Tony GARIFALAKIS

Burning cross and two hearts
(2010)
from the Mutually Assured Destruction series (2010–13)

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Pleasure & Reality

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Powers many manifestations

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Pleasure & Reality

God planted a garden in the east, Eden. There he put the man he formed and made all kinds of tress grow from the earth, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Richard LEWER God put the man in the Garden of Eden and asked him to work and care for the land. He named him Adam, commanding him ‘to eat from any tree in the garden, except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil’ for if he was to eat from the tree of knowledge he would certainly die. Richard LEWER Burning cross and two hearts Tony GARIFALAKIS This is the account of the heavens and then earth when they were created, when God made the earth and the heavens. No shrub had yet appeared on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the earth. Then God formed a man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life, and the man became a living being. Richard LEWER Halloween Tony GARIFALAKIS God makes garments of skin for Adam and Eve and clothed them. God said ‘Man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ God banished him from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out God placed a cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Richard LEWER The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals that God had made. He said to the woman ‘Did God really say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?’. She replied ‘We may eat fruit from all the trees in the garden except for the tree in the middle of the garden or we will die’. The serpent convinces the woman she will not die and will instead gain wisdom from eating the fruit. Richard LEWER God said ‘It is not good for man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him’. God put Adam into a deep sleep and while he slept he took a rib from the man’s chest and closed up the wound with flesh. God made a woman from Adam’s rib. He named her Eve. Richard LEWER Black widow sunshine Tony GARIFALAKIS Swastika bloom Tony GARIFALAKIS Out of the ground God formed all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to man and asked him to name each living creature. He gave names to all the livestock, wild animals and birds in the sky. Richard LEWER The veteran's address to a young sailor Isaac CRUIKSHANK (etcher); George Moutard WOODWARD (draughtsman) Dress VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, London (fashion house); Vivienne WESTWOOD (designer) Precepts of landscape drawing Plate II with Views in Wales Joseph GLEADAH (engraver); John VARLEY junior (after) IMF Tony GARIFALAKIS Landing at Anzac Cove, April 25th, 1915 William Wiehe COLLINS Eve takes the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and shares the fruit with Adam. Richard LEWER A river watering the garden flowed from the garden of Eden and from there separated into four waterways. Richard LEWER Sgt Major Satan Tony GARIFALAKIS Cartouche fragment of the Aten name, from Boundary Stela S EGYPT, el-Amarna Workers and peasants welcome spring as one family PEOPLE’S FINE ART PUBLISHING HOUSING, Beijing (publisher); FENG Jianxin; FU Qiong Inscribed fragment, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela S EGYPT, el-Amarna Adam and Eve were both naked and felt no shame. Richard LEWER Victorian Aboriginals and war implements Fred KRUGER God said to the serpent ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life’. To the woman he said ‘I will make your pains in childbearing severe and with painful labour you will birth children. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.’ To Adam he said ‘Because you listened to your wife ate the fruit, cursed is the ground because of you. Through painful toil you will eat food and it will produce thorns and thistles. You will work the fields by the sweat of your brow and you will eat your food until you return to the dust of the ground from where you came.’ Richard LEWER Lancaster, Pennsylvania Marjory COLLINS Look 5, dress COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)