Nan Goldin "Scopophilia"
Matthew Marks Gallery 522 W 22nd St.
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Matthew Marks presents "Nan Goldin: Scopophilia", the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. This will be the artist’s first exhibition in New York since 2007 and includes the U.S. debut of Scopophilia, a new 25-minute-long slide installation commissioned last year by the Louvre Museum.
Scopophilia, which consists of over 400 photographs culled from Goldin’s career, pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection. Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means “the love of looking,” reflects on Goldin’s intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given to the artist to photograph freely throughout the Louvre Museum. Of this project, Goldin explains, “Desire awoken by images is the project’s true starting point. It is about the idea of taking a picture of a sculpture or a painting in an attempt to bring it to life.”
Scopophilia will be the artist’s eighth exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery since 1992.
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Schedule
from October 29, 2011 to December 23, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-10-28 from 18:00 to 20:00