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The Maldoror Series which followed, painted
between 1976 and 1978, are his strangest and
darkest works. Full of cruel, repulsive and macabre
images, they break the floodgates of reason and spill
over onto the canvas from the artist’s darkest
unconscious. With the exception of the interesting
Hermaphrodite (1976), these paintings display an
ugliness otherwise unfound in Johfra’s oeuvre. Like
his depiction of Kali, (1976) most of these images are
brazen, garrish and graphic. He seems more
inspired by American comic book art than his usual
Baroque sources.
From this time forward, Johfra’s Hermetic
works turn away from the light and focus on the
darkness. Whatever transcendental symbols he used
before - transparent to a higher light - he now seems
obsessed by shadow, the occult, and the darkness
that dwells below.
For example, in 1979, he completed a series of
Witches’ Portraits (Heksenportretje). Where woman
before offered him the allure of her arching nude
figure, now it is her hooded face that fascinated him,
with a dark expression equally licentious and
dangerous.

MALDOROR SERIES: THE HERMAPHRODITE (1976)

(Maldoror-serie: De hermafrodiet)
ARACHNE MAGDALENE THE CRY
(1979) (1979) (1979)

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