Kunst

After spending time in the Liminal Village at the Boom Festival where he was exhibiting, Robert Venosa made his way over to Vienna. Here he paid a visit to my friend Peter Gric, who he sat down with and discussed his artwork and a little about Fantastic and Visionary art movement.

The video of that meeting of two great artists was only recently made available on the internet.

For all of those history nerds, or just people who like to time travel.

With much anticipation that I awaited Madeline Von Foerster's exhibition at Strychnin Gallery in Berlin. Her "Waldkammer" series consists of nine paintings that explore humanity's often destructive relationship with nature, executed in the manner of the Old Masters.

The Zozoville gallery is like some aliens come to earth and hiding behind a thin veneer of normality, but with an odd suspicious appendage popping out film. The sort of shop where you take a strange cute pet home, but not realising it is some ravenous beast from another world whose soul intent is to eat your geraniums.

Chet Zar is an artist who has worked in the Hollywood film industry and now is branching out with his original artwork, focusing on the monsters within us all.

Video, photos and text from the Visionary Art gallery at the Boom Festival 2008 in Portugal.