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Italian rapper Tedua's new album, which will conclude the Divine Comedy trilogy, will be released on May 24, 2024. Once again signing the cover art for Tedua's Paradiso album will be David LaChapelle, who has already done the cover art for the other two albums, Inferno and Purgatorio.
"I was in Hawaii with David La Chapelle, in a real Garden of Eden. We were splitting but there was still no final shot for the cover. I told him, 'David take a picture of me diving!' Once the dress was wet, it would have been unusable but he went along with me, capturing it all good the first time. What made this union magical was that the wake of the dress formed a diagonal. The same one we find in the previously shot 'Inferno' and 'Purgatory' covers as a symbol of the boundary between the two worlds." - Tedua
The friendship between David LaChapelle and Tedua
The friendship between world-renowned photographer David LaChapelle and rapper Tedua has left its mark in recent years. The shots of the "Fellini of photography," as LaChapelle is called, have not only served as the cover for the Italian rapper's latest albums! David LaChapelle has, in fact, asked Tedua to serve as muse for his latest series of works Station of the Cross presented exclusively at Deodato Arte Gallery.
14 shots that start from the place where Jesus is condemned to death and end with the place of the resurrection. Imbued with theatricality, the devotional itinerary is dismayed by symbolic figures inspired by medieval and post-modern times. However, LaChapelle repurposes the Christian iconographic repertoire in kitsch: he remixes semantic codes, drawing on the notoriety of images to provide us with new meanings related to the contemporary world.
Plastic, sculpted, exaggeratedly colored, the subjects of LaChapelle's photographs reinterpret the secularized visual culture of the sacred. Thus the artist engages the viewer in his personal reflection on today's conception of religiosity.
