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Leonardo PucciStarflower Drumsticks 11:06AM, Paris2021
2021
$3,000
£2,286.65
€2,637.41
CA$4,260.90
A$4,578.78
CHF 2,456.78
MX$53,935.25
NOK 30,891.31
SEK 28,219.01
DKK 19,710.99
About the Item
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present Flowers, a photographic exhibition by Leonardo Pucci. Flowers is Pucci’s second solo exhibition at the Robin Rice Gallery. Paralleling his previous, “episodes (without real order)”, this series is also a project about beauty and intimacy.
Flowers was created in the beginning of the pandemic. Pucci says, “the lockdown came to get me out of a creativity crisis I was going through at the time.” He was inspired by a Hojō Jutsu manual while being isolated in his residence in Paris. He studied the art of Shibari and performed it on cut flowers: calla lilies, anemones, carnations, proteas, roses and tulips were tied with strings like bent and constricted bodies and then photographed. “Tulip 1:15pm” was the first image created for this ongoing series.
Hojō Jutsu is the martial art of restraining captives with rope, commonly used on the battlefield by the Empire of Japan from 1400 to 1700, that hundreds of years later it evolved into the refined technique of Shibari (literally “to tie”), the spiritual art of erotic bondage.
The tied flowers in each photograph resemble human bodies that overflow with sensuality. Bodies controlled in their vital impulses, in their shameless and sexual blooming. At first the knots seem innocent, but the constraints bring eroticism to the photograph that is highlighted further with moisture and fluidity. Behind the simplicity of the title, Flowers is an invitation to reflect on the relationship between beauty and control, between the incarceration of aesthetic ideal and the liberating power of bodily impulse.
Portrait, Still Life, Paris, France , Abstract, Botanical, Color, Flowers, Paris, , Erotic, Bondage, Shibari, Starflower Drumsticks
- Creator:Leonardo Pucci (1969, Italian)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:41 x 51Price: $5,200
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- Gallery Location:Hudson, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1110527202

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