The first major anthology of images about Achille Lauro dedicated not only to the singer’s fans and followers, but to all lovers of fashion, art, and pop culture.
Songwriter and producer. Rap, punk, rock and hip hop. Performer and style icon, always himself and never the same. Achille Lauro is perhaps the most controversial, eccentric, and nonconformist artist on the contemporary music scene, but he is also a true work of art. His shows are never mere singing performances: they are visual masterpieces, aesthetic triumphs designed to convey messages of freedom, rebellion and rupture, but also to be, quite simply, spectacular.
This volume showcases an incredible portfolio of iconic, provocative, candid, and surprising images. The book features essays by fashion historian Matteo Guarnaccia, stylist Nick Cerioni, and music manager Angelo Calculli, who investigate what made the artist absolutely unique in the contemporary art scene.
Produced in close collaboration with Achille Lauro, the volume aims to celebrate his figure by analyzing his style, videos and performances. Characterized by a large format and refined finishes – themselves inspired by the artist’s looks – the book includes images from his personal archive, unpublished shots and backstage photographs, and is enriched by unpublished and specially made drawings by Lauro himself, testimonies and anecdotes told by figures close to the artist.
Thegraphic originality of the book, the scenic lenticular cover and the use of a font specially designed for Achille Lauro express in a single character the identity of an extremely multifaceted artist, experimenter, lord of all excesses, lover of the extraordinary and the bizarre.
The result is the first major anthology of images that tell the visual evolution of Achille Lauro over the years, through the lenses of his closest collaborators tracing the history of one of the most controversial figures on the Italian music scene.
