Without the protection and infancy’s guard, Is this the role that you wanted to live? I can imagine how morbidly beautiful and magical it would look surrounded by candles and flowers, in autumnal dusk when distant sky is a greyish with a tinge of pink.
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This is definitely not a stiff looking tomb, it’s full of emotions, tragedy and passion. Paernio beautifully depicted the tragedy of the grieving family through the gestures and poses, but also through the clothes the creases and fluid lines of their robes appear so vivid and alive. The tomb was designed in 1910, but I am sure that the artist’s commission takes time, especially if it’s a sculpture which requires time and effort. Looking at the actual, less-artistic photograph of the tomb bellow, it seems to me that the person deceased could be Giovanni who died in 1907. The gestures of the figures presented truly bring the mood of melancholy and anguish one woman has thrown herself on the ground, from agony and pain of the loss, while the other two are kneeling down, the one in the middle covered her face in her hand, unable to face sad reality of the situation. The tomb shows a man lying on a catafalque, surrounded by his grieving family members. Paernio (1851-1914) was an Italian sculptor who designed and carved a plethora of tombs for the Staglieno cemetery, but the Appiani family tomb seems especially eerie and gloomy, and therefore fitting for the album of “Closer”. The tomb was sculpted by Demetrio Paernio in 1910 for the Appiani family tomb in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa, Italy. The photograph of the tomb used for the album cover was taken in 1978 by Bernard Pierre Wolff. The black and white design of the album features the title “Closer” and under it there’s a sombre and gloomy photograph of a tomb. Life goes on, music scene goes on, even the other band members went on with their music and formed a new band, New Order, but for Joy Division the “Closer” marks an ending and the album cover is eerily appropriate. Joy Division, Closer, 1980, album cover designed by Peter Saville (Factory Records) Since today is the 40th anniversary of Curtis’ death, I decided the explore the art behind the album cover of “Closer”.
In a way, for Curtis at least (other band members were still alive), this album was release posthumously. The second and last album of Joy Division, conveniently named “Closer” because it truly brought a sense of closure, an ending, was released on 18 July 1980 three days after Ian Curtis would have usually celebrate his birthday. Ian Curtis, the singer, songwriter and the front man of British post-punk band Joy Division took his life on the 18th May 1980, two months shy of his twenty-forth birthday.
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