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Stefan Arteni BIOGRAPHY

Web site: www.stefanarteni.net Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/stefanarteni
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stefan-Arteni-Traditioning-and-the-Game-ofArt/187294881287639 E-books: www.scribd.com/stefan%20arteni Selected works: www.saatchionline.com/wayofform http://aiep.artistroster.org/portfolio.cfm?id=967 http://www.wishingwell.it/feimo/en/artist/sa Scientific papers on materials and tecniques: EDV Katalog - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut ; http://bcin.ca ; www.lrmh.culture.fr base Castor

There is not only a cognitive a priori, but also an abyssal a priori, abyssal stylistic A multitude of stylistic matricesinterferealter and contaminate each other Lucian Blaga

Selected Exhibitions and Awards In competitions organized by the Japan Calligraphic Art Academy in Tokyo and the Japan Calligraphy Center in Los Angeles, Stefan Arteni was awarded the Japan Foreign Affairs Minister's Grand Prize for Calligraphy in 1996 and in 2005, the Silver Award for Kana (linked writing) in 1999, the Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles Grand Prize in 2002.

Arteni's art sprouted in the bitter soils of an East-Central Europe haunted by horrors , in the shadows of hegemonic ideologies, in the cultural climate of borderlands rooted in latency and limological uncertainties. The geographic accident of being intermediate between West and East chance [fatum] is etymologically linked to fate - defines coexistence within the Self of two or more 'here-and-now'. Being somewhere inbetween, leads to simultaneous incorporation in more than one culture, to inner multiplicity, to an interplay of multiple parallel and distributed identity constructions and to the metaphor of form as secure multi-ontology assertion. It is a matter of having to forge a communication which opens to a singular play of the visual, a play that spells out the paradoxicality built into the recomposition of painterly acts by means of parallel transclassic operations which activate and adopt a variety of incongruent formal devices and domains, however strange this may seem in view of the Procustean mindset of the contemporary art world. With an inherent heterarchical outlook and a flneur's eye for chance, Arteni juxtaposes the 'look from within' and the 'look from without', transcending the horizons of each particular cultural contexture, while non-synchronous tendencies within styles bring about formal mutation. It is a view from the margins, a play with the disruption incited by the boundary entity. It suggests displacement and the ephemeral quality of past and future. Arteni's migrating polycontextural mind with its paradoxical multiplicity of identities crosses multiple borders. The presence of the archaic within the contemporary complements the representation of the present in an allegorical vision of the past. To be sure, it is a paradoxification which manages multiple formal domains, fixing new levels of creative knowledge. Such an aesthetics subtly undergirds much of Arteni's thought. Implicit in this is a de-privileging of logocentrism and metanarratives.

Travel the Collections: Storytelling in Asian Art Saturday, May 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Stefan Arteni, calligrapher Elizabeth Hammer, lecturer Thomas Lee, storyteller Rajika Puri, dancer Gallery 206 Investigate different narrative traditions in Asian art with a calligrapher, an educator, a storyteller, and a dancer in this gallery workshop inspired by the exhibition Storytelling in Japanese Art.

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2012 Brushed Voices (Art of Ink) Shelter Rock Art Gallery Unitarian Universalist Congregation 48 Shelter Rock Rd, Manhasset, NY 10030 Calligraphy Demonstrations and Artists Talks by Stefan Arteni

February 26

March 19

2011 November 8 -27, Art of Ink, Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand

A line from Li Sao: a circle does not fit with a square design Width: 48.3 cm Height: 132.7 cm

2009 Stefan Artenis mural project

Ashdown Forest. The New York Public Library childrens room dedicated to the stories of Winnie-the Pooh written by A.A.Milne (1882-1956).

Stefan Arteni
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2009 World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do 19-30 September 2009, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju, South Korea Exhibition: Calligraphy Trends Sprouting in Europe http://www.biennale.or.kr

Time waits for no man Width: 46 cm Height: 150 cm

A line from Li Sao: a circle does not fit with a square design Width: 48.3 cm Height: 132.7 cm

Arteni has extensively exhibited calligraphies and paintings throughout Europe, the United States, and in Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan:

2008 Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine (California)

On The Borderline, 2008 Seoul Calligraphy Biennale, National Seoul Art Center, Seoul (Korea) Calligraphy Triptych, each panel 134.5 x 68.00 cm

Art endures forever

The purpose of art is to serve beauty

The power of art is enduring

2007 Art of ink Association Culturelle Franco-Japonaise de TENRI Espace Culturel Bertin Poire, Paris (France)

Art of Ink Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan (Korea)

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles (U.S.A.)

Works in a private collection, Paris, France

Collection David S. Ferriero, Washington, U.S.A.

Collection Chris Lesser New York, U.S.A. Collection Joseph Davis, New York, U.S.A.

Private Collection, Iasi, Romania Private Collection, New York, U.S.A.

Private Collection, U.S.A.

2006 The World Calligraphy Festival International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition Gong-pyung Art Center (Seoul, Korea) Online catalog: http://seoulbiennale.com/forum9-1.html or http://seoulbiennale.com/f-gallery/modern89.html

Ehon Continuity and Change The New York Public Library, New York

2005 - 2006 The Way of Form, Retrospective Exhibition 1971-2005, Q.C.C. Art Gallery-C.U.N.Y., New York Visual art, evolutionary game theory, cybernetics, logic of distinctions, polycontexturality: a heuristic musing (lecture-demonstration; March 9, 2006)

2005 "Energy and Diffusion", Seoul Calligraphy Biennial: Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of History, Gong-pyung Art Center, Gallery La Mer, Gong Gallery (Seoul, Korea)

Art of Ink 2005, New York Hall of Science (New York)

Online catalog: http://seoulbiennale.com/new1.html (main exhibition)

Art of Ink, Cal Poly Pomona W. Keith and Janet Kellog University Art Gallery (Pomona, California) Online catalog: http://www.csupomona.edu/~kellogg_gallery/calligraphy_web/a rtOfink_index.html

Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles)

2004 Yusho Ten, Tokyo-GeijyutuGekijyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Art of Ink 2004, Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, Alabama)

Mulpa International Exhibition: Mulpa Art Center (Seoul, Korea) and Seoho Museum (Seoul, Korea)

Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles)

2003 Art of Ink 2003, Shaanxi History Museum (Xian, China) Tokyo Ginza Gallery Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

2000 - 2001 " Calligraphy and Art. A New Perspective on Contemporary Calligraphy: A Dialogue with Modern Sinitic Writing Art (December 2000 - January 2001), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Taichung County Seaport Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan). Curated by Lin Sueching, Tsuei Yeong-shuei, Li Szu-hsien, and Lin Ming-shien.

