For the first exhibition in a long cycle in Vence, the Collection Lambert asked American artist Andres Serrano to prepare a solo show from his early work in the 1980s to his more recent series on Cuba (2012) and the Matisse Chapel in Vence (2015).
Born in New York in 1950, Serrano’s family came from Honduras and Haiti. For the past 30 years, his photographs have been exhibited in major museums around the world. Yvon Lambert, born in Vence, was the first French art dealer to be interested in Serrano’s work and to identify the photographer’s deep relationship to European culture and art history. Invited in Paris in 1991, Serrano met Père Benedetto of the Église Saint-Eustache, who worked with artists that wanted to organize projects in connection with the church. Serrano began his series The Church in Sainte-Clotilde, where he shot photographs that have become icons of contemporary art, like the portrait of Sister Yvette and the hands of Sister Jeanne Myriam. The following year, Lambert introduced him to the art historian Daniel Arasse who, in his famous piece “Les Transis,” drew a parallel between the series The Morgue and the classical representations of Rembrandt and Leonardo de Vinci. When the collection Lambert opened in 2000, it gave Serrano his first solo exhibition in France (2006), and commissioned him to photograph the ensemble of the Comédie Française at the Studio Harcourt.
EXHIBITION
Ainsi soit-il d’Andres Serrano
From March 21st to June 10th, 2015
Musée de Vence
Fondation Émile Hugues
2 place du Frêne
Vence, France
