Friday, September 20, 2019

Bela Lugosi is Undead - Narrative project - International artists

Sometimes (only sometimes), some people piss me off.
I remember that I did an interview in October 2018 (in this same blogue) to a Russian lead singer of a hillbilly, rockabilly, surfabilly shit band that doesn't washes his hair and thinks that he's God himself.
 I've asked him in a simple question if he thought that Bela Lugosi was dead and he told me that if British band Bauhaus tells that he's dead that he shares the same opinion.
I know that after working since then on several projects and exhibitions with some of the best international artists ever (being one based on Russian fill-in musician Daria aka Dasha Intoxica), that I've thought this to myself: "That guy is crazy. He has Bela as a fill-in musician in his band, he did a tour with her and other band members and he says that she's dead?" 
 Later I continued writing poems to other women worldwide (that can be read in this same blogue in previous posts) and that are musicians, artists, models or common women in several languages and I know that all of them aren't dead at all, they're Bela (maybe they're and always will be undead).
 I thought that I was being a bit stubborn regarding this subject, so I started taking pics to some references regarding arts history in my memories with help by several international artists, who I work with, linking it with pics of Daria or other international models that I also work with, I even researched for covers for this song and it's still being sang today in concerts all over the world.
 Point being that an icon is never dead when it's immortal and sometimes people are so arrogant and/or selfish that they even forget to check out if Bela is among them.
 Bauhaus mentioned several times that Bela is undead as a clear tribute to Bela Lugosi in order for him to be immortal while toying with the song's title name.
 Below are some references not only to Bela but to arts history (contemporary or not) because art never dies, just like women never will.
 Many thanks to all international artists who drew or are drawing her for this project (among others that I'm developing on my mind), because she's really a simple common girl.
Special thanks to Daria and to all women who are Bela and to whom I wrote/write/will write several poems in an emotional way as all art forms should be done.
I know little things in life, being one of them what sometimes women tell me and that's this:
- Nothing seems to change you.




Personalized t-shirt with an artwork by Italian artist Stefano Zattera based on Russian musician Dasha Intoxica, who's Daria inside an Aria and that knows that Hungarian actir Bela Lugosi's undead

Picture with myself and lovely Sandra stating that Bela Lugosi's never cold.

Interlude Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead" that was recorded "live in the studio" in a single take during a six-hour session at Beck Studios in Wellingborough on 26 January 1979 being released on August of that same year.
Below is the original version with parts of movie "Dracula" released in February 1931 directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi. 



A quote that I love 


Pic with an animation by Czech director Michaela Pavlatova, "Adagio" by animation Russian director Garry Burdin, an artwork by Italian artist Bernardino Constantino, a simple word statement, stills of Lisa Marie in Tim Burton's movie Ed Wood, an artwork by Swedish artist Lars Erik Sjunesson, an artwork by German artist Lars Henkel and Polish Artist Magda


Pics of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica along others by myself, Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese's character, Miss Fury's character by Tarpe Mills, Finnish Actress Vampira, XXIST century woman and Serbian model Minja Cvetkovic, an artwork by Japanese artist Junya Watanabe another by American artist Keith Lambard and a tribute to Thomas Shelby's character of Peaky Blinders TV series fame.


Pics of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica mixed with pics of myself, Finnsih Actress Vampira, British animator Phil Mulloy, Tribute to Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese by French artist Moebius, a XXIST century woman and Serbian Model Minja Cvetkovic



Pics of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica, Miss Fury's character by Tarpe Mills, Finnish Actress Vampira, character Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks Tv series, a XXIST century woman and Serbian Model Minja Cvetkovic and an artwork by American artists Keith Lambard


Pic of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica mixing pics of her, myself, Miss Fury's character by Tarpe Mills, Finnish actress Vampira, Tribute to a XX century paper woman character by Brazilian photographer Alex Korolkovas with Russian model Vika Costa, British artist John Willie's artwork, character Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks Tv series, a XXIST century woman and Serbian model Minja Cvetkovic, an artwork based on Ucranian model Katia Kulyzhka and another one by American artist Keith Lambard

Second interlude
Massive Attack started performing a cover to "Bela Lugosi's dead" in their 2019 world tour.




Pic of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica with stills of the movies Blade Runner and Naked by Mike Leigh, my favorite paintings by Edward Hopper, Neil Gaiman's Sandman character with an artwork by Kevin Nowlan, Pics of me, my family, a picture of American model Rachel (to whom sometimes I write poems) and a pic of a phone booth.


Pics of Daria aka as Dasha Intoxica mixed with printed pics of books by Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, by Icelandic writer Jon Kalman Stefánsson, printed pics of Simon Ballestier for The Pixies band albuns, Wong Kar Wai movie "2046", photos by Japanese photographer Junya Watanabe , artworks by Belgium artist Olivier Deprez with his Franz Kafka's adaptation of "The castle", an artwork by Italian artist Bernardino Constantino, one of my favorite paintings ever by Edward Hopper, PJ Harvey in the film "a dog called money" directed by Seamus Murphy, pics of me wearing a personalized t-shirt with an artwork by Swedish artist Max Andersson and Russian performers Mascara and her sister El Lisetsky 


Pic with some fan art for Peaky Blinders Tv series in streets, American band Chromatics, stills of Peaky Blinders and astonishing artworks and Russian dolls by Russian artist Natasha Von Braun 

Third interlude 
"Bela Lugosi's dead" cover by French band Nouvelle Vague in July 2010 with an astonishing performance by Cuban born singer Liset Alea







Pic of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica along artworks by Indonesian artist Wendy Saber Core


Pic of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica along myself and another one by Russian artist Nastya 


Pic of myself along Daria aka Dasha Intoxica 





Pic of Daria aka Dasha Intoxica along a pic of myself and another one by Russian artist Nastya 

Wearing a personalized t-shirt with an artwork based on Daria aka Dasha Intoxica by Italian artist Stefano Zattera in the prettiest city in the world. 

Daria aka Dasha Intoxica and Twin Peaks character Audrey Horne 

Pic with the sentence  "Wipe away the crumbs but never wipe away your smile", two pencils (one based on Fellini's movie "La dolce Vita", the other based on Gustav Klimt's masterpiece painting " The kiss") along a book by Argentine writer Julio Cortazar with some short stories in Spanish based on time.

Reading (once again) Portuguese book edition of "Saint Petersburg tales" written by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol in between 1835 and 1842








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