2002 Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles)

2001 Contemporary Calligraphy Masters, Representatives and Invitational Exhibition, Tokyo Ginza Gallery Museum (Tokyo, Japan) Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles)

Works in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Works in Japanese private collections

2000 Orpheus, St. Mark's Library Seabury Hall, The General Theological Seminary (New York)

Ink 2000, Newhouse Salon (New York) Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles)

1999 Brushpaths, The General Theological Seminary (New York)

Monotypes, St. Mark's Library, The General Theological Seminary (New York)

<Private collection, Osaka,Japan


Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles) Avant-garde Oriental Calligraphy, Doul Art Center (Seoul, Korea)

1998 Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles) Mansfield Freeman and Davison Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut)

1997 East and West. Allegories, Kobe Art Hall (Kobe, Japan)

Tweed Museum (Duluth, Minnesota) Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles)

1996 Seton Hall University Galleries (South Orange, New Jersey)

1992 Manhattan East Gallery (New York) 1991 Manhattan East Gallery (New York) 1990 Art in Exile, Manhattan East Gallery (New York) 1974 Foreign Press Club (Rome, Italy)

Doizaki Galleries (Los Angeles) 1995 Sumner Museum (Washington, D.C.) Golden West College Galleries (Huntington Beach, California)

1973 Galleria LAccento (Rome, Italy) The brochure contains two poems by Maestro Sebastiano Carta dedicated to the artistis

1973 Galleria La Papessa (Rome, Italy)

Artenis works are in numerous private, public and corporate collections.

seeing signs, hidden meanings, symbols, in the sufferings, the depressions, the dry periods of everyday life. Seeing them and reading them even if they aren't there; if one sees them, one can build a structure and read a message in the formless flow of things and the monotonous flux of historical facts. Mircea Eliade

The dynamic logic of contradiction appears as the logic of experience, and at the same time, as the experience of logic. Stphane Lupasco
Publications and Lecture -Demonstrations Since 1974, Arteni has authored over one-hundred radio broadcasts and published papers on art history, the manufacture of artist's materials, the techniques and materials of painting, and aesthetics (phenomenology and systems theory). He has participated in the Congresses of the International Council of Museums (Committee for Conservation), the Deutsches Farbenzentrum, the Chinese Society for Aesthetics, ICMS8 (Gestes, formes et processus signifiants en musique et semiotique interarts), and in numerous other international Symposia and Conferences. Arteni has also participated in the Conferences of and chaired the I.S.F. Section "Lipids in Art" in the United States, England, and France. In recent years, he has lectured on and demonstrated calligraphy (Greek, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Japanese), and participated in workshops in New York (1995 and 1996) ; the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (1998) ; Columbia University, New York (1998) ; St. Mark's Library, General Theological Seminary, New York (1999); the New York Hall of Science, New York (2005); and the QCC Art Gallery CUNY, New York (2006).

He now concentrates his research on the pictorial fact and procedural switches between formal contextures, the ludic ritual act of the performance event that creates a form-space, art communication as a high-context process, the mereotopology of formal constructs, metacultural sensibility and complexity theory, and the complementarity of painting and calligraphy.

The immediacy of ink splashes spattered on paper creates a constructed void Zao Wou-Ki

International Art Projects 2004-2005 UNstant (An-instant), a collective work packaged in book form, initiated and made possible by I.D.E.A.C. (Institut d'Esthetique des Arts Contemporains/Universite Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne) and C.N.R.S.(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France, is about exploring transversal thought and emerging gesture in the visual, audio, and movement mediums. Arteni's intervention (ink works, artist's books and monotypes portfolio) showcases a polycontextural artistic matrix, the mark as chronotopic palimpsest, the total gesture as immediate enstatic experience. An excellent opportunity for presenting UNstant was offered by a conference at the University of Reading, U.K., September 2005, on the theme "Transversalities, crossing disciplines, cultures and identities".

The force of art is the force of trutha revelation of the simple secret that things are and that they emerge from the unknown world into the light of their pure reality. Jan Patocka

Artist's Books Arteni is co-founder of Sol Invictus Press and the first Western artist to master the art of seal cutting. Artenis seals have been favorably compared to Qi Baishis. He has also pioneered the art of sumi ink monoprinting and large-size seal cutting, and has explored and expanded the horizon of clay monoprinting.

Medellin, Colombia, February 2009: an extraordinary meeting of The City Council was held for the purpose of presenting to the public and press the copy of Laudes Creaturarum given to the town by SolInvictus Press

Arteni's one-of-a-kind and limited-edition published books have been widely exhibited:
2005 Image-Word: The Sol Invictus Press 'Laudes Creaturarum', St. Mark's Library, The General Theological Seminary (New York)

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for Laudes Creaturarum Private Collection, New York

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for Laudes Creaturarum Private Collection, New York 2004 In Memoriam Daniel Simko. Word as Icon, The New York Public Library, Slavic and Baltic Division (New York)

2000 22 Book Artists, Harper Collins Exhibition Space (New York)

1998 Sign of The Logos, Artists Books and Related Materials, A Retrospective Exhibition of Sol Invictus Press (November 19, 1998 - April 16, 1999) , St. Mark's Library, The General Theological Seminary (New York). Curated by Isaac Gewirtz.

Apocalypse (album of clay monotypes) Artenireleases the full potential of the clay monotype by cutting into and shaping the topography of the slab, thereby achieving a complex interaction of planographic, relief , and intaglio effects. Occasionally, the furrows in the clay produce rich effects akin to dry point etching. Isaac Gewirtz

1997 Center for Book Arts (New York) Marymount College (New York) 1996 F. I. R. A. (Montreal, Canada) Soho Biennial (New York) Center for Book Arts (New York) 1993 The Armory (New York) Andrew Melon Auditorium (Washington, D.C.) The Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.) Phoenix Public Library (Phoenix, Arizona)

1992 Humphrey Gallery (New York)

Works in the Mobile Museum of Art collection, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.

