CONTACT:
Michele Capozzi
michelecapozzi@hotmail.com

Theresa De La Cruz
(714) 851-5603

 

Location: Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, via Reggio Emilia 32 c/d, Roma, tel/fax 06 - 44247451
Hours: Mon – Sat, h 11:30 - 19:30

 

Dates: Oct 1 - Nov 3, 2005

 

 

 “One of our most controversial and censored artists, this modern master is an intensely imaginative photographer whose often deceptively lush and seductive images focus almost exclusively on sensuality and delve deeply into the complexity of the mind and its preoccupation with sex. As an artist, these explorations have known neither boundary nor restraint and much of his work is very dark —and both sexually and psychologically extreme. Too extreme, unfortunately, in the context of the prevailing taboos and limits of much of western society. So although he is venerated by a sophisticated international audience, his magnificent body of work, spanning over forty years, is largely unknown.

 

“To the Prurient Interest, Hörsch’s massive 2003 one-artist exhibition of 197 erotic-sexual images, which was presented in both Las Vegas and Los Angeles, was the largest in over thirty years. The works ranged from the quietly erotic to the extreme. It was an interactive exhibition designed to allow individual viewers to discover their personal limits by challenging them to draw the line between so-called pornography and art.

 

“Body and Mind…the aesthetic genius of R.C. Hörsch, which opened June 10 as a featured art exhibit of Erotica-LA at The Los Angeles Convention Center and is currently on view at the Los Angeles Entertanium’s XArt Gallery, hopes to change all that by presenting a small but compelling selection of his more accessible and, frankly, less shocking images. Nevertheless, you will see here a truly magnificent array encompassing beauty, sensuality, emotion and even humor.

 

“And perhaps your appetite will be wetted for a deeper study of this controversial modern master. Enjoy!”

 

                — Luis De La Cruz, art historian and exhibition curator