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Cover image by Robert Longo. (SV056). Cover signed by Robert Longo. - Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA - d. May 13th, 2018) was an American composer who studied performing arts at Emerson College in Boston. After graduation, he formed two bands - Theoretical Girls in 1977 with Jeffrey Lohn, and later, The Static. In the eighties, his compositions for the Glenn Branca Ensemble included the several symphonies for which he was best known. Branca's compositions centered around multiple guitars - four or more, heavily amplified - augmented by a rock-based rhythm section of drums and bass. In later works, the composer began adding other instruments, including mallet guitar, keyboards, and occasionally a second drummer. Branca's minimalist compositions frequently required unusual guitar tunings. - "Robert Longo (*1953, Brooklyn) is known for his monumental, hyper-realistic images: powerful, dynamic charcoal drawings that captivate the viewer with their virtuoso technique and the visual power of the motif. He chooses photographs as models that capture dramatic situations at their most tense moments. The artist's aim is to highlight power - in nature, politics and history. Longo uses visual material that has been published thousands of times and has become part of our popular culture, often our collective memory. He isolates and reduces the motifs with the aim of potentiating the pictorial effect. Thanks to the enlargement on the one hand and the lighting control, which considerably intensifies the light-dark contrasts, on the other, we are confronted with huge, never-before-seen theatrical images" (Albertina, Vienna). - "Robert Longo (*1953, Brooklyn) ist für seine monumentalen hyperrealistischen Bilder bekannt: kraftvolle, dynamische Kohlezeichnungen, die einen durch die virtuose Technik und die Bildmächtigkeit des Motivs in ihren Bann ziehen. Als Vorlagen wählt er Fotografien, die dramatische Situationen im größten Spannungsmoment festhalten. Dabei geht es dem Künstler um das Aufzeigen von Macht in Natur, Politik und Geschichte. Longo verwendet tausendfach publiziertes Bildmaterial, das Teil unserer Populärkultur, oft unseres kollektiven Gedächtnisses geworden ist. Er isoliert und reduziert die Motive mit dem Ziel der Potenzierung der Bildwirkung. Dank der Vergrößerung einerseits und der die Hell-Dunkel-Gegensätze erheblich zuspitzenden Lichtregie andererseits stehen wir vor riesigen, nie zuvor gesehenen theatralischen Bildern" (Albertina, Wien). Sprache: englisch.
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