Dear All:

Here follows details of David Tibet's London art exhibition and the book catalogue. Thank you!

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Isis Gallery presents:

INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN
(Some Gnostic Cartoons)

29th November–10th January 2009
11am–6pm Tuesday to Saturday

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

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.

93 paintings were made by David for the INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN (Some Gnostic Cartoons) show, of which 39 will be exhibited. All paintings are available for purchase from Isis, to whom any requests should be directed at john@isisgallery.org

www.isisgallery.org/forthcoming_exhibitions/the_last_words_of_christ_david.html

More about INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN (Some Gnostic Cartoons)

www.isisgallery.org/artists/david_tibet.html

Isis Gallery, 20 Hanway Street, London W1T 1UG
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am–6pm

Landline: +44 (0)20 7636 7222 • Mobile: +44 (0)7506 275098

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DAVID TIBET: "SOME GNOSTIC CARTOONS" CATALOGUE FOR HIS LONDON ART EXHIBITION

David Tibet and Isis Gallery are very delighted to announce the Isis Editions publication of Some Gnostic Cartoons, the catalogue for David's London art exhibition. We are also exceptionally honoured that Michel Faber, author of The Crimson Petal and the White amongst many other books, and Tod Wodicka, author of All Shall be well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall be Well have respectively written a Foreword and Afterword to the volume.

This volume marks the beginning of the exhibition and is initially only available from Isis Gallery, the gallery which represents David's artwork and at whose premises the exhibition takes place. It can be purchased from Durtro's online shop (www.durtro.com), Isis' online shop (www.isisgallery.org/editions) or at the gallery in person. The standard edition is published in an edition of 500 copies and costs £40 plus postage.

There will be a very limited special edition which will mark the end of the exhibition and which will be published on 10 January, 2009. More details of that special edition will follow later.

93 paintings were made by David for the INVOCATION OF HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAlN (Some Gnostic Cartoons), of which 39 will be exhibited. This book features 32 of the 93 paintings created, of which 22 in the book are exhibited at Isis Gallery.

All paintings both in the book and not in the book are available for purchase from Isis, to whom any requests should be directed to john@isisgallery.org

Full details of the book are as follows:

Bound in claret cloth with copper blocking to front cover and spine
Printed endpapers with black/white painting by David Tibet
Each copy signed by David Tibet
Coloured head- and tail-bands
Page-signatures sewn into spine
84 pages long
Page size 63⁄4" x 83⁄4" (170mm x 226mm)
32 colour plates printed on gloss art paper
Introduction by David Tibet
Foreword by Michel Faber
Afterword by Tod Wodicka

The peace and love of God to you all,

Love David+++