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Greta Guntern-Gallati
visual artist

Grew up in Canton Glaris, a rural region of Central Switzerland.
Studied and trained in several fields, both at home and abroad.
 

1960 – 1963		 Fribourg/Switzerland
French studies and commercial diploma (Diplôme d’études commerciales)
 

1964		 Paris
Cours de Culture Française, Sorbonne
 

1964 – 1967		 London
University of Cambridge:
Certificate of Proficiency in English
Diploma of English Studies
 

1967 – 1969		 Zurich
Secretary in the administrative offices of the Burghoelzli University Psychiatric Clinic (then director: Prof. Dr. Manfred Bleuler)
1969 – 1971 Studies and diploma in art therapy
1971 Marries Gottlieb Guntern,
a psychiatrist and systems scientist, special adviser, creativity researcher and author of non-fiction and fiction books (www.gottlieb.guntern.org)
 

1972 – 1973
Lausanne/Switzerland
Art therapist at a psychiatric outpatient clinic
1974 – 1976 Embarks on her career as a visual artist (drawing, painting, photography)
Accepted as a member of GSMBA (Swiss association of painters, sculptors and architects)
First group exhibitions
In collaboration with Gottlieb Guntern:
Two group experiments with artists, dealing with creativity and dynamic group processes
 


1976 – 1978		 USA
Philadelphia/PA, New York, California, New Mexico
Development of a new visual language (Syngenetics)
Multimedia project with an art and TV class at Wissahikon High School, Philadelphia
Presentation of a multimedia show at the Chestnut Theater in Philadelphia
Presentation of a multimedia show at the University of Columbus, Ohio

In collaboration with Gottlieb Guntern: Development of concepts and strategies for a medical pilot project in Switzerland.
 

1978 – 1989		 Valais/Switzerland
In collaboration with Gottlieb Guntern:
Structural development and organisation of an integrated psychiatric centre for inpatient-outpatient therapy
Concept and development of a video studio and database for recording therapy sessions
1979 In collaboration with Gottlieb Guntern:
Launch of CREANDO - International Foundation for Creativity and Leadership
Main activities:
Scientific research
Post-graduate teaching programmes in systems science and systems therapy. Staging of international symposia
 

1980 – 1988		 Brig/Switzerland
4 international, transdisciplinary symposia on:
Systems Therapy - General Systems Science - Auto-Organization in Living and Non-Living Systems - The Neurobiology and Anthropology of Altered States of Consciousness
 

1990 – 2002		 Zermatt/Switzerland
12 International Zermatt Symposia (www.creando.org)
Creative Leadership in Economics, Arts and Science
 

2003		 Interlaken/Switzerland
1 International CREANDO Symposium Creative Leadership in Economics, Arts and Science
 
2004 In collaboration with Bettina Mattia, Manager Internet Art Gallery:
Launch of an Internet Gallery for own creative work
Continuous development of activities of the CREANDO foundation
 
2005 Exhibitions of own work in the Internet Gallery
 

Creative art delights the senses and stimulates the mind.

Human beings have a biological need for beauty and spiritual nourishment. And they have a biological need to express themselves creatively. Deprived of beauty and the stimulating spiritual sustenance of the products of creativity, human beings and culture become impoverished.

Art, a dynamic unity
Genuine creative work is an integral part of life. The real challenge for a creative individual is to find unity in diversity: to weave the individual threads of personal life experience, knowledge and professional skill into a single, coherent tapestry.

Where this synthesis is achieved, the resulting creative work is
. unique
. fulfils its true function
. is beautiful and
. generates values for society
(Gottlieb Guntern: The four criteria of creativity)

 

Greta Guntern-Gallati's art work radiates a pulsating energy born of the interplay of perfect lines and subtle shadings of colour. Her drawings and paintings are a flurry of lines darting through space and time, converging into organic shapes or crystallising into abstract force fields. They reveal the secret of the mysterious interactions and causal connections at the heart of all becoming and passing away.

The artist sits at the loom of her existence, weaving the threads of interpersonal and artistic experience into a multi-dimensional tapestry. The resulting patterns and shapes unite the concepts and expressive means of art and science into an organic whole. The weaving process proves an inexhaustible source of new ideas and energy.

As a photographer, she is quick and spontaneous, with a precise eye for ephemeral moments in human and animal life.

International CREANDO Symposia
Greta Guntern-Gallati has served as programme director of the annual international CREANDO Symposia for the past 25 years. In the course of her activities in the context of CREANDO International Foundation for Creativity and Leadership, she has met many highly creative members of the business, arts and science communities, among them numerous Nobel laureates. Quite a number of these people have become personal friends, giving rise to a network of international relationships that has matured into a mutually inspiring and motivating leadership process.
www.creando.org

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