VENUS
MARC EVANS
Gallery
VENUS Gallery
VENUS Gallery is a WorldcApp initiative. WorldcApp has designed and developed a Digital Platform (patent application filed on 11 December 2020, n.102020000030593) for Award/Prize/Reward Competitions as well as Media/Business/Non-Profit Communities and B2C Companies which want to take full advantage of an “army” of Micro, Small, Medium, Big and VIP Influencers working seamlessly together. Cover: Oonagh Canning by Marc Evans Copyright: All contents in this issue belong to their respective owners. Reproduction of these contents, without the explicit consent of the legitimate owners, is prohibited. Address and Contacts: Bastioni di Porta Nuova, 21 20121 Milan (MI), Italy www.venus.gallery - info@venus.gallery WorldcApp.com - info@worldcapp.com VAT number: 10987970968 Legal: WorldcApp.com/legal Printed by Blurb.com Milan 2021
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“Beauty will save the world” (Fëdor Dostoevskij) Beauty will save the world because for the most part it comes from creativity and so, from (creative) minds that are the product of a keen interest and involvement in the world of culture and all that it has to offer. Think about LEGO for a moment. With a mountain of bricks in front of us but strangely all in the same shape, size and colour, we’d have no problem at all in building something on an impressive scale, yet in terms of our capacity of expression we’d find our hands severely tied.
Put a vast range of pieces at our disposal, and we’d see ideas coming together with only one obstacle in their way to becoming a reality: our creativity. This quality is in fact nothing other than the extent to which our minds are capable of acquiring, linking and combining elements (bricks) that differ in nature and shape. Now imagine replacing Lego with culture, and, instead of bricks, having inspiring events to work with. Here too, we’d find that the quality of the ideas that we come up with is very closely tied in with our own creativity and, therefore, with the very many different aspects of our involvement in a range of experiences that we’re able to draw on.
Vision .
Vision Culture isn’t a form of entertainment restricted to a limited few. It isn’t an area dominated by an élite, nor is it a hat that we put on in order to show the world just how smart we are. It isn’t a diploma or a certificate that gives others an idea of just how many museums we’ve visited, or how many books we’ve read. Above all, it is not a pedestal from which to look down on others with some sort of sense of superiority. Yet all too often we come across examples like these. When we talk about culture, we refer collectively to manifestations of the excellence of human intellect spanning art, science, design, photography, etc… - that are all ranked on an equal footing. There’s no longer any call for an ‘A’ class and ‘B’ class distinction. The choices that we make should be driven by our own interdisciplinary curiosity alone and not by outdated classifications and contrasts between what we often referred to as highbrow and lowbrow culture. The good news is that this democratisation process is underway and it’s clearly shown by some visionary views like these: A journalist and broadcaster from London - Pandora Sykes - wrote in an insightful article on the Pirelli calendar phenomenon that “to dismiss it as a collection of ‘pin-ups’ would be to misunderstand its role and its cultural weight … the Pirelli calendar may have begun as a homage to world-famous beautiful women, but it has long segued into a destination for impactful storytelling and progressive thinking”. An italian architect - Massimiliano Fuksas - once said in an interview that if his source of inspiration had been limited to architecture alone, he may well have simply spent his time creating poor copies and rehashed designs of buildings constructed in the past, albeit with new materials. When Leonard Bernstein heard someone applauding at the wrong point during a concert (thereby committing the worst of all offences in the world of classical music!) rather than displaying the snob’s approach that sees culture confined within its elitist boundaries, he instead cried out: “at long last, we’ve got someone new in the audience!”. Well, imagine what the world would be like if the innovative and openminded approach shown by Sykes and the cross-disciplinary and cultural curiosity like that demonstrated by Fuksas were encouraged on a regular basis by receiving the warm welcome offered like Bernstein’s! Culture would no longer be regarded as an end in itself, but as a never-ending source of life-enriching opportunities and experiences that our creativity could combine and re-combine in order to produce quality ideas and useful solutions. This is the vision behind VENUS Gallery: a platform (not just a magazine) contributing to unveiling that beauty is the tip of a huge (cultural) iceberg which has the potential to become an engine for the economy, society and innovation.
The VENUS Gallery TEAM
“Photography helps people to see.” (Berenice Abbott)
You can write volumes about Marc Evans. His search, his visions and myths are amazing! These are the ghosts that inhabit Rome, gladiators with curly masculinity and emaciated bodies, half-light ladies in corsets of past eras with Monet’s canvases, beauties with idols, and nude socialites. Today he is inspired by Dalí and Evans models dancing insects in through rays, tomorrow it is Fellini or Tinto Brass, whose worlds are inhabited by Evans, his images and incomparable models. How many times in “Something” at Luc Besson we have seen these terrifying dark substances absorbing heroines! Evans recreates this nightmare as if by magic, but in his image there is aesthetics, completeness, like in a cameo!
Valery Dashevsky Writer and Photographer
Born in Liverpool. At the age of 8 I knew I wanted to become a photographer so, after I finished my A-levels, I made an apprenticeship in north Germany for 3 years to get closer to my dream. Right after I finished and officially became a photographer I started working freelance in Germany and England. My base now, after traveling the world, is in the fashion capital: Milan, where I’m still chasing my dream every day. I LOVE MY JOB.
Marc Evans
“Another masterpiece by Marc Evans, this time German, in the spirit of Franz Stuck with his Gorgons and terrible waterfalls in the tracts of darkness! The image of Evans is a dryad in a grove of steel under iron skies with a frozen moon, enchanted by its reflection of Narcissus on Dali’s canvas. Each work of Evans and his matchless models is fantastic, this man is able to stop time and shake our imagination!”
