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the post today, indicating a small exhibition of homoerotic art that, for once, has an international feel and is held in Italy ... And more specifically at the general store in Milan Pier Pour Hom (from January 20 to February 26). The show in question is focused on the reinterpretation of the figure of Saint Sebastian, who for a variety of iconographic motifs and historians (too numerous to mention here) has always been considered something of a gay icon before its time.
For more information and a gallery full of twenty-five artists that make up this exhibition can CLICK HERE , but I wanted to stress that there will also be the work of a couple of artists who are diligently this blog ... That is, Padovani Mauro Ciani and Alex ... 
Compliments & Congratulations! We hope that their works can be purchased by a rich collector, despite the widespread economic crisis. Hoping that this is only the first of many exhibitions of this kind, this opportunity also allows me to tell you that in the U.S. (where the situation actually is a gay art tantinello more advanced), has recently started the publication of a quarterly magazine very serious, caring and professional that takes care homoerotic art and art focused on the beauty of the naked male body in general ... It's called THE ART OF MAN and found your site CLICKING HERE. 
Frankly I think it's feasible to even think such a move would, in today, would go well beyond science fiction ... But it's comforting to know that to get the magazine that is not complicated and now the English language is quite accessible. Besides, if you are an artist who created homoerotic works in classical style (so no style comics, manga or cartoon), you can submit your works, and this is a good thing. Also in this magazine is no shortage of in-depth articles and essays on the history of male nude and homoerotic art. Produced a mouth-watering, well ... 
am personally of the opinion that art should be able to count on publications that make it accessible even to those who do not regularly attend museums and art galleries, also because unfortunately you can not create a true culture of art especially in those areas where museums and art galleries are absent, or maybe they are confined to very restricted areas. I think this speech applies in particular because of the homoerotic art, besides being very little known and publicized, it may even be opposed and boycotted regardless of its quality ... 
The very fact that in Italy the exhibition that I mentioned at the beginning is taken in a trading (although now it is fashionable to call them open space), rather than in a museum or an art gallery (although this type of space certainly not lacking in Milan), speaks volumes about how far we still have to do before the homoerotic art can be cleared in a nation like ours, unless it is disguised as a classical art and / or religion, old or new it is ... And with all the appropriate distinctions. 
The good news is that, thanks to the internet, now the information and ideas can move instantly from one continent to another, irrespective of the physical space made available, offering a range of stimuli and comparisons that were unthinkable a few years ago. Of course we must consider the cultural resistance of each individual situation, but at least now it is becoming more widely the idea that there is another world possible for art homoerotic and gay-themed comics. Again, this is definitely a good thing. And speaking of art, the information circulated and the fact that today is the Day of Remembrance for the victims of Nazism, I close by recalling the story of Marcello Lupetti (1952-2001), portrayed in the picture below ... 
Probably most of you will wonder who is Marcello Lupetti, what to do with the Day Memory and art, and why you've never heard of ... Answer the last question is quite simple: because in Italy the concept of gay culture is a bit 'limited, especially for what concerns the art. As for the rest I think Memorial Day is sure to remember the victims of Nazism, including homosexuals, but also should make us think about how - even after the Nazis - Homosexuals continued to be persecuted by law in many nations. Marcello Lupetti, born in Argentina by Italian immigrants, lived in that terrible period of dictatorship, secret police took care to "disappear" people uncomfortable, including homosexuals. Miraculously escaped the dragnet in its umpteenth University, Marcello Lupetti was forced to leave his home, emigrating to Brazil and then luckily in Germany ... Before settling in Los Angeles ... Where he established himself as a sculptor, creating works that sought to represent his inner drama through beautiful male bodies and unfinished, like the lives of many people who had known ... 
Unfortunately he died in 2001 following a heart attack, and his companion decided to give his statues to Tom of Finland Foundation, to enable it to gather a bit 'of funds. The Tom of Finland Foundation has therefore decided to use the money from the sale of those works to launch a fund dedicated to the memory of Marcello Lupetti, the Tom of Finland Foundation's Marcello Lupetti Artists Fund, which just serves to support homosexual artists in need. I wanted to make you think that all this would not have been possible if Marcello Lupetti had been summarily executed by the Argentine dictatorship, instead of fulfillment as an artist ... 
Any homosexual who was imprisoned and executed only because he is homosexual is not an infinite number of possibilities for society, as well as unspeakable injustice, and I could not really use words to describe how horrible to think that this Currently, this situation is considered perfectly normal - or even "right" - in many countries around the world. Maybe we can not do much to these people, but I think that this awareness should inspire us to live as fully as possible and makes sense of our lives, perhaps without being in the shadows, even on behalf of all those people who can not do it without risking life. Hello and the next.
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