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Previously exhibited as part of the Traces du Sacred exhibition at the Pompidou Centre and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, it comprises work from Crowley's three areas of focus: portraiture, landscape and magical or trance paintings, providing a rare glimpse into Crowley's most active period as a painter and an insight into the unique ideas which have long remained ignored by the mainstream art establishment.
With curatorial support from Marco Pasi (Amsterdam University) and Giuseppe Di Liberti (Palermo University, Sicily), The Nightmare Paintings is presented in Australia by Buratti Fine Art and will tour Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
A full colour catalogue is also available featuring essays by Marco Pasi, Giuseppe Di Liberti, Stephen J King, William Breeze, Tobias Churton and Robert Buratti.
Excellent article in the (Australian) Financial Review...
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page’s people have been in touch, as have Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s.
Perth gallerist Robert Buratti won’t talk about the other customers for his next show – actual and potential – other than to say they include “prominent international and local business figures”.
But even before the November 30 opening night, he has sold $200,000 of the $500,000 total for the 13 works by magician, occultist and all round bad boy Aleister Crowley, variously known in his early 20th-century heyday as “the Great Beast and “the wickedest man in the world”.
The show, which will travel to Sydney next year, is the latest in a flurry of idiosyncratic exhibitions looking to mop up excess cash riding around the wealthy west.
Perth property developer Nigel Satterley recently showed fashionable Australian artist Tim Maguire in a Peppermint Grove mansion renovated for the purpose, a follow up to his 2012 Jeffrey Smart show, at which more than $4 million worth of work changed hands.
Painted during Crowley’s time in the 1920s in Sicily, where he founded the Abbey of Thelema – “a sort of occult boot camp,” says Burratti, the works were studies for the now rotting frescoes that covered the central room, decorated for initiations, of what looked more like a peasant’s cottage than an abbey.
Borderline naive and about as terrifying as a kid’s drawing, only a particularly potent magic – or Crowley’s other favourite, drugs – could have transformed the works into what he intended: an alternative Sistine Chapel. But while the art itself is a bit “hit and miss”, Burratti says they have already attracted interest internationally, not least from devoted Crowley followers such as Page. He has bought everything from Crowley’s clothes and manuscripts to his former estate, Boleskine House, on Loch Ness in Scotland down the years, and once described Page as “a misunderstood genius”. (Crowley’s rockstar cred was famously cemented by his appearance on the cover of The Beatles’ St Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band – alongside Mae West).
From an interview with Zakk Wylde in Rock Cellar Magazine...
Dude, I have to tell you a funny story.
A while back, Ozzy comes into my studio and he sees these posters on the wall. He looks at the Led Zeppelin one and starts telling me some stories about John Bonham and how they would get f****d up together in the bars.
An astonishing artwork - Aleister Crowley and Rose Kelly in the Cairo Museum 1904
Reproduced by kind permission of the artist © Mitchell Nolte
The owner and editor of LAShTAL.COM has started to sell items from his archive. Profits from all sales will be used towards the hosting and development costs of the site.
Set up a regular search for eBay user 'Ankhefenkhons' on eBay UK to see the items.
Auctions will receive a brief mention in the Forums and appear in the sidebar of most pages on the site.
A group of Thelemic Enthusiasts, for the first time in Macedonia, are organizing a Lecture on Qabalah, Ceremonial Magick, Thelema and its sociological & artistic aspects.
“Thelema 102” will be taking place in Macedonia’s capital Skopje, and is scheduled for the 10th of November 2012 e.v. from 17h until 20h GMT+1.
This lovely bunch of Thelemites is comprised of Marko Milenović (Serbia), talking about Hermetic Qabalah and it's comparison to the Orthodox Kabbalah as well as its practical applications in Western Occultism; Stojan Nikolić discussing the fundamental principles of Ceremonial Magick; Vera Nikolić giving an introductory speech about Thelema, its development and basic tenets; Bojan Antić will be focusing mainly on the socio-political aspects of Thelema , while Kiril Stoilkov will show how Thelema has informed the various Art-forms and Media with an emphasis on Occulture.
Dr David Shoemaker Lectures in Los Angeles:
Friday, November 9, 7:30pm (Doors open at 7pm for early arrivals.)
Location: Artworks Theatre and Studios, 6569 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Admission donation: $15 (All proceeds support the non-profit purposes of the College of Thelema of Northern California, and the Temple of the Silver Star.)
In this entertaining presentation, Dr Shoemaker will show how the Trumps of the Thoth Tarot illustrate the various tasks, challenges and transformative processes awaiting the aspirant on the path toward awakened spiritual consciousness, known in Thelemic tradition as the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. He will then discuss the Adept's journey toward the inevitable ordeal of the "Abyss".
Dr Shoemaker will also present a brief overview of the life and legacy of Soror Meral (Phyllis Seckler), whose writings he has recently co-edited. A limited number of copies of Seckler's books will be available for sale and signing.
A new book on Jules Jacot Guillarmod, the mountaineer and photograph of the Himalaya expeditions of 1902 and 1905, led by Oscar Eckenstein and Aleister Crowley respectively, has been published: PIONIER AM K2 (in German) or PIONNIER DU K2 (in the French original).
It's an amazing account of the adventures with nearly 200 fascinating photographs. Especially interesting to the members of this site will be the inclusion of quite a few extraordinary and never before seen photographs of Crowley, Jacot Guillarmod and Eckenstein, as well as of the other members of the parties, like De Righi, Reymond, Pache and others. As an extra there also photos of Guillarmod's visit at Boleskine (one even showing Crowley's ill-fated daughter Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith sitting on Crowley's desk in his Boleskine study) and Crowley visiting Guillarmod in France. The book also quotes extensively from Guillarmod's journals, quite interesting when compared to Crowley's accounts in his Confessions.
Check out the publisher's web page. There you will find an interactive extract which already depicts one of the most amazing Crowley portraits ever seen.
One of Thelema Now's favorites makes another visit. Lon Milo DuQuette talks about his music project "I'm Baba Lon" and explains the origins of a few of the songs.
You'll get to hear some complete songs, too! Enjoy!