AN OUTWARD GLANCE: CHRISTOPHER MAKOS ON ANDY WARHOL’S EPOCH issues of cross-dressing, role-playing, arti ce and eventually construction of identity. These unmistakably AN OUTWARD GLANCE: refer to Man Ray’s famous photographs of Duchamp disguised as his female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy. Notably Warhol didn’t try hard enough to conceal his masculinity behind make-up and wig, on the CHRISTOPHER MAKOS ON ANDY WARHOL’S EPOCH contrary, he fearlessly exposed his vulnerability, uncertainty and gender duality of human nature. Such outspokenness could be read as a manifestation of being di erent, being who you really are, despite generally accepted conventions. In both series, proximity and friendly a ection between the subjects and the photographer create nuanced, delicate and sincere snapshots of New York artistic scene and its main protagonists.
Opening: Thursday, July 20, 2017, 7 PM The present travelling exhibit has toured extensively in Europe and America and has been featured in The artist will be present innumerable publications worldwide, playing an important role in creation of the New York underground culture myth. American born Christopher Makos collaborated with many magazines, like Interview, Exhibition duration: July 20 – September 28, 2017, Monday to Sunday, 12 PM – 8 PM Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People. His works have been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and Address: IZONE Creative Community, 8 Naberezhno-Luhova Street, 04071 Kyiv, Ukraine The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museo Reina So a in Madrid, and The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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On July 20, 2017, IZOLYATSIA proudly presents the exhibition An Outward Glance: Christopher Makos on Press contact: Andy Warhol’s Epoch, by the acclaimed American photographer and lifelong Warhol friend Christopher Makos. Kateryna Lazoryshynets Public Relations Manager The exhibition will consist of two parts. 20 original photographs will provide an intimate though accurate [email protected] panorama of the glorious artistic scene of the 1970s and 1980s in New York. These will be juxtaposed with the Altered Images series, calibrating the epoch when pop art and punk were born. In the former, Oleksandr Vynogradov celebrities like Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Communications Manager and drag queen Divine are captured while chilling together or posing occasionally for Christopher Makos. [email protected] Whereas in the Altered Images series Andy Warhol himself poses for camera in drag thereby broaching +38 096 296 33 21 issues of cross-dressing, role-playing, arti ce and eventually construction of identity. These unmistakably refer to Man Ray’s famous photographs of Duchamp disguised as his female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy. Notably Warhol didn’t try hard enough to conceal his masculinity behind make-up and wig, on the contrary, he fearlessly exposed his vulnerability, uncertainty and gender duality of human nature. Such outspokenness could be read as a manifestation of being di erent, being who you really are, despite generally accepted conventions. In both series, proximity and friendly a ection between the subjects and the photographer create nuanced, delicate and sincere snapshots of New York artistic scene and its main protagonists.
The present travelling exhibit has toured extensively in Europe and America and has been featured in innumerable publications worldwide, playing an important role in creation of the New York underground culture myth. American born Christopher Makos collaborated with many magazines, like Interview, Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People. His works have been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museo Reina So a in Madrid, and The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
About IZOLYATSIA: IZOLYATSIA is a cultural platform founded in Donetsk in 2010 and relocated to Kyiv in June 2014 after the military occupation of its premises. The foundation’s mission is to inspire positive change in Ukraine by using culture as an instrument. IZOLYATSIA has carried out over forty international projects, supporting socially responsive artists and creative producers in Kyiv, throughout Ukraine, and worldwide, as well as serving as a resource for international curators, scholars, artists and ambassadors. IZOLYATSIA has three intertwined directions of activity: art, education and projects geared at activating Ukraine’s creative sector.
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On July 20, 2017, IZOLYATSIA proudly presents the exhibition An Outward Glance: Christopher Makos on Press contact: Andy Warhol’s Epoch, by the acclaimed American photographer and lifelong Warhol friend Christopher Makos. Kateryna Lazoryshynets Public Relations Manager The exhibition will consist of two parts. 20 original photographs will provide an intimate though accurate [email protected] panorama of the glorious artistic scene of the 1970s and 1980s in New York. These will be juxtaposed with the Altered Images series, calibrating the epoch when pop art and punk were born. In the former, Oleksandr Vynogradov celebrities like Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Communications Manager and drag queen Divine are captured while chilling together or posing occasionally for Christopher Makos. [email protected] Whereas in the Altered Images series Andy Warhol himself poses for camera in drag thereby broaching +38 096 296 33 21 SPECIAL MEDIA PARTNER
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