May his thick beard not lead us to deceit. Anthony Stark is not a straggler hipster, rather we imagine him a kind of undisciplined disciple of Courbet. But the origin of the world of this nineteenth-century painter is the twilight of Stark’s own, because for him the desire is the prelude to death, his ecstatic announcement, the previous climb to the vertigo of the abyss. Because, as is underlined in his last pictorial series appropiating […]
No me fío de ningún pensamiento desexualizado, escribía Gombrowicz en sus Diarios, un autor en cuyas novelas dejó constancia de un discurrir interior en el que erotismo, pornografía y obscenidad son solo matices de un mismo telar cerebral. El título de la exposición comisariada por Javier Díaz Guardiola, Solo es sexo, nos recuerda dicho principio del escritor polaco por lo que tiene de apertura a múltiples filosofías de vida construidas alrededor de la erótica. Con […]
I don’t trust in any desexualized thought, wrote Gombrowicz in his Diaries, an author that placed on record an interior discourse in which eroticism, pornography and obscenity are only nuances of the same brain loom. The title of the exhibition curated by Javier Díaz Guardiola, Is just sex, reminds us the words of Polish writer because it opens to multiple philosophies of life around the erotic. With connotative emphasis seems to say: sex is just […]
Originally, pornography was an artistic genre used by heretics and revolutionaries, political dissidents and freethinkers. During the French Revolution, depravity was equated with corruption in the erotic imagination of poets and artists committed to harassing the Old Regime: to show monarchs being sodomized or fellating the servants, to reveal the impotence of ones and the promiscuity of others, in short, to make public the goings of royal bedchamber, contributed to the collapse of hierarchies and […]
