Stefan Arteni (Geizan )

calligraphy and the scripto-pictoric works in context

SolInvictus Press 2008

Being the record of a hand-held tool, pictures are chirographic and largely indexicalities of the forces producing them. Goran Sonesson

Arteni demonstrates various calligraphy brush techniques

Grasp tradition in one hand and grasp life in the other Shi Lu 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 in-between, 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. Rooted in Southeast European, Western and Far Eastern spirituality, 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 objectis polychronic, multitemporal, and reveals a time that is gathered together, with multiple pleats".

Because art is a complex system, it contains a kind of circularity where the system is created by the marks, it constrains them and in turn is modified by them.

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Stefan Arteni, seal carving

Stefan Arteni, work in a private collection

Seeing the world through action-intuition ( , koiteki chokkan) implies forming the world through actionintuition We act through seeing, and we see through acting
Nishida Kitar

One cannot paint the void without painting the fullness! On ne peut peindre le vide sans peindre le plein ! Ren Laubis. 2001. "Aphorismes," in Ritratti e Aforismi / Portraits et Aphorismes. [Bilingual, Italian and French], Morgana Edizioni, Firenze, [French to English translation by Troy Harris].

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A New York collector's room dedicated to Arteni's work

Art is an infinite game, an intricate kaleidoscope of games being played. Art is poiesis-autopoiesis, and all its participants are poietai - makers. Autopoiesis generates boundaries - infinite play plays with boundaries and rules. There is a nexus of supportive relations between formalization and play as well as within their chiastic reversal, the play of formalizations.
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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. 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 [Chang Y-chao (Zhang Yuzhao)] , 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.

Anonymous artist, Via Latina catacomb, Adam and Eve Stefan Arteni, Adam and Eve, seal script

NIHON SHODO GEIJUTSU KYOKAI (JAPAN CALLIGRAPHY ART ASSOCIATION)

Chang Lien Ching [Chang Y-chao (Zhang Yuzhao)]

| Miyajima Eishi \

Hidai Tenrai / | Hidai Nankoku Kamijo Shinzan | Yusho Tanaka (Setsuzan)

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

Chang Lien Ching [Chang Y-chao (Zhang Yuzhao)] Miyajima Eishi

Hidai Tenrai

Hidai Nankoku

Kamijo Shinzan

Tanaka Setsuzan

Artenis Shihan Certificate and Plaque, and the final examination work

Stefan Artenis 1996 calligraphy, winner of Japan Foreign Affairs Ministers grand prize

The 2005 award ceremony ending the calligraphy competition organized by the Japan Calligraphic Art Academy in Tokyo and the Japan Calligraphy Center in Los Angeles: Arteni was awarded the Japan Foreign Affairs Ministers grand prize for the second time

Setsuzan Sensei and Arteni next to Arteni's 2005 prize-winning Calligraphy (Los Angeles, November 2005)

Vibrant certainty its touch so fine, making a sign peak and abyss on the same line Henri Michaux

Calligraphy is an unique art in whose medium-scape even written words can function iconically. Like calligraphers in earlier centuries, one draws inspiration from ancient calligraphy styles. It is a confrontation between the calligrapher and the form. In Zen terms, the form becomes the calligraphers koan. Handwriting is a long trained motor skill resulting in well co-articulated shapes like strokes and loops. Like most periodic motor behavior, graphic skills may be conceived of as the outcome of non-linear coupled oscillators model resulting from the nonlinear coupling between two orthogonal oscillatory components, identifying stable states (or attractors) in graphic skills. To sum up, both performance and degradation in handwriting find a unifying concept with the notion of stability, a hallmark in dynamical systems theories, a subtle interplay between stable patterns and the necessity to adopt less stable shapes and their co-articulation as attractors of underlying coordination dynamics that govern graphic performance. . Gesture, which belongs to the sphere of action, is to use Giorgio Agambens formulation the staging of a mediacy, the becoming-visible of the means as such. It makes manifest human existence as being always within a medium It makes the mediality of the process, of the gesture as Agamben defines it, the theme of its own action and demonstration movement which enacts and annotation that holds it in time.

