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Euro Weekly News | Desire over the taboo: Eroticism in contemporary art | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "POLIGONO GALLERY in Marbella will inaugurate a collaborative group show dealing with eroticism in contemporary art on Friday September 17.
Through the work of 32 established and emerging artists from China, Indonesia, Europe, Russia, Turkey and USA, the exhibition examines differing interpretations of eroticism in art, with an emphasis on the representation of the female form.
Among artists exhibited feature: Ana Matias, Carlos Sanchez Perez (Ceesepe), Liu Guangyun, Terry Rodgers, Xu Hualing and Mel Ramos, among others.
The exhibition aims to show how each artist, playing with their imagination and the power of suggestion, have explored the subject of eroticism with very different sensibilities.
For some of them, evoking an image, a memory or a sensorial reference is enough to awaken sexual desire, without the need of more crude or explicit representations of sexuality.
For others, the same scenes that some would find obscene are the very representation of their understanding of eroticism, and go beyond the established taboos.
Sexual morals vary depending on times and culture. Some representations judged obscene or transgressive in earlier times are now conceived as simply erotic. The definition of what is erotic and what is pornographic remains elusive and fluctuating.
The portraits of Liu Guangyun, cast in polyester resin, are of models out of fashion magazines and newspaper ads. They describe the loss of identity by economization of man and eroticism."