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R Kelly Clipperton's Top 30 is dirty, musical fun

Album titles are translated into photographs with sexy, outlandish results

04.28.2011

"What a perfect thesis: take album titles and reimagine them," says photographer/artist R Kelly Clipperton of his new photography show, Top 30. "No influence from the original album artwork, the band or the music: just let the title feed me ideas."

Duran Duran's Rio, under Clipperton's lens, becomes a concoction of sun, sand, sweat and sex. Version 2.0 by Garbage mutates into a woman, post-plastic surgery, soaking in her fancy new visage. Katy Perry’s One of the Boys is a more ballsy take on Perry's notion; Hotel California by the Eagles is a filthy ode to LA’s casting couch environment; and AC/DC's Highway to Hell (below) becomes a twisted, naked ride to remember.

R Kelly Clipperton's Top 30
Thurs, April 28 – Sun, May 22
Opening reception is April 28, 6-9pm

Pentimento Fine Art Gallery, 1164 Queen St E


pentimento.ca,
kellyclipperton.com


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