FACE ADDICT
In the late Seventies, the New York cultural underground experienced a quite exceptional period of development and vitality. Young artists, composers, film directors, photographers and writers began to move into abandoned industrial buildings in south Manhattan, in Soho and the East Village. Free of all links with the establishment, the members of this artistic community were able to embark on a quest for new styles, ideas and experimentation in all areas, blithely combining arts, sexs, drugs, and rock music. Several important figures emerged from this giddy mix, such as Keith Harring, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass and Nan Goldin. But the advent of Aids, drug abuse, and the sensational impact of the work on the art market definitively transformed the «Downtown Scene», which gradually lost the vital energy that had allowed its development. Deeply marked by these intense years of discovery, twenty years later Edo Bertoglio returns to these places that had such an influence on his youth, and seeks to show a different facet of this milieu in which art and life were blurred, highlighting the stories of sometimes lesser known protagonists who were involved and who contributed to this exceptional phase of New Yorks bohème.
- John Lurie
- Walter Steding
- Glenn O'Brien
- Maripol Fauque
- Edo Bertoglio
- Lorenzo Buccella
- Linda Yablonsky
- Gianfranco Rosi
- Edo Bertoglio
- Vito Robbiani
- Adriano Schrade
- Jacopo Quadri
- Gilles Dinnematin
- Franco Piersanti
- John Lurie
- Andrea Crisanti
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