Classic Prints
19 September 2024 – 02 November 2024
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 19, 6–8:30pm
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For Richard Kern’s fourth solo show at the gallery, Sebastien Bertrand is pleased to present a selection of five classic black & white prints from the 1980’s and 90’s. These large scale portraits are among the most iconic shots by the New York based photographer.
Richard Kern first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village, New York, in the 1980s with erotic and experimental films. He was deeply interested in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion. It is, however, the photographic image imbued with a provocative spirit that became emblematic of his art.
Kern is a regular contributor to Interview, The Face, Dazed, Numero, Vice and Purple and has published 28 books. His films and photographs have been exhibited at MOMA, The Whitney Museum and in more than 50 solo shows around the world. Kern lives and works in New York City.
Richard Kern, Courtney 's "Hollywood appartment", 1988
B&W photograph / 152.4 x 101.6 cm / 60 x 40 in. Unique
Richard Kern, Lung With a Lizard, 1985
B&W Photograh 152.4 x 101.6 cm. / 60 x 40 in. Unique
Richard Kern, photographer and filmmaker remains, first and foremost, a portraitist. For more than two decades Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter, photographer and audience his subject. With his dry, matter of fact approach, he underlines the absurdity of truth and objectivity in photography while playing with our reliance upon taxonomies around sexual representation.
— Matthew Higgs
1985
B&W Photograph mounted on dibond, unique.
152.4 x 104.1 cm. / 60 x 41 in.
RK-2403