NAPLES - A stop to try to deepen the versatility of David Bowie as a man and artist.
Above all this is intended to be the exhibition "David Bowie: the passenger. By Andrew Kent" which will open to the public from tomorrow, Saturday 24, until the end of January in the PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli.
The exhibition, created by the producer Salvatore Lacagnina, of the Navigare company, with the patronage of the Municipality, presents the public and private life of the English artist through photographs and testimonies of Andrew Kent who accompanied him on the European tour in the seventies.
The curatorship of Vittoria Mainoldi and Maurizio Guidoni, of Ono Arte, pays homage to one of the most beloved legends of the world art scene of the twentieth century, through 60 photographs and memories of the photographer Andrew Kent, who cultivated a close relationship of friendship and trust with the star, along with nearly 90 relics and memorabilia from various private collections.
The Naples exhibition, preceded by the stop in Milan, presents a new set-up and two new exhibition sections dedicated to Bowie's film career - born in the mid-seventies - and costumes, the latter section in collaboration with the three-year course of Fashion Design of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna with the coordination of Professor Rossella Piergallini.
The exhibition focuses on the decisive period that Bowie lived in 1976, on the occasion of the Isolar tour to present the album Station to station, with 66 concerts in 4 months in Canada, USA and Europe.
Of the European tour, comprising 25 stages, Kent documents, from a privileged perspective, exhibitions and travels, including ships, trains, hotels, but also the
Bowie's exploration of cities and their most iconic places such as Moscow's Red Square, the impassable East Berlin, Victoria Station in London, where the incident of Bowie's alleged Nazi salute occurred.
The images and documents on display tell, it was explained today in the preview for the press, "also a historical cross-section of the time and the spirit of the times in the climate of the Cold War".
Personal memories of Kent accompany the exhibition itinerary dotted with black and white and color photographs, memorabilia from the tour, posters of the films in which the artist acted, magazine and LP covers, videos, reconstructions of symbolic environments of the journey.
Valuable, in this gallery, the contribution of passionate collectors such as the Italian Mauro Luppi, one of the greatest world lovers of Bowie.