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VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

RESURRECTION CROSSING THE ENCHANTING WORLD

(De opstanding) OVER OF CERNUNNOS
1988 (De overgang) (De betoverde wereld van Cernunnos)
1989 1993

The years of Maturity are also an opportunity
for Johfra to return to earlier periods of his
development and reprise certain themes. The earlier
Hermetic phase is revisited with the canvases
Crossing Over (1989) and The Resurrection (1988).
As in Hermes Trismegistos, the concern here is to
offer an image of heavenly ascendence and
self-transcendence. Death is not depicted, in a
Pantheist manner, as a return to the earth from
whence we came. Instead, it is a resurrection and
indeed a return to the ancestors, who join hands in a
garden paradise to welcome the newly departed (or
newly arrived).
Johfra also returns to the Mindscape paintings
of his youth, which we have already seen in the
Psychological Self Portrait (1996), a late work which
belongs, nevertheless, with the Mindstuff landscapes
of forty years ago. The Erotic Nude is also reprised
in images of In the Evening Light (1998)and The
Unexpected Guest (1998). One year before his death,
he returns to the Witches’ Sabbath (1997), and also
paints Infinite Figure paintings with the Horned
God as a central figure, be it Pluto (1997) or
Cernunnos (1993). His Pantheism is still as alive as
ever.

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