Stefan Arteni, works in a private collection

Stefan Arteni, work in a private collection

Stefan Arteni, works in a private collection

Stefan Arteni, Calligraphy Triptych, shown at the 2008 Calligraphy Biennale, Seoul, Korea

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Stefan Arteni, work in a private collection

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Stefan Arteni, collection Mansfield Freeman and Davison Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Stefan Arteni, collection Mansfield Freeman and Davison Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Stefan Arteni, work in a private collection, Nara, Japan

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Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

The seal on the front page of Wandering, and the monotypes, are based on two Chinese characters written in seal-script styles, which form the word "pilgrim": [like] clouds [over] water

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Wandering (a poem by Muso Soseki), artists book

Stefan Arteni, seal carving: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, seal carving: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, seal carving: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, a poem by Wang Wei, large seal carving: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, large seal carvings: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, large seal carvings: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, large seal carvings: the play of the chisel or iron brush

Stefan Arteni, large seal carving and scroll: the play of the chisel or iron brush

The Byzantine Tradition

Byzantine (Riazan) plaque

The pervasive kenotic spirituality of East and South-East Europe, profoundly akin to the principle of sunyata (void, nothingness, emptiness) or to Kitaro Nishidas notion of the mu no basho, the place of nothingness , discloses itself as the path of operational suchness. Kenneth Inada describes emptiness as an experiental fact of epistemological non-assertion. The work is methodically deconceptualized Byzantine apophaticism and the Upanishads via negativa, neti, neti, which means not this, not that, or neithernor, point to the fact that visual art is forever resistant to and refuses the limit imposed by definition and conceptualization.

Stefan Arteni, Apocalypse, album of clay monotypes

A Byzantine bronze seal, 5th-6th century AD

Byzantine bronze stamps

A Roman or Byzantine clay bread-seal incised with 5 Greek letters "IVKHC"

Byzantine, bronze cruciform bread stamp, with Greek lettering forming the word Athanasia ( Immortality ), 5th -7th century AD

Byzantine Greek inscription Byzantine mail cloisonn

St Luke, Byzantine Icon

Byzantine ceramic Icons

Byzantine Icon

Byzantine mosaic Icon

Byzantine Icon (Russia)

I wish to say that I have gradually rediscovered the Byzantine tradition, it has affirmed itself as my deeper personality. Paradoxically, perhaps, it is to Japan I owe this return to my deepest origins. Stefan Arteni

Stefan Arteni, Greek monogram: THEOSIS, seal carving

Byzantine Icon

Stefan Arteni, Far Eastern visual production techniques employed for carvings seals with Icons

In an article written for the online journal Theandros, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that there is a striking parallel between Byzantine and Japanese aesthetics. The mute-optical element has priority. Acts of formalization create a reality of their own, a reality that is strictly a formal one, a style mediated only through style, a reality which presents nothing but itself - style as a virtual world, or, paradoxically, as virtual irreality. Graphein means to write, to paint; graphia means writing, painting.

Stefan Arteni, Anastasis, seal carving

Stefan Arteni, Icon (ink pochoir on vellum)

Byzantine Joshua Roll

Tale of Genji, handscroll

Joan Miro, Makemono

Stefan Arteni, Icons scroll

Stefan Arteni, Icons scroll

Stefan Arteni, Icons scroll

Stefan Arteni, Icons scroll

Stefan Arteni, Icons scrolls, 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.

Circle (enso) theme

Torei Enji

Anonymous Japanese artist

Myodo Soin

Early Chrismon

Byzantine Chrismon

An early circular Ichthys symbol, created by combining the Greek letters , Ephesus [from Wikipedia]

Stefan Arteni, though trained thoroughly and rigorously in the East Asian calligraphic arts, often employs them in a nontraditional fashion uniquely his own. This is most obvious in the subjects of his compositions. Many of them describe or are inspired by scenes and figures from the New Testament, and many feature or include symbols from the Greek Orthodox tradition Arteni's interpretations of these symbols often use the Zen circle as their basic structure. Tellingly, the lines themselves, regardless of subject matter or Arteni's use of them in New Testament scenesseem to form calligraphic characters. This results in a reinterpretation of Orthodox iconography and of Western traditions of New Testament representation. Image becomes character; that is to say, Word, or Logos. The two-dimensionality of these drawings, typical of Orthodox icon painting, as well as of much Western abstract representation, is animated by the spontaneity of brushwork found in Japanese and Chinese hand-drawn characters. As in such characters, the lines work together to form an organic whole, each of them equally important, regardless of its size or position. Paradoxically, this does not lead to a sense of confusion, if the viewer is willing to look with quiet attention. When these images are seen without the interference of our conditioned expectations of how artistic representation should function, the viewer comes to apprehend the importance of each detail to the unity of the entire scene. Isaac Gewirtz, Curator, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefa Arteni, five-paneled folding front for the wrapper of Laudes Creaturarum based on the enso, (Zen circle) theme

