GALERIE CAMERA WORK TO PRESENTS EXHIBITION OF ROBERT POLIDORI PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS

FROM 8.MAY THROUGH 26.JUNE, GALERIE CAMERA WORK, BERLIN, WILL BE PRESENTING THE WORKS OF PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT POLIDORI IN ITS GALLERY SHOWROOMS. THE EXHIBITION ENTIRELY FOCUSES ON THE POWERFUL BEAUTY OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES. POLIDORI'S EXTENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OF THE RESTORATION PROCESS OF THE LATE 1980s IS SUPPLEMENTED BY CURRENT WORKS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN EXHIBITED BEFORE. THE EXHIBITED PHOTOGRAPHS PRESENT AN EXCLUSIVE SELECTION OF THE THREE-VOLUME ILLUSTRATED BOOK 'PARCOURS MUSEOLOGIQUE REVISITE' WHICH WAS RECENTLY RELEASED BY STEIDL PUBLISHING HOUSE. THE STUNNING BOOK COMPREHENSIVELY DOCUMENTS POLIDORI'S MONUMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK AT THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES OVER A PERIOD OF 25 YEARS. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF VERSAILLES ARE GRANDIOSE WITNESSES OF A WORLD LONG GONE. POLIDORI UNDERSTANDS HOW TO SUBTLY DETECT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW, AND, IN THE PROCESS, TO LOOK FOR THE 'EMBLEMATIC MOMENT' OF THE LOCATION, THE UNITY OF PAST AND PRESENT. IN DOING SO, THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS A MASTER OF SPECIAL AESTHETICS AND COMPOSITION. HIS PICTURES ARE COMPLEX STILL LIFES, WHICH, IN THEIR COLOURFULNESS AND UNIQUE QUALITY, PROVIDE A BACKDROP FOR THE IMAGINATION OF THE BEHOLDER. IN THE PEACEFUL STILLNESS AND THE DETAILED NATURE OF HIS PICTURES LIES AN EXCEPTIONAL FORCE.
ROBERT POLIDORI, WHO WAS BORN IN MONTREAL IN 1951, CURRENTLY LIVES IN NEW YORK AND PARIS. EXTENSIVE PHOTO ARTICLES PUBLISHED IS SUCH MAGAZINES AS THE NEW YORKER, FOR WHICH HE WORKS AS EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHER ALONGSIDE MARTIN SCHOELLER, ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, GEO, AND VANITY FAIR MARKED THE FOUNDATION OF POLIDORI'S INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS, WHICH HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN RECOGNIZED BY HIS RECEIVING AWARDS SUCH AS THE DEUTCHE FOTOBUCHPREIS OR THE ALFRED-EISENSTADT-AWARD. APART FROM THE SPLENDID PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PALACES OF THE WORLD, POLIDORI ALSO DOCUMENTS THE OFTEN DEVASTATING IMPACT OF HUMAN ENCROACHMENT UPON HIS ENVIRONMENT, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY HIS HAUNTING SERIES ON THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER AND HIS DOCUMENTATION OF THE IMPACT OF HURRICANE 'KATRINA' IN 2005.