Art in Hochosterwitz / Exhibition from 7 July to 15 September 2010

Alejandro DeCinti
(Santiago de Chile, 1973)

Chilean-Italian painter, graduate in Fine Arts University of Chile. Established in Spain since 2002 He is admitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, being awarded the Academic Excellence Scholarship in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities. First place in the “Arte en Vivo” painting competition in 1994 and awarded a Post-graduate scholarship from the Foundation Arte y Autores Contemporáneos, Madrid, Spain.

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Lorenz Friedrich
(St.Veit an der Glan, Kärnten, Österreich, 1988)

“Austrian sculptor. He studied at the HTBLA School of Sculpture in Hallstatt. He participated in antique furniture restoration workshops organised by the Master Sculptor and Restorer Ulrich Grams in Munich. He spent a year gaining work experience in restoring historic buildings, elements and furniture with the Master Sculptor and Restorer Christian Friedrich. He is at present studying sculpture at the Academy Fine Arts in Vienna under the professorship of Heimo Zobernig.”

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Rafael Ramírez Máro
(Lima, Perú 1959)

He studied Fine Arts at the Superior School of Painting, St. Luc of Lieja, Belgium, and with Rolf Koller and Schaffmeister at the Kunsthochschule Cologne, Germany. He also enrolled in studies in Art History, Philosophy and Literature, a background which led him to paint the big pictorical cycles in the RTWH, Aachen, Germany. In his work, Rafael Ramirez carried out portraits, nudes, abstract and sacred paintings (such as the Sta. lsabel exhibited ...

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Oscar Villalón
(Santiago de Chile 1972)

Chilean-spanish painter, graduate in Fine Arts University of Chile. Established in Spain since 2001 His work acquired by different institutions, private and public collections in the European Union, The United States and South America places inside the movement named New Spanish Realism...

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Khevenhüller Family Portraits

Algunos de los retratos de la Familia Khevenhüller

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Don Quijote Series

THE ROYAL ACADEMY-IBARRA EDITION OF 1780

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Through a selection of classic works (Tintoretto, Pantoja de la Cruz) and contemporaries, the visitor is offered a tour of the close relationship between Hochosterwitz Castle and the Khevenhüllers in European political, social and art history from the Renaissance, with texts written by the current Count Karl Khevenhüller and the Spanish Art Historian Raúl Alonso. Portraits of the Khevenhüller family by Alejandro DeCinti and a selection of paintings by Rafael Ramírez Máro and Oscar Villalón will help present interesting aspects of the History of Hans Khevenhüller.
The four volumes of the large 1780 Spanish edition of Don Quixote belonging to the museum are presented with a study of the edition by Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra and the Don Quixote cycle of paintings by Rafael Ramírez Máro.
Paintings by Alejandro DeCinti, Rafael Ramírez Máro and Oscar Villalón on a free range of topics and sculptures by the emerging artist Lorenz Friedrich from Carinthia complete the exhibition.

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