The ink-and-brush symbol of the Chrismon (a circle containing the Greek initials of Jesus Christ, I X) on the wrapper front, which closes in two facing panels, opens upon an Ichthys (a fish within a circle). The folding panels themselves become a metaphor for revelation. Isaac Gewirtz, Curator, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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Stefan Arteni, Ichthys () , seal carving

The play of the brush In play, the how obstructs the what . Bo Kampmann Walther

Ike no Taiga

Kameda Bosai

Kamijo Shinzan

Shiry Morita

Tejima Yukei

Gaboku Okawa

Hakuin Ekaku

Tani Buncho

Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson

Sengai Gibon

Mamiya Eishu

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Stefan Arteni, work in a private collection, Tokyo, Japan

Stefan Arteni, work in a private collection, Tokyo, Japan

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of collages

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of collages

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of collages

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of collages

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of collages

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of collages

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink paintings

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink paintings

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink paintings

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink paintings

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink paintings

Stefan Arteni, Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album of ink paintings

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Stefan Arteni, The Prayer of Jesus, artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Prayer of Jesus, artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Prayer of Jesus, artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Prayer of Jesus, artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Prayer of Jesus, artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Prayer of Jesus, artists book

Daruma theme

Anonymous Japanese artist, Daruma

Anonymous Japanese artist, Daruma

Seki Seisetsu, Daruma

Anonymous Japanese artist, Monk

Anonymous Japanese artist, Daruma

Stefan Arteni, self-portrait

Stefan Arteni, self-portrait

Calligraphy and Western tradition: writing as graphic interlaced ornament

Roman mosaic inscription

Roman mosaic

Lindisfarne Gospel

Book of Kells

Canterbury Codex Aureus

Bible of Charles the Bald

Dover Bible

San Andrs de Valdebrzana

Inscription, Wilhering, Austria

Follower of Hugo van der Goes

Rogier van der Weyden, Braque Family Triptych (closed)

Riccardo Licata, graphic-pictorial writing

Calligraphy and Western Tradition: Painting Calligraphy Take varied contrasts and project them onto a flat surface, whether in a 'composition' or as handwritten notes accidentally jotted down. Julius Bissier

Stefan Arteni, Gefhrten (a poem by Martin Heidegger)

Stefan Arteni, aletheia, , Greek calligraphy

Stefan Arteni, Om and A, Siddham calligraphy

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Stefan Arteni, work in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

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

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Work shown at the "Energy and Diffusion Main Exhition, Seoul Calligraphy Biennial: Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of History, Gongpyung Art Center, Gallery La Mer, Gong Gallery (Seoul, Korea), 2005

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Work shown at the World Calligraphy Festival, Gong-pyung Art Center (Seoul, Korea), 2006

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Stefan Arteni, work in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

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Stefan Arteni, works in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Stefan Arteni, work in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Stefan Arteni, work in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

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Zen Brush

Bankei Yotaku

Hakuin Ekaku Konpirasan (The deity Konpira)

Hakuin Ekaku "Longevity" (kotobuki) one-hundred times

Yamaoka Tesshu

Jiun Onko Buji kore kinin (Inactivity)

Jiun Onko Choku tori no tobu ni makasu (Let the bird fly into a wide-open sky)

Takahashi Deishu

Anonymous Japanese artist

Deiryu

Dragon Kasumi Bunsho

Japan and abstraction

Hidai Nankoku, abstractly maintaining the characters structure and moving towards abstract calligraphy

I moved from German to Eastern mysticism - to Zen philosophy. Julius Bissier

Julius Bissier

Zen and the West

Mark Tobey

Calligraphy and the West

Zao Wou-ki

European abstraction

Pierre Soulages

Raoul Ubac

Serge Poliakoff

Nicolas de Stal

Nicolas de Stal, woodcut from Ren Char, Pomes. Bois de Nicolas de Stal. Paris: printed by Marthe Fequet et Pierre Baudier, November, 1951

Abstract calligraphy
True directness is realized only from within the actual living reality of experience prior to the separation of subject and object. Nishida Kitar is not all true art fundamentally abstract? Julius Bissier

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist Arteni has translated his haiku to read: Daybreak Bearing up under its solitude To make ink

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

Stefan Arteni, Ink, album of ink monotypes with a haiku by the artist

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an imaginary, indecipherable writing Zao Wou-ki

