Alejandro Jodorowsky & Pascale Montandon Exhibition Overview
Guerrilla Zoo presents a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with the art of an acclaimed cult icon in a new and exciting series of work by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon.Together they have created a striking fusion of talent; with pen and inks by Alejandro and watercolours by Pascale.The series covers various themes including; Love, Violence, Spritiuality, Psychomagik / Psychogenology, Tarot, Absurdism and other Jodorowskian subjects.
Prologue
The deepest desire of mankind is the complementary union of a woman and a man capable of internal and external interactions, that contribute to humanity’s material and spiritual development. This supreme love that we can not describe with words, has been sought by mystics, alchemists, magicians and poets. It is portrayed in each civilization through various characters or symbols ; The legendary Chinese emperor Fu Hsi and his sister Nu Kua, the Hebrew patriarch Abraham and his wife Sara, Jesus Christ and his mother Mary, the god Shiva and his consort Shakti, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo in Peru, the Yin and Yang Taoist, Kabbalistic double triangle forming a six-pointed star, the union of the Masonic square and compass, the REBIS or the hermaphrodite alchemical marriage of Egyptian gods Mother-Sky Nuth and Father-Land Geb, and so on.
Without thinking that this feeling is mythical or impossible to achieve, Pascale Montandon and Alejandro Jodorowsky, with absolute certainty, developed a complete mutual trust. They happily accept one an other as they are, without trying to force change. Each painting is done together and is a source of quiet bliss. A work where competition has no place. In which they are beyond words, agreeing without discussion, both traveling toward the same goal.
This unique connection is imbued and permeated with love between each line and every colors submerge into a pleasure paradise.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
During the late 1960s Jodorowsky started mixing his avant-garde projects with mystical curiosity. In 1966, editor Luis Spota invited Jodorowsky to publish a regular comic strip in the cultural pages of the daily paper in ‘El Heraldo de México’, under the title ‘Fábulas Pánicas’. These ‘fables’ had a thinly veiled autobiographical tone while covering all kinds of esoteric subjects, where Jodorowsky submitted to the most arcane Oriental wisdom with humorous non-attachment. The comic strip enjoyed great popularity, and Jodorowsky kept producing and publishing if until the end of 1973, leaving an excellent eyewitness report on the spiritual restlessness of a nation prevalent in those years. His mystical experimentation proposed a sort of faithless mysticism. Getting away from the truth or falsity of religious concepts, he concentrated on the “magical” healing effects produced by his actions.
Pascale Montandon
A visual artist and scenograph. The themes of her works are occupied with space and time, transience, fleetingness, connections between fragility and permanence. Through-out her visual and scenographic works, she’s always passionately focused on space and movement, through architectural rectangles and concentric forms.
"Pascale Montandon, intrepid explorer, stern, incorruptible, plunged into the dark world by rejecting the temptation of material forms to represent living natures that are pure spirit. She expels us from the planet and we are rushed into the sublime heart of the cosmos. A place where desire and suffering disappears. Her paintings are a portrait of the soul, they tell us the divine perfection of the eternal."
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Together
In this new series of work, which echoes back to the Panic Fables, Jodorowsky continues his ever-developing personal themes and concepts. Together with his partner Pascale Montandon, they have created a ‘third mind’ through their art. The work appears as a powerful combination of both artist’s unique creative process. Jodorowsky’s clearly recognisable characters and Montandon’s evoking colourscapes merge beautifully. This unique series of work is in their own words, “Our child!”
Prologue
The deepest desire of mankind is the complementary union of a woman and a man capable of internal and external interactions, that contribute to humanity’s material and spiritual development. This supreme love that we can not describe with words, has been sought by mystics, alchemists, magicians and poets. It is portrayed in each civilization through various characters or symbols ; The legendary Chinese emperor Fu Hsi and his sister Nu Kua, the Hebrew patriarch Abraham and his wife Sara, Jesus Christ and his mother Mary, the god Shiva and his consort Shakti, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo in Peru, the Yin and Yang Taoist, Kabbalistic double triangle forming a six-pointed star, the union of the Masonic square and compass, the REBIS or the hermaphrodite alchemical marriage of Egyptian gods Mother-Sky Nuth and Father-Land Geb, and so on.
Without thinking that this feeling is mythical or impossible to achieve, Pascale Montandon and Alejandro Jodorowsky, with absolute certainty, developed a complete mutual trust. They happily accept one an other as they are, without trying to force change. Each painting is done together and is a source of quiet bliss. A work where competition has no place. In which they are beyond words, agreeing without discussion, both traveling toward the same goal.
This unique connection is imbued and permeated with love between each line and every colors submerge into a pleasure paradise.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
During the late 1960s Jodorowsky started mixing his avant-garde projects with mystical curiosity. In 1966, editor Luis Spota invited Jodorowsky to publish a regular comic strip in the cultural pages of the daily paper in ‘El Heraldo de México’, under the title ‘Fábulas Pánicas’. These ‘fables’ had a thinly veiled autobiographical tone while covering all kinds of esoteric subjects, where Jodorowsky submitted to the most arcane Oriental wisdom with humorous non-attachment. The comic strip enjoyed great popularity, and Jodorowsky kept producing and publishing if until the end of 1973, leaving an excellent eyewitness report on the spiritual restlessness of a nation prevalent in those years. His mystical experimentation proposed a sort of faithless mysticism. Getting away from the truth or falsity of religious concepts, he concentrated on the “magical” healing effects produced by his actions.
Pascale Montandon
A visual artist and scenograph. The themes of her works are occupied with space and time, transience, fleetingness, connections between fragility and permanence. Through-out her visual and scenographic works, she’s always passionately focused on space and movement, through architectural rectangles and concentric forms.
"Pascale Montandon, intrepid explorer, stern, incorruptible, plunged into the dark world by rejecting the temptation of material forms to represent living natures that are pure spirit. She expels us from the planet and we are rushed into the sublime heart of the cosmos. A place where desire and suffering disappears. Her paintings are a portrait of the soul, they tell us the divine perfection of the eternal."
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Together
In this new series of work, which echoes back to the Panic Fables, Jodorowsky continues his ever-developing personal themes and concepts. Together with his partner Pascale Montandon, they have created a ‘third mind’ through their art. The work appears as a powerful combination of both artist’s unique creative process. Jodorowsky’s clearly recognisable characters and Montandon’s evoking colourscapes merge beautifully. This unique series of work is in their own words, “Our child!”
