Reassembled Resemblance

1. Jocelyn Hobbie
2. Kathy Butterly

What I like about this combination is the meatiness that transcends from fine art to deconstructed ceramics. These compositions almost leave the feeling of perfect bodies melting into undefinable structures.
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Nudist Camp V

1. Jared French The Double, circa 1950
2. Steven Klein Games and Restrictions, 2008
3. DSquared Fall/Winter 2010 campaign

Obscene pool scenes and the exposed pale male. The thewy object of public stare. Interestingly, the voyeuristic composition always includes rails or poles. We leave any interpretation to the beholder and recommand a closer look at this reproduction.
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Nachtkerzenplanze

1. Tim Hamilton Redux Fall/Winter 2011
2. Gustave Courbet Sill life with apples and peaches (1872)

It's interesting to see one's personal taste evolving with age. The minimalism of modern times requests the decorative exuberance of historical realism. Let them eat fruit!
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Image credits David Schulze

Linear Poetry

Top Sloane, Peter Stichbury, 2000
Bottom Maison à Bordeaux, OMA, 2002

An image I'd like to hang in a house I'd like to own. Neo-realism and puristic construction. Blue, black and red. The face rebuilt in architecture. The suit a hill, the white shirt's collar a declining brick wall.
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Mermen & Mermaids

Top Neo Rauch, Das Gut, 2008
Bottom Unknown

When thinking of mermaids, movies like The Little Mermaid or Mermaids instantly come to one's mind. But suddenly I realized one true classic is missing: Splash with beautiful Daryl Hannah. Thanks to Neo Rauch for reminding me.
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Seminal Influence

Artworks Xenia Hausner

I admire this woman and her work. And how I tried to achieve this perfect balance of abstraction and realism. In the end, I failed. But the sweet memory of my attempts remains.
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Brief Notice

Artworks Kurt Kauper

Underneath the superficial surface I currently share one detail with Cary Grant. Pale and untouched skin. Below the waistline. The result of patience and constancy. I am at the beach now.
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Velum Vellum

Artworks Paul Cadmus

I always felt attracted to magic realism. How the clothes cover the bodies like a second skin. Only appearing as an alibi for nudity and eroticism. But also adding an ease, lightness and vulnerability.
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Tables

Top Alain Gilles, Big Table for Bonaldo
Bottom Diego Rivera, Table on a Cafe Terrace, 1915

I just love the fact that every element, every shape and every shade is aesthetically connected. The world consists of countless variations of beauty that can be divided into a few basic principles. It only needs something as profane as a table to decode reality.
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Imitative Simulacra

Artworks Bruce Sargeant

A body of work dedicated to the athletic body. Torn between realism, magic realism, social realism and surrealism. Statues of implied presence, revived by the rythm of lines and incomplete structures.
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Neue Sachlichkeit

Artworks Christian Schad

The reference piece for my most beloved fashion obsession: A man in a sheer shirt hiding an undressed woman. Transparency covering nudity. His chesthair referring to her sexuality.
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