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View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Curt WalterAbout Curt Walter : Curt Walter is a visual artist from the Fluxus movement. And Fluxus and art research mean more to him than fame and honor. His greatest success is creating one or more works of art almost every day for 75 years, without having to rely on galleries or museums. (He had never asked them to represent his work, and they had not yet discovered the artist).
For him, creating is more important than exhibiting. It doesn't matter whether the works are ever seen or not. What is important is the flow of creativity and reflecting on it. "Fluxus".
He is also interested in the intellectual development of humanity and that of art history. He wonders whether there is a connection between "L'idea de pittori, scultori et architetti" by Federico Zuccari, †1609, who bases human cognition on an epistemology fundamentally supported by sensory perception, and his approach to artistic ideas with the inner eye, his unconscious? Joseph Beuys says of thinking: "Thinking is already plastic... Thoughts can, of course, have a much more vehement effect on the world than a sculpture that has only been derived and in a certain way materialized into an object." He agrees with this, although he says: "In making the invisible (subconscious) visible, impulses, signals and signs light up. They are signs that manifest themselves plastically, fragmentarily in drawings." It is not "surréalisme", but rather illustrating the real from the invisibility, in real terms. See my drawings from the meditations that never dry up: https://www.instagram.com/curt.walter.drawings/
and See the review "„ATLAS DER IMAGINATION“ (2021-2024...) VON CURT WALTER, Kommentar von Petra von Bechtolsheim, 2024". She comes from the C.G.Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland.
Curt Walter is the inventor of the terms “Inside out Art” and “Outside in and out Art”.
“Inside out Art” and ‘Outside in and out Art’. The international art scene needs a new authenticity and quality. The emperor needs new clothes. These new clothes will correct social aberrations. Design and drawing will be redefined. He says: “I still don't know any artists in the world who use this creative technique for their art”. Artificial intelligence has no subconscious. And cannot replace the artist. What can we control that we don't understand? The emergency brake must be pulled here.
With "Inside out Art" I learn more about my self and about the creative parallel world within me, which I can only reach with the help of a personal meditation. "Outside in and out Art" for me is seeing from the eye, from the retina outside, seeing things and drawing them, it is copying the outside world. It is also the perceived outside, mixed with one's own state of mind, transformed into personal reflections and interpretations".
Inside out Art
For me, working artistically from within, from the inner self, means: looking meditatively into oneself and perceiving the images that arise before the inner eye, in order to then turn them outwards with drawings. The drawings give the inner images a face. They are hieroglyphs, fragments, textures, signs, pictograms from the inner world. In this way, images emerge that are only fragments, which only hint at the form, as if the drawn present wants to say: "here is also absence". A game develops between the subconscious and the conscious. I find in the subconscious the energies, forms and spheres that I draw in the conscious. For me, looking into my subconscious is a purely personal, creative exploration of my inner self, without irritations and limitations from the outside. It is drawing as a spontaneous reflection of my own reality, unbound by arbitrary rules. Since my childhood I have been familiar with the creative teaching "...that everything that happens in visibility is an image from invisibility".
The associations present in the subconscious are expressed artistically. These associations in the subconscious are fed by all spiritual and sensual experiences. I want to sound out and experience my own subconscious and thus try to represent these impressions in my drawings, painting and art.
My aim is to find new perspectives on seeing and understanding conditioned by habits. On this path of creativity I reach the most authentic in me, and this with little effort. The path is an honest and wise one. To conjure the graceful images from a silence is like drawing water from a draw well. Everyone has the possibility and the luck to draw from this source, artists should use it. A look inside oneself shows the way out. It is as if Dschuang Dsi said to me: "You look into the invisible, in the midst of the invisible darkness you alone see it dawning. You know how to grasp the depths of the deep, and you are able to shape the spiritual into seed power.
