THE HOUSE OF FAME EXHIBITION

In the end of March i went on exhibition called The House of Fame which took place in Nottingham Contemporry Art Gallery. This si actually a gorgeous and interesting exhibition which is conceived by Linder. It has more than 200 works by 30 artists and they are all selected by Linder.

The works are all stretching from 1600s to today and they are gathering together the art, architecture, fashion, theater, music and design. The exhibition is emerging from the Manchester punk and post – punk scenes in the 1970s, Linder focuses on questions of gender, commodity and display. The exhibition includes many artists, for example Indigo Jones, Mike Kelly, Alison, Bucher, Moki Cherry, Pete Smitherson and many more.

Linder Sterling was still a student at Manchester Polytechnic in 1977 when she made a set of erotic masks out of cut-up lingerie for her friend Howard Devoto, of local punk band the Buzzcocks. Now they’re in a case in an art gallery, and Linder herself is a famous artist. Yet the way she has staged her retrospective at Nottingham Contemporary proves that punk’s not dead – not in her imagination anyway.

Check out the images below!