Fetish Theatre by Alan Tex.
Published by Edition Reuss. ISBN-10: 3980501779
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Alan Tex was born in Belgium in 1951. He has exhibited in Brussels, Barcelona, Hamburg and the Musée de l'Erotisme in Paris and his work has been published in magazines in Spain and the Netherlands. He is a member of the infamous club 'Galerie d'Enfer' in Brussels.
The 57 colour photographs are reproduced to a high standard and explore some of the same themes that are inherent within the work of Jan Saudek.
The models that pose for Tex are not your usual examples of human perfection that frequent most fetish imagery - this is the theatre of the grotesque, each image a dramatic tableaux that builds to emphasise and explore the horrifying or the macabre within the sexual arena, Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol.
'Fetish Theatre' is published in a hard cover, with dust jacket, in a 33.6 x 24.4 x 1.8 cm coffee table format and opens with an interesting one page introduction by criminologist Sophie Bastiaens.
If you are looking for the glossy fashion orientated images that often pass themselves off as fetish then you will be disappointed - but if you are looking for something with more of an edge then 'Fetish Theatre' may well be for you.
Review by Christopher John Ball
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