Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal

José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal was Born in Berlin, and currently lives and works in Lima, Perú. He studied painting at PUCP (Pontifical Catholic University of Perú) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Currently, José is completing his Masters in the History of Art at PUCP. 

His visual work makes use of the line technique found in renaissance copper plate engraving but applied to drawings. Both the themes and their treatment José explores are essentially anachronistic and follow the initiative of developing a symbolic language that aspires to a timeless nature.

José has also developed the visual concept for several musical albums by bands from America and Europe, amongst them Whoredom Rife (Norway) and Inferno (Czech Republic).

His works have been published by Aeon Sophia Press (Netherlands), Anathema Publishing Ltd. (Canada), and Mount Abraxas (Romania). 

He is know for publications such as Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014), Cover Design & Illustrations within PILLARS: Perichoresis [Anthology] (Anathema Publishing Ltd. 2016), Cover design and illustrations for Abyssinia, by Damian Murphy (Mount Abraxas 2017), A Second Nature (Aeon Sophia Press, 2017), All illustrations for (h)Aurorae, by Gabriel McCaughry (Anathema Publishing Ltd. 2018), as well as IAO: Ophite Iconography (Anathema Publishing Ltd. 2022).

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Semesilam: The Eternal Sun (Forthcoming)
José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, Anathema Publishing, Semesilam, Art, Forthcoming
Semesilam: The Eternal Sun (Forthcoming)
José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, Anathema Publishing, Semesilam, Art, Forthcoming

A compilatory volume, gathering the artwork that José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal produced between 2012-2017. This ‘definitive anthology’ includes the long out-of-print Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014) and A Second Nature (ASP, 2017), along with further, unpublished works from the same period and an extended photographic record of Sabogal’s work focusing on human skulls and bones.

José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, Anathema Publishing, Semesilam, Art, Forthcoming
IAO
Anathema Publishing, José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, IAO, Art
IAO
Anathema Publishing, José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, IAO, Art

IAO is an iconographic proposal, an attempt to illustrate the Gnostic worldview and its myths as understood by the Ophites, a sect of which little is known. It is, perhaps, an exercise of imagination, of what Christian iconography could have resembled if the Ophites had survived.

Anathema Publishing, José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, IAO, Art
Clavis Goêtica
Hadean Press, Frater Acher, José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, Clavis Goetica
Clavis Goêtica
Hadean Press, Frater Acher, José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, Clavis Goetica

Clavis Goêtica presents a reference to the 16th-century tale of the first white magician, Johannes Beer, who is brought back from the dead in this book.

Hadean Press, Frater Acher, José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, Clavis Goetica

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