Showing posts with label Alice visits the Hellfire Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice visits the Hellfire Club. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Coolhunting (a buzzword of which I've already grown weary but am going to use anyway)

Here's a link to an utterly fascinating web gallery: Bonobo Galerie

Most of the work shown there participates in a strange, deconstructed erotic aesthetic. I'm not sure but I'm under the assumption that the name of the gallery is a reference to the famously concupiscent species of chimpanzee. And that association suits my impressions of the work in this gallery well: most of it presents the assorted whimsies and grotesqueries of sexuality in a manner most animal, most playful, most unsentimental.

Among my favorites is this series entitled "Bondage" by the artist LL deMars.


This work is like what might happen if Sir John Tenniel ...

went to the circus with Nobuyoshi Araki.
In other words, Alice Visits the Hellfire Club (circa 1982)

O, the internet. Such fecund lands.