DAN CIVA:
International painter of realistic & abstract style with technique in wide-ranging, extensive pictorial subjects. Contemporary artist in 40 years.
Residence in Copenhagen, Denmark and in North East Thailand .
Education - Resume of the past:
Academic Art School and Self-taught. Born 1939 in Denmark - Europe.
Before: 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 & Illustrator1961-1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Interior Designer and joinery for different lines of business. Study travels to different countries.
Privately owned gallery called "Civa Gallery" 1980-1984 and Privately owned gallery called the "Species Gallery" 1995-1999 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Emigration with family to Sri Lanka 1983-1984. Back to Denmark 1984.
Established the arrangement "Art Studio Project" from October 1988 - January 1989 with Dan Civa as organizer, exhibitor and player in zoo-cage studio with dayly, public contemplation and many visitors.
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Exhibitions and Sale: Public Galleries and own galleries, Art Houses, Art Centers, Art Museums, 140 Art Accociations by Authorities, City Halls, Banks, Different Companies, Shopping Malls and other places. Accepted 22 times by Hanging Committee Exhibitions in Spring, Summer & Autumn. Also sold to many private collecters.
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Established the arrangement "Art Studio Project" from October 1988 - January 1989 with Dan Civa as organizer, exhibitor and player in zoo-cage studio with dayly, public contemplation and many visitors.
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Inspiration journeys: Several European countries, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore,
Hong Kong, Cambodia and African countries,
Emigration to Sri Lanka 1983-1984. Back to Denmark 1984.
Studio in Thailand since 1996
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Literary activity and press: extensive articles, feature articles,
letters etc. in the dayly press and magazines since 1978 writing about genetic engineering, art and art life, outlook on life, human behaviour, psychology and other subjects in a realistic/philosophical language. Local TV and broadcast
Artist Of The Month in Digital Consciousness (Nov. 2009).
VLTV interview in Species Gallery*June 1997 > ZeiM5-AYno4 <
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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"
One of many ways to create abstract art works. Manage the proces step by step with concentration and constructive planning. Find your own individual technic based on the idea and wish to create something different that comes from your talent and feelings
The colors in these paintings is a changing idea, as a colorist, to paint great and amazing animals in a different, imaginative way with respectful distance from the natural and often boring colors.
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Dan Civa prefer to be independent from commercial galleries and feel free to paint whatever appeal to his emotions and the inconstant variety of life forms around us in the place we live, or by discover other cultures and life styles in the amazing World. Being connected to one gallery he would feel stocked to create the same style of artwork for commercial reasons. Any talented artist who can manage a personal, professional technique, should feel free to express what comes to his mind, without any artdealers order to produce for own profit.
The truth of free art is individual talented with emotional curiosity and honesty
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About my abstract artworks:
Emotional movements is a series of new abstractions in oil paintings on canvas or wood boards. The idea is to express the momentary feelings from the individual state of mind with memories of everything that moves around us in the dayly life between people and animals and the invariable changeable nature
Dan Civa Art Works from the period with Human Animal motifs in paintings and drawings
This video shows examples of small abstract/figurative paintings, all 45x38 cm in white passepartout 70x50 cm and framed with glass and light wood frames
Future related motifs referring to coming possibilities in the development of genetic engineering. Oil paintings and drawings are reflecting examples of transgenetic manipulation with human beings and
animals. A hypothetical, imaginary progress in evolution of today - a foreseeble possibility of tomorrow.
SCULPTURES in hard wood from rosewood roots
Polished and mounted on nature stones from million of years
Dan Civa sculptures are produced in his studio in the North of Thailand.
Sculpture innovation in new look for modern life -style
DAN CIVA: Danish, international painter with realistic/expressive style. Self-taught and Academic Art School. Born 1939 in Denmark. Live also in North Thailand.
Subjects in paintings: animals, people and nature i 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.
For the last 22 years also TRANSGÉNETIC MOTIFS of ´HumanAnimals´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.
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST IN 40 YEARS.
Before: Educated as Artistic Decorator of Window Displays 1953-1957. Special School 1958-1959 with diploma. Allround Freelance Decorator and Sign Writer 1961-1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Privately owned gallery called "Civa Gallery" 1980-1984 and Privately owned gallery called the "Species Gallery" 1995-1999 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Emigration with family to Sri Lanka 1983-1984. Back to Denmark 1984.
Established the arrangement "Art Studio Project" from October 1988 - January 1989 with Dan Civa as organizer, exhibitor and player in zoo-cage studio with dayly, public contemplation and many visitors.
Exhibitions since 1978 in Public Galleries and many Art Associations. Participation in several Hanging Committee Exhibitions, Art Houses, Art Centers, Art Museums and other.
DAN CIVA : 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 with animals, and 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.
