Thomas Schulte

Robert Mapplethorpe's preeminent X, Y, and Z Portfolios will be shown together for the first time in Berlin at Galerie Thomas Schulte. This is the second time the complete suite has been shown together in Germany since 1997. Created between 1978 and 1981, the three portfolios contain 13 photographs each: X features imagery from New York's homosexual S&M scene; Y floral still lifes; and Z nude portraits of African American men. Simultaneously, the gallery presents a large group of Mapplethorpe prints selected by another artist of the gallery, avant-garde theater director and designer Robert Wilson.

3D recording of the exhibition: https://www.artland.com/galleries/galerie-thomas-schulte