LA LUZ de JESUS GALLERY
and
CENTURY GUILD
present
Voluptuaries & Vivisections:
A Celebration of Depravity
Guest Curator: Thomas Negovan
August 14 - 30
Opens Friday, August 14, 2009
8 - 11 PM
These are images that burned themselves into the minds and hearts of unwitting late 19th/early 20th century citizens, inciting unparalleled controversy all over Europe and beyond... and promise those same reactions in those who cross paths with them today. Decadence, dandyism, sex, and murder: more than mere posters, these are windows into the darkest corners of human compulsion.
In an event curated by Thomas Negovan and Century Guild, a Chicago gallery known for museum quality Art Nouveau and Symbolist Art, La Luz de Jesus invites you to be a part of an unprecedented event that explores the taboos that have titillated and tormented since the turn of the century. Masterpieces of lithographed poster art from 1880-1940 illustrating subjects ranging from seminal S&M literature to STD warnings to serial killers will be shown, all of which shall be sure to incite reactions of lust, terror, anger, nausea, and inspiration.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
All posters in this show are available in three facsimile editions:
44" Edition of 150 on Archival Bamboo Paper..........$1850
36" Edition of 150 on Archival Bamboo Paper............$95036" Edition of 300 on Cotton Rag Paper..........$550
Alcoholism
(Alkohol Ellen)
Anonymous, Budapest Hungary
Year: 1909
Alraune, die Henkerstochter,
genannt die rote Hanne
(Alraune, the executioner's daughter,
called the red Hanne)
Artist: Theo Matejko
Year: 1918
Cocaine
Artist: Rene Galliard
Year: 1923
Fiaker No. 13
(Carriage Number 13)
Artist: Ernst Dryden
Year: 1926
Theater Grand Guignol
The original Grand Guignol Poster from the legendary Paris Horror Theater.
Created from one of the last surviving original Grand Guignol posters.
Homunkulus
Dubbed by academics as the greatest film no one has ever seen. only fragments of the film exist. This poster edition is made from the worlds only surviving original.
Year: 1916
Hyanen der lust
(The Path That Leads to Damnation)
Anonymous
Year: 1919
Silent film poster
Schloss Vogelod
(The Haunted Castle)
Artist: Josef Fenneker
Year:1921
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Silent Film
at the Marmorhaus, Berlin
Opium
Artist: Theo Matejko
Year: 1919
Prostitution
Artist: Josef Fenneker
Year: 1919
L'Hecatombe Syphilis
(The Mass Slaughter of Syphilis)
Artist: Louis Raemakers
Circa: 1919
Totentanz
(The Dance of Death)
Artist: Josef Fenneker
Year: 1919
Silent film at Berlin's Marmorhaus
Les Maîtresses du Pape
(The Mistresses of the Pope)
Artist: Hope
Year: 1878
Le Masque Anarchiste
(The Mask of Anarchy)
Artist: Privat Livemont
Year: 1897
Le Nom Fatal
(The Boxer Rebellion)
Vintage paperback
Circa: 1901
Madceenhandel-
Eine internationale Gefahr
(Women Trade- an International Risk)
Artist: Mihaly Biro
Year: 1927
Landru
Artist: Charles Verschuuren Jr.
Year: 1920
