Voodoo: Hoochie Coochie and the Creative Spirit
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Jean-Michel Basquiat + Louise Bourgeois + Francis Bacon + Chosil Kil
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 -
Saturday, 14 March 2009
Riflemaker Contemporary Art, 79 Beak Street, Soho, W1F 9SU
Exhibitions: , Art, Sculpture, Painting, Gallery, Installation, Drawing, Performance Art
How Much:
Free!
Wow, this sounds brilliant! A multimedia multi-sensory extravaganza at Riflemaker, exploring ideas of Voodoo; and specifically the loss of individual identity induced by intense acts of creativity.
This idea is not specific to Voodoo (it crops up a lot in Romanticism particularly) and the sheer range of names involved (more or less directly) in the exhibition hints at the universality of the desire to move beyond the self.
There's music, art and text by (among others): Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Loise Bourgeois, William Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Le Corbusier, John Fowles, Chosil Kil, Messiaen, Rachmaninov, Shakespeare, Frank Sinatra, Stravinsky, Muddy Waters, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.
Phew! Pretty amazing huh?
For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant
Which few dare unbar, because dread Og & Anak guard the gates
Terrific: and each mortal brain is wall'd and moated round
Within, and Og & Anak watch here.
As William Blake once said...
Until 14.03.09.
This idea is not specific to Voodoo (it crops up a lot in Romanticism particularly) and the sheer range of names involved (more or less directly) in the exhibition hints at the universality of the desire to move beyond the self.
There's music, art and text by (among others): Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Loise Bourgeois, William Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Le Corbusier, John Fowles, Chosil Kil, Messiaen, Rachmaninov, Shakespeare, Frank Sinatra, Stravinsky, Muddy Waters, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.
Phew! Pretty amazing huh?
For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant
Which few dare unbar, because dread Og & Anak guard the gates
Terrific: and each mortal brain is wall'd and moated round
Within, and Og & Anak watch here.
As William Blake once said...
Until 14.03.09.
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