Billie's Art Collection
A collection of art by different artists, owned by Billie Davies that is now
for sale.
If interested, please contact her at
billie@billiedaviesmusic.com mentioning the work of art you are interested
in.
This is an ongoing project that eventually will end up with most of her collection of art and antiques available for sale. She will always be open to accepting reasonable, not insulting, offers for all or parts of her collection.
These are direct links that jump either to the artists bios and/or their works of art that Billie Davies is open to selling:
Serge Vandercam works of art,
Rudi Pillen, Rudi Pillen works of art,
Mimmo Roselli, Mimmo Roselli painting
Serge Vandercam (1924 - 2005)
"Introducing Serge Vandercam is remembering and appreciating at it's just
historical value the fact that he was closely associated to the "CoBrA"
adventure with Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, Hugo Claus, Joseph Noiret and
other fellow artists from Scandinavia, Belgium and The Netherlands. His art
has cultivated the root on which CoBrA built it's voice to the world..." [text
by Danielle Guillemon, MAD '94]
Close to the surrealist movement, he
joined the CoBrA group in 1949. Vandercam's work fits into the desire for
experimental research, multidisciplinarity and a taste for the primitive arts
characteristic of the CoBrA movement: photographer, painter, ceramist,
sculptor ... Vandercam he is a bold designer. His interest in poetry and
writing led him to collaborate with many writers, including the poet Joseph
Noiret, or Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray. Professor at the École Supérieure des
Arts Visuels de la Cambre (1979-1989), he directed the Wavre School of Fine
Arts from 1981 to 1989.
Serge Vandercam was a Danish/Belgian artist who
was born in 1924 in Copenhagen, Denmark and who died in Bierges in 2005. He
was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, sculptural ceramicist and photographer.
Signs with Serge V. and gained fame from 1948 with experimental photos. He was
also active as a filmmaker. Met C. Dotremont and Joseph Noiret in 1949, joined
the Cobra group and exhibited with them from 1950 to 1955. Started painting as
an autodidact in 1952. In the spirit of Cobra, he focused on a wide variety of
disciplines such as ceramics, sculpture, painting, experimental photography
and art film. Prize of the Jeune Peinture Belge in 1956. The bird is a
prominent theme in his work. Not so much the image of the animal, but the
image of the mediator between heaven and earth.
From the press: "In the painting of S.V. figuration and non-figuration are
closely intertwined. They interpret the dual aspect of his oeuvre: namely, a
strange lyricism on the one hand, and an oppressive tragedy on the other.
Multicolored touches and surfaces fill the canvas" and "The artist takes his
inspiration from the depths of the imagination and gives shape to the mystery:
indefinable phantom-like creatures and a strange pollinator with sphinxes,
phoenixes, strange bird-like creatures sprout from his creative mind."
His
collages were enhanced with drawings, with colors and words and in particular
with fragments of poems by Joseph Noiret. Designed in 1950, together with C.
Dotremont, a series of clay and peat shapes, Les Boues. His first ceramics
were created in 1960, then he focused on sculpture: woodcarving in 1972, stone
sculptures in 1977. Work in the Museums in Antwerp, Brussels, Ixelles, Liège.
Mentioned in BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists.
Source: Piron
BIOGRAPHY
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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1924.
1948 - experimental photography.
1949 - participates in all "CoBrA" activities.
1955 - First Prize Helene Jacquet.
mentioned for the prize of the "Jeune Peinture Belge".
1956 - receives the First Prize of the "Jeune Peinture Belge".
1957 - receives the First Prize at the "International Prize of Lissone", with Tapies, Scanavino, Appel and Moreni. - Receives the Golden Medal at the "Milan Triennial".
1958 - receives the "Prize of the Belgian Critic". - First Prize at "Art Film Antwerp" for "Another World". "Another World" was also selected for the Festivals of Venice, Bergamo and Tours.
1959 - at "The Royal Society of Fine Art", Verviers, Belgium ... Mud ... Ceramics with writings by Christian Dotremont.
1961-63 - Albisola, Italy, Ceramics, with Asger Jorn. He befriends Wilfredo Lam, Fontana, Manzoni and the sculptor Fabbri.
1962 - during a trip to Denmark he discovers "The Man from Tollund" at the Museum of Silkeborg. It becomes a recurring and obsessive subject in his work.
