The artist is held away from worldly events: “Should I go among the poor unfortunate influencers with the dress lent?”
Amanda Lear In each interview he always gives unforgettable anecdotes, the curious details of his long life. Arrived at 85, having known and often loved many important personalities, from Salvador Dalì to David Bowie, Lear told the weekly F who interviewed her on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition The Eye of Amanda Learset up in Milan at the Spazio Guido Tommasi gallery.
Amanda Lear “Don’t call me icon”
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“I don’t like the term muse,” he said with his usual firmness Amanda Lear, Although for 16 years Dalì’s muse has actually been. “Not even the term icon I appreciate, the icons are at the cemetery” he added stressing that he is “a little fatted and with wrinkles, but I don’t drogo and I don’t drink, I don’t need the analyst”. Through i 50 paintings On canvas and paper exhibited in the exhibition, he returned to his first great love, the painting: “I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and I could not imagine that a Paco Rabanne parade would have presented me with Salvador Dalí”. Sixteen years together Yet he thought it was unpleasant: “I preferred Picasso, De Chirico, Magritte. We didn’t agree. He said that Rembrandt was a horror, Chagall suck, Cézanne did not know how to paint, Magritte was ‘a small Belgian craftsman’ and De Chirico always painted the same things”.
The no to the Maneskin
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Music has had an important space in the life of Amanda Lear, who said he said no to Damiano dei Maneskin: “They wanted me in Sanremo for a duet. I asked for money and they offended. I didn’t know them, I said no. Who are these guys all made up.” A refusal of which he has not repentant and who has once again shown how he always makes his decisions in a clear and direct way, without too many turns of words. In autumn will bring out a new albumthe 23rd of his long career and one of his paintings will be the cover. The music accompanied her throughout her life and admitted that even the ugliest record that is for her Tomorrowwritten in five minutes “made sense, paid me the house”. He admitted that things happen to them without doing anything: “They are looking for me, it has always been like this. Someone up there decides everything”.
The tronisti want to lay for her
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In life he has had several loves, but today a 84 years He is well alone together with cats and his paintings. “Berlusconi, Bolognini, were looking for me, when I shot the spot for the San Pellegrino, remember the frozen dwarf? I dined with Antonioni, known Andy Warhol and yesterday I called Jeff Koons” said to describe the social life made in the past and that he does not miss today. Go to the red carpet does not care: “But are we joke? Together with all those poor unfortunate naked half, influencer with the dress lent. Of course for a period I had to show off with transparent clothes too, but it is useless … if only I had known it thirty years ago!”. Today the tronisti returning from it also seek it from Men and Women which through Instagram are proposed to lay naked for his paintings. But he says no to everyone also because “now I paint them by heart and I have a good memory”.
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