Spirituality of the Mandala @ St. Luke´s - Metuchen NJ

Spirituality of the Mandala: 

REALITY IN THE ROUND

An international exhibit of 'sacred circle' art until  December 31, 2013

It´s a great pleasure to be part! The jury decided to show my work "Quarter Circle - MOOndala and I´d like to invite you to purchase a piece of art from this exhibit to bring that energy and beauty into your own home!

An original work by a contemporary artist in your home or as a present for your beloved ones :)

Exhibit Open Daily Free to All: 
Monday - Friday  9am - 2pm

Saturday 4 - 6pm

Sunday 11am - 2pm

17 Oak Ave. / Metuchen, NJ 08840
Nails in the Wall, the Gallery @ St. Luke's
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
www.Stlukesmetuchen.org

75 Jahre Reichsprogromnacht | Die Trägheit der Zeitachse

“Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
Lasst mich auch endlich Taten sehn!
Indes ihr Komplimente drechselt,
Kann etwas Nützliches geschehn."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mein Geschichtsunterricht in den 1970er Jahren im Gymnasium Frauengasse (Baden - NÖ) war frei vom Zweiten Weltkrieg. Wir erfuhren nichts über das Dritte Reich, über Hitler, vom Holocaust. Auch im Elternhaus wurde das Thema totgeschwiegen. Lediglich mein Vater erwähnte manchmal die Russen, die ihm Schokolade oder Wurst gaben. Erst als mein Sohn das Gymnasium besuchte, beschäftigte ich mich mehr und mehr mit der Thematik, lernte immens viel von meinem Kind über diese Zeit.

Bis heute bleibt mir jegliches Verständnis für die "Aktionen" dieser Zeit verborgen. 

Die Fragewörter

WARUM - WESWEGEN - WESHALB - WIESO - WIEVIELE - WOFÜR

und vor allem die Frage WANN HÖRT DAS AUF dominieren die Trägheit der Zeitachse- das drehMOOment.

...und noch immer wirkt der politische Einfluss in unserem Bildungssystem - subtil und stetig will das System ihm genehme BürgerInnen (er)schaffen.

ArtReview by Donald Zinteck | MOO NUDES

It´s a major honor for me to present an impressive introduction, critique and review to my serie MOO NUDES  written by Donald Zinteck, founder and owner of 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts located in Buffalo, the City of Good Neighbors. I´m pretty touched about the descriptions but read about it for yourself:

Donald Zinteck

art that MOOves me
I know this artist well, and yet, we have never met. I recognize all the qualities that make an artist while previewing her "Moo Nudes" book publication. You know those qualities, the kind where an artist who is so lost in their creativity that only life's essentials—such as sleep and nutrition—can interrupt that creative process.

In reviewing Monika Mori's "Moo Nudes", you begin to understand the inner workings of an artist creating such a body of work (no pun intended) or as I will call it—a study of the nude body. Why a study? I can feel the development of each piece of art—or in many cases—where one painting ends and continues through another.

I begin to know this artist as I view her cover image "Venus 2008". Spontaneous, yet calculated. Aggressive with a delicate ambiguity. Are those arms or wings or feathers, I wonder? I guess it does not matter, everything else seems appropriately placed. I am voting for wings though, there is something special about this piece!

"Zweiheit Left and Right" and "dEcADec-nCE 4u" and "dEcADec-nCE 4me" confirm the development of a body of work. I am sure Moo can be halfway through a painting and have ideas for ten more, and each of those ten evolve into another ten concepts. Her creative mind must race with thoughts of  “So little time ... I NEED PAINT ... I NEED CANVAS ... I MUST SLEEP ... I MUST EAT! Where has the day gone? What am I working on? Where is my coffee?"

Thus goes the life of creativity. It is fuel for the mind and fuel for the soul. One falls asleep with these images in her head and wakes up with "Die Zarin." It is not where she was yesterday but this is where her canvas is going today. I see the dreamlike figure painting but am I seeing more? I am, but enough said. Spend some time with this image and you find yourself asking, “Where did this come from? Is it my first painting of the day.or the last one?” It is very dreamlike, so I am saying this is her first painting after a long hard sleep. Nightmares? Fantasy? Your choice, I am going with fantasy!

And then there is “Theres”, and “My May”, and “Klara” and “Adele”. One should be so lucky as to be painted this way or is it to be painted as part of a study? The ladies are so wonderfully similar are they friends, family, or perhaps another developing figure in the artist’s mind where Klara just evolved out of Theres. I am sure of it. I think.

Moo's "Skin to Skin" is quite a curious painting for me. She is not just rolling herself onto a painted canvas again, is she? I do love the cave painting primitive style of this piece, yet I see many structural body elements subtly hidden on the face of this canvas. I would love to see this original. Oh, by the way, does this look like any of the previous paintings? NOPE! Mood swings, emotions, anger, apathy, artistic license, all come into play as an artist develops her works, her study.

