Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

“Escherotic Ecstasies” at Gallery X, Dublin

8-23 September 2023

New works exploring Dionysian ecstasy – the ‘splitting open of the head’ to release magical visions and epiphanies, by the acclaimed Australian multimedia artist.

Opening event on Thursday 7 September at 6PM

In the presence of the artist, who will give a presentation about the Magic of Language and Image, in relation to his new book ‘Esezezus’, as well as our familiar cohort of amazing and misfit humans

Special Culture Night event on 22 September (see below)

“Sylvantica” -oils, egg tempera, copper leaf and moss on canvas. 73cm x 59cm

“My intention is to make the world a bit stranger and more beautiful. To increase awareness of the connectivity of all spheres of life on this planet. To perpetuate the embodiment of the Divine.”

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule read full interview here

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule read full interview here

“Sun of the New Flesh” -pen and pencil on cartridge paper. 29.5cm x 42cm

“Hermes Navigating the Seas of Chaos” – Collaboration with Melissa Shemanna. Pencils pen & moonblood on paper. 58cm x 58cm

From the GALLERY X information release:

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is an esoteric artist active in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. He is the writer-director of Australian-originating Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented many major original productions based in (and updating/mutating) various ancient mythos. Author-Artist of ‘Esezezus’, a book on and of the Magic of Language (Grayle Press 2023) with accompanying album, the Tela Quadrivium book web from Fulgur Press (Conjunctio 2008, Coagula 2009, Solve 2012, Distillatio 2015), Time, Fate and Spider Magic (Avalonia Books 2014) and The Book of Kaos Tarot (iNSPiRALink.Multimedia Press 2003)

Orryelle is interested in the ensoulment of objects through aesthetic obsession; the merging of mental, spiritual and emotional relationships with creativity, in the vanguard of the current resurgence of the esoteric in art with its processes of re-enchantment.

“Argos” —semi-digital painting, limited signed giclee print on canvas with gold leaf tinting. 50cm x 75cm

In Escherotic Ecstasies, Orryelle presents new works exploring Dionysian ecstasy – the ‘splitting open of the head’ to release magical visions and epiphanies. Erotic embodiment is a theme winding through the diverse collection, with some works blurring the boundaries between three-dimensional forms and two-dimensional representations thereof, the results bending perceptions with a nod to M. C. Escher’s similar explorations of negative space and dimensional distortion. Esoteric drawings (many from his new book Esezezus), oil paintings and sculptures (in bronze, wood and clay) express the carousel of enchantment resulting from the sundered flesh revealing magical forms within…

Detail of “Dionysos” -oils, egg tempera, copper leaf, pinecone, latex, golden thread on:in canvas. 70cm x 90xm

“The Red King Plants the Stang” -pencil on cartridge paper. 42cm 28.8cm

On Opening Night Orryelle will give a presentation about the Magic of Language and Image, in relation to his new book ‘Esezezus’ (Grayle Press 2023). Although partly a talk, the speaker will employ poetry from the book and even at times chanting (with overtones and undertones) and song with violin, also breaking into glossolalia to self-referentially express the more vibrational aspects of language.

Orryelle will also be the protagonist of GalleryX’s contribution to Culture Night 2023 on Friday 22 September. Booking is required.

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule read full interview here

Details of the evening:

5PM: SKIN SURFACE SUBSTANCE – live performance by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

What is (/on) the surface, what is below the surface, what is substantial and what is essential?

Interacting with an art installation, Orryelle explores illusions of depth in surfaces, to pry open what lies ‘within’. Employing Butoh dance, ritual theatre and live music, the nature of the body, image and substance will be explored.

7PM: Projection of the feature film “SOLVE ET COAGULA”

Three years in the making, SOLVE et COAGULA is writer-director Orryelle’s first feature-length film, an EsotErotic, Surreal and psychedelic journey of re-enchantment.With a weird mix of contemporary subculture and ancient archetypes its central message of the reintegration of spirit and matter, mind and body is pertinent in our disconnected times…

In addition to the dance peformance and film screening, Orryelle will be performing some other live music with voice (inc. throat-singing) and violin through loops and FX, in styles ranging from neo-classical to experimental.

This will include a music and movement ritual to celebrate the Autumn Equinox this night.