Stefano Arienti / Tender
Bruxelles, Les Éditions du Souffle, [printing: Dereume Bruxelles], 2003, 29,5x21 cm., paperback [softcover], pp. [160], illustrated artist’s book with colored reproductions of various works by Stefano Arienti. An essay in English by Marianne Van Leeuw (Introduction to Tender by Stefano Arienti) and two extracts from “Tenebrae Lessons” and “My Winter Journey” by Vincent Dieutre.
Bruxelles, Les Éditions du Souffle, [printing: Dereume Bruxelles], 2003, 29,5x21 cm., paperback [softcover], pp. [160], illustrated artist’s book with colored reproductions of various works by Stefano Arienti. An essay in English by Marianne Van Leeuw (Introduction to Tender by Stefano Arienti) and two extracts from “Tenebrae Lessons” and “My Winter Journey” by Vincent Dieutre.
Bruxelles, Les Éditions du Souffle, [printing: Dereume Bruxelles], 2003, 29,5x21 cm., paperback [softcover], pp. [160], illustrated artist’s book with colored reproductions of various works by Stefano Arienti. An essay in English by Marianne Van Leeuw (Introduction to Tender by Stefano Arienti) and two extracts from “Tenebrae Lessons” and “My Winter Journey” by Vincent Dieutre.
“Coming after the exhibition “Men and Their Environment”, “Tender” presents a large number of the works that the artist has devoted to men from 1994 to the present day - new icons created
by the artist, initially drawn from specialized magazines and later on from the Internet. The wor- ks have been constructed, not reproduced, by an aleatory dynamic of pantone colors. The aim
of this method is to allow the greatest possible exploration of the gentleness of men that is on offer, as well as the totally subversive nature of the availability. Two new series have been crea- ted for this catalogue: one drawn from the films of Vincent Dieutre, the other based on photos of the façades of gay places in Milan, where Arienti lives. The modesty of the presence of these gay places in the landscape is inversely proportional to their internal dynamism. They are thus part of a contrasting view of the city, commonly identified with its center, that sanctuary of fashion di- ctates, highly visible yet deserted. In resonance, a cut up of stills and text authorised by Vincent Dieutre from two of his films “Tenebrae Lessons” and “My Winter Journey”. - from Marianne Van Leeuw’s text