I especially like the mixed media piece “Flora”. The watercolor wash of bright and intense colors, the delicate lines of the pen and ink. I am sure this is "Klara", she moves like her. But where did these colors come from, were these the fantasies of “Theres” with the lines of “Klara”? I am sure Moo could tell us, and she just did with this painting. Say no more, my mind is filling in the blanks (as all art should). I do not evaluate each stroke, each line, each color. I take each for what it is worth. I embrace the element of interpretation. We all see art differently, that is a good thing.

“Friederyke” and “Liz” seem to have evolved into the looseness of Barbra where less is more. Josephine and Milly and Milly again and Kyra, who just seems so friendly—all evoke many of our daily emotions through Moo's masterful techniques of colorful washes and ink

Moo's very powerful piece "Sorrow" stopped me in my tracks. The weight of the black background, the shape of the figure. Has the weight of the world preyed on this figure? The strokes of red! Anger, pity, blood rushing emotions? Not just a pretty figure here, almost prehistoric in simplicity. No doubt about the emotions. The head becomes almost doglike to me. Sorrow? Surely!

“Abraham” seems a much more serious painting. A deft hand in figure drawing...a sophisticated use of color in the deep burgundy and magenta over the grayish green wash background. Truly...truly a skilled piece of work that I admired when coming to this page. One can be loose and spontaneous—which can be harder than such a sophisticated figure drawing—and we see both from Moo in this book.

“Hildegard” as well as “Irmgaard” are show stoppers in my mind. When you have done all your studies, and developed all your techniques, you get to the point of these truly interpretive paintings. The colors merging between subject and background. The confident strokes of the shapes and contours. Aggressive! Angry! Sensual! Accomplished! I love them.

OK, I am not saying much about Summertime and Belinda. Self portraits, I don't know. Curiously whimsical, I must say.

The "Frewild" series shows how fast the mind is working—faster than the paintbrush. I am sure Moo was wildly creating these shapes into many color studies and paintings. The shapes are hypnotic in nature although I am sure the middle figure must be "Klara" once again. Moo explores so many emotions, techniques, media and styles. I am certain there is a favorite "Klara" for everyone in this book. 

It is a must read, or at least, a must VIEW! Congratulations on a well accomplished body of work (no pun intended).
Donald Zinteck

Mein heimliches Auge | Jahrbuch der Erotik

Die Freude über den Abdruck meiner Werke im Jahrbuch der Erotik 2013/2014 "Mein heimliches Auge XXVIII" ist riesig :)

Kunstauktion 2013 zugunsten der Geflüchteten

Der gemeinnützige Verein Asyl in Not finanziert sich ausschließlich aus privaten Zuwendungen und setzt sich trotz großer Schwierigkeiten in Österreich für politisch verfolgte Ausländerinnen und Ausländer ein. Besonders traurige Realität erlangt diese Thematik durch das dramatische Unglück vor Lampedusa.

Als Freidenkerin und den Menschen zugewandte Künstlerin, die in Traiskirchen mit dem weltweit bekanntesten "Flüchtlingslager" aufgewachsen ist, kann es nur selbstverständlich sein, den Verein Asyl in Not zu unterstützen. Mein Werk "From Water to Wine" steht für den Wandel, den wir mitgestalten können und müssen. Vielfältige Interpretationen lässt dieses Bild zu, die ich wie immer ausschließlich den BetrachterInnen überlasse.

Der Auktionskatalog erschien als Beilage in der Printausgabe der Tageszeitung "Der Standard" und kann gerne bei mir gegen Portoersatz per Email an atelier@mori-art.at angefordert werden.

Kunstauktion zugunsten der Geflüchteten

Montag, 21. Oktober 2013

Einlass: 18.00 Uhr | Auktion: 19.00 Uhr | ehem. Semperdepot, Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien | 1060 Wien, Eingang während der Versteigerung: Lehargasse 6

Auktionator: Otto Hans Ressler (im Kinsky)

Besichtigung der Exponate vor Ort: 

Sa 19.10. | So 20.10. | Mo 21.10. | von 14-19 Uhr

Watching Angels Art Show @ Brattleboro - Vermont

An interactive public art show to make the "Watching Angels" experience immediate - compounding the joy of seeing an angel in an unexpected places; on the parking meter, behind the co-op, inside a shopping cart, in the coffee shop, on the steeple of the old church...

I´ve submitted 5 of my angels and it is such a great pleasure to see them with wisdom quotes:

Take a look to the website of this inspiring project to see more of it - Watching Angels.

