Guggi's Girl
The Fly
First I want to tell everyone, in case you didn't know that Bono's friend Guggi is an artist, and his real name is Derek Rowan. He is Bono's oldest friend and they grew up together in the same neighborhood. Bono and Guggi used to do watercolors together when they were little! Now Bono is a rock star and Guggi is an artist. Dreams do come true!
An excerpt from The Sunday Times' Culture Section interview with Guggi, Gavin and Bono - promoting Guggi's art exhibition in the Solomon Galleries in Dublin:
?To a large extent, all three of us are reactions to our fathers? says Gavin. ?Bono has always spoken highly of his father, but he had the easiest time of the three of us when it came to fathers. In Guggi?s case, you don?t have to be Freud to see that the man with probably the longest hair in Dublin, who paints bowls, just might be a reaction to the father who inflicted the bowl haircut on him as a child. His upbringing and his partner, Sibylle have been his biggest influences.?
?The most important thing about his painting is its religious quality, which can be traced back to his upbringing? says Bono. ?There?s a religious intensity to it, a monastic quietness, even in the canvases that look the least religious: a bowl is never just a bowl with Guggi-it?s the most intense bowl you?ll ever see.?
Gavin regards Guggi?s bowls as the equivalent of pop singles and can see him moving into more abstract work. ?The bowls are immediate, they?re easily digested. Guggi has done the pop thing: the concepts album awaits.?
Guggi is not so sure. ?Bowls are my language,? he says. They are no more important to me than they are to anybody else. They?re just shapes. But I?ve no plans to move out of bowls. I?d change tomorrow if I felt I should. But I see endless possibilities for the bowl.?
An excerpt from The Sunday Times' Culture Section interview with Guggi, Gavin and Bono - promoting Guggi's art exhibition in the Solomon Galleries in Dublin:
?To a large extent, all three of us are reactions to our fathers? says Gavin. ?Bono has always spoken highly of his father, but he had the easiest time of the three of us when it came to fathers. In Guggi?s case, you don?t have to be Freud to see that the man with probably the longest hair in Dublin, who paints bowls, just might be a reaction to the father who inflicted the bowl haircut on him as a child. His upbringing and his partner, Sibylle have been his biggest influences.?
?The most important thing about his painting is its religious quality, which can be traced back to his upbringing? says Bono. ?There?s a religious intensity to it, a monastic quietness, even in the canvases that look the least religious: a bowl is never just a bowl with Guggi-it?s the most intense bowl you?ll ever see.?
Gavin regards Guggi?s bowls as the equivalent of pop singles and can see him moving into more abstract work. ?The bowls are immediate, they?re easily digested. Guggi has done the pop thing: the concepts album awaits.?
Guggi is not so sure. ?Bowls are my language,? he says. They are no more important to me than they are to anybody else. They?re just shapes. But I?ve no plans to move out of bowls. I?d change tomorrow if I felt I should. But I see endless possibilities for the bowl.?
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Not so spirituel in my eyes, but...nice. 
in pics
