Monday, December 21, 2009

Photographer John Santerineross to Exhibit Controversial Photography at Todd/Browning Gallery

Neo-symbolist columnist John Santerineross’ critics and admirers akin accept declared his plan as graphic, bull and atrociously candid. As afresh as September 2009, he was vilified in Catholic League admiral Bill Donohue’s newest book “Secular Sabotage: How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America” alternating with several added groundbreaking artists including Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Robert Gober in a affiliate advantaged Artistic Sabotage. A accumulating of Santerineross’ accurate images will be apparent in Los Angeles’ Todd/Browning Gallery aperture November 11, 2009, including the now abominable “Transmutation of the Madonna”.

Due to its accepting mentioned accurately in Bill Donohue’s book, this area has become one of Santerineross’ a lot of afresh debated photographs. Donohue states “In 2006 at KFMK Gallery in New York City, an display of the plan of John Santerineross featured a photo of a woman with her genitals cut and bleeding; a crucifix was placed below the woman, and the claret from her burst ballocks was apparent active into a wine glass. Just so we got the point, the photo was dubbed “The Transformation of the Madonna”. These aesthetic assassins ambition to artistically assassinate Christianity, abnormally Catholicism. They are not artists who are artlessly authoritative a statement. They are nihilists. Not to accept the aberration amid artists who beef Christianity’s article on sexuality, and moral anarchists out to demolition Christianity altogether, is not alone to absence what is at stake, it does an abuse to their work.”

John Santerineross was called "the world's arch neo-symbolist columnist of our time" in the December 2007 affair of PROFIFOTO, Germany’s arch photography magazine. His different appearance and agreeable accept aggressive an absolute new bearing of artists. His circuitous adept is acquired from a mix of his acknowledgment to Catholicism and Santeria and by his allure with Greek mythology, apple religions and iconography.

Nineteen of Santerineross’ photographs will be apparent at the Todd/Browning Gallery in his aboriginal abandoned exhibition in Los Angeles. Images from both his books (Fruit of the Secret God and Dream) will be on affectation as able-bodied as several new images. Todd/Browning Gallery is amid at 211 West 5th Street, Los Angeles.

To appearance John Santerineross’ artwork, appointment www.santerineross.com

Todd/Browning Gallery contact:
William Eiseman
Email: gallery@toddbrowning.com
Phone: 213-623-1176
Website: www.toddbrowning.com

Attis Studio contact:
Heather Eve
Email: heathereve@santerineross.com
Phone: 706-742-7937
Website: www.santerineross.com

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