This exhibition explores the extensive visual work of David Tibet, the founder of the experimental music project Current 93. It presents a comprehensive overview of his art, connecting his visual universe with his music, literary influences, and fascination with visionary, apocalyptic themes.
The exhibition Hallucinate, Children offers a profound look into the visual art of David Tibet, one of the most prominent figures of the esoteric and experimental underground. The installation presents a body of work spanning his entire career, framing his artistic practice as an autonomous universe deeply intertwined with his music, literary output, and long-standing interests in visionary literature, biblical texts, and obscure spiritual traditions. Far from being mere illustrations of his musical projects, Tibet's paintings and drawings function as independent records of dreams, revelations, and restless, ecstatic visions.
His symbolic language is populated by recurring motifs—children, stars, birds, animals, angels, and apocalyptic landscapes—that bridge the gap between fragility and prophecy. Drawing on a wide tradition of visionary art from William Blake and M.R. James to the modern dark literary imagination, the exhibition invites visitors into a space where the image serves as an urgent, unsettling, and strangely tender witness to a world perpetually balanced on the threshold of revelation.