Arrested Movement

ARRESTED MOVEMENT - VOLUME ONE Book ONE from the highly acclaimed body positive portrait series & awareness initiative for MEN by Anthony Patrick Manieri

A BIG thank you to Bear World Magazine for featuring this series and the BOOK sale.
Remember you have until July 18 to purchase your book on Kickstarter.

https://bearworldmag.com/arrested-movement-celebrating-the-full-range-of-the-mens-bodies/

“The body positivity movement is primarily aimed at women. But men also suffer from unrealistic ideals of beauty. These photos show the supposed imperfection – from a surprising perspective.”
- DER SPIEGEL

A big thank you to Julian Aé from Spiegel Magazine for highlighting and including men into the body positivity conversation with my series Arrested Movement

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(S+) Body Positivity im Fotoprojekt »Arrested Movement«: Zeigt her eure Plautzen! Die Body-Positivity-Bewegung richtet sich vor allem an Frauen. Doch auch Männer leiden unter unrealistischen Schönheitsidealen. Diese Fotos zeigen die vermeintliche Imperfektion – aus überraschender Perspektive.

One more week to see this ground breaking exhibition at ’Fashioning Masculinities’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 🇬🇧

“‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art�of Menswear’ is the first major V&A exhibition to celebrate the power, artistry and diversity of masculine attire and appearance. Contemporary looks by legendary designers and rising stars will be displayed alongside historical treasures from the V&A’s collections and landmark loans: classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings, iconic photographs, and powerful film and performance...Fashion’s fascination with the body has seen it support changing masculine ideals from evoking classical drapery, to sculpting flesh...to celebrating body diversity. This will be exemplified in the exhibition by excerpts of Arrested Movement by Anthony Patrick Manieri ...”
- Victoria & Albert Museum

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“The Art of Menswear at the V&A Museum - You still have time to go to the most important men's style show of the year.” - Esquire Greece

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Η τέχνη της αντρικής ένδυσης στο V&A Museum Προλαβαίνεις ακόμα να πας στην πιο σημαντική έκθεση της χρονιάς για το αντρικό στυλ.

Celebrating the opening of the exhibition, a special episode of the Gucci Podcast features Editor in Chief of The World of Interiors and Global Editor at Large for Vogue, Hamish Bowles who sat in conversation with the show’s co-curators, Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever.
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/59gFMRh5bFzIZ7z02EdQUl

Reflections on ‘Fashioning Masculinities’ at the V&A with Alessandro Michele and Alexander Fury, as well as Hamish Bowles, Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever Gucci Podcast · Episode

“In the midst of all this evidence of how canons of male beauty have been constructed and reconstructed throughout history is Anthony Patrick Manieri’s Arrested Movement (2022), a short video that not only celebrates inclusive body positivity through the joy of dancing in the buff but lays bare, through its diversity of body shapes, sizes, and skin-tones, the illusion and delusion—the trompe l’oeil—of long-established physical ideals.”
- Art in America

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Bulging Codpieces & Multicolored Tights: Renaissance Men’s Fashion Today An exhibition and a scholarly book explore the fluid parameters of masculinity over centuries.

Meeting and chatting with SAM SMITH at the Victoria and Albert Museum ‘s show ‘Fashioning Masculinities’ in this past March. A portion of my series is included in this major exhibition running until Nov 2022. Showcasing the art of menswear from the renaissance to present day.
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