Outside in and out Art
"Outside in and out Art" for me, as I said before, is seeing outside from the eye. "Outside in and out Art" practice is the drawing, copying of things and the outside world, a reshaping of reality. To distinguish things in order to connect them with a spontaneous, intuitive perception is "Outside in and out Art". Good examples of "Outside in and out Art" are art movements such as Objet trouvé, Ready made, etc. Objet trouvé and ready made are products of the idea from the outside. You find something and declare it a work of art.
Incorporating a new function into a thing is a genuine "Outside in and out Art" approach. In the mind, the idea comes from looking at an object. One thinks about how to transform the object into a different function and then rename it. The way to this idea was first by looking at it from the outside in and then through the reflection into an alleged work of art. The work of art thus created, however, lacks its own authentic idea from the inner eye, something of the artistic self. Who is the real author here, one might ask. Another example from my own practice: The climate of 2018 made me aware of my own threatened state of mind. The heat of the summer was a threat to my body. The escape into the shade was decisive for the group of works "two fields, one centre". Whether storms, lightning, masses of water or conflagrations and heat - my preoccupation with natural events was intense and with great personal commitment. I searched for pigments that could give form to this heat and threat. I processed my own dystopian experiences and wove them into various paintings. The perceived outside, my state of mind, was transformed into personal reflections and interpretations.
Another very tragic example is described by Emile Zola in the novel "The WORK". Here, the obsession with imitating nature actually leads to a tragic suicide. Zola describes a painter who is obsessed with his painting and the painted naked woman on whom he changes colour tones with his brush for years in order to bless her in the divine. The painting and the naked woman in the painting become the focus of his life. He hardly notices his wife, who had been the model for this painting. The painted female body on the canvas radiates more power than the nude model herself. In nonsensical ecstasy, the painter rapes reality and exaggerates it into the supernatural. However, he fails in his claims to imbue the painted woman with a touch of divinity and hangs himself in the studio in front of his painting. His wife ends up in an asylum. Thus the murderous painting poisons two lives at once: that of the painter and that of his model.
See the review "„ATLAS DER IMAGINATION“ (2021-2024...)
VON CURT WALTER, Kommentar von Petra von Bechtolsheim, 2024". She comes from the C.G.Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland.
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ORGANIZATION:
Curt Walter
NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Artist, painter Media, graphic, printing, culture, design
EDUCATION:
1971-1976, Sculpture class of Prof. Etienne Martin, Ensba, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
East Asian Painting, Museum Cernuschi, Paris.
Master student of Prof Laszlo Szabo, Academie du Feu, Paris
EXPERIENCE:
2021-2023, "Atlas of imagination", Drawing and painting, Monte and Zürich
2014, Ultima cena 2, Light installations, Montearte, Monte, TI, Switzerland
2012, Ultima cena 1, Light installations, Montearte, Monte TI, Switzerland
2010, Manca qualcosa! dove siete?, Installation, lo spirito del Lago, Isola Bella, Italy
2010, "in between", Installation, MEWO, Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany
2008, "Lux Pons", Light installations, Bi6 | Biennale dell’immagine, Chiasso Cultura, Chiasso
2007, "in...boscamento", Light installations, Montearte, Monte TI, Switzerland
2006, "Generosa Enterprise", Interactive installation, Montearte, Monte TI, Switzerland
2005, "Generosa Enterprise", Interactive installation, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2003, "noWaterWater", Installations, Mail art, contemp. dance,
Montearte, Monte TI, Switzerland
2000, "Horssol", 7 installations at the 1st Swiss Sculpture Triennial, Bad Ragartz, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
1996- 1998, "zhart", Various art projects in public spaces in the city of Zurich, City of Zurich, Zürich
1989, I Fall to Pieces, Restless, Liberty in all doubt, Welcome to paradise, Faxart at Art meets science and spirituality in a changing economy, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988, "Skin drawings", Art Magazin, Zürich
1987, "Bread papers", Community centre Zollikon, Art exhibition Zollikon, Switzerland
1987, "Bread papers", "Harvest of a gloomy summer", Galerie Stummer, Zürich, Switzerland.
