Exhibition in Rome dedicated to Mapplethorpe extended until Oct. 6, 2019

Given its great success with the public, the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sensitive Lens, held at the Corsini Gallery in Rome, has been extended until October 6, 2019.

According to data, since the opening of the exhibition, visitors to the Corsini Gallery have doubled: the increase in the number of visitors was more than 100 percent compared to the figures during the same period last year.

Therefore Flaminia Gennari Santori, Director of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries and curator of the exhibition, in agreement with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, decided to extend the exhibition. An opportunity to admire forty-five works by the famous and controversial artist of the second half of the 20th century.
Moreover, as the curator states, “this is the first time Mapplethorpe’s works are exhibited in the context of an eighteenth-century picture gallery.”

The selection of works and their placement in the Gallery are intended to highlight aspects of Mapplethorpe’s art that have a special dialogue with the Corsini Gallery as a physical and conceptual space of collecting.

Free guided tours of the exhibition also continue every Thursday at 5 p.m. until Oct. 6, 2019, excluding August and on June 29, July 4 and Sept. 5 (free museum admission days).

For info: www.barberinicorsini.org

Ph.Credit Alberto Novelli

Exhibition in Rome dedicated to Mapplethorpe extended until Oct. 6, 2019

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