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February 26th, 2013
BEI INCUBI: "Beautiful Nightmares"
An Exhibition Of Photographs By Nick Rhodes to Celebrate The Launch of TV MANIA’s new album: "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" London March 7, 2013
(private viewing on March 7th; public viewing from March 8th)
DURAN DURAN keyboardist and founding member NICK RHODES is to exhibit a collection of original photographic works in London, from March 7 - April 5, 2013, to celebrate the release of his forthcoming TV MANIA album, "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" with former DURAN DURAN guitarist Warren Cuccurullo.
BEI INCUBI - translated as "Beautiful Nightmares" - will be premiered on March 7 at a private, star-studded event at The Vinyl Factory Chelsea, in London, which has recently hosted a number of other high profile exhibitions, including Dinos Chapman, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Leee Black Childers. From March 8 - April 5 the exhibition will be open to the public.
The London show will feature a collection of twenty Polaroids, and more than thirty original photographs and prints, all taken and signed by Nick Rhodes, and available for private viewing before going on sale to collectors and the general public.
BEI INCUBI was inspired by TV MANIA's new conceptual music album "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" that Rhodes collaborated on with former DURAN DURAN member Warren Cuccurullo, and that will be released a few days after the launch of the exhibition (on March 11.)
Explaining the creative concept behind BEI INCUBI Nick Rhodes said; "The photographs are all of the same girl, but she is a complete chameleon and thus takes on entirely different guises throughout the show. The shoot was initially planned to create album art for the forthcoming TV Mania release, that is based on a fictional, futuristic, dysfunctional family, living out their lives under the microscopic lens of a reality TV show.
Within this construct the daughter is obsessed with becoming famous at any cost, so when we were planning the cover shoot, she was the ideal subject upon which to base the session. As the day unfolded, I realised that I had created a broad spectrum of images that somehow worked together as a series, hence the idea of doing an exhibition was born."
Commenting further on the works themselves Rhodes added "The title, Bei Incubi, suits the mood of the show. I'm drawn to images that have perfect flaws, where you can see that everything is not quite as it should be, yet somehow you still want to keep looking. I wanted the photos to look cinematic, like missing frames from an Italian cult movie that no-one has ever seen. One of the main challenges for me was to try to create photographs that looked like paintings, treating pixels like paint, but doing it 'in camera', without using computers in post-production. The magical thing about Polaroid is that unlike any other modern film medium, each picture is unique and cannot be changed or duplicated in the same format. Nowadays, you can never be quite sure how much computer tampering has taken place to create a particular image. There was something rather special about clicking a button and watching a unique print develop. I felt I was living more dangerously than if I had had the option of 'fixing it in the mix'!"
Rhodes a scholar of fashion, art, photography and literature, is renowned as the creative driving force behind Duran Duran's visual imagery. Although already an accomplished photographer, he has rarely exhibited his work, this being only the second time he has shown in his career.
February 26th, 2013
BEI INCUBI: "Beautiful Nightmares"
An Exhibition Of Photographs By Nick Rhodes to Celebrate The Launch of TV MANIA’s new album: "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" London March 7, 2013
(private viewing on March 7th; public viewing from March 8th)
DURAN DURAN keyboardist and founding member NICK RHODES is to exhibit a collection of original photographic works in London, from March 7 - April 5, 2013, to celebrate the release of his forthcoming TV MANIA album, "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" with former DURAN DURAN guitarist Warren Cuccurullo.
BEI INCUBI - translated as "Beautiful Nightmares" - will be premiered on March 7 at a private, star-studded event at The Vinyl Factory Chelsea, in London, which has recently hosted a number of other high profile exhibitions, including Dinos Chapman, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Leee Black Childers. From March 8 - April 5 the exhibition will be open to the public.
The London show will feature a collection of twenty Polaroids, and more than thirty original photographs and prints, all taken and signed by Nick Rhodes, and available for private viewing before going on sale to collectors and the general public.
BEI INCUBI was inspired by TV MANIA's new conceptual music album "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" that Rhodes collaborated on with former DURAN DURAN member Warren Cuccurullo, and that will be released a few days after the launch of the exhibition (on March 11.)
Explaining the creative concept behind BEI INCUBI Nick Rhodes said; "The photographs are all of the same girl, but she is a complete chameleon and thus takes on entirely different guises throughout the show. The shoot was initially planned to create album art for the forthcoming TV Mania release, that is based on a fictional, futuristic, dysfunctional family, living out their lives under the microscopic lens of a reality TV show.
Within this construct the daughter is obsessed with becoming famous at any cost, so when we were planning the cover shoot, she was the ideal subject upon which to base the session. As the day unfolded, I realised that I had created a broad spectrum of images that somehow worked together as a series, hence the idea of doing an exhibition was born."
Commenting further on the works themselves Rhodes added "The title, Bei Incubi, suits the mood of the show. I'm drawn to images that have perfect flaws, where you can see that everything is not quite as it should be, yet somehow you still want to keep looking. I wanted the photos to look cinematic, like missing frames from an Italian cult movie that no-one has ever seen. One of the main challenges for me was to try to create photographs that looked like paintings, treating pixels like paint, but doing it 'in camera', without using computers in post-production. The magical thing about Polaroid is that unlike any other modern film medium, each picture is unique and cannot be changed or duplicated in the same format. Nowadays, you can never be quite sure how much computer tampering has taken place to create a particular image. There was something rather special about clicking a button and watching a unique print develop. I felt I was living more dangerously than if I had had the option of 'fixing it in the mix'!"
Rhodes a scholar of fashion, art, photography and literature, is renowned as the creative driving force behind Duran Duran's visual imagery. Although already an accomplished photographer, he has rarely exhibited his work, this being only the second time he has shown in his career.