Robert Mapplethorpe, Alison Jacques Gallery

Submitted by Josh Spero on Tue, 18/01/2011 - 23:30
Alison Jacques Gallery

The first thing to make clear is that Robert Mapplethorpe, notorious for his photograph of himself with a bullwhip up his arse, is not really a photographer: he is a sculptor who works in the medium of photography. What else can explain the marble and ebony of his chiselled subjects, or the fact that most of the works selected for this show as responses to Mapplethorpe are sculptures?