Obsession Art now offers you this de-luxe set of one of Sardax's most inspired creations-Shanghai Bizarre
Edition: Limited Edition Print
Title: Shanghai Bizarre No.1
Artist: Sardax
Details: Signed and numbered by artist
Year: 2008
Print: Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching Paper:
16.5" X 11.7" ~ Image: 10.8" X 7.9"
420 X 292 mm
~ Image: 274 X 200 mm
Edition of: 120
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About Shanghai Bizarre:
Shanghai Bizarre started as a series of commissioned illustrations for a client with a specific brief in mind
- a fantasy world ruled by implacable oriental mistresses, mostly mature and extremely aware of their own power.
There were originally 6 frames but the project so interested Sardax that he decided to add one more for his own pleasure-then another, and another... and so it grew until it started to seem like a definite series worthy of publishing in print form.
The name Shanghai was chosen as simply evoking a lost world of decadent pleasures. It is not the city of today with its mushrooming skyscrapers, but a more nostalgic fictional place with something of the atmosphere of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu. Together with a bizarre twist of 50's underground bondage illustration and a modern quirky English wry humour for good measure, it presents a completely original vision of female domination and will make a beautiful collectors‘ edition for one's walls.
The first four are presented here forming a sequence in time.
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1.The Travel Agent Innocent young man, mesmerised by the exotic and dangerous allure of the strangely assertive sales ladies, be careful what you wish for! One at the desk confidently occupies her “special chair” while the exquisitely bound human seat cushion struggles silently for air beneath her delectable leather-skirted derriere. That poor helpless creature was once a strangely aroused tourist too! |
2. The Arrival A new batch of slaves arrives at the processing factory, confined in the heavy leather subjugation bags that double as bondage and transportation devices. Absolutely ignominiously helpless but able to see their tormentresses through the small vision panels, the slaves are both aroused and terrified by the prospect of their new lives. From the gallery the powerful figure of the supervisor coolly supervises the disposal of these human assets. |
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3. The Taxi Stand A sedan chair is carried through the winding lantern-lit streets of the old town. The bearers are cruelly gagged and restrained, their discomfort a constant reminder of their servile, anonymous status as mere beasts of burden for the convenience of Oriental ladies. The jingle of harness and creak of leather accompanies the sharp click-click of their punitive heels on the cobblestones as the strange conveyance arrives at the station, ready to collect a new passenger. |
4. The Rickshaw Through the cacophony of the slave market the wretched rickshaw slave draws his disdainful passenger. The elegant lady, impatiently scowling at delay, shrieks at the struggling slave for speed when the impeding restraint of his bizarre leather punishment costume most prevents it. On the sidewalk a passing vixen pauses to watch, amused by the astonishing spectacle of cruelty. |
See the artwork in further detail in the members area