Gateway To The Self - Commemorative Poster

Gateway To The Self

The Duchess Gallery is proud to present The Genesis Art & Poetry Collection in Collaboration with Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York ~ Tania Rivals, Mathijs, David Cheifetz, Jenni Pasanen & Laurence Fuller.

Digital art provides an incredible opportunity to reimagine the classics in our contemporary world. The Pre-Raphaelite movement in visual arts in England in the 1800s was heavily inspired by the works of John Keats and John Ruskin, their French counterparts by the poet Charles Baudelaire. Today with new technology and engagement with digital culture we have the opportunity to evolve that connection between visual art and literature with Cinematic Fine Art. Author, Sarah Ferguson (The Duchess of York), and actor & poet Laurence Fuller come together to create a new vision of the Romantic movement in digital art.

“When I spoke with Sarah she expressed to me a deep connection that tied both our lives to storytelling through art history. And chance encounter with my own father, Peter Fuller the late art critic and founder of Modern Painters in the 1980s ~ who was a bastion of upholding traditional aesthetics within contemporary culture, an ethos that we both share. Connected to my own mission as a Classically trained actor and poet, finding new life in the passages of history.” ~ Laurence Fuller

Technology evolves, but great stories remain universal. Traditional aesthetics can now find a new life in this contemporary viral world. Spoken word poetry paired with animated paintings, AI art, new media and special effects to create Cinematic Fine Art, allows new forms of storytelling to break through.

The collection opens on January 18th, 2022 at 3:30pm Pacific Time, and closes on January 23rd at 3:30pm Pacific Time.

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Sarah has found her expression for classical adaptations through her novel “Her Heart For Her Compass” and the upcoming “An Intruiging Lady”, but finds the potential for new expression in digital art and spoken word poetry;

“Bringing history alive through modern art and it is how I always saw it ~ after all Prince Albert the consort to Queen Victoria saw it in 1852, when he created the greatest glasshouse with the Great Exhibition which today is called Crystal Palace. He insisted the world saw art and fine art and not just as painting but architecture and started the protection of all Fine Art with the Royal Fine Art Society.” ~ Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York

Tania Rivilis began painting at the age of 27 ~ now part of museum, gallery, and private collections all over the world. Represented by Arcadia Contemporary. In 2022 Tania received the prestigious William Lock Prize for the most timeless portrait, with real feeling for paint and aesthetic potential. The work of Tania Rivilis is distinguished by a wide range of themes and a variety of techniques: from classical and academic portraits to contemporary impressionist works. Her signature style reveals a personal desire of art experiment and paying homage to traditional craftsmanship at the same time.

Jenni Pasanen creates in the new medium and the era of art, where creativity of machine & human unite; blending digital painting & Ai. A break out star of web3 her work is finding its way into every major collection and exhibitions around the world.

Mathijs Vissers is a self-taught Dutch artist working in both traditional and digital media. Matching the artificial nature of todays world, his preferred medium is acrylic paint, combined with collage, pastels, spray-paint and markers.

David Cheifetz is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist who continues to push the limits of contemporary realist oil painting. His following on instagram and amongst Contemporary Art lovers has captivated his hundreds of thousands of followers.

Laurence Fuller is an actor and poet, known for playing David Hockney on HBO’s ‘Minx’ as well as a number of lead roles in feature films. Laurence’s work took off in web3 when, inspired by the writings of his late father, he started pairing spoken word poetry with animated paintings, creating Cinematic Fine Art.

Four world-class visual artists with traditional aesthetics and sensibilities, creating for contemporary audiences with bright vivid colors ~ beauty in figuration and nature come together with the poetic storytellers Sarah Ferguson and Laurence Fuller to bring to life the visionary ambitions of the Pre-Raphaelites and Golden Age of Romanticism in poetry, into the modern age of digital art. The collaborators revitalize classic stories and visual languages, universal aesthetics of beauty and truth shine through this allegory of opposites. Modernity and nostalgia, the digital generation and the mystery of the past ~ working through the masculine and feminine energies of opposing forces to find harmony and creation at the end of it all. This is ~ Gateway To The Self.