John Waters

Saturday afternoon, there was the opening of an exhibition of John Waters, the Baltimore based filmmaker, do you remebere Hairspray or Serian Mom? him. The show was taking place at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. At 7 20 there was a cue long 100 meters to get in. Inside the space was a two storey high hall plus some smaller spaces, all painted in white. http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2009-04-11_john-waters/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/04/john-waters.html
Exposed a number of photos and photomontages plus some three dimensional works, these latter guarded each by two security men. I was personally unimpressed by the works. To me they looked like the grandchildren of Warhol's stuff. And the pictures like faces of stars projected on peoples' bums were funny but not witty. The crowd was very happy to be there, to look around and at each other. Some weird characters, at least for a provincial boy like me, hanged about, gothic girls and other of these sorts. Waters was in great shape, with a grey suit with dark grey edges he toured the room saying hallo to friends and getting photographed together with young men.