Under a warm sky - Mario Vandivinit 21.02. - 14.03.2026
Mario Vandivinit (*1951) is a Luxembourgish painter and sculptor. Initially a student of well-known artist Frantz Kinnen (1905 - 1979), Mario Vandivinit later completed a three-year drawing course in Paris.It was there, where his artistic career took shape, marked by his participation in numerous exhibitions in the French capital. Before turning toward abstraction in the 1990s, Vandivinit was deeply engaged with landscape painting. Traces of this early focus remain visible in his work today, transformed into a more abstract, visual language. Strong Mediterranean influences run throughout his paintings, expressed through a heightened sense of atmosphere and light, a warm, sun-soaked colour palette, organic, floral elements that often evoke fruit and plant life. In several works, the artist incorporates concrete, introducing structure and anchoring the compositions. This dialogue between organic forms and constructed material creates a sense of balance, harmony, and quiet tension within the work. The exhibition Under a warm sky at the VGallery in Dudelange features his most recent paintings as well as a selection of sculptures.
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ARTHUR UNGER
OPENING 21.03.26
15:00 - 18:00
The posthumous exhibition displays a selection of ink drawings and copper works, pyrochimiogrammes, by renowned Luxembourgish artist Arthur Unger, for which he gained international recognition. Some of the selected pieces, covering the years from 1970 to 2004, have already been displayed in various museum exhibitions. Inspired by his travels in Africa and Asia and the movement marked by his friend and art critic Michel Tapié (1909 - 1987) this body of work represents his visionary art, that reflects his impressions of both continents. The ink drawings are primarily inspired by the aesthetics of Asian calligraphy: the most recent drawings are created through gestures and movements with the paintbrush, before being immersed into water. The artist has exhibited throughout Europe and China with several major retrospectives in Luxembourg, France and China dedicated to his work - at Toit de la Grande Arche de la Défense de Paris (2001), at Guan Shanyue Art Museum in Shenzen (2004), at Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai (2004), at Beijing World Art Museum, China Millennium Monument in Beijing (2004), at Abtei Neimënster in Luxembourg (2010, organised by Ante Glibota) and at MNAHA in Luxembourg (2023). In 1973 Arthur Unger was honoured with the prestigious Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe, the highest artistic distinction in Luxembourg and in 2017 he was awarded the Phoenix Art Price for the most outstanding abstract work in Fenghuang, China. Arthur Unger's work is featured in private and public collections, most notably at Villa Vauban, at MNAHA - Musée National d'Archéologie, d'Histoire et d'Art and at Abtei Neimënster.
Cover: Le jongleur, fire painting on copper, 42 x 33,5 cm, © Claude Piscitelli
PAST SHOWS
Mario Vandivinit - Under a warm sky, 21.02. - 14.03.2026
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