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L'Équipe Nº5 - Faces of Neal Cassady - Piet Heijden Hume

April 9, 2010

On April 9th 2010, Tenue de Nîmes wil launch a new exhibition called 'The Faces of Neal Cassady' by 19 year old artist Piet Heijden Hume. When Piet was supposed to be learning German grammar, he was actually reading Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' and 'The Beat generation Bible', on which Bob Dylan dryly commented: 'It changed my life like it changed everyone else's'.

 

It was one of Kerouac's idols, Neal Cassady, who became the main subject of this new Tenue de Nîmes exhibition as being the ultimate denim soul: Rugged and refined, practical and poetic, with jazz music in his face. Piet Heijden Hume created 5 portraits of Cassady's face that show him contorting his eyebrows, throwing his head back, sporting a crazy grin, or just showing his darting features on a thousand faces. The portraits are solely composed of text from novels Piet liked, song lyrics or spontaneous thougths. The entire mix, combined with the inspiration from denim and early 20th century labour, formed "The Faces of Neal Cassady".