Stefan Arteni, River Bank (a poem by Tu Fu) artists book

Stefan Arteni, River Bank (a poem by Tu Fu) artists book

Stefan Arteni, River Bank (a poem by Tu Fu) artists book

Stefan Arteni, River Bank (a poem by Tu Fu) artists book

Stefan Arteni, Coda (a poem by Daniel Simko), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Coda (a poem by Daniel Simko), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Coda (a poem by Daniel Simko), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Coda (a poem by Daniel Simko), artists book

Transmedialization

Stefan Arteni, No

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Stefan Arteni, Dance

Stefan Arteni, Empty Center

Stefan Arteni, Above

Stefan Arteni, No

Stefan Arteni, Calligraphy Composition

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World

Stefan Arteni, Art endures forever

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes (variations on the mu

theme)

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Stefan Arteni, No-thing-ness, portfolio of 9 sumi ink monotypes

Zen Brush Kogan Gengei

Nyoren

Bunjinga and Nihonga

Tomioka Tessai

Brush, Ink, Color: Transformation of Tradition

Chu The-Chun (Zhu Dequn)

Chuang Che (Zhuang Zhe)

Raoul Ubac

Mark Tobey

Interplay of Far East and West

Rene Laubies

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

Stefan Artenis Retrospective Exhibition 1971- 2005: The Way of Form, December 2005 March 2006, Q.C.C. Art Gallery-C.U.N.Y., New York

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Stefan Arteni, Orpheus, site specific mural project

Stefan Arteni, Orpheus, site specific mural project, detail: cursive script form for the character serpent

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

Stefan Arteni, Apollo and Marsyas, portfolio of 12 monotypes

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Graphia, (scratch mark, writing, drawing):

collections of marks and ritual mnemonic notational systems

A sign-system is nonuniversal. Attractor network models of associative memory may explain the dynamics of pattern and structure recognition. J.J.Hopfield and Igor Yevin

Palaeolithic patterned scratchings [grammata] that forked both into painting and writing

Unidentified text, Spain, ca.4000-3800 BC, Iberian signs (Schoyen Collection MS 5237/2)

Protohieroglyph of ship and oar, Egypt, Nagada II period, 3600-3200 BC, black top jar, h.28 cm (Schoyen Collection MS 2787)

THE NAME OF ONE OF THE FIRST TWO PHARAOHS OF DYNASTY I, Hor Aha of Upper Egypt, Abydos, Upper Egypt, 2955-2925 BC (Schoyen Collection MS 200)

Gift from the high and mighty of Adab to the high priestess, on the occasion of her election to the temple,.Sumer, 26th c. BC (Schoyen Collection MS 3029)

Character TIAN for field, China, ca.2200-1800 BC (Schoyen Collection MS 3024/2)

Labyrinth with entrances at the middle of opposite sides, Babylonia, 2000-1700 BC (Schoyen Collection MS 3194)

Shang Dynasty Calligraphy (China)

Phaistos disc, Minoan pre-linear A hieroglyphs

Crete, Linear A tablet

Mycenae, Linear B tablet

Limestone ostracon of an owl, New Kingdom, possibly from Deir el-Medina (drawing of the upper half of the hieroglyphic sign "m", an owl) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Owl hieroglyph British Museum, London

Sesh, hieroglyph of Scribe, Deir-el Medina, Western Thebes, 1307-1070 BC, autograph and self portrait of one of the artists who decorated the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and Queens (Schoyen Collection MS 1695)

Han Dynasty Seal Script Calligraphy (China)

Eastern-Han Dynasty Calligraphy (China)

Tale of the Genji, Kyoto, 1654

Kameda Bosai, Kyochuzan 'Mountains of the Heart, 19th century

Yamaoka Tesshu, Dragon calligraphy, (added inscription: "It feasts on sunlight and the four seas.) c.1875

Nakahara Nantembo

Georges Braque, front cover, Le Soleil des Eaux by Rene Char. 1949. Etching

Nicolas de Stal, Arrigere-Histoire du Poeme pulverise by Rene Char, 1953

Henri Matisse, Le guignon, 1930-1932, from Posies by Stphane Mallarm, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1932. Engraving, 33 x 24.8 cm

Henri Matisse, The Poems of Charles of Orlans by Charles d'Orlans, Triade, Paris. Mourlot Freres, Paris

Henri Matisse, Jazz.1943-1947, Triade, Paris. Edmond Vairel, Paris.

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Thinker as Poet (poems by Martin Heidegger), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Cantique de Saint Jean (poem by Stephane Mallarme), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, Laudes Creaturarum (a poem by St Francis of Assisi), artists book

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum

Stefan Arteni, The Large Emerging from the Small, album of preparatory ink drawings for Laudes Creaturarum