FILTHY LUCIFER LAUNCHED AT HOLY, ARTIST’S BOOK EXHIBITION 18 November - 20 December Lola Nikolaou Gallery Thessaloníki, Greece The images within Jonas Ranson’s ‘Filthy Lucifer’ represent a profane rather than a sacred interpretation of the theme of Holy. Profanities in the original meaning of blasphemous profanity are part of the ancient tradition of the comic cults, which laughed at the deity . ‘Filthy Lucifer’ subscribes to this same tradition. The compositions create an arcane perspective, the message one of subverted elucidations of history. Jonas has been drawn to the marginal and hence subversive nature of supernatural themes, the ideas and symbolism of the occult and its association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Images attempt to coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation. The Filthy Lucifer of the title refers to the phrase ‘filthy lucre’. The pairing of filthy and lucre is meant to highlight the sinfulness of immoderate or greedy desire for wealth, soon applied to money itself. The substitution of Lucifer then is the more direct evocation of the transgressive, wicked or sacrilegious.