DSC Gallery (Prague) presents the exhibition “David LaChapelle: Muses” which launches the cooperation with the famous American photographer David LaChapelle.
More than thirty works by David LaChapelle both classic and new will be exhibited over the two floors of DSC Gallery. The selection of work reflects his evolution as an artist where in the last decade he took a break from the world of commercial photography and began to exhibit in major museums and prestigious galleries around the world, including prestigious institutions such as the Musée d’Orsay and the National Portrait Gallery.
Leaving the world of advertising and fashion magazines, surfaced a stronger bond of nature in his work that has become a recurrent motif. “The exhibition will highlight the visual symbols and codes that everyone sees differently. […] LaChapelle is therefore perceived as controversial and is still argued about by photography theorists,” says curator of the exhibition Olga Trčková.
The provocative exhibition will include the notable portrait of one of LaChapelle’s most famous muses, transsexual model and artist Amanda Lepore, who is pictured in the work “Addicted to Diamonds“, and the work “The Rape of Africa“, where he was inspired by the painting of “Sandro Botticelli Venus and Mars”. Also exhibited will be his most expensive work from the series “Once In The Garden“, which is a portrait of the transsexual model Carmen Carrera.
David LaChapelle: Muses
22.03.2016 – 07.5.2016
Images courtesy of David LaChapelle Studio
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