Paul Rowland is genius for executing this "1001 Nights" theme. Finally a agency with some personality and balls to do a "TOTAL LOOK" in these blah fashion times...this is SUPREME.
featuring photos from Weegee, Lisette Model, Danny Lyon, Andre Kertesz, Gordon Parks, Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans, Marc Riboud, Robert Mapplethrope,Marc Cohen,Samuel Fosso, Malick Sidibe and others.
Rock on Mars, a retrospective exhibition of the work of Stephen Sprouse, will transform Deitch Projects’s 18 Wooster Street gallery into a realization of Sprouse’s rock and roll futuristic vision.
Stephen Sprouse (1953-2004) was one of the most influential fashion designers of his time and a key figure in the dynamic mix of punk rock, wild style graffiti, and street influenced fashion that characterized the downtown New York community in the early 1980s. He was one of the first to build on the influence of Andy Warhol to create a fusion of art, music and fashion. He continued on a course that disavowed any division among these fields throughout his career.
The exhibition will introduce Sprouse’s extraordinary pop-influenced paintings to the larger art audience. His paintings of iconic rock and roll imagery including stacks of loudspeakers, Sid Vicious with his pants down, and an Iggy Pop crucifixion, have rarely been seen. The show will also include a selection of the video works made to accompany his runway shows, examples of his fabric and furniture design for Knoll, and fifty of his most influential fashion looks.