Leigh Bowery - Tapa blanda

With Australian artist Leigh Bowery (1961–1994), this richly illustrated catalog devotes itself to one of the most colorful border-crossers of the London and New York club, fashion, and art scenes of the 1980s and 1990s. Bowery made his sexuality a means of aesthetic expression, and he consciously used his own body in excessive abundance as an artistic media.

Leigh Bowery’s influence reached through the fashion, club, and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, and David LaChapelle. He also inspired some of Lucian Freud’s most fascinating nude paintings.

Australian artist Leigh Bowery (1961-1994), consciously used his own body in his excessive abundance as an artistic media. He was discovered by the London art dealer Anthony d'Offay in 1988 and this was the start of a cooperation with the Photographer Fergus Greer who would accompany him until his early death resulting from an HIV infection. Martin Engler is curator at the Kunstverein Hannover, Germany René Zechlin is dirctor og the Hannover Kunstverein.