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Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm McLaren has proven to be a visionary of pop culture and a pop cultural
icon for over thirty years. An artist in the most post-modern sense of the word,
time and time again, he has been at the forefront. He is probably best
recognized for his work in melding fashion with music: "the look of music and the
sound of fashion".
He started in the early 1970s when he opened his legendary shop on the King''s
Road in London with his then partner, Vivienne Westwood, creating fashion that
would dress the Punk Generation and inspire legions of fashion designers.
Alongside the fashion, McLaren founded, managed and art directed the iconic
band, the Sex Pistols and went on to work with such artists as Boy George,
Adam Ant and Bow Wow Wow, before becoming a recording artist in his own
right. His film of the Sex Pistols, THE GREAT ROCK ''N'' ROLL SWINDLE is a Punk
classic today. McLaren''s solo albums DUCK ROCK (1981), FANS (1984), WALTZ
DARLING (1989) and PARIS (1993) were major breakthroughs of musical genres:
Hip Hop, Opera & R&B, lounge music, etc. In 2004, Quentin Tarantino chose
McLaren''s track, "About Her" for his film, KILL BILL2.
In 1985 McLaren went to Hollywood where he worked as a development
executive for Columbia Pictures and Steven Spielberg. In 1999, he ran for Mayor
of London, gaining 10% of the popular vote.
In 2003, McLaren discovered yet another new musical genre, the first of the 21st
century: Micromusic, or Chip Music. This music will be featured in McLaren''s
next album.
In July 2006 Malcolm signed a deal with independent publishers Peermusic UK.
FAST FOOD NATION, a film which McLaren conceived and co-produced
débuted at the Cannes Film festival main competition. Based on the best-selling
book by Eric Schlosser, and directed by Richard Linklater it was released in fall
2006.
Presently, McLaren is in New York developing for Broadway a stage musical which he has conceived about fashion. It will be produced by Buena Vista.
McLaren''s "radio films" which he scripted and presented for the BBC have
garnered critical acclaim and 2 Sony Gold ("Radio Oscars") awards: "Malcolm
McLaren''s Musical Map of London" (Best Music Special) in 2007 and "Malcolm
McLaren''s Musical Map of Los Angeles" (Best Feature) in 2008.
Meanwhile, for the first time in his life, he has started to give live performances: a unique blend of autobiographical storytelling, music and video projections in clubs all
over Europe. He featured in a 3-hour reality-documentary program called The
Baron on ITV-1 this spring to much acclaim, and has also played Big Brother in
the revamped version of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK: Celebrity Hijack.
Currently, McLaren is repackaging his first two solo albums, DUCK ROCK and
FANS which will be re-issued in a new DVD/CD format.
Finally, returning to his roots as an artist, McLaren premiered SHALLOW 1-21, a series of twenty-one "Musical Paintings"—short films set around music that he composed. SHALLOW 1-21 was unveiled on 2 June 2008 in a special exhibition as part of Art Basel
Projects, a new section overseen by the Art Basel committee at the Art Basel 39
Fair, in Basel, Switzerland. Thereafter, SHALLOW had its North American
premiere the last week of June in Times Square, New York City on the MTV 44 ˝
screen.
The works were on display for the entire summer as part of Creative
Times'' (New York''s leading public arts organization) re-launch of their artist
video program formerly called "The 59th Minute". This winter, SHALLOW will be
exhibited at the Royal Academy of London as part of a show on William
Burroughs. McLaren has been asked to do a solo show next spring at the Baltic
Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, as well as a solo gallery show at
the respected Berlin gallery, Aurel Scheibler
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