Cane and Eroticism, a New Virtual Exhibition at the Segas Gallery's Web Site

Between Eros, Aphrodite and Sade, the cane as a support for the representations of the desire. "Cane and eroticism", at the borders of the psyche, the figures of the amorous aesthetics, the phallophoria festivals, the history of the "p'tites femmes de Paris", the erotic art and literature, The cane topsy-turvy! That'll take some doing.

Paris (PRWEB) October 5, 2006 -- This new exhibition, "Cane and Eroticism", created by Iskiv Ltd from the archives of the Segas Gallery, has been newly launched at the gallery's web site. http://www.canesegas.com/cane.eroticism/index.htm

-- The Segas Gallery specializes in antique and rare canes for collecting. Antique canes dealer in Paris since 1975, Gilbert Segas is a history lover. He initiated, in November 2000, a Cycle of Virtual Exhibitions dedicated to the Canes and Walking sticks, at the cross road of art, collectibles and history.

-- This new exhibition tells us the course of the Cane, the walking stick, in the complexity of the erotic representations. The exhibition narrates how, from the Seventieth Century to the Twentieth Century, the cane gave free rein to the cleverness and the imagination of the artists. Some of the works that came down to us are today particularly rare. The exhibition also gives us to see how the cane had been in turn severe, saucy, suggestive, licentious, how the cane curiosa, the secrets cane, was used in the European Nineteenth Century as an instrument by some or as a hiding-place by the wealthy going on spree. But it tell us also how the imagination of the goldsmiths and the sculptors produced canes with handles and pommels delicately sculpted, of which some were true jewels.

-- The erotic cane is developed in XIX themes:
- Symbols and phallophoria, from ancient world to middle-age
- Authority symbol, the cane become present at the King Court
- The cane have great presence, at the Court of King Louis XIII
- The Grand Siecle, the cane becomes liberated
- The feasts in Versailles, the cane becomes richer
- Feasts at the Palais Royal, the cane becomes licentious
- Eighteenth century, the French revolution passes
- Nineteenth century, imagination, the cane gets suggestive
- Sculpted women
- Sculpted handles
- The Belle Epoque, multiple facets of eroticism.
- Casque d'Or.
- Erotic cane curiosa, nothing visible
- Erotic cane curiosa, delights for amateurs
- Erotic cane curiosa, crop canes
- The scourge cane, stirrup style
- The chabanais became a touristic centre.
- Token-case or hide-token, the lupanar cane
- By way of postface, the poets have the floor.

-- For those who use filters for the benefit of the young public, the pages of this exhibition have been carefully labelled for parent guidance, following both the rules specific to the ICRA scheme, and the rules of the Weburia scheme.

-- Your contact at the Segas Gallery:
- Mr Gilbert Segas
Phone: +33 (0)1 47 70 89 65 segas at canesegas.com
Galerie 34, - 34, Passage Jouffroy - 75009 PARIS
Close to the Musée Grévin
Your contact for the web site at ISKIV Ltd:
- Mme Irene Silberstein isksegas at canesegas.com
Phone: +44 (0)1588 640 815

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