project of swiss alp artists and artstudents in nyc

2001 Swiss Artists from Glarus at Broadway in New York
Barbara Streiff invited more then 20 Artists and Artstudents of her Artschool International from 18 - 84
by a Exhibition for 2 Weeks Artexchange in New York City
at Broadway 473 in the gallerys of
NY Artsnagazine International
Publisher Abraham Lubelski
this work and experience you can see on www.alpswissart.ch under NYC



THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF ART:
SWISS ARTISTS FROM GLARUS IN NYC
75 years of art history visits NYC. The project Swiss Artists From Glarus will show at Gallery Abraham Lubelski 450/473 Broadway, March 6-17, 2001.The more than 20 artists all live and work in the Swiss mountain valley of Glarus. Last year they teamed up to do a valley-wide exhibition on eight historical sites throughout their mountain Canton. Quite a number of the participating artists are former students and gallery artists of Glarus' Art School Center, Fly Gallery, headed by artist Barbara Streiff in the gods of the old railway station in CH-8750 Glarus in Switzerland.
The NYC exhibit is conceived and organized by the Head of the Glarus Art School Center and Fly Gallery, Barbara Streiff. For the last ten years, she has been working in the cultural heart of Glarus, as artist, sculptor, art teacher, and curator of socio-interactive exhibitions recognized throughout Europe. A major concern is the socio-cultural animation of art - the kind of Vernetzung or Verflechtung that also marks her sculptural work. The Vernetzung/Verflechtung sculptures are now internationally known as AÏON or primae geometrie sculptures. In 1999, Streiff was invited to her AÏON work at the Abraham Lubelski Gallery. Out of this contact the idea of a joint visit in the same gallery emerged.
With writer, art critic and academic Astrid Brunner, the project Swiss Artists From Glarus has found its journalist. Brunner, who commutes regularly between Glarus and Canada, has devoted much of her writing to The Forgotten Children Of Art. This aspect of her art writing is a tribute to her childhood valley.Anne A. Vogt, art teacher at the Glarus High School. One of her achievements in the Glarus art community was her success in having art at school evaluated on a par with the traditionally more highly evaluated subjects on the academic curriculum, such as mathematics and languages. Her worldwide workshops and performances in the spirit of Buddhism represent the tenth of Tibetans that make up the population of the Canton Glarus. Workshops and performances in Switzerland, Italy, Paris, Germany, GB, Spain, New Zealand, Guatemala, Habitat II Istambul, Tibet China, Amazon Brasil, Borubudur Java. Her newest art work, "Viara-Icones", are microsized prayer paintings in mixed tenique on wood panels, continuums, triptichons and diptichons with spiritual energy through the space as inspiration.
Roberto Koch, a professional computer instructor at the KV Zürich Business School, has assisted the Swiss Artists From Glarus project by designing and constructing for its own commercial website, actually at http://www.alpswissart.ch.

Barbara Streiff and her Glarus Art School Center presents tachist and surrealist student work with Heidi van Sprundel, Valerio Manfré, and Martha Mayhensek. Heidi van Sprundel with her fantasy pictures from trees, flowers, women and landscapes she gives back her sensitive impressions of nature, expression in strong bright colors and forms. Her technique is mixed in different coats, colors and styles. Valerio Manfré favorites are the motion paintings in surrealism. In a long time process, he brings the 3d dimension in his intuitive paintings. Martha Mayhensek, her mystic paintings tell the story of her live. Her concentration of color and form is like a ritual of intuition. Her favorite technique is to paint with selfproduced pigmented colors and the use of different materials.
Many of the youngest Glarus artists showing in NYC have been formed by the Glarus Art School Center with Barbara Streiff's Fly Gallery, either as students or exhibitors, often both. Another influence is Anne A. Vogt, art teacher at the Glarus High School. Owing to these influences are Katrin Hotz, Ingrid Käser, Frederick Rossmann and Sarah Burger. These are the new generation of Glarus artists - sculptors, graphic designers, performers - some of whom already with exhibitions and art studies throughout Europe to their credit.
The future of The Forgotten Children of Art from Glarus may not be forgotten, thanks to the chance given them by Abraham Lubelski's invitation to host their work in his international gallery space on 450/473 Broadway, NYC, March 6-17, 2001.