Rosa Rosenberg (1921-1979) ...Venus (Eva 69) oil on canvas

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) ... Transfer of meaning, lithograph 1949

 "What is at stake here is a totally new unity of form, meaning and feeling: language-images that cannot simply be thought up or written up … They constitute new, multifaceted objects, resembling polyplanes made of mirrors … As if the illogical was relaxation, as if laughter was permitted while thinking, as if error was a way and chance, a proof of eternity.”

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) ... Figure with moon, print

Leonora Carrington (1917– 2011) ... Untitled, oil, lace, sewing thread and metal wire on canvas 1959

Anonymous...Erotica, Felix Lukkow engraver, 1875

Henri Jules Ferdinand Bellery Desfontaines (1867 - 1910) ...The Flame, charcoal and pastel on paper

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)... Santuario, oil on canvas, 1966

René Portocarrero (1912-1986) ~ Santa Barbara, oil on canvas 1962

Jan Sluijters (1885-1957)... Nocturne, drawing 1904

Richard Roland Holst (1868-1938) .., Lucifer, a coloured lithographed poster 1910

Roland Topor (1938-1997)...Untitled, drawing ,illustration for Epikon 1977

Nemes Török János (1900-1980) ... Ex libris eroticis, woodcut

Joan Ponç (1927-1984 ) ...Angels, drawing, gouache, graphite pencil, pastel crayon and ink on paper 1951

Clara Siewert (1862-1945) ... The Apotheosis of a Witch (A Witch on Pegasus)

Viktor Schufinsky (1876-1947)...Mythical Creature with Red Heart, woodcut, 1914

Oskar Pafka (1896-1949) ...Femina Satanus - oil painting on plywood 1935

Wilhelm Laage (1868-1930) ...Final, woodcut 1899

The woodcut with its dark masses, with its "face" striving out of chaos to the light, simple, simple and yet immensely strong in the language, I needed, and jubilantly I clung to him as he said to me: "Take Me, I will help you to express what is raging and roaring within you. " Like a demon, he always stood before me and drove me to restless work. Soon I realized its value for my art. WL 1917

Born today... Erté, November 23, 1892, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... Le Triomphe de la femme, Eve, gouache on paper

Born today... Jose Clemente Orozco, 23 November 1883, Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico

image: detail from mural, Gods Of The Modern World - The Epic Of American Civilization, 1932-1934 Hanover, United States

Born today...John Wallis, November 23, 1616, Ashford, United Kingdom. Mathematician and cryptographer who introduce the infinity symbol in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis. image: Pamela Colman Smith (1878 – 1951) illustration from the Waite Tarot

Mahlon Blaine (1894 – 1969)... The Spell, watercolour and ink

Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1882-1972)... Aquarius - study for the Signs of the Zodiac or ‘Gates of the Makara’, pencil and watercolour, 1949

Pieter Jalhea Furnius (1540ca - 1625)... Parable of the Sower, 1585

European Mannerist print ...16thc, Moon Goddess

Tyra Kleen (1874 - 1951) .. The phantom of the evanescence, lithograph,1907

Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona (1879 -1946) ... Uriel, torch of God, 1943.

Urn with Human Figure, Zapotec, Monte Alban, Mexico 300BCE-200CE

Dolorosa de la Cruz..Animus Covert...Tell me where they end, ink and acrylic on paper November 2016

A.N.G. ... Sunburst Peace Of Love , paint on cloth prison art

Vincent Sellaer (1490 – 1564) ... The Young Sorceress oil on canvas, date unknown

Dolorosa de la Cruz... Untitled drawing ink and pastel on paperNovember 2016

Johannes Sadeler Elder ...Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta ... Anachoretarum . 1593-94

Johann Michael of Loen ~ Bookplate,The only true religion 1751

Beresford Egan (1905-1984) ~ illustration for De Sade, Being a series of wounds, inflicted with Brush and Pen, upon Sadistic Wolves garbed in Masochists' Wool 1929

Franz von Stuck (1863 – 1928)... Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx, oil on canvas 1891

Monogrammisti VBL, VLS...17thc Six stories of Moses and the Creation of the Man

Genoese school, around 1620-40...A Female Satyr with three putti, oil on canvas

Roberto Matta (1911-2001) & Victor Brauner (1903-1966) ~ InnerVision, oil on canvas 1956

Thomas Theodor Heine (1867–1948) ~ Illustration to Knut Hamsun, Slaves of Love, 1902

Dolorosa de la Cruz ...for Nietzsche ~ "If Zeus don't charm" ~ Oct 2012 ~ pastel and pencil on paper. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche born today October 15, 1844, Röcken, Germany

Nelson Takkiruq (1930–1999) ...Double Shaman Drum Dancer, whale bone, stone 1989

Julien Adolphe-Duvocelle (1873-1961) ...Two Skulls, wash and charcoal 1898

Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) ... The Holder of the Cup, Mongolia 1937

Alberto Martini (1876-1954)... illustration for Edgar Allan Poe Poem

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1849)

image: Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe Poem by Alberto Martini (1876-1954)

Victor Brauner (1903 - 1966) ... Provocation, oil on canvas 1957

The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus show in Dublin! Opening night 9th of September at Gallery X

The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus & Gallery X present this landmark exhibition of international esoteric and arcane art. This is not only the first event of this kind for Ireland, but also the first time works by legendary figures such as Austin Osman Spare, Hans Bellmer, and Leonor Fini - amongst many others - will be exhibited in the country. 

Unrestricted by dogma or shared ideology, this exhibition encapsulates the vibrant and expansive scope of esoteric and ecstatic art, and shall afford the viewer a rare opportunity to be enchanted to the most exotic outer reaches of the imagination and the spirit.

Artists and performers:

Austin Osman Spare, George Russell (Æ), Nema Andahadna, Amodali Zain, Leonor Fini, Michael Bertiaux, Barry William Hale, Paul Holman, Val Denham, John Balance, Hans Bellmer, Peter Dyde, Roberto Milusic Migliussi, Wladd Muta, Andre Masson, Hagen von Tulien, Jon Witzky, Jónas Sen, Andrea Kundry, Julián Moguillansky, Edgar Kerval, Justin Lee Brown,Daniele Santagiuliana, Álvaro Barcala, Isabelle Gaborit, Alan Kostrenčić, Bogusia Matylda, Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos, Brian Conniffe, Charlie Martineau, Una Gildea, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule,Victoria Musson, Andreuch O Maonaigh, Damien Echols, Dolorosa De La Cruz, David Beth,Giona Vinti,  Bridget Penney and master of ceremony Graham Duff!

CULTURE NIGHT ~ GalleryX Culture Night 2016 at GalleryX

~ 16th September from 6.oopm

Poetry perfomances by Paul Holman and Bridget Penney 

Films by Carl Abrahamsson ~ Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and SUB UMBRA ALARUM LUNA (A tribute to Derek Jarman’s super-8-epic In the Shadow of the Sun)

GALLERY X

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Alfred Kubin (1877-1959)...The Spider, aquatone print ,1909

Paul Sérusier (1864 - 1927)... La méditation de Vasichta,oil on canvas 1913

Josef Váchal (1884 - 1969)....Zoology LL Roubal, watercolour and ink on paper 1947

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) ...Book inscription to A Winter, 'from your friend the painter of thorns and wings' 1951