Recently the award-winning Berlin artist Natascha Stellmach acquired the ashes of former Nirvana songwriter Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994.
She has decided to create an art exhibit at the Wagner + Partner Gallery in Berlin, including photographs and items that investigate suicide, near death and the question of what remains after death.
This exhibit will include a work that has a story about Kurt Cobain, Adolf Hitler, Diane Arbus and the Brothers Grimm in a hallucinogenic twilight zone, all printed in shades of grey on black paper.
Which brings us to Cobain’s ashes: Natascha has written “Set me Free” in the ashes and scanned it … then rolled up the ashes, along with some hash, into a joint which is placed inside an antique cigarette case engraved with the word “Gone”
As part of the wind-up for the exhibit (which runs until Oct 11), she will SMOKE THE ASHES.
Asked how she came to have Cobain’s ashes, Stellmach has said, “That’s confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free.” Hmmm… maybe it has something to do with this.
“This final act”, Stellmach said, “will release Cobain from the media circus and into the ether.”
… Or maybe it’ll just increase the media coverage for her exhibit.
10 Comments Received
October 2nd, 2008 @11:01 am
what a parasite.
October 3rd, 2008 @4:53 am
I deliberately skim-read the woman’s name so that I won’t remember it. Fuck her and her pathetic excuse for art. What a trashy, media-whore thing to do.
October 3rd, 2008 @9:16 am
Smoke him if you’ve got him?
October 3rd, 2008 @3:44 pm
This idea is just too retarded to be anything but awesome.
October 3rd, 2008 @9:32 pm
um, weren’t Kurt’s ashes stolen from Courtney Love not too long ago?
“confidential and magic” or just criminal?
October 3rd, 2008 @11:17 pm
It’s better to burn out, than to fade away…
October 3rd, 2008 @11:28 pm
this exhibit is amazing, i would absolutely love to be there when this goes down. fuck courtney love
October 9th, 2008 @8:10 pm
this
is
fucked
up
October 17th, 2008 @7:53 am
Sounds like a hoax to me… or she would be in alot of trouble!
October 27th, 2008 @3:03 pm
okk
from my prospective this is fucking retarded and personally i think its kinda disrespectful im sure Kurt Cobain would not want his ashes to be smoked in a blunt its like his ashes are being used to get high like they mean nothing or something there acting like “Set his spirit fee” when actually they know that they are just probebley going to smoke the blunt knowing theres weed in it and not think a damn thing about his ashes or what courtney or kurt would think about it honestly i think is a bunch of bullshit why would you smoke someones ashes in the first place?
“to set his spirit free” to me it sounds like this bitch has smoked enough alredy or maybe shes just crazy but i dont exacly know why but i just have a weird feeling she probebly stole the ashes and is trying to get ride of them so nobody will have evidence or try to prove she did steal them but enough with my babbiling its just a thought
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