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Nan Goldin. The Ballad of sexual dependency

Art | September 28, 2017 |

Nan Goldin The Ballad of sexual dependency_001Image courtesy of Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin. The Ballad of sexual dependency
La Triennale di Milano
From September 19, 2017 to November 26, 2017

 

An autobiographical and universal diary made of images, about human beings’ weakness, that tells about life, sex, transgression, drugs, friendship, loneliness. A work in progress that started by early Eighties, today known as one of the most important artworks of the history of photography.

 

Nan Goldin The Ballad of sexual dependencyImage courtesy of Nan Goldin

 

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, for the first time in Italy, presents The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by the American photographer Nan Goldin (Washington, 1953), curated by François Hébel.

 

Nan Goldin. The ballad of sexual dependencyImage courtesy of Nan Goldin

 

Nan Goldin gaze holds every moment of her daily life. The artist portraits herself and her mates’ troubled vicissitudes, on the background of Boston, New York, London and Berlin’s downtowns by the ’70 and ’80. Her photography is instinctive, unconcerned about nice form, it goes beyond the appearance, deeply through each situation, without any mediation.

 

Nan Goldin. The Ballad of sexual dependencyImage courtesy of Nan Goldin

 

Her artistic path totally coincides with the suffered and fascinated biography, without any doubt she gave life to a new photographical genre. Her photography is studied, used and imitated all over the world.

 

Nan Goldin. The Ballad of sexual dependencyImage courtesy of Nan Goldin

 

The installation of the project is made by a scenography, which is shaped as an amphitheater, that wraps the visitor on which is projected the video every hour. Graphic material and some original posters from her early performance in New York’s pubs will enrich the exhibition.

 

more. triennale.org

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