Alessandro Raho
in ‘Friends & Lovers’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
6 October 2023 – 20 January 2024
Alessandro Raho, Catherine, 2005 © Alessandro Raho
Friends & Lovers is an expansive group exhibition that centres on relationships between artists and their subjects and explores the infinite ways, both past and present, we are influenced by our inner circles. Just as a studio visit opens a window into an artist’s creative process, who they choose to immortalise through paint, bronze, photography, etc. similarly provides insight into who serves as their inspiration, be that a lover, partner, family member, friend, celebrity crush, or a fleeting encounter.
Friends & Lovers features works by over fifty contemporary artists that encompass a range of tender, unexpected, complex, and personal moments with and connections to their sitters, creating urgent and ultimately timeless pictures of their people.