Rock musicians are recognized in the love of art
ARTinvestment.RU   20 июня 2008

The exhibition opens in Brussels, where you will see paintings, photographs and installation of famous musicians - Brian Ino, Patti Smith, Pita Doherty, etc.

Today, at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles) opened an unusual exhibition devoted to works of famous rock musicians. It is known that true talent never seen something of the same, and music lovers have long known that such stars as Patti Smith and Brian Ino, showed themselves not only in music but also in the fine arts. The exhibition will see works by young celebrities - Pita Doherty, Devendry Banharta, Anthony, and others. The exhibition is called It's not only rock'n'roll, baby! ( «It is not only rock'n'roll, baby !»).

There is currently a great interest in the fine arts, established stars of the music. Recently in Paris Fondation Cartier exhibition was Patti Smith. The famous singer, rodonachalnitsa the New York punk, presented at the pictures made it in the period from 1967 to 2007. At the beginning of her career she has done photo to improvise from their collages, and later rented various places where she had visited. In addition, she frequently photographed things that once belonged to her idol: Robert Mapplethorpe, Virginia Woolf, Artyuru Rimbaud, Hermann Hesse. The exhibition could also see a short film, the singer, its graphics and handwritten lyrics. Many works of Patti Smith is now on display at an exhibition in Brussels.

Another participant, the father of music «ambient» Brian Ino already famous as a painter. His installation, even appearing at the Venice Biennale. The most ambitious project Ino - multiekrannaya installation «77 million paintings». The musician has long been interested in video art, created the «light sculpture» and «light painting», projecting abstract images on various surfaces. The project «77 million pictures» Ino and his assistants «split» luminous paintings on some abstract elements and created a program that combines these elements in an abstract manner and projected on several screens. Thus, the viewer will never see the same picture twice: having lived a few moments on screen, it disappears, giving way to new. In addition, the program created by Ino, generates random sounds, to create a musical accompaniment.

Many young musicians can also be called a well-known artists. Separately, it should be noted creativity Devendry Banharta, 27-year-old American singer of Indian origin. Last year, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Francisco was his joint exhibition with Paul Klee .... For works of Klee in the SF MOMA, there is a separate room, which hosts various exhibitions dedicated to the great Swiss modernist. Artworks Banharta, who calls Klée their favorite artist, exhibited at the exhibition entitled «The abstract rhythms», on the connection between music and visual arts. Painting and Graphics Klee (who himself was a composer) strongly influenced the young musician's creativity. His works are visible features of surrealism, primitive art.

The exhibition in Brussels will see that the fans scandalous British musician Pita Doherty, singer gomoerotizma Anthony (of the group Antony and the Johnsons), women's folk group Cocorosie and many other stars «alternative» scenes. It will be presented to the benefits of cooperation with renowned musicians, video artists and filmmakers, such as «experimental film» Dag Eytkena for a group of LCD Soundsystem, the classic film Derek Jarmo scandalous to the music group Throbbing Gristle, etc.

curator of the exhibition - Jerome Sans, the former director of the Paris Palais de Tokyo, the head of Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing. A more suitable person for the role of facilitator, it would be hard to find: Saens - the musician plays electro-rock group Liquid Architecture. It has long been open to the public previously unknown facets of the creative work of famous artists.

The exhibition will run until September 14.

Julia Maksimova

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