Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
(3 July 1973 Hammersmith Odeon London England)
AKA: The last show for the Ziggy persona
One of the many awesome things about working here...the artwork collection is friggin' epic!
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Artist Label:
(b. 1969 - Goole Yorkshire, England) Scott King previously worked as a designer and director for several British style magazines before entering the arena of fine art. King’s work adopts an idiosyncratic and multilayered approach that simultaneously embraces the worlds of art, advertising, graphic design, semiotics, politics, and popular culture. King explores the languages, processes and procedures of commerce, business, and bureaucracy through his subversive deployment of charts, diagrams and statistics.
Consistent to King’s approach is the paring down of complex psychological, sociological, and political content into seemingly dispassionate graphical schemes: the results of which often resembles a hybrid of information design and hard-edge abstraction. Through this paradoxical impulse – a desire to apply order onto chaos, a desire to apply form to the formless - King gently subverts the methodologies of science, marketing, history, art and politics.
This print is taken from a series of screenprints which explore legendary rock and roll performances that are marred with death and mystery. On July 3, 1973 British art-rocker David Bowie performed for the final time as his alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust, in what would later be referred to as “The Retirement Gig.” Toward the end of the concert Ziggy Stardust announced to the audience, “of all of the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest because not only is it the last show of the tour, but it’s the last show that we’ll ever do.” This announcement not only came as a shock to Ziggy Stardust fans everywhere but was also a shock to The Spiders From Mars, Bowie’s backing band, who before that night had no idea what was about to occur. Bowie would never don the Ziggy Stardust persona again. 2006.057
Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
(3 July 1973 Hammersmith Odeon London England)
AKA: The last show for the Ziggy persona
One of the many awesome things about working here...the artwork collection is friggin' epic!
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Artist Label:
(b. 1969 - Goole Yorkshire, England) Scott King previously worked as a designer and director for several British style magazines before entering the arena of fine art. King’s work adopts an idiosyncratic and multilayered approach that simultaneously embraces the worlds of art, advertising, graphic design, semiotics, politics, and popular culture. King explores the languages, processes and procedures of commerce, business, and bureaucracy through his subversive deployment of charts, diagrams and statistics.
Consistent to King’s approach is the paring down of complex psychological, sociological, and political content into seemingly dispassionate graphical schemes: the results of which often resembles a hybrid of information design and hard-edge abstraction. Through this paradoxical impulse – a desire to apply order onto chaos, a desire to apply form to the formless - King gently subverts the methodologies of science, marketing, history, art and politics.
This print is taken from a series of screenprints which explore legendary rock and roll performances that are marred with death and mystery. On July 3, 1973 British art-rocker David Bowie performed for the final time as his alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust, in what would later be referred to as “The Retirement Gig.” Toward the end of the concert Ziggy Stardust announced to the audience, “of all of the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest because not only is it the last show of the tour, but it’s the last show that we’ll ever do.” This announcement not only came as a shock to Ziggy Stardust fans everywhere but was also a shock to The Spiders From Mars, Bowie’s backing band, who before that night had no idea what was about to occur. Bowie would never don the Ziggy Stardust persona again. 2006.057