In many ways Mark Morrisroe embodied the spirit of the 1980s. As an active member of the Boston and New York art and punk scene, Morrisroe spent his twenties with photographic experiments that documented a self-destructive yet glamorous lifestyle. Morrisroe openly documented his homosexuality, his preference for drag and his experiments with drugs and narcotics. However, he also never hid the fact that he had worked as a male prostitute in his teens to be financially independent from his drug-addicted mother. Mingling in the circles of Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, who would become stars of the international art scene later on, Morrisroe developed a technique of double exposure he termed "sandwich prints". Until his death from an AIDS related illness at the end of the 1980s, Morrisroe shot more than 2,000 photographs, 300 of which will be on show at the Villa Stuck. Drawn from Morrisroe's estate, this exhibition will provide the most comprehensive overview of a work of an artist, who would have most likely become as famous as Goldin or Armstrong, if only he would have had the chance to live longer. For more information, visit villastuck.de.