Title of the Exhibition:

Eratomania

Date of Creation:
2002-2023
Genre:
Figurative, Nude
Period Movement:
Neo-Expressionism, Painterly Realism
Technique:
Painting, Digital Art
Materials:
Original digital artworks, original paintings on canvas
Dimensions:
Variable


Exhibition Description:
This exposition is a selection of works of erotically charged art. Nicholaas Chiao first started creating erotic art when he, as a school student in Belarus, approached the creation of scholarly works emphasizing the nude body. They were hardly erotic in the beginning - instead, they exercised shading and modeling of form. They were characters of regular people - no pop art glamour or celebrities. In 2006, upon relocation to the US, the artist created a series of more realistic depictions of women in a rather classicist style, with slightly harsh realism but with more considerable attention to sexuality. It will be later, in 2010 and after, when a modernist tradition of erotic art has emerged for Chiao. The main influences will be Edgar Degas, Eduard Manet, Gustav Klimt, and Pablo Picasso. He emphasized sexuality in the studies of a more established character than in his scholarly exercises. His seminal work here will be Together in Marriage and Plans of Life and Death, a diptych depicting a couple of newlyweds and the same couple many years later as still loving each other skeletons. Other more notable works will be New Olympias and Sisters. Both are pretty monumental figurative compositions exploring today's characters and the complexity of modern life.