Glam! The Performance Of Style at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
//Front cover of booklet for the Linz show features this 1973 Karl Stoecker portrait of Brian Eno in Roxy Music stage costume designed by Carol McNicholl//
Glam! The Performance Of Style – the exhibition which locates early 70s glam rock in the context of fine art and the interplay between “high” and mass culture – is opening at the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz, Austria later this month.
I was a consultant to Glam!’s curator Darren Pih of Tate Liverpool, where the show opened at the beginning of this year before moving on to Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle for the summer.
//The Let It Rock guitar mirror as exhibited at Glam! in Frankfurt. Photo: Andrei Luca//
I also sourced a number of exhibits, including the guitar mirror owned by the late photographer David Parkinson. He acquired this from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s store Let It Rock in the early 70s and featured it in his work for men’s magazine Club International.
//Among contributions from my archive are original copies of magazines featuring designs from Mr Freedom and Kansai Yamamoto. Photo: Andrei Luca//
//David Parkinson portrait of Paradise Garage’s Trevor Myles with his tiger-striped Ford Mustang, 1971, as featured in Glam! at Tate Liverpool//
Read about the guitar mirror’s 70s ubiquity in my post about the intriguing cover of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno’s (No Pussyfooting) album here; my copy of the record sleeve is featured in Glam!
Find out more about Glam! in Linz here.
And here is Darren Pih discussing the exhibition: