Ausstellungen im Atelier des Seminarhauses ab 2016

Die Schaffensreihe / Ausstellung LORDS OF WAR (HERREN DES KRIEGES),

der in Düsseldorf lebenden brasilianischen Künstlerin Cristina de Santana, wendet sich gegen jede Art von Gewalt, besonders soweit sie Frauen angetan wird, aber auch soweit sie sich gegen Kinder und Männer richtet.

Aufgrund ihrer persönlichen Erfahrungen in Kindheit und Jugend, in der sie der Gewalt in Form von Missbrauch ausgesetzt war, stellt sie die Gewalt in allen ihren Formen, den subtilen wie den offensichtlichen Äußerungen dar sowie ihre vorherrschende Stellung in den Kulturen der Welt, wobei Gewalt seit Beginn der Zeitrechnung die zwischen-menschlichen Beziehungen aufreibt und auflöst.

Bei LORDS OF WAR geht es auch um den täglichen Kampf um das Überleben des Menschen und der Menschlichkeit.
"WIR ALLE SIND LORDS OF WAR!", sagt die Künstlerin und führt es in ihrem artist statement aus. Ihr Ziel ist es, gesunde, natürliche Beziehungen zu fördern sowie den gegenseitigen Respekt von Menschen weltweit, insbesondere auch zwischen Frauen und Männern. Weiter ist es ihr Ziel, die Herzen und Augen zu öffnen, indem sie ihre Kunst dazu einsetzt, mehr Liebe und Frieden in der Welt zu bewirken..

Häusliche Gewalt bleibt ein erheblicher Risikofaktor, der das physische, psychische und emotionale Wohlbefinden beeinträchtigt und die Gesundheit der Weltbevölkerung mit weitreichenden Folgen.

Wir freuen uns, mit diesem Anliegen unsere Ausstellungsreihe im neuen Anbau des Seminarhauses am Steinkreis 2016 beginnen zu können.

Förderverein Germanische Thingstätte Lichtenhagen e.V.

im Seminarhaus-am-Steinkreis, Zum Rödebusch 13, 31868 Ottenstein-Lichtenhagen

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30. April bis 30. Mai 2016

Cristina de Santana

"Lords Of War"

I'm a brazilian artist living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany since 20 years. I have discovered art for myself in the year of 1998 and since that moment I knew that art would have a very important place in my life, that art would change my life for good, since then I have been working intensively on it, day after day and I have realized that I couldn't and would never stop doing what I do. I feel that making art is like dreaming on purpose and involves a rigorous search for beauty amidst materials that have been cast aside.

It is a physically engaging organic process, of creating, and an opportunity to present myself with something paradoxically strange and familiar that does not restrict contemplation. My work gives me a sense in my life, the reason why I wake up everyday and made me see life with different eyes in the environment we live in today, it gave me a totally new perspective in my life. Day after day I realize that I have a Mission and my Mission in life is to do my work and share my vision to the people in the World. And I know without doubt that it needs to be made. My work allows me to view my environment where we struggle for power, greed, love, respect, religion and freedom. They resonate, spiritually with current struggles of freedom and corporate slavery, the “Lords Of War” series reflexes the real world we live in, our society and our daily struggles for surviving, we are Lords of War fighting in this everyday battle called life.

It is my hope that the work has a similar effect on those who view it perhaps also altering the way they see their world. Art means to me, poesy, art is love, art is freedom, a small impression of a short moment of inner escape in another world, which might be a small window for seeing and trying to understand in which environment we live in, art is life and I could not imagine a world with art. A life without art, would be like a life without dreams. Each work is deliberately left open-ended and unexplained allowing viewers (as well as myself) to read it through the richness of their own experiences. CRISTINA DE SANTANA, Düsseldorf

ARTISTS STATEMENT:

"After leaving home at the age of sixteen, I struggled with compounded survival issues including not only where to physically go, but also whom to trust and just exactly how to embark on this life I’d chosen? I was on a path to freedom with neither compass nor map.
Art provided me with direction, purpose and a means of expression that continues to fulfill and guide me to this day allowing me to work on several bodies of work simultaneously examining my life experiences, my immediate and global environment as well as topical issues addressing our society as a whole.

LORDS OF WAR addresses all kind of violence, especially directed against women, man, children, derived from my own past as a victim of juvenile abuse in its different subtle and obvious forms, and its prevalence in world culture eroding human relationships since the beginning of time.

LORDS OF WAR is about domestic, sexual, political and religious violence against human kind !!

My goal is to promote healthy relationships and mutual respect between men and women worldwide. Domestic violence remains an important risk factor that threatens the physical, psychological and emotional well-being and health of the human kind with far reaching implications and consequences worldwide."

Cristina de Santana www.de-santana.de Kontakt: info@de-santana.de