exhibition can also be visited afterwards with a personal appointment.

RECONSTRUCT Reconstruction

Update July 7, 2020
Invitation to the group exhibition RECONSTRUCT Reconstruction on Saturday July 11th 6-11pm and Sunday the 12th from 3pm to 9pm. The exhibition takes place outdoors and in the gallery. 5-meter high giant iron gates and overseas containers are transformed into a large open-air gallery. But there also wants to be a lot of art to be seen in the studio. Through the open-air gallery we can better deal with the distance guidelines.

IN LOVE WE TRUST

a virtual and real time progressive art exhibit: ART in the age of re-examination.

As we reimagining the world after an epic interruption and the new Normal has been declared we take inventory of our personal world our dreams and our needs to realign with the planet to make this a more equal world. Art has always been a tool used to lead the way and with its various styles is a great way to express what motivates us and inspires us. RECONSTRUCT uses collage and assemblage to build something new out of the old pieces and to show that every vision can be an inspiration if followed by the right actions.

Reconstruct Exhibition PRIDE Berlin is a call to mobilize our collective resources and ideas to rebuild. Many of us experienced loss over the last few months and have been socially isolating themselves, now it is time toy reinvent ourselves into a kinder society. The future is unwritten and if we don’t write it somebody else will.

Following Artists shows their Work:

Analia Adorni
Elisabeth Ajtay
Farzana Akhtar
Jonathan Armor
Catalina Aranguren
Regina Basaran
Joyce Camilleri
Crystel
Lars Deike
Electrosexual
Giorgia Favaretto
Bianca Fox
Caspar de Gelmini
Jessie Georges
Jérémy Griffaud
Theo Große-Venhaus
Tyler Hallett
Sam Heydt
A. David Holloway
Callum Leo Hugh
Tomaz Jelenc
Irma Joanne
Karisma
Ron Kibble
Maria Krasyuk
Marta Lodola
Ianni Luna
Subhash Maskura
Eva Mueller
okay4me (Frank Losensky)
Marianna Panagiotoudi
Irena Paskali
Michael Rädel
Farzana Rahman
Bill Roberts
Renato Rodrigo
Nicola Rubinstein
Richard Schemmerer
Sid Simpatico
Luciano Siqueira
Bev Stroganov
Thomas Swims
Alisa Teletovic
Todor Andreevski
Alina Tofan
Doug Winter
Igor Zeiger

Exhibition dates and hours

Opening July 11th 6 – 11pm
Expo 12th July 3-9pm
Expo July 13th – August 11th only by appointment

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