A recollection of almost 40 years of career. A giant image-jukebox, from early 70s autoportrait to films for Alain Bashung / Elli Medeiros, private karaokes to “video sculptures” applied to John Travolta or Maria Callas, and much much more…
I upload this video first of all because I appreciate the work of Leccia. Then I ve been told that, when I was recovering from a terrible car accident where I was the lucky one that just experienced a state of a coma for few hours,my friend used to come to the hosiptal and use to sing Lou Reed’s A perfect day with me. I have memories of those moments, don’t even know if it was really like that.
Anyway around 9:45 in the video there’s some boy in bed. I imagine I looked exactly like him during that time.
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A »Bonanzarad« has this name only in German speaking Europe. Teenagers, who invented it in the 60s in Long Beach and built it out of junk, never had the intention of constructing something faster or better than existing bikes, rather it was a pre-teen, Pop era status symbol. The many details and saddle seat evoked the feeling of riding a horse or an Easy Rider motorcycle. A playing card mounted in the wheel spokes created a motor-like noise, just as here, the chainsaw is used constructively. Through an alteration to the chain on the rear wheel, the vision is obtained, and the Wannabe‘s dream is realized…
My very good friend Felipe Russo is now represented by Galeria de babel.
Click on the imageheck his very good work
© Emanuele Fontanesi
© Alexandre Tabaste and Emanuele Fontanesi
Bronchite
Philippine at the swimming pool, rue de Pontoise Paris
© E. F.
© Adrian Ghenie
BODY AND POSTMODERNISM
I see the only tatoo I d do in my life would be a copy of someone else’s tatoo.
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