Marilyn Manson - at Art Basel Miami
Marilyn Manson, better known for his music, will be exhibiting some of his paintings, presented by Galerie Brigitte Schenk, at Art Basel Miami in December.
Multi-talented artist Marilyn Manson, legendary for the cult status of his music career and persona, has simultaneously been creating a large and remarkable body of painting over the past two decades that will be revealed for the first time in the U.S. this December during Art Basel Miami. Just as Manson’s lyrics are provocative, driving the expressive form of music to its limits, the artist’s paintings, though aesthetically pleasing, play with the grotesque and confront the viewer with the dark side of the American Dream – its obsessions and pitfalls. This exhibition of more than twenty paintings is presented by the Cologne-based Galerie Brigitte Schenk in cooperation with 101 Exhibit, a dynamic new art space in Miami’s design district. The show will remain on view through February 2009.
Trismegistus features Manson’s paintings from the past eight years. Looking at the works, one enters the artist’s deep, haunted world and his existential exploration of the human condition. The artist focuses on the more unpleasant and controversial sides of life – real and fictional – as conveyed through both subject matter and distorted notions of beauty.
“Marilyn Manson is a living work of art and an anti-popstar. His fine art is an extension of his complex personality and expansive creativity – from his performance art on stage, to his song writing, to his intimate and revealing paintings,” stated his gallerist Brigitte Schenk. “After tremendous popular and critical response to his recent show in Cologne, where over 1,000 people attended the opening, Manson’s works are now in collections worldwide. We’re thrilled to introduce his art to U.S. audiences for the first time during Art Basel Miami.”
Jerome Shaw, a Miami-based collector, will inaugurate 101 Exhibit this December with Manson’s Trismegistus. The contemporary art space will focus on challenging work by emerging and established artists.
Marilyn Manson: Trismegistus - December 5, 2008 - February 20, 2009 - Vernissage: December 5, 7-9 pm - 101 NE 40th Street, Miami - www.galerieschenk.de
