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Museo de las Artes | Universidad de Guadalajara
September 02 | 2009
Guadalajara
DAVID LACHAPELLE DELIRIOS DE RAZÓN | DELIRIUM OF REASON
MUSA celebrates his 15 years with LaChapelle's Derilium of Reason
For the first time in Guadalajara, DAVID LACHAPELLE, the so-called “Fellini of photography”, is being exhibited at Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara.
Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara will host more than 60 pieces by this talented artist.
The exhibit will be presented by curators César Vázquez Navarro and Fred Torres.
More than 130,000 people visited the same exhibition, DAVID LACHAPELLE DELIRIOS DE RAZÓN | DELIRIUM OF REASON, at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City.
As a result of the high demand from the public in Mexico City, the show was extended two weeks.
Guadalajara, Friday June 26, 2009.- Assuming the risk of stating uncomfortable truths using disturbing images is very common among artists; however, though their expressive mediums may be qualified as irreverent, they are always invitations to reconsider, revise, or redefine the mode in which current society faces the contradictions, injustices, abuses, and excesses that weaken it, as is shown in the work of DAVID LACHAPELLE. It is with great pride that the Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara will present the international exhibit DAVID LACHAPELLE DELIRIOS DE RAZÓN | DELIRIUM OF REASON.
Along with the exhibition of DAVID LACHAPELLE DELIRIOS DE RAZÓN | DELIRIUM OF REASON, a University Forum in which the artist will present his works and discuss his process will take place. The Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara will offer guided tours of the exhibition. Around this large exhibition will be carried out other events, which will surprise all the guests.
DAVID LACHAPELLE DELIRIOS DE RAZÓN | DELIRIUM OF REASON will open September 3, 2009 at Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara.
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DAVID LACHAPELLE
After training at art schools in North Carolina and New York, DAVID LACHAPELLE was invited by Andy Warhol to work with Interview magazine, where he began his professional career. His daring and splendid images have forged a particular style that is unique, original and unmistakable. He has photographed a myriad personalities from show business, music, sports and politics; international stars such as Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie, Gael García Bernal, Cameron Diaz, Pamela Anderson and Elton John. DAVID LACHAPELLE has led his originality and versatility in international publications such as Flaunt, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and GQ. His avant garde style has made him a coveted developer of advertising campaigns. He expanded his career to film and won great acclaim for his work as a director of music videos and his feature documentary, RIZE. His work has appeared in world class galleries such as Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York, and Jablonka Gallerie in Berlin. Museums around the world including the the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the Palazzo Reale in Milan, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, His photographs have been published in the books LaChapelle Land (1996), Hotel LaChapelle (1999), Artists & Prostitutes (2006) and Heaven to Hell (2007).
FRED TORRES
Fred Torres has been an associate of David LaChapelle for fifteen years. Having started his career as the executive producer of LaChapelle's photo shoots, Torres is currently David LaChapelle's art representative worldwide. He has been fundamental in developing exhibitions of LaChapelle's work at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin; the Museum de Arte Latinoamericano Buenos Aires and served with Gianni Mercurio as co-curator of the largest LaChapelle exhibition to date at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, the fotografiska Museet in Stockholm, and La Monnaie de Paris in France. He was co-curator with Mr. Ery Camara at the show DELIRIOS DE RAZÓN | DELIRIUM OF REASON, at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City.
212 PRODUCTIONS
Based in Los Angeles, California, with offices in Guadalajara and Mexico City, 212 Productions creates cultural events in Mexico and around the world.
