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ANTHONY GAYTON (Devon, 1968). "Bacchamalia," 2003. Pigmented digital print, copy 7/10. Size: 110 x 202 cm.

ANTHONY GAYTON (Devon, 1968). "Bacchamalia," 2003. Measurements: 110 x 202 cm. Gayton studied photography at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, and later expanded his photographic knowledge at the University of Westminster in London. After winning several scholarships and participating in group exhibitions, he settled in Vienna in 1993. Between 1998 and 2007 he worked for the studio of Austrian photographer Andreas H. Bitesnich, an artist specializing in portraits and nudes. From 2007 onwards, Gayton began his solo career, with major international exhibitions. Many of Gayton's photographs are digitally retouched and are inspired by myths, characters or male plastic representations with erotic connotations. Thus, he has reinterpreted pictorial works by Andrea Mantegna3 or Caravaggio, homoerotic myths such as Ganymede, Icarus or Narcissus, or characters such as Saint Sebastian, whom painters have traditionally used as a model of male beauty.