Brion Gysin:Tuning in to the Multimedia Age Stanley Donen They are rare jewels

They are rare jewels

asking essential questions about womanhood

the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein

lounge jazz

sensuality and danger

Brion Gysin:Tuning in to the Multimedia Age Stanley Donen They are rare jewelsPainter, writer, sound poet, lyricist, performance artist Brion Gysin first came to prominence in the 1950s in the heady atmosphere of the so called Beat Hotel in Paris. His enormous range of radical ideas would become a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation, as well as for their successors (among them David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring and Laurie Anderson). As a painter Gysin is remembered for his evocative views of the Sahara