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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part III
Heavenly Zo / INRI becomes ISO / Swabian and Lorraine Somnambulism Heavenly Zo Richard’s emblematic sexual symbolism originated in the theurgic Neoplatonic geometry of Alexandrian late antiquity and had found its way from there into Jewish mysticism and Hermeticism. The most famous example was the Seal of Solomon, the hexagram, which consisted in the interpenetration […]
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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part II
The Ichts / The Sator Arepo mechanism / Two Evas The Ichts When looking through these magic books, one is quickly confronted with the question of whether there was a system here that was comprehensible and decipherable, at least in parts, or whether it was an entirely idiosyncratic construct, a blooming nonsense, a crazy simulation […]
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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part I
From Alsace to Lorraine / The research / The book In 2010, three graphic grimoires from rural Lorraine popped up at a Strasbourg bookseller’s, whose peculiarity and intensity were astounding. A Richard from Kédange, today Kédange-sur-Canner, a town not far from the border with Saarland and about 30 km north of the capital of Lorraine, […]
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Frühpsychedelisches von Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Taut und Paul Goesch (Ausstellung / Katalog)
Not translated: Im Mittelpunkt dieser phantastischen Ausstellung der Berlinischen Galerie mit dem Titel Visionäre der Moderne, die von Annelie Lütgens kuratiert wurde, stehen Architekturvisionen und Zeichnungen dreier Utopisten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Paul Scheerbart: Ein Zukunftskind, ca. 1912 (Abb. Katalog) Der Schriftsteller, Dichter und Erfinder Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) konnte um 1914 den jungen Architekten Bruno […]
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The Flight to Egypt. Father and son Tiepolo vary a theme.
Not translated: Die Staatsgalerie Stuttgart besitzt ein relativ kleines Bild von Giambattista Tiepolo: „Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten“. Für einen ausgezeichneten Hof- und Freskomaler ist die Größe von nur 55,5 x 41,5 cm tatsächlich ungewöhnlich, zumal es sich hier nicht um einen Bozzetto, einen Fresko-Entwurf handelt, sondern um eins von vier überlieferten Gemälden […]
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The rehabilitation. Gustave Doré in Paris, Strasbourg and in Ottawa.
The profession of illustration and the disrepute it got into are both a product of 19th century industrialized journalism. The business´ high altitude flight as well as it´s crash are manifest in the work of one single person, the Alsatian graphic artist, painter and sculptor Gustave Doré (1832-1883). Along with Gustave Courbet he was the […]
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Porter / Re-porter: Blake revisited (Exhibition)
In the exhibition Porter/Re-porter, on view from 4 May to 22 September in the frame of “Cube. Sparda Art Award” at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Alexander Roob combines materials from the collection of the Melton Prior Institute with works of his own, including a longer excerpt from the eponymous CS drawing series created in London in […]
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Saul Leiter and Robert Weaver, an artistic dialogue
„We shared a lot of ideas and we liked a lot of the same things. (…) We had quite a bit in common beside from the fact that we were friends.“ (Saul Leiter) I: Street Scenes in Slumberland. II: On Robert Weaver. Alexander Roob in conversation with Saul Leiter. III: Robert Weaver: The Vogelman Diary […]
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Some Frightful War Pictures , London 1915
The art of William Heath Robinson can be qualified as an anarchic heightening of the inventions of the early masters of science fiction cartooning, of George Cruikshank and Albert Robida. In this collection of war cartoons, which appeared during the early stages of WWI, when the Trench warfare had just begun with its poison gas […]