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MASCULAR
MAGAZINE
Issue No. 13 | Spring 2015
MASCULAR
MAGAZINE
Issue No. 13 | Spring 2015
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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THE MASCULAR T-SHIRT
Alan Thompson - Sexy Darth
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THE FUCKED UP MIX
Resident DJ Brian Maier’s mix No. 11 to accompany Issue No. 13
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I’M NOT MALFUNCTIONING, YOU ARE
Kostis Fokas shows us the unusual in the familiar
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SIMPLE IMPULSES
Vincent Keith takes us on a journey into the extreme
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POST NO BILLS
Post -Homo-Erotic collage portraits by Carmine Santaniello
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TEA DANCE MUDRAS
Jim Lande examines a fixture in gay social life
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COMPLEX MATTERS
Nigel Maudsley’s investigation of inner angst
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CRONOS - A MYTH RETOLD
Ivan & Gabo’s beautiful and frightening retelling of
an ancient Greek myth
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A WHOLE LOT OF STRANGE
Andrew Printer’s portrait of the beautifully unusual
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FLASH FICTION
A K Miller brief but intense narratives leave us
with a very strong sense of having seen
or experienced a moment
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CLOWNS
Guillermo Medina’s portraits of clowns are
characterful and frightening
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FUCKED UP
Gerard Floyd’s essay on what Fucked Up really means
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TEOREMA
Jean Mailloux’s homage to Pasolini’s spectacular film
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THE SACRIFICE
Ulli Richter alternative take on religious ecstacy
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THE THEATRE OF SHAME
Trygve Skogrand truly unusual theatre of the
unusual and strange and beautiful
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FUCKED UP
BJ Broekhuizen ‘s works explore the fine line
between creativity and breakdown
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LA PERVERSION
Don Coso’s gentle acts of perversion and rebellion
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PATINA OF SWEAT
InkedKenny’s beautiful photos capture masculine
erotic tension shared by a group of amazing men
I AM WHAT I AM
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JL2 faces his perceived deficiencies in the face of a
judgemental world and comes through the other end
PAIN & PLEASURE
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Manel Ortega considers that space
between plain and pleasure
FUCKED UP
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Gregory Moon’s self-portraits give us a glimpse
into his very special and unusual world
ABDUL & TARIQ
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Vincent Keith’s story explores the role of the complicit victim
THE FLAMBOYANT LIFE AND FORBIDDEN ART
OF GEORGE QUAINTANCE
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TASCHEN Celebrates the work of this over-the-top artist
BESTIARIO
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Francesco Sambo’s highly believable human-animal hybrids
CONJOINED
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Michael Rosey draws as a form of therapy, and his drawings
reflect the concepts and issues that occupy his thoughts
FUCKED UP
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Daniel Merlo’s lush and colorful photos
of sensuality and excess
FUCKED UP
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Jason Carr’s portraits of survivors
REVENGE
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Steven Muller works through the emotions of a failed
relationship through the use of old photographs
PHOTO RARA
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Manel Ortega shares those special gems, accidental
masterpieces that come out of his photoshoots
STARK
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Nigel Maudsley’s portraits deal with and explore
grief and life in his ancestral home
PRIMITIVE INSTINCTS
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Markus K’s photographs share his bucolic fantasy world
DEAD MAN’S STARS
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John Lee Bird’s works peer into the life of a man by
using ‘found’ photographs and raise questions about
the value and consequence of a human life
FUCKED UP
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Alejandro Caspe strikes out at societal pressures and
depicts the impact of living a human life under constraint
CONTRIBUTORS
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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The theme for Issue No. 14 of MASCULAR Magazine is ‘ROAD’
MASCULAR
Editor in Chief
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MAGAZINE
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Contributing Editors
Byron Adarve [Don Coso] (
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); John Lee Bird (
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com
); BJ Broekhuizen (