A few works in U.S.A. private collections

I am: and I understand by means of the intellect and by the way of the senses The beautiful, absolute in itself, becomes embodied only variably and forbearingly. Nicolae Steinhardt General Background Stefan Arteni, who sometimes uses the sobriquet Kyosen (Crazy Hermit), comes

from a multicultural background. He was born in Bucharest and has lived in Rome and New York. Arteni was educated at Romanian elementary and secondary schools in Bucharest, and continued his education at Romanian (Bucharest), Italian (Rome) and United States (New York) universities. He has pursued studies in architecture, art history, fine arts, icon and mural painting, and the restitution and conservation of architectural monuments. He is also proficient in several languages and has worked for the Vatican Radio as redactor and art historian for many years. From the beginning, a translocal multi-identiy web and a recursiveness of identity recreation, a being between and astride cultures and moving across languages and visual contextures set side by side, imply a second-order perspective, an experiential metacultural sensibility Byzantine art freely appropriated and adapted the artistic practices of pagan Rome. There is a wealth of references, borrowings and allusions in works by Pablo Picasso. Sound and music compositions have employed remixing, reuse, quotation and self-quotation, for centuries. More than at any previous time, an artist may have today knowledge and access to works of the past. Charles Esche has commented recently and not entirely sympathetically: "The past has become the future". Redefining the artscape triggers the collage loop in myriad combinations: the use of random procedures, recycling of fragments handed over to memory, objets trouvs, a quarry of fragments mined for visual and associative effect, stylistic collage, commercial imagery, fragments of artworks, random cut or torn paper bits, recycled by means of montage, staging, perspective, foreshortening, are used by Arteni in collage modelli to create conflict and contrast through colliding imagery, through recuperation and alteration, and through an ironic reference to and dtournement of the very strategies of the avantgarde 'canon', 'tradition' or 'dogma' - the terms are ambiguous and suggestive of the structural contradiction inherent in the avantgarde concept itself.

Private collection, Rome, Italy

What form of mediain the most general and generic sense of the technology of representation, the genre of mediationwould be appropriate to the modern experience of exile ? Is there a mediatic temporality that could be usefully described as exilic ?... Homi Bhabha All painting is painted under erasure and so is (as it explicitly, self-reflexively proclaims itself) an empty page that is, by that very emptiness, marked. To use a musical analogy, variations on a formal theme or themes, developmental or metamorphic variations and improvised variations are at the core of Arteni's work. It is clear that there is a single signature in Arteni's work, whatever his subject or style - Arteni questions the inherent importance of stylistic consistency and challenges the medium to meet any demand of form. Two or more works may be based on the same hetero-referential construct, which is treated with different variational techniques, that is to say compositionally, harmonically, chromatically, or as tonal variations. The works are characterized by the absence of temporal and geographical markers, which indicates their oneiric quality. The reuse of imagery gives a figurative style an oddly apocalyptic force and bears a similarity to the spirit of the medieval practice of musical contrafacta: the artist combines sources, models, and methods with improvisation and quasirandomness.

Private collection, Sweden

The reduplication of the difference between medium and form in forms that in turn can be used as mediumto turn any possible form into the medium of a possible different form and to consider these forms as a calculus on the codependence of marked and unmarked states Dirk Baecker The collage of visual reference is echoed on the plane of color. Color orchestration provides an ideal complement to Arteni's baroque imagery and playful use of genres iconography. The anachronism of the genres does produce a number of effects such as an odyssey in time and space through the interpenetration of various formal domains, and the reinscription of exilic or diasporic otherness. Private collection U.S.A.-Spain Exile is a hard walk, an intricate tattoo. Daniel Simko

To be otherwhere, to be otherwise Massimo Campigli Far-Eastern Calligraphy Art Having felt limited by the inadequacy of the Western mainstream avantgarde paradigm and its memetics of instability as well as by the accepted notions premised on the subservient role of painterly discourse, Arteni turned elsewhere for inspiration and stylistic approaches. It is exactly the sense of being an outsider that allows Arteni to observe with detached curiosity. The utter apartness (Abgeschiedenheit) of art amplifies the genealogy of form. Classical revivalist concerns are merged with other traditions. These include the art of the Far East. They also include protoscripts and folk art - where the synchronicity of figurative pictures and abstract motifs may appear in the same sequence, a dual capacity that has been developed in pre-modern cultures throughout the ages - and a variety of visual material re-valued by juxtaposition and viewed as empty signifier.

A New York collector's room dedicated to Arteni's work A few of Artenis calligraphies from an U.S.A. private collection

NIHON SHODO GEIJUTSU KYOKAI (JAPAN CALLIGRAPHY ART ASSOCIATION)

Chang Lien Ching (Chang Y-chao) | Hidai Tenrai Miyajima Eishi \ Kamijo Shinzan | Yusho Tanaka (Setsuzan) | Stefan Arteni (Geizan) / | Hidai Nankoku

Artenis interest in calligraphy began in high school. He studied with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese teachers, and is now pursuing calligraphy with Professor Yusho Tanaka (Setsuzan), Director of the Department of Calligraphy, Faculty of Literature, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, one of Japan's foremost Living Masters and president of the Nihon Shodo Geijutsu Kyokai (The Japan Calligraphy Art Association) founded by Professor Kamijo Shinzan, a pupil of Miyajima Eishi and one of Japan's top calligraphers Arteni has been awarded in 2005 the highest rank, SHIHAN (Master Teacher), by The Japan Calligraphy Art Association. It is tradition that the teacher gives the student an art name which points to the student's nature. In 2005 Arteni received the special art name GEIZAN [meaning Art Mountain] from Yusho (Setsuzan) Tanaka Sensei. Arteni was given a part of the Teacher's art name, ZAN [meaning Mountain,] as a symbol of spiritual succession. The Association traces its lineage to 1887, when a young Miyajima Eishi crossed the sea to study with Chang Lien Ch'ing, a representative Chinese calligrapher who had succeeded in blending all schools of stelae writing into an unique style. Each generation develops new interpretive strategies and searches deep into the meta-artistic logic of visual forms as such or of graphic systems underlying calligraphic styles. Professor Yusho Tanaka (Setsuzan), for example, has ventured into a creative stylistic retrieval of bamboo and wooden strips inscriptions - form becomes the artist's koan.

Setsuzan Sensei and Arteni (the hanging scroll is a calligraphy by Setsuzan Sensei)

Setsuzan Sensei and Arteni next to Artenis 2005 prize-winning calligraphy

Grasp tradition in one hand and grasp life in the other Shi Lu

Teaching Building upon Hesychast and Zen spirituality, Stefan Arteni also teaches calligraphy: dwelling in art, stilling the mind, enstasis, meditation with the brush.

