I am UtterOverMoon that MAGOG AT THE MAYPOLE (SEX OF STARS), my first solo art exhibition in the USA, is to be held at the remarkable and visionary White Columns art gallery in New York. The exhibition lasts from 3 March to 14 April. I will be at the opening night on 3 March, which is open to everyone. So I look forward to meeting you there.
I am VeryVeryVery delighted to announce this, and I thank White Columns director Matthew Higgs for inviting me, as well as curator and author and Robert Nickas for helping to make this possible. The opening is two days before my birthday—and what a lovely birthday this is for me: Pinnochio shall come to Babylon, hand in hand-job with Magog by the Maypole.
There will be an online flyer for the show as well as a specific website link in the next couple of weeks, which I will post when I receive it.
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See you all there. Bring Cuneiform Birthday Gifts for me, please.
The Peer Gallery, which I run together with Giulio Di Mauro, has been involved in two recent exhibitions.
THE PEER GALLERY’s debut took place at MAISON & OBJET at Paris Nord Villepinte between 20–24 January, 2012 where we were the guest of the interior design company GRUPPO DI INSTALLAZIONE.
Paris Maison et Objet’s trade show is the French interior design fair and we were OverMoon to take our peer there for its first walk in the real world.
The Peer Gallery is presently curating the promotional campaign of GRUPPO DI INSTALLAZIONE by providing a selection of ten photographs that will show, and complete, the mood of its new collection.
Information about this first exhibition, along with an online catalogue, is now available on our website.
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The Peer has finally left his Peer-pen.
The Peer Gallery has been invited by A.I. Artisanal Intelligence—the artisans’ department of the AltaRoma Haute Couture Fashion Week—to debut in a magnificent location: the Temple of Hadrian in Piazza di Pietra, Rome. The Peer decided to debut with a selection of 13 photographs from Ossian Brown’s collection, featured in his book Haunted Air. The exhibition will last one day only: Sunday 29 January from 11am to 8pm. Entrance is free, but the space has a maximum capacity of 250 people, so there might be a queue.
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Click here to see the press release for the event (PDF).
More information is available on www.facebook.com/thepeergallery.
The images selected, which match the Peer’s concept about food photography and ethnography, will later be shown on www.thepeergallery.com.
www.thepeergallery.com • www.facebook.com/thePeerGallery • www.maison-objet.com • www.gruppoinstallazione.tumblr.com
Thanks to everyone who came to see us in Barcelona on 21 January. It was a Topographic Dream for us all. My especial thanks to Michael Cashmore, who played piano on stage for the first time ever in ‘Pomegranate’ and ‘Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still’, and also sang ‘The Signs and the Sighs of Emptiness’ with me. Thanks also to our new Perfect Hallucinatory Vision Violinist Aloma Ruiz Boada, all the Wolves in the Sidereal Zu93, Rosario Rivero for organising it and taking such lovely care of us as always, Victor for all his kind assistance and friendliness, Sergi Pascual and Eva Galdón for being there (and for introducing us to Aloma) and my good friends Nidge Ince, José Pacheco and Selly Zilio for coming… and to all those others we were so happy to have met there… too many names to recount right now. But a belated Happy Birthday too to Carsten Hopf whose birthday it was on the night we appeared.
MYRNINEREST appeared as David Tibet, Michael Cashmore and Aloma Ruiz Boada. Our setlist was as follows—all 11 songs we played were by C93:
Dögun • The Inmost Light Itself • All the World Makes Great Blood • Mary Waits in Silence • A Sadness Song • The Beginning of NightFace • The Signs and the Sighs of Emptiness • Pomegranate • Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still • Not Because the Fox Barks • So: This Empire Is Nothing
Zu93 appeared as David Tibet, Massimo Pupillo, Stefano Pilia and Andrea Serrapiglio, and performed the entirety of their forthcoming album, MIRROR EMPEROR.
NATURE UNVEILED – described on their site as “The haunting apocalyptic debut from Current 93” – was the featured album on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone programme on BBC Radio 6 for the week commencing Sunday 15 January.
Click here to buy the 2CD edition which also includes Andrew Liles’s remix of the album (limited stock available). Click here to buy the standard single CD edition (in our sale). Those of you in North America may find it cheaper to order from Jnana Records.
Ray Russell is an old colleague, and close friend, of mine. Many of you will know him through his superlative Tartarus Press; others will know him as a masterful writer of beautifully subtle supernatural stories; fewer of you will know him as a musician. So I am OverMoon to pass on details of his new collection of stories, and his new album: His press release for the book and CD are below:
