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Copyright Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation | | | Mapplethorpe, Robert (1946 - 1989) USA
Andy Warhol, 1986
Black and white photograph (Gelatin silver print); 51 x 51 cm 80's
UID 102-357
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Biography
American photographer born in New York City, he attended Pratt Institute (1963-70) and soon became noted for his austere black-and-white photographs of flowers, celebrities, and male nudes. During the early 1980s, Mapplethorpe's photographs began a shift toward a phase of refinement of subject and an emphasis on classical formal beauty. He continued to challenge the definition of photography by introducing new techniques and formats to his oeuvre: color Polaroids, photogravure, platinum prints on paper and linen, Cibachromes and dye transfer color prints, as well as his earlier black-and-white gelatin silver prints. In 1987 he established the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to promote photography, support museums that exhibit photography as an art form of the same importance as painting and sculpture, and to fund medical research and finance projects in the fight against AIDS and HIV-related infection. He also established the Foundation's initial philanthropic mandate, targeting the area of his greatest concern: the recognition of photography. The explicit homoeroticism of some of his nudes aroused controversy, though their beauty was widely recognized.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Photography in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 01-02-2005 ~ 30-04-2005
Arte Pop na Colecção Berardo Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Madeira), Portugal 01-10-2002 ~ 31-01-2003
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Face and Identity, Portraits from the Berardo Collection Centro Cultural e Congressos Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 15-05-2008 ~ 15-09-2008
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Robert Mapplethorpe, 1986 Published by Idea Books Edizione
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903034
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
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