"He has been variously, often concurrently a director, an actor, a poet, a puppeteer, a psychotherapist, a tarot-card reader, an author of fantasy books. At the age of 96, Jodorowsky estimates that he's lived 100 different lives and embodied 100 different Jodorowskys. Because we are different people all the time, he says. I died a lot of times but then I'm reborn. Look at me now and you see I'm alive. I am happy about this. It is fantastic to live."
"Jodorowsky recently finished work on a two-volume Taschen monograph, Art Sin Fin. That's another rebirth, he says, although it also serves as an archive, a repository, a bulging bestiary of counter-cultural weirdness. Naturally, Art Sin Fin covers Jodorowsky's brief 70s reign as the king of the midnight movie, the creator of the head-scrambling cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain, beloved by Dennis Hopper and John Lennon alike."
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a prolific, chameleonic artist whose career spans directing, acting, poetry, puppetry, psychotherapy, tarot reading and fantasy authorship. At 96 he claims to have lived a hundred different lives and repeatedly reinvented himself, embracing death and rebirth. He completed a two-volume Taschen monograph, Art Sin Fin, which functions as both a rebirth and an archive of countercultural work. The retrospective documents his 1970s cult-film period with El Topo and The Holy Mountain, and also surveys stage spectacles, comic-book art and unrealized designs such as a long-cherished Dune adaptation. His prose mixes bold metaphors with playful, surreal imagery.
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