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Rocky gets a retrospective

The Art Newspaper
18 May 2015
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Who knew that movie star Sylvester Stallone has been painting for 40 years? The star of Rambo, Rocky and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot has a retrospective at the Galerie Contemporaine du Musée de Nice (Real Love, Paintings 1975-2015; until 30 May), which includes Stallone’s earliest figurative works and more recent abstract canvases (the film star has explored abstract expressionism but now works in an arresting black, white and red palette). Michael Jackson and James Dean are among the subjects depicted by Sly who is represented by Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich. “The earliest painting on view, entitled Finding Rocky (1975), precedes the script and release of Rocky the movie which came out in 1976, with Stallone effectually previsioning the challenges of fame and the increasing blurring of the boundaries separating his assertive screen identities from his actual personhood in the public eye,” the organisers opine.

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