In this highly successful exchange made by two artists, both of whom draw upon the intensely personal in their work, the classic
headless torsos of Surrealism emphatically get their voices back.
In «Quality Time» (1986),
the headless torso of a woman spurts milk from the nub of her arm onto a diapered baby.
Not exact matches
You're not going to look too slick if your profile says you're looking to meet the man
of your dreams and your accompanying photo is a naked
headless torso.
When users
of Grindr an app popularly known as a digital meat market for gay men logged in on January 10, 2016, they saw more than
headless, chiseled
torsos.
Let alone your dating bottom lines, like no dudes whose pictures are just
headless torsos with a little too much
of the Abercrombie hip bone showing?
Starting the show out with a chorus line
of topless men with faces painted on their
torsos and heads covered by oversized top hat appearing to whistle, Miller later pretended to have his head blown off by a cannon and ended the show dressed as a
headless man carrying his bloody head on a platter.
After taking one too many
headless torso shots
of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos
of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square.
In them, she lies nude in the surf on a beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, holding a large polished steel mirror that hides her
torso but reflects her lower body, leaving her figure truncated,
headless and composed
of four splayed legs.
Throughout the exhibition, the viewer encounters many
of Lucas's
headless Bunnys, moves through a garish crimson room with male
torsos on a massive scale, and ends their journey with the artist's most recent series «Penetralia», which combines female and male forms in characteristically phallic sculptures.
In the gardens, people stumble over clumps
of hardened goo and marvel at what looks like a storm - ravaged fallen tree trunk, but turns out to be pair
of giant legs and a
headless torso.
Another highlight is the room lined with Do Not Abandon Me, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin's collaborative works made between 2009 - 2010, which began as a series
of headless male and female
torsos, painted in limpid, vibrantly coloured gouache wash by Louise Bourgeois.
Powerful representations
of sexuality, works such as Heretic (1944), in which a
headless male
torso sodomizes some kind
of strange furry animal, or Marta (1940) and Passionate (1943), both showing nude women surrounded by multiple phalluses, were groundbreaking in their refusal to adapt themselves to contemporaneous discourses surrounding gender and sexuality.
Those would be a 1991 sculpture
of a
headless torso made
of beeswax that looks a bit like a bag
of cement and a full room from 1989 with a bag
of donuts in the center and black wallpaper with white drawings
of genitals.
The folds
of leathery skin are lifted and propped open by sculptures, casts and found objects to reveal collages
of a multitude
of images from a broad range
of sources: André Masson's Acéphale illustration depicts a
headless monster, functioning as a parodic diagram
of the ideas
of the Surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille; Krang, the villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is an anthropomorphic brain housed in the
torso of a human - shaped exo - suit; the cryogenically - frozen body
of John Spartan from the film, Demolition Man; and a snapshot
of the artist's mother, apparently perturbed by a «virtual autopsy display»
of a mummy in the British Museum.
Like some
of Rodin's sculptures, the
headless torso offered here, with its uplifted arms and muscular thighs, has a timeless, heroic quality.