When I saw Iggy and the Stooges a few years ago, he dedicated a song ‘to his dick’ so it has to be about his winkie, because you see plenty of it in the drawings produced by the students… you can check a few of them on Death and Taxes, and Dazed. I did it once at the start of my career, I was photographed also without clothes by Bill King and Gerard Malanga from the Warhol Factory, so it was time.’… ‘It wasn’t about my winkie, or anything,’ he added. It’s not the sort of thing I’m going to start doing as a weekend job. I thought it was a good idea the artist had and I enjoyed so much the company of the 21 drawing students and working artists. ‘It was just a documentation of what’s left of me. Iggy had this to say to Entertainment Weekly about the experience: According to Death and Taxes, the famous 69-year-old punk rocker posed nude for 21 artists as part of a collaboration in February, and the result will be exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum this November.Ĭan you imagine yourself drawing Iggy naked? Having the godfather of punk lying pantless in front of you? I know he is almost always naked on stage, but this is a step further. Who wrote this? British conceptual, video and installation artist Jeremy Deller, and he was not kidding, as Iggy’s body is now a piece of art, even several pieces of art. While John's wife Cynthia was vacationing in Greece, he invited Yoko Ono over for some experimental. 1: Two Virgins’ (1968) Blank Archives/Getty. It was for these reasons that I wanted him to sit for a life class.’ John Lennon and Yoko Ono, ‘Unfinished Music No. Rock’s most notorious indecent exposure arrest occurred on September 20, 1969, when Doors shaman Jim Morrison reportedly uncaged the Lizard King from his leather pants on stage in. It is also fair to say that it has witnessed a lot. As Miley Cyrus and Flaming Lips plan to play a show nude, a salute to naked performances by Jim Morrison, Wendy O. A body that is key to an understanding of rock music, and that has been paraded, celebrated, and scrutinized through the years in a way that is unusual for a man. Learn more via E-Flux and take a look at the (somewhat NSFW) photo of Pop posing below.‘Iggy Pop has one of the most recognizable bodies in popular culture. The exhibit is expected to tour following its Brooklyn Museum debut. His body has witnessed much and should be documented,” he said. For me it makes perfect sense for Iggy Pop to be the subject of a life class his body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture. “As the bedrock of art education and art history, it is still the best way to understand the body.
“The life class is a special place in which to scrutinize the human form,” says artist Jeremy Deller who conceived the project and personally chose the 21 artists with the Brooklyn Museum’s Sharon Matt Atkins. The pieces will then be shown at the Brooklyn Museum this autumn in an exhibition titled Iggy Pop Life Class. Among those projects he’s also found the time to pose nude for a life drawing class at the New York Academy Of Art. Iggy Pop is already busy this year starring in a movie, prepping a collaborative album with Josh Homme and a tribute to Walt Whitman with Alva Noto. “His body has witnessed much and should be documented”, says project originator.
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