The Planets Within: A Fibre Cosmology
Thu, Jun 19
|Vancouver
FREE Museum Exhibition Opening
Time & Location
Jun 19, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – Jul 31, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Vancouver, 3075 Slocan St, Vancouver, BC V5M 3E4, Canada
About the event
The Planets Within: A Fibre Cosmology
June 12 through to July 31, 2025
Terry Aske, Rosemary Burd, Linda Coe, Barbara Heller, Thomas Roach
Italian Renaissance Philosopher Marsilio Ficino (Florence: 1433-1499) looked to the heavens and the planets to understand our world and human nature. His philosophies shaped the course of Renaissance art and informed the most famous paintings of his time such as Botticelli’s La Primavera (late 1470’s). He firmly believed, along with his patron Cosmo de Medici (1434-1464) that our personalities were not only shaped by the alignment of the planets at our birth, but if we surrounded ourselves with the images of the planets would become more of what that planet represented. The moon made us more mystical, Saturn made us mysterious and moody, Mars made us more warlike, and Jupiter made us more authoritative and powerful. The images of comets, also, made us prone to moments…