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Safari among the Rich 2 aka Sick Bacchus – production design journey.


Here are a few images from the Sick Bacchus movie production design journey. These include Sotheby’s ‘The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening and Surrealist Art Evening sales on 28 February in London, which reached a combined total of £136,001,500, led by an exceptional Picasso portrait. Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)

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Towards Abyssinia (2016-2018) by Monika K. Adler


Illuminations: Towards Abyssinia (2016-2018) by Monika K. Adler comprises a series of photographic works that implicitly reference the life of poet Arthur Rimbaud. Here begins a journey of transformation inspired by his own, one of unrelenting reaction against established society. ’Abyssinia’ here is both state of mind and ultimate destination for these travellers, their objective

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Fabulous 2017


Travel. Research. Love in London. Writing. Sick Bacchus: development & pre-production. Location Scouting. Production Design. Film Directing study. Cocaine in the Tiramisu. Photography. Collectors. Christie’s. 2018 Shows – Preparation. Sex, Money & Dogs. Luxury items & Soap Operas. Maldives of Consciousness.  Alejandro and Psychomagic.  Biarritz.  Cosmos. Abracadabra. Amen.    

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Monika K. Adler: Portrait 2018, CICA Museum, Korea


Monika K. Adler’s work Coyote, 2013 will be shown at the Exhibition: Portrait 2018, CICA Museum, Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea: www.cicamuseum.com Exhibition Dates: January 5 – 21, 2018. The work ‘Coyote’ is one in a series portrait works of the artist and her partner made in 2013. The work communicates the intimacy

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Sick Bacchus meets Salvator Mundi.


Sick Bacchus (film production) met The Last da Vinci Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi (1500) at Christie’s London. ”As fascinating as any best-selling thriller, the rediscovery of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, one of fewer than 20 surviving paintings accepted as from the artist’s own hand, has caused a worldwide media sensation”    

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Safari among the Rich aka Sick Bacchus – Location Scout Part 3


Set in London’s Mayfair, Monika K. Adler’s upcoming movie, ‘Sick Bacchus,’ tells a story of modern slavery. The movie’s main character, the rich and beautiful Violetta Memling, represents a privileged group in society for whom material abundance breeds pathology. Every thing and everyone can be bought, reduced to the role of objects, made shallow and

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