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EXHIBITION DATES
August 27th - October 2nd, 2005
Jesse Reichek's primary source for the 64 paintings
in this series, done between 1976 and 1979, was:
The I CHING
or
BOOK OF CHANGES
The Richard Wilhelm translation from Chinese into German
Rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes
The "I Ching", or
"Book of Changes", has exerted a living influence in
China for more than three thousand years. Written before the Bible,
interest in it has been growing in the West for the past century.
First set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, it
became a book of wisdom, eventually one of the Five Classics of
Confucianism, and provided the common source for both Confucianist
and Taoist philosophy.
The "I Ching" is
composed of 64 six-line figures (hexagrams), each line being either
broken or unbroken, changing or unchanging, expressing the yin and
yang of Chinese life experience gathered over thousands of years.
The hexagrams, illuminated by the text, are images of all that
happens. They present the potential of any life situation. At the
same time, they are held to be in a state of continual transition,
one changing into another, just as the transition from one
phenomenon to another is continually taking place in the physical
world.
Adjacent to each painting is its
corresponding diagram, Mandarin character, and excerpt from
Wilhelm's edition of the "I Ching".
Presented with permission of the
Princeton
University Press-Bollingen Series.
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JESSE
REICHEK RETROSPECTIVE --- PARTNERS IN CREATION
Works from
1947 to 2005
Creators Equity Foundation
2324 blake street • Berkeley, ca • 94704
PHONE: (510) 514-8188 • FAX: (510) 665-4893
email:
reichek@dslextreme.com
website address:
www.reichek.org
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