In our journey in using contemporary techniques and real photography of the human body in our works and expositions we of course had to question “is this Art”?
Over the years we have decided, as the artists, it is.
In the late 90’s we met and partnered for the rest of our lives. Together we embarked as 2Gemini – Exõteros on a journey filled with love, art, music, sex, drugs, dancing, freedom, erotic performances and creation towards our destiny. Our true sense of belonging allowed us to become free and creative, and inhabit the silent depth within us. This belonging made creation flexible, open and challenging.
We started playing around with a digital camera and a laptop with graphical software and we saw our future forming. Our first session in our 1 room apartment in Antwerp was with Charlee´s body and a red lightstring attached to the wall in an infinity symbol.
Months of learning and understanding the possibilities digital brings to art, resulted in TIME.
All is borne from that first session.
In Time details of the body became to signify the whole emotion.
For Afternoon Delight we browsed through available erotic pictures and looked for the part or detail for the subject. The computer becomes the tool to change & enhance the image. The subject becomes part of the whole. Here is where the color embraces and enhances the subject.
Our collections Spring, Nitelife, Oral History and Desires show our path in our art looking for the definitions of art, erotic art and purpose. Breaking taboos and barriers.
Sexual freedom in Art.
In some works the colors gave birth to a small series of 2 or 4 different versions.
Picasso Dreams is a beautiful semi-abstract where we developed this further with the digitally enhanced color idea from Desires to show these dreams.
Mondriaan Dreams & Trace of Life is the next and last step to the ultimate abstract human subject line form with the definite possibilities in beauty of colors.
It is possible that spending a life, or part of a life, in the pursuit of beauty—even if only to find it, not to produce it—gives that life a beauty of its own. For in the end the standard by which we can judge whether our choices of what to pursue were the right ones or not is a question of style. If there is coherence in our aesthetical choices, in the objects we like, in our reasons for choosing as we do, then we have managed to put things together in our own manner and form. We have developed, out of the things we have loved, our own style, a new way of doing things.
Have we succeeded? You decide…
Charlee & Robert
