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Leigh Bowery exhibition in Hannover

On August 31, an exhibition dedicated to Australian artist Leigh Bowery (1961–1994) will open at Kunstverein in Hannover (Germany).

Bowery was one of the most colourful border crossers of the London club, fashion, and art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. The artist made his (homo)sexuality a means of aesthetic expression, and he consciously used his own body in his excessive abundance as an artistic media. His costumes, masquerades, and travesties investigate the concepts of fashion and the body at the boundaries to the most diverse social fields. Bowery employs his own physical bulkiness as the starting point of an extroverted and extravagant body cult in which the concepts of ugliness and beauty, social standardisation and border crossings intersect.

Aside from the costumes and fashion photography, the exhibition wants to examine the border crosser between art and subculture, between body cult and the aesthetics of ugliness, between queer cult and homoerotic outcome.

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