Sex and spirit: the many faces of ecstasy The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila (1647-52) by 17th-century Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of the most famous images of the Baroque period. Located in the Cornaro Chapel, Church… Continue Reading
ALL IN ALL. The conceptual world of the mystic philosopher Jacob Boehme One of the most important German thinkers, the philosopher and mystic Jacob Böhme (1575 – 1624) made an impact on literature, philosophy, religion and art that resonated… Continue Reading
Art as Exorcism – ‘AfroPunk’ – Kendell Geers from the press release “Nothing could be more logical: Geers is a realist in precisely the sense intended by Courbet, which is to say, an artist who means to represent material forces… Continue Reading
Darcilio Lima (1944 – 1991, Brazillian) rises from obscurity. The oddessy the art of Darcilio Lima has taken, from the first solo exhibition of a ten year old boy at his school to the world’s greatest museums, is the… Continue Reading
NIGHT of the WITCHES Join Cynthia Crosse and Pam Grossman @ OCCULTURE: Dark Arts Exhibition who will be speaking about Rosaleen Norton on the centenary of her Birth. It is so fantastic to see Rosaleen Norton’s life… Continue Reading
THEATRE of the VOID After the prestigious Tate Liverpool, BOZAR welcomes the exhibition of the renowned French artist Yves Klein in the spring of 2017. Klein, famous for his ultramarine monochromes, produces works that are interpretations of his ideas on spiritual… Continue Reading
V.V.V.V.V. The work debuted 14th-16th July, 2017 ev. at the Huon Valley Midwinter Festival in Tasmania and saw 16, 000 people over three days. Inspired by verses from the Holy Books of Thelema the first of a series of installations… Continue Reading
FILIPINO PROTECTIVE TATTOOS ORASYON Protective Tattoos of the Philiiphines have always fascinated me, I first came across the talismanic undergarments, magical amulets ‘Agimat’ which contained Christian Magical Formula and composed of Letters and phrase with emblematic pictorial motifs and esoteric… Continue Reading
William Mortensen (1897 – 1965) – “A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft and Demonology” The complete 1924 series. On view at the Museum of Old and New in Tasmania through 2018 courtesy of The Museum of Everything. from LEXICON MAG William… Continue Reading
A Visually Incredible Black Magic Compendium from FULGUR Touch Me Not! Like a Bosch painting, the pages of Touch Me Not! – an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts – teem with a bizarre host of threatening, misshapen demons. Clad… Continue Reading