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athens(at)gagosian.com4 Février au 3 avril 2016
Isn’t art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems; isn’t it about discovering meaning in things or
situations before others see anything in them?
—Peter Lindbergh
Gagosian Athens is pleased to present photographs by Peter Lindbergh.Lindbergh’s now-iconic photographs of women derive inspiration from early narrative cinema and street photography, in their fleeting observations and compositional elegance. His Eastern European heritage can be traced in the stark and guileless realism that frames the feminine beauty of his subjects.
In his editorial work for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, and many other international magazines, Lindbergh replaces staged, calculated glamour with a vérité approach, enhanced by his use of high-contrast black-andwhite photography. He uses body movement, in particular modern dance, to celebrate the human form in a way that carries elements of both antiquity and modernity.
Peter Lindbergh Gagosian Gallery Athens
NADJA AUERMANN, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA USA, 1996, 2015
Gelatin Silver Print Illford multigrade
23 5/8 × 19 11/16 inches unframed (60 × 50 cm)
Edition of 25
© Peter Lindbergh
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| Peter Lindbergh CORDULA REYER, CAMARGUE, France, 1993, 2003 Gelatin Silver Print Illford multigrade 19 11/16 × 23 5/8 inches unframed (50 × 60 cm) Edition of 25 © Peter Lindbergh |
| Spanning the last thirty years, the exhibition testifies to Lindbergh’s impact on the world of fashion photography, and his contribution to portraiture in general. The beauty of his female subjects is purposeful, self-possessed, and uninhibited. With little styling or setting to divert attention, Lindbergh’s approach emphasizes the raw physical grace of his subjects. In a diptych of Monica Bellucci, one image holds her untamed and purposeful stare as she walks toward the camera, while in the other she looks away, apparently absorbed in a private moment far from the camera’s eye. In an homage to the late choreographer Pina Bausch, five models merge in an interlocking movement, their limbs and curves becoming elements of pure abstraction. In another photograph, Karen Elson’s pale stillness recalls classical stone statuary. |
| Peter Lindbergh was born in Lissa, Germany, in 1944. He lives and works between Paris, New York, and Arles, France. Public collections include Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Paris, among others. Solo exhibitions include “Peter Lindbergh: A Different History of Fashion,” Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands (forthcoming 2016); “Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women,” Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo (1996, traveled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna in 1997; Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome in 1998; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, in 2002; and other locations); “Peter Lindbergh: Stories Supermodels,” Ludwig Museum Schloss, Oberhausen, Germany (2003); “Peter Lindbergh: The Unknown,” Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing (2011); “Peter Lindbergh,” FoMu, Antwerp (2011–12); and “Peter Lindbergh: Berlin,” Maison de la Photographie, Lille (2013). |
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Larry Gagosian graduated from UCLA in 1969 with a degree in English Literature. In 1980 he opened a gallery in Los Angeles for modern and contemporary art. Five years later, he expanded his activities to New York, inaugurating his first Chelsea gallery with an exhibition of works from the Pop art collection of Emily and Burton Tremaine. From 1989–1996 he owned a gallery at 65 Thompson Street in Soho with the renowned dealer Leo Castelli, where they showed Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, and other leading artists of the post-war generation. In thirty years Gagosian Gallery has evolved into a global network with fifteen exhibition spaces in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, designed by world-renowned architects including Caruso St John, Richard Gluckman, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Selldorf Architects. Its vibrant contemporary program features the work of leading international artists including Georg Baselitz, Ellen Gallagher, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Anselm Kiefer, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Taryn Simon, Rachel Whiteread, and many others. Additionally, unparalleled historical exhibitions are prepared and presented on the work of legendary artists such as Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Roy Lichtenstein, Piero Manzoni, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and others. A series of groundbreaking Picasso surveys curated by John Richardson has been attended by hundreds of thousands of visitors in New York and London. The gallery publishes scholarly exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, as well as catalogues raisonnés. Since 2012, an innovative and engaging magazine on the gallery’s art and artists has been published four times per year. Larry Gagosian is a benefactor of museums and arts organizations worldwide, and has provided instrumental support to many institutional exhibitions and artist projects, including the magnificent Ceiling by Cy Twombly in the Salle des Bronzes at the Musée du Louvre, a permanent commission that was unveiled to the public in 2010. In 2006, he received the Peabody Award as a producer of American Masters: Andy Warhol, A Documentary Film. In recognition of his longstanding commitment to the arts, in 2010 he was awarded the Rome Prize for Visual Arts by the American Academy in Rome. The French government presented him with the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, also in 2010, and appointed him to the Ordre national du Mérite in October 2015. Gagosian is a member of the Board of Directors of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. |