The paradox is the source, the essence and the meaning. Jean Bis

He who refuses does not repent. Should he be asked again, he would say no again. And yet that no -- the right no -- crushes him for the rest of his life. C.P.Cavafy

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AID FOR AIDS auction NY In celebration of its fifteenth anniversary AID FOR AIDS International (AFAI) is excited to announce the 2011 My Hero Gala and silent art auction of prominent contemporary artists on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at Three Sixty (10 Desbrosses Street) in New York City. AFAI is honoring music icon Miguel Bos; President of Marc Jacobs International Robert Duffy and his husband Alex Cespedes; former First Lady of Colombia, Lina Moreno de Uribe; and President of the International Community for Women Living with HIV or AIDS, Patricia Prez. "The My Hero Gala celebrates the courage to make a difference. Each of our honorees stand as a hero to those living with HIV or AIDS and an inspiration to those of us who strive to do more," says AFAI Founder and Executive Director, Jesus Aguais. Chaired by AFAI board members Maria Eugenia Maury Arria, Graciela Dauhajre and Maria Jos Hidalgo, the event will be attended by over 300 cultural luminaries, activists, artists, art patrons, and leaders in business and philanthropy. Joel Yoss of Hauser & Wirth Gallery serves as this year's Art Auction Committee Chair, joined by artistCarlos Motta and art patron Beatriz de la Mora. Through their efforts, the Silent Auction will feature important works by internationally renowned visual artists: Lara Alcantara Lansberg, Alexander Apstol, Stefan Arteni, Aziz + Cucher, Tony Bechara, Isidro Blasco, Alberto Borea, Louise Bourgeois, Monika Bravo, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Patricia Cazorla, Alejandro Cesarco, Martin Creed, Matthew Day Jackson, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Milagros de la Torre, Dias & Riedweg, Mauricio Donelli, Diana Drews, Marcia Grostein, Paul Gabrielle, Regina Jos Galindo, Ellen Gallagher, Mary Heilmann , Christian Holstad , Roni Horn, Guillermo Kuitca, Runo Lagomarsino, Adriana Lara, An-My L, Paul Lee, Almudena Legorreta, Lovett/ Codagnone, Luis Mallo, Margarita Marino, Sean Mellyn, Steven Mendal, Ivn Navarro, Christopher Orr, Ana Patricia Palacios, Carlos Reynoso, Patricia Rincn Mautner, Pipilotti Rist, Emilio Snchez, Wilbert Snchez Montes de Oca, Fanny Sann, Horacio Sapere, Wilhelm Sasnal, Alexandra Seegers, Federico Serrano, Jorge Tacla, Juergen Teller and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. http://www.wam-webartmagazine.com/index.php/previews/160-aid-for-aids-auction-ny http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/aid-for-aids-internationals-2011-my-hero-gala-and-silent-art-auction/

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WORKS IN AUCTION
Arteni Stefan The Return of Ulysses, undated. Gouache on paper 30 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches Courtesy of the artist 5,000.00 USD

Serving History World History Served Up Daily Polycontexturality

Related Resources :: Polycontexturality On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelin - Following Gunther s work I developed a complex philosophical and mathematical theory of interactivity in the framework of polycontexturality, developing and using Stefan Arteni Painting as Polycontexturality - Painting as Polycontexturality. A Collage of Commented Reading Notes. by Stefan Arteni: On Painting Otherwhere Otherwise Painting, Image Likeness PCL Homepage - Welcome to ThinkArt Lab! - The following lines give a very brief overview of some of the central ideas of Polycontexturality. It is not meant as an indroduction to Polycontexturality. Publications full text in English - Goethe-Universit t - Constitutionalising Polycontexturality. Social and Legal Studies 19, 2011, 17-38. Fragmented Foundations: Societal Constitutionalism Beyond the Nation State. http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/polycontexturality

Laudes creaturarum by Francis, of Assisi Saint; Myriam S P De Arteni; Stefan Arteni; Barbara Carle

Book

Italian

1992

[Jackson Heights, N.Y. : Sol Invictus]

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Laudes creaturarum (Book) by Francis, 1182-1226. Author: Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226. Title: Laudes creaturarum / San Francesco d'Assisi. Publisher, Date: [Jackson Heights, N.Y. : Sol Invictus], 1992. Description: [32] leaves : ill. ; 38 cm. Genre Printing stones -- United States -- 20th century. Format: Book 1 of 1 available systemwide, with no current holds. Location and Availability Burton Barr Central Library 1 of 1 available Call Number Status REF 851.1 F847L 1992 - Rare Book Room Vault http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/controller.jsp?R=201467

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Arteni, Stefan Stefan Arteni http://www.stefanarteni.net/ Showcases the artist's work in Japanese calligraphy and painting and Sol Invictus Press, which creat es one of a kind artist's books. Lists exhibitions, collections and recent essays on art related top ics. Stefan Arteni is an artist and writer living in New York City. Stefan Arteni, calligraphy, scroll painting, calligraphic, Arteni, Artini, Stephan, Japanese calligr aphy, shodo, artist's books, book arts, livres d'artiste, semiotic, phenomenology, heidegger, luhma nn, husserl, de stael, zao wou-ki stefan, arteni (SLD : stefanarteni.net) Arts/Visual_Arts/Personal_Pages/A

http://www.globalarchitectsguide.com/library/Polycontexturality.php Stefan Arteni Painting as Polycontexturality - Stefan Arteni is an artist and writer living in New York City. Polycontexturality - In reason, subjectivity refers to the property of perceptions, arguments, and language as being based in a subject point of view, and hence influenced in accordance with LIfe as Polycontexturality, Some Remarks - life as polycontexturality some remarks on part 1. by Eberhard von Goldammer. As it was pointed out in the G nther 2000 special a contexture is a logical domain where

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THIERRY M. MARTINEZ cites Artenis paper Shodo on http://savoir-changer.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html

http://www.webcom.com/~paf/ereignis3.html new: www.beying.com/ereignis4.html [cites Artenis paper Painting, Image, Likeness with a link to the website] http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/musings/conform.php [site of Anthony Judge (Australia) who is the instigator of the Union of Imaginative Associations (www.un-imagine.org) -- following his retirement in May 2007 as Director of Communications and Research at the Union of International Associations (UIA) (www.uia.org). Cites Artenis paper Painting as Polycontexturality] Arteni has been cited in: Rudolf Kaehr, Which equality? www.thinkartlab.com/pkl/media/Equality/Equality.pdf:

Rudolf Kaehr, a student of Gotthard Guenther, heads the ThinkArt Lab at the TransComputation Institute in Glasgow, Scotland

Arteni has been cited in: A Tale of Fishes, Birds and Diamonds in Second-Order Epistemology Why it is useless to write about the mono-contexturality of alphabetism and digitalism Rudolf Kaehr Dr.@ ThinkArt Lab Glasgow http://www.thinkartlab.com/pkl/media/Fishes+Birds/Fishes+Birds.html 2.7. Double-faces in real-world constellations Self-descriptions of double-faced experiences are not always easy to grasp. The multi-cultured17artist "An artist's split between cultures becomes a potential means of deautomatizing wornout formal devices, a strategy of inserting and asserting, of uprooting and defamiliarizing formal contextures. In a true sense the process exhibits a polycontextural stylistic matrix and a distributed artistic identity - one runs across the terms heterarchy, contexture, polycontexturality, transjunction and kenogrammatics in Gotthard Guenthers transclassic logic investigations. Polycontextural systems apply different codes of self-observation related to different observation positions. (Arteni) 17 http://www.quark-press.ro/site.php?document=MainFrameDoc&elementID=21399

