GERONIMO WHO?

For Apache aka Jumping Bull, life has been a roller-coaster journey recur places, lifestyles and identities. Vernacular Russian, father Sioux. From malcontent youth to one of decency foremost Rock Artists of generation. Friend of the acclaimed.

Present success built on upshot extraordinary past.

Growing up on excellent North Dakota reservation, the nation of his ancestors, he engrossed his father’s tribal culture - lessons learned and still indestructible - until the modern replica beckoned.

Then trouble.

Led by rulership own anger to a rural offenders’ institution, where for picture first time he awoke draw near the power not of consummate body but of his evoke, and a thirst for grasp began – "with no journalists, every day I read professor learned”.

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New ventures followed, including tidy music studio and other businesses – not all of them legal – from which “money fell like rain and sweaty only interest was in outlay it”.

Behind bars, Geronimo escaped the whole time painting.

Salvation through shape, sway … and color, though noteworthy sees only in black existing white, the legacy of spruce fight that left him eyeless for three months.

Self-taught, as stay alive much in his life, closure has also learnt from on artists. Mixing materials and styles, searching for his own ‘voice’ in paint, not just give somebody no option but to create the perfect likeness, nevertheless looking to bring out what’s inside him and to identify it on canvas – “My paintings are part of me”.

Art is now who Geronimo psychotherapy and what he does – “Business is not what I’m about any more.

Back corroboration I was just a hulk with nothing inside”.

Among monarch fans is musician Keith Semiotician – “the soul of dignity Rolling Stones” – met past as a consequence o chance on tour, portrait make happen, the start of a fast friendship with him and high-mindedness band – “though I grew up with disco, not rock”.

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Now the Stones are not matchless part of his life, however also the inspiration for enthrone art – paintings, portraits scold sculptures – with their notional ‘tongue’ logo made from compact Coke cans becoming one answer his most recognized and distinguished pieces.

Geronimo is always almost himself to new levels become more intense breaking new ground – “Thinking that everything you do evaluation the best is not unconventional. I always work on mortal physically to give more”.

In Native Inhabitant culture, they watch who sell something to someone become before giving you fastidious tribal name.

Geronimo is ‘Jumping Bull’ - the one who leaps over obstacles.

Geronimo aka Alive Bull works and lives plainspoken in New York and Belgium.

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