After a few years of pen and ink work I started exploring aquarelle colours. Then for my last birthday I got an oil painting starter set from my mother.
This blog post introduces our artist collective “The Impostors”. We definitely met each other by chance. I know Julian from school times, but we lost contact years ago. Then Julian started building up his artist career and sharing his journey on Instagram. So, art brought us together again and we planned a future collaboration. Julia and I met at my old workplace and I asked her if she wants to come on a meeting with us to experience a new medium. After getting to know each other we started our first project “NEON” (this Dude on the photo) with acrylic colours on canvas. Julia did the pre-sketch and together as a team we did the rest of the painting. This was the beginning of three artists on one canvas. The collective was born, but had not had a name yet.
Why “The Impostors”?
We did a lot of brainstorming searching for a fresh, creative name. We came across the impostor syndrome, but I don’t know how anymore. This gave us an idea. What if we were the impostors as an ironic way of saying, “Here we are! Look at us! We are young, creative and doing something new.”?
If you’re asking yourself now, “What’s the impostor syndrome?”, here is a short definition. The impostor syndrome refers to “an internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be.” (verywellmind.com)
Photography has been a part of my life for almost ten years. My eight-month stay in Barcelona was not only the perfect opportunity to revive my love for photography, but also to take my skills to the next level. The undeniable charm of the Catalan province combined with its architecture, made this endeavor very easy for me.
Barcelona provided me with an excellent starting point and I am bursting with drive to expand my knowledge of photography.
A driving force, which animates me daily to take the brush in hand, was brought to life by the first lockdown. Painting became my passion, whether I always enjoy it or not.
I currently work with acrylics, soft pastels and graphite. In my choice of subject matter, the current focus is on portraits and streetview.
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh
Becoming an artist is closely connected with self-discovery. It was a process with ups and downs until I realized what art means to me as a person. I started drawing with ink in 2018 and art for me at that time was mainly technical perfection.
After one year, I decided to expand my horizons and started painting with watercolours together with my family. I also practice in oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastels and digital media. Through trial and error, I realised what it means to be an artist: to feel the act of creation passionately and to release one’s creative spirit.
There are also blog posts about the philosophy of maxedrealities, our team and about me.
After a very stressful organisation phase we were really happy that we finished everything for the “FUSION” opening event in time. The DJ was ready, the bar was filled up with more everybody could drink and everything was set to go. We also created “sexy banana bags”, unique, hand-drawn bags with our logo on the one side and funny slogans on the other side – Sexy banana boy on our logo definitely speaks for himself.
The later it got the more people came to be part of our exhibition opening event. A lot of them even seemed interested in the exhibited art, not only in the cheap drinks and the good music. There was a happy and exuberant mood in the air the whole night. Both, Luana and I, took the chance to socialise a lot with different people to show them maxedrealities. Altogether, it was a successful night for maxedrealities and the whole team. The opening event could not have been better . To celebrate we went to a Techno event by Impulstanz to spend the rest of the night together with our friends.
If you looking for background information on FUSION, check this out!
The exhibition “Fusion” is about three creative minds joining their forces on one canvas. Fusion is about three artists working together as the collective “The Impostors”. One painter, one photographer and me coming from pen and ink illustrations. If you want to get to know us better as a group, check this out!
Before the Covid-19 pandemic became part of our lives I met the owner of the location “Wienstation”. After our initial meeting I sent him my portfolio. He liked way works and accepted me as one of the artists for the next exhibition cycle. Afterwards, the whole planning process had to be postponed due to the pandemic. In the meantime, I met Julia and Julian with whom I founded the artist collective “The Impostors”.
After the situation with Covid-19 got better I reached out to the gallery owner again. I used the opportunity of my exhibition for our artist collective. We decided to fuse our works into one exhibition together with the works we created as a trio. The owner also agreed on it after we sent him the portfolios of our members. And here we are sharing the experience of having an exhibition together with our friends and visitors. If you’re interested how the opening event of Fusion was going, click here!
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