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Russell Young. Superstar
21 Jan — 14 Feb 2016 at Halcyon Gallery in London, United Kingdom
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On 21 January 2016, celebrated British-American Pop artist Russell Young will present Superstar, his
debut solo exhibition at Halcyon Gallery, London. This brand new body of work is part of an
ongoing exploration into the visual nature of fame and celebrity, as Young attempts to define the
essence of what truly makes a ‘superstar’. With his trademark vividly-coloured, larger-than-life
canvases, Young reinterprets iconic imagery featuring two of popular culture’s most famous faces:
contemporary catwalk heroine, Kate Moss and modern screen siren, Marilyn Monroe.
The exhibition features a controversial photograph of Kate Moss, first published in British Vogue in
early 1990, capturing the Croydon-born supermodel aged just sixteen. Taken by British photographer
Kate Garner at the cusp of the nineties, this photograph reflects the very beginning of Moss’s stellar
career. By embellishing and expanding upon the outtakes, Young weaves the image into his
continuing exploration of the fragile nature of celebrity and its impact on both society at large and
our shared internal psyche. Whilst the original image presents a natural innocence and beauty, it is
through Young’s manipulation that these paintings are elevated, transcending the restrictions of their
original source material and providing a unique and very personal body of work which pays a
powerful homage to one of our generation’s most celebrated icons.
Alongside the images of Kate Moss is Marilyn Monroe, whose instantly-recognisable features are
rendered in both opulent platinum and dazzling gold and imbued with a sense of nostalgia and
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celebration. Following a decade of austerity in the United States, emerging from the Wall Street
Crash and the ensuing Great Depression, Monroe’s rise to fame came to represent a new era of
optimism that helped revive the spirits of a nation with her much publicised and often tumultuous
love life, reflecting the cultural appetite of the age. Presidents, sporting heroes and writers all fell
under her spell, but it was her inherent vulnerability and untimely death that maintains Monroe’s
status as the first true superstar. These works set out to serve as both a celebration and an epitaph to
the Great American Dream.
If Marilyn represents the beginning of a journey into the notion of what defines a superstar, then Kate
must surely represent its closing chapter: these two icons of unparalleled global recognition, born five
decades apart, both encapsulate the true meaning of what it is to be a superstar.
British-American Pop artist Russell Young (b. 1959) is best known for compelling, larger-than-life
silkscreen paintings appropriated from recent history and popular culture. Alluding to the great Pop
artists of past and present, he reinvents bold, sometimes brutal imagery turned upon itself in
alienation and entrapment while bearing witness to the ambition and glamorous excesses of 21st
century America.
Young’s artistic output embraces painting, screen printing, sculpture, installations and film. Most
important to him are the titles, the crops, and the progression from darkness to light, reflecting his
transition from painful early years in northern England to warmth, growth and fulfilled potential
under the sunny skies of America.
Young’s work is represented in the collections of the Polk Museum of Art in Florida, the Albertina
Museum in Vienna, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the Saatchi Collection, Barack Obama, the
Qatari royal family, Liz Taylor, Kate Moss and Brad Pitt. Young has also exhibited in museums and
galleries in London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Tokyo, Singapore, New York, Detroit, Miami and Los
Angeles.
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1. Kate Moss Superstar Blue 2 (lrg) ultramarine & silver
2. Marilyn Superstar (sml) vegas gold
3. Kate Moss Superstar Bluen 1 (lrg) ultramarine & silver
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Superstar es el flamante proyecto del
conocido artista pop Russell Young en el
que investiga la naturaleza visual de la fama
tratando de definir lo que convierte a alguien
en una ‘superestrella’. Con sus característicos
colores vívidos y lienzos gigantescos, Young
reinterpreta el imaginario de dos de los
rostros más famosos de la cultura popular:
la heroína de la pasarela contemporánea,
Kate Moss, y la sirena moderna de la gran
pantalla, Marilyn Monroe. La exposición
incluye una polémica imagen de Kate Moss
con 16 años, publicada por primera vez en
la edición británica de Vogue a principios de
los 90 y que marcó el pistoletazo de salida
de la meteórica carrera de Moss. La otra
protagonista es Marilyn Monroe, cuyos rasgos
instantáneamente reconocibles se recrean en
dos versiones, en platino y oro, que destilan
un profundo aroma de nostalgia.
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