SONG OF THE EARTH:
NEW SCROLL PAINTINGS
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A selection of this work will be shown at The 12 Star Gallery, Westminster, from 26th November to 5th December, 2008... The show opens at 6pm on Tuesday 25th November.
See you there?! Download the invitation on Acrobat: http://www.villaparasol.com/scrolls08/invitationverso.pdf! |
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LATEST NEWS: THE CONTINUING SERIES OF SCROLLS WILL BE THE SUBJECT
OF AN IMPORTANT EXHIBITION IN AUGUST 2009
AT THE SALLE DES GARDES IN THE VIEUX CHÂTEAU DES TEMPLIERS
AT GRéOUX-LES-BAINS, A SPA JUST NORTH-EAST OF AIX-EN-PROVENCE...
DETAILS TO FOLLOW...
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The 12 Star Gallery is in the offices of the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdom, in Westminster, at 8 Storey's Gate, SW1P 3AT, to the right of The Westminster Arms, seen left, at the first door on the left of the lane that joins the main street there; a map appears at the foot of this page [here]. Contact comm-lon-exhibition@ec.europa.eu for other information. For a link to the European Commission web site and a full programme of the gallery's other activities, click here. |
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
"The Song of the Earth"
six panels each 220 x 85 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas;
August/September 2008
Seen here propped against the studio wall, 20th October, 2008.
The panels do not themselves strictly follow the Chinese texts of the six movements of Mahler's great orchestral song cycle (which is 100 years old this year), but yet...
A view of the studio and a sketchbook...
THREE LANDSCAPES
all 150 x 90 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas; June 2008
left: "Drei Sonnen...", Nietzsche's Walk at Eze on a hot day...
middle: Climbing my Almond Tree in the Rioja...
right: "Il faut cultiver notre jardin...", my chair in the gardens of Villa Parasol...
IL FAUT CULTIVER NOTRE JARDIN...
160 x 220 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas;
September/October 2008
The artist's garden and his glass of wine...
[This poor photograph will be replaced.]
[See also www.villaparasol.com/vpVoltTop.htm.]
TRISTAN III
160 x 220 cms, oil & charcoal on free-hanging canvas;
September/October 2008
The Tristan of Act III of Wagner's drama, looking and imploring out to sea...
[Photographed as at 23rd October 2008.]
NB: This painting will be displayed at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society exhibition, from 24th November, and not at Westminster. After all, it is a ménage à trois.... See www.villaparasol.com/mena3.htm for details of that show.
OTHER HANGING SCROLLS: 2008
Villa Fôret; 160 x 220 cms; May, 2008 [private collection]
Nietzsche's Walk at Eze; 160 x 220 cms; August 2008 [Philosophy Faculty, Cambridge University]
[See scrolls08/PhilosophyNewsletter2008JB.pdf and www.villaparasol.com/EzeFNtop.htm.]
EARLIER HANGING SCROLLS: 2005/6
left: Cross-Rhythms; or, The Jazz Curtain...; 2005
right: Noah, drunk; 2006
[See www.villaparasol.com/ftTop.htm.]
St Francis listens to a bird at San Marco, Florence; 2006/2008
SEE ALSO
Stations of the Cross as from the Eyes of Jesus
ViaMichelin MAP
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The 12 Star Gallery, European Commission, 8, Storey's Gate, Westminster London SW1P 3AT |
