Better late than never mentioning this exhibition which has been running at Riflemaker, 79 Beak Street, London, since mid-January.
The exhibition features those artists, writers and musicians who acknowledge the need to reach a heightened or ‘altered state’ in order to create their work. We look at the mystery of the creative act; not the inexplicable [...]
If book collecting is frequently a waiting game, some waiting periods can be longer than others. In the case of Mati Klarwein’s God Jokes, my patience and hope have sustained themselves for 28 years until I finally acquired a copy this Thursday afternoon. God Jokes was the second book of Mati Klarwein’s work, published by [...]
top left: Bob Pepper (1969); right: David Johnston (1974).
bottom left: Mati Klarwein (1972); right: Gervasio Gallardo (1972).
I wrote about the classic line of fantasy paperbacks in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series last year as part of the post about Bob Pepper’s illustration:
It was the success of the publication of The Lord of the Rings in [...]
Previous posts about fantastic, surreal or visionary artists.
• The art of Oleg Denysenko
• The art of François Schuiten
• The eyes of Odilon Redon
• Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists
• Franciszek Starowieyski, 1930–2009
• The art of Boris Indrikov
• The art of Mati Klarwein, 1932–2002
• The art of Pierre Clayette, 1930–2005
• The monstrous tome
• A Midsummer Night’s [...]
Many sounds have never been heard—by humans: some sound waves you don’t hear—but they reach you. “Storm-stereo” techniques combine singers, instrumentalists and complex electronic sound. The emotional intensity is at a maximum. Sleeve note for An Electric Storm, Island Records, 1969.
An Electric Storm by White Noise is reissued in a remastered edition this week. [...]
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