"Sinking of the Titanic", City of Winterthur
1986, "Zugehend auf eine Biennale des Friedens", Kunstverein and Art Museum, Hamburg, Germany. With Joseph Beuys, Christo and 40 other international artists.
1985, "Watering place", Installation, Skulptura'85, Zollikon, Switzerland
1981-1985, "Action masquerade", Action of 3168 people modeling a plaster cast of their face. 70 different locations, Switzerland and Germany
1982, "Self-portrait", Self-presentation, Zürcher Oberländer Grüningen, Switzerland
1976, "Sculptures", Rotary Club, District Savings Bank, Weilburg, Germany
1974, "Tree of Life", Sculpture, Town Hall, Mainz, Germany. With Laszlo Szabo, sculptor, Mainz
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
2010- 2020, Pyropainture, paintings, sculptures, drawings, 2 fields, Gallery Visibel Off space, Zurich. Several solo exhibitions per year
2010 "Putting things in the right place", Gallery Visibel Off space, Zurich
2002, "Luce sotto la pelle", 4 installations Isole di Brissago,
2001, Portable Museums & Boxes, Paintings, sculptures, boxes, I'me. Sala del Torchio, Balerna
2002, Fire panels, Painting, Finter Bank, Chiasso,
1997, "Bite through", Engineer - Sculpture, Dr. M. Busin, Zurich
1996, "My collection", Exhibition in the studio Monte. "Banquet of Colors", Saxon. Academy Dresden. Poetry of colors,
1996, "Dissolution", Paintings,Practice Homeopathic, Spycher
1996, "Sculpture morte", Installation 3168 Faces in plaster, Werkhof Gallery, Zurich
1995, "Performance", Inauguration of the painting installation, Clariden Bank, Zurich
1994, "Housing", Machined omega clocks, studio Schlieren
1994, "Bread papers and record games", Rövekamp Gallery, Zurich
1990, "Fireboards", Shedhalle by the water Zurich
1988 "Bread papers", Painting on silk paper, Community center, Zollikon
1988, "Bread papers", Painting on silk paper, Rövekamp Gallery, Zurich
1988, Pyropeinture, Painting with water and fire on jute, From the group of works Brandtafeln, Private exhibition, Daniel Müller, Basel
1987, "Bread papers", Painting on silk paper, Gallery Stummer, Zurich
1981, "Stadt der Erdleute", Künstlerbahnhof, Bad Münster a.Stein, Germany
1981, "Wishing Well", fountain construction, sculptures, Bad Münster a.Stein, Germany
1981, "City of the Earth People", miniature village, Quarry Erdbach, Germany
1980, "City of the Earth People", miniature village, Sculpture, State Museum, Koblenz, Germany
1980, "City of the water people", miniature village, Sculpture, State Museum, Koblenz, Germany
1979, "City of change", miniature village, Sculpture, Clay pit, Breitscheid, Germany
1978, "An idea every day, a sculpture every day", Sculptures - Concepts, Art in public space, Elburg, The Netherlands
1978, "Sand, earth, road and sea works", fictitious villages, ruins on islands, Art in public space, Elburg, The Netherlands; Lac de St. Mondé, Paris; Lake Nicola and Lake Litzensee, Berlin, and Lanzarote, Spain
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
1986, "Zugehend auf eine Biennale des Friedens", Kunstverein and Art Museum Hamburg, With Marina Abramovic, Carlo Alfano, Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Gianni Colombo, Robert Filliou, Alen Kaprow, On Kawara, Jannis Kounellis, Sol Lewitt, Nam June PAIK, A.R.Penk, Lucio Pozzi, Carla Tato, Takako Saito, Klaus Staeck, Takis, André Thomkins, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostel, Emmett Williams, Michele Zaza, and others.
