Leidenschaft für Kunst Passion for Art - Restaurants HAZIENDA

produced a broad variety of talent and artistic
value that seems to have been in
hiding.
The story behind the association can
be quickly told. The idea was born over a
glass of red wine during a typical relaxed
night out in Mallorca: It must be possible
to do something so that top-class artists
who are not very well known become
more accessible for the larger public. The
concept was to create a space away from
large exhibition halls and museums that
could be used to pull the work of a broad
spectrum of internationally active visual
artists out of the workshop and place it
before a larger audience. The idea finally
led to the association caratart e.V., an
organisation founded with great passion
and commitment. With artists on board
such as Stefan Beltzig, Werner Pawlok
and Bombolo, mentors were quickly
found that certainly know how diverse,
expressive and life-affirming modern fine
art can be. And these mentors also know
how difficult it can be for younger and
less well-known artists to exhibit their
works of art to an interested public.
Since the foundation of the association,
however, it is not only the works of
lesser-known artists that have gained in
status. In particular, the associaion itself
is gaining many new art spaces. And it
is not the usual dusty dungeons of museums
in which abundant paintings and
sculptures can already be found. caratart
likes to take art to where different people
with different interests and ideas meet –
to the carathotels that are significantly involved
in the caratart project.
Since its foundation, caratart e.V. has
been showing changing exhibitions that
are far from the leisurely atmosphere of
museums. Instead, caratart makes space
in the corridors, lobbies and halls of the
hotels for young artists that are as lively
and full of ideas as the hotels themselves.
Thus, a new way of presenting and
marketing modern art has been born, and
it is not something you see on every corner.
In June 2011, caratart began its mission
with a great vernissage in Basel and
has since then taken one step at a time
on its way into a new era of creative work
made for people to see. For this reason,
caratart e.V. does not wait for people to
come to exhibition halls but instead goes
out to meet the public, taking works of
art from all kinds of genre. And the powerful
expressiveness of these modern
works prompts the audience to admire,
reflect and – time after time – also to buy
some of the art.
In this way, caratart has managed to
transform a pretty idea into a completely
stunning event that is as pleasing to the
eyes of carathotel guests as it is beneficial
to the development of the artists involved.
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