ANTEBELLUM GALLERY

presents

THE BONDAGE SHOW

featuring photographic, virtual & living bondage displays by photographers and ropemasters

click here to see images from Antebellum opening receptions

*FAKIR MUSAFAR*	*DOMASAN*	*RICK CASTRO*

	DOMASAN is a newcomer to fetish art, but a born ropemaster. Born dec 17th in Taiwan, he came to the US in 1989. As a boy-scout Domasan learned to tie knots, then self-taught himself rope designs inspired by chinese and japanese rope art. Domasan says that rope art brings out a persons inner energy, peace and beauty. My photography is to catch that moment. Art is part of me since I was a kid from watching my father painting. Through my eyes and feeling, I observe all kinds of art forms created by human or mother nature. Maybe I can not name them all but if it is good art, it becomes part of me. Antebellum Gallery is pleased to present Domasan's first public exhibition.
DOMASAN - Untitled - 2006
	RICK CASTRO is a working artist and Los Angeles native. Rick has explored fetish & bondage all his adult life. Rick has lectured and presented his work all over the world including UCLA, NYU and Track 16- Santa Monica and has screened his films at Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Sydney and Outfest- Los Angeles film festivals. Rick's work is archived at The Kinsey Institute of Sexology since 1995. Rick's photographic documentation of hustlers on Santa Monica Blvd. lead to the creation & co-direction of the cult film Hustler White, and he has also worked as a consultant for 101 Rent Boys, (Showtime- 1999) and Wired For Sex: 21st Century Fetish, (TechTV- 2004). Rick's photography regularly appears in Blue, Flaunt, Tetu, Männer aktuell, Du&Ich, sQueeze, Attitude and S&M Sniper. Rick says, "through photographic images I explore the many ways that men are immobilized, restrained, restricted and repressed. If the images appear as objectified and eroticized, all the better!" A collection of Rick's photography is available in a limited edition- 13 Years Of Bondage, (Fluxion Editions, 2004)
RICK CASTRO - Love in the Garage - 2003
FAKIR MUSAFAR - Witches Cradle 1 - 1979	FAKIR MUSAFAR is known for his fifty year research and personal exploration of primitive body decoration and rituals Modern Primitives is a term Fakir coined in 1979 to describe himself and a few kindred spirits. A shaman,artist, master piercer and body modifier, Fakir has played a significant part in the revival of body piercing, body sculpting, branding and other body-related practices for personal expression, spiritual exploration rites-of-passage, and healing. He is a pioneer of many modern body piercing techniques in general use today. Born in 1930 from Aberdeen, South Dakota, Fakir studied electrical engineering and has a B.S.E. degree from Northern State University (South Dakota) plus an M.A. degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Fakir has had a career path that included such odd occupations as Instructor in Demolitions & Explosives (U.S. Army 1952-54) and teacher of ballroom dancing at Arthur Murray's, all the while privately practicing what his inner spirit revealed to him as a valid but non-sanctioned way (in this culture) to reach spirit through the body. In 1977, he made his first public coming out at the first International Tattoo Convention in Reno Nevada. Fakir has appeared in the film series "La Nuit du Cyclone", (CANAL+). from 2000- 2003 and in documentaries for The Learning Channel (Human Canvas Part I and Part II) TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel, plus the documentary film "Modern Tribalism" (2001) and the films "Virgin Machine" and "Father is Coming". In 2004 Fakir Musafar was spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel's TABOO series and has expressed radical contemporary views on body rituals on the Travel Channel's "Eye of the Beholder" series. Fakir has been featured in the film DANCES SACRED & PROFANE, (1985) and in REsearch's MODERN PRIMITIVES,(1986, ReSearch publications.) and?has also contributed to publications like John Willie's BIZARRE magazine, SKIN TWO and PFIQ (Piercing Fan International Quarterly). Fakir's images are a beautiful and powerful record of contemporary history, they capture the spirit and beauty of the human body in transition. A collection of Fakir's images titled SPIRIT + FLESH was published by Arena Editions, 2003.