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Detail Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741 - 1825), Robin Gutfreund - Puck, 1787 - 1790, Öl auf Leinwand, 106 x 82 cm, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen

 

 

Exhibitions 31.03. - 15.07.2012

 

 

L’Europe des esprits - the magic of the intangible from the Romantic to the Modern

Exposition in collaboration with the museum of modern and contemporary art, Strasbourg.

The magic of the intangible and supernatural has been an important subject in art for centuries. Witches, fairies and demons from popular belief and literature but also spiritistic practices such as table-moving and mysticism fascinated artists and audience in always new ways. The exhibition L’Europe des esprits – the magic of the intangible from the Romantic to the Modern sheds light on the significance of the spiritual, the esoteric and the occult on European art stretching over an extensive period. It begins at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, at a time when the world of myths, spirits and demons, having been banned into darkness by the rationalism of the enlightenment, were enjoying a revival. As the 19th century progressed, interest in the occult and paranormal phenomena increased. With the help of new scientific methods such as the use of electromagnetic rays, some attempted to make these phenomena visible, while others were occupied with the religions of the world and in particular eastern religious beliefs. So the movement of the Theosophical Society, brought into existence in 1875, or Anthroposophy founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Rudolf Steiner, were both dedicated to finding a universal spiritual basis of being. Towards the end of the 19th century the symbolist artists were searching for a deeper spiritual truth behind the material appearance of objects and the means of depicting them artistically. At the start of the 20th century the artistic modernists attempted with their abstract tendencies to make an authoritative step in this development. And this also took place alongside a decisive rejection of the material world. Artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg or Johannes Itten were engrossed in the theosophical and esoteric theories of their time.

Opening

Friday, 30 March 2012, 18pm
Auditorium
Peter Fischer
Director Zentrum Paul Klee
Serge Fauchereau
Curator
Michael Baumgartner
Curator
Musical interludes: Bruno Kliegl, glass harmonica
Chr.W. Gluck, W.A. Mozart, L.v. Beethoven, F. Schubert, R. Schumann, A.N. Skrjabin, O. Messiaen 


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Wasiwaska

 

 

Dialogues on Science, Art, History, Myth and Spirituality

Linguist, anthropologist and Doctor in Comparative Religion Luis Eduardo Luna and his wife, cultural producer Adriana Rosa, created Wasiwaska, Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness in October 2003, a not-for-profit educational organization. It is conceived as a place for open-minded exchange of ideas on consciousness and creativity, science and the arts, history, myth and spirituality. The compound is located in Florianópolis, on the northern part of the island of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, on a hill overlooking the ocean and patches of Atlantic coastal forest. A quiet beach is just five minutes walk from the house. Wasiwaska is surrounded by an ethnobotanical garden that includes species of culturally important plants as well as many species of native and fruit trees. We have also a vegetable garden where we produce part of what it is consumed during our seminars. Wasiwaska has works of art, a library of about three thousand books, an extensive documentary collection, and space for lectures and discussion.
Our space is first of all a home, with a fireplace, hammocks, a beautiful garden, plenty of corners for small talk, and the freedom to pick up a book, a fruit, or a cup of tea at any time. We take special care of the food we serve, always delicious and mostly organic, with a great variety of fruit and vegetables.
Wasiwaska is not only a place of learning and communication, but also of rest and even leisure. Every year we organize a few seminars opened to small groups of up to thirteen participants, including two or three guest speakers. Every seminar features lectures and workshops by distinguished scientists, scholars, therapists, writers, artists and musicians stimulated by excursions to the island’s different ecosystems, bird watching, tree planting, and at times botanical illustration, bookmaking, drumming, Holotropic breathwork, trance dance and other activities. Wasiwaska is a privilege place for bird watching and a good base for trekking to the surrounding area.
Our approach is highly interdisciplinary: consciousness studies, neuroscience, psychopharmacology, psychobiology, psychotherapy, ethnobotany, ecology, history, myth, visionary art, anthropology, and whatever new art or discipline our expanding network of teachers and participants may bring to our project. We place special emphasis on the study of the botany, pharmacology, history, ethnography and psychodynamics of psychointegrator plants, such as those involved in ayahuasca, the sacred brew of the Amazon.
Participants typically come from many countries and cultural backgrounds, with a common interest in wondering about the nature of reality and the mystery of consciousness and temporality: scientists, artists, writers, psychiatrists, medical doctors, psychologists and other therapists, social workers, businessmen, students coming from various disciplines, and people from all walks of life. Many return, so that an extensive international multicultural and multidisciplinary family is being created.


http://www.wasiwaska.org/setting