Istituto: Le Stanze della Fotografia
Maurizio Galimberti tra Polaroid/Ready Made e le lezioni americane di Italo Calvino

Le Stanze della Fotografia presents, from 10 April to 27 July, 2025, on the first floor, the exhibition Maurizio Galimberti tra Polaroid/Ready Made e le lezioni americane di Italo Calvino, curated by Denis Curti.
Internationally known for his portraits of celebrities like Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp and Umberto Eco, and for having published books and staged site-specific exhibitions on New York, Paris, Milan, Rome and Venice, Maurizio Galimberti presents some of his most iconic Polaroid mosaics in Venice, including those of Johnny Depp, Barbara Bouchet and Angelica Huston, in a show that is divided into six sections: Cenacolo, History, Sport, Portraits, Taylor Swift and Places.
His creations, characterised by a multifaceted and fragmented vision of reality, are taken apart and put back together as in a mosaic, offering a profound reflection on perception and on the multiplicity of viewpoints. The images are almost always manipulated at the development stage, exerting pressure with simple tools – like pens and wooden sticks – directly onto the surface of the support, or assembled into mosaic-like compositions, in which each photograph contributes to the formation of an end result able to create a spectacular overall vision.
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Open daily from 11am to 7pm (last admission at 6:30pm).
Closed on Wednesdays.
Admission subject to a fee. For bookings, ticket prices, and purchasing details, please visit lestanzedellafotografia.it
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Robert Mapplethorpe. Le forme del classico

The major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe. The Forms of the Classic is organised and promoted by Marsilio Arte and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York.
Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice announces their next major exhibition, devoted to a true, and still in many ways controversial, star of international photography: Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 1946 – Boston, 1989). Curated by Le Stanze della Fotografia’s artistic director, Denis Curti, the show Robert Mapplethorpe. With over 200 works, some exhibited for the first time in Italy, the exhibition places special emphasis on the classical perfection of his compositions. Themes explored include the sensuality of the human body, the beauty of flowers and the visual dialogue between photography and ancient sculpture.
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Open daily from 11am to 7pm (last admission at 6:30pm).
Closed on Wednesdays.
Admission subject to a fee. For bookings, ticket prices, and purchasing details, please visit lestanzedellafotografia.it
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