Individual Artists of Oklahoma announces the 17 th Annual BITING THE APPLE ART EXHIBITION to be hosted at our fabulous Gallery Space on Historic Automobile Alley. This year's theme is Erotica in Wonderland, and as the name suggests, we wish to provide, through the artworks selected for exhibition, a "journey down the rabbit hole". IAO is interested in erotic works, as well as art and performances that deconstructs, or investigates the mechanisms behind our perceptions of eroticism or sexuality in individuals and culture.
Rainer Maria Rilke said, "Bodily Delight is a sensory experience…it is a great, infinite learning that is given to us, acknowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge." Few themes are persuasive and relevant as the role of erotica in human culture, especially when perceptions of both what is erotic and what is art fluctuate . Nude portraits of Boticelli's angels or Mapplethorpe's photographs have been socially regarded as lewd or obscene. As time progresses and various art movements or periods replace each other, people's attitudes have altered to the extent where the artwork is subjected to individual standards from both the audience and the artist. Biting the Apple intends to provide a venue for artists and audiences to explore and broaden this controversial, but otherwise unresolved topic. More at http://www.myspace.com/iaogallery
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