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Profile
Profile:
• DAN CIVA: International, Danish painter with realistic/expressive style. Self-taught and Academic Art School. Born 1939 in Denmark. Live half a year in North Thailand.
Subjects in paintings: animals, people and nature in warm colours, especially influenced from long time staying in the Far East with kinship in Sri Lanka.
Glowing pictures with motifs from Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Denmark, depict a number of experiences among colourful people in different stories of everydays life style and temperaments.
About the artist:
For the last 25 years also Transgeénetic motifs of ´HUMAN ANIMAL´s in paintings and drawings with the combination of human being and animal, referring to coming possibilities in the future of genetic engineering.
Ideas and inspiration comes from a personal, deep interest in experiments and new ways from results in science and research, today and tomorrow.
Oil paintings and drawings, in realistic style, are reflecting portrait examples of transgenetic manipulation with human beings and animals. Probably a hypothetical, imaginary development of today but a foreseeable realistic possibility of tomorrow. These art works are all, more or less, influenced from genetic reseach, but I try at the same time to go some steps further into a still unpredictable future perspective. A well-informed acknowledment of consciousness by possible things' continuation and repression of the impossible matters in life. At the same time, my mission with such paintings is a warning signal of anziety for power structure of the human race. When human, somehow, want to play God, the risk could be fatal for our existence.
Transgenetic manipulation separately with human beings and separately with animals, and combinated with man & animal, with plants etc, were earlier just "a whim in the course of nature". Today and in the future these evolution-wishes can be realized genetically.
Whatever we like it or not. With the inborn need of curiosity through the human brain there´s only ethical distance to the already started gene theraphy and gene cloning with everything this brings along for mankind.
Education & biography:
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST IN 40 YEARS. Resume of the past: Educated as Artistic Decorator of Window Displays 1953-1957. Special School 1958-1959 with diploma and 3 x highest grade in chromatology and theory of colour composition.
Allround Freelance Decorator and Sign Writer/Illustrator 1961-1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Interior Designer and joinery for different lines of business. Study travels to differnt countries.
Privately owned galleries called 'Civa Gallery' 1980-1984 and 'Species Gallery' 1995-1999, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Emigration with family to Sri Lanka 1983-1984. Back to Denmark 1984. Living in Thailand since 1996.
Established the arrangement "Art Studio Project" from October 1988 - January 1989 with Dan Civa as organizer, exhibitor and player in zoo-cage studio. Dayly, public contemplation + many visitors.
Art-exhibitions since 1968: Public Galleries and 140 Art Associations. Participation in several. Hanging Committee Exhibitions, Art Houses, Art Centers, Art Museums and other places. Artist Of The Month (November 2009) in Digital Consciousness.
Travels to Far East countries, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, African countries, Israel, Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Holland, Sweden and more.
Literary activity: articles, feature articles, letters etc. in the dayly press since 1978 writing about genetic engineering, art and art life, outlook on life, human behaviour, psychology and other subjects i a realistic/philosophic language.
Press (since 1976): Extensive articles in the dayly news, magazines, local TV and broadcast. Weilbachs Art Encyclopedia volume 2/1994. Extract from 2 column: "Characteristic for all
paintings is the strong colors and a high degree of technical perfection".
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