Archaic Exhibit

Los Angeles: Aspects of the Archaic Revival debuts April 24th at the Uschi Kolb Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibit features 16 artists' interpretations of Terrence McKenna's idea that "civilization is currently in a process of reaching back through evolution and the genetic archive and reawakening primordial awareness and traditional attitudes toward nature."

The broad theme, taken from McKenna's book of the same name, promises interesting interpretations from diverse LA visionaries such as installation artist Liz Craft, painter Violet Hopkins, and multimedia artist Marnie Weber. While Los Angeles may not seem like the ideal site for an archaic revival, the works were purposefully chosen from "the county whose fine art museum straddles the primordial ooze of the La Brea Tar Pits, the self-excavating wellspring where prehistory is raised from the present."

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