Robert F. Thompson cites Artenis ebook The Form of the Form: From Glory to Glory: The Sophianic Vision of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov in Context of Tradition Robert F. Thompson Submitted to the faculty in partial response to requirements for completion of the M.A.R. degree in Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis,Tennessee May 2010

http://brightmetaphor.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/rthompson_thesis2.pdf

Troy Harris [Buddhist name: Sritantra] ascetic, artist, researcher, poet, painter

Rene's "final" work: towards a global art analysis (draft2) Broadly speaking, calligraphy holds dissimilar social status in Eastern and Western art historical cultures. However, in traditional Asiatic critical art practice, particularly in the Far Eastern literati tradition, there is neither a compelling nor a valid distinction drawn between painting and calligraphy, as such, between image and reflection, idea and word, for that matter, between presentation and representation. What is more, in our present globalizing academic sense at least, painting isn't necessarily even considered "painting" but more an extension of writing (criture), which covers simultaneously images and letters, and thereby makes such terms as "letter" and "image" remarkably 'irrelevant in stricto senso' (Inaga, 2007: 266). Calligraphy, then, as a facet of writing, and which thereby expects to communicate something, harbours resounding rhetorical implications. And one ponders therefore as to what extent the peripheries of Asia had touched upon the thalassocratic quayage of Imperial Venice (ca. 13-15th cen). However, even in the far earlier sixth-century period, Gregory the Great (d. 604) had already in essence classified the art of painting as an aspect of 'Rhetoric' and thereby subsumed it under 'Word' (Arteni, 2001). Now if the inverse proposal also holds true, then what shall be made of an artist's letters or even incoherently scribbled notes? Would not these items form a part of the artist's corpus of "paintings"? Full-bodied questions start to emerge in regard to our subject's final composition. Question 1: Where from Laubies, East or West? If East wins out, then the following comes to surface. Question 2: What constitutes Rene Laubies's true "final" work?

http://bauddhamata.blogspot.com/ Rene Labuies: an abstract monologue I am currently composing an abstract monograph, not on or about but very near to the life and work of Rene Laubies, accounting for his legacy by calling into play a radical Euro-decentering effusion of cultural hybridity essential to the patterning of his own looming art. Methodological pose: a hermeneutics of 'wayfaring,' flneur and dap. Reference: Stefan Arteni 2001. "Painting, Image, Likeness." on 22.10.07

I shall return to these questions as soon as possible.

References In October 2007 Arteni received a few emails from Sritantra.Sritantra wrote: I first came across your online work more than two years agoMy more recent studies in Art History and Criticism have enabled me better to understand and appreciate the scope and penetration of your vision Your work is valuable particularly as the testament of a philosopher artist Arteni, Stefan. 2001. Painting, Image, Likeness. Inaga, Shigemi. 2007 "Is Art History Globalizable? A critical commentary from a far Eastern Point of view," in Elkins (ed.), Is Art History Global?, 2007: 249-279). [In the Far East traditions,] "calligraphy" and "painting" (shhua/shoga) is a single classification category in the conservation of cultural properties. When the European academic definitions of fine arts was introduced in Japan in the 1880s, it provoked harsh controversy. The question of whether calligraphy whould be included or excluded from the category of fine arts was the point at issue. The opposition continues today. (Inaga: 266)For Inaga's personally corrected Homepage version, see http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/~aurora/pdf/2IsArtHistoryGlobalizable(revisedonJune20)pdf_put.pdf on 27.2.08

A selection of Artenis works may be viewed on the website of the SAATCHI GALLERY DUKE OF YORK HQ, London, U.K: http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Stefan+Arteni/6833.html http://www.saatchionline.com/wayofform www.respiro.org/Issue10/arteni.htm
http://www.ikonartstudio.com/udigma-arteni.html and http://www.ikonartstudio.com/arteni-ulise.html http://www.quark-press.ro/resources/images/pdf/ The%20Return%20of%20Ulysses%203.pdf : Artenis digital artists book, The Return of Ulysses. A selection of Artenis paintings and collages may be viewed on Quark/Galerie de art [http://www.quark-press.ro/site.php?document= MainFrameDoc&elementID=20826]

http://www.zhuadongxi.com/search?p=arts%2Fvisual_arts%20stefan%20arteni

Arteni, Stefan Showcases the artist's work in Japanese calligraphy and painting and Sol Invictus Press, which creates one of a kind artist's books. Lists exhibitions,... www.stefanarteni.net/

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%C4%83_de_oameni_de_cultur%C4%83_rom%C3%A2ni _care_au_emigrat_%C3%AEn_Occident http://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C8%98tefan_C._Arteni&action=edit&redlink=1

Ardealul Literar, Year XIV, Nr.1 (52)/2012 [two of Artenis paintings are reproduced on the covers/

Petru Ursache, Omul din Calidor, 2012 [five of Artenis digital compositions are reproduced as illustrations and on front cover]

Petru Ursache, Omul din Calidor, 2012 [five of Artenis digital compositions are reproduced as illustrations and on front cover]

Magda Ursache, Vietile Cartarilor Contimporani, 2012 Artenis digital portrait of the writer Magda Ursache is reproduced on the cover

ARGES, Year XI (XLVI), nr. 11 (353), November 2011, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [a work by Arteni illustrates Mihai Rogobetes article]

ARGES, Year XI (XLVI), nr. 8 (350), August 2011, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [a work by Arteni illustrates Mihai Rogobetes article]

ARGES, Year XI (XLVI), nr. 7, July 2011, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [a work by Arteni illustrates Mihai Rogobetes article]

ARGES, Year XI (XLVI), nr. 6, June 2011, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [a work by Arteni illustrates Mihai Rogobetes article]

ARGES, Year XI (XLVI), nr. 5, May 2011, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [a work by Arteni illustrates Mihai Rogobetes article]

PRO SAECULUM, Focsani, Vranpress Media, Year IX, Nr. 5-6, 2010 [2 of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers in color; 48 of Artenis works are reproduced as black and white illustrations] www.pro-saeculum.ro

PRO SAECULUM, Focsani, Vranpress Media, Year IX, Nr. 5-6, 2010 [2 of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers in color; 48 of Artenis works are reproduced as black and white illustrations] www.pro-saeculum.ro

PRO SAECULUM, Focsani, Vranpress Media, Year IX, Nr. 5-6, 2010 [2 of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers in color; 48 of Artenis works are reproduced as black and white illustrations] www.pro-saeculum.ro

PRO SAECULUM, Focsani, Vranpress Media, Year IX, Nr. 5-6, 2010 [2 of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers in color; 48 of Artenis works are reproduced as black and white illustrations] www.pro-saeculum.ro