1979 - installation at the "Metro Josephine-Charlotte" in Brussels ... polychrome wood sculptures and poems by Joseph Noiret.
1984 - Installation, "Lieu", in Liege, Belgium, an environment in the "Garden of Stones" at the open air Museum of Sart Tilman. 108 tons of stone. With Joseph Noiret.
1986 - Museum of Fine Art, Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium, retrospective.
1991 - "Espace Photographique Contretype", Brussels, retrospective on his experimental photography.
1994 - Commissioned by the Belgian Postal Department, designs a postal stamp "My Beautiful One".
1995 - Elected Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Arts and Literature of Belgium. - Solo exhibit at the Cobra Fine Art™ gallery in San Francisco.
1997 - First Prize at the "SABAM Prize", with Bram Bogart, acknowledging the best artists in Belgium. - Elected President of the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Arts and Literature of Belgium.
1998 - Museum of Photography, Charleroi, Belgium, "Serge Vandercam, CoBrA photograph".
1999 - Museum of Modern Art "PMMK", Oostende, retrospective in honor of his 75 birthday.
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
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- In Belgium
The Belgian Government
The French Community of Belgium
The Museums of Modern Art of Antwerp, Brussels, Ixelles, Liege, Oostende
The National Bank of Belgium
The Community Credit Bank of Belgium
l'Intercommunale of Brabant Wallon - C.P.A.S., Wavre
The Sart Tilman Museum in Liege.
The Brussels metro station "Josephine Charlotte"
The Foundation for Belgian Contemporary Art
The Photography Museum of Antwerp
The Photography Museum of Charleroi
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Free University Belgium
- In the USA
The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Long Beach University of Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale CoBrA Foundation
Scottsdale Museum, Arizona
Carnegie Foundation
University of Delaware
- In The Netherlands
The Museums of Modern Art of
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Den Haag
Schiedam
Haarlem
- In Germany
The Museum of Berlin
The Museum of Saarbrucken
- In Denmark
The Silkeborg Museum
The Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen
The Herning Kunst Museum
The Private collection of the Queen
- In Italy
The Lissone Foundation
"Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon"
The below series / suite of 7 artworks on paper entitled "Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" was created by Serge Vandercam on Billie
Davies' drum play in 1995 at her studio in Tiburon, California. He stayed with
her for about a month that year.
In 2015, 20 years later, Billie produced the album
"Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" as an homage to Serge Vandercam who had
passed away ten years earlier.
"Hand In Hand"
"In The Hand Of The Moon"
"Listen To The Bird"
"As She Tells"
"The Shark"
"Tiburon"
"The Bridge"
Rudi Pillen (1931 - 2014)
"Those who are priviliged to have spent some time in the presence of his work discover a playful virtuosity, the colorful side of people and aminals, a sublime graphical emanation tinged with emotion, mild social criticism and a spiritual view of the nature of things and of human (and animal) creatures..." [text by Hugo Brutin]
Rudi Pillen was a Belgian painter, draftsman and sculptor. He was born in Moen in 1931 and died in Blankenberge in 2014. He was educated at Sint Lucas in Ghent from 1949 to 1954. He stayed in Zaire in the 1960s and taught anatomy at the medical faculty of the University of Lubumbashi. We notice African influences in his work. He found his inspiration in humans and animals. The female nude was central to his oeuvre. He developed his own expressionist design. From the press: 'With a rich color range, he first lays a background, on which he forms anonymous silhouettes in black lines. Then he paints over the canvas in grey-yellow, sand-coloured tones, but spares the silhouettes' and 'His painting method is expressive rather than decorative. He comes across as outspokenly lyrical, as far as possible from the chilly current that characterizes the geometric art genre' 'n 'In an unimaginably flexible way he can give a figure a tangible inner presence, suggest rhythm, the things of every day with a moaning smile' 'n finally (1997): 'The ethereal atmosphere of his earlier work, in which figures stepped from the depth of the canvas towards the viewer, has been replaced by canvases in which people and animals appear, swathed in bright shades of red and green and in which the faces are also more prominent.” He settled in California. We can find his work in the Museum of Brussels, among other places. He is mentioned in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists III, Artists and galleries 1997; BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (piron)
BIOGRAPHY
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1931 - Born in Moen, Belgium
1949 - St-Lucas Academy of Fine Art, Gent
1955 - First Solo Exhibit, Kortrijk and Brugge, Belgium.
