Arthur Bell. Thr Iron Pinata. 2003.

Este anúncio da Guinness é extraordinário. Aguardou 17 anos, mas não escapou. Inspira-me dois comentários inoportunos. É raro uma marca de cerveja aventurar-se no registo da homossexualidade. Antes pelo contrário, o valor predominante é o machismo. Neste sentido, trata-se de um anúncio excepcional. Mas nunca chegou a ser publicado e a Guinness quase o renegou (ver, em baixo, o artigo do Business Insider, “Gay marriage victories give new life to this banned Guinness ad from 1995”: http://www.businessinsider.com/banned-gay-guinness-ad-from-1995-2012-11). Por outro lado, incide sobre as rotinas íntimas e grotescas do quotidiano. Com elevada qualidade estética: “a estética do feio” (Karl Rosenkranz, 1853). Iniciada, segundo Norbert Elias, há, pelo menos, oito séculos, a civilização dos costumes ainda não chegou a meio da jornada. O que é um bom auspício para a condição humana.

Marca: Guinness. Título: Homos – “Men and women shouldn’t live together”. Agência: Ogilvy & Mather. Direção: Tony Kaye. Reino Unido, 1995.

“Gay Marriage Victories Give New Life To This Banned Guinness Ad From 1995

Jim Edwards      | Nov. 12, 2012, 10:31 AM | 8,101 | 4

The crucial scene from Guinness’s 1995 spot.

The campaign to legalize same-sex marriage — which won four state referenda in the 2012 elections cycle — has given new life to a 17-year-old commercial (below) made by Ogilvy & Mather for Guinness in the U.K., which was never aired.

The spot was cited recently by Business Insider as one of “15 Ads That Changed The Way We Think About Gays And Lesbians.” Since then, Buzzfeed, The Daily Beast, Daily of the Day, and Jezebel have all spotlighted it. The ad has received 122,000 views on YouTube since it was uploaded in 2010 — fifteen years after it was made and then shelved.

The ad features the song “Stand By Your Man” and shows the classic unspoken domestic civil war between a couple in which one partner is messy and the other is a neatnik. Only at the end of the ad is it revealed that both partners are men.

The ad never saw the light of day after it was created due to a “massive negative backlash,” according to Adweek. Adrespect.org wrote that once the press heard about the upcoming ad, Guinness denied that it existed:

Artfully shot with the help of maverick California-based British producer Tony Kaye, the UK tabloid press widely reported the planned ad before it aired, to much scandal. Pubs and consumers were shocked that the traditional brand would air a gay ad.

Fearing greater backlash by straight consumers, the TV spot was ultimately dropped by Guinness. Later, the company tried to deny that this spot even existed.

“There was a desire by the agency and Guinness to have a certain ambiguity about it,” Kaye told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 1997 about the ad he created. “So that when you watch the spot, you said, ‘Well are these guys gay or not?’ These guys are gay — the storytelling, to me, needed him to give the other guy a little peck on the cheek.”

When asked why the company would deny the existence of the ad he shot, Kaye offered, “Most of them have the vision of a dead rat. I think it was charming and it was very funny and would sell a hell of a lot of beer.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/banned-gay-guinness-ad-from-1995-2012-11#ixzz2JCZI4PDg

“Toda a arte é uma revolta contra o destino do homem” (André Malraux, A Condição Humana, 1933)

“A todas as obras de arte que elege, o Museu Imaginário acrescenta, se não a eternidade que lhe pediam os escultores da Suméria e da Babilónia, ou a imortalidade pedida por Fídias e Michelangelo, pelo menos uma enigmática libertação do tempo.” (André Malraux, A Condição Humana, 1933).

“Afinal, o museu é um dos locais que nos proporcionam a mais elevada ideia do Homem” ( André Malraux, O Museu Imaginário, 1947)

Path of Beauty, dirigido por Florent Ingla, com a atriz francesa Eve Claudel. 2012.