LEIGH BOWERY
Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària. Barcelona, 2004.
Leigh Bowery (Sunshine, Australia, 1961 - London, 1994) is an exceptional case in the recent history of art. A leading London “club scene” figure in the 1980’s and ‘90’s who went further than just “dressing up" to dignify it as an art form with his performances. Wrapped in his gowns, his body represented his own conception of corporal aesthetics, beauty and his particular way of understanding art, fun, elegance, sex, gender and sexuality,…
Leigh deformed, stretched and doubled different parts of himself up in his quest for interesting shapes because he liked to question the ideas people had about bodies. Today, his “Tutu Head” or “Black Fetish” are already classics of the contemporary iconography. Leigh Bowery has become a referencial point and an important influence for the new generations of artists.
Xabier Arakistain. Exhibition curator.