1956 -Visits Africa for the first time, remains there for eight months.
1961 - Lubumbashi, Zaire. Commissioned work.
1962 - Makes his home in Lubumbashi.
1985 - Returns to Europe to exhibit his work.
1988 - Starts to introduce his art in the US.
1991 - First U.S. Solo Exhibit, Cobra Fine Art™ Gallery, San Francisco.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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- USA
collection of the Raiser Group
permanent collection of Cobra Fine Art™
personal collection of Donald Hess
personal collection of Joe and Jennifer Montana
- Belgium
Brussels Royal Museum of Fine Art
Blankenberge City Hall
Bredene Chapel of the Military Hospital
Tervuren Royal Museum of Central Africa
Museum of Contemporary Art at the Free University of Brussels
Zaventem International Airport
- Zaire
Kinshasa Institute of the National Museums of Zaire
Lubumbashi Institute of the National Museums of Zaire
Lubumbashi Gecamines
Kolwezi Gecamines
Mbuji-Mayi Mining Society of Bakwanga
Enamel and oil on canvas circa 1989-1991
Rudi Pillen
Acrylic on canvas circa 1997
Rudi Pillen
"The Girls Of San Francisco"
Limited Edition mixed media (lithography/serigraphy) print 1992
"People"
Limited Edition mixed media (lithography/serigraphy) print 1993
Rudi Pillen
"The Conversation"
Limited Edition mixed media (lithography/serigraphy) print 1994
Rudi Pillen
1952 Born in Rome
1988 Working with people, a group of young Guaranì, in Ipitacito del Monte, Bolivia. “Ascensione, mural painting of m. 4.50 x 7.70 m
1991 Studio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1997 He proposed and organised the International symposium “Arte e Ospedale/Art and Hospital” which took place in Florence in Autumn 1998.
1999 e 2005 Studio in New York, where he met Michael Goldberg, Robert Ryman, Taadaki Kuwaiama, Rakuko Naito, Lynn Umlauff, Helene Brandt, Julio Alpuy, and Charles Hilnman, all of them artists.
2005 Carried out for Museum Arterra/Berndorf 7 big sculpture-installations “Un Km di linee di più”.
2007/2008 Give the start to a project for funding a School of Art in Bolivia, Chaco region.
2009 Recidency at Art OMI, NY.
2010-2012 Travelling to Bolivia for the School of Art (music and visual art) in Chaco Region, meetings, workshop etc.
2011 The School of Art of Chaco Region/Bolivia in Italy: Chaco musicians at Festival Zipoli in Prato.
2012 Contribution to International Simposium “Il ruolo dell’arte e dell’ambiente nella cura dei pazienti in ospedale” with a conference about “Il Corpo e l’Arte” , Fondazione Bracco, Milano 30/11/2012, Sala Cenacolo, Museo della Scienza e Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”.
2016 Santa Rosa Event/Festival, Bolivia (www.santarosadecuevo.org):during the April 2016 month, coordinated by the international artist Mimmo Roselli, will be: international artists residency, working with pupils of the basic art school, rehearsals of Antigone, drama by J. Anouilh, with professional actors and no professional by S. Rosa Community, the orchestra rehearsals by Coro and Orchestra of the Art and Music School of Bolivian Chaco.The Event at the end of April with CONCERTS, CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION, THEATER and MORE
2018 Santa Rosa Festival II Edition
2019 Santa Rosa Festival III Edition, in collaboration with Italian Embassy in La Paz
2020 Covid-19 Pandemia blocked any cultural activity. Many events are postponed
Solo Exhibitions
2022 – CZECH REP., Zameck Dobrohor, On the BorderAUSTRIA, Fratres, Museum Humanum, On the Border
2021 – PRAGUE/CZECH REP., Nova Sin Galerie (with I. Ouhel)
2018 – WURZBURG/Germany,Toccare, Eisengen,Erbachshof art projectNEW YORK/USA, Accordatura, MEN Gallery, curated by M. Merson
2016 – DAEGU/Korea,Silence, Meditation, and Resonance, Gallery Shilla, curated by Soojung HyunNEW YORK/USA, Il Gigante buono, Casa Italiana/NYU
2014 – CARMIGNANO/Italy, Dialoganti, SAAM-Shema Polis, curated by Raoul Dominguez
2013 – NEW YORK/USA, The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery, No-profit Foundation, curated by Soojung Hyun.
