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Torture Garden invades the Barbican Art Gallery
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Oct 31, 2007 - 12:38:15 PM
Every Thursday for the duration of the exhibition, join us for late night openings with a difference. Events include artist commissions, live music, erotic readings and talks.
Seduced explores the representation of sex in art through the ages. Featuring over 300 works spanning 2000 years, it brings together Roman sculptures, Indian manuscripts, Japanese prints, Chinese watercolours, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and 19th century photography with modern and contemporary art.
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Torture Garden invades the Seduced: Art & Sex Exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery on Thursday 1st November, 7.30pm - 10pm
See the excellent Seduced: Art & Sex Exhibition for FREE if dressed in Torture Garden Fantasy Dress (Fetish, Fantasy, Burlesque, Uniform, Medical, Kit Kat Cabaret, Drag, Electro Freak, Retro Lounge Exotica etc) - changing at the venue is possible.
Pay regular exhibition admission of £8/£6 if not dressed up.
Featuring work from antiquity to now by over 70 artists including Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, Francois Boucher, Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Mapplethorpe, Egon Schiele and also Japanese Shunga, Kama Sutra, Ancient Greece & Rome, Renaissance, Kinsey Institute etc.
Paying bar, Seduced cocktail and aphrodisiac snacks.
AFTER PARTY
We will be having a free after party in a venue in Shoreditch from 10pm - details to follow
'The Barbican has conceived a real mother of an exhibition' Royal Academy of Arts Magazine
Seduced explores the representation of sex in art through the ages. Featuring over 300 works spanning 2000 years, it brings together Roman sculptures, Indian manuscripts, Japanese prints, Chinese watercolours, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and 19th century photography with modern and contemporary art.
Seduced presents the work of around 70 artists including Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt van Rijn and Andy Warhol among others. Stimulating the mind and the senses, provocative and compelling, Seduced provides the historical and cultural framework to explore the boundaries of acceptability in art. Seduced is curated by Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp and Joanne Bernstein.
Thursdays… After Hours
Every Thursday for the duration of the exhibition, join us for late night openings with a difference. Events include artist commissions, live music, erotic readings and talks. Enjoy a Seduced cocktail and aphrodisiac snacks from the bar. 6.30-10pm.
Ticket Information
Advance Members Tickets: £0.00 - To purchase members tickets, please login or become a full member
Venue Information
Address: Barbican Silk St EC2Y 8DS
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery
HISTORY
Alan Pelling and David Wood formed Torture Garden as a Fetish Club in Oct 1990.. Alan's background was as an alternative club promoter & DJ – new to London, and David's was a conceptual art & film graduate who had been going to fetish clubs since 1984. Together they were bored with the existing retro alternative clubs and suburban style fetish clubs. They wanted to create a new kind of radical alternative fetish club that combined diverse & progressive music, multiple environments, fashion, performance, visuals, installations, market area and more.
100 people came to the first event at the Opera On The Green venue in a shopping precinct in Shepherds Bush on a Thursday night, but by the 5th there were 500 and it was rammed! By this time TG had developed it's own unique crowd that combined the Alternative post Goth / Industrial, hard-core SM, Fetish Fashion and Gay & Straight scenes, with the totally new Body Art / Piercing scenes.
Early shows included body ritual by Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth, experimental percussion by Zev, music by Death In June & Boyd Rice and performance by Archaos Circus. There was no other club in the world like it!
ACCEPTABLILITY OF FETISH
In the 80's and early 90's Fetish & SM was still taboo and very underground, and even dressing in Rubber and going to a fetish club seemed a dangerous activity. As TG's notoriety grew, so did the `shock & scandal' reports in the tabloids, resulting in the Police frequently forcing venues to close events in 1991 - 1993, and the shadow of the Spanner Case also hung over the scene during the early 90's.
However, as numbers attending grew at prestigious venues such as the Ministry of Sound, and fetish fashion and creativity influenced the mainstream, fetish became trendy and venues actively wanted us at their venues.
As British society opened up to sexuality in general during the late 90's, the media also changed in their attitude to fetish. From tabloid to channel 4, fetish was now generally depicted in a positive light.
In the new millennium it seems that everyone knows someone that's been to a fetish club and it's generally becoming acceptable. However fetish and fetish clubbing is not for everyone, and we don't want just any-body at our events.
THE CROWD
TG's multi-dimensional events cater equally for a huge range of open-minded individuals from young fashionable clubber to alternative arty weirdo and burlesque cabaret fan to sophisticated SM regular. Providing something for every-body from any age group (18-60+), sexual orientation and gender. Creating an environment that accepts and encourages individualism, diversity and free self-expression.
Ultimately it is the crowd above all that generates the energy and atmosphere of an event, and the TG crowd is the most diverse, radically dressed up and cutting edge crowd in the world wide scene. It is they who have made TG what it is.
At TG the crowd are the stars and everyone is a celebrity, but famous visitors have included Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Tease, Jean Paul Gaultier, Boy George, Courtney Love & Marc Almond. Unfortunately Adam Ant was turned away for not dressing up enough!
www.torturegarden.com
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