Indica Gallery
The Indica Gallery was an art gallery with a bookstore in London in the Swinging Sixties mid-1960s. The gallery, founded by John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles, consisted of two years, from November 1965 to November 1967. You was a center of the London underground culture. The underground magazine International Times was founded in 1966 by Barry Miles and John " Hoppy " Hopkins in the Indica bookstore.
History
John Dunbar, who had just finished his art studies, learned Barry Miles, who worked for the bookstore "Better Books", by the legendary poet Festival International Poetry Incarnation on 11 June 1965 in the Royal Albert Hall know. The two were planning to open an art gallery with the bookstore. They won Peter Asher as a partner for financing, and founded the company " Miles, Asher and Dunbar Limited" (MAD, German: crazy).
In November 1965, the Indica Gallery opened with an attached bookstore in Mason 's Yard 6, not far from Piccadilly Circus. Dunbar was responsible for the gallery, Miles for the bookstore. Asher's friend Paul McCartney had helped in setting up the first cash register of the store was a gift from Jane Asher, Peter's sister and girlfriend at the time McCartney.
According Observer hosted Indica some of the most radical avant-garde shows in London ( Indica organises some of the most avant -garde shows did can be seen in London), including happenings of Yoko Ono, John Lennon met for the first time here.
In November 1967, the Indica Gallery was forced to close due to financial difficulties. The bookstore was moved in 1966.
Aftereffect
The end of 2006 showed the Rifle Makers Gallery in London under the name " Rifle Maker Becomes Indica " an exhibition of artists who, 40 years previously in the Indica Gallery. End of 2007, the exhibition was called " NYEHAUS Becomes Indica " to see in the New York gallery NYEHAUS.
Name
During Rifle Makers returns the name Indica on the English word " Indications " (hints), is the connection to the Latin name of Cannabis - Cannabis indica - probable.