2009 – NEW YORK/USA, OK Harris works of art, “Measuring the space”, curated by R.C. Morgan.
2008 – BUDAPEST/Hunghery, Kiscelli Muzeum (with J.Heer), curated by P.Fitz and P.Ribal.ROMA/Italy, Tor Vergata University, LineeDEA
2007 – TARIJA/Bolivia, Museo Fray Francisco Miguel Marì, “ a través del vidrio “, curated by L.Calzavarini.FIRENZE/Italy, Galleria Il Ponte, “ Lineare “, curated by B.Corà and R.C. Morgan
FIRENZE/Italy, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, “ Lineare “, curated by B.Corà and R.C. Morgan.
2005 – NEW YORK /USA, Kentler International Drawing Center, “Drawing Space”, curated by M. O’Hara.PRAHA/Czech Rep., Bayer&Bayer Galerie and Galerie 9 (with I.Ouhel), curated by J. Machalicky.
BERNDORF-WIEN/Austria, Museum Arterra, “Un Km di linee di più”, curated by E. Stastny.
WIEN/Austria, Theseustempel, Kunsthistorishe Museum, “La grande acqua”, curated by E. Stastny.
2003 – ASCHAFFENBURG/Germany, Kunstverein, “Il paesaggio dell’acqua” (curator, with G.Giorgi, C.Rempi, M.Sartori), curated by E. Claus.
2002 – HEIDELBERG/Germany, Kunstverein, “Cosmogonia” , BERGAMO/Italy, GAMeC (Jun.2003), “Cosmogonia”, curated by H. Gercke, B.Corà and C. Rodeschini.
2001 – LA PAZ/Bolivia, Museo Nacional de Arte, “Viajes a Bolivia”, curated by I.Arestizabal.WIEN-BERNDORF/Austria, La Galeria.
1999 – BUENOS AIRES/Argentina, Centro Cultural Recoleta , “Del Paisaje”, curated by I.Arestizabal.HEIDELBERG/Germany, Galerie Uwe Sacksofsky.
1997 – MAINZ/Germany, Dorothea Van Der Koelen Galerie, “Canti alla terra”.
1996 – BUENOS AIRES/Argentina, Galeria Arte por Arte, “Cantos”, curated by I.Arestizabal.
1995 – LUDWIGSHAFEN/Germany, Kunstverein (with Cassar and Giorgi), curated by A.B. Del Guercio.FIRENZE/Italy, Chiostro di S.Salvatore al Monte “Officium” (with I.Ouhel), curated by F.Gualdoni, A.B.Del Guercio, P.Porcal and J.Rous.
1994 – MAINZ/Germany, Galerie Dorothea Van Der Koelen, “Italienische Positionen der Gegenwart” (with C.Cassar e G.Giorgi), curated by A.B. Del Guercio and D.V. D. Koelen.
1993 – ROMA/Italy, Istituto Italo Latino Americano “Esperienze in un mondo di confine”.PRAGA/Czech Rep., Galerie Novà Sìn, Gema Galerie, (whit I. Ouhel), curated by P. Porcal and J. Rous.
1992 – SCHAFFHAUSEN/Switzerland, Kunstverein Vebikus, curated by E.De Pascale.SESTO FIORENTINO/Italy, Villa Solaria “Flussi d’Incontro”.
1991 – RIO DE JANEIRO/Brazil, Solar Grandjean de Montigny “Por uma favela”, curated by I.Arestizabal.KLEINRINDERFELD/Germany, Atelier Mehler.
1990 – KREFELD/Germany, Treppengalerie.
1989 – FIRENZE/Italy, Chiostro di S.Salvatore al Monte, “Ambienti Contemporanei”, curated by A.B. Del Guercio and E.Pontiggia.
1988 – STUTTGART/Germany, Bund Deutscher Künstler Galerie (with H.Mehler).
1987 – ROMA/Italy, CASC Banca d’Italia.VENEZIA/Italy, Fenice Art Gallery.
1986 – VENEZIA/Italy, Galleria Il Traghetto, “Del viaggio e del naufragio”, curated by A.B.Del Guercio.
"Prighiera"
35" x 35"
Acrylic on canvas circa 1994-1996
Mimmo Roselli
