musée maillol paris | andres serrano
Rue de Grenelle 59 - 61
75007 Paris
Exhibition - Andres Serrano
Vom 27/04/2024 bis 20/10/2024 - Press visit : 27/04/2024
More than a photographer, Andres Serrano can be considered an "artist with a camera," as he defines himself. Through his carefully staged photographs, he reveals an often disturbing reality of America. Religion, death, sex, politics, poverty and violence permeate the work of this American artist. So many facets of an America that is both monumental in its triumphalism and fragile in its contradictions. A master of portraiture, Serrano magnifies the contemporary individual by drawing on classical culture, particularly ancient painting, in the service of a sanctity now mixed with pop culture. The photographer's gaze has the effectiveness of a revolver aimed at a schizophrenic society of which Donald Trump has become both the symptom and emblem, and which will occupy a haunting place in the Musée Maillol exhibition. Provocative to some, an objective witness to the world to others, Andres Serrano easily highlights the taboos a puritanical America seeks to hide. Some of his sculptures, likely to shock and sometimes destroyed in previous exhibitions, will therefore be presented in a special room. In all, visitors will discover more than 100 photographs emblematic of the various themes the artist addresses. The exhibition is a must-see for a better understanding of today's America, which is embroiled in an electoral battle crucial to its future.
