Galería Elvira González presents Robert Mapplethorpe, until July 13th. Still Life, the third exhibition dedicated to this American photographer in the gallery. The exhibition, which is part of the Festival OFF of PHotoEspaña, brings together works created by the artist in New York between 1978 and 1984. 

Organized in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the exhibition coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death and reviews, from a wide selection of works, Mapplethorpe's vision of everyday objects and the inanimate elements that make up his still lifes.

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Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 1946 - Boston, 1989) grew up on the outskirts of New York in a Catholic environment, with no ties to the art world. In 1963 he enrolled at the Pratt Institute, near Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting and sculpture, and began to know and delve into the work of artists such as Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. In 1970 he acquired a Polaroid and took his first photographs, which he began to incorporate into collages.

Progressively, he abandoned collage to focus only on photography, making his first individual exhibition Polaroids at the Light Gallery in New York. During these years Mapplethorpe expanded his social environment and, in parallel, progressed in his mastery of photography through portraits of his acquaintances in the artistic, nocturnal and underground circles of New York City.

He combines his artistic development with commercial projects, such as the cover of Patti Smith's album - who becomes his best friend and inseparable muse - or photographs for Interview magazine. Thus, the young Mapplethorpe progressively and intensely immerses himself in the whirlwind of New York's art and cultural industry in order to find his place and achieve, shortly before his death on March 9, 1989, an enormous social and cultural recognition.
Published on: July 2, 2019
Cite: "Robert Mapplethorpe, Still Life in Elvira González Gallery" METALOCUS. Accessed February 24, 2025
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