Eroticism in Fashion Photography
Helmut Newton, Ellen Von Unwerth

Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is glad to present Eroticism in Fashion Photography, the double show dedicated to Helmut Newton and Ellen von Unwerth. In this show, the two photographers, connected by the common thread of eroticism and sensuality as elements characterizing their very personal vision of fashion and celebrity photography, are juxtaposed in a sort of dialogue. The show containing more than 20 vintage B/N and colour images spanning from the 70s to the 2000s, consists of a selection of portraits of supermodels and celebrities, landscapes and polaroids.

By Helmut Newton we are showing some vintage photos from the 70s to the 2000s drawn from the famous portfolios Rosalyn at Arcangue from the 70s up to Woman on a Level Four shot in Montecarlo in the 2000s; a portrait of Ava Gardner from the 70s up to one of Kristen McMenamy from the 90s; finally a snapshot from the series Sex & Landscapes ends the display.

On show there are also some prints by Ellen von Unwerth from the artist's studio among which a very famous portrait of Claudia Schiffer for Guess from the '90s, some snapshots of supermodels Naomi Campbell and Linda Christy; an iconic still of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel; some significant images from the series Revenge, up to the iconic colour pictures of the years 2000s.
The narrative of eros and the woman underlying the images of the two auteurs are the true protagonists of the exhibition. Helmut Newton in the 80s realized the double take Sie Kommen (Naked/Dressed) putting no longer at the centre of the picture a dressed woman, but a female body strongly meaningful of the woman's personality, which is also capable of building a scandalous and powerful narrative of femininity, gaining power on its same body, on media. Newton's narrative can give visual substance to a universe of desire, where women are for the first-time protagonists willing and free to interpret the dreams, they create themselves. Departing from this vision, photographers from the following generations, such as Ellen von Unwerth, have broadened even more the story which, around women and desire, has become more and more imaginative. Von Unwerth mixes freely erotism and sense of humour, in a concoction which turns out to be explosive.

Biographies
Helmut Newton (Berlin, DE, 1920 - Los Angeles, USA, 2004). Selected solo exhibitions: Helmut Newton. Legacy, Museo Dell'Ara Pacis, Rome; Helmut Newton: Legacy, Palazzo Reale Milan, Milan, 2023; Newton, Riviera, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber, Monte Carlo, MC, 2022; Helmut Newton, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, RU, 2021. Helmut Newton: Works, GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, 2020; Helmut Newton: Private Property, Fondazione Sozzani, Seoul, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, KR, 2019; Helmut Newton. White Women / Sleepless Nights / Big Nudes, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2013; Sex and Landscapes, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Yellow Press/Playboy Projections, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, DE, 2006; Photographs, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2004; Architecture and Pornography, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, 1999; A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, USA, 1996; Seibu Art Museum, Funabashi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, JP, 1988; Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1982. Selected group exhibitions: Mostly Nude, Hamiltons, Mayfair, London, UK; Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, 2023; Eine Fotografische Hommage, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, DE; Fashion with an Edge, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 2022. Canova: Innocence and Sin, MART, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, IT, 2021; The Violet Crab At DRAF, The Roberts Institute of Art, Londra, Regno Unito, 2015; Fashion in the Mirror: Self-Reflection in Fashion Photography, The Photographers' Gallery, Londra, Regno Unito, 2008.
Ellen Von Unwerth (Frankfurt am Main, 1954. Lives and works between Paris and New York), Selected solo exhibitions: THE PROVOCATEUR, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA, 2024; Ellen von Unwerth: Bombshell, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023; Affairs by Ellen von Unwerth, Preiss Fine Arts, Vienna, AT, 2021; Ellen von Unwerth, Opera Gallery, Zurich, CH, 2020. Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women, Fotografiska, New York, USA, 2019; Here Comes Trouble, Opera Gallery, Beirut, LB; DEVOTION! 30 Years of Photographing Women, Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, SE; Ladyland, Opera Gallery, London, UK, 2018; The Story of Olga, Camera Work, Belin, DE, 2012; Fraulein, Fräulein, , Camera Work, Berlin, DE; Fräulein, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK; Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, FR, 2009; Be Fabulous, C5 Art Center, Beijing, CN, 2007; Revenge, Camera Work Gallery, London, UK, 2003. Selected group exhibitions: KUNSTHALLE ART MUSEUM, VIKTOR & ROLF EXIBITION, Munich, 2024; Women on View: Aesthetics of Desire in Advertising, Galerie 36, Hamburg, DE, 2019; Arrivano i Paparazzi! Camera - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, IT, 2018; FOTO.KUNST.BOULEVARD, Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE; Diesel; Finally It All Makes Sense, Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, SE, 2017; Coming into Fashion; A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, Multimedia Art - Museum (MAMM), Moscow, USA, 2015; The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, 2013; Color, Camera Work CWC Gallery, Berlin, DE; Best of Fashion Photography, Central Berlin, Berlin, DE, 2012; Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945-1995, ACP Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU, 2010; Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, 2004.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a digital catalogue with texts by Davide Manfredi, Helmut Newton's worldwide agent from 1980 to 2004, and Glenda Cinquegrana, published by Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting.
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