The New York Times review

"'NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS: HERE'S AMANDA LEAR' Muse, film actress, professional Somebody, Amanda Lear is also a painter, as her oil portraits of Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali and Leonardo da Vinci attest. But the point of the show is to pay homage to Ms. Lear herself, and some interesting artists: Scott Hug, Kanishka Raja, Ryan Steadman and James. J. Williams III, with paintings; Michelle Lopez and Anna Sew Hoy, with small sculptures; and ¡ª best ¡ª Christoph Broich with a large work of latex and lace titled "The Girl Who Sold Her Soul to the Devil and Won." Envoy, 535 West 22nd Street, sixth floor, (212) 242-7524, through June 3. (Cotter)"The New York Times, May 19, 2006

The girl who sold her soul to the devil and won

The piece is entitled “The Girl Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil And Won” (the story of Amanda Lear's album "Sweet Revenge"). The bollocks are replaced by men's heads because the male brain is controlled by the balls. The newly arisen girl is not programmed anymore by sexual manipulation. The caterpillar sheds the old life and metamorphoses into a butterfly. The butterfly, no longer enchained to earth as before, gains total freedom... The world is now her oyster!

ENVOY, New York

pictures from the private opening

Christoph Broich and Amanda Lear click here for more pictures

find here more snapshots

Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's Amanda Lear

'Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's Amanda Lear'
serves as the vehicle for an exhibition which consists of paintings by Amanda Lear and the work of nine contemporary artists.

This international and multidisciplinary exhibition in which the artists are actively involved, reintroduces the childlike games and spirit of the Dada and Surrealist movement by using a popular motive which acts as a playful interrogation of Amanda Lear. Conceptual confusion, symbolic representation and ordered geometry are all part of an ingenuous fragmentation united by nine contemporary artists.

Drawing heavily on what has been written about Amanda Lear, as well as on the images that have been spread worldwide, Amanda Lear served as the wellspring of the imagination and the home of inspiration for the artists.

Continued thought processes and investigations on the subject became a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely, that the world of dream and fantasy has been joined to the everyday rational world in an absolute reality, a punk surreality.

scentslockskisses

opening of S.L.K. scents:locks:kisses

www.scentslockskisses.com

friday september 30th 2005 at 7.30 pm

exhibition from oct 10th till january 8th

S.L.K. is a mail-art project of Guy Bleus

Z33

Zuivelmarkt 33

3500 Hasselt, Belgium

www.z33.be

exhibition Lara at galerie S&S

Christoph Broich's LARA exhibition started from 10 September till 8 October 2005 (open every Saturday from 2.00 pm till 6.00 pm)opening Friday 9 September 2005, 8.00 pm.
galerie S&S Gijsselsstraat 60 2140 Antwerpen (Borgerhout)

click here to find the whole Lara casting

Lara - Wo bist du?

LARA CASTING
donderdag 8.9.2005 19.00u - 22.00u tijdens NOCTURNE vitrine 2005
CHRISTOPH BROICH SHOP
Steenhouwersvest 28
2000 Antwerpen

LARA

Art in Progress
BE LARA, BE ART, BE OLD, BE YOUNG, BE PART OF ART

- Searching for Lara- LARA Casting
- LARA exhibition
- Win Lara's underpants

Searching for Lara: since 1 September,
window of Christoph Broich Shop (Steenhouwersvest 28)

Lara Casting: Thursday 8 September 2005 from 7.00 p.m. till 10.00 p.m. during Nocturne, Vitrine 2005

CHRISTOPH BROICH SHOP Steenhouwersvest 28
Opening Exhibition: Friday 9 September 2005, 8.00 p.m. Galerie S&S, Gijsselsstraat 60, 2140 Antwerpen (Borgerhout)

Lara Exhibition: 10 September - 8 October
open each Saturday 2.00 p.m. till 6.00 p.m.
Galerie S&S

Win Lara's Underpants

LARA

Art in Progress: BE LARA, BE ART, BE OLD, BE YOUNG, BE PART OF ART

"LARA" is inspired by a video that Christoph made about 12 years ago
this video will be projected at the exhibition: on a lazy day Lara is hanging around at home, knitting, watching TV and cooking tea, .... red tea!

Now Christoph is searching for Lara:
The shop window says already "LARA wo bist du", which means "Lara where are you? The window will develop with Vitrine 2005

LARA Casting:
searching for Lara: the whole evening Polaroid will be taken from "Lara", finding out the right Lara look. The polaroids will become part of the exhibition

LARA Exhibition: the new exhibits of Christoph Broich are skins of women in latex and fabric
a table with teapot and underpants in latex and fabric a figure of Lara in her outfit and showing her underwear

a work made of lots of steel boards with slips sewn on the steel, pressed and printed

a work made of steel boards showing a x-ray vision of Lara's underpants

not at least a work made of Polaroids taken in the shop the evening before

Win Lara's Underpants!
visitors of the opening in the gallery are asked to choose their favourite Lara and make chance to win her underpants