Erotic Cabinet
" Jurassic sex" 2008, oil on canvas, 8" x 14" (21 cm x 35 cm)
A woman having a peculiar relationship in an unstable environment.
"Grand tetons" 2008, oil on canvas, 11" x 15" (28 cm x 38 cm)
Warrior woman vanquishing breast cancer
"Homely Venus" 2008, oil on canvas, 9.5"x 13" (24 cm x 33 cm)
A normal woman believes herself to be a Botticelli Venus
" Stolen heart" 2008, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 9.5" x 13" (24 cm x 33 cm)
A mantra for forgiveness.
"Cultural merger" 2008, oil on canvas, 14" x 11" (35 cm x 28 cm)
A playful replay of a kama sutra illustration.
"Mother Nature"2008, oil on canvas, 14" x 10" (37 cm x 26 cm)
Delivery can be a happy and sacred happening.
"Utamaro lovers " 2008, oil on canvas, 9" x 12" (23 cm x 30 cm)
There are other more sexually descriptive Japanese prints, but this one is among my favorites for the complicity among the lovers.
"Apart " 2008, oil on canvas, 8" x 16" (20cm x 40cm)
Situation in a marriage.
"Together" 2008, oil on canvas, 8"x 16" (20 cm x 40 cm)
Situation in a marriage.
" Roman y Pin" 2008, paper and seal wax on wood
13.5"x 9.5" (35 cm x 25 cm)
My dear friends, when alive, were much more than a couple.
Erotic cabinet installation, project description:
Since antiquity, noblemen and other rich people enjoyed collecting exquisite paintings. Some of them had a smaller room in their private apartments were they hid their most spicy pieces, mostly depictions of naked goddesses from the Greek mythology.
From this I got the idea of building my own little room and hanging there my own private collection. I painted my favourite themes and made an erotic series.
The series is composed of 10 small paintings, carefully conceived and exquisitely framed, intended to be shown inside an installation that looks like a bunker art booth.
The cabinet has very narrow windows from which the viewer can peep into the paintings. These are small with the purpose of forcing the viewer to approach them, in contrast to moving back from a large painting. This fosters curiosity and a sense of intimacy.
In this very personal show I am depicting eternal themes in life like beauty, womanhood, motherhood, male-female love, matrimony, abandonment, gay love, breast cancer, and other less eternal like bestiality, and sexual tourism. My treatment of each one is humorous as, since childhood, I've been puzzled by the peculiar way people have of making their lives complicated in the name of their perception of love.
In Erotic cabinet I want to represent my personal erotic iconography; all the paintings differ from each other as if I were a collector trying to put together a varied collection of my favourite pieces.
Natalia Reparaz
