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EROTICALL 3 - GRAPHIC ART AND PHOTOGRAPH

EROTICALL 3 - GRAPHIC ART AND PHOTOGRAPH

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October 9, 2014 to November 27, 2014

What is the real nature of energy that “fuels” fantasy? When this energy, which brings the sense of life to its final orgasmic purpose, intensifies? Is eroticism an ecstatic expectancy for the "maybe" potentiality, a physiological breeze of freedom, an exquisite lightness of pulse or just the simple feeling of something more visceral that we have forgotten... a deeper reality? The profound experience of life’s truth and its cycles: birth, death and rebirth without end...

So what? What is this seemingly absurd game? Is eroticism a bottomless pit? Are we the slaves, the instruments, or the mindful architects of its dynamic? Intimate, collective, orgiastic, uninhibited, private and sacred, organic, digital, meditative, exhibited or hidden, spontaneous or calculated, codified or censored... Some consider that eroticism only seems to be a purely “spreading process” imposed by our brain that we wrongly sublimate, a judicious propaganda generated by our procreation instinct. And then, many of our fantasies will never echo in this life in a way that could transform us on a transcendental path... powerful, uplifting... simply spiritual.

Why? In a so intense period in which amplified reality technologies, virtual reality and socio-cultural referents indisputably absorb us and childishly dilutes our fantasies. Is eroticism also an abject marriage of our cowardice and our legitimate desire for fusion?

Pornographic vulgarity, actually so banal, should not always be the one that usually comes to mind in a first place. All this mainly is... our terrifying fear of death perversely entangled with our need for life, all this niggardly blooming behind numerous screens. Every erotic practice lived with mature discernment and huge respect is a generous masterpiece that life is offering us, an astonishing lifestyle, a suitable acceptance of our self and the others, “conveying” its own vocabulary, its graphic magic and its own universe as infinite as literature, because above all... pure and natural imagination.

During Eroticall 3, Diego Piccini da Todi simply continues his work on the body, as "the facade of a new cathedral, a slow motion arena, a life’s theater," just like he did during his previous graphic art, photography and drawing exhibitions.

Gallery # 523 - Belgo Building – 372 Sainte-Catherine West, Montréal.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday, from 1pm to 6pm and by appointment.