A month ahead of its launch, we take a sneak peek of illustrator RubiCANE's new work, a book entitled SOUVENIR, containing a selection of pornographic illustrations...
Who? IanBRUCE is a London-based artist, specialising in illustration and oil painting with a sway towards portraiture. RubiCANE (an anagram of the artist's full name) is the name he has adopted for his pornographic work.
What? For the past year and a half, RubiCANE has been producing pornographic, delicate illustrations and cut-outs, representing a plethora of physicality, sexuality and sexual practice, from bondage and surreal interpretations of female genitalia to Japanese tentacle erotica and disabled porn. The works have been collated in a book entitled SOUVENIR, and an accompanying show at London's Society Club next month. The book also incorporates text from several contributing writers which include porn stars, poets and playwrights, in the form of poems, discourses, short stories, confessions, instructions and lists, providing a revelatory insight into the normally taboo world of erotica.
Why? RubiCANE's art works, rendered mainly in pencil, intend to celebrate the different tastes and desires that pornography caters for – some of it expected, referencing stereotypical x-rated imagery, others less so. Inviting his audience to question the nature of porn and sex and to consider the way women are treated and portrayed, the artist's main focus is to celebrate about sex in all its diversity. RubiCANE hopes to raise money for an extraordinary charity called Outsiders; an organisation that does invaluable work to recognise the sexual needs of disabled people. Ten percent of the sale of the book will be donated to Outsiders.
The exhibition and book, SOUVENIR, will launch on February 14 2012 at the Society Club.
Text by Laura Bradley
