Art & Porn marks the 50th anniversary of the release of image pornography and shows how the relationship between porn and art has evolved over the past five decades. The exhibition was created in close collaboration between ARoS and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
On July 1, 1969, the image pornography was released in Denmark. The release triggered a tsunami of images that have since surrounded us in good and evil. One of the issues addressed by the Art & Porn exhibition is: What does it mean when one day the other person shifts the boundary of what one can experience in public space?
– Much has happened since the image pornography was released 50 years ago, but sex and pornography are still in many ways a taboo in our time. Society is both through-visualized through, for example, advertising and reality TV, and at the same time there is a huge search for sexual identity. It is a complex reality, and here art can be a catalyst to talk about what is difficult , says museum director Erlend G. Høyersten, ARoS.
– The exhibition perspectives how it has influenced art and society’s changing norms, that the legislation on pornography was changed. For example, what does this mean when liberal Danish legislation is today challenged by censorship of both art and pornography from international media giants such as Facebook, Youtube and Instagram , says Michael Thouber, director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
https://www.aros.dk/om-aros/presse/2019/art-porn/
Tom of Finland, T.V. – Repair, 1972, pen, ink, gouache and cut-and-pasted photo on paper, 21 parts, photo Brian Forrest, courtesy David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.
Valie Export, Aktionshose, Genitalpanik, 1969, photo on aluminum,(c) Valie Export, Bildrect Wien, 2019, foto Peter Hassmann, courtesy Valie Export.
Wilhelm Freddie, Sex-paralysappeal, 1936 (kopi 1961), ©Photo_Moderna Museet_Stockholm.
Anna Uddenberg, Rich Rose, 2017, installation, Courtesy of the artist and Gaga, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Images Omar Olguín.
Betty Tompkins, F Painting #31, 2009, private collection, (c) Betty Tompkins.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #253, photograph, 1992, Courtesy of the artist, Sprüth Magers and Metro Pictures, New York, (c) Cindy Sherman.
Jeff Koons, Blow Job-Ice, 1991, oil inks on silk screened on canvas, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Olso.
Jeff Koons, Wolfman (Close-Up), 1991, oil inks on silk screened on canvas, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Olso.
Sarah Lucas, Eros, 2013, cast concrete,crushed car,installation SITUATION Absolute Beach Man Rubble,Whitechapel Gallery,London,2013© Sarah Lucas, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ.
Artists list:
Anna Uddenberg, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, Amalia Ulman, Arthur Køpcke, Betty Tompkins, Biba Fibiger, Bjørn Nørgaard and Lene Adler Petersen, Carolee Schneemann, Gaspar Noé, Cindy Sherman, Elmgreen & Dragset, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen, Hans Henrik Lerfeldt Jeff Burton, Jeff Koons, Jesper Fabricius, Katja Bjørn, Larry Clark, Lawrence Weiner, Linder, Lynda Benglis, Maja Malou Lyse, Marco Brambilla, Marilyn Minter, Marina Abramović, Matthew Barney, Mika Rottenberg, Mike Bouchet, Monica Bonvicini, Per Kirkeby, Peter Land, Pipilotti Rist, Ryan McGinley, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Sarah Lucas, Simon Fujiwara, Susan Hinnum & Sarah Young, Suzette Gemzøe, Tom Of Finland, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Valie Export, Wilhelm Freddie, William E. Jones, Wolfgang Tillmans.
