A gallery owner has created a stir by encouraging visitors to an exhibition of nudes to strip off to help them to feel closer to the art, he said today.
Kevin Money, 39, is offering 25% off any purchases of works from the Bodyline exhibition at Gallery 39 in Swindon, Wiltshire, to anyone who bares all.
That's not the most interesting part of the article. Check this out.
He added that less open-minded people in Swindon have reacted against the display of paintings, drawings and photographs, which includes one image of an erect penis.
The gay image in the window has attracted shouts and jeers from local yobs and he has been told the show is 'disgusting' and 'filthy' by other residents.
Describing Swindon as "a cultural desert", he insisted he would stand firm and not be intimidated by the hostility.
"I'm not going to be driven out by gay taunts," he said.
All this over an image of an erect penis that is in the window. This in an area of the world were any billboard you see on the highway shows a female breast. I wonder if Robert Mapplethorpe had the same kind of problem. Most of his works are nothing but nude males with erect penises. Hell, his work has been called pornographic by some!
We can show nude women in galleries, but when you show a nude male, you're immediately told the piece is trash. Yeah, that's fair. We need more nude males in art galleries.
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