Guido Cantone opens the Sadistique art exhibitions season

Guido Cantone opens the Sadistique art exhibitions season

Guido Cantone is a “difficult” artist, the kind who really can’t accept to bend their work to possibly comfortable standards, but different from the purity of their vision. When he approached the world of extreme eroticism, of fetish and BDSM, for example, the first thing he did was to reject every aesthetic imposition deriving from decades of habit to a visual style that still owes a lot to ancient porn magazines. So away with a certain type of outfits, away with stereotyped acts, and above all away with any pretense of predefined roles.

Confronted with the triumph of the Shades of Grey phenomenon, then, his critical and creative vein got unleashed, inspiring a photo series titled 50 fucking shades of nothing. The result is an inevitably personal take on fetish, bringing classical beauty canons to a world that sometimes can’t stop mimicking an Hamburg sex shop from the Eighties.

This is also why we wanted him to inaugurate the Sadistique art exhibitions: after all, renewal is the name of the spirit guiding the new course of this event dedicated to extreme eroticism – and on December 4th we can’t wait to know your impressions as well. We are waiting for you!