A modern take on the lessons of the historical avant-gardes, breaking down stories into shapes and colours and depicting with passion and involvement the unveiled intimacy of things and, above all, of young men: struggling with themselves (melancholy and tenderness, acrobatic exhibitionism), while they make love in the most explicit poses, or curled up asleep, crammed and twisted into the frame in ways only cubism illuminated by an unconventional palette could conceive.