{"id":2145,"date":"2020-02-03T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:24:23","slug":"ca-pesaro-a-lot-of-sex-please-were-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/ca-pesaro-a-lot-of-sex-please-were-british\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e0 Pesaro : a lot of sex please, we’re British"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you remember the play and comedy film \u201cNo Sex Please, We’re British\u201d that had so much success in the 1970s? In the UK, the play totalled a record-breaking 6,761 performances between 1971 and 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that the times have changed, though, because while visiting the exhibition \u201cBREATHLESS\u2013 London Art Now\u201d at the Ca\u2019 Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice<\/a>, one is tempted to say, \u201cJust sex please, we\u2019re British\u201d. We don\u2019t mean to generalize, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition, organized with the support of the British Council and curated by Norman Rosenthal, Harry Woodlock and Elisabetta Barisoni (director of Ca\u2019 Pesaro), brings together 15 emerging London-based artists, for a total of over 40 works, including five original site-specific installations commissioned by Ca\u2019 Pesaro and other works from the collections of the British Council and the Arts Council, from galleries, and from artist studios. The works range from paintings and sculptures to videos, photographs, installations, and even performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EDDIE PEAKE KOMODO-DRAGON 2, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As noted by Elisabetta Barisoni in the catalogue, \u201cthrough the filter of contemporary art, once again, we
look for answers, even though we know that the best art is one that does not easily provide these, and at the most poses questions; even though we know that the artist\u2019s eye always discerns and is more intense, more crude, more visionary than the news reports and more irrational than historicisation. But often it is more durable and sometimes even eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of visitors (casual, not regular, museum-goers, obviously) complained about the \u2018obscenity\u2019 of
some of the works on display, which depict acts of autoeroticism, details of genitalia or investigate sexual identity. In reply to these complaints, Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISSY WOOD THE UNDERDOSE, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Said that, compared to the past, the way in which these young artists deal with sexuality is more intimate and poetic, and not vulgar at all. Besides, reflection on gender, if done in a certain way, is extremely relevant to our times, as demonstrated by its increasing importance in the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, according to Belli, no one should feel offended or embarrassed by the exhibition, which by placing
London centre stage becomes, on a metaphorical level, an investigation of everyday life and creativity in the Western world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artists in the exhibition are Larry Achiampong, Alvaro Barrington, Alice Channer, Matt Copson, Nicolas Deshayes, Ed Fornieles, Anthea Hamilton, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Celia Hempton, Evan Ifekoya, Lydia Ourahmane, Eddie Peake, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Prem Sahib, Victoria Sin, and Issy Wood. Running until 1 March 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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