Size11 X 17REX WERK RexwerkGay ArtistPoster Ad For His Art San Francis 80'sVtageReproductn or py of origalNot signedPrted on Matt non gloss paperStory told:Damaged - signifint water
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- 11 X 17 REX WERK REXWERK GAY ARTIST POSTER AD FOR HIS ART SAN FRANCIS 80'S
- ARMAGEDDON BY REX, GAY ARTIST PURCHASED DIRECTLY OM ARTIST
- REX REXWERK ORIG 29X23 VTG 80S SF FOLSOM SOMA LEATHER BEEFKE GAY ART RARE SALE
11 X 17 REX WERK REXWERK GAY ARTIST POSTER AD FOR HIS ART SAN FRANCIS 80'S
Rex is a livg Amerin artist and illtrator closely associated wh homosexual fetish art of 1970s and 1980s New York and San Francis. He avoids photographs and do not discs his personal life. His drawgs fluenced gay culture through graphics ma for famo nightclubs cludg the M * rex gay artist *
His meticulo black and whe homoerotic drawgs, renred a potillist pen and k technique, first appeared at a semal moment the ‘60s, when photographic pornography was still illegal but drawgs and stori were protected by Supreme Court “ee speech” lgs the Uned Stat. It examed Ray’s e of repeatg symbols and inography appropriated om sourc as varied as Warhol, mid-century typography and sign, gay culture and everyday objects.
Rex, also lled REX, is the psdonym of a livg Amerin artist and illtrator closely associated wh homosexual fetish art of 1970s and 1980s New York and San Francis. His drawgs fluenced gay culture through graphics ma for famo nightclubs cludg the Mhaft and his fluence on artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
ARMAGEDDON BY REX, GAY ARTIST PURCHASED DIRECTLY OM ARTIST
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In Paris and London, “his fonst memori … [were] the ‘Cottag’, the t-rooms, the public pissoirs, templ nceived and existg solely to brg relief to the male member, not distguishg between straight or gay, and unncerned wh superficial ndns like lor or relign, or how old or young, how pretty or ugly, how rich or poor the ck is” (Bo Tob Anabe, “Rex the Back Room, ” Rex Verboten!, Berl, Bno Gmünr, 2012, p.
The psdonyms of all the artists were liberate bee explic sexual art, particularly homosexual subject, was illegal, amed vague language and enforced via ntradictory judgments before the Stonewall rts. Although explic nus aimed at gay men would bee more permissible, nservative and homophobic social culture of the era still meant that volvement wh gay pornography uld have ser nsequenc. As a eelance artist, ially he worked for a pornographic seri of Rough Tra pulp books (1972) illtrated wh 12 imag for each story, and he produced poster missns for a number of leather shops and gay bars around the US.
His illtratns reflected the sexual activi and extreme end of newly empowered pre-AIDS gay muny and celebrated the gay bathhoeculture blatantly and whout apology.
REX REXWERK ORIG 29X23 VTG 80S SF FOLSOM SOMA LEATHER BEEFKE GAY ART RARE SALE
ARMAGEDDON By Rex, Gay artist purchased directly om artist: A RARE LARGE PRINT OF A POLITICAL POSTER BY REX : ARMAGEDDON (1987) This origal large prt (11 3/4 by 15 1/2 ch) is the only known polil illtratn by the artist REX and was created 1987 San Francis as a predictn of Ameri's future the 21st Century if poverty, homelsns, polil and enomic rptn were not addrsed the late 20th Century. Which they were not I as Ameri 2019 clearly monstrat. Note the pocket watch at the bottom of the illtratn pots to the "eleventh hour" Ameri's race towards enomic and social llapse if those issu ntued to be ignored by the ernment. This rare one-of-a-kd large prt was stck for five REX European exhibns: (1) CNCPT GALLERY Amsterdam 2014 (2) ANCO HOTEL Amsterdam 2015 (3) BALLERY GALLERY Berl 2016 (4) REX VERBOTEN Colonge 2017 and (5) REX WORLD Antwerp Febary 2018. The origal drawg was exhibed only once at the LESLIE-LOHMAN GALLERY New York 1994. This is the largt prt of this obscure seldom-seen REX image ever offered for sale to the public. It was only reproduced the hardver volume REX VERBOTEN published by Bno Gmunr Berl 2012. Prt offered here is mt uncirculated ndn wh no stas, surface marks or disloratns A POLITICAL POSTER BY REX : ARMAGEDDON (1987) : Prt Measur 11 3/4 by 15 1/2 ch: Prted the Netherlands 2014 Purchased directly om Rex. * rex gay artist *
Commutg between New York and San Francis, REX also produced posters, talogu and lendars for The Tradg Post, nsired the first gay partment store (1978 to 1981). Later missns clud posters for the gay bars The Lure New York and The Eagle Washgton DC, and the origal The Sat (club) parti.
When the AIDS panmic emerged, the creasgly negative attu towards the sexually liberated scene both San Francis and New York led to panic measur om civic thori and lls om wh the gay muny to supprs and disurage sexual permissivens and promiscuy, so promently a feature of REX’s work. Rex’s drawgs, ma over months, fy the throw-away nature of most pure pornography and are more ak to a graphic novel, gay ics, and the Japane tradn of shunga prts. The mood of REX’s flophoe terrs fd parallels the private edn of Jean Ge’s vers for Para, illtrated wh twenty explicly homoerotic lhographs of drawgs by Roland Caillx (1905–1977).