David LaChapelle stars at the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste with 92 works

From April 22 to August 15, 2023, the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste will host the exhibition David LaChapelle-Fulmini, curated by the David LaChapelle Studio, under the artistic direction of Gianni Mercurio, promoted by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the Municipality of Trieste and organized by PromoTurismoFVG, in collaboration with Madeinart.

On the occasion of the first exhibition in Friuli Venezia Giulia dedicated to the American artist, more than ninety works created by David LaChapelle are exhibited to cover the last fifty years of the photographer’s activity.

The narrative path recounts the two artistic phases of his career: the first immortalizes in an irreverent and ironic key the decade at the turn of the new millennium, through the representation of personalities from the world of music, cinema, fashion and politics; the second projects his work into a new dimension, more aesthetic, but also more intimate and mystical, in which the impact in the art of the past and the search for himself in nature emerge. In addition, for the first time at the Salone degli Incanti, ten extra-large format images will also be presented.

The exhibition is presented as a rich display in which there are natural phenomena that, combined with the actions of man, chaos and paradise, are able to generate a disruptive force, capable of crystallizing and illuminating the moment. The artist thus lays bare his reflections on humanity: in work after work, it will be possible to experience in the beginning the drama of the moment, immortalized first in a majestic cruise ship recomposed in the forms of a glacier, then in a modern-day deluge threatening the future of Las Vegas, and finally in some biblical stories materialized in contemporary visions. However, there is no shortage of more intimate scenes, referring to landscapes populated by angels, saints, flowers and mythological figures, the result of a craftsmanship in which the images are processed by LaChapelle with pictorial interventions on photographic negatives-a technique that allows the artist to obtain works of a unique and unmistakable style. LaChapelle employs the narrative and expressive language ofallegory, a system of metaphors revolving around the same theme: indeed, his work has often been called “an allegory of the present time,” in which a neo-humanistic attitude is manifested with at the center of his work concerns for human destinies and the fact that art should be a vehicle for communication and civil and spiritual promotion accessible to all. Between the parallel and dreamlike dimension that is the deforming mirror of reality, he offers a vision of the world in which he glimpses the crisis and dissolution of man in the system of objects and values he himself has created. In his visionary artistic production, nature plays a key role and light is decisive in the construction of the meaning of the image, becoming a mystical element in a paradise in which the transcendence of the divine and the sensuality of the earthly merge in a renewed relationship between man and nature, set by LaChapelle in a magical atmosphere.

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David LaChapelle stars at the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste with 92 works

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