Photo Courtesy of SGP
After the successful cocktail evening opening on Tuesday, 28th March, designer Giorgio Armani presented a new exhibition of photographs showcased at the Armani/Silos: The Beats and The Vanities, Larry Fink. Now open to the public, the exhibition includes 125 original black and white photographs, with 54 from Fink’s book The Beats, and 71 from his book The Vanities- all of which are displayed on the ground floor of the Armani/Silos. And since the photographs have never been displayed together, the exhibition pegs itself as a once in a lifetime opportunity to enter the photographer’s world.
“I am really pleased to be able to bring Larry Fink’s work to Milan. I find his ability to capture form and line in such a fluid way, something I can really relate to as a designer. Fink is a jazz fan, and you can almost view these images in terms of musical composition – people in flow, surprising us, possessing an unselfconscious sensuality. There is so much that a fashion designer recognizes here,” said Giorgio Armani.
Larry Fink commented: “I am really pleased that Giorgio Armani has decided to exhibit The Beats and The Vanities together. The pictures have more in common than might at first be obvious: from two different very, very opposing levels of egotism, The Beats and The Vanities live within the same valley. Each set of participants fashions themselves to be on the top of the mountain of contribution. It is great that Armani has recognized and understood this and it is the first time both collections of images will hang in the same space. I understand this is also the first time that the Armani/Silos has presented a one-man photography exhibition, and that is indeed an honor. Of course, the images were made forty-five years from each other. The Beats were photographed when I was a young romantic, The Vanities when I was – not hardened – but a humanist ironist. Therein, the bodies of work have different aesthetics and moral calculations for all that come to see.”
So if you’re an art-lover, be prepared for some serious bedazzlement, as The Beats and The Vanities, Photographs by Larry Fink will be on show at the Armani/Silos until the end of July 2017. The Photo Gallery, right this way…
