VoltAir
Creativity, design, art, space, performance… we create a workable platform.
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About VoltAir
VoltAir: a non-profit organization started by David and Caroline. They started this non-profit together as a challenge to make a difference in the world of the creative enterprise. The name
Voltaire didn’t come from nowhere- Voltair believed above all in the efficacy of reason. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority—religious or political or otherwise—should be immune to challenge by reason. He emphasized in his work the importance of tolerance.
The power behind a strong organization that wants to be a connecting platform and can thereby facilitate the search for a liveable situation as an artist.
A structural story, expensive investments in raw materials and space. For contemporary art, it remains primarily a story of more or less coincidental protagonists with a personal passion. VoltAir can convince, we massage local politics, change ingrained traditions, develop a surprising range step by step and therefore deal creatively with the context of associations, part-time art education, local amateur artists. A humiliating insight, says Voltair's Caroline Staessens: for visual art, the entire idea of democratization behind our dispersion tradition depends on a handful of pushers.
"It's crazy what comes loose when you let go of your regular functions"
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Working on a interesting future.
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Our starting point is that such a future can only come about if we humans learn to rediscover our connection with the needs we have as individuals to become stronger as a group and the broad community of life of which we are a part.
Voltair a non-profit organization. We organize and promote a wide range of projects and activities. They bring people together to work together to restore our connection with each other, our inner inspiration and motivations and our sense of connection with the planet we inhabit.
We organize events, create expos and are helping creatives to become a stronger version, to worry less and to create more.
Voltair
2022
FIRST PROJECT WITH ARTIST MARIUS RITIU
ABOUT MARIUS
My practice questions concepts such as nationhood, borders and nationalism, reflecting on global responsibility, collective consciousness, and citizenship, and suggesting the potential for immensely varied human experiences to unite.
Instead of being celebrated, our differences are made into symbols and ideologies meant to divide; they are turned into borders. The perspective of those who’ve crossed a few is worth reflecting on and from, but it is the astronaut who is the true skeptic: no eye that looks ‘down’ on Earth from space can see such perverse dividing lines. Now, this outlook invites radical revisionism.
I've been working a lot with copper, copper being the physical material that connects the world. Its incorporation into technology (communication, transport) has enabled and increased the mobility of ideas, goods, and people, impacting the nature and physicality of borders. It has become important to my work for both its physical and philosophical characteristics. In the classical world, alchemy associated seven metals with the planets (silver/Moon, mercury/Mercury, copper/Venus, gold/Sun, iron/Mars, tin/Jupiter, lead/Saturn). As one of these materials, copper has a direct association both with human history and the cosmos. I am using a technique called Repoussé, which does not require a highly equipped studio; rather it is more of a nomadic technique that I can use wherever I go, well-suited to my nomadic lifestyle.
My own experience as a travelling artist and an immigrant, continuing crossing borders and witnessing variations in culture, religion, nation, race– undoubtedly informs and anchors my practice. But what it more importantly grounds is the quest essential to my work to comprehend and express the global through the local, the universal through the particular, the familiar through the alien. I believe that we are all connected.
I consider myself not only a sculptor but also a storyteller, one who wishes to create somewhat open-ended tales, later finalized in the mind of the viewer.