Iggy Pop in the shots of Esther Friedman. On display in Bologna

ONO contemporary art in Bologna presents from November 7 to December 8, 2019, the exhibition Iggy Pop The Passenger. Photographs by Esther Friedman to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Twenty-five photographs and a projection intended to reconstruct the urban landscape of Berlin, East and West.

From 1976 to 1978 Iggy Pop and David Bowie lived in Berlin divided by the Wall, in a neighborhood inhabited mostly by Turkish immigrants. Those two years living in the GDR resulted in some of the most important and innovative records in pop music history. Bowie, Iggy Pop and German photographer Esther Friedman moved through the streets and among the people almost like complete strangers.

Iggy and Esther had a romantic relationship for seven years, since 1977, which allowed the photographer to portray Iggy Pop intimately as never before: images taken in their apartment, around Berlin, touring the United States, vacationing in Kenya; Esther established with Iggy Pop a unique and complex way of communicating with the camera. She was fascinated by the plasticity of his performer’s physique and the expressiveness of his face, not far from the aesthetic canons of German expressionism, to which David Bowie introduced Iggy in those very years.

Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s human and professional adventure in Berlin remains one of the most fascinating, poignant and fictionalized stories in music.

For info: www.onoarte.com

Iggy Pop in the shots of Esther Friedman. On display in Bologna

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