Valery Dashevsky
Hungry for Fashion
Starved of Beauty
“Beauty will save the world” (Fëdor Dostoevskij) Beauty will save the world because for the most part it comes from creativity and so, from (creative) minds that are the product of a keen interest and involvement in the world of culture and all that it has to offer.
#Headache
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”
#NoWay
“Think about LEGO for a moment” With a mountain of bricks in front of us but strangely all in the same shape, size and colour, we’d have no problem at all in building something on an impressive scale, yet in terms of our capacity of expression we’d find our hands severely tied. Put a vast range of pieces at our disposal, and we’d see ideas coming together with only one obstacle in their way to becoming a reality: our creativity. This quality is in fact nothing other than the extent to which our minds are capable of acquiring, linking and combining elements (bricks) that differ in nature and shape.
#Loveliness
#Beauty
#Melancholy
“Evans is a happy man! In his imagination, women are transformed into the virgins not of this world, with ease dancing he repeatedly performs this miracle of art, forcing to forget styles and genres, and talk about Evans’ images, Evans’ aesthetics, Evans’ art and himself, enriching the fashion industry philosophy and world culture!”
Valery Dashevsky
#Love
#Seduction
#Glance
#MyWay
“The greatest ability of Marc Evans to create images, denoting them with one or two details! This is a gift. What is Churchill? Bowler and thick cigar! Why put a model in shawls, blouses and shtlanki, if the pin-up is the model’s eyes failed and the mouth is open scarlet! Of course, art is a game and Evans wondrous wisdom is in this!”
Valery Dashevsky
#Culture Culture isn’t a form of entertainment restricted to a limited few. It isn’t an area dominated by an élite, nor is it a hat that we put on in order to show the world just how smart we are. It isn’t a diploma or a certificate that gives others an idea of just how many museums we’ve visited, or how many books we’ve read. Above all, it is not a pedestal from which to look down on others with some sort of sense of superiority. Yet all too often we come across examples like these.
#Culture When we talk about culture, we refer collectively to manifestations of the excellence of human intellect spanning art, science, design, photography, etc… - that are all ranked on an equal footing. There’s no longer any call for an ‘A’ class and ‘B’ class distinction. The choices that we make should be driven by our own interdisciplinary curiosity alone and not by outdated classifications and contrasts between what we often referred to as highbrow and lowbrow culture.
#Marilyn
“Dostoevsky by Marc Evans. Before us is certainly a cultural phenomenon. The more vivid and accurate image of Polina from the “Player” of Dostoevsky, than that created by Evans and his team, does not exist! All attempts by the Russian cinema to create a collective image of a woman of Dostoevsky, suffering from an exalted psychopath, in which half of holiness, vice and hysteria are turned into dust by one story-event of Evans! His image is Russia, which we have lost, but have not ceased to love. Instead of the kabuki theater with its fancy outfits, magnificent and meaningless, Evans proposed and contrasted the heroines and the deepest meanings. Evans stands alone in the fashion industry, like Rodin with his monuments, the scale of styles and genres to him is clearly small. What a blessing that from time to time we can climb aboard his frigate and sail from the shores of the settled in his oceans and worlds!”
Valery Dashevsky
#Creativity The quality of the ideas that we come up with is very closely tied in with our own creativity and, therefore, with the very many different aspects of our involvement in a range of experiences that we’re able to draw on.
#Democratization A journalist and broadcaster from London - Pandora Sykes - wrote in an insightful article on the Pirelli calendar phenomenon that “to dismiss it as a collection of ‘pin-ups’ would be to misunderstand its role and its cultural weight … the Pirelli calendar may have begun as a homage to world-famous beautiful women, but it has long segued into a destination for impactful storytelling and progressive thinking”.
“It’s time for Marc Evans to talk about a new style of “history”, of which he is a palladin and the protagonist! This dualtic style borrows figurativeness from literature and history, and photographs in it are not vintage, but the miracle of resurrection, like this Moorish warrior, whose face is illuminated by carnivorous light of an icon, and is manifested not by the imagination, but is expelled by the Master from dust and dark times. Applause!”
Valery Dashevsky
#Smile
Cross-disciplinary Curiosity An italian architect - Massimiliano Fuksas - once said in an interview that if his source of inspiration had been limited to architecture alone, he may well have simply spent his time creating poor copies and re-hashed designs of buildings constructed in the past, albeit with new materials.
#NoSnob When Leonard Bernstein heard someone applauding at the wrong point during a concert (thereby committing the worst of all offences in the world of classical music!) rather than displaying the snob’s approach that sees culture confined within its elitist boundaries, he instead cried out: “at long last, we’ve got someone new in the audience!”.
#Innovation Imagine what the world would be like if the innovative and openminded approach shown by Sykes and the crossdisciplinary and cultural curiosity like that demonstrated by Fuksas were encouraged on a regular basis by receiving the warm welcome offered like Bernstein’s! Culture would no longer be regarded as an end in itself, but as a never-ending source of life-enriching opportunities and experiences that our creativity could combine and re-combine in order to produce quality ideas and useful solutions.
#Luxury
#Vision This is the vision behind VENUS Gallery: a platform (not just a magazine) contributing to unveiling that beauty is the tip of a huge (cultural) iceberg which has the potential to become an engine for the economy, society and innovation.
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