A Provocative Photography Exhibition Invites You to Experience Chromotherapia
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Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, Toiiletpaper. Image courtesy of Toiletpaper.A Provocative Photography Exhibition Invites You to Experience ChromotherapiaJanuary 28, 2025Kate MothesIn the world of photography, the color image has long held an inferior reputation to black-and-white, which connoisseurs historically deemed to be more dignified. Today, vibrant images are embraced in a wide range of fields, from fine art and fashion to advertising and journalism. Championing the potential of the medium, artist Maurizio Cattelan and French Academy in RomeVilla Medici director Sam Stourdz curated Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography.Martin Parr, Common Sense. Image Magnum PhotosColor therapy, though deemed a pseudoscience, has its roots in color theory, which focuses on interactions between hues and how they affect our moods and emotions.Cattelan and Stourdz emphasize ebullient hyperreality, humor, and the absurd through works like Juno Calypsos Chicken Dogs, in which an anonymous figure lies face-down next to a can of hot dogs, or Walter Candohas expressive pets. And in Toiletpaper, by Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, who co-founded a magazine of the same name in 2010, a man sits on a tan couch, wearing a matching suit, covered in spaghetti.In total, twenty artists explore a range of approaches in the exhibition, from portraits of people and animals to food and uncanny tableaux. Many have freed themselves from the documentary function of the photographic medium to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with pop art, surrealism, bling, kitsch, and the baroque, says a statement.Chromotherapia opens February 28 and continues through June 9 in Rome, and an accompanying catalogue published by Damiani is slated for release in March in the U.K. and May in the U.S. Pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop.Cover of Chromotherapia (2025). Featured image by Walter Chandoha, New Jersey (1962). Image Walter Chandoha ArchiveJuno Calypso, Chicken Dogs (2015), archival pigment print. Image Courtesy the artist and TJ BoultingWilliam Wegman, Ski Patrol (2017). Image courtesy of Galerie George-Philippe & Nathalie ValloisThe back cover of Damianis catalogue for the exhibition Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography, featuring a photo by Walter ChandohaNext article
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