ANTEBELLUM PRESENTS~ ORIENTALISM

presents  

ORIENTALISM

(artist- eric lanuit)

featuring~

ERIC LANUIT
FULLMANO
RICO

belly dancer-
JOE FILIPPONE

opening reception

june 24th

7pm till 9pm

$5 cover

(on display thru july 15th)

(artist- eric lanuit)

In the nineteenth century following the Napoleonic campaigns in Egypt, 

French painters and writers suddenly developed a consuming passion for the East. 

Fascinated by the splendors  of the sultan’s court, excited by the mysteries of harems, 

 Jean-Léon Jérôme, Delacroix, Ingres and many others started to represent 

Turkish baths, half-naked slaves, 

the opulence of the Arabian Nights. Inspired by this Orientalist movement, 

photographer Eric Lanuit reinterpreted its codes : 

sparkling colors, languid bodies, warm and sensual lights. 

Instead of goddesses and virgin slave-girls however, he prefers the beauty of dark and muscular princes, with their sensual and abandoned bodies, immersed in a picture 

"perspirant the amber perfumes, musk and sandalwood of a harem of imaginary boys".

(artist- eric lanuit)