(ANSA) – NAPLES, 07 DEC – The iconic American artist David LaChapelle arrives in Naples. From tomorrow, 8 December, it will be exceptionally on display in the Palatine Chapel of the Maschio Angioino. Visitors will be able to admire an exclusive collection designed specifically for the city and for the historic Castel Nuovo with unpublished works, in a constant dialogue between the work exhibited and the host space. The exhibition, curated by ONO arte and Contemporanéa, is a ‘site specific’ installation that includes works never exhibited before. A Next Exhibition production, organized in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Naples, the Cultural Association Dreams, Alta Classe Lab, Fast Forward and Next Event. Taking shape at the Maschio Angioino is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that is first of all an intimate investigation into the artist’s work, curated by Vittoria Mainoldi and Mario Martin Pareja. This new exhibit invites visitors to retrace the highlights of LaChapelle’s prolific career. There are forty pieces on display from the various significant periods of the artist’s career from 1980 to today, also offering a selection of unpublished works from the photographer’s archive, combined with iconic masterpieces and various previews. ” It is an honor for me to exhibit here – said LaChapelle, on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition – Naples is an exciting city, vibrant in every corner and where there is a lot of spirituality and a lot of strength ”. Exclusively for the Palatine Chapel, some of the hand-painted photographic negatives made in the 1980s by LaChapelle, as a teenager explored the ideas of metaphysics and loss, against the backdrop of the devastating AIDS epidemic. These negatives are part of a site specific installation never created before and enter into dialogue with LaChapelle’s most recent works, some presented for the first time on this occasion, in which the photographer is captured by an awe for the sublime and from the search for spirituality, as in Behold (2017), the symbolic work of the exhibition. The ‘David LaChapelle’ exhibition explores the artist’s acute representation of humanity in the particular time we live in. (HANDLE).
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