Rome, Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs on display at Corsini Gallery

From March 15 to June 30, 2019, Galleria Corsini in Rome is hosting the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sensitive Lens, curated by Flaminia Gennari Santori. The exhibition continues the dialogue and interweaving of past and present that began with the exhibition of Picasso’sParade in 2017 and the exhibition Echo and Narcissus in 2018, a hallmark of the strategy outlined by the museum’s management.

The exhibition, which brings together forty-five works, focuses on some of the themes that distinguish the work of Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 1946 - Boston, 1989), a well-known, revolutionary and controversial master of the second half of the twentieth century: the study of still lifes, landscapes, classical statuary and Renaissance composition.

The curator’s choice to make an exhibition about Robert Mapplethorpe is inspired by the collecting practice of the artist, an avid collector of historical photographs, a passion he shared with his partner Sam Wagstaff, whose collection constitutes an extraordinary fund of the Getty Museum’s photography department. The selection of works and their placement in the Gallery respond to several intentions: to highlight aspects of Mapplethorpe’s work that resonate in a particular way with the museum venue, understood as a space (physical and conceptual) of collecting, to trigger an unprecedented relationship between visitors, the works and the Gallery’s environments.

2019 is the thirtieth anniversary of Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, and this initiative, organized in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York, is part of a series of exhibitions dedicated to the artist, including a major retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York and in Italy, at the Madre Museum, the exhibition focused on the artist’s Neapolitan travels and his relationship with his gallerist Lucio Amelio.

The exhibition can be visited during the Corsini Gallery’s opening hours: Wednesday through Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. (last admission at 6 p.m.). It can be accessed with the National Galleries of Ancient Art ticket: full 12 euros, reduced 6 euros. The ticket is valid from the moment it is stamped for 10 days in both Museum locations: Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini. Free: under 18 years of age, school groups and accompanying teachers from the European Union (by prior reservation), students and teachers of Architecture, Humanities (archaeological or historical-artistic address), Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Educational Sciences, Academies of Fine Arts, employees of the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities, ICOM members, tour guides and interpreters on duty, journalists with order card, handicapped persons with accompanying person, school teaching staff, tenured or with term contract, upon presentation of appropriate attestation on the model prepared by Miur.

In the photo: Robert Mapplethorpe, Self potrait (1988)

Rome, Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs on display at Corsini Gallery

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