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PROJECT Strip Project wants to propose a di erent way to reconsider each thing through the direct and spontaneous expression of the artists that were invited to cooperate, write, photograph and participate with their art works. A visual/textual space embracing an idea or a feeling. A dream of a group of people who share the desire to change and escape, not necessarily in need to know where it would lead to. An idea with a real reason to exist can only re ect his own creator. Strip project is like a band with two guitar players, their music/vision merges aggression with sweetness. It is a trip that leads where you want to be taken to. Martina Spagnoli and anna Ka

























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It is in Russ Meyer's Supervixens hypertrophic shapes, in those voluminous breastsable to defy the G-force, in the ne cerebral erotism exploring the feminine body of ChantalAkerman in 'Je tu il elle', on those white sheets blackened by unkept pubic hair, in the sensualand desperate look in the eyes of the young lost souls in Harmony Korine movies. in the colorful,funny and impudent Tex Avery's cartoons, in the Los Angeles muscles ready for night cruisingin William Friedkin style, in the soft core sweat on

tired and sun burned skin of Marilyn Chambers. The sensuality of these bodies about to erupt is everywhere and anywhere it is enriched by suggestions, able to evoke lm echoes apparentlyso faraway but secretly bound by the spasmodic search of its own physical identity, recognitionand self acceptance. but more than anything by the beauty of sinuous shapes telling more than words alone, that splendor called body of the soul. CECILIA ERMINI

TEXT BY CECILIA ERMINI [email protected] MONICA MANETTI mkmlove.tumblr.com

CONTRIBUTORSMARTINA SPAGNOLI GIANGIACOMO PEPEhttp://martinaspagnoli.com http://giangiacomopepe.tumblr.comANNA KA LAVINIA MALLEGNIhttp://annaka.it [email protected] RESMINI RAY BANHOFFhttp://nataliaresmini.com http://pussypusher.tumblr.comERIN M RILEY WONDERFUR LUKAhttp://erinmriley.com http://wonderfurluka.tumblr.com