I’m looking forward to seeing this and the LB show opening at Tate next year. I agree though it sounds very London centric. It would be good to hear more about this era in the provinces. I love all the Dali references. And how surreal your walk home was.
Thanks for the feedback. There is also a retrospective on the new romantic scene at the Design Museum pencilled in for 2025 which 'might' extend beyond the usual narrow reference frames. I probably need to go away and think a little more about how to contetxualise LB and that avant dressy scene. I'm just reading a biography on Roland Penrose, hence the surrealist thing being on my mind.
LB must have been inspired by surrealism. Did you see the Michael Clark exhibition at The Barbican a few years ago? There were some great LB costumes in there and I thought it was really well curated.
Laibach were very much about being lost in time. European provincial kitsch, mixed with state approved realist art and militarism. At that time they were employed as extras in Kubricks Full Metal Jacket, but as they shaved their heads and wore Yugoslav military garb it wasn't much of a stretch for them to be it.
Thanks Rob for your input. At the time Laibach's strategy of narrative(s) went over my head, but the power of their imagery and surrealist nature of the antlers just stuck with me. I was still into the 'looks' of bands and scenes at that time! Art theories of subversive over-identification took a while to follow. I didn't know the Kubrick connection - apparently Fritz from 23 skidoo was drumming for all three acts (23S, Last Few Days and Laibach) on the 'Occupied Europe' tour
I'm a Laibach tragic , stewed in Art School, and tattooed with a laibachian pin up girl riding a bomb. The 80s fashion for me went from punk and skin, which was basically dressing up for the end of the world to leather jacket and black everything else, essentially we just dressed like the Ramones, which was pretty funny when I met Joey and Johhny Ramone and Joey thought I was a Goth. I thought I was just trying to be wannabe Dee Dee.
I’m looking forward to seeing this and the LB show opening at Tate next year. I agree though it sounds very London centric. It would be good to hear more about this era in the provinces. I love all the Dali references. And how surreal your walk home was.
Thanks for the feedback. There is also a retrospective on the new romantic scene at the Design Museum pencilled in for 2025 which 'might' extend beyond the usual narrow reference frames. I probably need to go away and think a little more about how to contetxualise LB and that avant dressy scene. I'm just reading a biography on Roland Penrose, hence the surrealist thing being on my mind.
LB must have been inspired by surrealism. Did you see the Michael Clark exhibition at The Barbican a few years ago? There were some great LB costumes in there and I thought it was really well curated.
Laibach were very much about being lost in time. European provincial kitsch, mixed with state approved realist art and militarism. At that time they were employed as extras in Kubricks Full Metal Jacket, but as they shaved their heads and wore Yugoslav military garb it wasn't much of a stretch for them to be it.
Thanks Rob for your input. At the time Laibach's strategy of narrative(s) went over my head, but the power of their imagery and surrealist nature of the antlers just stuck with me. I was still into the 'looks' of bands and scenes at that time! Art theories of subversive over-identification took a while to follow. I didn't know the Kubrick connection - apparently Fritz from 23 skidoo was drumming for all three acts (23S, Last Few Days and Laibach) on the 'Occupied Europe' tour
I'm a Laibach tragic , stewed in Art School, and tattooed with a laibachian pin up girl riding a bomb. The 80s fashion for me went from punk and skin, which was basically dressing up for the end of the world to leather jacket and black everything else, essentially we just dressed like the Ramones, which was pretty funny when I met Joey and Johhny Ramone and Joey thought I was a Goth. I thought I was just trying to be wannabe Dee Dee.
‘Let’s get this party started’ 😂.
Thanks Ian. Bonington gallery thing sounds cool. Happy holidays!