Spirituality Has Long Been Erased From Art History. Here’s Why It’s Having a Resurgence Today With an Agnes Pelton show on the horizon at the Whitney, we investigate the trend for spiritually-minded art. What to do when, in the words… Continue Reading
The Artist Who Embraced the Occult and Defied the Surrealists British artist Ithell Colquhoun’s uncanny paintings are full of androgynous gods, murderous goddesses, yoni-like fruit, and disembodied, fleshy parts floating across hallucinatory, dreamlike landscapes. “My life is uneventful, but I sometimes… Continue Reading
The Haitian Surrealists That History Forgot This month, an exhibition dedicated to Haitian artists working between the 1940s and 1960s, “Art + Revolution in Haiti,” will be on view at various locations in London. The Gallery of Everything—an idiosyncratic dealer mounting concurrent presentations… Continue Reading
following from Amy Hale’s excellent interview introducing Ithell Colquhoun I thought to share a recent article that she had written on Ithell which gives further insight into this incredible woman and her work. BWH Hawks Nested in Her Hair The… 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
Decad of Intelligence Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) has frequently been considered solely as a footnote to the history of British Surrealism, but her contributions to the development of twentieth-century esoteric art and theory are now being more widely recognised. Despite a… Continue Reading
The Guardian Culture shorts featured a small video on the search for Leonora Carrington by her cousin. Carrington’s work was featured in the ‘Language of the Birds: Occult and Art’. Leonora Carrington escaped a stultifying Lancashire childhood to run off with Max Ernst… Continue Reading
FULGUR’s account of the performance of Ithel Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence On the evening of December 16th, 2016, the inaugural performance of Ithell Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence echoed through the vast and visceral working space of the Slade Research Centre, London.… Continue Reading
ART : Esoteric and Arcane X The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus and GalleryX are pleased to present this landmark exhibition of international esoteric and arcane art, curated by Dolorosa de la Cruz This is not only the first event… Continue Reading
The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus & Gallery X present this landmark exhibition of international esoteric and arcane art. 9th Sept 2016 – 24th of Sept This is not only the first event of this kind for Ireland, but also… Continue Reading