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Robert Mapplethorpe – Philippe Guillaume

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Robert Mapplethorpe

June 25, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition Focus Perfection, which opened last fall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, was a lavish retrospective dedicated to the controversial New York artist who took up photography in 1970 with a borrowed Polaroid camera…