Robert Mapplethorpe | Choreography for an exhibition

A master of photography, beautiful, brilliant and damned, the protagonist of New York between the seventies and eighties. The Madre Museum dedicated an entirely original exhibition, in which the 160 shots exhibited seems “to dialogue” with archaeological, ancient and modern works. The focus is on the canons of neoclassical art, to the formal perfection so present in the aesthetics and compositions of the photographer.

For the entire duration of the exhibition, artist and choreographers will perform live dance performances: Olivier Dubois, one of the famous dancers in the world performed at the opening of the show, The aim is to combine the exhibition and the choreographic aspect, offering new suggestions and give new strength to the works, involving the public in a deeper way.

A continuous exchange between photography and dance, also present in the images of Mapplethorpe: dancers with tense muscles that seem to follow an incessant rhythm, perfectly sculpted bodies Portraits in which eroticism is expressed through forms, gestures, expressions, details.

“The works of the photographer had never been put in a direct comparison with the performance component that seems to animate them” – explain the curators Laura Valente e Andrea Villani – “The Donnaregina Foundation for the contemporary art confirm its vocation as a collector of different creative expression to re-think and re-modulate the fruition and nature of a museum.”