WNYC March 14, 2012 This Week: Must - See Arts in the City By Carolina A. Miranda Hernan Bas,
Occult Contemporary, at Lehmann Maupin in Chelsea.
The gallery states «drawing from his interest in the supernatural, Hernan Bas's
Occult Contemporary responds to the recent proliferation of the occult in the mass media with a presentation of new paintings depicting a representation of the devil based on traditional texts and folklore.»
Titled
Occult Contemporary, the show is a neo-romantic fantasy that shouldn't be missed.
Modern Painters Daily March 14, 2012 Tomorrow: «
Occult Contemporary» in Chelsea By Modern Painters «
Occult Contemporary,» the title of Detroit - based artist Hernan Bas's exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, is a spin on «adult contemporary,» the term used to describe light pop music.
Hernan Bas
Occult Contemporary 15 March — 21 April 2012 540 West 26th Street «The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist» - Charles Pierre Baudelaire Lehmann Maupin Gallery is pleased to present Hernan Bas,
Occult Contemporary, on view 15 March — 21 April 2012, at 540 West 26th Street.
Drawing from his interest in the supernatural, Hernan Bas's
Occult Contemporary responds to the recent proliferation of the occult in mass media with a presentation of new paintings depicting a representation of the devil based on traditional texts and folklore.
Not exact matches
And Berger finds in his study of
contemporary transcendence that the «current
occult wave (including the devil component) is to be understood as resulting from the repression of transcendence in modern consciousness.
We're going to lead off with very
contemporary and gritty vampire story called One Night Stand that will lead into weird mini-series that involves murder, the
occult and other evil things.
Tucson, AZ, Museum of
Contemporary Art Tucson, Blessed Be: Spirituality, Mysticism, and the
Occult in
Contemporary Art, September 8 — December 31, 2018
Language of the Birds:
Occult and Art considers over 60 modern and
contemporary artists who have each expressed their own engagement with magical practice.
Beginning with Aleister Crowley's trance portraiture and Austin Osman Spare's automatic drawing of the early 20th century, the exhibition traces over 100 years of
occult art, including Leonora Carrington and Kurt Seligmann's surrealist explorations, Kenneth Anger and Ira Cohen's ritualistic experiments in film and photography, and the mystical probings of
contemporary visionaries such as Francesco Clemente, Kiki Smith, Paul Laffoley, BREYER P - ORRIDGE, and Carol Bove.
Drawing from both
contemporary and historical intersections between science and the
occult, Gómez - Egaña's work also explores the relationship between technology and mysticism, and the emotional and spiritual undertones of digital culture.
To look at spirituality in such secular times is a provocation in itself, and the exhibition traces and questions the genesis of deep religious, mystical and
occult beliefs that continue to shape the ideas of
contemporary artists today.
Recent independent curatorial projects include: CORPORATE
OCCULT, let's talk about the body baby, NU Performance (2016), which presented works by international artists that dealt with
contemporary issues surrounding gender and the body; Art in the Era of Digital Capitalism (2016), a conference considering the tendencies of acceleration and post-2011 institutional alternatives, which included Franco Bifo Beradi as its keynote speaker; and numerous others.
Earlier this year P.S. 1 in Queens and the New Museum of
Contemporary Art in SoHo organized exhibitions that revealed mystical and occult pockets within conte
Contemporary Art in SoHo organized exhibitions that revealed mystical and
occult pockets within
contemporarycontemporary art.
The show explored notions such as magic, folklore, mysticism, mythology and the
occult in historical British Surrealist art as well as in numerous
contemporary works.
This initial research into these fringe practices of media histories and
occult phenomenon led Oursler further into ideas of speculative thought, the boundaries of science, the use of the spectacular, which resonate with
contemporary pop culture.
It will trace and question the genesis of deep religious, mystical and
occult beliefs that continue to shape the ideas of
contemporary artists today.