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LEIGH BOWERY

Leigh Bowery (1961-94), the Australian designer, performer, stylist, photographer, and giant of the London club scene during the 80s and 90s, is celebrated at this gay photo gallery with an exhibition of photographs taken by his friends Patrick Sarfati, Alex Gerry and John Claude Lagrèze during his lifetime. Bowery was always at the forefront of invention and subversion, using his sexuality and his own body as artistic tools. His extravagant, often outrageous costumes became a trademark of the blurring of boundaries and experimentation of late twentieth-century London's nightlife scene. Through photographs, Gerry chronicles this London of the night over a period of 20 years, Sarfati explores the representation of the masculine body, while the work of Lagrèze testifies to the subject's insatiable wealth of innovation. TM

Artmenparis consacre la premiére exposition en France à l'artiste australien Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) au travers d'une douzaine de photographies de Patrick Sarfati, Alex Gerry et Jean-Claude Lagrèze. Leigh Bowery a été un artiste designer, performeur, styliste photographe qui a été aux croisements de la mode, des boites de nuits (il a été l'animateur du club Taboo dans les années 80) et de la scène artistique à Londres dans les années 80 et au début des années 90. Bowery a fait de son homosexualité un moyen d'expression artistique et a su utilisé son corps comme un outil de représentation artistique absolu, où l'extravagance des costumes, le beau et le laid, l'incroyable et le quotidien... Sa vie devenait un œuvre d'art....

Sat 4 Oct-Fri 28 Nov, by appointment only. ArtMenParis, 64 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth,3rd. M°Temple. 06.68.20.19.69. www.artmenparis.com

 

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