Hi everyone. Just to let you all know that I have published a new virtual exhibition which will launch on 10th April next month. If you have a few minutes spare, it would be great if you can pop along and have a look. Cheers guys. mark masters
call to action: we are all humans ! statements of artists from all over the world against racism and discrimination. please send your video-statement with good vibrations and thougths to artists-against-racism@gmx.net via wetransfer.com channel: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU_z2Ty52pd8-SvRqtHmAaw8JlAV24aOI
PIAB I 21 (Premi Internacional d’Art de Barcelona) is an annual international prize part of the FIABCN Art Fair programme in collaboration with Juve y Camps, Tashen and Royal Talens. The PIAB | 21 Award aims to discover talents, amateur or professional, regardless of age and nationality. The ambition of the Prize is to support the careers of artists. Award Ceremony: 04 December 2021, Barcelona. Patrick Joosten nominee with 2 artworks: Ocher and Etude en Jaune.
from the series “Please do not kill butterflies”, pins and oil on paper mounted on a wood panel. 35 x 30 cm, 2018. Please, all these dead animals ... Of course, not every one of us can or want to become vegetarian. Sure, in some cases, maybe, the medical experimentation needs them to get results. But we really have to kill them for our frivolous activities? ... Is it necessary to have so many pink pigs die in front of a camera? Do we really need to dissect sharks in formaldehyde, to starve stray dogs tied to a chain in the corner of a gallery, or to make innocent ants go crazy in twisted tubes of plexiglas? To make these drawings, no butterfly was killed.
