ATTAIN Erotic Mythology Art/Video Salon (2003) at the
Eickholt Gallery
At the 5000 sq. ft. Eickholt gallery space, Art &
Propaganda organized the Erotic Art/Video Salon. At this multimedia event, fine
art and video installations bordered live performances of modern dance,
striptease, acoustic music, reggae dance vibrations, beatboxing and film screenings.
Over 40 artists and performers participated. Here you could relax among pillows
and couches, eating homemade ice cream and carrot cake while viewing beautiful
erotic art at sensual prices.
Garon Peterson, since 1990 has organized many multimedia
art events and festivals based on Mythology through his company Art &
Propaganda for the past 10 years. Starting with his avant -garde art magazine
Art & Propaganda, his association over time with hundreds of eclectic
artists evolved into his curating in clubs, large loft spaces and
galleries. Within the last four
years, his three major Mythology Festivals have been organized in loft
galleries from 5000 square ft to 10,000 square ft, reaching over 8000 people
and with a daily average attendance of 200. He calls them affectionately,
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> “Art Installation Performance
Environments” and plans to create these beautiful environments in major cities
and within other major art festivals around the world.
Artists Statements
Artist: Lai Chung Poon
My work has bold sexual energy and starkness that screams
for attention. They are often
self–portraits with a very distinct glance towards the viewers to echo the
poses of classical portraits and pinups of women. I like to passionately show
my frustration with my surrounding within the layers of my work and execute it
in a cute style, which creates an interesting juxtaposition where the viewer is
drawn in by the innocent allure of the piece and then discovering its inner
meanings.
Artist: Lyn Mandelbaum
I paint to express a condition of the human soul that we
sense emotionally but can never possess logically. A momentary glimpse into an
inner space that rational thought can not address. I’m trying to paint the
essence of a feeling, a moment, a fleeting interaction, a synthesis of
intangibles, some twisted attempt to conjure up the undefinable and give it
form. But as hard as I try, it’s the human frailties that ultimately motivate
and control my outcome.
Artist: Marc Adrian Villas
style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:normal’>When shooting
the figure I try to create a beautiful image first and foremost, and I
collaborate with my subjects by allowing them to make suggestions and give me
ideas for the shoot within the aesthetic framework that I set in advance. This
collaboration works best for me, as it allows the model a fuller expression in
the work and gives me the freedom to focus on creating a powerful image. This
body of work is inspired by the erotic mythologies that surround the
relationship between nature and beauty.
Arist: Amy Shapiro
Amy Shapiro currently performs at Rubalad
style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’> events and is a member of the Missile
Dick Chicks. In Rock
& Roll Terrorist,
her one-woman show, she portrays a terrorist, a burnt out groupie and herself.
Her goal is to communicate stories with spiritual significance. She has
participated in workshops with Karen Finley, Shelly Mars and Cheryl King.
Artist: Reynolds
I started doing these small figurative watercolors,
entitled Puki Monsters, in the early nineties. Puki means vagina in Filipino. The early
Pukis were playful gender avengers, romping through the history of Western
painting, subverting some of my favorite masterpieces. In 1995, with the birth
of my son Raphael, the monsters became MOMsters. I had been creating a feminist
demonology from old religious paintings, and the Madonna images I used became a
contemporary icon, who plays with cultural history by birthing hybrid babies.
The MOMster is arrayed in rich garments, while the landscape reflects and
magnifies her glory.
Artist: Garon Peterson
I believe that art is therapy through exploration of one’s
psyche. I feel that human sexuality, one of the most powerful of our innate
forces, is properly and directly related to divinity and thus the sacred. My
art searches for the spiritual manifestations in the physical. I also
incorporate mandalas with personal symbols as a way create a vocabulary which
may one day enable me to facilitate speaking directly to my inner soul and well
as the souls of others.
Artist: Adi Harari
Photography is meditative for me. That is the place where
I don’t have to worry and think about the problems of the world and my life. I
try to test myself to see how far I can go photographing nudes in public spaces
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Artist: AFM
Women always strike me,
incarnating the mysterious power of attraction
With a special fascination
for breasts
The aesthetics of the Modern
World unfortunately condemn this beauty, replacing it with a boring politically
correct vulgarity, make up and leather underwear:
The contrast between Ancient
and Modern World is striking and my work, animation and paintings, tends to
celebrate the primitive world for its unhidden and earthy beauty.
Artist: Mascha Oehlmann
My answer to Erotic Mythology is MERMAID
style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>, goddess of the sea – seductive
and misleading at the same time. In this painting I continue my journey of
portraying movement in people, body languages and facial expressions–revealing
some of what’s inside them.
What moves people emotionally pushes me to express it on
canvas, wood or paper. Painting to me is communication, energy, movement as
well as meditation–it is a discovery and delivery of what I hear, see or feel. |
