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Xavier Hufkens

Robert Mapplethorpe

Leather Mask, 1980

silver gelatin print, edition of 15
40.6 x 50.8 cm, 16 x 20 in.

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The subject of Leather Mask is in pained ecstasy through wearing a headcover that only offers opening to eyes, nose and mouth. It is because of something worn that the subject experiences this encounter with the self.


Permanent Collections

  • Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art / J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

Exhibitions

  • Mapplethorpe: Escultura. Curated by Tobias Ostrander. Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico, June 17, 2021 – September 4, 2021
  • Robert Mapplethorpe: More Life. Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, February 18 - March 28, 2021
  • Robert Mapplethorpe. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, January 18 - March 2, 2019
  • Robert Mapplethorpe. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, June 2 – July 20, 2017
  • Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection. Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo, Japan, March 14 – April 9, 2017. Traveled to: KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival 2017, Kyoto, Japan (2017)
  • XYZ: Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Peter Marino. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, January 28 - March 5, 2016
  • Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute Collection. Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN, October 10 - November 22, 2014
  • Mapplethorpe and Michael Sayles. Xavier Laboulbenne, Berlin, Germany, April 13 - June 23, 2012
  • Robert Mapplethorpe: Eros and Order. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 4 - August 2, 2010
  • Naked! Paul Kasmin, New York, NY, July 9 - September 19, 2009
  • Pictures, Pictures. Curated by Catherine Opie. Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, January 31 - March 13, 2004
  • Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Richard D. Marshall, Noriko Fuku, and Hiroaki Hayakawa. Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. Traveled to: Takashimaya “Grand Hall,” Osaka, Japan; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukishima, Japan; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Marugame Genichiro- Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan (1996-1997)

Publications

  • Robert Mapplethorpe: More Life. Edited by Yongwoo Lee. Seoul, Korea: Kukje Gallery, 2022. Exhibition Catalogue
  • Robert Mapplethorpe. Edited by Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas with a new poem by Patti Smith and a new introduction by Andrew Sullivan. New York: Phaidon, 2020. Monograph
  • Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection. Edited by Akiko Tomita. Japan: Chanel Nexus Hall, 2017. Exhibition Catalogue
  • Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive. Edited by Frances Terpak and Michelle Brunnick. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2016. Monograph
  • MX7: MapplethorpeX7. Edited by Richard Flood. New York: teNeues, 2011. Exhibition Catalogue
  • Robert Mapplethorpe: Eros and Order. Edited by Anne Tucker. Buenos Aires, Argentina: MALBA - Fundación Constantini, 2010. Exhibition Catalogue
  • Mapplethorpe. Edited by Arthur C. Danto. Germany: teNeues, 2007. Monograph
  • Pictures. Robert Mapplethorpe. Edited by Dimitri Levas. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999. Monograph
  • Robert Mapplethorpe. Edited by Hiroaki Hayakawa. Japan: Art Life, Ltd., 1996. Exhibition Catalogue
  • Mapplethorpe. Edited by Arthur C. Danto, Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas. New York: Random House, 1992. Monograph
  • A Book of Photographs. Edited by Sam Wagstaff. New York: Gray Press, 1978. Exhibition Catalogue