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The May issue of MOJO magazine has the above feature regarding the artist Scott King and an exhibition of his work at Munich’s Kunstverein gallery entitled: Marxist Disco! (cancelled).
As you can see above, the show features a bust of Stalin as Aladdin Sane and another of Lenin complete with similar facial adornment from the same glam period of Bowie’s glittery past…not to mention Karl Marx as Roy Wood and both Ian Curtis and Cher as Che Guevara.
When asked why he decided on the juxtaposition of totalitarianism and one of rock music’s more excessively flamboyant moments, Scott responded thus: “I don’t know yet. I had the idea while I was attending a lecture at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell. While I was listening, I started staring at a bust of Marx and I started to imagine how much more interesting everything might be if it was actually a bust of Roy Wood.”