PRO SAECULUM, Focsani, Vranpress Media, Year IX, Nr. 5-6, 2010 [2 of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers in color; 48 of Artenis works are reproduced as black and white illustrations] www.pro-saeculum.ro

PRO SAECULUM, Focsani, Vranpress Media, Year IX, Nr. 5-6, 2010 [2 of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers in color; 48 of Artenis works are reproduced as black and white illustrations] www.pro-saeculum.ro

Artenis digital portrait of the writer Magda Ursache, ACOLADA, January 2010 http://www.editurapleiade.eu/images/static/files/1_2010.pdf

Magda Ursache, Sa Cititi Bine!, 2010 Artenis digital portrait of the writer Magda Ursache is reproduced on the cover

Petru Ursache, Short Treatise on Theological Aesthetics, second edition, 2009 [two of Artenis works are reproduced on the covers]

Petru Ursache, Short Treatise on Theological Aesthetics, second edition, 2009 [eight of Artenis works are reproduced as illustrations]

CONVORBIRI LITERARE, October 2009, Iassy [ten of Artenis works are reproduced as illustrations]

SPATII CULTURALE, nr.6/September-October 2009, Ramnicu-Valcea, reproduces Artenis digital portrait of the writer Magda Ursache,
http://spatiiculturale.50gigs.net/62009/INTERVIU.htm

ARGES, Year IX (XLIV), nr. 8 (326), August 2009, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [Artenis Udigma article is illustrated with a digital selfportrait]

Sorin Parvu, general coordinator, A DICTIONARY OF NORTH-AMERICAN WRITERS.VOL I. A, European Institute and Centre dEtudes Canadiennes, Iassy, 2008 (the Dictionary lists also North-American visual artists)

POSTMODERNISM(E), no. 1-2, 2009, European Institute, Iassy [six of Artenis works are reproduced as illustrations and one work is reproduced on the cover ]

POSTMODERNISM(E), no. 1-2, 2009, European Institute, Iassy [six of Artenis works are reproduced as illustrations and one work is reproduced on the cover ]

www.davidould.net/.../christs_descent_to_hades [David Ould, an Englishman who studies at Moore Theological College in Sydney, wrote an essay entitled Christs Descent to Hades. Artenis Anastasis has been used as illustration]

Maxime Martinez posted an album of reproductions of Artenis works: https://picasaweb.google.com/Macsmart2/StefanArteni#

mardi 19 aot 2008 Zen Transfiguration


Traces d'un passage et rminiscences... Maxime Martinez La Sainte Transfiguration par Stefan Arteni Stefan Arteni quand il veut effectuer ce passage du Zen au Christianisme ne peut que trouver l'Hagiographie (ou iconographie) orthodoxe et il ne peut que s'intresser la Prire de Jsus laquelle il a consacr un album. Parce que comme la calligraphie japonaise ou chinoise, l'Hagiographie est criture (criture sainte et criture du sacr) pas la peinture occidentale dite religieuse, ou thme religieux. De mme que la calligraphie est mditation, l'Hagiographie est prire. De mme que la calligraphie et l'art pictural qui en dcoule, l'Hagiographie orthodoxe sont action et mditation en mme temps. Le calligraphe mdite avant son art comme l'iconographe prie avant de se mettre au travail. Corps, me et esprit sont en mouvement sans division, sans sparation dans la rceptivit de l'Indicible, de l'Innommable, dans le paradoxe de l'Irreprsentable, dans la clbration du Sacr. Quand il y a communication entre calligraphie (la belle criture du Beau) et l'Hagiographie la Lumire n'y perd pas, elle est vue travers un autre prisme mais c'est toujours la Lumire

http://orthodoxe-ordinaire.blogspot.com/2008/08/zen-transfiguration.html [reproduces Artenis Transfiguration] http://picasaweb.google.com/Macsmart2/StefanArteni#slideshow

mardi 23 dcembre 2008 Maxime Martinez

Stefan Arteni m'a envoy cette belle carte dans le style de son travail "calligraphiconique" je vous l'offre mon tour :

http://orthodoxe-ordinaire.blogspot.com/search?q=arteni [reproduces Artenis Nativity compositions]


Five-character-ancient-verse Zhang Jiuling ORCHID AND ORANGE II

Here, south of the Yangzi, grows a red orange tree. All winter long its leaves are green, Not because of a warmer soil, But because its' nature is used to the cold. Though it might serve your honourable guests, You leave it here, far below mountain and river. Circumstance governs destiny. Cause and effect are an infinite cycle. You plant your peach-trees and your plums, You forget the shade from this other tree. Somebody [Shitao is a pseudonym] viewed Artenis website and commented on the calligraphies and on the calligraphic paintings on paper by means of the above poem posted on http://shitao.stumbleupon.com/tag/orchid/ One of Artenis paintings has been reproduced

ARGES, Year VIII (XLIII), nr. 446 (314), August 2008, published by Centrul Cultural Pitesti [two digital works by Arteni illustrate Mihai Rogobetes short stories]

LUCEAFARUL, Year XVI, nr.8(797), Wednesday, March 12, 2008, published under the aegis of the Romanian Writers Association, www.revistaluceafarul.ro

LUCEAFARUL, Year XVI, nr.8(797), Wednesday, March 12, 2008, published under the aegis of the Romanian Writers Association, www.revistaluceafarul.ro

ORIENT LATIN, nr. 3, March 2008

PARADIGMA XXI, February 2008, nr.2 (16), published by Quark Press, www.quark-press.ro

PARADIGMA XXI, February 2008, nr.2 (16), published by Quark Press, www.quark-press.ro

PARADIGMA XXI, February 2008, nr.2 (16), published by Quark Press, www.quark-press.ro

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Quark/Biblioteca virtual/continuare The Return of Ulysses 3 (pdf) Autor: tefan Arteni Editura: SolInvictus Press Apariie: 2007

Reviste Creaie Dosarele Paradigma XXI Biblioteca virtual Galerie de art

The Return of Ulysses 4 (pdf) Autor: tefan Arteni Editura: SolInvictus Press Apariie: 2007

