⭐✨𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 ‘𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐇𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐘𝐈𝐎𝐍’✨⭐

From 12th to 21st September 2022, '𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭: 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤' has been presented at the 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒚 in London.
💫Having a huge admiration and genuine personal bond to the mighty 𝑫𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑫 𝑩𝑶𝑾𝑰𝑬, Placebo’s long-time mentor and friend, Stefan obviously couldn’t miss this exceptional artistic event.
💫The exhibition was launched to celebrate the release of the 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 of Bowie and Rock’s iconic book, 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎. It’s worth noticing that it was run on the days of the worldwide release (started 16th September) of the highly acclaimed Brett Morgen’s same-titled 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎.
❓By the way, soulmates, have you already been to the cinema to watch the movie or are you going to?

Photo credit: Stefan Olsdal - @paulsteadphotography, @genesis_publications; David Bowie - @therealmickrock / edit by Olga

⭐𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊⭐
📢‘𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒆’𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒖𝒑 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 — 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐’𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕-𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆?’ – 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒
In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy Stardust. Twenty years later, it remains the closest readers will get to understanding Bowie through his own words.

💫First published as a signed limited edition, 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 sold out in a matter of months and became lore among David Bowie fans. Now, on the 50𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 of Bowie's acclaimed album, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬, the book is available once more as an Anniversary Edition for bookstores worldwide. (@genesis_publications)

📢“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒔. 𝒁𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌’𝒏’𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌” – 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒


⭐𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐇𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐘𝐈𝐎𝐍⭐
The exhibition at London’s 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒚 featured over 𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 spanning Ziggy’s 18-month reign: the early English concerts where Ziggy and the Spiders made their name; Rock’s classic images of Bowie at home at Haddon Hall; Bowie’s collaboration with Lindsay Kemp in the ground-breaking shows at The Rainbow; the breakthrough tour of the USA; the massive sell-out UK tour culminating in Ziggy’s retirement; recording Pin Ups in Paris; and Ziggy’s final swansong, the flamboyant 1980 Floor Show. (𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑦)
➡️ https://bit.ly/3BqHNTS


💫Launced in collaboration with the Estates of David Bowie and Mick Rock, the exhibition included an exclusive series of original photographs of 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 by 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 along with rarely seen limited-edition Estate-stamped Graphic and Acrylic artworks. Additionally, the first sighting of the 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 was available.

Stefan Olsdal at the Bowie exhibition. Photo credit: Stefan Olsdal IG 

⭐𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍⭐
🔸𝟏. 𝐔𝐩 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞
📢'The idea of a larger-than-life style rock figure struck me around the end of 1970. At that moment in time, rock seemed to have wandered into some kind of denim hell.' - David Bowie
A series of close-up photographs taken by Mick Rock at Trident Studios, 1972. These images were projected at concerts, building up to Bowie's arrival on stage.

🔸𝟐. 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐲
📢'There was a series of colour shots taken indoors one afternoon. David had just got up. The back cover of the 1972 'Space Oddity' reissue was taken in his son's pink bedroom. Some of them include David holding the original Hunky Dory cover artwork.' - Mick Rock
Portraits taken at Bowie's home, Haddon Hall. Bowie recalled, 'I think the first real photo session with Mick was at Haddon Hall... We had the entire ground floor. I remember a long period of spray painting all the ceilings silver and getting incredibly high on the fumes.'

🔸𝟑. 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬?
📢'Although MTV and its kind did not yet exist, and there were few outlets for showcasing rock videos, Rock and I had long decided that to film certain songs was an excellent way of broadcasting and making indelible and concrete representations of the attitude implied by them.' - David Bowie
Stills from the 'Life on Mars?' promo, filmed in Ladbroke Grove, London, 1973. According to Rock, 'Freddie Burretti provided a great new outfit, Pierre Laroche some brilliant make-up, and the charismatic Mr. B was in fine mimetic form. Very simple, yet somehow so sophisticated.'

🔸𝟒. 𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝
📢'After David saw this session, his manager Tony Defries said to me, "David thinks you see him the way he sees himself... you see him through his own eyes".' - Mick Rock
Portraits taken at Haddon Hall, first reproduced in magazine features written and photographed by Mick Rock in the spring of 1972.

🔸𝟓. 𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐭
📢'I take photographs or stills from my videos, make prints, and fuck around with them - cut them, burn them, engraves them, rip them - there are so many ways that I've approached this.' - Mick Rock
Ziggy Stardust-inspired photographic collage created by Mick Rock, reproduced for the first time on high-gloss acrylic.

🔸𝟔. 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞
📢'Inevitably and comically, there came a time when Mick Ronson's arms grew tired from holding his guitar at shoulder height and it slid slowly back down to his groin. I didn't stop munching.' - David Bowie
Performance shot of Mick Ronson and David Bowie captured onstage at Oxford Town Hall, on 17th June 1972. Rock recalled, 'I processed the film overnight and met David at his management office the next day. He wrote all over the print and persuaded his manager to buy a full page in Melody Maker immediately. This ad created an intense stir.'

🔸𝟕. 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬? 𝐑𝐢𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐭
📢'The 'Life on Mars?' promo was the final in a quartet of 16mm promo films I produced and directed. David was happy to let me make all the shooting and editing decisions. What was important to him was that they got made. As in all aspects of his career, at this point, David exhibited uncannily prescient instincts.' - Mick Rock
Mick Rock's photographic collage employs images taken during the making of the 'Life on Mars?' promo film and is reproduced for the first time on high-gloss acrylic.
(𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠)

Stefan Olsdal at the Bowie exhibition. Photo credit: Stefan Olsdal IG

❓Have anyone of you seen the exhibition? We would be excited to hear you impression!🤩
If you weren’t able to visit Atlas Gallery personally, you can check out The Moonage Daydream Collection here:
➡️ https://bit.ly/3dwvFJe

The book Moonage Daydream Anniversary edition is now available for pre-order:
➡️ https://bit.ly/3BUhFCv

Post by Olga
Sources: @davidbowie, @genesis_publications, @atlasgallery