EVENTS:
2014, "Ultima cena ll", Organizer and Curator, Light installations, Montearte, Monte
2012, "Ultima cena" l", Organizer and Curator, 14 artists on the subject of Ulima Cena, Montearte, Monte, Switzerland
2008, "Lux Pons", Organizer, Chiasso culture, Bi6 | Biennale dell'immagine, Chiasso, Switzerland
2007, "in...boscamento", light installations, Organizer and Curator, Montearte, Monte, Switzerland
2006, "Generosa Enterprise", Interactive installation, Organizer and Curator, Montearte, Monte, Switzerland
2005, "Generosa Enterprise", Interactive installation, Organizer and Curator, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
2003, "noWaterWater", Organizer and Curator, Mailart and dance project with 200 artists, Installations, contemporary dance, on the topic No water - flooding, Montearte, Monte, Switzerland
2000, "Horssol", Organizer and Curator, 7 installations at the 1st Swiss Sculpture Triennial, Bad Ragartz, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
1996- 1998, "zhart", Organizer and Curator, an art association for artists, Various art projects in public spaces in the city of Zurich, City of Zurich, Switzerland
1982- 1985, "Aktion Maskerade", Organizer and Curator,
Action of 3168 people modeling a plaster cast of their face, at 70 different events in Switzerland and Germany
AWARDS:
If he had won anything, he would have given his winnings to a beggar!
PRESS APPEARANCES:
1971 "Ravenel" ELLE, Nr. 1336, 20. Juli 1971, France
1974 "Laszlo Szabo", Hamburger Anzeiger, 28. Mai 1974, ebe, Germany
1975 "Laszlo Szabo" Mainzer Anzeiger 1975, khd, Germany
1976 "Portrait Mr. Ochs", The Sun, Colorado Springs, 1.1.1976, "Portrait Mr. Ochs", Gazette - Telegraphs,
31.12.1975, "Portrait Mr. Ochs", Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Journal, USA.
1976 "Exhibition", Willem Enzinck, de Stem, 2.7.1976 | flu, Nassauische Landeszeitung, Weilburg, Germany, 7.9.1976 | Weilburger Tagblatt, HS, 7.9.1976, Germany; Gallery Beaux Arts, Terneuzen, The Nederlands
1978 "Miniature city", Elburger Courant, 1.9.1978, The Nederlands
1979 "Stadt der Wandlung", Joachim Heidersdorf, Herborner Tagblatt, Germany; 25.9.1979 | Guntram Lenz, 30.10.79 und 3.11.79 | Bunte Welt, Kassel, 27.10.79, Germany | Planing and building, 4-80 Essen | Walter Grasskamp, Kunst Forum International, Bd. 38, 2/80, Köln, Germany | Objekt, 3/80, Germany | Dr. R. Bentmann, Regional Office for the Protection of Historical Monuments, Hessen, Germany
1980 "Stadt der Wandlung", "Stadt der Erdleute", "Stadt der Wasserleute", Dill Zeitung, 12.6.80, Germany | Aspekte ZDF, 1.7.80, Germany | Helga Zahler, Rhein Zeitung, 5.11.80, Germany | Koblenz Live, M. Saurer, 10.80, Germany
1981 Mitteilungsblatt 1.7. 81, Kreis Bad Kreuznach, ck, 6.7.81, 29.7.81 Rhein Zeitung, dm, Germany
1981 "Stadt der Wasserleute",, Rhein Zeitung 2.11.81 and 21.7.81, R.S. Germany| Welt im Spiegel, 14. /15.1.81, Germany
1982 'Selbstportrait', Zürcher Oberländer, 6.10.82, Wetzikon, Switzerland
1982-85 'Maskerade', a collection of 3168 faces in plaster of 3168 people from all over the world | DZO, Pd | 16.11.82 | Anzeiger von Uster, wx, 28.1.83 | Stei | Schwyzer Zeitung, 25.2.83, 22.2.83 | Bote der Urschweiz, 23.2.83 | Fabrik Zeitung, August 83 | Zolliker Bote, 29.7.83, 9.12.83, Astrid Rodel, 13.1.84, 20.1.84, 29.3.85 | Neues Wiler Tagblatt, U. Tiefenauer, 12.9.83 | EineZwänzgi, Maia Schmid, 28.9.83 | DZO, 24.1.83 | L’est voudois, V | Désarzens, 17.7.84 | Züri Week, Hanspeter Vetsch, 16.8.84 | OMNI, Nov. 84 | Badener Tagblatt, EF, 23.3.85 | Grenzpost am Zürichsee, 25.3.85 | Zürichsee Zeitung, hn, 25.3.85 | Allgemeiner Anzeiger von Zürichsee, 25.3.85 | Vaterland, 28.3.85 | Thurgauer Volksfreund, 23.3.85 | Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich, 23.3.85 | Tages Anzeiger, dö, 23.3.85 | Neue Zürcher Zeitung, bi, 23.3.85 | Thurgauer Tagblatt, 23.3.85 | St. Galler Volksblatt, 25.3.85 | Le Matin, 3.5.85, Françoise Jannin | Rapport 2/85, Urs Tiefenauer | Marco 1/86, all Switzerland
