{"id":41535,"date":"2016-11-30T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=41535"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T11:03:17","slug":"beautiful-boys-berlin-ashkan-sahihi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/beautiful-boys-berlin-ashkan-sahihi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exhibition Celebrating the Beautiful Boys of Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41540 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BeautifulBoysBerlin_5.jpg\" alt=\"beautifulboysberlin_5\" width=\"1300\" height=\"977\" \/> Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn 1987 Teheran-born, Ashkan Sahihi, moved to New York to explore the city which at the time was the epicentre of pop culture and subculture. There he found a thriving gay community that despite being incredibly creative was also enduring the trauma of a devastating AIDS epidemic. The artist cites the rampant disease as \u201cdiminishing the creative community by what seemed like half of its most brilliant talents and ravaging its creative power\u201d.<br \/>\nNew York has eventually overcome the sorrow yet Ashkan Sahihi only came to see the same creativity in the LGBTI community upon relocating to Berlin. &#8220;When I arrived in Berlin in 2013, I would see young men who looked excruciatingly familiar,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It took me several more months to recognize in these young people the newest generation of gay men shaping their identities in the current epicenter of self-actualization.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cBeautiful Berlin Boys\u201d is the photo series that was born out of the artist&#8217;s realisation. And it explores Sahihi&#8217;s memories of those he lost in New York, juxtaposed with the young men he encountered in Berlin. As homage to the friends he lost, but also serving as a reminder of the solidarity in the LGBT society, Sahihi has photographed 20 undressed men while claiming: \u201cWe see you. You are beautiful. We stand by you. We love you.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cBeautiful Berlin Boys\u201d will be on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kehrergalerie.com\/ausstellung\/beautiful-berlin-boys\" target=\"_blank\">Kehrer Gallery, Berlin,<\/a> from 3 December 2016 until 28 January 2017. And to accompany the show there&#8217;s the 48-page hardback photo book of the same name, which has been published by Kehrer Verlag.<\/strong> \n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BeautifulBoysBerlin_4.jpg\" alt=\"Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" \/> Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BeautifulBoysBerlin_3.jpg\" alt=\"Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" \/> Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BeautifulBoysBerlin_2.jpg\" alt=\"Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016\" width=\"1300\" height=\"974\" \/> Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BeautifulBoysBerlin_1.jpg\" alt=\"Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016\" width=\"1300\" height=\"976\" \/> Ashkan Sahihi, Beautiful Boys Berlin, 2016<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Ashkan Sahihi pays tribute to Berlin&#8217;s creative boys with this photo series<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[6862,6863,34,1274,6864,6865,116,124,6866,6867,6868],"class_list":["post-41535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-aids","tag-ashkan-sahihi","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-hiv","tag-kehrer-verlag","tag-lgbt","tag-new-york","tag-nudes","tag-portraits","tag-teheran"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Exhibition Celebrating the Beautiful Boys of Berlin The Exhibition Celebrating the Beautiful Boys of Berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/beautiful-boys-berlin-ashkan-sahihi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Exhibition Celebrating the Beautiful Boys of Berlin The Exhibition Celebrating the Beautiful Boys of Berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artist Ashkan Sahihi pays tribute to Berlin&#039;s creative boys with this photo series\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/beautiful-boys-berlin-ashkan-sahihi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-30T11:03:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1\u00a0Minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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