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Arthur Cravan Meeting Aleister Crowley in Abbey of Thelema in Celfalu, Sicily for a Secret Talk
by Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz
Centre, the island is a rock: split, poised on the horizon, buoyed by a teeming ocean, weighed by a realm of flight and lightning. The rock, grey and constellated, is the stilted foundation of the magician’s incongruous abbey: a holiday home in Gargantua where you shall do what thou wilt. Right, stands a cloaked figure with Alexandrine nose and pursed lips, pointing a limp, creative finger toward the rock, amid bugs, beasts, blades, bats, birds, butterflies, balloons, winged transsexual creatures, carpets, kites, saucers, stars, smoke, planes, worms. Left, stands a six-foot, naked woman, muscular stand-in for the missing legend, a craven colossus, poet, art-critic and championship boxer with pink labia and target breasts. At her feet, the sea serpents and sunken wrecks, jellyfish, starfish, swordfish, refugee ships, crabs, anemones, urchins and lost anchors. Inscribed above: Made in London, England, country of infinite piracy and devilish greed. Drawing for the exchange with the enemy. 2006. Art versus New World Art Order. Ink & watercolors. Inscribed below: Arthur Cravan Meeting Aleister Crowley in Abbey of Thelema in Celfalu, Sicily for a Secret Talk, 2006.
Ink and watercolour on paper, 570 x 772 mm
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