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ALEXANDER McQUEEN: SAVAGE BEAUTY │ Victoria & Albert Museum, London → 2 August 2015

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Jacket, It’s a Jungle out there, Autumn/Winter 1997-8. Image: firstVIEW
Duck feather dress, The Horn of Plenty, Autumn/Winter 2009-10. Model: Magdalena Frackowiak. Image: firstVIEW
Coiled corset. The Overlook, Autumn/Winter 1999. Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bird’s Nest headdress with Swarovski gemstones, Widows of Culloden, A/W 2006–07. Philip Treacy and Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen. Model: Snejana Onopka, Image: Courtesy Swarovski Archive
Butterfly headdress of hand-painted turkey feathers, Philip Treacy for Alexander McQueen, La Dame Bleue, Spring/Summer 2008. Model: Alana Zimmer © Anthea Simms
It’s Only a Game, Spring/Summer 2005. Image: firstVIEW

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TIME OUT 5 March 2015
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ALIBIS: SIGMAR POLKE 1963–2010 │ Tate Modern, London → 8 February 2015

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The Sausage Eater, 1963
Raster Drawing (Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald) 1963
Why Can’t I Stop Smoking? 1964
“The Palm Painting” (1964). Credit Courtesy Estate of Sigmar Polke/Ars, NY/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany; PHOTO: Alistair Overbruck
Girlfriends (Freundinnen) 1965/66
Stripe Painting IV, 1968
Heron Painting II, 1968
Polke as Astronaut (Polke als Astronaut) 1968
‘Moderne Kunst’ (1968) by Polke. (Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)
Alice in Wonderland (Alice im Wunderland), 1971. Photograph: Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS, London/VG Bild-Kunst
Mao, 1972
Bowery, New York, 1973
Dr Berlin, 1969-74
Pushing the boundaries: Supermarkets, 1976 / Pic: The Estate of Sigmar Polke
Untitled (Quetta, Pakistan) 1974–1978
Untitled (Dr. Bonn), 1978
‘Negative Value II (Mizar)’ (1982) by Polke. (© 2014 Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)
Negative Value III, 1982
Watchtower (Hochsitz), 1984. Photograph: Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS, London/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Watchtower’ (1984). Estate of Sigmar Polke/ ARS/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Police Pig, 1986
Seeing Things as They Are, 1991
Salamander Stone, 1997
Untitled (Rorschach) (Ohne Titel (Rorschach)), c. 1999 Colored ink in bound notebook, 192 pages each: 11 5/8 x 8 1/16? (29.5 x 20.5 cm) Private Collection Photo: Alistair Overbruck
Season’s Hottest Trends, 2003
The Illusionist, 2007. All photographs: The Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS/VG Bild-Kunst

“Sigmar Polca wz wn v ɖ most inseṣ̌bli xperimntl ātists v ɖ twentịʈ senčri.

Ɖs retṛspctv z ɖ frst t brñ tgɖr ɖ unyžli brwd renj v mīdia h wrct wɖ jrñ hiz fîv-deced c̣rir – nt onli pêntñ, drōñ, ftogṛfi, film n sculpčr, bt olso nôtbcs, slîdpṛjẋnz n fôtocopiz. H wrct in of-ɖ-wōl mtirı̣lz renjñ fṛm mītiordust t gold, bublráp, snêljūs, ptetoz, st n īvn yrenı̣m, ol ɖ ẇl rzistñ īzi caṭġrîzešn.

Polca’s rlentḷsli invntv wrcs renj in sîz fṛm ɖ intiṃsi v a nôtbc t monymntl pêntñz. H tc a wîldli dfṛnt aproč t āt-mcñ, fṛm hiz rsponsz t cnsymrssayti in ɖ 1960z t hiz intrest in travl, drugz n comynl livñ in ɖ 1970z n hiz incrisñli xperimntl practis aftr 1980.

Bnʈ Polca’z irevṛnt wit, pṛmiskys intelijns, n čansóṗrešnz le a dīp sceptisizm v ol oʈoṛti. It wd b impsbl t undrstand ɖs atityd, n ɖ crı̣tivti ɖt gru ât v it, wɖt cnsidrñ Polca’z bîogṛfi n its setñ. In 1945, nir ɖ end v Wrldwor II, hiz famli fled Sîlīža (in preznt-de Pôḷnd) fr ẇt wd sn b Sôvı̣t-okpîd Īst Jrṃni, n ɖen iscept agn, ɖs tîm t West Jrṃni, in 1953.

Polca gru p at a tîm ẇn mni Jrmnz dflctd blem fr ɖ atroṣtiz v ɖ Natsi pirı̣d wɖ ɖ alibî, I dd’nt si enʈñ. In verı̣s wrcs in ɖ xibišn, Polca opozz mni Jrmnz v hiz jeṇrešn’z tendnsi t ignor ɖ Natsi past, az f picñ of ɖ scab t riôpn ɖ wūnd.”

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