Review: Normal Love
31/10/2023 - Swiss visual artist Yannick Mosimann crafts a singular film offering a raw look at relationships
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31/10/2023 - Swiss visual artist Yannick Mosimann crafts a singular film offering a raw look at relationships
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PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER James Bidgood might agree with a sentiment expressed in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband: To be natural “is such a very difficult pose to keep up.” From 1960 to 1970—the period between the US court decisions affirming the redeeming social value of male physique photographs and subsequent ones establishing a legal definition of pornography—Bidgood constructed an elaborate artificial world for himself. His small, hermetic body of work combines eroticism and a vivid, campy vulgarity. Although artists such as Pierre et Gilles, David LaChapelle, and Steven Arnold ...