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Neal Fox exhibition in Munich
13 September, 2007


There's an exhibition by Neal Fox on at Gallery Daniel Blau in Germany, here is the info from the gallery below - also there is an interview with Neal on the Channel 4 website

Daniel Blau Gallery presents Neal Fox
In the weeks from the 13th of
September to the 6th of October
the Gallery Daniel Blau will be
exhibiting works by Neal Fox, a
young artist from London and
recent introduction to the art
world.
Fox’s artistic roots lie with
illustration as with the experiences
and tales he gathered from a
complex web of characters ranging
from the beat poets Allen Ginsberg
and Gregory Corso to Francis
Bacon, Andy Warhol, Grace Jones
and the occulist Aleister Crowley.
The same pubs and haunts in Soho
that became the gathering points for London’s artistic, bohemian and alcoholic culture, of
which Fox’s grandfather was a part, are now frequented by Neal Fox and a new generation
of eccentric minds. The remarkable life of his grandfather, John Watson, inspired Mr. Fox
as a teenager to explore the myths of a life as a WWII bomber pilot in Germany, a writer
of several novels and some “trashy paperbacks about cowboys and gangsters,” a chat show
host, publisher and drinker in Soho.
Fox’s earliest illustrations were based on
his grandfather’s books, and Watson still
appears in most of his ink drawings,
always dressed in a dark trenchcoat
holding a drink and looking on as mastiffs
attack a bear in an Elizabethan arena or
flying a helicopter filled with playmates, as
a a naked Oliver Reed and a peg-legged
Keith Moon engage in a vicious
swordfight.
The large inks on paper by the twenty-six
year old artist show scenes of
apomorphium hallucinations, trainrides
through Europe, and surreal depictions of
Andy Warhol, Basquiat and Truman Capote at the infamous Studio 54. The viewers’
glances are seemingly returned by some of the subjects in the drawings, and one is thus
introduced as a photographic voyeur to the distorted perspectives of Neal Fox’s fantastical
illustrated trips.

Galerie Daniel Blau · Odeonsplatz 12 · 80539 Munich · Germany
phone +49 89 / 29 73 42 · contact@danielblau.com · www.danielblau.com