Nan Goldin Scopophilia

Scopophilia, which consists of over 400 photographs culled from Goldin’s career, pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection. Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means “the love of looking,” reflects on Goldin’s intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given to the artist to photograph freely throughout the Louvre Museum. Of this project, Goldin explains, “Desire awoken by images is the project’s true starting point. It is about the idea of taking a picture of a sculpture or a painting in an attempt to bring it to life.”

Nan Goldin’s work has been the subject of two major touring museum retrospectives, one organized in 1996 by the Whitney Museum of American Art, and another, in 2001, by the Centre Georges Pompidou. Goldin was admitted to the French Legion of Honor in 2006 and received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2007. Last year Nan Goldin: Berlin Work, Photographs 1984-2009 was seen at the Berlinische Gallery in Berlin. Goldin’s seminal work, the slide installation called The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, is currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through October 16.

Scopophilia, will be the artist’s eighth exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery since 1992.

Nan Goldin: Scopophilia, will be on view at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues), from October 28 through December 23. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

http://www.matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/2011-10-29_nan-goldin/