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Thus spoke LaChapelle

06.12.2011
Galerie Rudolfinum, Alšovo nábřeží 12, 110 01 Praha 1
Fee: Full ticket: CZK 130 / Reduced ticket: CZK 80 / School group with teacher: CZK 30 / person

About the Event

Photography exhibition of American photographer David LaChapelle, which includes a representative overview of the most important periods and milestones of his work.

The American photographer and artist David LaChapelle (b. 1963) has ranked among the world’s most eminent photographers since the mid-1990s. His work has exerted an influence on dozens of other artists and over time, LaChapelle has evolved a style entirely his own, one which is recognizable at first glance. In the context of his exhibitions, the present show, entitled Thus Spoke LaChapelle and held at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, occupies a unique place. It is the first fully representative retrospective of his work, as it includes also his early works from the mid-1980s. His early photographs are only shown rarely, and the Prague exhibition is the first to present them in the context of the artist’s oeuvre thus far.

The exhibition presents an extensive selection of LaChapelle’s work, surveying all of the seminal phases of his creative career. Still, the emphasis is largely on work created in recent years, when LaChapelle all but retired from fashion and advertisement commissions in order to revisit his artistic premises and independent work. The present exhibition includes all major works from this stage of his career, including the monumental pieces The Deluge (2006) and The Raft of Illusion Raging Towards Truth (2011).

Curator: Otto M. Urban


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