1986 'Stille Skulptur' | 'Zugehend auf eine Biennale des Friedens', Kunstverein and Art Museum Hamburg, 1985-86, catalog: Rénè Block, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams. Germany
Videos: 'Hommage an die Blitztoten', TV-RTSI, Jacky Marti, Lugano, Switzerland
'Auch ein Weg', mit Manfred and Thilo Kage, Weissenstein, Germany
1988 "Hautzeichnungen", Art Magazine, Zürich, catalog: Bob Fischer, Rudolf Müller, Daniel Affolter, Patrick Frey, Pier Geering, Switzerland
1999 PTT-Taxcard – Design CHF 20.- Website: http://www.taxcard.li/op.html#
1997 "Tempel of Art", catalog: Roman Keller, Barbara Wiskeman Edition Patrick Frey in EXPOMAT, p. 108, 2234, Switzerland
2000 1. "Horssol", Trienale der Skulptur, Bad Ragaz, catalog: Dr. Rolf Hohmeister, Text: Dr. Maria Buchsbaum und Valéria Jakob Tschui, Switzerland
2005 'Generosa Enterprise', ETH Zürich at 150 Jahre ETH Zürich Website: http://archiv.ethlife.ethz.ch/articles/jubil2005/g
enerosa.html, Switzerland
2006 'Generosa Enterprise', MonteArte http://www.montearte.ch | Website: http://archiv.ethlife.ethz.ch/articles/jubil2005/g
enerosa.html, Switzerland
2006 Project 'Generosa Enterprise' and Project 'Carousel81' with Benno Meuwly | 'Visioni sul Monte' with MonteArte, http://www.montearte.ch, Switzerland
2007 Project: „in...boscamento“ Monte, Switzerland | Web http:// www.montearte.ch | http://montearte.blogspot.com | Agricoltore Ticinese, Nummero 40 | Ticino7, Nummero 37 | Tessinerzeitung | Informatore, 12.09.07 | Giornale del | Corriere del Ticino, 14.09.07 | Azione, 25.09.07 | Film of TV TSI | Radiointerview mit Irene Petraglio, RTSI 2 | Quotidiano, TV TSI vom 15.09.07, Switzerland
2008 Project 'Lux Pons', Bi6 | Biennale dell’immagine Chiasso, http://www.chiassocultura.ch/index.php?id=312
2009 - 2010 Project 'in between', MEWO, Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany http://www.welt.de/die-welt/vermischtes/article529
0767/Vom-Ende-aller-Tage.html
2010 'Manca qualcosa! dove siete?", «Lo spirito Del Lago»
2010 Photobook: 'In...boscamento', ISBN 978-88-7967-288-7, 29.7 x 21 cm; 88 pages, 60 photographs in color, Publisher: Salvioni Edizioni, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Web: https://www.salvioni.ch/product/in-boscamento/
2012 «Ultima Cena #1», Informatore, 21.09.2012, LaRegioneTicino, 2.10.2012, LaRegioneTicino, 27.09.2012, LaRegioneTicino, 22.09.2012, Switzerland
2013 «Mahlzeit Wann ist genug genug?», catalog: Peter-Lukas Meier, Urs Heinz Aerni, AZ Soloturner Zeitung, BZ, 14.03.2013, Koultur, Switzerland
2014 «Ultima Cena #2», LaRegioneTicino, 20.05.2014, Massimo Daviddi; Switzerland
2015 «Rumori d›acqua», Maroggia TI, Informatore 15.08.2015; Azione 21.08.2015, Switzerland
Eliana Bernasconi, La Regione, 26.09.2015, Massimo Daviddi; Rivista di Lugano, 4.09.2015, Giulia Casanova
2016 «Cosmos of colors», monochromatic paintings, 2.05.2016 PR WEB METTLER TOLEDO, Greifensee
2022 „Vision Magazine“, #4.2022, Calamida & Molgora, Switzerland
2022 „Finestre sull’arte tra Valle di Muggio e Val Mara“, Dall’epoca romana a oggi. A cura di Ivano Proserpi, Vacallo.
