Robert Mapplethorpe
in ‘Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation’, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
13 April – 2 September 2024
Robert Mapplethorpe, Tiger Lily, 1987 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission
‘Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation’ is a new exhibition that pairs the work of painter Filippo de Pisis and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe as part of Distant Conversations, a series that features artists engaging in intergenerational dialogues across barriers of time and space. The Currier brings together 42 artworks by de Pisis, between paintings and works on paper, in what is effectively the largest exhibition of his work ever staged on US soil. His artworks will be displayed in tandem with 38 photographs by Mapplethorpe.
In unveiling these pairings for the first time, American audiences have an opportunity to discover the work of one of the most prolific Italian artists of the 20th century, and to consider lesser-known photographs by Mapplethorpe and revisit his oeuvre from a new perspective.