Brian Hugh Warner, noto professionalmente come Marilyn Manson, è un musicista e artista americano rinomato per la sua provocatoria persona scenica e il suo distintivo stile visivo. La sua persona artistica, una fusione di icone culturali, sfida le norme sociali e i tabù attraverso la sua musica e le sue performance. Il lavoro di Manson approfondisce temi come l'alienazione, la religione e l'abuso di potere, affermandolo come una figura significativa nella cultura alternativa. Il suo approccio unico combina il valore dello shock con il commento artistico, creando un corpus di opere avvincente e spesso controverso.
Marilyn Manson describes the bizarre collection of characters that formed his persona during a frightened Christian childhood. The Long Hard Road out of Hell is a journey from hospital emergency rooms via jail cells to music business stardom.
Every generation needs an outlaw, and as a new millennium began, Marilyn Manson was America's Most Wanted. Like a computer game come to life, he's playing a role and inviting us to join his fantasy world. This is his story, in his own words.
To mark the exhibiion in the projectspace of the Kunsthalle Wien, this catalogue is published, containing many watercolours by Marilyn Manson and films by David Lynch that formally are very emotional and soft in appearance.