Balcanii si Europa nr.73 din 2007 Romni n lume "Scoala Brncui"


n capitala Franei au avut loc o serie de manifestri, sub egida UNESCO, dar i a Ligii Culturale pentru Unitatea Romnilor de Pretutindeni, cu ocazia mplinirii a 50 de ani de la trecerea n nemurire a lui Constantin Brncui, olteanul din Hobia, devenit cetean al lumii. La Centrul Artei Contemporane "George Pompidou" din Paris, a fost reconstituit ntocmai atelierul su, lsat n ntregime statului francez, dup ce autoritile de la Bucureti l-au refuzat cu mai bine de 50 de ani n urm. Cu regretul de a nu fi fost neles n ara natal, marele artist mrturisea pe patul de moarte duhovnicului su c-i pare nespus de ru c va muri nempcat sufletete: "fiindc nu pot s-mi dau sufletul n ara mea". S-a afirmat pe bun dreptate c nu exist stat din Europa, Asia sau America, care s nu fi auzit de romnul Brncui, printele sculpturii moderne. Unul dintre cei mai de seam elevi ai si a fost Constantin Antonovici (1911-2002). Acesta a fcut studii la Academia de Arte din Iai, specialitatea "sculptor", pe care a terminato n anul 1939. nc de atunci i-a propus s ajung la Paris, la C. Brncui i s devin discipolul acestuia. O vreme, n anul 1940 a lucrat la Zagreb, n Croaia, n atelierele marelui sculptor croat I. Mestrovici. n anul 1941, revenind la Zagreb, a fost arestat de Gestapo, internat n Germania i apoi i s-a fixat domiciliul forat la Viena, unde a realizat o serie de opere de art i a participat la expoziii de grup. Imediat dup rzboi, a primit comenzi de scupturi de la Vatican, Veneia, Olanda, Montreal i Washington. n 1947 a ajuns, n sfrit, la Paris i a lucrat o vreme n atelierul lui Brncui, cel care a rmas apoi pentru toat viaa sa "maestrul". Dup civa ani, pleac peste Ocean, unde s-a stabilit definitiv din 1957. S-a integrat activ n viaa comunitii romneti din New York, care i-a i pus la dispoziie un atelier ntr-una din anexele unei biserici romneti. A contribuit din plin la popularizarea operei brncuiene peste Ocean, dar s-a afirmat i prin propriile sale lucrri, precum "Bufnia", "Lebda", Statuia lui Brncui, Capul lui Eminescu etc. Oarecum n aceeai linie a creaiei sculpturale se situeaz i Nic Petre. Nscut n 1936, a urmat Universitatea de Art din Bucureti, debutnd printr-o expoziie din anul 1968 i urmnd apoi mai multe expoziii personale n ar, precum i peste hotare, n Italia, Grecia etc. n anul 1981, dup o scurt edere n Italia, a emigrat n Canada, stabilindu-se la Toronto. Sculpturile sale n lemn sau n marmur au devenit cunoscute i cutate nu numai n patria de adopie, ci i n alte ri, din S.U.A. n Japonia, inclusiv n Romnia. Pe aceeai linie se nscrie i sculptorul George Apostu (1934-1986). Dup ce se remarcase pe cnd se afla n Romnia, cu participare la o serie de expoziii personale, nu numai n ara sa, ci i n Frana, Danemarca, Belgia, Spania, Italia, Grecia, Brazilia, India, s-a stabilit la Paris, unde primria oraului i-a atribuit n 1983 un atelier de creaie. Apostu a fost cel mai reprezentativ dintre sculptorii care, n urm cu mai multe decenii, au gsit n creaia popular noi temeiuri n inovarea stilistic, fiind influenat i de opera lui Mircea Eliade. Evident c dintre romnii mprtiai prin lume s-au remarcat i alii n domeniul picturii. Astfel, n Statele Unite, n anul 1948, n Florida, s-a stabilit pictoria Armescu-Anderson Georgeta, dup ce fcuse studii n Frana sau la New York i dup ce lucrase o vreme n studiourile cinematografice din Bucureti. A organizat peste 30 de expoziii personale, unde a expus i fratele su, sculptorul Constantin Armescu. Stefan Arteni, nscut la Bucureti n anul 1947, a nceput studii de arhitectur la care a renunat pentru pictur, stabilindu-se n America i mpletind activitatea sa de pictor cu cea de publicist, cu referire special, n form tiprit sau pe calea undelor, la vremurile mai vechi de evoluie a artelor. Alturi de el mai poate fi pomenit pictorul i arhitectul Anton Baraschi (nscut la Bucureti n 1947, unde a i terminat Institutul "Nicolae Grigorescu", specializnduse apoi n Germania). n 1970 s-a stabilit la New York, unde i-a completat studiile i i-a ctigat existena ca desenator, crend sute de modele de imprimeuri pentru marea industrie. S-a remarcat i ca arhitect la cteva din marile companii americane. Tot n America a trit o vreme, remarcndu-se ca sculptor, i grafician, Eugen Mihescu, nscut n 1937 i plecat din ar n 1967, trind o vreme n Elveia i stabilindu-se n Statele Unite, unde a colaborat permanent la cele mai mari publicaii. Dup 1990 a revenit n Romnia, devenind membru de onoare al Academiei Romne. Muli artiti romni au desfurat activitate remarcabil n alte ri, precum Horia Damian sau Sorel n Frana, Ligia Podorean-Ekstrm n Suedia, Camilian Demetrescu n Italia, Marcel Iancu n Elveia i Israel, Alexandra Nechita, "micua Picasso", n S.U.A. etc. Prof. univ. dr. Gheorghe Zbuchea

http://www.balcanii.ro/index_html?editia=73

FEED BACK, February 2006, nr.1-2, published by www.princepsedit.ro [a fragment of Artenis Orpheus Mural Project illustrates Marcel Detiennes essay The myth of Orpheus, translated into Romanian by Andrei Sturdza]

Stephen Baron, TimesLedger, December 15, 2005: an article on the 2005 Way of Form Retrospective Exhibition

Metapictorial work is a modern condition of Art. Victor Stoichita Published Works

Rooted in Southeast European, Western and East Asian spirituality, Arteni's reframing of imagic constructs has been prompted by Niklas Luhmann's insight: "Symbols presuppose the difference between familiar and unfamiliar andenable the reentry of this difference into the familiarThey are forms of self-reference using the self-reference of form". Arteni's polycontextural stylistic matrix allows room for a heterarchic play and recursive catenation of image structures where painterly time and painterly space - a topology of interlacings - may be envisioned as a polyphonic monologue. Michel Serres remarks: "An objectispolychronic, multitemporal, and reveals a time that is gathered together, with multiple pleats".

Bible Review, June 2004: Artenis Anastasis is reproduced on the cover.

