بيتر غريناواي
彼得·格林纳威
פיטר גרינווי
ピーター·グリーナウェイ
피터 그리너웨이
Питер Гринуэй
The Pillow Book
Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget, THE PILLOW BOOK is auteur Peter Greenaway’s erotically-charged drama about love, death, revenge and the indelible nature of our earliest memories. Each year on her birthday, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) would became her father’s canvas, as he painted the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy on her body. Years later, she continues the practice with a succession of lovers, including a bisexual translator (Ewan McGregor) who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of vengeance against her beloved father’s exploitative publisher. Told in a series of chapters and featuring innovative cinematography and picture-in-picture techniques, Roger Ebert called THE PILLOW BOOK “a seductive and elegant story [that] stands outside the ordinary.”

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Guerre

A struggle that seems to be of particular relevance today. A metaphorical title, poetry of the line and of colour, that highlights the challenge that each of the parties represents. A kind of symbolic correspondence that flirts with our world, with our history, our human condition. War opens up perspectives of matter, a struggle both real and poetic that blends lines and directions, inscribing the trace, the hue, in the flesh of the dancing body but also in a seductive paradox between line and colour.

Venus
Petrina Hicks utilises the seductive and glossy language of commercial photography to create artworks that probe at the false promise of perfection, exploring photography’s ability to both create and corrupt the process of seduction and consumption. Petrina Hicks has exhibited widely through solo and groups shows in Australia, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, USA, UK, Japan, China, Mexico and Brazil.

КАТАРИНА ФРИЧ
卡塔琳娜弗里奇
קתרינה פריטש
カタリーナフリッチュ
LIKE ALL FRITSCH’S WORK, RATTENKÖNIG IS SIMULTANEOUSLY SEDUCTIVE AND UNNERVING. SHE OFTEN TRANSFORMS QUOTIDIAN OBJECTS OR ORDINARY LOOKING FIGURES INTO SOMETHING NEW AND STRANGE THROUGH REPETITION AND MANIPULATION OF SCALE AND COLOR. HER SCULPTURES ARE THE RESULT OF A TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS: A PIECE IS USUALLY MOLDED BY HAND, THEN CAST IN PLASTER, REWORKED, AND THEN CAST AGAIN IN POLYESTER.

Джулия Рэндалл
Blown
Julia Randall is in love with drawing, and uses her seductive technique to craft images that subtly challenge assumptions about corporeality, desire, and the natural world. Intersecting sensibilities activate her work; images are simultaneously erotic and humorous, beautiful and repulsive. Although she clearly operates in the realm of fantasy, Randall uses observation-based drawing and hyperrealistic technique to create images that are surreal and suggestive.

Катарина Фрич
卡塔琳娜弗里奇
קתרינה פריטש
カタリーナフリッチュ
Like all Fritsch’s work, Rattenkönig is simultaneously seductive and unnerving. She often transforms quotidian objects or ordinary looking figures into something new and strange through repetition and manipulation of scale and color. Her sculptures are the result of a time-consuming process: a piece is usually molded by hand, then cast in plaster, reworked, and then cast again in polyester.

КАТАРИНА ФРИЧ
卡塔琳娜弗里奇
קתרינה פריטש
カタリーナフリッチュ
LIKE ALL FRITSCH’S WORK, RATTENKÖNIG IS SIMULTANEOUSLY SEDUCTIVE AND UNNERVING. SHE OFTEN TRANSFORMS QUOTIDIAN OBJECTS OR ORDINARY LOOKING FIGURES INTO SOMETHING NEW AND STRANGE THROUGH REPETITION AND MANIPULATION OF SCALE AND COLOR. HER SCULPTURES ARE THE RESULT OF A TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS: A PIECE IS USUALLY MOLDED BY HAND, THEN CAST IN PLASTER, REWORKED, AND THEN CAST AGAIN IN POLYESTER.

Seductive Exacting Realism by Marcel Proust 12

Monkey Business
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A cuddly toy monkey, hanging on a wall like a Jumping Jack. With a friendly hello the puppet starts to react to the visitor’s movements and immediately apes every gesture with its arms and legs, its head and body. You can let the ape act smoothly or invite him to a wild dace.
But in a subtle way the monkey asks for another move you have never ever performed before. Playing the game you will lose control unconsciously and after the seductive encounter you might start wondering: What is all this monkey business about? Who pulls the strings?

Ephemeral and ethereal

Ephemeral and ethereal, the work of artist Rein Vollenga is particularly notable in his ‘wearable sculpture’. Vollenga’s unique and visceral work is darkly seductive, and his creations have been embraced by many of fashions forward thinkers as they continue to venture into darker, more fetishistic territory that celebrates a deeper, animalistic sexuality and revels in individuality and fragmented identity. Vollenga is a native of Berlin, reflected in the Teutonic avant garde nature that pervades his work, as is a dangerous, slightly sinister and hedonistic sense that harks back to pre-war Berlin’s days of decadence and ‘voluptuous panic’; his creations conjure all the allure of the decadence of a futuristic Ball Masque. Renowned for his wearable art, which takes form in sculptural headwear and accessories, the artist is now gaining the attention and patronage of the fashion industries elite; a more severe and gothic, 21st Century Dali if you will. Chasseur sat down with Rein himself to discuss his work; its origins and nature, and what drives the man behind the masks.