Ordo Templi Orientis has been working with the Centre Pompidou, the Warburg and the Palais de Tokyo to assist, in a minor way, with two truly important art shows, both featuring works by Aleister Crowley.
CENTRE POMPIDOU — TRACES DU SACRE May 8 - August 11
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is mounting a show commemorating the anniversary of its founding as the most prominent state-owned museum of modern art in France, titled “Traces du Sacre.” The show opens to the public on May 7 in Gallery 1, and runs until August 11. The curators have assembled a wide-ranging exploration of spirituality and esotericism in Europe and America in last century, drawing on their own holdings as well as those of other institutions and collectors around the world. The Warburg Institute has kindly loaned four newly-restored Thoth Tarot paintings by Aleister Crowley and Frieda, Lady Harris: The High Priestess, The Hermit, The Moon and The Aeon. One important, previously unknown Aleister Crowley oil painting will be included in the “Great Initiates” section of the show, kindly loaned by the owner of the group of paintings that form the second Palais du Tokyo show (discussed in detail below, this show runs concurrently with the Centre Pompidou show for a month from June 5). Also on view will be Cameron’s remarkable large-scale portait of Jack Parsons, “Dark Angel” — all part of the curatorial take on the “Lucifer Rising” mythos of Kenneth Anger. Also featured are works by Harry Smith, Jordan Belson and many others influenced directly or indirectly by Crowley and his students. Of course the overall context of the show, including Arp, Brancusi, Chagall, De Chirico, Dali, Dix, DuChamp, Giocometti, Goya, Kandinsky, Klee, Kupka, Miro, Mondrian, Munch, Picasso, Warhol etc. etc., is breathtaking. That Crowley should be included with these artists in a retrospective — one that takes into account the incredibly influential spiritual and artistic undergrounds — is groundbreaking. A comprehensive catalog will be available for purchase. After Paris, a smaller group of works (that will not include the Crowley-Harris Thoth paintings) travels to Munich.
Books You Might Enjoy:
Aleister Crowley - The Soul Of Osiris
Aleister Crowley - Rodin In Rime
Aleister Crowley - The Works Of Aleister Crowley Vol Ii Part 3
Aleister Crowley - The Works Of Aleister Crowley Vol I Part 3