The Edition

Palazzo delle Esposizioni is pleased to invite you to the opening of a retrospective of the works of David LaChapelle, curated by Gianni Mercurio, in Rome April 29 – September 20, 2015.

There will be more than 150 works on view, some presented for first time in a museum including many large-scale works.

The exhibition will focus on the works realized by the artist starting from 2006, when he produces the monumental series titled “The Deluge”, which leads to a meaningful turning point in the artistic path of David LaChapelle.
To allow the public to know the “origins” of LaChapelle work before “The Deluge”, the exhibition will also include a selection of some of the most renowned and loved photos that made him famous, realized during the decade between 1995 and 2005. A body of work that will gather all the portraits of celebrities, from music to fashion and movies, scenes based on religious themes with surrealistic touches, references to masterpieces of art history and cinema, an artistic production defined by the chromatic saturation and movement, with which the American photographer reached his particular aesthetical style and influenced many artists of the following generations.

In the exhibition there will also be a projection space dedicated to the backstage videos, which, describing the composite process ofphoto sets construction, clearly reveal as that the artist’s role is extended also to direction and scenic design of his own photos.