Understanding Robert Mapplethorpe
Gareth Harris, Financial Times
February 2016
Peter Marino — architect, designer, collector and fine-art connoisseur — is holding court in a Paris hotel, enunciating why previous exhibitions dedicated to the late US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe have been desultory. “My attitude is: are you kidding? Nobody has showed [his] outrageous combination of sexuality and beauty,” he says. Marino gives his own take on Mapplethorpe, a visionary of the medium, in a show entitled XYZ Robert Mapplethorpe, currently at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris. […]