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Jean Gallery / Antwerp / Belgium
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PoetsArtists group, USA
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33 Contemporary Gallery / Zhou B Art Center / Chicago / USA
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Clatia, China
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OPEN CALL for REALIST & FIGURATIVE PAINTERS 📢 D

OPEN CALL for REALIST & FIGURATIVE PAINTERS 📢 Dear artist friends,
independent of what stage of your career you are at – emerging or well established, if you are a realist painter, you are invited to submit your work to the International FiKVA Award 2022 (link in bio) 🎊

A professional jury of internationally renowned artists will judge the entries and attribute cash prizes and promotional support. Amaze us with your best work(s) ✨

Submissions for the International FiKVA Award 2022 for painters are now OPEN! 🎊

#opencall #award #artaward #fikvaaward #artcontest #submit #opensubmissions #artcompetition #realism #figurativeart #artofinstagram #representationalart #modernart #fikva #callingallartists #modernmasters #modernrealism

📢 Independent of what stage of your career you

📢 Independent of what stage of your career you are at – emerging or well established, if you are a realist painter, you are invited to submit your work to the International FiKVA Award 2022 (link in bio) 🎊
A professional jury of internationally renowned artists will judge the entries and attribute cash prizes and promotional support. Amaze us with your best work(s) ✨
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#fikvaaward #internationalaward #artaward #opencall #opencallforartists #submissions #prize #artcontest #artprize #artcompetition #award #realistart #realism #representationalart #figurativeart #supportingart #fikva #antwerp

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻‍🚀🚀

Post 6 - Does the Codex represent the first art on the Moon?

The first art on the Moon was "The Moon Museum", which was comprised of a single ceramic wafer with artwork by Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg, John Chamberlain, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol, smuggled to the Moon on a lander leg carried by Apollo 12 in 1969.

In 1971 "Fallen Astronaut" a 3.5" aluminium statue of an astronaut by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, was made and placed to honour those who had died to advance space exploration - it was launched by Apollo 15.

However, the Lunar Codex will be the first significant placement of contemporary arts on the Moon in 51 years.

It is the first project to put the works of women artists on the Moon. It represents the first figurative realist art on the lunar surface and is the first project to place music and film on the Moon. Finally, it is the most expansive and diverse collections of contemporary arts and culture launched to the Moon or to space, in terms of gender, styles, and nationalities.

I’m thrilled “Lou” is also onboard in the time capsule! Meanwhile you can still see her this weekend at Art Eindhoven! 😊

Lou
oil on Belgian linen
120 x 80 cm, 2018
Available

🚀 Please visit www.lunarcodex.com for real details (link in my bio)🚀

#artistsonthemoon #thelunarcodex #drsamuelperalta #nasa #oilportrait #lou #novacollection #polariscollection #lunarmission #intuitivemachines #bulgarianartist #belgianartist #femaleartist #onthemoon #portraitpainter #shelter #paintingthefigurenow #adornme #tanyaatanasova

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻‍🚀🚀

Post 5: When are the launches and what is the exact destination?

The Nova missions, normally planned for early 2022, will most likely launch in June 2022. (Reasons given are the crowded launch schedule for the first quarter 2022 with USSF missions taking precedence, further delay in the ULA Vulcan Centaur system, and other COVID and supply-chain related delays).

The Nova-C Lander (carrying my first work “Philip”), which is the hexagonal cylinder on 6 legs will have destination Vallis Schrasöteri, in the area of Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon (swipe left to see it)🌌

My work “Smokey eyes / Joëlle” (on the first image), together with the other 4 works of mine, will be included in the time capsule at The Griffin/VIPER mission (Polaris). The Griffin mission is still scheduled for 2023, but it will likely also slip to 2024.

Meanwhile, this year, “Joëlle” and her gorgeous moody curls, found their new home here, on Earth, with a loving family 😊

Smokey eyes / Joëlle
oil on canvas,
120 x 110 cm, 2017
Private Collection

🚀 Please visit www.lunarcodex.com for real details (link in my bio)🚀

#artistsonthemoon #thelunarcodex #drsamuelperalta #nasa #oilportrait #joelle #novacollection #polariscollection #lunarmission #intuitivemachines #bulgarianartist #belgianartist #femaleartist #onthemoon #portraitpainter #shelter #paintingthefigurenow #adornme #tanyaatanasova

I can finally share the good news with you! 🥳🎉
For the past two years I’ve been working hard on a new project called FiKVA @figuratieve.kunst.vandaag , which I’ve been carrying in my heart for quite some time …. It’s a new-born non-profit organisation, aiming to support and encourage contemporary realistic and figurative artists! 🎯

Today, almost a year after registering of the FiKVA Foundation, our team is super proud to welcome you at our glorious new website: www.fikva.art (link in bio)

Please, visit it, and if you are an art lover – sign for our updates, good things are coming your way! 🎊

#wearelive #fikva #fondation #newwebsite #newlife #newbeginning #comtemporaryart #supportingart #representationalart #figurativeart #realisticart #modernrealism #heroes #sheroes #painters #artists #mondial #cosmopolit #antwerpen #antwerp #belgium

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻‍🚀🚀

Post 4 - On which media will my works be send to the Moon?

