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DAVID ALTMEJD ‘Untitled’ (2004), dans le cadre de l’exposition FLUX au MAC, Montréal p.Q.
It is impossible to look at the bruised and bloody body of PREDRO DE MENA’s Christ without wincing in sympathy. And one would have to be stonyhearted to look unmoved on the Virgin Mary’s tears. Yet, until very recently, painted wood sculpture of this kind, produced in Baroque Spain, was ignored by most mainstream art historians, or even dismissed as religious kitsch. (…) Polychrome works by the most skilled and passionate of Spanish sculptors are therefore at the top of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Art’s list of sculptural desiderata, and the chance to acquire PREDRO DE MENA’s marvelously moving Ecce Homo and Mater Dolorosa was not to be missed.
Because the half-length figures are slightly less than lifesize, and because they are given grand theatrical gestures and dramatically swirling draperies, they proclaim themselves as works of art. However, these pieces also bring the living figures of the tortured Christ and his grieving mother into our world, giving them a presence that feels almost unmediated by an artist. Not only are their facial expressions painfully vivid, the sculptures are colored with an extraordinary realism, with glass eyes and real hair used for the eyelashes. This coloring was also immensely skillful; Pedro belonged to the first generation of sculptors not forced by guild regulations to relinquish this responsibility. These are sculptures whose startling immediacy depends upon his brilliant craft.
Luke Syson
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman
Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
PREDRO DE MENA’s “Ecce Homo” and “Mater Dolorosa” are on view in Gallery 611 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan).
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Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe (March 23, 2011)
Religious Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (January 20, 2011)
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Fuck yeah, Churches! (January 31, 2013)
Fuck Yeah Tumblr (February 24, 2010)
Black Metal
Marilyn Watelet, Belgique, 1998, 48 min
Documentaire (…) qui nous fait entrer dans ce petit milieu du rock satanique de 1998 et, de concerts en rencontres, s’attache à suivre ces jeunes gens en rupture de société. Loin d’illustrer un jugement préconçu, MARILYN WATELET risque son film derrière l’image que les Black métals donnent d’eux-mêmes et que les médias et les politiques reprennent et amplifient.
C’est un voyage dans la Belgique des villages ordinaires où ont lieu les concerts Black Metal, rock violent et brutal aux messages ambigus. Vêtus de noir, maquillés, déguisés en barbares, des adolescents se retrouvent, dansent, boivent, se battent, essaient de draguer et partent dans la fièvre d’un concert, le temps d’un samedi soir. Ils disent avec des mots maladroits leur envie d’échapper au quotidien, au vide de leur vie. Ils ne savent rien de l’Histoire, rêvent d’un monde cruel tout en regrettant de faire peur aux filles. Parents et villageois pensent qu’il faut que jeunesse se passe et pour les organisateurs, ils sont un marché comme un autre. Dans ces rites de passage entre adolescence et âge adulte, l’ennui existe toujours et, de la violence de leur engagement, certains passeront à autre chose avec la même conviction. Certains se replieront sur la famille pour retrouver la tribu et pour d’autres, la tentation de se fixer dans ce discours extrémiste en fera la cible privilégiée d’une dérive d’extrême droite.
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How Much Black Metal Can You Take? (April 13, 2014)
One Man Metal (2012) presented by Noisey (December 20, 2012)
Xasthur par BRYAN SHEFFIELD, Self-Titled numéro 8 (June 23, 2011)
Black Metal Satanica (2008) by MATS LUNDBERG (June 13, 2011)
‘Black Metal’ (2005) photographs by STACY KRANITZ (June 4, 2011)
‘Svart Metall’ (2009) par GRANT WILLING (June 2, 2011)
Until the Light Takes Us (2009) by AARON AITES & AUDREY EWELL (June 1, 2011)
Norsk Black Metal (Norwegian Black Metal) (December 4, 2010)
Det Svarte Alvor (1994) A Black Metal Documentary (December 2, 2010)
Upcoming event at Drawn and Quarterly :
Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe launch Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
Join us on Thursday, July 30th at 7:00 p.m. for the launch of the second Spectacular Optical book, Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s.
Co-editors KIER-LA JANISSE and PAUL CORUPE (and some special guest contributing authors) will host the evening. There will be a talk and video presentation on this infamous era, and books will be for sale at the event.
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
211 Bernard Ouest, Montréal H2T 2K5
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In the 1980s, everywhere you turned there were warnings about a widespread evil conspiracy to indoctrinate the vulnerable through the media they consumed. This percolating cultural hysteria, now known as the “Satanic Panic,” was both illuminated and propagated through almost every pop culture pathway in the 1980s, from heavy metal music to Dungeons & Dragons role playing games, Christian comics, direct-to-VHS scare films, pulp paperbacks, Saturday morning cartoons and TV talk shows —and created its own fascinating cultural legacy of Satan-battling VHS tapes, music and literature. From con artists to pranksters and moralists to martyrs, Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s aims to capture the untold story of the how the Satanic Panic was fought on the pop culture frontlines and the serious consequences it had for many involved.
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A new anthology book on how the fear of a Satanic conspiracy spread through 1980s pop culture
(June 15, 2015)
Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (March 31, 2015)
Équinoxe d’Automne MMXIV (September 22, 2014)