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Europe-Art.org is an informative website dedicated to serving the European art community.

Europe is the cradle of western art, with a continuous history of more than 2500 years. As it was and as it still is today, through all times, art has given us a mozaic picture of many aspects of a shared universe, and has been instrumental in coding the collective imagination for better or worse. From an esthetic and spriritual point of view art has given us much beauty and consolation, has given visual power and insight into human events, whether historic, heroic or prosaic; one might say that art has influenced our way of thinking and understanding of emotion.

Art has always reflected the times that it is created in. Today the vocabulary we use visually to communicate emotions is to a great extent also informed by new technologies, media and mediums which make image collections, manipulation and distribution virtually simple and instantaneous. When we speak about art we must be very careful and clear. The level of cynicism which now to a great extent exists in the artworld makes much of art at least suspect, nothing can be fully trusted but personal experience and the quality of reflection, yet still we are being informed by images which are replacing our empirical understanding of the world.

Europe-Art.org wants to connect people with art, wants to be a media channel for communication, and for that reason Europe-Art.org necessarily depends on the art community for feedback, to be informed about matters relevant to art.

Europe-Art.org invites you to contact Europe-Art.org. We appreciate your serious comments, helpful suggestions and relevant contributions.

Frans Horbach, dir.


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Ellen Driscoll & Anita Glesta, In Conversation Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, Fall 2007 "In the Open: Art in Public Spaces" Series
Anita Glesta's Gernika/Guernica, shown in Lower Manhattan in Spring 2007, juxtaposed the provocative abstraction of Picasso's infamous painting with survivor accounts of the 1937 bombing of a Basque village. Ellen Driscoll's sculpture Revenant, a bridge made from hundreds of plastic bottles, was recently installed at the Nippon Ginko Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, one of the few structures to survive the atomic blast. The two artists discuss the power of memory and storytelling.
(www.anitaglesta.com and www.ellendriscoll.com)