JOSE GABRIEL
ALEGRÍA SABOGAL
Artist Extraordinaire
José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal was Born in Berlin, and currently lives and works in Lima, Perú. He studied painting at PUCP (Pontifical Catholic University of Perú) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Currently, José is completing his Masters in the History of Art at PUCP.
His visual work makes use of the line technique found in renaissance copper plate engraving but applied to drawings. Both the themes and their treatment José explores are essentially anachronistic and follow the initiative of developing a symbolic language that aspires to a timeless nature.
José has also developed the visual concept for several musical albums by bands from America and Europe, amongst them Whoredom Rife (Norway) and Inferno (Czech Republic).
His works have been published by Aeon Sophia Press (Netherlands), Anathema Publishing Ltd. (Canada), and Mount Abraxas (Romania).
He is know for publications such as Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014), Cover Design & Illustrations within PILLARS: Perichoresis [Anthology] (Anathema Publishing Ltd. 2016), Cover design and illustrations for Abyssinia, by Damian Murphy (Mount Abraxas 2017), A Second Nature (Aeon Sophia Press, 2017), All illustrations for (h)Aurorae, by Gabriel McCaughry (Anathema Publishing Ltd. 2018), as well as IAO: Ophite Iconography (Anathema Publishing Ltd. 2022).
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(h)Auroræ: The recalling or retelling of the many Pasts made Present & Whole again
by G. McCaughry
Illustrations by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Typeset, Layout, & Design by G. McCaughry
Original Retail Prices:
Paperback Edition: $40 CAD
HC Standard Edition: $90 CAD
HC Collector’s Edition: $150 CAD
HC Artisanal Edition: $599 CAD
(h)Auroræ is, and functions as, an occult text; it is technically not a book ‘about’ the occult. The distinction is important here: the whole concept, presentation, and perennial philosophy underlying the book aim at provoking a mystical experience and stimulating the Divine Inspiration of the reader, so that they, in turn, become Inspiration.
This manuscript is a mystifying, albeit utterly profound journey. Part ontological synthesis, philosophical rambling, magickal diary, visual grimoire, mystical poetry, revelatory/individuation process, and alchemical vessel of expression, the book exists under the umbrella of what the author refers to as Neoteric Heterodoxy. First and foremost, however, (h)Auroræ exists as an act of eternal remembrance.
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La Teología Escolastica / Scholastic Theology
by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
“I originally found the image reproduced in the article, ETTLINGER, L. D. 1953. "Pollaiuolo's Tomb of Pope Sixtus IV" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld lnstitutes, XVI, pp. 239-74. p.39. The full work can be consulted in the following archives here and there.
It is part of a series in process tentatively called the Permutations of Theology, where different allegorical figures have been constructed in order to depict the changing stages of theological thinking through Christian history.
Scholastic Theology refers to the rigid thomistic thinking with a strong tendency to circular reasoning and self-fulfilling exempla that became the rule during the central middle ages. Traditionally, it included four levels of exegesis or biblical interpretation, but the manuscript of the Musée Condé includes six levels.
In this medieval illumination, Theology is shown holding the sun in her hand as a mirror of God's light, and ruling over the vision of the wheel as seen by the prophet Ezekiel (which would become the Ophanim order of angels in judaic angelology), that holds in its center the Holy book, and is combined with the four animals of the Evangelists, also identified with Ezekiel's Cherubim or tetramorph. As such, this wheel constitutes a fantastic "mystical device" that I think could accurately represent the systematic character of medieval scholasticism.
Despite its aforementioned rigid character, which is expressed in the hierarchical composition and the fact that Theologia carries a sword, I wanted to grant beauty and serenity in my re-rendering of such a fascinating image, a truly iconotextual image that was meant to serve for both mnemotechnic as well as contemplative purposes." — Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
12” X 16” - Printed on absolutely gorgeous, thick, and highly-textured Hahnemuhle William Turner 310 GSM (cold-pressed 100% cotton) paper-carton.
Unnumbered copies featuring an embossed seal distinct from the original print-run. Leftover copies produced for the March 2024 Kickstarter campaign.
Semesilam: The Eternal Sun
by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Typeset, Layout, & Design by Joseph Uccello
Semesilam: The Eternal Sun is a compilatory volume, gathering the artwork that José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal produced between 2012-2017. This ‘definitive anthology' includes the long out-of-print Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014) and A Second Nature (ASP, 2017), along with further, unpublished works from the same period and an extended photographic record of Sabogal’s work focusing on human skulls and bones…
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