From Marco Perego’s The Only Good Rock Star is a Dead Rock Star
The installation, at the Lower East Side’s Half Gallery, depicts an infamous incident involving Naked Lunch-er William Burroughs, his wife Joan Vollmer, and a bullet during a drunken game of “William Tell.” If you don’t know the story, the end result of such debauchery is predictable. In his work, Perego recreated the scene and replaced Vollmer with the lovely Amy Winehouse.
Perego said of the sculpture, “Rock stars are the sacrificial animals of society.”
// Stephen Ireland
