David Bowie. The real face

From 25 March to 7 May 2017 Villa Faravelli, Imperia Museum of Contemporary Art – MACI, DAVID BOWIE – THE REAL FACE extraordinary collective exhibition of important contemporary artists related to music and Pop art, born from an idea of ​​Marco Lodola, with its light installations, e Red Ronnie, with his verve as a musician.

In a television interview by 1976 David Bowie declared: “I have always been impressed by all art forms of the 20th century, and my personal interpretation derives from them, from Expressionism to Dadaism". We add, from the sum of them: the hallmark of his style is syncretism and a visionary form of synesthesia.
The eclecticism of his style has led to the creation of many new channels of perception and surprising comparisons, leaving an indelible mark, which has multiplied and continues to multiply in the collective imagination of the planet.
Provocative theater man and lover of masks. Artifice is his watchword. Bowie is a dandy for whom the mask is an art form. Thus music is not the only or even the main channel through which Bowie, as an iconoclast and image maker, he made known his vision of the world and his mastery of visuality which manifested itself precisely in an acute instinct for portraiture.
Of 1976 and also The Man Who Fell to Earth, film in which Bowie is an alien who crashes to Earth, finding himself alone in small-town America: an extraterrestrial who hides behind the face of a man. When the human mask falls off, the Bowie creature is revealed in his "natural clothes", those of an androgynous alien with snake eyes, another foreign version of his Ziggy Stardust.
This is how the exhibition dedicated to the "true face" of David Bowie develops, not certain that the title refers to the plaster cast that reveals his human aspect like a shroud, but rather to the visions that surround him and which are revealed when the mask falls.