デヴィッド・ボウイと一緒に踊る Dancing with David Bowie

Once upon a time in the early 80’s, the hottest guy in Berlin (-West), named Mario, was famous to dance and f*ck around. Tight black, hand-tailored leather pants. Black, cool leather jacket.
Afternoon with girlfriends on the university campus, later at ten, club/disco hopping. Red Abarth between Schöneberg and Kreuzberg “SO36”. Andata e ritorno. Christiane F. Joining the 1. Hurenball in the “ICC”, organised by Hydra and live with Gianna Nannini. Bello e impossibile.
Kissing David Bowie im “Dschungel”. Driving home at five in the morning after the last tune im “Metropol”, see the above pic (taken from the book “Mario A – Japanese Artist” *). Sex with five different women in a week. Ménage à trois. The Normal in Berlin, early 80’s. Does it matter for you in Japan? Yes. Waiting for the Japanese curator who has the guts to do a museum show with me. もしもし！What are you waiting for? When I’m dead, it’s too late, honey. Let your imagination stop here and eat pink chocolate. See you around in some Tokyo gallery again. Not mine, your socialisation in Japan can be called into question.
Today, let’s commemorate David Bowie (and the New Normal in the Art Market).
令和三年ゴ・ガッツ
亜 真里男

* 書籍「マリオ・A　日本美術家」
マリオ・Ａ 著／市原研太郎
前衛的な表現技法と瞬間的なエロス。永遠革命家のアーティストが様々な写真を駆使して〈ネオ・ジャポニズム〉の魅力を語る。
https://ronso.co.jp/book/マリオ・a%E3%80%80日本美術家/
https://www.amazon.co.jp/マリオ・-日本美術家-マリオA/dp/484600435X

Steven F. Roth, co-founder of talent agency CAA, and a trustee at both major Los Angeles museums, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA and Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA.
https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/press/2019-06/Trustee-announcement-6.17.19.pdf
Board of Trustees[edit]
As of August 2016, MOCA’s board is headed by Guess jeans co-founder Maurice Marciano and Lilly Tartikoff Karatz. Vice chairs are Eugenio Lopez, Lillian P. Lovelace and Maria Seferian; chair emeriti are Clifford J. Einstein and David G. Johnson; president emeriti are Dallas Price-Van Breda and Jeffrey Soros. Board members are Wallis Annenberg, Gabriel Brener, Steven A. Cohen, Charles L. Conlan II, Kathi B. Cypres, Laurent Degryse, Ariel Emanuel, Susan Gersh, Aileen Getty, Nancy Jane F. Goldston, Laurence Graff, Bruce Karatz, Wonmi Kwon, Daniel S. Loeb, Mary Klaus Martin, Jamie McCourt, Edward J. Minskoff, Steven T. Mnuchin, Peter Morton, Heather Podesta, Carolyn Clark Powers, Steven F. Roth, Carla Sands, Chara Schreyer, Adam Sender, Sutton Stracke, Cathy Vedovi, Christopher Walker, Orna Amir Wolens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Contemporary_Art,_Los_Angeles

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/contemporary-art-evening-auction/david-bowie

Property from an Important West Coast Collection
LOT 101
Elizabeth Peyton
David Bowie

Estimate: 500,000 to 700,000 USD
Lot sold: 2,077,000 USD

Description:
Property from an Important West Coast Collection

Elizabeth Peyton
b.1965
David Bowie
signed, titled and dated 2012 on the reverse
oil on aluminum veneered panel
14 by 11 in. 35.6 by 27.9 cm.

Provenance:
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 2012

Literature:
Elizabeth Peyton and Kirsty Bell, Elizabeth Peyton: Dark Incandescence, New York 2017, p. 131, illustrated in color, and p. 242 (text)

Exhibited:
Los Angeles, Regen Projects, Elizabeth Peyton, April – May 2012

(Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exhibition with the same Peyton/Bowie painting had been eliminated by Sotheby’s)

ELIZABETH PEYTON
Here She Comes Now
9.3.–23.6.2013
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
https://kunsthalle-baden-baden.de/en/program/234-2/