Toys for Big Boys at 'Play With Me'

The basis for the exhibition is a particularly unique art project by Italian artist Diego Tolomelli. Tolomelli's concept is a version of each traditional playing card in which the entire LGBTQ community is represented in a stained-glass window treatment. For three years he worked on 19 different glass windows. The project, which is as big as a church window, includes the kings, queens, farmers, and aces, as well as a joker and two stained glass panels of the reverse side of the blue and red cards. The gallery has published its designs, in which all forms of sexuality occur, as a card game in a luxury box, in a limited edition (Euro 19.95, excl. shipping costs).

"Play With Me: Art & Seduction"
MooiMan Male Art Gallery
November 18, 2018 - January 27, 2019

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Italian artist Diego Tolomelli will also be present at the festive grand opening of the exhibition, where the playing cards set 'Play With Me' will also be for sale in a luxury set. A version of the playing cards set, signed and numbered by the artist, is available in a edition of 50. In addition, in a very limited edition of only 5 of each, of the blue and red back of the playing cards, reduced stained glass versions are available. 

‘Never too old’ is how to see the imaginative the Duplo world of Danish painter SvendA. He shows his latest paintings as a playroom for the adult crowd. SvendA is an artist who paints with elements from the toy universe of children. He unexpectedly places these naughty, cheerful plastic figures — Duplo males — in a seemingly innocent looking children's world. A world where they probably do not belong exactly, but merge into a 'game' for adults.

Multifaceted Dutch artist Antoine Timmermans shows his original, colourful, ceramic winged phalli, in which eroticism is transformed into flying 'objects d'art'.  "The manipulated cut assemblages are like having a music box with symbols that are all Lego building blocks. They all fit together and in the process of creation I can combine all the images and symbols that have been cut loose from their normal environment. I assemble them together according to my heart's desire. As a master manipulator I make small virtual bombs, small media bombs in images and sculpture. Based on Brian Gyson's collages and in the language of his good friend William Burroughs' cut-up technique, which had a relatively intuitive way of composing, I come up with the possibility of these highly manipulated transformations."