Robert Mapplethorpe: Choreography for an Exhibition
Museo Madre, Naples
15 December 2018 – 22 April 2019
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Choreography for an Exhibition’, 2018, exhibition view, Museo Madre, Naples. Courtesy: © Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples; photo: Amadeo Benestante
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Choreography for an Exhibition’, 2018, exhibition view, Museo Madre, Naples. Courtesy: © Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples; photo: Amadeo Benestante
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Choreography for an Exhibition’, 2018, exhibition view, Museo Madre, Naples. Courtesy: © Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples; photo: Amadeo Benestante
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Choreography for an Exhibition’, 2018, exhibition view, Museo Madre, Naples. Courtesy: © Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples; photo: Amadeo Benestante
Museo Madre in Naples has announced the opening of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition ‘Choreography for an exhibition’, curated by Laura Valente and Andrea Viliani, which will remain open until April 22 2019.
Organised in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York, it will feature over 160 works, which will be displayed alongside archaeological, ancient and modern works. For the first time in the history of Mapplethorpe’s exhibitions, this show will comprise a performative program, starring internationally renowned choreographers.
This show coincides with the 30th anniversary of Mapplethorpe’s first ever major retrospective exhibition, ‘The Perfect Moment’, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia just months after the artist’s death in 1988.