Gysin

The inconsistencies in Gysin's style, in fact, allowed him to swing among, and fuse, various media even as he swung between calligraphic gesture and the rigors of typography, detailed drawing and expansive experiment with light, sound, film and video.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

The inconsistencies in Gysin's style, in fact, allowed him to swing among, and fuse, various media even as he swung between calligraphic gesture and the rigors of typography, detailed drawing and expansive experiment with light, sound, film and video.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

The inconsistencies in Gysin's style, in fact, allowed him to swing among, and fuse, various media even as he swung between calligraphic gesture and the rigors of typography, detailed drawing and expansive experiment with light, sound, film and video.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

The inconsistencies in Gysin's style, in fact, allowed him to swing among, and fuse, various media even as he swung between calligraphic gesture and the rigors of typography, detailed drawing and expansive experiment with light, sound, film and video.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

The inconsistencies in Gysin's style, in fact, allowed him to swing among, and fuse, various media even as he swung between calligraphic gesture and the rigors of typography, detailed drawing and expansive experiment with light, sound, film and video.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Even more than most exhibition catalogues these days (and there have been some very good ones produced of late, to the point where I'm thinking it's a "silver age" of museum publications), Brion Gysin: Dream Machine is a must-have for scholars and fans, literati and arterati, the converted and the curious alike.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

The retrospective at New York's New Museum exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Even more than most exhibition catalogues these days (and there have been some very good ones produced of late, to the point where I'm thinking it's a "silver age" of museum publications), Brion Gysin: Dream Machine is a must-have for scholars and fans, literati and arterati, the converted and the curious alike.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Brion Gysin did indeed let the mice in (as one of his books proclaims in its title).

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010