DOCUMENTS OF DESIRE & DISASTER - David LaChapelle 28.12.2010

One of New York's leading art galleries, "PAUL KASMIN GALLERY is now in Istanbul after New York.
DAVID LACHAPELLE will be hosted as the first guest with an exhibition as assertive as the gallery itself. "Documents of Desire & Disaster" exhibition can be seen between 10th December 2010 – 29th January 2011 at PAUL KASMIN GALLERY -Akaretler Sıraevler, consisting the selected frames of LACHAPELLE, who is well-known for the photography works he does with the world's most famous names." The exhibition, which will take place in Akaretler Sıraevler, a new key location for contemporary art and design in Istanbul.

[img=2][/img] Reinterpreting his fashion and commercial works as well as the popular culture, the American artist David LaChapelle is being defined as the naughty boy and illusionist of photography after Newton. He is creating identity out of objects and object out of identities.

What is more, LaChapelle is famous for creating portraits of celebrities with the themes; fear, death, existence and belief. Since 1995 he has been awarded several times as the best photography artist of the year and his exhibitions have been held in many countries, from New York to Berlin, from China to France.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Naomi Campbell, Uma Thurman, Angelina Jolie, David Beckham, Britney Spears, Leonardo Di Caprio, Paris Hilton, Elton John, Alexander McQueen and Lady Gaga are amongst the celebrites reflected from his object-glass.

David LaChapelle's photographs including these celebrities and other fantastic works holding surreal traces, can be seen at the exhibition "Documents of Desire & Disaster", between 10th December 2010 – 29th January 2011 at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Akaretler Sıraevler.