Not to get off track and talk about actual photography but there's a Paolo Roversi exhibit tomorrow (wed.) in NYC.
You in town J.R.? Want to meet me over there? :-)
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Paolo Roversi: Guinevere
Pace/MacGill Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Paolo Roversi on view from May 21 – June 14, 2008. This exhibition marks Roversi’s third solo show in New York City.
Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Wednesday, May 21 from 5:30 – 7:30pm.
Photography, as a medium, encourages the prolonged examination and documentation of a subject over time. To that end, the photographs on view (1996-present) exclusively depict Roversi’s friend and model, Guinevere, over the past twelve years. Roversi’s pictures move beyond the physical facts; as his muse, Guinevere inspires Roversi to create images that are both abstract meditations on the alchemy of beauty as well as intimate studies. Whether wearing haute couture or photographed nude, Guinevere’s allure is palpable. The sum of the pictures’ parts results in unconventional, often provocative portraits.
Like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, Roversi’s photographs eloquently bridge the spheres of commercial photography and fine art: they are as successful on a magazine’s pages as they are on a gallery or museum’s walls. At the invitation of Elle’s art director Peter Knapp, Roversi moved to Paris in 1972 where he established a reputation as one of fashion’s pre-eminent photographers. In 1980, Roversi began using Polaroid’s instant 8 x 10 film and it soon became his preferred format. As adventurous technically as he is aesthetically, Roversi has made Polaroid, gelatin silver, dye transfer, carbon and pigment prints.
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