Campanilla for All Seasons fine art photography exhibition of the work by Inna Rogatchi has been opened in Venice, in co-operation with Luna Baglioni Hotel.
Inna Rogatchi's Campanilla for All Seasons fine art photography series on display at Luna Baglioni Hotel in Venice
This series has been created by the artist to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the world famous bell tower of Venice, the centre-piece of Saint Mark's Square.
In her work, Inna Rogatchi pays homage to the Venetians for their decisiveness and commitment to restore their campanile during ten years of exemplary work between 1902 and 1912, to bring back one of the most important symbols of Venice to its past splendor.
The title work of the Inna Rogatchi's exhibition, Campanilla Winds I, 2012
This collection is part of two wider ongoing projects of an artistic examination of Italy and Venice by Inna Rogatchi.
The exhibition will be on display until May 25th, 2012.
On December 19th 2011, members of the Lithuanian government and parliament, foreign dignitaries, and many distinsguished public figures from Lithuania gathered together for the meaningful and special ceremony of the opening of the Public Jewish Library in Vilnius. This kind of institution has been opened in the Lithunian capital for the first time since WWII.
Collage & courtesy : The Rogatchi Foundation ©
Among those who addressed the public at the inaugural opening of the Vilnius Public Jewish Library were the Prime Minister of Lithuania Andris Kubilius, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commttee of the Lithuanian Seimas Dr Emanuelis Zingeris, key personality for the project's realisation the high-profile Lithuanian MP Petras Austrevicius, Minister of Culture of Lithuania Arunas Gelunas who played a pivotal role in the project's development; head of the presidential chancellery Deividas Matulionis, chairman of the Civic Society Foundation renowned Lithuanian philosopher Dr Darius Kuolys; the Councillor of the USA Embassy Annie Hall, as well as others.
Special attention was given to the speech of Wyman Brent, the American cultural personality who was the author of the idea and the project of the Public Jewish Library in Vilnius, and who has worked very hard for several years for the realisation of his dream.
The Rogatchi Foundation has been an active participant in the noble task of the founding of this cultural and public institution. The Foundation has donated a lot of literature to the Library, as well as various art productions. The Foundation also was very active in promoting the Library project internationally and gathering more support from various institutions and personalities world-wide.
Responding to the Library Committee's request, Michael Rogatchi created a special painting for the Library, and donated it during the ceremony. According to the Library Committee's decision, this is the only oil painting which will be exhibited in the Library permanently:
Michael Rogatchi. Yiddishe Sun. Oil on Canvas. 66 x 60 cm, 2011
Inna Rogatchi has created a series of fine art photography POWER OF LIGHT, which she has donated to the Library. The inagural opening of the collection has happened during the opening ceremony of the Library. 15 works from that unique collection are decorating the Library's walls and are on display there permanently.
Inna Rogatchi and the works from her POWER OF LIGHT series in the Vilnius Public Jewish Library
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More information on the event - in the Events page, and at POWER OF LIGHT collection of fine art photography.
In the midst of the festive season, Inna Rogatchi's art photography exhibition FROM A WINDOW OF MERCY AND JOY has been opened in multi-functional Meri-Karina centre in Turku, Finland, on December 12th, 2011.
Opening of Inna Rogatchi's From a Window of Mercy and Joy exhibition, December 12th, 2011, Turku, Finland
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The charitable exhibition marks commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Cancer Society of the South-Western Finland, one of the best and the most known charity organisations both inside and outside Finland.
The original set of 20 art photography works was donated by the author to the Cancer Society of the South-Western Finland, to provide psychological comfort to cancer patients and their families.
The exhibition which originally had been set for a month, has been prolonged, due to the public and the organisers' interest, and now will be exhibited in Meri-Karina center until spring 2012.
More information on the topic: Events, and Inna Rogatchi's Art Photography pages.
In a special ceremony held in December 2011 in Turku, Finland, Michael Rogatchi donated his Le Gitane: Song to the Sun painting to the Cancer Society of the South-Western Finland. By this donation, the artist and philantropist Michael Rogatchi has commemorated the 60th anniversary of this very special charity organisation which is known widely for their outstanding service to the public.
The donation was accepted by the General Manager of the Cancer Society of the South-Western Finland, Mr Kari Ojala.
Michael Rogatchi. Le Gitane - Song to the Sun
Oil on canvas, 76 x 90 cm, 1996
More on the topic: Events page
On September 25th, 2011, The Matriarchs, the unique series of art work by Michael Rogatchi has been unveiled for the public for the first time.
According to the curator of the Forefathers exhibition of Michael Rogatchi's spiritual works, professor Julia Weiner (London), "the series comprising all of the Patriarchs and all of the Matriachs as done by Michael Rogatchi now had never been done before" in the history of arts.
The Inaugural exhibition of 10 works by the artist including the 7-piece The Matriarchs series has become a centre-piece of a special art event Jewish Symbolism in Arts organised by the Jewish Community of Turku in Finland (more on the event in Events, and Highlights-Events pages).
Michael and Inna Rogatchi at The Matriarchs inaugural exhibition. September 2011, Turku, Finland
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"I was willing to show my work, especially the one which has to do with the Jewish theme, to the members of my own community, and our friends in Finland for quite a long time, and am very pleased that such an occassion has occurred", - said Michael.
The artist was telling the stories behind the rare series which depicts all the Matriarchs, and his interpretation of their characters to a very large number of people attending the exhibition. He emphasised, in particular, that not only these most inspiring characters and their narrative in a spiritual history of mankind does have their stories, but also each of the paintings of the series happened to have the story of its own unfolding as the artist was working on it.
Michael Rogatchi with the exhibition viewers
The Matriarchs inaugural exhibition, September 2011, Turku, Finland
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There was an extremely warm and interested reception of the series by the public. Viewers were in particular impressed by "magnificient, as if hypnotysing you, Deborah - as one expects this prophetess to be, and yet more"; "wonderful Miriam - a manifestation of a strong woman who is not just free herself, but is freeing the others, too; and she is leading the people by her engaging, energising power"; "lovely Rebeccah who is surrounded by all those small meaningful details on the canvas as if sharing her life, sorrow and hope with us", according to several viewers' impressions.
Michael Rogatchi © Rebeccah. The Matriarchs series. Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2009
One member of the attending public was very impressed by the "artist's skill and success in creating the living souls of the greatest personanges of the Old Testament in the way that each of us, the modern viewers, can see the entire inner world of those great women, the human beings as they were. And this is the most powerful message and the lesson that real high art can produced" - said Maria Holvitie, the chairman of the Union of Teachers of the South-Western Union, and a member of The Rogatchi Foundation board.
Michael Rogatchi © Miriam. The Matriarchs series. Oil on canvas. 120 x 90 cm. 2010
From the end of 2011 to the beginning of 2012, The Matriarch series will be on their way to London, for participation in a forthcoming Forefathers show of the spiritual works of Michael Rogatchi.
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