Robert Mapplethorpe: Le forme della bellezza Solo exhibition at the Museo dell’Ara Pacis
On display is a selection of approximately 200 photographs, which explore the concept of beauty as absolute perfection and formal rigor.
Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 1946-1989) did not photograph subjects, but sculpted space through the lens of his Hasselblad, giving each shot an aura of absolute classicism, with a geometric vision and a search for perfection.
The exhibition, which stands out for its series of previously unseen contents, focuses on the search for pure form, where the human body, faces, and still lifes are treated with the same obsessive attention to light and geometry.
Robert Mapplethorpe. Le forme della bellezza is the final chapter of a major exhibition project that first traveled to Venice, at the Stanze della Fotografia, and then to Milan, at the Palazzo Reale.
