piccolagalleriaportatile

30.3.25

woman sleeping with her ribs

evil 004

1139

untitled, 2004

untitled, 2005

untitled, 2007

untitled, 2012

aza, 2009

excavating me 2019

lautrec doesnt' know, 2017

silent fish seller

20.3.25

Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings

12 february - 4 june 2025

Courtauld Gallery

courtauld.ac.uk

This display celebrates the unique Mescaline Drawings by the Franco-Belgian poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux (1899-1984). In January 1955, as part of an experiment prompted by his publisher, Michaux tried the psychedelic drug mescaline, a product derived from the Mexican peyote cactus. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the effect of this type of non-addictive drug on the creative act. Michaux considered these experiences to be a portal into the inner workings of the mind... [continue reading]

William S. Burroughs @ October Gallery

6 march - 5 april 2025

October Gallery

"October Gallery presents William S. Burroughs, a solo exhibition of rarely seen works which features paintings and drawings created from a variety of materials. From spray paint, ink and acrylic to markers and gunshots, Burroughs' art is an expedition, identifying portals to unknown worlds and intelligences. His way of seeing is as a creative observer of states of mind. “The pictures constantly change because you are drawn into time travel on a network of associations.” For Burroughs, everything is alive, and his artwork explores this idea, as he did through words in his genre-bending writings. He belongs to no school of art; what he paints expands on the work he has developed throughout his career, in words, multimedia experiments and image-making"... [continue reading : octobergallery.co.uk]