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“
CARTE BLANCHE”... IS
DAVID BOWIE
“
As was the case with
Miles Davis
in jazz, Bowie has come not just to
represent his innovations but to symbolize modern rock as an idiom in which
literacy, art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary can be
rolled into one
” -
Rolling Stone magazine
.
Bowie
is the man who elevated his music to what can only be described as
an art form.
David Robert Jones
was born in Brixton on January 8, 1947. Driven by an
entirely deeper dynamic than most pop artists,
David Bowie
inhabits a very
special world of extraordinary sounds and endless vision. Unwilling to stay
on the treadmill of rock legend and avoiding the descent into ever demeaning
and decreasing circles of cliché, Bowie writes and performs what he wants,
when he wants.
The Victoria and Albert Museum of London has been given unprecedented
access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international
retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie:
“
David Bowie is”
.
This exhibition is exploring the creative processes of Bowie as a musical
innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention
across five decades.
For this exhibition the
V&A’
s Theatre and Performance curators,
Victoria
Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh
have selected more than 300 objects that will be
brought together for the very first time. They include handwritten lyrics,
original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs,
Bowie’s own instruments and album artwork. The retrospective brings to the
fore the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers
in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre, art and film.
Direct from the V&A, the exhibition
“
David Bowie is...
”
is now hosted by the
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
on it’s first stop on its world tour. Offering North
America its first chance to take an odyssey through the world of pioneering
artist
David Bowie
.
“
David Bowie is...”
25
September to 27 November 2013
Art Gallery of Ontario - 317 Dundas St W - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.ago.netEzio Barbaro & Modem team thank their partners and wish a great season...