Dorothy Circus Gallery is raising its curtains on its exhibition season with the David Stoupakis and Silivia Idili duo show titled “Rubedo”. This exhibition evokes the suggestive theme of Rubedo and the world of alchemy. Rubedo is the fourth and last stage of the opus alchemicum in which the final purification comes true due to blood. Spirit melts into the material world and this reminds not of a Halloween night of darkness and death, but of a sparkling noir carnival, an unusual way to achieve purification and elevation. Dorothy Circus Gallery invites its public to a charming itinerary: the effort of the alchemic science to reach the Philosopher’s Stone is an evocative background for a series of artworks in which red represents the spiritual travel of the Being. This reminds us of Jung’s words:“But in the state of whiteness one does not live in the true sense of the world, it is a sort of abstract, ideal state. In order to make it come alive it must have “blood”, it must have what the alchemists called rubedo, the redness of life. Only the total experience of being can transform this ideal state of the albedo into a fully human mode of the existence. Blood alone can reanimate a glorious state o consciousness in which the last trace of blackness is dissolved, in which the devil no longer has an autonomous existence but rejoins the profound unity of the psyche. Then the opus magnum is finished: the human soul is completely integrated”. (C.G. Jung)
David Stouplakis and Silvia Idili’s works, purposely made for this exhibition, not only evoke the world of alchemy and Jung’s statements, but are full of contemporary feelings too, Redness and blood grow rich in new and uncommon meanings.
David Stouplakis and Silvia Idili’s works, purposely made for this exhibition, not only evoke the world of alchemy and Jung’s statements, but are full of contemporary feelings too, Redness and blood grow rich in new and uncommon meanings.
