VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Welcome to the roaring twenties! The IVAM portrays in Moral dis/order a Europe between the wars in which floated a desire for liberation and debauchery that the art world was able to capture in magazines, movies, impudent and transgressive photographs and paintings. He broke with the established moral order and puritanism in Berlin, Paris, London… How? Disguising the male homoerotic aesthetic in classical paintings, portraying transsexual couples under the art deco aesthetic, photographing the Parisian night where a wide range of sexual options lived their reality naturally or practicing polyamory with colleagues from the same intellectual circle. We explain it. In Germany, the cult of the athletic body had spread, drawing on Greek and Roman cultures., which allowed artists like Eugene Fredrik allow certain licenses in the representation of the nude. In Paris, the danish Gerda Wegener (the protagonist of the film The Danish girl) he painted his transsexual partner Lili Elbe in a panoply of poses and gestures with a clear performative basis., the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Let it happen. Brace photographed men dancing with men and women dressed in tails at the lesbian club Le Monocle at night in Paris. And in London, the intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group, They had sexual relations with each other without thinking too much about what the Edwardian morality of the time would say and they expressed their transgressive spirit in works of plastic art.. one of them, Duncan Grant, who had romantic and sexual relationships with several men, had to hide erotic drawings starring black and white men that today can be seen at the IVAM between thin orange veils that hang from the ceiling. And at the end of the room, a portico of reminiscence facistoid announces the arrival of totalitarianisms that, under the leadership of Franco, by Stalin and Himmler, They wanted to put an end to this relaxation of morality that all those who did not conform to the canon enjoyed so much.. And yet, in one of the columns, A Nazi soldier poses cross-dressed among several army colleagues in a photograph amateur found by artist Martin Dammann. Transgression sneaks into the most unexpected places. AU
