If you are anywhere near Stuttgart , Germany in the near future than make tracks to Galerie Kernweine.  They are currently presenting POLAROID RAGE and BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL  a brand new show by the New York-based Russian-American artist Slava Mogutin.

POLAROID RAGE contains  work shot over the past two years  abd features portraits and nudes of Mogutin’s fellow artists and personalities that include artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge, musician Jordan Hall of Boy Radio, performance artists Nile Harris and Latex Lucifer, porn stars Buck Angel and Sean Ford, artists Brian Kenny and Luke Abby, Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation, and Mogutin’s girlfriend and muse, trans artist and model Maxima Cortina

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL was created in response to Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality and systemic racism in the US. The series title comes from a cultural movement that was started in the United States in the 1960s by African-Americans and later spread beyond the US. Over two decades of his artistic career, Mogutin put people of color front and center in his photography and this show presents a brief survey of this large body of work. It includes images from Mogutin’s books NYC Go-Go (2008) and Bros & Brosephines (2017), as well as his more recent personal projects and commission shoots.

 
Slava Mogutin
POLAROID RAGE and BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
19 September—22 November 2020

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