HISTORY 2018 Annual #3
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HISTORY 2018 annual #3 1 LUCIEN FREUD SYLVIA SLEIGH ALAIR GOMES KEITH HARING LIVING MODEL THE CONDOM’S HISTORY PHALLUS’ CULTS Summary FALO© is a bi-monthly publication. PRESENTATION 4 january 2019. In public domain Editorial As usual the session moNUment brings two editing, writing and design: Filipe Chagas models. This time I invite you not only to editorial group: Dr. Alcemar Maia Souto, André 10 Guimarães and Guilherme Correa. ere is the third and final look at bodies but also the composition of Lucien Freud part of the annual english the spread. Look that the photos are almost the opposite: head up and head down, tall cover: Photo from Beach tripych nº 7 by Alair Gomes. version of Falo Magazine: Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, 198-. Collection from FALO HISTORY! Woohoo! and short, BW and colors, hairy and smooth, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional - Brasil. 22 more posed and more regular. The idea is to Sylvia Sleigh show everybody the diversity of shapes and The idea of the magazine since its beginning H images a male body can express through Art. Care and technique were used in the edition of this was not only show contemporary artists magazine. Even so, typographical errors or conceptual that work with the male nude but also show And the model with colors is Allan Lucena, 32 doubt may occur. In any case, we request the communi- through exemples from the past that this Alair Gomes cation ([email protected]) so that we can verify, clari- one of the collaborators of the magazine. In fy or forward the question. theme is very important to Art History. 2018 he wrote poems and texts. Now he So this annual brings incredible names like gives us his opinion about the cycles of life Lucien Freud, Sylvia Sleigh, Alair Gomes and in the matter of nudity. 46 Editor’s note on nudity: Keith Haring. Keith Haring Please note that publication is about the representation of masculinity in Art. There are therefore images of male That’s it. Don’t forget to take a look at nudes, including images of male genitalia. Please approach It also brings a chronicle about the with caution if you feel you may be offended. the first two parts (FALO ART and FALO institutionalizaton of Art explaining all the PHOTO). In March the new issues will 58 procedures of learning and teaching art, The Living Model Teaching return. Rights and Commitment: specially through the living model classes This magazine is committed to artists retaining cop- where nudity was allowed. Because of this yright of their own work. All rights are reserved and I really hope you enjoyed this project. It’s chronicle I knew a profesional model that therefore no part of this magazine may be reproduced almost a life savior for me and I know its SPECIAL 74 mechanically or digitally without the prior written per- gave me a new prespective about his work potential to help and teach everywhere. To be a living model mission of the artist. and profesion itself. I think it is mindblowing! Please forgive me about the english cause We have been careful to ensure that the images used in it’s not my first language and I had to this publication have been provided to us by the crea- My column Phallorraghia talks about the culst translate everything by myself (and Google PHALLOCAMPSIS 86 tors with copyright permission, or are copyright free or of the phallus and how ancient societies are being used under the “fair usage” protocol shared of course). The condom’s history over the internet (images are low resolution, attributed had a different view about the penis. The to their creator, not for profit and used only to illus- journalist André Guimarães signed the trate a relevant article or story). Thank YOU so much! See you soon! column Phallocampsis (this name is explained PHALLORRHAGIA 94 If, however, you feel your image has been used by us in the end of it) with the interesting story of Filipe Chagas, editor Phallus’ cults unfairly and your copyright breached, please contact us the condom. at [email protected] and we will proceed in the best way possible. OPINION 100 Cycles to break and to keep 102 moNUments PRESENTATION DNAde DAN is a dance-installation created by the middle of the square, your voices pierce artist in 2013, where Dan is the African ancestral me, your stupid jokes try to knock me snake that origins all forms and represents down, your indifference makes me In public domain the body rituals of passage, symbolized by the laugh, your embarrassment pitiates me, skin change of the snakes. Inside an inflatable but I still stand. environment created by the artist Fernando On July 15, 2017, the performer Maikon K was presenting his DNA de DNA Rosenbaum – in which the public can enter This work reverberated in the art world. at the square of the National Museum