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MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 30-10-24 - 30/10/2024

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00:00Welcome to MEDIEN TV, I'm Dahar, and today we're going to talk about the British artist-interpreter Boy George,

00:18who is presenting his new collection of sketches, because yes, he is also an artist-painter.

00:24And it's at an exhibition called FAME, translated as Celebrity.

00:29Because long before he became an icon of pop music of the 1980s, Boy George dreamed of being an artist,

00:38of the star brush genre.

00:41It was at the time when George Alan Oudwood, of his real name,

00:46received frequent encouragement from his professor of plastic art.

00:51According to Boy George, art was the only place where I could be complacent and free.

00:58I suggest you listen to him.

01:00I would describe my art as a total search for attention.

01:05It's as if I wanted people to look at my works and say,

01:09Oh, it's Boy George.

01:11And I have the feeling that today it is possible more than before.

01:15I have the impression that this work is really a reflection of me,

01:19of the way I see the world, of my sense of humor,

01:23of the things I love, of my heroes, of the people who influence me,

01:27of the people who have been important in my life and who I still love,

01:31even if no one else knows who they are.

01:34I think that for me, it's another way of expressing my ideas about the world,

01:39what I feel about this world.

01:42I am essentially a portraitist.

01:45I make faces, but special faces.

01:48I have the impression of documenting my generation in a certain way

01:52because the world has finally caught up with what I was doing 40 years ago.

01:59As a teenager, Boy George channeled his feelings of freedom and complacency

02:04by drawing his favorite musical figures, in particular David Bowie.

02:09As an adult, having met a number of famous people,

02:14he continued this habit and published a series of works depicting personalities

02:19such as David Bowie, Madonna, Prince and himself.

02:23Boy George said that each of these icons perceived the celebrity differently

02:29and that there was no good way to do it.

02:32From an artistic point of view, this goes back to what Boy George presents

02:36the celebrities he chose in emblematic outfits, their self-adopted altars.

02:41The works are luminous, flat and underlined in black,

02:44a trend that we compare, for good reason, to his signature on paper pencils for the eyes.

02:51It seems to have been composed on a digital tablet.

02:54Let's listen to Boy George again.

02:56My instinct feels like it's the right way to make work.

03:01It's to be very sort of almost primitive and a bit punk-rocky.

03:26I just want it to be pretty, so I spend time looking at pictures of Madonna.

03:31I also throw away a lot of my works because they are not successful.

03:35And then you have to know that for the realization of a work, there are so many processes,

03:40like perling, gluing, using thread to create shadows.

03:45It all comes down to a kind of simplistic approach to prepare.

03:50That's the essence I'm looking for.

03:52I really don't try to create something that looks exactly like someone in a photo.

03:58But I want people to say, oh my God, it's Prince.

04:12And as for his self-portrait, Boy George depended on it at the beginning of his celebrity life,

04:17at a time when he was regularly grumpy.

04:20It is not the most obvious emotion that emanates from Color by Numbers,

04:24which is also the name of the 1983 Culture Club album.

04:29We see him in close-up, caricature, the eye in star, the nose in abstraction like Picasso,

04:34and the head surrounded by hair strands.

04:36It is a recovery, he says.

04:39I was an invention.

04:40It is therefore easy to draw this person because she is engraved in stone.

04:45Moreover, a series of works in acrylic evokes the time when Boy George

04:48frequented New York clubs in the mid-1980s.

04:52Boy George's famous prints were published in 195 copies,

04:58each being sold for $2,275.

05:02And over the course of his career, which extended over several decades,

05:06Boy George left his mark on all sectors in which he entered,

05:11thus consolidating his legacy as an icon of pop culture.

05:16I suggest you listen again to Boy George.

05:24We all have our own relationship with celebrity.

05:27You know, it's different for everyone.

05:29There are clichés, of course, and we know them.

05:32But as far as I'm concerned, the way you behave as a public figure

05:37is a very individual experience.

05:40I would say that my relationship with celebrity has changed spectacularly

05:45over the last ten years because my way of thinking things has also changed.

05:51So I feel very different from what I am and what I have created.

05:55I feel like I appreciate celebrity more because it's not really a big deal.

06:04So I always try to write things that I haven't written

06:08or put things in a song that no one else has put in a song.

06:18Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.

06:21The information continues on our various channels.

06:23Aramic Media TV, African Media TV, Maghreb Media TV

06:26and of course on our digital media, medianews.com.

06:29And we're obviously following up on one of Boy George's latest songs

06:33and it's called Electric Energy.

06:38All the drips I buy

06:40All the devils you imply

06:44All the things you fake

06:47All the ways you hate

06:51Give me your electric energy

06:57Let me feel that fire burning inside of me

07:05Send it from my fingers to my feet

07:12And that light can shine it down on me

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