Let’s have dinner – but you’re paying!
Madonna met graffiti artist Simone Sapienza aka Siss last Tuesday, backstage at Morumbi Stadium right before her MDNA show in São Paulo.
Simone was the only woman among the Johnnie Walker’s Keep Walking project finalist, and it’s not by chance that her own work was a tribute to the women’s strenght itself.
Siss adapted one of her signature graffiti art, creating a Madonna Wonder Woman holding two spray cans, replacing the iconic face of Linda Carter with the one of the Queen of Pop herself.
“My work is connected to women’s conditions,” Siss told Brazilian newspaper Folha. “I like strong women, who stand for what they believe is right.” Siss used some Wonder Woman sentences on what became the cover of Madonna’s “Superstar” single: “let’s have dinner!” is written on her shorts, and “but you’re paying!” is on the whip. Simple and right to point, as Siss likes it.
Giovanni Bianco, Madonna’s art director and collaborator for eight years said: “Siss was very sensitive in capturing the song’s idea and Madonna’s pop world in her language. She captured something from the streets and from Madonna. It was very clever.”
As previously reported on MadonnaTribe, the “Superstar” 2-track CD single was distributed for free with each copy of the Folha de S.Paulo last Monday.
The Eddie Amador Remix, the b-side to the single, can be downloaded for free as Madonna & Johnnie Walker are treating their fans with 10,000 free downloads of the remix, available until December 12. Visit UOL and get it now.
Images from Folha de S.Paulo and Johnnie Walker Brasil.