Is there no end to the post-death indignities that have been inflicted on poor old Kurt Cobain. Hapless berks wearing his face on t-shirts, Kurt Converse, a Kurt Cobain talking action figure and now supposedly a big ole joint full of his ashes. Yep, you read right. German artist Natascha Stellmach says she’s gonna toke on Kurt’s powdery remains later this month. But, relax, it’s art you ignoramus and quite possibly a falsehood.
Stellmach stated that she has acquired the ashes and will smoke them in a joint as the climax of the Set Me Free exhibition at the Wagner & Partner Gallery in Berlin, which ends on October 11. The artist claims that what she’s doing will enable Cobain to disappear “into the ether from the media circus”. She refused to reveal how exactly she acquired his ashes, telling Artworld, “That’s confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free”.
It was reported earlier in the year that Cobain’s ashes had been stolen. However, contrary to Stellmach’s claims, Courtney Love’s publicist has stated that the ashes “were never taken” and that the original story had been “erroneously reported”. Sounds like somebody’s been smoking something that’s for sure.
Posted on: 27th January 2010
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