Fashion Charts IX

1. Costume National Spring/Summer 2015

2. J.W. Anderson Spring/Summer 2015

3. Ermenegildo Zegna Spring/Summer 2015

Longing for neck scarf bondage. The one we will all start wearing again. Pre-2000 traumata reprised. As classic safari boy knot (Ennio), rubber rope stranglewear (Jonathan) or pyjamas suit necktie (Stefano). Another top three.
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Image credits Style.com

Tokyo Diaries X

A mental travel preparation.

Artworks Gekko Hayashi

The homo-eroticism of sexotism. A world of 'ukiyo-e' and 'shin-hanga', of 'hentai' and 'hard yaoi'. A place where the word 'stroke' exploits the full potential of its double meaning.
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Fashion Charts III

1. Prada Fall/Winter 2014

2. Maison Martin Margiela Fall/Winter 2014

3. Walter van Beirendonck Fall/Winter 2014

Longing for torso bondage, from Eskimo to psycho. Cozy in fur (Miuccia), recycled in nylon (Martin) and strapped in leather (Walter). An iteration by the queen of fashion, a disappeared icon and resurrected teddy bear. My top three.
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A Photo Booth Biennale, Epilogue II

A second look at The Artwork Will Be Present, 2013.



1. Nobuyoshi Araki Colourscapes, 1991
2. Nobuyoshi Araki Untitled, 2010

It wasn't until a visit to Vienna that I had been fully introduced to the work of Nobuyoshi Araki. When sexual obsessions, fetishistic contemplation and the excuse to create 'art' disembogue into documents of ego and reach a high visual quality based on the 'low' human impulse.
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A Short History Of The Grid In Popular Culture VII

1. Unknown
2. Man Ray Venus, 1937
3. Daniele Buetti Blue Face (Lightbox #55), 2005
4. Hasse Nielsen Supergirl, Cover Magazine Novenber 2012

On its seventh installment, we are facing the face grid in four sections: mythological, surreal, virtual and editorial. Each dividing/slicing his or her countenance in equal fragments which results in a dominant and strictly 'square' world view.
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The Decorative Anti-Decorative II

Artworks Dewey Arsee

Carefree depictions of sexual practices. Appetite stimulating, or, dinner disrupting aphrodisiacs that come in homoerotic doses. Whatever serves our needs is hardly/greatly appreciated.
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Via PIN-UP Magazine

A Short History Of The Grid In Popular Culture II

1. Man Ray Venus Restauré, 1936
2. Nobuyoshi Araki Bondage, 1994
3. Hassan Khan Blind Ambition, 2012

Following my thoughts on The Grid, the fetish for roped restriction presents another example of domesticated nature. What seems repressed by rational, mathematical systems reflects, as such, liberation.
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P.S.: The fragility of repression is beautifully typified by a glass sculpture encountered today at dOCUMENTA (13).