(Photo Courtesy of the artist. Larry Clark, Billy Mann 1963, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery,London)
LARRY CLARK
Kiss the past hello
8 October 2010 – 2 January 2011
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC
This exhibition is not allowed if you are under 18. That’s because the images are strong and describes the youth douring the ’70 in USA and there are some explicit content. A really urban view with a strong connection with his private life.
Larry Clark was born in 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United-States. He Lives and works in New York / Los Angeles
(Larry Clark Untitled, 1972 Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London)
the exhibition includes the mythic images of Tulsa (1971) and Teenage Lust (1983), as well as other work from these periods never shown before. His 16mm film on addicts in Tulsa, made in 1968 and recently rediscovered, is also being screened for the first time.
In his photo series from the 1990s and 2000s Clark shows us teenagers in a daily round of staving off boredom with drugs, sex and firearms, together with skateboarders ranging geographically from New York to the Latino ghetto of Los Angeles. Equally based on street and rock culture, the series 1992, The Perfect Childhood (1993) and Punk Picasso (2003) confirm his cutting eye for a marginality America refuses to face up to.
The large format colour works of the Los Angeles series 2003–2010, chronicle the evolution from child to adult of young skateboarder Jonathan Velasquez, the central character of Clark’s film Wassup Rockers (2006).
Since the publication in 1971 of Tulsa, a seminal work on a generation’s lostness and violence, Clark’s work has haunted American culture. The power of his images, quite apart from their grimness and dark appeal, lies in his quest for a naked truth, a realism stripped of all prudishness.
(Larry Clark Untitled, 1972 Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London)
Publication’s extracts
Dominique Baqué, The fragile innoncence of devastated bodies
And this is why he has chosen a dramatic form on the razor’s edge between documentary and fiction; his way of blurring those conventional dividing lines. If the teen years can be seen as the age of unlimited possibilities and promises, in Clark’s world it is all too clear that those promises will never be kept—except for the most damaging ones: drugs, AIDS, violent death, suicide. Or, worse still maybe, annihilation in the great void of life, in the nothingness of existence. For Clark adolescence comes first in the form of a body, a gloriously plural body. For there is no solitude among teenagers—unless we imagine each one radically alone, which would not be far from the truth—as they congregate, swarm, slot together, hug, punch each other out, make love. The teenager always moves in a group and it can happen, as in Bully, that the group metamorphoses into a carnivorous, animal pack: the gap between the two is narrow and quickly crossed.
(Larry Clark Jack & Lynn Johnson, Oklahoma City, 1973, Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London)
Fabrice Hergott, Closer to reality
(Larry Clark Untitled, 1971 Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London)
(Larry Clark Untitled, 1979, Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London)
(Larry Clark Jonathan Velasquez, 2004, Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery,London)
(Larry Clark Jonathan Velasquez, 2003 Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery,London)
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC
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Métro : Alma-Marceau or Iéna / RER : Pont de l’Alma (ligne C) / Bus : 32/42/63/72/80/92
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm
Late night opening: Thursday until 10 pm (exhibitions only)
Closed on Monday
Admissions
Full rate : 5 €
Concessions : 3,50 €
Young people (age 18 -26 ): 2,50€
Opening Exhibition photos by Andrea Alex Schiavo
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