Vita
I was born in the sign of the gemini (aszendent gemini) in 1951 in Germany.
Because I know my father (he escaped hopefully to Canada) only from the narrations of my mother,
I selected the cunning, art-talented and travel-loving Mercury as a substitute.
Mercury - the messenger of the gods - makes the invisible become visible.
1972 - 73
Study at the college of Art and Design in Cologne.
1973 - 74
First Morningland-travel over land up to India.
1976 - 78
Escape to Asia.
Among others:
Selling apple-strudel in Goa.
Vegetarian cook in Kathmandu.
1979 - 82
Return to Europe. Slow acclimatization in Italy.
Opening of a macrobiotic restaurant in Florcence.
Discovery of the goldsmith-art and construction of a first workshop.
1982 - 85
Removal to Rome. Participation in art-markets.
1985 - 86
Return to Germany.
Study and activity as a vegetarin cook in the "Kamalashila" - Institut for buddhist studies
in the castle of Wachendorf, near Bad Münstereifel.
1986 - 92
Construction of a new artforge in Cologne.
"Documenta Erotica" and "Money is Energy" in the "Ultimate Academy" of Al Hansen in Cologne.
Different exhibitions and jewelfairs in Germany.
1993
"Arte Theurgica I" at the Atelier Theatre in Cologne.
1994 - 95
Renewed journey to India and Nepal.
1995
"Arte Theurgica II" at the "George Sand" in Cologne.
1996
Furnishings for RTL-Production: John Sinclair's "The Demon-Marriage".
1998
Performance at "Jeister Delic", Rhenania/Cologne, in favor of the Cologne Ghostparade.
2005
"Arte Theurgica III" at the 'Gallery am Buttermarkt' in Cologne.
2007Start of the "Storia Theurgica" - project.
STORIA THEURGICA
The autobiographic adventure of my escape from 1976 to 1985.
An incredible story of a 'Wanted man' on the search for inner and outer security.
On the Hippie-trail and in Italy.
Fighting against inner and outer demons.
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Demons are negative ways of thinking, bad energies and own projections, inside and outside,
and they are quiet existent in the moment of perception. Those are the dark forces in us,
whom we keep away basically from our consciousness, but outside of ourselves leave them
to assume concrete shape, in which they turn then against us. Those are the spirits,
which we do not only call, but even produce.In the Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism) one knows the five spirit-poisons:
Hate, envy, greed, pride and anger. And these demons we meet also in the Bardos (Intermediate-Death-State).
Those are the negative radiant effects, which normally extract themselves from the check by consciousness,
but are undermining the well-being and preventing or making more difficult the spirituals development.
Every obstacle on the way to obtain the freedom is finally demonic.
Demonfrights are natures of the light in the robe of the dark
and are decorating and protecting cult places of most diverse religions and cultures,
and as Gargoyles the elixir of life, the water, pours from them. Mixed natures,
which scare only the enemies but not the initiates.
In China one places mirrors in the window - the demon frightens itself before its mirror image.
For the Mexican Toltecs it was Quetzalcoatl, the feathered snake, as opponents
to the destructive Tezcaltipoca. And with the northamerican Indians there are the stakes
- representing protection - spirits, which usually embodies the mystic ancestor animals of a trunk.
In the Vajrayana one knows the racing and angerfull divinities, like Mahakala and Kalachakra.One visualised these in the spirit or integrates them in mandalas on canvas (Thangkas),
on charms with the name of the carrier or in passing mandalas from colourdust on the soil.
Then there are the haircrosses, spidernetlike objects gotten caught in those the demons.
In Shamanism there is the faith that one can create new life from the bones of dead animals and also humans.
"Notre Dame" in Paris is famous for its theurgic art.
The discovery of these mixed natures also at the Cathedral of Cologne and the search of their significance
and origin brought me finally to my "Arte Theurgica", as I freely translated the art of the demon-defence.
I try with my abilities and experiences, the appropriate motivation, much intuition,
my mental energy and natural materials to create objects,
which are strong enough to work against negative energies.
I operate on a symbiosis of the cultures and legend in addition:
"Who calls me an eclectic does not insult me, but acknowledges me in that variety of the fantasy:
namely in my handicraft of senses, to unite contradictions of the cultures between east and west.
In my head - in my handicraft of senses."
Arte Theurgica III - 2005
Studio-Party - 2005
Video: VJ SehvermögenCamera: VJ Sehvermögen,
Videocut: Matthias Jürgens