You can see more of my angels in the album on Facebook and if you are interested in buying one, please do not hesitate to send me an email atelier@mori-art.at :)

pleth - an Unlikely Book by j/j hastain & Marthe Reed

What a great pleasure, to have my painting "Das Taschentuch der weißen Frau" as the cover image of a brand new book published in the United States:

Unlikely Books joyously released the new, full-color poetic collaboration between j/j hastain and Marthe Reed, 

pleth

Featuring cover images by MOO | Monika Mori and Michael Kalish, pleth is a literary call-and-response. It begins with j/j hastain's "poem-cells," full-color visual collages of images and words that act as short poems. To each of j/j's cells, Marthe Reed wrote a textual response, creating a dialogue of alternative gender and sexuality between two literary masters.

MOO NUDES - Black Scat Classic Interim Edition

It´s so great to get the 2nd book published by Black Scat Books! After "Shattered Rainbow" which is sold out there will come on the 1st of November:

MOO NUDES

ABSURDIST TEXTS & DOCUMENTS SERIES

A BLACK SCAT CLASSIC INTERIM EDITION (NO. 04)

A provocative collection of nude studies by the Austrian painter Monika Mori—known internationally as “Moo.” 

Price: $20.00

Paperback (5¼" x 8¼"). Perfect-Bound. Illustrated.

Full color. 64 pp. Edition limited to 125 copies.

If you´d like to purchase a signed copy, please send me an email to atelier@mori-art.at - be quick, because this edition is limited to 125 copies!

MOO @ GOLF SAYINGS

New Book dedicated to the Golf Lover features Art from MOO :) 

“GOLF SAYINGS: 

wit & wisdom 

of a good walk spoiled”

an exciting and vibrant collection of golf art and text designed to celebrate golf and the people that love the game.

This golf art book showcases artwork along with quotations about golf that covers topics including sportsmanship, golf humor, the pros, Scotland, and even presidential golf. This collaborative publication has two goals in mind: first, to honor and highlight the great game of golf though text and artwork, and secondly, to showcase the talents of new and emerging artists who focus on creating golf art.

BookCollaborative.com provides artists with a platform through which they can gain exposure and recognition.  Both professional and nonprofessional artists were invited to submit their work to be a part of this golf art book.  The end result includes 36 artists from countries including the US, UK, Canada, Dominican Republic, Austria and Sweden. GOLF SAYINGS features a variety of golf art styles including golf photography, illustrations, collages, and paintings.

Like all books published by BookCollaborative.com, “GOLF SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of a good walk spoiled”, is distributed by the world’s largest book distributor Ingram. The book is available on Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com and by order through any bookstore in the US, UK, and Canada.

GOLF SAYINGS and past works from BookCollaborative.com may be purchased at discount a through visiting the website www.BookCollaborative.com.

BookCollaborative.com, founded by Bradford G. Wheler, is a collaborative service that assists a wide variety of artists to reach the public through the publication of collections of their works. Past releases include; CAT SAYINGS: wit & wisdom from the whiskered ones, HORSE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom straight from the horse’s mouth, DOG SAYINGS: wit & wisdom from man’s best friend, SNAPPY SAYNGS: wit & wisdom from the world’s greatest minds, and EIGHTEEN 6/10/71 The Poetry of John G. Hunter III.  More information on is available on the website www.BookCollaborative.com 

BOOK SUMMARY:Title: GOLF SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of a good walk spoiled
Author: Bradford G. Wheler
Illustrations by 36 artists from 10 countries
Edition: First
ISBN: 978-0-9822538-5-4
Pages: 114
Cover: full color soft cover

Interior: Color

Price: $24.95
Publication Date: October 1, 2013

So schön ist Wien 2013 | Bezirkssiegerin Neubau

"Ein besonderes Foto erzählt eine Geschichte – manchmal auch mehrere", sagte ich im Interview für das Wiener Bezirksblatt vom 2. September (Ausgabe für Neubau, den 7. Wiener Gemeindebezirk). Und ich freue mich ganz besonders, dass es mir auch heuer wieder gelungen ist, einen "Bezirkssieg" einzufahren :)

Auf die Frage, welchen Bezug ich zu dem Siegermotiv hätte: "Als Künstlerin natürlich einen ganz besonderen, denn Gustav Klimt gehört zu Wien wie der Steffl oder das Riesenrad. Die Aufnahme zeigt ein Detail aus dem Werk „Tod und Leben“, das als Plakat affichiert war und repräsentiert für mich das Leben in der Metropole Wien, in der einerseits das Leben pulsiert, andererseits auch Raum für Ruhe und Geborgenheit vorhanden ist. Ein enorm großer Teil des Lebens in Wien ist die Vielfalt der Kunst um die uns die Welt beneidet und Wien dadurch für Touristen noch anziehender macht." Stimmt, gell?

Vielen und ganz herzlichen Dank an alle, die für mein Foto gestimmt haben!

Quelle: www.wienerbezirksblatt.at