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November 1 > 4, 2020
Kasmin is pleased to present Walton Ford: Thurneysser's Demon for TEFAF Online from November 1–4, 2020 (with preview days October 30 & 31, 2020).
Walton Ford’s Thurneysser's Demon (2008) takes as its starting point the story of an elk owned by the 16th century Swiss alchemist and astrologer Leonhard Thurneysser, as described in The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E.P. Evans (1906). On the text, Ford has said, “it has to do with trials and animals accused of witchcraft, all kinds of weird condemnation of animals over the years for basically human crimes."
The story recounts that the elk, given to Thurneysser by Prince Radziwil of Poland, was brought to Basel as a gift to his home city from which he had previously been expelled after attempting to sell gilded lead as gold. Unfamiliar with the species and wary of Thurneysser’s reputation for the supernatural, the local residents believed the elk to be demonic—and, in response, an elderly woman fed the animal an apple filled with needles, resulting in its demise.
Walton Ford’s Thurneysser's Demon (2008) takes as its starting point the story of an elk owned by the 16th century Swiss alchemist and astrologer Leonhard Thurneysser, as described in The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E.P. Evans (1906). On the text, Ford has said, “it has to do with trials and animals accused of witchcraft, all kinds of weird condemnation of animals over the years for basically human crimes."
The story recounts that the elk, given to Thurneysser by Prince Radziwil of Poland, was brought to Basel as a gift to his home city from which he had previously been expelled after attempting to sell gilded lead as gold. Unfamiliar with the species and wary of Thurneysser’s reputation for the supernatural, the local residents believed the elk to be demonic—and, in response, an elderly woman fed the animal an apple filled with needles, resulting in its demise.
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