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   PRESENTS 

 FETISHBOOK CLUB 

 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

  THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

WE THE ANIMALS
BY JUSTIN TORRES

 AUGUST 19TH, 2018

 1PM 

 $10 COVER  

  TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

  1421 LAVETA TERRACE   

ECHO PARK CA 90026 

 INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net 

 antebellumgallery.blogspot.com 

WE THE ANIMALS, 2011) 

 debut novel by American author Justin Torres. 
 It is a bildungsroman about three wild brothers of white and Puerto Rican parentage 
who live a rough and tumble childhood in rural upstate New York during the 1980s. 
 The youngest brother, who is the protagonist, 
 eventually breaks away from the rest of the family.
 The novel is semi-autobiographical and is loosely based on Torres's own life  
growing up in up-state New York. A film adaptation of We the Animals directed by
 Jeremiah Zagar  premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival,
 and will screen at Outfest LA during july,2018.

"IT"

MENADDICTED- AYOR- ZINE SIGNING WITH PUBLISHER ERIC LANUIT

MEET PUBLISHER/EDITOR-

 ERIC LANUIT 

JUNE 24TH

6PM

@

ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD

TROIS HOMMES DE PARIS @ ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD

presents  

 TROIS HOMMES DE PARIS

(artist- eric lanuit)

(artist- fullmano)

(artist- rico)

~featuring~

ERIC LANUIT
FULLMANO
RICO
belly dancer-
JOE FILIPPONE

opening reception

june 24th

7pm till 9pm

$5 cover

(on display thru july 15th) 

ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD

1643 N LAS PALMAS AV

 HOLLYWOOD 90028

info- antebellum@earthlink.net

TROIS HOMMES DE PARIS

 PRESENTS

TROIS HOMMES DE PARIS

OPENING RECEPTION & ZINE SIGNING

JUNE 24TH

7PM/ $5COVER

INFO-  antebellum@earthlink.net

TROIS HOMMES DE PARIS

presents  

 TROIS HOMMES DE PARIS

(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) 

ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD

1643 N LAS PALMAS AV

 HOLLYWOOD 90028

antebellum@earthlink.net

(artist- eric lanuit)

ORIENTALISM

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~Leon Jerome, 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- fullmano)

HOT COUTURE. The manual sewing under its multiple forms (cross stitch, dive, free sewing) on supports not dedicated to this technique - let us be everything but some tissue there. Embroidery on papers, tapestries, vinyl records, plastic bags, digital editions... The “thread” as the main medium of expression and representation.

The various craft techniques of the sewing allow me to create a gap with what is represented, so confronting often very distant universes.

I apply the task to prick scenes - often in sexual connotation - points by points, in a slow and meticulous process; so wanting to make some sewing - craft and feminine said work - a major art.

My work can take very different forms, by basing me on the medium.

(artist- rico)

My name is Rico, I was born in Paris - France. Passionate about drawing. My life is all about creative desires of handcraft experiments and sexually explicit and Queer illustrations.
The Project FUCK ME RICO, started in 2013 with no particular goal, if it's not, that it had to be totally oriented into the raw erotic gay porn illustration, without any sense of decency. An experience straightforward, without any remorse. A desire to go beyond the borders while considering the stage lightning.
The evolution of the project, focuses on the importance of black and white, mainly done on Kraft paper - my favorite - and also on the attractiveness of the use of limited and pure colors on Japanese plywood boards. 

LATIN QUEER FESTIVAL @ THE VILLAGE

Visual Art

Location: Advocate & Gochis Galleries (part of the Los Angeles LGBT Center)

Exhibit will run: April 22 to May 21, 2016.
Free Opening Reception: 7-10 p.m. on Friday, April 22

In addition, a program of artists’ videos will be shown in the Advocate & Gochis Galleries throughout the festival.

Co-Curators: Enrique Castrejon, Artist, and Katie Poltz, Curator of Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries

Featured Artists

• Yukiko Avila – photography
• Jamie Blair – photography
• Rick Castro – photography
• Ruben Esparza – mixed media, photography-based
• Erica Friend – painting
• Gabriela Hidalgo – photography

• Marlon Ivory – wood burning
• Martha Martinez – stencils, printmaking
• Martin Matamoros – painting, drawing
• Miguel Reyes – photography
• Julie Rodriguez – photography
• Hector Silva – drawing/painting, prints

Erica Friend Corona de Calaveras

Ruben Esparza Floral Mist Memory

Rick Castro

Yukiko Avila Sunday Morning Ride

THE TORTURE GARDEN OPENS APRIL 14TH @ ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD

THE TORTURE GARDEN: 

GROUP SHOW INSPIRED BY OCTAVE MIRBEAU

PRESENTS

THE TORTURE GARDEN

(artist- rick castro)

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
JOHN HALE

LIVE PERFORMANCE BY~
ALCHEMIO

OPENING RECEPTION

APRIL 16TH

7PM TILL 9PM

$5 COVER

(artist~ elaine parks)

 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~ david crocker)

"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

"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

(artist- rick castro)