Björn Andrésen: The tragic story of the most beautiful boy in
May 13, 2021 · Above image: Still, Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti, 1971. Despite’s its lukewarm reception at the time of release, Death in Venice turned 15 year-old Swedish actor Björn Andrésen into an international icon of forbidden lust. Cast by Italian director Luchino Visconti as the film’s embodiment of beauty and temptation, the image took Andrésen hostage from then on, creating a cult ...
Chinese photographer Luo Yang is empowering Asian women with …
Above image: Meng Luyue, 2016. Luo Yang’s GIRLS began in 2008. Inspired by her personal explorations of individuality, the Chinese photographer’s series remains ongoing, continuing to probe the nuances of female experience.
Louise Bourgeois: absent mothers, childhood trauma and Freudian ...
May 20, 2020 · It wasn’t until 1954, when Bourgeois joined the American Abstract Artists Group that her career really transformed. Befriending the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Bourgeois broke new ground as an artist, pushing the scale and material of her sculptures and becoming a leading figure in feminist art.
Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud: the French cartoonist whose seminal ... - Hero
Jul 1, 2020 · In 1963, with a style that still closely resembled that of his mentor, Giraud created Fort Navajo with Belgian scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier. The immediate success of lead character Blueberry – a hard-nosed, cigarillo-chewing cowboy – led Giraud to create an entirely new comic, with Blueberry as its central titular character.
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with
Oct 6, 2021 · In the mid-90s two emerging stars of the UK’s revitalised fashion and art scenes convened for an iconic series of photographs. At the time, photographer Glen Luchford was the self-taught prodigy who’d left school at fifteen and become the youngest-ever photographer for The Face just five years later. Saville meanwhile, had emerged from Saatchi’s 1994 exhibition as the embodiment of a ...
HERO 30 cover story: TikTok megastar Noah Beck is evolving past …
Sep 21, 2023 · Noah Beck’s rise has been monumental. What began in 2020 with a nine-second TikTok of him lip-syncing X-rated DaBaby lyrics from Megan Thee Stallion’s Cash Shit in his bedroom has seen him transform from a college student with pro soccer dreams (Beck was a NCAA Division-1 soccer player at the University of Portland) to one of the most popular social media presences in the world.
Chris Ofili: black beauty, imagined realities and elephant dung
Apr 29, 2020 · Born in Manchester to a Nigerian father and Caribbean mother, Chris Ofili was one of the few artists with non-European heritage to be included in Charles Saatchi’s landmark 1997 Sensation exhibition of the Young British Artists. His practice has often looked beyond this country’s shores for inspiration, drawing from a wide cultural milieu that combines the sacred and profane for bitingly ...
“I like to really step outside of myself” – Emma Laird is ... - Hero
Nov 7, 2023 · In Mayor of Kingstown, Emma Laird announced herself as an actor with the ability to deeply affect those watching. As Iris, an escort caught up in a world of mob violence, the British actor shone, reflecting that delicate balance between strength and vulnerability inherent in us all, yet so difficult to authentically replicate.
Cornelia Parker: material memories, exploded objects and ... - Hero
Jun 10, 2020 · In 1991 Parker blew up a garden shed (with the help of the Army School of Ammunition) for Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (now in Tate collection) blasting charred fragments of wood and found objects she’d placed inside sky-high. This shrapnel was then painstakingly collected, hung from the ceiling and lit by a single bulb from within, freezing a split second of chaotic combustion that ...
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Sep 8, 2021 · Among Miró’s most famous works are a series of 23 paintings he produced on paper from January 1940 to September 1941 that he referred to as Constellations.Having hastily left Paris for the Spanish island of Mallorca to escape the German advance, the near-two year period in which the series was created came at a time of great fear and uncertainty.