CEREALART Project Room presents

Ira Cohen Photoworks
An exhibition of back-lit transparency works “From The Mylar Chamber” series
and “The Naga” Photographs.
September 7 - November 10, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday September 7th, 6 - 9pm.
149 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia PA

The Cerealart Project Room presents an exhibition of photoworks by poet, photographer, and filmmaker, Ira Cohen.

The exhibition includes five 20 x 30 inch backlit transparencies, from his legendary series "From the Mylar Chamber" which have been celebrated internationally for more than 38 years, displayed in lightboxes, and twenty-two 11 x 14 inch pigment prints from Cohen’s two trips to the Kumhb Mela in India in 1977 and 1986.

Mr. Cohen’s began working in the 1960’s when he built a room in his New York loft lined with large panels of Mylar plastic, a sort of bendable mirror that causes images to crackle and swirl in hypnotic, sometimes beautiful patterns. After a few years experimenting with the technique in photographs, he invited his friends from the downtown scene — like Beverly Grant, Vali Myers, Jim Hendrix, William Burroughs, Angus MacLise and Tony Conrad to have their photos taken. This body of work is known as “Works from the Mylar Chamber”. Two examples of these works are currently included in the Whitney Museum’s “Summer of Love” exhibition. “It’s like going on an ecstatic journey to another planet, full of magical beings, animals and plants,” Cohen said. “It’s a hallucinatory, almost trance-inducing experience.”

For more images and a complete press release please visit www.cerealart.com.

For more infomation please contact Shiya Mangel, 215-627-5060 or shiya@cerealart.com

Exhibition presented with the support of The Ira Cohen Akashic Project (www.iracohen.org) and Saturnalia NYC (www.saturnalianyc.com).



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