THE TORTURE GARDEN

PRESENTS

THE TORTURE GARDEN

(artist~ kai reichert)

GROUP EXHIBITION 

INSPIRED BY THE  FETISHISTIC NOVEL

  BY OCTAVE MIRBEAU IN 1899.

~FEATURING ARTISTS~

DAVID CROCKER

ELAINE PARKS
KAI TEICHERT

VIELA VALENTIN

RICK CASTRO

NATHAN  HORNER

MACKENZIE FEDORUK

VILELA VALENTIN

LIVE PERFORMANCE BY~
ALCHEMIO

OPENING RECEPTION

APRIL 16TH

7PM TILL 9PM

$5 COVER

(artist~ david crocker)

 The Torture Garden 
 is a novel written by the French novelist Octave Mirbeau, published in 1899. groundbreaking and shocking to this day, Mirabeau created a dialog about fetish fantasies,  desires  & nightmares long before culture was ready to accept. perhaps we are still not ready? nevertheless curator Rick Castro explores mirabeau's ideas with the help of seven of his best artists. 

about antebellum hollywood~

now is it's 11th year antebellum hollywood is the only fetish art gallery in the world. 

owner rick castro curates art as fetish on a monthly basis.

antebellum is intended as a salon for presentation of original ideas and 21st century culture, with a full awareness of the past.

(artist~ mackenzie  fedoruk)

"Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Blood everywhere and, where there is most life, horrible tormentors who dig your flesh, saw your bones, and retract your skin with sinister, joyful faces. ~"The Torture Garden," Chapter 9

(artist~ rick castro)

"Ah, yes! the Torture Garden! Passions, appetites, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. What I saw today, and what I heard, is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth. I have vainly sought a respite in quietude and repose in death, and I can find them nowhere. ~

"The Torture Garden," Chapter 9