Peter Gric: Visual Artist. Austria

Peter Gric:" You are not what you think - you are what is thinking. Anyway, better don’t think too much! Especially not the thoughts of others!"

BPP: Who are you?  And who you really are?

Peter Gric: I am the one who is asking this question again and again. All I found out so far is just this: I am

BPP: If you could say something important to others who were listening, what would you tell them?

Peter Gric: You are not what you think - you are what is thinking. Anyway, better don’t think too much! Especially not the thoughts of others!

BPP: What is your true dream, the one that keeps you up at night and if one day it were to come true you would feel peace and calmness in your heart?

Peter Gric:My true dream is to awaken from the delusion that I am my thoughts. My true dream is to wake up from this "dream" and to really become conscious. You might have experienced lucid dreams, dreams where you become aware that you are dreaming. Suddenly you realize that you are not just a victim of the whole drama, but the creator. And then the fun begins: you can change the dream, you can create things, you can fly, you can enjoy...

OK, You won't be able to create things or to levitate when you "awaken". But, you'll have no need anymore to emotionally react to what is.

...yeah, something like that...

BPP: How is life currently for the people in your country and what would you wish for them and for the planet at large?

Peter Gric: Most of the problems, conflicts and dramas lead from fears, and fears lead from lack of consciousness. Unconscious people hand over their lives to dictators, corporations, media and all the mind parasites out there. So take responsibility for your lives, stop feeding the monster, let it starve out!

BPP: If you had a chance to be a child again would you choose the same life?

Peter Gric: Why should I choose the same life? This doesn't make any sense at all! I find the idea ending up in a loop extremely horrifying!

BPP:  What was the exact moment that you realized what you wanted to do with your life?  How did you feel at this very moment?

Peter Gric: I guess I've never had such a moment. Or it was not a moment but rather a process I'm still in.

BPP: Would you like to tell us something we didn’t ask until now?

Peter Gric: I don't know.... this is a vanity page, isn't it? ...just kidding :-)

If you want to learn more about Peter Gric, please visit:

http://www.gric.at/

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Exhibitions:

1994 Galerie 1990, Eisenstadt / Austria ● Kick off, academy of arts, Vienna ● 1995 Rieter Meets Art, Winterthur / Switzerland & Milano / Italy ● 1998 Stadthalle Germering / Germany ● 2000 Phantastik am Ende der Zeit, Stadtmuseum Erlangen / Germany ● Kunst-Pavillon Alter Botanischer Garten, Munich / Germany ● 2001 Das Alchimistische Werk, Kunstverein Baden / Austria ● Pandämonium, Burg Liechtenstein / Austria ● 2002 Labyrinthe - Welt als Rätsel, Schloss Honhardt / Germany ● 2003 Das Alchimistische Werk II, das NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St.Pölten / Austria ● Art Visionary Collecti-on, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange / Australia ● Art Visionary Collection, Global Arts Link, Ipswich / Australia ● Artefakte, Galerie AKUM, Vienna (personal exhibition) ● 2004 Vom Surrealismus zur Moderne, Barockschloss Riegersburg / Austria ● 2005 Erotikon, Galerie 1990, Eisenstadt / Austria ● Fantastische Welten, Spandauer Zitadelle, Berlin ● 2006 Künstliche Räume, Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank, Belgrade (personal exhibition) ● L’Ange exquis, Sedan / France ● L’Ange exquis, Grand Palais, Paris / France ● Künstliche Räume, Karmeliterkirche, Wr. Neustadt / Austria (personal exhibition) ● 2007 NÖ Landesausstellung Feuer und Erde, Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs / Austria ● L’Ange exquis, Saint Germain des Angles / France ● Alternative Welten, Galerie Zentrum, Vienna ● Metamorphosis, Galerie 10, Vienna ● 2008 L’Ange exquis, Rosny sur Seine – Hospices Saint Charles / France ● Gric: Bilder 1994 – 2008, Galerie bast-art, Vienna (personal exhibition) ● Drei, Domgalerie Wr. Neustadt / Austria ● Auf Amors Flügeln, Barockschloss Riegersburg / Austria ● L’Ange exquis, Viechtach, Altes Rathaus / Germany ● L’Ange exquis, Viroflay, A l‘Ecu de France Gallery / France ● 2009 Peter Gric at the Hofburg, Hofburg Congress Centre, Vienna (personal exhibition) ● art-imaginär 2009, Neustadt / Mussbach / Germany ● 2010 Dreamscape 2010, Amsterdam / The Netherlands ● Ancient Civilisations / Alien Technologies, Temple of Visions Gallery, Los Angeles / USA ● Die Macht der Phantasie, Barockschloss Riegersburg / Austria ● beinArt Collective, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica / USA ● real-irreal-surreal, Trierenberg Art, Traun / Austria ● iPax2010, Altes Rathaus, Viechtach / Germany ● Chimeria, Sedan / Francea ● 2011 Dystopia, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica / USA ● 2012 Android Awakening (personal exhibition), Copro Gallery, Santa Monica / USA ●