{"id":4610,"date":"2016-09-28T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rdpmag.co\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:45:09","slug":"robert-mapplethorpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentologie.com\/en\/art-of-living\/culture\/robert-mapplethorpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mapplethorpe at MMFA: A fist in the face!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fist, figuratively as literally (see for yourself) the exhibition <em>FOCUS: PERFECTION<\/em>, the&nbsp;Robert Mapplethorpe&nbsp;retrospective at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, open to the public since&nbsp;September 10, is the only Canadian stop of the exhibition path. Previously presented in Los Angeles and to be presented in Sydney, Australia from October 28, 2017 to&nbsp; February&nbsp;4, 2018, is the first major retrospective of the artist in North America, and for the first time in Canada, since the great controversy of <em>The Perfect Moment<\/em> in United States in the 90&#8217;s .<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-4606\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gentologie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAP_277.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy [Coquelicot] Robert Mapplethorpe au MBAM\" class=\"wp-image-4606\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)<br>Poppy<br>1988<br>Dye imbibition print<br>Image : 50,3 \u00d7 47,5 cm<br>Jointly acquired by theJ. Paul Getty Trust et le Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; partial gift of The\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ; partial purchase with funds provided by the\u00a0J. Paul Getty Trust et la David Geffen Foundation 2011.9.39<br>\u00a9 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an exhibition that will&nbsp;you out of your comfort zone, you will see things that will certainly shock you, as Robert Mapplethorpe at the MMFA, is more than a show, that&#8217;s the life of the artist, this artist who died of AIDS in 1989. We frankly see the influence of sexuality in the work, the pursuit of perfection is also not necessarily the perfect body, but the perfect work. We&#8217;re seeing a work of genius behind all these pictures, pictures that have disturbed the religious environment in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, as Mapplethorpe was fighting for freedom of expression, and this is something that we feel it did not impose any barrier, no taboo, even putting forward, especially homosexuality, racial tensions and violence, the taboos that still exist today, and we can observe that with everything that is happening south of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-4608\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gentologie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MAP_235.jpg\" alt=\"Melody (Shoe) [Melody (Chaussure)]\" class=\"wp-image-4608\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)<br>Melody (Shoe)\u00a0<br>1987<br>Gelatin silver print<br>Image : 48,9 \u00d7 49,2 cm<br>Gift of The\u00a0\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the\u00a0J. Paul Getty Trust et au Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2012.52.22<br>\u00a9 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u00abI had long wanted to&nbsp;show the work of Robert Mapplethorpe in Canada when our loyal partners in Los Angeles, in&nbsp;possession of a fantastic collection through a very major donation, gave us the chance to do so.&nbsp;Not only have we been able to put together the two separate exhibitions mounted at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA<\/a>) and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul J. Getty Museum<\/a>&nbsp;respectively, to create a&nbsp;presentation of unprecedented scope, but we have also called on the support of six Canadian&nbsp;lenders to strengthen our content, totalling nearly three hundred works and artifacts, at the&nbsp;MMFA. And, of course, there will be lots of music in accompaniment.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u00bb<\/em>&nbsp;as Nathalie Bondil,&nbsp;Director and Chief Curator of the MMFA say it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Mapplethorpe at MMFA&nbsp;: Still actual.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While traveling in this universe, it is easy to notice that disturbs, and it is perfect like that. In a time when we try to wash whiter than white, it is important to tilt in its conventions, in what is considered normal. We must change those perceptions. For example, we have only to think of the social networks&nbsp;that ban nudity, however, nudity is what we see first in our life, this is&nbsp;how we are born, the way we are when we&nbsp;make love, how we are when we wake up&nbsp;every morning, in short, there is nothing&nbsp;more natural. And shapes, there are many in this exhibition, masculine, feminine shapes, different people, in short, everyone can find his own. And that&#8217;s why you go love, love I say this exhibition, perhaps not you like some works that will shock you at first, by cons, these allow you to reflect on the process the artist and see further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As more and more countries are sending artists into prison because they think differently, it is important that these works keep&nbsp;circulating everywhere, they are part of major exhibitions. Personally, I saw the show two times since it opened, and I would probably still see a few times before its end in January 2017 as it pushes my thinking, my artistic process, my openness to difference,in &nbsp;short, educates me and confronts me with myself. It&#8217;s Alexandre Taillefer, who said in a conference my friends from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcovemoments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alcove<\/a>&nbsp;at Mural&nbsp;Festival, a contemporary work of art, to love, it often at first glance hate it, it is what will enable us subsequently to have a different vision of the latter and to appreciate it for what it really is, and that&#8217;s kind of what we can learn from this exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The&nbsp;\u00catre\/Aimer&nbsp;\u2013 Be\/Loved space<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-4605\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gentologie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/etre-aimer.jpg\" alt=\"affiche etre-aimer \/ be-loved MBAM\" class=\"wp-image-4605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Simultaneously with the exhibition <em>FOCUS: PERFECTION<\/em> Robert Mapplethorpe at the MMFA, there is a unique celebration of diversity to celebrate the different sexual orientations and gender expressions &#8211; all solid colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Installed on the exterior walls of the exhibition The \u00a0\u00catre \/Aimer &#8211; Be \/ Loved Space related works from the collection of the Museum of testimonials LGBTQ communities and their allies, in a sometimes playful perspective, sometimes poetic but always inclusive and very touching. This space makes you \u00a0&#8211; teens and adults &#8211; want to reflect on the need of humans to be, to love and be loved, regardless of origin, sexual orientation and identity kind. Some of the texts are emotionally strong enough, they certainly provoke strong feelings among many, tears to joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition FOCUS: PERFECTION Robbert Mapplethorpe at the MMFA, presented by TD, runs until January 22, 2017 at Pavillon Michal and Renata Hornstein level 2. The entrance is through the Jean-No\u00ebl Desmarais Pavilion at 1380 rue Sherbrooke West. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbam.qc.ca\/en\/shop-online\/exhibition-tickets\/mapplethorpe\/3196\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buy your tickets online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#8217;exposition FOCUS:PERFECTION, r\u00e9trospective de l&#8217;artiste Robert Mapplethorpe au MBAM (Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al) jusqu&#8217;au 22 janvier 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