The Merry Widow

Waiting for a David LaChapelle account in Flickr, I have discovered his MySpace Account and I have visited his show in Milan.
Into Palazzo Reale, until 6th January 2008, you can appreciate around 350 photos of this american photographer and director.

This kind of retrospective-exhibition is divided into parts about different themes: “Deluge”, “Awakeness”, “Heaven to hell”, “Meditation”, “Recollection in America”, “After Pop”, “Accumulation”, “Dream Evokes Surrealism”, “Destruction and Disasters”, “Violence as Entertainment”, “Plastic People”, “Consumption”, “Excess”, “Star System”.
The most of his work is composed by provocative photos about our consumer society and our fixations with material things and the decline of traditional values.
Into the exhibition you can find also music videos he has realized for famous performers as well as Gwen Stefani, Elthon John, Moby, Jennifer Lopez and commercial video (H&M).
I like this artist because he has a similar vision of society of mine and he reproduces it very well into his works. He has everything to be considered an artist like Dalì.
(Dalì, one of my favourite artist. In 2004 in Palazzo Grassi Venice, I saw a retrospective who celebrates the centenary of his birth. Masterpiece!)

Link to Press Release about LaChapelle exhibition