NEON, 'David Bowie: Golden Years'

Halcyon Gallery, 144-146 New Bond Street, London
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This event ended on Sunday 25th of September 2016
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Halcyon Gallery
New Bond Street, W1S 2PF
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Oxford Circus 0.27 miles

Celebrated British artist, Louis Sidoli, is launching a solo exhibition of original neon art marking David Bowie’s greatest moments this month. Hosted by Castle Fine Art, the exhibition will be launched with a private event at Halcyon Gallery on 22nd September. Born from the artist’s longstanding admiration of David Bowie, ‘Neon’ celebrates the pop icon’s artistic journey from 1970-1980. This was a prolific period for Bowie, during which he produced over 10 seminal albums – what Sidoli calls his ‘Golden Years’. From performing as Ziggy Stardust during the Glam Rock years to his famed New Romantic Ashes to Ashes photoshoot, each piece of artwork reimagines iconic moments in Bowie’s career in a fusion of aluminium and neon. Containing approximately 180 individual components and taking between four-six weeks to create, each work starts life as a pencil sketch. The artist then undertakes computer aided design, metallurgy, engineering, carpentry and neon glass making before the pieces reach the gallery walls. Sidoli has carved himself a new niche in contemporary pop art as the only UK artist to combine text, imagery and neon elements in this way. Many of his pieces also contain hidden symbolism in the layers of imagery.

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