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) Jason Carr (
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);
Alejandro Caspe (
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); Gerard Floyd (
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);
Kostis Fokas (
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); Carmine Santaniello (
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);
InkedKenny (
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); Jim Lande (
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); Nigel Maudsley
(
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); Guillermo Medina Gallardo (
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); Ivan & Gabo
(
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); Markus K (
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); Vincent Keith (
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)
Daniel Merlo (
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); Gregory Moon (
mistermoon8@yahoo.com
)
AK MIller (
andrewkainchicago@gmail.com
); Manel Ortega (
photo@manelortega.co.uk
)
Jean Mailloux (
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); Steven Muller (
stevenmuller@comcast.net
)
JL2 (
jeanluc_laporte@hotmail.com
); Andrew Printer (
andrew@andrewprinter.com
)
Ulli Richter (
studio@ullirichter.com
); Michael Rosey (
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)Francesco Sambo
(
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); Trygve Skogrand (
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)
Christopher Studer-Harper (
chr.studer@gmx.ch
)
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MASCULAR
MAGAZINE
Celebrating masculine art and
the men who create it
MASC
Artists, particularly the subversives, are
always looking to disturb, to question
orthodoxies and propose alternatives –
palatable or not. They derive energy and
artistic pleasure from either depicting
alternative realities or showing alternative
perspectives to a conventional take on
reality. This is important because it makes
The trick is to retain some purpose or
objective beyond simply wanting to shock.
Shocking people is relatively simple. Pick a
sacred cow and ridicule, defame, desecrate
or put lipstick and a tiara on it, and pronto,
people will be offended. That simply
turns the focus onto the artist and what
a naughty little boy he has been. To truly
change views or at least make people thing
twice, you need to do more than that. Here’s
a ‘for instance’… Religion has often been the
focus or target in the mind of the subversive
artist. Desecrating Christ has also been an
age old guaranteed way of generating
outrage. But in Ulli Richter’s
The Sacrifice,
rather than denying religion, creates his
own. He depicts the ecstatic religious
experience that the Church expounds, but
the religion is his own creation. Replete with
iconography, structure and even candles,
Richter tells the viewer that he shares his
religious fervour and conviction – they have
something in common! What is subversive
is that he manages to equate two different
Fucked Up can be an invective or instruction.
Conventional art often seeks to idolise
beauty, harmony and balance; and depicts
them in true aspirational or idealised forms.
That perfect bloom lives for three days,
while the flower itself goes through a life
cycle, not all of which is conventionally
beautiful. The human form in its ideal and
youthful form has grabbed the attention
of artists across time. But what about the
imperfect body? Andrew Printer shows us
people who exude not only inner beauty
but who clearly embrace their own ‘body
beautiful’, even though that beauty may
not be conventional. Trygve Skogand takes
it one step further in
The Theatre of Shame.
He treats the human form with a plasticity
that raises all kinds of questions about the
integrity of the body, of life, and even the
soul. If we can be broken into pieces and
reassembled anyway the artist likes, what
does that say about us? Are we the noble
creatures vested with a soul and free will?
Perhaps not. Francesco Sambo adds another
twist to this idea in
Bestiario
by depicting
realistic hybrids of humans and animals.
Welcome to the 13th edition of MASCULAR
Magazine – the ‘Fucked Up’ issue. As life
would have it, there’s more than a bit of irony
to that... Fucked Up is an interesting concept
to contemplate. The sentiments it evokes
have been running through art since the first
cave painting and the start of art history, even
if the terms have evolved over time. Fucked
Up is, in one of its many guises, an affront to
what we consider to be normal, acceptable
and comfortable. Things, ideas or situations
that are Fucked Up make us uncomfortable.
They challenge and repulse, but in evoking
those reactions, they expand the base of
collective experience. We grow as people
when confronted by things that surprise us.
I’ve often heard people say ‘I can’t un-see
that’. And it is very true – once exposed, the
viewer is changed. There is a tangible before
and after that specific moment.
the viewer question beliefs that are too often
taken for granted. A patriot may love his
country, for instance, but doesn’t know why
until he’s been forced to consider it honestly.
forms of faith and raises the question “why
is yours any more valid than mine?”