of the Republic in Brasília, when and remain –, Maikon stands still and breathes Brazil saw a growth of “art critics” defining police officers took him arbitrarily to the police station: he was detained minimally with the naked body covered by a the frontiers of art in a radical way, for an obscene act, apparently based on moral scandal of some random liquid substance (developed by Faetusa Tezelli) supported by tools of social networks and people, even though he had an authorization for the presentation. that, when dries, becomes a kind of second skin. fundamentalist political-religious dogmas. In Then, when it is no longer possible to breathe so September, Santander Cultural of Rio Grande They used violence. A sergeant grabbed me with an arm-wrench little in the plastic bubble, he begins a dance to do Sul canceled the exhibition Queermuseu and didn’t let me carry my shoes and documents. No one was able make the stiffen “skin” looses from the body. In - Cartografias da Diferença na Arte Brasileira to join me in the car, I was punched in a trunk with a spare tire. 2015, DNA de DAN was selected by the Serbian after violent demonstrations against an art artist Marina Abramovic to join the “Eight called “intolerant” and “zoophile”, capable of Both the Military Police of the Federal District and Sesc (the art institution) Performances” show, in the exhibition Terra corrupting children. With 270 works by artists manifested themselves in a note about what happened. In the PM version, Comunal. such as Alfredo Volpi, Adriana Varejão, Cândido they went to the scene after being told by passers-by that they had seen “a Portinari and Ligia Clark, among others, the naked man” around the museum. The police officers were informed that it After his release, Maikon stated: exhibition aimed to explore the diversity not was an artwork, but no documentation/authorization was presented. The only of the expression of gender, but also of note issued by Sesc says that “the prohibition of the performance in Brasilia, My body confronts your clogged channels, creeds and ethnicities. 4 5 the material damages to the work and the arrest of the artist constitute an your contained hate, even when standing. DNA de DAN per- arbitrariness that puts at risk not only the freedom of expression, assured Because you’ll never control me and I’ll pay What the exhibition revealed was a clear formance, realized in by the Brazilian Constitution and by international documents of which the price, I know, I always paid. Because unpreparedness of the public before the Art 2016 at Paraná. Pho- Brazil is a signatory, but interferes with the cultural rights of the public.” tos: Guto Muniz. standing there, naked, motionless in the itself. Perhaps because of arrogance, elevating itself as conceptual and independent of its Still from the video relation with the public for its existence, filmed during La Bête Art has forgotten its History and increased performance of Wagner the abyss between the production and its Schwartz, at MAM-SP, where Elisabete Finger spectators. Only provoking or causing any and his daughter are feelings is no longer sufficient in a world shown. Photos: Internet. where indiscipline and lack of education are slogans. However, it is Art’s role to extend discussion and test boundaries for collective reflection. presentation with notices about the artist’s In the same month, one more case: a video nudity. The mother – performer Elisabete Finger spread on the internet showed a little girl – took her daughter to see the perfirmance, accompanied by her mother touching the feet but the (criminally) publicized video turned her of a naked performer. The torches of morality into an “irresponsible” while Wagner became lit up. Virtual sticks and stones became death the “MAM pedophile”. Both were treated as threats to the artist, and Art as a whole criminals and had to testify. became degenerate. The militias of hatred, in the service of themselves (and of some In his first interview, five months after the politicians and religious people), made an incident, Wagner said: ignorant scene of lynching and reproduction of lies and slanderous paradoxes, creating 6 Art is a territory out of control, but the 7 evidence against themselves. fragment of the performance – not THE performance – disconnected from our The performance La Bête, created in 2005 proposal has been recontextualized to by the artist Wagner Schwarz, is a new look articulate conservative ideological labels over the series Critter, the geometric figures such as “the Brazilian family” or “our with hinges considered an art classic by the children”. This performative act also exists Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. The artist begins as an experience, but instead of expanding the performance by manipulating a plastic the relationship of people in the world, it replica of a Critter.