This exhibition, the first Italian exhibition dedicated to Leigh Bowery, is an in-depth and revealing tribute to an outrageous and outlandish artist. As a performer, fashion designer, aspiring pop star and model for Lucian Freud, Bowery has passed through every expressive language possible, with a rare and visionary freedom, influencing a generation of artists and designers.
Born in Australia, this legendary personality on the London "alternative" scene during the Eighties and Nineties personified better than any other the hedonistic spirit, the unconventional and wildly creative personality from the London club culture of those years, itself a radiant and dazzling reaction against the depression and the ultra conservative morals of the Thatcherite era.

Date:

6 April - 6 June 2006

open from Monday to Saturday, 16:00 - 19:30 Free Entrance

Venue:    Rome

British School at Rome, Via Gramsci 61

Information:

tel. 06 32649381 - gallery@bsrome.it