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20/3/2003

Goethals & Mapplethorpe

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta

Robert Mapplethorpe
Fay Gold Gallery
March 21 - April 26, 2003


The Fay Gold Gallery is pleased to present MAPPLETHORPE a series of photographs taken from 1979 to 1989. This extensive solo exhibition of 25 prints will include gelatin silver prints, dye transfer prints and platinum-palladium prints of flowers and statuary, and an early self-portrait.

The controversial brilliance of Mapplethorpe’s erotic photographs is present more so in the portraits of flowers than in other subject matter. He approached flowers in the same way as his other subjects: by isolating them. His preoccupation with lighting and shadows became an obsession. Elaborate bouquets don’t interest him. His most powerful works are those in which he focuses on a single flower or just a few, pinning them almost cruelly under the lens. A single rose placed next to its looming shadow turns monumental. Even more highly charged are the calla lilies with their teasing phallic pistils, to which he imparts a dangerous eroticism.

It is when he uses color that Mapplethorpe really triumphs. The sumptuous yet demonic explosions of light and light-saturated forms. It is an invitation to pleasure that will not be rebuffed. The images of splendor and sterility in flowers in the exhibition are fused. They are cruel, comforting, calm, descriptive and life-affirming. For all the disillusion, Mapplethorpe’s work paradoxically gives us back joy.


Since 1980 the Fay Gold Gallery has focused on developing private and corporate contemporary art collections in the Southeast. The gallery exhibits cutting-edge painting, sculpture, photography and three-dimensional objects and has fostered
successful careers for a multitude of artists Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
For more information please contact 404-233-3843.


To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Robert Mapplethorpe's death, the Fay Gold Gallery will recreate their exhibitions of his work shown in April/May 1982 and in October/November 1985. With the cooperation of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, 60 photographs of Floral Still Life, Black Male Nudes, Portraits of Female Body Builder Lisa Lyons, self-portraits, celebrities, children, and the controversial X Portfolio will be on exhibit from October 8th through November 2nd. The opening is on Friday evening October 8th from 6 to 9 p.m.

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York City for 7 years. His photographs are included in the collection of every major museum in the world. After a retrospective of his work, a gallery bearing his name was dedicated at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He died of aids in 1989.


Because of Fay Gold's relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe since the early 80s, she is proud to announce the state of Robert Mapplethorpe is now represented by the Fay Gold Gallery. This is the third exhibition of the artist's work. The current show is an exhibition of 22 photographs of flowers by the renowned late photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in the 1970s. Today, he is considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, having gained the reputation of an artist combining a rigorous formalism with a graphic and occasionally controversial subject matter. Most of Mapplethorpe's days began in the early afternoon, often by photographing flowers. Mapplethorpe used them to help focus his vision, centering and warming up for his commercial portrait work. The flowers also helped him to effect the transition to the more daring work, which was executed late in the evening. This exhibition contains the most ravishing images of flowers, including silver gelatin prints, color dye transfer prints, and a series of six photo gravure prints. These photographs go far beyond decorative allure to place Mapplethorpe firmly in the pantheon of the photographic masters.

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in Queens, New York, in 1946. He studied at the Pratt Institute and began to take photographs, first mainly Polaroids, while living in the Chelsea hotel. His first one-man exhibition was in New York in 1976. He became known for his portraits of friends and the notorious. In 1988, the Whitney Museum of American Art mounted the first major retrospective of Mapplethorpe's work. He died the following year, missing the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia that led to a debate over public support of the arts.

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Raphaelle Goethals
Fay Gold Gallery
March 21 - April 26, 2003


The Fay Gold Gallery is pleased to present a series of new paintings by Belgian born, Santa Fe based artist Raphaelle Goethals.

Goethals makes large, densely layered abstract paintings in encaustic on wood panel. It is an optical density. Goethals works in a process of pouring, rubbing, scraping-off and scratching into the surface eliciting a continuous perception of forms. The painted surface, however remains smooth and light continues to pass through the membrane.

As an artist, she is more interested in reconstructing than reconstructing. This body of work testifies her continuing interest in the point at which language originates, at which random marks start to take on the signs of human intention.

Goethals states, Working in wax is very physical and in direct relation to my interests in the body (skin). In these paintings the organic bodily elements mix with new forms of primitive writing. The paintings are fluid, uncoded, unarticulated - leaving space for interpretation.

The encaustic (beeswax) medium is a strongly sensual, tactile surface whose material substance harmonizes with her process of building up information with marks and primitive forms of writing. Goethals is interested in the point at which language originates. There is a calligraphic quality to the work, gestural marks of some pre-linguistic writing floating up to the surface before fading away. There is a blurring of boundaries of consciousness that merge into one another.


Since 1980 the Fay Gold Gallery has focused on developing private and corporate contemporary art collections in the Southeast. The gallery exhibits cutting-edge painting, sculpture, photography and three-dimensional objects and has fostered
successful careers for a multitude of artists Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information please contact 404-233-3843.



Image: Robert Mapplethorpe, "Orchid" 7/7, 1986, 20 x 24 inches photography dye transfer


Fay Gold Gallery
764 Miami Circle
Atlanta, Georgia USA 30324
Tel: (404) 233-3843
Fax: (404) 365-8633

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