Onanisme Manu Militari II

Körperkunst die noch viel weiter geht als tättowieren oder piercen. Ein schmucker Bildband, der unter die Haut geht. Schön oder brutal - es liegt im Auge des Betrachters... Von Nachahmung raten wir ausdrücklich ab.

" Violence is not in the act but in the eyes of the beholder "... It is based on this statement regarding this facet of his work dedicated to body modifications, and inspired from one of Marcel Duchamps text written in 1957 in which the author gives a great importance to the role played by the spectator in the creative process, that Lukas Zpira is proposing a deeper look into his work, beyond its usually generated clichés, and this with the help of an uncommon artistic collaboration.
Enriched by some of the artist s texts which are the foundations of his work, prefaced by Laurent Courau, priviliged witness of subculture movements and critics by Ryoichi Maeda, body avant garde explorer and body hacktivism instigator, with the participation of Maxence Grugier, cyberculture specialist and journalist, sociologist Phillipe Liotard and anthropologist David Le Breton, this book guides us through the discovery of an artistic and philosophical avant garde world most obviously " hors " norm.