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MASCULAR
MAGAZINE
These creatures are not how god or nature
intended us to be. And yet, they seem
possible, even real.
CULAR
Order is another way of implying rules. The
subversive artist is fascinated by rules, and
spends a great deal of energy understanding
them, and then breaking them! In
I Am What
I Am,
JL2 discussed the journey he’s made in
coming to terms with his body and the way
he looks, having had to confront the various
masculine ideals that he did not conform to
– at least not in his own mind. He was given
rules that he could not obey or conform to,
so in the end, had no choice but to abandon
the rules. Manel Ortega’s portraits in
Photo
Rara
depict men who live by their own rules.
They experience life in a heightened state of
perception and expression.
We then come to antiquity and fables and
the stories that from our cultural heritage.
When you look at them closely and observe
the narratives that belie the stories and
fairy tales we’ve grown to love, how can we
not be Fucked Up? Cannibalism, infanticide,
fratricide, reliving unimaginable tortures
day in and day out, and the list goes on...
In the abstract, these stories are meant
to teach us life lessons and put us in our
collective place. We learn of the immense
power of the gods and their capriciousness,
We very hope you enjoy this issue as much
as we do, and apologise for the slight delay
in publishing. We will be back soon with
issue No. 14, the theme for which is ‘Road’.
Please take a look at page 211 for more
information.
Vincent Keith
August 2015
Sometimes the trouble doesn’t emanate
from within, but it comes from external
sources. It dumped on us when others do
Fucked Up shit – as the vernacular would
have it. In his essay
Fucked Up
Gerard Floyd
considers the vulnerability that we feel and
that we express when it comes to others,
and how that is experienced. While in his
story
Abdul & Tariq,
Vincent Keith recounts
Fucked Up things that happen, and how we
deal or don’t deal with them. Are we always
the victim, and is the victim never complicit?
Jean Mailloux addresses this question in
Teorema,
his homage to the Pasolini film
of the same name. Here, a willing force is
drawn into serving the needs of his ‘victims’,
but as the perpetrator, he is simply providing
a service. Ultimately, he is rejected. What is
From earliest childhood, we are taught
what goes with what. This is another form
of instilling in us a sense of order. We are
taught to hate disorder, to recoil from it. I
think there may even be something genetic
or evolutionary to this. Peoples from all
over the world will reorder randomly placed
things so that those things adhere to some
form of hierarchy or reason. Darkest to
lightest, smallest to largest, rough to smooth
or young to old, all of these arrangements
protect us from chaos and the uncertainties
it brings. Disrupting that order is Fucked Up,
or at least, Fucking things Up.
which in turn explains why Fucked Up things
happen to us. In a
Cronos – A Myth Retold,
Ivan & Gabo bring to life, in a very corporeal
sense, an age old story and confront us with
what that story would imply if it were true.
This, of course, raises questions around
other stories, and mythology and the bible…
where does it end?
Being Fucked Up can speak of inner
conflict, battles with oneself. Many live in
a conscious hell where their own thoughts
and emotions betray them. Rather than
providing a path through life, they throw
up doubts, fears and all manner of other
hurdles. But these psychological realities
are very difficult to share. The description
of any dream is never even close to what
it was like to experience it. These demons
that Fuck Up people are illusive and highly
personal. While we may not be able to
see or experience the specifics, we can
sometimes witness the symptoms or its
consequences. Torment, fear, loneliness can
all be experienced and witnessed. Nigel
Maudsley’s
Complex Matters
give a sense of
watching someone deal with inner torment.
truly subversive is considering these events
from his perspective and casting him in the
role of victim.
Taken as a whole, this issue of MASCULAR
Magazine brings to life the richness and
variety of expression and experience
we are capable of. It encourages us to
expand our minds and appreciation for
the unusual, special and different. It
shakes us up a bit as well. It is so easy
to sit back in comfort and wallow in
the imagery and concepts we’ve gotten
comfortable with. This leads to the death
of creativity. Instead, this issue encourages
you to see different things as beautiful or
interesting, and gives you, as a creative or
as an observer, the nudge to try more.

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