7/8/2023 0 Comments Pleasure principleRené Magritte: The Pleasure Principle was jointly organized by Tate Liverpool (on view June 24 through October 16, 2011) and the Albertina, Vienna (on view Novemthrough February 26, 2012). ![]() The show was presented by period in thirteen "chapters" ranging from Magritte's early Surrealist paintings, to his Post-War experiments and kitschy période vache ("cow period"), to his late Empire of Light series - united throughout by green apples, veils, and the ubiquitous gentlemen in bowler hats. Additionally, the exhibition offered works on paper, Magritte's early commercial art, photographic experiments, and a series of his late short films. René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle celebrated the artist's long career with some 250 works, 150 of which included all of his major paintings. Traveling June 24, 2011-Februto London and Vienna © Charly Herscovici, Brussels - 2011© VBK Vienna, 2011 It’s really odd to have that become my thing.René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967) René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967). ![]() “Sex and pleasure always seem to be my way of communicating that, which is wild because it’s not what I’m busy doing all the time. “I think I know what I’m doing now, maybe,” she says. But writing about her interior life on That! Feels Good! has taken a different shape: Gleeful sexual authority has become both Ware’s métier and her vocabulary for expressing the confidence that’s come to characterize this phase of her career. “I felt like I’d exhausted that, and nobody really wanted to hear about a mum struggling, and that’s fair enough,” she says. The response to Glasshouse had put Ware off writing explicitly autobiographical lyrics. “It was about creating a record that felt loose but soulful and also had groove,” she says, citing Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and shows by D’Angelo and Prince as influences. “That’s how I want it,” she says, zooming in on a lot of blurry flesh. Three post-communist cities, Odessa, Warsaw and Prague. I show her my sweaty photos from a gig last summer. The Pleasure Principle: With Malgorzata Buczkowska, Karel Roden, Sergey Strelnikov, Robert Gonera. A year later, it finally got its moment live: The shows were delirious, grinding, poppers-o’-clock bacchanals. “And that was really fun.”Īrriving into lockdown, What’s Your Pleasure? was initially denied the dancefloors it deserved, though it became a kitchen-dancing staple. “I was like, ‘I’m gonna go out on a high and I’m gonna do it my way,’” she says. The vibe harked back to her origins as a dance vocalist, swooping between beats on early singles made alongside the producer SBTRKT. Nevertheless, she made What’s Your Pleasure? as if it would be her last record, purposefully crafting it for smaller, sweatier clubs rather than the theaters she had once sold out. Taking inspiration from the Jewish family’s Friday night dinners, Table Manners invites a celebrity over for a home-cooked meal while the pair probe their guests and bicker unabashedly-including in front of Paul McCartney, who couldn’t get enough: “I’m sorry but these women are completely out of control,” he deadpanned.Īt the end of the Glasshouse cycle, eight months pregnant with her second kid, Ware fired her music managers and hired new ones who encouraged her to see the positives in her career. ![]() While that album foundered, Ware found surprise success co-hosting a podcast with her mum, Lennie. Glasshouse, which sidelined Ware’s club DNA for MOR pop-including a candid closing ballad about her burgeoning family co-written with Ed Sheeran-was her least successful record. So I was like, OK, I’ll give you a bit more of that!” “They wanted me to be this kind of dominatrix commander to them. Ware describes That! Feels Good! as feeling like “a conversation between me and my fans,” the first of many times she hymns her mutually affirming relationship with her LGBTQ+ audience this afternoon. Its energy was fed by her recent, rapturous live shows, in which she brandished a whip on stage. The album explodes the anticipatory frisson of Ware’s 2020 disco opus What’s Your Pleasure? into mountaintop diva demands to own your desires and, in a matter of words, make that fucking cork pop! It starts with a rush of Ware’s friends purring the title (including fellow pop divas Kylie Minogue and Róisín Murphy, who recorded hers in an airport loo), the curtain raiser to a record in which the 38-year-old mother of three asserts that “pleasure is a right,” finds revelations between the sheets, and channels Grace Jones at her most strident.
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