SAMUEL GALILEO QUINTEROS

Neidhöhle (Envy-Hole)

Fountain III (Eternal Return)

Fountain II (Axis Mundi)

Fountain I (Hieros Gamos) 

Prelude to Hieros Gamos

It's not often that we talk about silent paintings in a program about experimental music. However tonight you'll meet a young Sydney painter for whom Wagner is a central influence. Samuel Quinteros is currently exhibiting a series of paintings inspired by The Ring Cycle at Galerie pompom.

Interview with Samuel Quinteros about his exhibition Wotan, erwache! at Galerie pompom, presented by Julian Day

Courtesy New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM

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If you’re like everybody else, you’ve had enough of the biennale format for a while. Chasing various box-ticking curatorial flights of fancy around town and being disappointed gets old fast, and Sneaky has the remedy: Good, Old-fashioned painting. Jonathan McBurnie refreshes his angry brain with the paintings of two of the best: Samuel Quinteros and Miles Hall.

From Stella Rosa McDonald... After condemning modern art as “feminine” and finding too much fault with his detractors, 19th century German composer Wagner denounced the name of opera and instead adopted the title of “Dramas” for his librettos and scores. The first of these was to be the epic Ring Cycle ...

Schwurwissender Eideshort / Nachthüter (Oath-witness and lord of vows / Guardian of night)