Lonnie Holley & Friends
Curated by Lonnie Holley
“Do you know how to touch everything and be kind about it? To be strong. To keep all the life. A change is gonna come”. The closing words of Lonnie Holley’s latest album, Tonky, echo a central theme of his life and work. Holley has devoted himself to the practice of improvisational creativity, diving into visual arts, performance and music. His art rises from the ashes of struggle and hardship, but perhaps more importantly, from a furious curiosity and biological necessity to craft, transform something and give it new meaning. Take his sculptures for instance, turning remnants of everyday life into something chaotic, joyous and mysterious, as a reflection of life’s rich complexity. This same spirit pulses through his dense avant-garde blues, in which the groovy and gloomy undertones feel almost undefinable. Above it all soars Lonnie Holley, forever new, lighting up the world’s disarray with his poetry and mesmerizing melodies.
