Altars of madness
By: [auteurs, Benjamin Bianciotto, Jérôme Lefèvre, Kevin Muhlen ; traductions, Marcia Couëlle]
Contributors: Lefèvre, Jérôme; Muhlen, Kevin; Couëlle, Marcia; Casino Luxembourg; Confort Moderne (Poitiers, France)
Publisher: Casino Luxembourg
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Luxembourg
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9789995930127
Subjects: Heavy metal (Music) in art; Exhibitions
Description: Extreme metal emerged in the second half of the 1980s through three distinct musical genres with different principles, aesthetics and evolutions: grindcore, death-metal and black-metal. Like all underground cultures, extreme metal is not something that can simply be passed on: you have to experience it on your own. And so it appears that some artists, whose works have been deeply affected by it, started to get involved in the extreme metal scene at a time when they were far from imagining that one day their ideas would become works of art. 'The Altars of Madness' exhibition project displays and brings together the works of art of a generation of artists affected by extreme metal, accompanied by a few others who were pertinent witnesses of this musical scene or brilliantly contributed to shaping its iconography. Exhibition: Casino Luxembourg (18.5.-15.9.2013) / Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (28.9.-15.12.2013). Complete in 2 volumes; vol. 2 will be published in September 2013.

Extreme metal emerged in the second half of the 1980s through three distinct musical genres with different principles, aesthetics and evolutions: grindcore, death-metal and black-metal. Like all underground cultures, extreme metal is not something that can simply be passed on: you have to experience it on your own. And so it appears that some artists, whose works have been deeply affected by it, started to get involved in the extreme metal scene at a time when they were far from imagining that one day their ideas would become works of art. The Altars of Madness exhibition project displays and brings together the works of art of a generation of artists affected by extreme metal, accompanied by a few others who were pertinent witnesses of this musical scene or brilliantly contributed to shaping its iconography. Following the three musical genres of extreme metal and their different characteristics, the exhibition is divided into three parts.--www.casino-luxembourg.lu.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, May 18-September 15, 2013; and Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, September 28-December 15, 2013.

On spine: Vol. I.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in French and English.