Robert Mapplethorpe
dal 11/9/2003 al 18/10/2003
Segnalato da
11/9/2003
Robert Mapplethorpe
Sean Kelly Gallery (old location), New York
A major exhibition of photographs by the artist selected by Cindy Sherman. The exhibition, Mapplethorpe's first solo show in New York in three years, inaugurates the gallery's relationship with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
EYE TO EYE
Selected by Cindy Sherman
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of
photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe selected by Cindy Sherman. The
exhibition, Mapplethorpe's first solo show in New York in three years,
inaugurates the gallery's relationship with the Robert Mapplethorpe
Foundation.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday,
September 122h from 6pm until 8pm.
Celebrated and censored, revered and reviled, notorious and noted, demonized
and deified, Robert Mapplethorpe's work has never been less than
controversial. This exhibition of nearly 60 works selected by artist Cindy
Sherman is Mapplethorpe's work as you have never seen it before. The
selection by Cindy Sherman, whom Mapplethorpe photographed, facilitates the
unique opportunity to see his work through another artist's eyes, indeed
many of the works chosen have not previously been exhibited in New York. The
exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal
aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies,
flowers, body fragments and classical statues.
Mapplethorpe's photographs exemplify classical ideals of form and proportion
reminiscent of the work of Edward Weston, with their controlled
relationships between light and shadow, balance and asymmetry, beauty and
obscenity, whilst at the same time clearly presaging a more contemporary
interest with the body and self-obsession. The formal correspondences in
Mapplethorpe¹s images reflect the tense connections between art and society,
including issues of race and sexuality.
Since Mapplethorpe's untimely death in 1989, his work has been the subject
of numerous exhibitions in museums throughout the world, including major
traveling retrospectives. His work is widely collected, and he is
unquestionably considered to be one of the most important photographers of
the twentieth century.
Please contact Amy Gotzler at the gallery (212.239.1181) for
more information.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11am until
6pm and Saturday from 10am until 6pm.
Amy Gotzler.
Associate Director
Sean Kelly Gallery
528 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel. (212) 239.1181
Fax. (212) 239.2467