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Art and sex
Jan. 17th, 2008 12:05 pmThis coming week-end is the first time that we don't have any social engagements, so we have booked to go and see the "Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now" exhibition at the Barbican, in its final week.
The exhibition is for over-18s only but somehow I don't think we'll have to worry about carrying any ID !
This morning I read in TimeOut about an exhibition of the work of of Jordan McKenzie, where sex is not (only) the subject but the medium, called Spent.(for obvious reasons, as you will see!)
"Some of the works on display, collectively entitled Spent, are works that are produced using human bodily fluids: the artist ejaculates on a sheet of drawing paper and covers it with a layer of carbon dust. When dry, the excess dust is removed, leaving a black imprint."
“Signed and dated, the images collectively become an acknowledgment of human futility in the face of time as well as a violent record of male sexual drive. Caught and frozen as black-on-white eruptions, these simple auto-drawings plot desire, libidinal drive and sexual economies whilst powerfully evoking mortality and the will to overcome its inevitability. Each one has both an aggressive, chaotic imprint and a fragile delicacy that complement the medium, adding to the body of work by various artists that explores and articulates the notion of the artist as (pro)creator. On a more humorous level, they also subvert this, becoming an ironic take on the machismo of action painting by reframing it in a hyper-sexual manner."
Click here for the artist's website.
I wonder whether I should give it a try at home! Or perhaps we should all do it as a new LJ meme.
The exhibition is for over-18s only but somehow I don't think we'll have to worry about carrying any ID !
This morning I read in TimeOut about an exhibition of the work of of Jordan McKenzie, where sex is not (only) the subject but the medium, called Spent.(for obvious reasons, as you will see!)
"Some of the works on display, collectively entitled Spent, are works that are produced using human bodily fluids: the artist ejaculates on a sheet of drawing paper and covers it with a layer of carbon dust. When dry, the excess dust is removed, leaving a black imprint."
“Signed and dated, the images collectively become an acknowledgment of human futility in the face of time as well as a violent record of male sexual drive. Caught and frozen as black-on-white eruptions, these simple auto-drawings plot desire, libidinal drive and sexual economies whilst powerfully evoking mortality and the will to overcome its inevitability. Each one has both an aggressive, chaotic imprint and a fragile delicacy that complement the medium, adding to the body of work by various artists that explores and articulates the notion of the artist as (pro)creator. On a more humorous level, they also subvert this, becoming an ironic take on the machismo of action painting by reframing it in a hyper-sexual manner."
Click here for the artist's website.
I wonder whether I should give it a try at home! Or perhaps we should all do it as a new LJ meme.
