29 October - 23 December 2011
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NAN GOLDIN
Scopophilia
29 October - 23 December, 2011
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce 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.”
Nan Goldin’s work has been the subject of two major touring museum
retrospectives, one organized in 1996 by the Whitney Museum of American
Art, and another, in 2001, by the Centre Georges Pompidou. Goldin was
admitted to the French Legion of Honor in 2006 and received the
Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2007. Last year Nan Goldin:
Berlin Work, Photographs 1984-2009 was seen at the Berlinische Gallery
in Berlin. Goldin’s seminal work, the slide installation called The
Ballad of Sexual Dependency, is currently on view at the Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis through October 16.
Scopophilia, will be the artist’s eighth exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery since 1992.
www.matthewmarks.com
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