The exhibition “Tina Turner: A Trip to the Future” traces all times of the singer

The exhibition “Tina Turner: A Trip to the Future” traces all times of the singer


With more than 100 photographs, the MIS exhibition highlights rare moments and the pioneering spirit of the singer who became a pop rock icon

There are two key points to understand the exhibition. Tina Turner: A journey into the future, inaugurated on Thursday 4 at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS). One of them appears even before the visitor enters the exhibition, on the first floor of the building. In a small exhibition space, to the left of the museum entrance, a small exhibition tells the story of photography, based on objects from the museum’s collection. It highlights the importance of photographic records from the late 19th century and how it can teach us to see beyond the mundane.

This first observation is necessary since the exhibition on Tina is essentially photographic, despite having a contemporary setting, in a world where more and more people are looking for “instagrammable” experiences and scenarios. It is through the images recorded by four professionals – Bob Gruen, Lynn Goldsmith, Ian Dickson and Ebet Roberts – that the visitor will have the opportunity to get to the essence of Tina Turner, artist and woman.

The welcome photo is in black and white and was taken by Gruen in the 70s. Tina’s gaze, offstage, with her body covered by a winter coat and sunglasses raised to her head, catches a woman in a transformation personal and artistic that would explode in the following decade.

“The discussions that Tina brought are those of today. We talk about violence against women, machismo in the music industry and ageism,” Adriana tells Stadium.

PHOTOS. As much a rock and roll star as Tina, photographer Bob Gruen, who took most of the 100-plus photos that make up the exhibit, many of them never shown in the country, was practically launched by Tina. It was she and her then-husband Ike who opened the doors to their home and career in Gruen.

With that, the photographer managed, as he also did with the couple John Lennon and Yoko Ono, to record moments that no one else could, because he was in the right place, with unlimited access.

Gruen are the few photos of Tina without a wig: the singer knew that this would be an interesting accessory in her image. Or Tina preparing a meal in her kitchen. For him, the singer even offered a smile as she signed an autograph.

There are still, among the shots of Gruen and other professionals, images of the singer in concerts around the world, in studio recordings or surrounded by her children.

To highlight Tina’s image and voice, a 6m high and 3.5m wide screen displays her musical numbers in a floodlit environment. It is in this space that some wigs of the model worn by Tina are available so that the most enthusiastic visitors can put them on and take pictures – or perform with the diva.

In her retirement from Switzerland, currently 83 years old, with 12 Grammys and 200 million records sold throughout her career, Tina, born in the conservative state of Tennessee, USA, named Anna Mae Bullock still represents, as the title of the exhibition indicates, a great and exciting journey into the future.

Source: Terra

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