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Article: Really Fantastic: Glenn O'Brien on Mati Klarwein. (Slant).(Obituary)
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- Artforum International
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- October 1, 2002
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GLENN O'BRIEN ON MATI KLARWEIN
I FIRST ENCOUNTERED MATE KIARWEIN in 1970. Miles Davis had just released his revolutionary Bitches Brew, which featured Mati's painting on the sleeve. It was a perfect visual synthesis of Miles's magical amalgam of funk, rock, jazz, and psychedelia. Mati soon became a famous artist, quite outside the art-world path, for the lavishly detailed, cosmically erotic paintings that fronted albums by Santana, the Chambers Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, and others.
I believe that at the time Mati was going by the name Abdul Mati Klarwein. He once said, "If all Jews would add an Arab name to theirs and all Arabs added a Jewish name ...
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