Voluptuaries & Vivisections:
A Celebration of Depravity
Guest Curator: Thomas Negovan
August 14 - 30
Opens Friday, August 14, 2009
8 - 11 PM
These are images that burned themselves into the minds and hearts of unwitting late 19th/early 20th century citizens, inciting unparalleled controversy all over Europe and beyond... and promise those same reactions in those who cross paths with them today. Decadence, dandyism, sex, and murder: more than mere posters, these are windows into the darkest corners of human compulsion.
In an event curated by Thomas Negovan and Century Guild, a Chicago gallery known for museum quality Art Nouveau and Symbolist Art, La Luz de Jesus invites you to be a part of an unprecedented event that explores the taboos that have titillated and tormented since the turn of the century. Masterpieces of lithographed poster art from 1880-1940 illustrating subjects ranging from seminal S&M literature to STD warnings to serial killers will be shown, all of which shall be sure to incite reactions of lust, terror, anger, nausea, and inspiration.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/currentshow/Voluptuaries/Voluptuaries.htm
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