Horst Antes
Born 1936 in Heppenheim, DE
Lives and works in Karlsruhe, DE, and Tuscany, IT
Robert Mapplethorpe
Born 1946 in New York City, New York, USA
Died 1989 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Galleria Franco Noero and Meyer Riegger’s jointly curated Kabinett presents a conversation between the work of the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the German painter Horst Antes. Mapplethorpe, born in 1946, is predominantly recognized for his black and white photographs of human bodies from the 1970s and 1980s. Antes, born one decade earlier, achieved fame for his Figurative paintings from the 1960s and 1970s. Mapplethorpe’s photographs often focus on the human body, exploring themes of beauty, sexuality, and identity. Antes’s figures, while more abstracted, still convey a sense of the human form and often evoke emotional or psychological states. Both artists have delved into themes related to identity and expression and demonstrate a keen interest in composition and form within their respective mediums.