Anarch.
United Kingdom: Scarlet Imprint, 2023. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Small quarto. 8 x 12 inches. Landscape format binding. 160pp, Strikingly bound in fine black paper boards with dramatic black on black spider- image, titling in red on upper cover and spine, index. 100 colour images. Edition limited to 800 copies. From the folks at Scarlet Imprint: "Gast Bouschet’s Anarch is a profound work of sinister animism and sorcerous practice, a unique account of the path taken towards the dark sacred in a lifetime of personal struggle and artistic creation".....a profound work of sinister animism and sorcerous practice, a unique account of the path taken towards the dark sacred in a lifetime of personal struggle and artistic Anarch collects a sequence of Bouschet’s excoriating elemental texts, which attest to his journey from the gallery shows of the international art circuit to a withdrawal into the primordial darkness of the forest and an encounter with power. Rejecting commodified art and the restrictions of a capitalist market he proposes an occult art, a counter-poison. Bouschet discusses his techniques, practices and meditations; and shares diary extracts, revealing the signs and sacrifices he receives and undergoes. Here is the true black alchemy of the Sol Niger and the Saturnian current laid bare. The texts lead us inexorably to the encounter with the works: 100 moments are exactingly reproduced in full colour, as they decay and are transformed by the forces of the forest. Fetishes, animal remains, paintings, spellbooks, moments of epiphanic revelation draw us into the tortured guts of the Ardennes which bask beneath the splendour of a black Sun." Contents are: Nemesis (First Among Perils) Jason Mohaghegh; "The Mirrored Ladder of Strata" Stephen O’Malley; "Letter to Sorcerers (Here Too There Are Stars)"; What Dreams! Those Forests! Here’s the Prophecy; Soiled by Rebel Powers Part 1: Toward a Dark Sacred; Part 2: "Revolutionary Withdrawal". "Alchemical Futures"; Some basic reflections on the images included in this book "Only Chaos Sings the Truth"; and "Forest, Forest, Forest (Until My Blood Contains All)". NEW book, still in publisher's shrinkwrap thus a bright clean Fine copy. No dust jacket issued. Item #71650
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