ISBN: 978 88 7967 492 8. Pagina Salvioni Edizioni, Bellinzona, Switzerland
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
2005, "Generosa Enterprise", https://archiv.ethlife.ethz.ch/articles/jubil2005/
generosa.html
1999, Do not catch the self in the net of thoughts. Invent the self with the senses and thoughts, invent it as a form. As a sculpture.https://ensba.academia.edu/curtWalter
BOOKS:
2010 Photobook: 'In...boscamento', ISBN 978-88-7967-288-7, 29.7 x 21 cm; 88 pages, 60 photographs in color, Publisher: Salvioni Edizioni, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Web: https://www.salvioni.ch/product/in-boscamento/
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LANGUAGE SKILLS:
His native language is the Zurich dialect. German is the language he communicates best with. He needs written translations for English, French and Italian. Conversations are fine as long as they don't get too academic.
COMPUTER LITERACY:
He works with Apple computers. He is proficient in all programs: Numbers, Pages, Photo, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom; Microsoft Word, Excel, Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo 2; FileMakerPro Advanced, Plesk and others.
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
2006
Team building painting workshop with employees
Roche Switzerland, Roche Diagnostics Microtechnology Center, Switzerland
1996 Speaker at advanced training course for art teachers
Saxon Academy, Dresden, Germany. Old master techniques in painting, oil, casein, egg tempera, tempera painting
1996- 2010 Various seminars in the studio in Monte, Switzerland
Painting, creativity, cooking and painting, Japanese painting, creativity practices and methods.
1991 Animation - cartoons for young people, computer camp, Lostallo, Switzerland. Cartoons for young people
1971- 1974 Speaker and organizer at the Academie du Feu, Paris. Reconstruction of the Academie du Feu
SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES::
2005, "Generosa Enterprise", “Discover Earth and Life Dynamics” (DELD) for the 150th anniversary of ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The project is a game that immerses participants in the worlds of Monte Generoso, Ticino, combining art and the latest IT technologies.
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
2006, swissperform, Zürich, Switzerland
2000, proLitteris, Zürich, Switzerland
1999, suissimage, Bern, Switzerland
2002, MonteArte, Monte, Switzerland
COLLECTIONS:
2004, Private Collection Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland
2001, Private Collection SNB, Swiss National Bank, Zurich, Switzerland
JURY MEMBERSHIPS:
No, he is not a fan of praise and criticism
HOBBIES:
Swimming, hiking, meditating, loving
CLIENTELE:
His clients are art collectors and have purchased his paintings, designs, drawings and sculptures. They are represented in private and public collections.
WEB SITE:
https://linktr.ee/curt_walter?subscribe
PORTFOLIO URL:
https://www.visibel.ch/www.visibel.ch/Atlas_of_ima
gination.html
REGISTRATION DATE:
2024-09-03 03:57:15
COUNTRY/REGION:
Switzerland
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
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