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Hector de Gregorio
About Seduced
title : SOHOT
format : installation
media : photography
references : media, marketing, publicity, religion (mainly Christianity)
Hector’s work is a contemporary and uncompromising expression of his radical view on the look of desire, pain and pleasure. His work is made up of a series of large printed images titled: Waxing (for pleasure), Extasi ,Voyeur and Bunny of God. Hector's imagery is a cocktail of Baroque, iconography and postmodernism styles used to accentuate the drama, importance and general values of the experience of sex, and promises to launch The Window Gallery Seduced Show with a sense of purpose.
About The Artist
As an artist, I am fascinated with how one single theme has been producing such variety of styles and takes, from the sensuous (ie. F. Lippi) to the macabre (i.e. Bosh), realism (i.e. Carabagio), metaphysical (Dali, etc..)
I am very interested in seducing the viewer, I try to create a visual lure to keep the viewer entertained. Once this happened I can tell a story, introduce a character.
Visual Language References:
Media, Marketing, Publicity - this type of imaginary is set to attract/hook/lure the viewer in seconds.
Religious (mainly Christian) imaginary. This language has been polished for about 1500 years, glamorous, sinister, still narrative.
Reviews
ORGAN MAGAZINE . ART-ACT REVIEW
Hector de Gregorio's work is eye catching, what we see here has us searching the web to explore his intriguing pieces of photographic manipulation - pieces alive with colour and character, with suggestion. Clever use of extremely fascinating models/subjects/people (some of whom are wandering about tonight themselves, some of whom you've probably bumped in to in stranger places). A left field flavour, elaborate stage props, powerful imagery that almost confronts the viewer – or at least at times look you direct in the eye and dare you to look back. Nothing is sacred, religious under/overtones, the hint of deliciously dark things beyond mere fetish – delicious modern portraiture.
CLUB-URBAN. REVIEW
Carefully selected models, elaborate stage props and photographic manipulation, presents the viewer with a stark, powerful image, often looking straight back at himself on equal terms.There seems always to be a fine line between drunken absinthe drinkers and studies for Christ on the cross. The sacred and the profane occupy equal space.
- Noel Isherwood -CLUB URBAN- London *
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