// XYZ //

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Part of a series in which the gallery invites guest curators to rediscover the photographer’s work, Thaddaeus Ropac has invited architect and designer Peter Marino to bring forward his personalized vision on Mapplethorpe, following such curators as Sofia Coppola (2011) and Hedi Slimane (2005).

 Working in close collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation based in New York, Marino has selected some 17 Polaroid’s and 60 photographs to revisit themes he believes fundamental to the photographers’ work: X for sex, Y for floral still lives, and Z for male nudes.

Robert Mapplethorpe – XYZ

curated by Peter Marino

Thaddaeus Ropac

Paris

28.1.2016 – 5.3.2016

© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

/ by Kim Poorters /

// ICONS OF THE SIXTIES //

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After the Royal Academy’s 2014 ‘The Lost Album’ exhibition, Paris based gallery Thaddaeus Ropac draws our well-deserved attention to a lesser-known aspect of the creative production of Hollywood’s enfant terrible, the late Dennis Hopper.

At the centre of the exhibition sits a selection of 35 vintage photographic prints signed by Hopper, all of which were taken between 1962 and 1967, one of the most creative periods of his life. 

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Dennis Hopper – Icons of the Sixties

Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Paris-Pantin

21.10.2015 – 9.1.2016

 / by Kim Poorters /