Title of the Exhibition:

Eratomania

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


Exhibition Description:
Exposition of selection of works of erotically charged art. For Nicholaas Chiao, erotic art was started 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 - rather exercises in 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 bigger attention to sexuality. This will be in 2010 and later when a modernist tradition of erotic art has emerged for Chiao. The main influences there will be Edgar Degas, Eduard Manet, Gustav Klimt, and Pablo Picasso. He started to emphasize sexuality in the studies which were of a more established artist than a scholar. 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 quite monumental figurative compositions exploring the characters and complexity of modern life.