Month: August 2017

Sebastian Gherrë

Sebastian Gherrë, “The Russian Boy / Love Song”, Gelatin Silver Print (Error), Pentax 67-120mm, 2017

Sebastian Gherrë is a musician and visual artist, born in Buenos Aires in the late Golden years of the 80’s. He later moved to the capital of Chile with his mother, becoming an earnest student of the Municipal Theatre in Santiago from 1997 to 2003. But it was only on 2009 when his character of GÄG-BÄLL emerges from the floors of the great Santiago, where Gherrë gain swift popularity in the Gay art circle by means of his explicit photographs revolving around sex.

Flavor Frozen in Time

Photographer Unknown, (Flavor Frozen in Time)

“If time stood still, each moment would be stopped; frozen. Each moment, individually, can be captured as though the world was a giant painting. Each breath, each blink, each glance will be recorded forever. The silence growing with more strength, more will and more enthusiasm. Not even the wind will move, nor the seasons change. The sun will not sleep and the stars forever hidden. Time is a precious element that must not be lost but embraced.” -Alexis Hurley

George Tooker

George Tooker, “Voice”, Lithograph on Rives Gray Paper, 1977, 11 x 9 ¾ Inches, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The “Voice”  by George Tooker shows two men on either side of a wall or door. While the viewer is privy to their close proximity to one another they seem unsure about one another’s existence. The man on the left has placed his head against the barrier as if listening for movement or communication. On the right, a second man presses his open mouth to the other side but seems silent and frozen in fear. Tooker cropped the image closely so that we focus on the relationship between the two men as they breath quietly and await contact. A delicate tension is established between the two figures as they wait.

This focus on the futility of human communication, one of Tooker’s most powerful commentaries, was originally done by him in a series of paintings entitled “Voice I” (painted in 1963, now in a private collection) and “Voice II” (done in egg tempera in 1972 and now in the National Academy Museum and School).

Max Richter, “On the Nature of Daylight” 

 

Max Richter, “On the Nature of Daylight”

This song was used on the soundtrack of the movie “The Arrival”. A great song by a great composer. If you do not know his work, listen to more. If you have not seen the movie, well, it should have won Oscars. A great intense movie about life. An ambitious sci-fi film that forces viewers to reconsider that which makes us truly human, and the impact of grief on that timeline of existence.

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Tarcisio Generoso, “ Marlon Alves”

Tarcisio Generoso, “Marlon Alves”

Tarcisio Generoso is a photographer at Marcelo Auge in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  He studied cinema at Operahaus, Instituto de Cinema, and at the London School of Photography.

Marlon Alves is a fitness instructor well known for creating unique Zumba videos to the tune of popular artists on his self-titled YouTube channel which launched in 2015. Before he launched his career, he was a physical education teacher and is now touring and doing Zumba master classes.

The Borghese Ares

The Borghese Ares (Mars), Roman Imperial Era, 238.8 cm, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

The Borghese Ares is a Roman marble statue of the Imperial Era of the first or second century AD. Standing at 238.8 cn (7 feet) tall, it is identifiable as the Roman god Ares by the helmet and the ankle ring given him by his lover Aphrodite. This statue possibly preserves some features of an original work in bronze, now lost, of the fifth century BC. Formerly part of the Borghese collection, this Ares statue was purchased from the collection in 1807 by Emperor Napoleon; it currently is housed at the Musee du Louvre in Paris.

The discovery of artifacts from the ancient Greek cult of Ares, particularly sculptural representations of Ares, is a rare occurrence. Scholars had prviously thought the Borghese Ares might be derived from a statue created by Alcamenes, an Athenian sculptor. This was based on the writings of the  second-century Greek historian Pausanias who stated that Alcamenes had sculpted a statue of Ares later erected on the Athenian Agora, the central public assembly location in the city.

However, as the temple of Ares which Pausanias referenced had only been moved from the Athens suburb of Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora during the reign of Emperor Augustus (27 BC to 14 AD), this a chronological impossibility. Due to this, it is highly unlikely that the Borghese Ares is a copy of Aleamenes’s work but, more likely, a Roman creation copying the style of Neo-Classicism.