Exhibition: The Major Swarm of Meanings Surrounding the Ancient Pyramids

Straus Newspapers (Vicki Botta)

An exhibition exploring Egyptomania, in New York City (U.S.).

Ever since the Age of Enlightenment, the West has sought after the unknowable, esoteric, and sacred history of ancient Egypt.

Tim Hull, 28-year-old Warwick High School graduate, explores this fascination of the West with a major exhibit titled “The Major Swarm of Meanings Surrounding the Ancient Pyramids.” This compilation of serious and humorous pieces with an Egyptian theme will be shown at Freight and Volume, an art gallery on 24th Street in New York City, through Oct. 13.

“This particular body of work casts its eye on the Western fascination with the mysteries of Egypt,” said Hull. “Artifacts, cryptic motifs, and geometry are hallmarks of what we understand to be Egyptian. Pictorial flatness, immediacy of imagery, and symbology are visual cues we recognize as seminal Egyptian developments. Western archeologists and sundry men of adventure have sought to understand the modern world, vis-à-vis the ancient, through rummaging about the Nile valley.”

See the above page for more, which looks at Hull's background and interests, and quotes pieces from an interview with him. A press release about the exhibition was released and can be found as a PDF on the Freight and Volume website.