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Analogies with the fundamental principles of life united with the universal.
In Bruni Heym’s work, color, texture, icons, as well as the choice of format as a pictorial medium speak for themselves.
For her art has no pre-established rules, there are no boundaries. Her art is born from inner silence, it materializes, it becomes visible in the now.
Her works radiate a sensual intensity and reveal the artist’s great pleasure in experimenting with different materials. The often heavily embossed surfaces draw the viewer’s gaze into the depths of the image, there, where silence again becomes silence. The circle is closed. The interpretation is up to each one.
Source: Christel Kässmann.
You are invited to take a visual and sonic journey through the drama of four epic operas that contain elements of Germanic mythology as well as the medieval “Song of the Nibelungs”. These operas are: Das Rheingold (Das Rheingold), Die Walküre (Die Valkyrie), Siegfried (Siegfried) and Götterdämmerung (Götterdämmerung).
The visual works have as a guide or thread the musical pieces, from which they are born and the libretto of the opera, from the Rhine Gold to the Twilight of the Gods. The titles of the works correspond to the text of the libretto and thus to the musical piece of the opera.
I pay particular attention to the female characters especially in:
“Brünnhilde – Valkyrie – Wife – Woman of the Future”.
Wagner’s attitude towards women not only reflects the different roles assigned to the sexes in the 19th century, but also a deep conflict that Wagner tried to resolve throughout his life.
In the “Ring” hidden desires take the form of myth. As in the case of the Flower Maidens and the Bacchantes, the sensual seductresses in the “Ring”, for example, the Rhine Nymphs and the Valkyries who promise the pleasures of Walhalla, do not seem to be real human beings. Fricka, considered by Wagner the living reflection of a wife, is just the opposite of these Valkyries and the Rhine Nymphs. It is significant how Wagner emphasizes certain aspects of the goddess. In the myth the wife of the supreme god, Wotan, is above all responsible for love and fertility. In Wagner’s work, however, she considers law above love in a truly patriarchal way. Thus, this is a woman who has assimilated the dogmas of patriarchy so deeply that she makes the fatal mistake of believing that this is the natural order of things. However, the loss of these natural origins has certain consequences, since the strict application of the law soon has a fatal effect on the man who created it.
The texts of the libretto are shown next to each work.
I present about 30 paintings of different formats (between 2×2 m and 1.30×1.30 m).
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1977 - Acquires residence in Palma de Mallorca.
1994 – Scottish original print workshop: Innovation and practical experimentation with Geraldine Prince, George Donald, Elspeth Lamb and Digby Maass.
1994 – Multidisciplinary Cuban workshop with Angel Ramiro Roque, Pablo Borges, Rubén Rodriguez and Eduardo Rocca, Kuba.
1995 – Workshop on bookbinding: artist books with Rita McBride and Jonathan Hammer, San Francisco, USA.
1995 – Cuban experimental engraving workshop with Pablo Borges and Eduardo Roca, Kuba.
1995 – Contemporary engraving workshop: with Miró’s work, exploring ancient and modern techniques, with George Donald and Digby Maass, Summer School of Art, Edinburgh.
1997 – Gravat workshop with Mitsuo Miura.
2000 – Experimental workshop with Fernando Bellver.
2006 – Non Toxic Engraving with Henrik Boegh.
1988 – Painting exhibition, Enrique Moreno Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
1988 – Contest of figurative painting Vila de Andraitx, Andratx.
1988 – Figurative painting contest, Capdepera/Mallorca.
1989 – Exhibition of workshop works, Molí d’en Xina, Algaída.
1990 – Exhibition of engravings, Molí d’en Xina, Algaída.
1991 – Exhibition of paintings in Cas Jai, Campus of the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca.
1991 – Mostra d’Art of graphic works, Molí d’en Xina, Algaída.
1992 – Exhibition Espaí, Temps i Moviment, Molí d’en Xina, Algaída.
1994 – Exhibition of workshop works, Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca.
1995 – Exhibition of graphic art, Graphik-Art, Galerie R&R, Berlin, Germany.
1998 – Exhibition of engravings, C’an Domàtiga, Sóller/Mallorca.
2001 – Exhibition of work selected by Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
2001 – Exhibition of work selected by Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
2001 – Municipal Foundation of Culture, Valladolid.
2001 – Museum of Pontevedra.
2001 – Extremadura and Iberoamerican Museum of Contemporary Art, Badajoz.
2001 – Exhibition of engravings, Fundación Deutsche Stiftung, Madrid.
2002 – Encontre – Begegnung with Jafar Kaki, Amador Vallina, Gisela Schrader, Alícia Llabrés, Regina Bunzel, Pere Alemany, Olivia Vega, Mariano Mayol and Hans Mendler, Can Gelabert, Binissalem/Mallorca.
2008 – Galerie Hella Maria Höfer, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca.
2009 – Galerie Hella Maria Höfer, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca.
2010 – Galerie Hella Maria Höfer, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca.
2010 – Galerie Arte Casa, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca.
2010 – Galerie Arte Casa, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca.
1991 – Exhibition of painting and engraving, Nautical Club, Santa Ponsa, Calvià/Mallorca.
1992 – Exhibition of painting and graphic works, Arts Bearn Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
1993 – Exhibition of painting and graphic works, Kyburg Hall, Kirn, Germany.
1995 – Exhibition of painting and graphic works, Bearn Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
1997 – Exhibition of collographies, Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca.
1999 – Exhibition of paintings, Evelyn Bergner Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany.
2000 – Exhibition of painting and engraving, Gallery dArt Linda Hewitt, Esporlas/Mallorca.
2004 – Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Adonis, Visual Poems.
2004 – Bruni Heym-Jafar Kaki.
2004 – Can Gelabert, Binisalem, Adonis, Visual Poems.
2004 – International Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany.
2005 – Presentation at the National Library, Madrid, Adonis, Visual Poems.
Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca
National Library, Madrid
Iberostar Group, Mallorca.
Pedro Serra Collection, Es Baluard
Exhibition Scholarship Award.
Diploma of Honour, Engraving Section, Friends of Art, International Club and ADEBA, Fine Arts Association of the Balearic Islands.
Adonis Visual Poems, in the private library of HM Queen Sofia.