Art Erotica Exhibition
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- Published on Friday, 20 January 2012 16:03
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I entered this drawing, "Fragrance" for the inaugural Art Erotica Exhibition which takes place
Thursday 19th – Friday 27th January 2012. 10am – 6pm daily
in The Gallery in Cork Street, 28 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG
http://www.arteroticaexhibition.com/
I'm delighted to find that the drawing has been awarded a prize donated by one of the exhibition sponsors, A C Art and Framing.
http://www.arteroticaexhibition.com/artist-prizes.asp
People have been asking me why on earth would I draw such a thing.
It's because I started thinking what sort of person would do that. (I had heard about Monsanto, met someone in France who had shockingly peed on his girlfriend's television, and I thought that's a good way to water a cactus. I had been thinking about Grunewald's crucifixion: an advert for salvation, so since the GM industry is offering salvation as well, I thought they might like an equivalent image. As far as it being erotic goes, love makes you blind and pain can be alluring, so they have an excuse. Perhaps the main reason is that I like cacti, identify with the sensitive inside that needs such a protective interface with the world, and very occasionally they produce flowers: some varieties have huge flowers that only last for one night and emit a quite extraordinary exquisite fragrance, and maybe the allure of that would justify this kind of interaction. The title - Fragrance - seems to offer a way to engage with the image on a physical level. But whatever the starting point for an image, the art is in the expression of it and a personal response.)
You can learn a lot from drawing something, giving it intensity, finding its sensuality, and I love the draughtsmanship of it.
I did a whole series: "White Man at work".
I've always been aware that we listen to works of art through many sense channels, and it's the tension between the aesthetic and awareness of the physical that give art it's power. There are art forms for each of our senses.
All art is choreography, and the erotic in art in not just the images, it’s the way you do it that gets under the skin.
The erotic is sex with style: it reminds us how to dance, which makes it a nice subject for art.
Art is like a hypodermic.
I know it's a bit of a strange image, but look at other drawings on this site and you may see some connections. But whatever the artist's motivation, you enjoy it or not according to your own take on it. The show is on in Cork St until 27 January.
It's one of the images in my "Prints for sale" page, along with a more recent version of the same image. "Fragrance" was done in 2002, and I did "Fragrance 2" this year.
