The artist interweaves allegorical narratives, associative color, and spiritual iconography,
including alchemical signs, I Ching hexagrams, Tarot icons, the secret language of flowers, and Viking runes.
In his often grandly scaled works, Kiefer intertwines a complex range of subjects,
including alchemical treatises; Nordic, Greek, Egyptian, and early Christian mythology; and mystical Jewish texts, often relating such subjects to modern, particularly German, history.
Not exact matches
Descriptions of her designs for
alchemical and chemical equipment were
included in Egyptian encyclopedias compiled in the third century A.D.
He started by building replicas of
alchemical furnaces and glassware,
including distilling apparatus, with the help of Indiana University's chemistry department.
Over time and over your healing journey, you may find that your wound closes, and that the places you empowered with your pain —
including alcohol — may have a very different
alchemical effect or none at all.
They also
include an introduction,
alchemical glossary, editorial practices, and symbol guide.
As has become accustomed in the industry, those who pre-order Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings from select retailers or online via Steam will get various DLC bonuses,
including: costumes inspired from legacy alchemists Marie and Erie, an item set full of useful
alchemical ingredients, and battle - themed music.
Recent group exhibitions
include Esma» / Listen at Beirut Art Center (2016); Bitter Sweet Symphony, Untilthen, Paris (2016), Paris, Co-Workers, Bétonsalon, Paris (2015); Some Artists» Artists at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2014); The Artist's Institute, New York, NY (2014); Art of Its Own Making at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MI (2014); The String and the Mirror, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY (2013);
Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY (2013); and Sound Spill, Zabludowicz Collection, New York, NY (2013).
The exhibition also
includes a projection displaying the items on sale once again at Ebay, in order to emphasize the constraint of the project as well as the origins of these objects subjected to «
alchemical» transformation by the artists.
The broken Moebius strips of his sculptures employ wet jesmonite to absorb gestural passages of paint, the impress of corrugated card, and printed imagery
including kimono patterns,
alchemical symbols, and the artist's own digital photographs of forest landscapes.
The interlocked hermetic imagery of Commander Salamander (2017)
includes a collaged reproduction of the titular character (an important
alchemical figure) combined with a piece of fabric printed with wavy mushrooms (more psychedelic than edible), an inverted color reproduction of two robed medieval Christian elders in a boat, and a separately painted and affixed upside - down vibrant red cardinal (perhaps punning on the Pope's henchmen)-- all of them scattered across a canvas painted with some of the loopiest brushstrokes in the show.
Dark Matters collective — artists Amie Burg, Frank De-Leon Jones and Anna Ritsch — explores the intangible aspects of the natural world,
including the spiritual,
alchemical and mystical.
Inventions born from
alchemical laboratories
include metal alloys for sculpture and ornament, oil paints, effects in glassmaking, and even the chemical baths of photography.
I can hear only half the conversation, but I gather they are talking about the balance of the
alchemical elements Jared is
including in his exhibition.