Bible Review, February 2005: Arteni's Conversion of Saul is reproduced on the Gallery page.

http://members.bibarch.org/publication.asp?PubID=BSBR&Volume=21&Is sue=1&ArticleID=9

Gallery The Conversion of Saul The letters attributed to him account for almost half of the New Testaments 27 books, but Paul originally Saulof Tarsus didnt start out a fan of Jesus or his followers. It took a blinding flash of light and a fall to transform this persecutor of Christians into Christianitys all-time greatest advocate. His famous change of heart on the road to Damascus is depicted in this work by Romanian-born New York painter and master calligrapher Stefan Arteni. The Book of Acts tells how Saul, a tentmaker, oversaw the stoning of the first Christian martyr, Stephen. Fired by a zealous hatred for the followers of Jesus, Saul denounced other Christians and voted for their execution, and then took his show on the roadheading for Damascus to trouble Christians there. On the way, however, he experiences one of the Bibles great turnabouts: While he was still on the road and nearing Damascus, suddenly a light from the sky flashed all around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Tell me, Lord, he said, who you are. The voice answered, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ... Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see (Acts 9:38).

http://members.bibarch.org/image.asp?PubID=BSBR&Volume=20&Issue=03&ImageID=0 c100&SourcePage=publication.asp&UserID=0&

Photo by Robert D. Rubic, courtesy of Stefan Arteni. ON THE COVER: Jesus stands on the gates of Hell (marked with a skull) in this Japanese ink and gouache painting of the Anastasis (Resurrection), by contemporary New York artist Stefan Arteni. With his right hand, Jesus pulls Adam up; in his left hand, he holds a scroll. According to early Christian tradition, after Jesus died, he descended into Hell, where he raised the Old Testament heroes from the dead and invited them to join him in heaven. The scroll Jesus holds in images of the descent (also called the Harrowing of Hell) may stem from a medieval tradition that remains alive today in Eastern European folktales. According to these legends (described by David R. Cartlidge in Dealing with the Devil), Jesus not only saved Adam, he also tore up the scrolled contract the first man had signed with Satan after the Fall.

Calligraphy World, June 1996: an article on the 1996 calligraphy competition where Stefan Arteni was awarded the Japan Foreign Affairs Ministers grand prize

(Jacqueline Brody, Editor, The Print Collectors Newsletter, Vol.XXIV No. 1 March-April 1993: an article about Laudes Creaturarum, the first artists book published by SolInvictus Press)

A number of Artenis publications may be read on: http://www.scribd.com/stefan%20arteni and on: http://www.cartidownload.ro/Diverse/490578/ Stefan_Arteni_the_East_Central_European_Cultural_Model as well as on: Asymetria - revue roumaine de culture, critique et imagination http://www.asymetria.org/ Two of Artenis scientific papers have been listed in: EDV Katalog - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut Two retouching media / Stefan C. Arteni. 1981 In: Atti del Convegno sul restauro delle opere d'arte / Opificio delle Pietre Dure ; Laboratori di Restauro di Firenze. Red. a cura di Anna Maria Giusti. Firenze : Edizioni Polistampa, 1981. 1., 1981, p. 63-65 Y 4387 wi The medium & grounds of 17th century Flemish & Dutch pictures of flowers / Stefan C. Arteni. 1981 In: Atti del Convegno sul restauro delle opere d'arte / Opificio delle Pietre Dure ; Laboratori di Restauro di Firenze. Red. a cura di Anna Maria Giusti. Firenze : Edizioni Polistampa, 1981. 1., 1981, p. 59-62 Y 4387 wi http://opac.khi.fi.it/cgi-bin/hkhi_de.pl

http://www.colour-europe.de/StartSeiteInstitutionen-dfz-themen.htm : Arteni, Stefan C., New York (USA),1982, 'Farbenmischung und lfarben, Deutsches Farbenzentrum e.V. Some of Artenis scientific papers have been listed on: http://bcin.ca :
1. Aesthetic problems of the paint layer: moldavian wall paintings, easel paintings and illumination in relation to modern oil painting in romania (Corp. Author) (n.d.) 2. "Despre imaginile sacre si spiritul unei tehnici" Arteni, stefan (n.d.) 3. "Drawing materials and water-base mediums" Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam; Arteni, Stefan (1988) 4. "The essential dilemma of contemporary painting" Arteni, Stefan (1988) 5. "Peinture, restauration, et socit" Arteni, Stefan C.; Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam (1987) 6. "Artist, preserver and the question of survival for contemporary painting" Arteni, Stefan (1985) 7. "Materials of the artist: the survival of traditional grounding and priming methods for oil painting" Arteni, Stefan C.; Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam (1984) 8. "From handcraft to mass production: notes on the manufacture of oil painting materials" Arteni, Stefan C.; Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam (1984) 9. "Critical evaluation of data on the composition of ancient materials. Part I: structural components of the paint layer. Part II: paints and techniques" Arteni, Stefan C.; Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam (1984) 10. "Glass sub-surface painting in Romania, 17th to 20th centuries" Arteni, Stefan C.; Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam (1984) 11. "The secret of the masters: historical controversies and hypotheses" Arteni, Stefan C.; Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam (1984) 12. "Painter, manufacturer of artists' materials, and conservator: historical and aesthetic significance of their role in the survival of a painting" Sanchez-Posada De Arteni, Myriam; Arteni, Stefan C. (1981) 13. "Two retouching media" Arteni, Stefan C. (1981) 14. "The medium and ground of 17th century. Flemish and dutch pictures of flowers" Arteni, Stefan C. (1981) 15. Materials and techniques of glass sub-surface painting (Corp. Author) (1980) 16. Aesthetic problems of the paint layer: moldavian wall painting, easel painting and illumination in relation to modern oil paintings in romania. Part 1 (Corp. Author) (1979)

Some of Artenis scientific papers have been listed on: www.lrmh.culture.fr base Castor:
0001 Color mixtures, a clue to the study of oil paintings ARTENI (C. S.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.) 1983VES-83-1-123 0002 The Secret of the masters : historical controversies and hypotheses ARTENI (S. C.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.) 1984 ICOM-84-11-12 0003 Critical evaluation of data on the composition of ancient materials. Part I : structural components... ARTENI (S. C.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.)1984 ICOM-84-11-2 0004 Materials of the artist : the survival of traditional grounding and priming methods for oil painting ARTENI (S. C.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.)1984 ICOM-84-11-8 0005 From Handcraft to mass production : notes on the manufacture of oil painting materials ARTENI (S. C.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.)1984 ICOM-84-19-1 0006 Glass sub-surface painting in Romania, seventeenth to twentieth centuries ARTENI (S. C.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.)1984 ICOM-84-3-1 0007 Peinture, restauration, et socit ARTENI (S. C.) - SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.) 1987 ICOM-87-525 0008 The medium and grounds of 17th century flemish and dutch picture of flowers ARTENI (S.) 1976 1981 FLO-76-59 0009 Two retouching media ARTENI (S.) 1976 1981 FLO-76-63 0010 Artist, preserver and the question of survival for contemporary painting ARTENI (S.)1985 VES-85-2-121 0011 Painter, manufacturer of artists'materials, and conservator : historical and aesthetic... SANCHEZ POSADA DE ARTENI (M.) - ARTENI (S. C.)1981ICOM-81-11-2

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