If you swipe left, you will see Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" on a nickel microfiche (NanoFiche), which is similar to the disk in the glove compartment of the red Tesla roadster, launched in 2018.
This is the 200,000-dpi* (Regular photos are 300-dpi) analog technology used in the Lunar Codex's 'Nova' and 'Polaris' time capsules heading with my works to the Moon.
Fonts are 1 um - the size of a bacillus bacterium.

I'm super happy this is the second portrait of my friend Philip Bitrakov going to the Moon!
Btw, the pictures, I have used as reference material while working on this portrait were taken by Philip's girlfriend, Diana Boneva. This is a wonderful way to celebrate our cooperative work🌜

🚀 Please visit www.lunarcodex.com for real details (link in my bio)🚀

Philip dyeing his beard and eyebrows with henna
oil on Belgian linen
110 x 110 cm, 2018
Available

#artistsonthemoon #thelunarcodex #drsamuelperalta #nasa #oilportrait #philip #novacollection #polariscollection #lunarmission #intuitivemachines #bulgarianartist #belgianartist #femaleartist #onthemoon #portraitpainter #shelter #paintingthefigurenow #adornme #tanyaatanasova

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the MOON🌕👩🏻‍🚀🚀

Post 3 - About the mission

🌛The U.S.'s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a plan, the Artemis Program, to land humans back on the Moon in 2025, for the first time in over 50 years.
In preparation, NASA will send scientific instruments and commercial payloads to the Moon over 2022 to 2024, including the three time capsules that make up The Lunar Codex.

My first work "Philip" will be carried by The Nova-C Lander, which is a hexagonal cylinder on 6 legs, powered by solar panels generating 200 W on the surface (swipe to see video). The lander is capable of operating for about 14 Earth days in sunlight.

Nova-C is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9, in early 2022 (most likely June). And yes, we will be able to watch the launches and landings! 🤗 Much like the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, the missions will be streamed and as a payload provider, we will also have first access to photographs and videos of each mission🌜

🚀 Please visit www.lunarcodex.com for real details (link in my bio)🚀

I'm super happy "Jens" is included in the Lunar Codex! @jensgeertsofficial ❤️

Jens
oil on Belgian linen
100 x 140cm, 2018
Available

#artistsonthemoon #thelunarcodex #drsamuelperalta #nasa #oilportrait #novacollection #polariscollection #lunarmission #intuitivemachines #bulgarianartist #belgianartist #femaleartist #onthemoon #portraitpainter #shelter #paintingthefigurenow #adornme #jens #tanyaatanasova

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the moon🌕👩🏻

🚀👩‍🚀🌕 Artist on the moon🌕👩🏻‍🚀🚀

Post 2 - How did it start?

🌛 Two years ago at the beginning of the pandemic, noted Canadian physicist/writer/collector Dr. Samuel Peralta curated the exhibit SHELTER. In collaboration with 33 Contemporary Gallery and PoetsArtists platform.
'SHELTER' was an exhibit in direct response to the global pandemic, showing works that evoked shelter, solace, and safety.

A year later THE LUNAR CODEX (a digital collection of creative work - writing, film, and art) announced that the artists from the exhibit 'SHELTER' are joining the collection. That was the very first time a work of mine was mentioned as included. The work was "Philip" - a portrait of my dear friend architect, sailor and chess maniac Philip Bitrakov.

No terrestrial catalogue exists of SHELTER - it exists exclusively as part of a lunar edition nickel microfiche (with more than ~200,000 dpi), which will be launched in the first quarter of 2022 🌜🚀

Philip
oil on Belgian linen
50 x 70cm, 2019
Private Collection

#artistsonthemoon #thelunarcodex #artemisprogram #artemis #nasa #drsamuelperalta #novacollection #polariscollection #lunarmission #bulgarianartist #belgianartist #femaleartist #onthemoon #portraitpainter #shelter #paintingthefigurenow #adornme #philip #tanyaatanasova #tanyaatanasovavisualarts

🚀🌜Artists on the Moon! 🌛👩🏻‍🚀

🚀🌜Artists on the Moon! 🌛👩🏻‍🚀

I strongly believe there will be people permanently living on the moon in our lifetime. And there will be a lot of space traffic, information exchange and daily videocalls with our folks over there, but for now this is all very new, and it makes it so exciting! That’s why, hearing that, six paintings of mine will be included in an extended library of art and culture and headed to the moon in a time capsule (as a preparation for whoever comes to live there permanently) - sounds so incredibly surreal… That makes the Lunar Codex the most exciting project I’ve ever participated in …💫

And because Artists on the Moon and The Lunar Codex have become so special to me, I would love to tell you a bit more about them in my next few posts …

Here is, what noted Canadian physicist/writer/collector and establisher of The Lunar Codex project Dr. Samuel Peralta says about it:

The Lunar Codex started as a project to spread hope during a dark time - the years of the Covid-19 pandemic on Earth. The Codex instills the Moon with some of the heart of humanity, our art, so that when we look to the sky, the Moon is a tangible symbol of hope, of what is possible when you believe. The Codex is also a message-in-a-bottle to the future, so that travellers who find these time capsules might discover some of the richness of our world today. It speaks to the idea that, despite wars and pandemics and climate upheaval, humankind found time to dream, time to create art.

My painting "Tiger" is one of the included works
oil on Belgian linen
100 x 140cm, 2019
Available

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