Jimi Hendrix © 1989, 2007 Ira Cohen

LONDON.- October Gallery presents Ira Cohen, on view 29 November 2007 to 21 January 2008. “Looking at these pictures is like looking through butterfly wings …” - Jimi Hendrix.
Ira Cohen is one of the most outstanding artists of our time. This exhibition will feature Cohen’s famous Works from the Mylar Chamber which were created in the late 60's at his Lower East Side loft. Mylar plastic, is a bendable mirror, which twists and swirls its subjects - reflected in his mirror, among others, were William Burroughs, Jimi Hendrix and Angus Maclise. The finished products are fantastic photographs of figures bathed in smoke, dressed in luscious velvets and lurid magical makeup.
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