Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation
Data: 13/04/2024 - 02/09/2024
The Currier Museum of Art announces a new exhibition that pairs the work of Filippo de Pisis (Italian, 1896–1956) and Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946–1989) as part of its Distant Conversations series. Following the successful 2023 exhibition that combined the work of Ella Walker and Betty Woodman, the Currier launches a new two-person show highlighting the elective affinities between the Italian 20th-century master, Filippo de Pisis (born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli), and one of the most influential American fine arts photographers of his generation, Robert Mapplethorpe. The two artists never met in real life and yet their work reveals astonishing similarities. Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation unveils these correspondences for the first time, providing American audiences with an opportunity to discover the work of one of the most prolific Italian artists of the 20th century and to revisit Mapplethorpe’s photographic oeuvre from a new perspective. In addition, this is the first retrospective exhibition of de Pisis in the US.
The exhibition is organized thematically, but the display follows the rhythm and internal logic of the images, alternating various genres including still lifes, portraiture, nudes, flowers, and references to Classicism and Western art history.
