Dead artistic: Bolan, Mercury, McQueen
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 19 August 2010
Graham Dolphin, Cover Note, 2010
Dead celebrities (and our rabid fascination with the dazzling deceased) forms the focus of a show of works by UK artist Graham Dolphin opening at David Risley gallery in Copenhagen tomorrow (20 August). Dolphin meticulously re-creates the public shrines and tributes made as memorials to dead rock stars. So pop along and see the back door to Freddie Mercury's garden flat or the tree glam rock star Marc Bolan crashed into in 1977 in west London (a four-metre-high section of sycamore installed floor to ceiling in the gallery, adorned with fan tributes). Dolphin's poignant pencil drawings of suicide notes left by the famous (Virginia Woolf, Alexander McQueen and Hunter S.Thompson) are also on view. But take note star-gazers - "Many of the suicide notes only exist as rumour or as notes on coroners reports. Dolphin improvises them based on the facts he finds, they don't make any claims at authenticity or aura," says a press statement.
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