Nan Goldin
dal 27/10/2011 al 22/12/2011
Segnalato da
27/10/2011
Nan Goldin
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Scopophilia, which consists of over 400 photographs culled from Goldin's career, pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre's collection. Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means ''the love of looking'', reflects on Goldin's intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given to the artist to photograph freely throughout the Louvre Museum.
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Nan Goldin: Scopophilia, the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. This will be the artist’s first exhibition in New York since 2007 and includes the U.S. debut of Scopophilia, a new 25-minute-long slide installation commissioned last year by the Louvre Museum.
Scopophilia, which consists of over 400 photographs culled from Goldin’s career, pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection. Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means “the love of looking,” reflects on Goldin’s intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given to the artist to photograph freely throughout the Louvre Museum. Of this project, Goldin explains, “Desire awoken by images is the project’s true starting point. It is about the idea of taking a picture of a sculpture or a painting in an attempt to bring it to life.”
Nan Goldin’s work has been the subject of two major touring museum retrospectives, one organized in 1996 by the Whitney Museum of American Art, and another, in 2001, by the Centre Georges Pompidou. Goldin was admitted to the French Legion of Honor in 2006 and received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2007. Last year Nan Goldin: Berlin Work, Photographs 1984-2009 was seen at the Berlinische Gallery in Berlin. Goldin’s seminal work, the slide installation called The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, was recently on view this fall at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
For further information, please contact Jacqueline Tran at (212) 243-0200, or email jacqueline@matthewmarks.com.
Opening: Friday, October 28, 6 - 8 PM
Matthew Marks
522 W 22 Street, New York, NY 10011
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.