DIVUS BERLIN: SIMON BARKER (SIX): PUNK'S DEAD | exhibition | |||||||||||||
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SIMON BARKER (SIX): PUNK'S DEAD | exhibition24.10.2014 17:00 - 11.11.2014DIVUS BERLIN | en cs de |
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Michael Bracewell about Punk's DeadSimon Barker’s photographs from this period are a rare and intimate account of punk’s ability to mint newness. They are also in their way classic portraits of youth – adventures close to home, and the cool stillness of seeming to live beyond the end of history.Punk’s Dead exhibition is celebrating the photographic work of Simon Barker (aka Six) in autumn post-transitional Berlin on the 24 October 2014. After Prague and London we can see this history groundbreaking show in Germany.
Barker's remarkably candid photographs show the founders of punk in their bedrooms and kitchens, and at forgotten private parties where they were experimenting with the extremes of dress and style that later became synonymous with punk – but at this time was still restricted to the creative use of their grandmothers’ wardrobes. Barker’s unassuming lens perfectly captures the spirit of the moment, before the twin forces of media and commerce inevitably sunk their claws into the heart of punk’s style and latent politics.
Exhibited alongside Punk’s Dead will be Simon Barker‘s historic photographic sequence TEA. This shows Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceauşescu, who was always greedy for royal treatment, hanging out with our Queen in the royal carriage during the 1977 Jubilee celebrations. Today we are witnessing a perverse repetition of this travesty, with crowned monsters recently invited to celebrate
Also available at the show will be Barker’s recently published photographic book Punk’s Dead. This book is an exclusive historical and cultural document featuring an extended selection from Barker’s previously unpublished punk archive, as well as author’s introduction followed by notes from witnesses of the scene, and newly commissioned short essays by Michael Bracewell and Peter Tatchell amongst others.
Michael Bracewell about punk
24.10.2014 17:00
- 11.11.2014
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