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1. Wellspring of Golden Dust (Wang Wei and Pei Di)
Tang Dynasty poet, painter, and musician Wang Wei produces through his
poetic technique an artifact whose contemplation can itself be an ecstatic
Zen experience. Sudden knowledge however leads to grief, measured by movement
from one time of pain into another. Contextualization occurs through allusion
to Buddhist, Taoist or poetic texts.
Wang Wei transfers to his own spiritual experience the legendary trip
of the Queen Mother of the West towards the jade Emperor. He explores
the landscape of Taoist inner alchemy where the cultivation of stillness
results in activeless activity. Word and symbolic image are objectified
in Pei Di's response quatrain. Pictographs, poems, and etchings mix lights
and darkness: a shared vision of a book which unfolds to reveal a rich
textural world, probing of line, and interrogation of language.
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2. The Artist's Gaze
Portfolio of dry point etchings
by Stefan Arteni.
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3. Studio
Portfolio of dry point etchings
by Stefan Arteni.
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4. The Monster After Hegel (Rodney Phillips)
Author derives from auctor, he who augments.
Language is the precinct, templum. The poet is blessed with a singular,
almost hallucinatory imagination, balancing convention and control,
on the one hand, and spontaneity, on the other.
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5. Homeric Hyms
The project is a visual exploration of the anthropology of myth and ritual and their survival in the psyche.
The thought structure and behaviour pattern of ancient ritual and custom are still, due to cultural
transmission and imprinting, apparent among European peasants. The art of poetry and the recitation
become part of every festival. Speaking about gods is speaking in a highly stylized, artificial language
never spoken at any other time, and generally associated with mimic and dancing.
The Hymns are preludes to longer epics, usually as part of a solemn recitation.
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6. Mythology / From the Fragments (Daniel Simko)
We feel our real life to be a deformation - sometimes greater, sometimes
less - of our possible life. We are shipwrecked in our own existence.
Our times form our destiny. The present, in which the past is summarized,
is that portion of fate which intervenes in life. We remember the past
because we are awaiting the future. But today, because of historical ignorance,
man feels himself to be only a crippled fragment: while history moves,
the stillwaters are made swift.
Making is in greek, poiesis. Cultivating and caring - colere,
Cultura - are a kind of building. To be a poet in a destitute time
means to attend to the traces of history that are often inconspicuous,
like the owl, the bird with ever-dazzled eyes, watches the darkness.
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7. A book that was never written:
The fragments of Attila's meditations on the Roman wars
for the first time unearthed, published in a single copy,
and rendered into English by Sol Invictus with numerous drawings, maps,
and
adnotations by the author, and followed by the commentary of general Aetius.
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8. Haikus (Kobayashi Issa)
Sumi monotypes by Stefan Arteni.
Accordion/scroll format.
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9. Decreated Icons
Mixed media monotypes by Stefan Arteni. Portfolio format.
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10. Apollo and Marsyas
Mixed media monotypes by Stefan Arteni. Portfolio format.
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11. Poems (Martin Heidegger)
Calligraphy by Stefan Arteni on marbled paper. Handscroll format.
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12. Tempo Venne (Re Enzo)
The apocalyptic conception of knighthood as mystes, and milites
dei which arose around the time of the Crusades converged in courtly
romance and poetry (minnesong, canzone), developed in the
context of the imperial court of
Frederic II, stupor mundi. It is the time of Saint Francis, Leonardo
Fibonacci, Michael Scott, Reginald and James of Aquino, and the princes/
poets: Enzo, Manfred, Frederic of Antioch, Conradin.
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13. Apocalypse
These things never happened, but are always.
Sallust
The eschatologial expectation and final ekpyrosis is a descriptio
mundi inversi (Ollson), a revitalization and reinterpretation of mythic
material aiming to codify or restore cultural identities through revelatory
systems of ideas: the evil seven in Akkadian incantation texts; the seven
sons of heaven and earth against Thebes, each assigned his special destructive
fate; Virgil on Octavianus: "the great cycle of eras is born anew"; the
Book of Daniel based on the Greek concept of a succession of world empires,
the doctrine of the four emperors reinterpreted in an apocalyptic fashion.
For Herodotus apocalypto means "to uncover".
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14. Collage Albums
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