David Tibet discusses INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN (Some Gnostic Cartoons) #1

Filmed and directed by Nicholas Abrahams at Isis Gallery, London and at Hope Cottage, Hastings. December 2008 on the occasion of David Tibet's exhibition Invocation of Hallucinatory Mountain (Some Gnostic Cartoons).


Isis Gallery presents INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN (Some Gnostic Cartoons) by David Tibet

http://www.isisgallery.org/exhibitions/invocation_of_hallucinatory_mountain.html

Recent works on paper inspired by Apocryphal, Gnostic and Hallucinatory scriptures.


Private view: Friday 28th November 2008 6pm-8pm

29th November - 10th Jan 2009
11am-6pm Tuesday to Saturday


For INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN (Some Gnostic Cartoons), David Tibet will install a beguiling cycle of recent works on paper that have sprung from his intense study of scriptural and apocryphal Gnostic and Christian texts in the Coptic language as well as from his joyous exploration of the Canon of Apocalyptic Cartoons.

David Tibet's visionary drawings are those of the artist as scribe illuminating the contours and spaces of our shared spirit worlds. Tibet's work is profoundly magical in intention and it portrays and describes the dimensions of hallucinatory bodies and their worlds, where writing and image are both fluid and entwined. His drawings are child-like, playful and comical, as he continues his colouring in of the universes. In these spaces the hierarchy of human, animal and spirit forms is dissolved: masks dream of planets and grin at moons.

The imaginative world that Tibet gives form to is one in which writing and speech are divine, full of promises and threats. This investigation of word and form is rooted in his studies of the Coptic language, as well as in readings of ecstatic canonical and non-canonical Christian texts. However, these ideas are filtered through a uniquely English sensibility that places him in the tradition of such diverse figures as Enid Blyton, Aleister Crowley and Louis Wain. His idiosyncratic and passionate work shines an inmost light on the pleasures and horrors of the divine comedy that we all inhabit.

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[DarkHypocrisy]

One of the few religious people that i adore.

[giorgiomichello]

David Tibet--full respect. Almost 30 years of always interesting work. Hopefully there will be 30 more.

[DONOTPOSTHERE]

Prayer without ceasing, till you aren't even aware you're praying anymore.

All men are weak without God.

[raindog951]

Very interesting Man, and total respect for his ongoing search for the path!

[morelmm]

@inversedigestion But that's the main mistake that people can make about God. everyone who seeks real, alive God in our world (not in books or philosophy, except Bible) can see this.God's compassion is greater than His justice. He doesn't want anybody to go to hell, or to suffer on Earth, but He gives us free will. He loves us so much that He respects our freedom. Choice is ours. Here in Poland we have many great witnesses for that, but all in polish language, so i can't show it to You :(

[Maldoror418]

@ threedotsandadash. Yeah, he was sometimes apocalypse focussed, but not all of the time. He once sang "this is our Law, and the Law of the strong.." It seems like something has happened in his life to make him like this. I've not kept track of what he has been up to, but can anyone advise? He's like an iconoclast confessing to all of his sins in order to be absolved, having previously avowed that it was "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven". Sad...

[threedotsandadash]

@Maldoror418 Never thought you'd "see him praying / talking about praying" or "harping on about apocalyptic 'crap' like this"? I am truly at a loss. I'd like to be shown a time where Mr. Tibet WASN'T talking about such things. Though his views have shifted considerably over the years, there is no denying that, I think it is fair to state that the subject matter / his obsessions have been fairly consistent as a whole.

[morelmm]

@EmitFlestiKY WHY?? Christ is love and God is love and this is the greatest Power. None of post-modern, neo-smthng, human thoughts is more powerful than the Bible and alive God. I am proud of David that He's interested in Christ and God and Bible and Christianity. It's not lame, it's the bravest.

@Maldoror418: Tibet is not weak.. He seems to be very warm person that is strong in many hard moments in his life and i hope he will be praying and keep his faith in Christ. i pray for David

[Maldoror418]

Tibet always seems afraid, weak, and has lost his edge. Never thought I'd see him praying, simpering, talking about praying, and harping on about apocalyptic crap like this. It's really sad and like he has an OCD.

[earinsound]

@EmitFlestiKY

you don't have to be an atheist or a postmodernist to dislike the other world/paradise-obsessed, wrathful daddy in the sky, herd-like fire and brimstone mentality of most Christians. tibet seems like he's a gnostic of some sort, an heretical Christian, which is something I do find "interesting." Hail Eris!

[EmitFlestiKY]

@earinsound ah yes, too bad he's "interested" in Christ, the Saviour. How lame of him to take Christianity seriously and not follow the post-modern, neo-atheist herd.

[EmitFlestiKY]

David Tibet/Current 93 is amazing! God Bless Daved Tibet!. "Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world...There must be no resting in the meantime!"