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A Magnificent Lesson
I don’t know Stathis Gourgouris - but I know one of his very best friends - who sent this to me yesterday.
“Much will be written about this shocking event and much nostalgia to be expected. I suggest we listen very carefully to Blackstar, the last artwork to be created by this extraordinary man, which is the epitome of late-style performativity. It’s all there – all that he has done, and yet nothing like he has ever done before. The gesture of finishing a great artwork and then letting life finish right afterward is a magnificent lesson in coming to terms with finitude – of self, of time, of matter.”
this is the 2nd post in my series of Bowie Tributes - enjoy