Two exhibitions
dal 23/4/2014 al 23/5/2014
Segnalato da
23/4/2014
Two exhibitions
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
'Bob Colacello: Holy Terror' features more than 25 vintage photographs by Bob Colacello of Andy Warhol and his inner circle in the 1970s and 80s. 'Slaves of Mimesis' features photographs as well as works in other media by over fifty artists.
Bob Colacello: Holy Terror
Photographs from Inside Warhol’s World
Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of more than 25 vintage photographs by Bob Colacello of Andy Warhol and his inner circle in the 1970s and 80s. This is the second exhibition of Colacello’s photographs at Steven Kasher Gallery. Taken when Colacello was the editor of Warhol’s magazine Interview from 1971 – 1983, the images chronicle Andy Warhol as he redefined modern art, provoked controversy, seduced the rich and famous and led the avant-garde. The exhibition is mounted in conjunction with the rerelease of Bob Colacello’s Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (Vintage Books/Knopf DoubleDay 2014).
Bob Colacello spent a decade by Warhol’s side as employee, collaborator, wingman, and confidante. The photographs in the exhibition portray Warhol at work and at play, Warhol’s circle of associates, the Factory office, parties and openings around the world, and quiet moments where the mysterious artist was at his most honest and vulnerable. Colacello gives us a riveting portrait of this extraordinary man: brilliant, controlling, shy, insecure, and immeasurably influential.
When Holy Terror was first published in 1990, it was hailed as the best of the Warhol accounts. Now, some two decades later, this portrayal retains its hold on readers—as does Andy’s timeless power to fascinate, galvanize, and move us.
Bob Colacello, a longtime special correspondent for Vanity Fair, was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and educated at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts. His photographs were included in the seminal 1981 exhibition, “New York/New Wave” at P.S.1, and have also been shown at Steven Kasher Gallery, Mary Boone Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, and the Barbican. The first volume of his Reagan biography, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path To the White House, 1911-1980 was published in 2004 and a collection of his photographs of the Factory years, Bob Colacello’s Out, was published in 2007.
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Slaves of Mimesis: Nine Years on 23rd Street
Mimesis [mi’mee’sis] noun
a. imitation of the real world, as by re-creating instances of human action and events or portraying objects found in nature: This movie is a mimesis of historical events.
b. basic theoretical principle in the creation of art. The word is Greek and means "imitation" (though in the sense of "re-presentation" rather than of "copying"). According to Plato, all artistic creation is a form of imitation: that which really exists (in the "world of ideas") is a type created by God; the concrete things man perceives in his existence are shadowy representations of this ideal type. Therefore, the painter, the tragedian, and the musician are imitators of an imitation, twice removed from the truth.
Slave [sleyv] noun
a. a person entirely under the domination of some influence: A slave to a drug.
b. a device that is controlled by or that duplicates the action of another similar device (the master device)
Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition surveying the more than one hundred exhibitions we organized at 521 West 23rd Street during the last nine years. While looking back, this exhibition looks forward to our move to 515 West 26th Street. The exhibition will feature photographs as well as works in other media by over fifty artists. It will juxtapose a selection of the most powerful works we have exhibited over the last decade. These will illuminate themes central to the gallery's agenda, representations of the realms of human endeavor, created under the force of powerful personal and social compulsions. Thus: Slaves of Mimesis.
The six themes:
New York Countercultures – Henry Chalfant, Hyers and Mebane, Gilles Larrain, Jim Marshall, Fred W. McDarrah, Punk Posters, Irving Penn, Anton Perich, Accra Shepp, Andy Warhol, and Weegee.
Liberation Struggles – Anonymous, Eddie Adams, Emory Douglas, David Fenton, Elaine Mayes,Fred W. McDarrah, Charles Moore, and Stephen Shames.
Glamour/Sex – Anonymous, Miles Aldridge, Danny Fitzgerald, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Josh Gosfield, Günter Grass, Roxanne Lowit, Jim Marshall, Monsieur X, Daido Moriyama, Tetsu Okukara, WingatePaine, Lawrence Schiller, Mark Seliger, and Carl van Vechten.
Street/The Public Sphere – A-Chan, Diane Arbus, Joel Grey, Josef Koudelka, Jerome Liebling, Vivian Maier, Fred W. McDarrah, Daido Moriyama, Ruth Orkin, Leo Rubinfien, Christopher Thomas, and Brett Weston.
Musicians – Richard Avedon, Danny Fields, Laura Levine, Cynthia MacAdams, Jim Marshall, Fred W.McDarrah, Punk Posters, Lou Reed, Ebet Roberts, and Carl Van Vechten.
Typological Portraits – Melissa Cacciola, Mike Disfarmer, Manuel Garcia Fernandez, Phyllis Galembo, Mugshots, and Tintypes.
For more information about the exhibition and all other general inquiries, please contact Maya Piergies, 212 966 3978, maya@stevenkasher.com.
Image: Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol with Rupert Smith, His Silkscreen Printer, on a Ferry to Fire Island, Summer 1979. Vintage gelatin silver, printed 1979, 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Booksigning and Opening Reception: April 24th, 6 – 8 PM
Steven Kasher Gallery is located
521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011
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