An unpublished David Bowie on display at the PAN in Naples. Photographs by Andrew Kent and numerous memorabilia of the English artist.
A journey to explore David Bowie's versatility as a man and an artist. This is precisely what the exhibition "David Bowie: The Passenger. By Andrew Kent," which opens to the public from tomorrow, Saturday, September 24th, until the end of January at the PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, aims to achieve.
The exhibition, organized by producer Salvatore Lacagnina of the Navigare company, with the patronage of the Municipality, presents the public and private life of the English artist through photographs and testimonies of Andrew Kent, who accompanied him on his European tour in the 1970s.
Curated by Vittoria Mainoldi and Maurizio Guidoni, of Ono Arte, the exhibition pays homage to one of the most beloved legends of the 60th century world art scene through 90 photographs and memories of photographer Andrew Kent, who cultivated a close relationship of friendship and trust with the star, together with nearly XNUMX memorabilia from various private collections.
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The Naples exhibition, preceded by a stop in Milan, features a new layout and two new sections dedicated to Bowie's film career—which began in the mid-1970s—and to his costumes. The latter section is in collaboration with the three-year Fashion Design program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, coordinated by Professor Rossella Piergallini.
The exhibition focuses on Bowie's pivotal 1976 period, during the Isolar tour to promote the album Station to Station, which featured 66 concerts over four months in Canada, the US, and Europe. Kent documents the 4-stop European tour from a privileged perspective, including performances and travels on ships, trains, and hotels, as well as Bowie's exploration of cities and their most iconic landmarks, such as Moscow's Red Square, the impenetrable East Berlin, and London's Victoria Station, where Bowie's alleged Nazi salute incident occurred.
The images and documents on display also tell, as was explained today in the press preview, "a historical snapshot of the era and the spirit of the times in the climate of the Cold War".
Kent's personal mementos accompany the exhibition, which features black-and-white and color photographs, tour memorabilia, posters from films he starred in, magazine and LP covers, videos, and reconstructions of settings symbolic of the trip. This gallery also features valuable contributions from passionate collectors such as Italian photographer Mauro Luppi, one of the world's leading Bowie enthusiasts. Andrew Kent (Los Angeles, February 20, 1948) is an acclaimed photographer who created many of the most iconic images of 1975s rock superstars, including Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Jim Morrison, KISS, Iggy Pop, and Frank Zappa. Kent's most notable collaboration, however, was with David Bowie from 1978 to XNUMX.
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