Photographer’s Works Good as “Gold”
July 2007
NEW YORK—It’s not just the long days of summer that will leave Manhattan glowing this summer. “Liquid Gold,” a photo exhibition spotlighting the work of French photographer Bettina Rheims, is being mounted at three separate city venues, after launching this month in the windows of Bloomingdale’s. The 11 gold-flecked, seductively feminine portraits of Helmut Newton muse Margarita Svegzdaite are printed on large aluminum sheets, reminiscent of Rheims’ noted fashion-art series that have included striking portraits of Madonna, Vanessa Paradis and Kristin Scott Thomas.Fresh from a tour in London, the exhibit moves from Bloomingdale’s to the New York Palace Hotel to Grand Central Station’s Métrazur Restaurant in the Grand Hall (Sept. 18 to Oct. 14), before continuing on to Tokyo (February to May 2008) and Moscow (June to October 2008). Rheims’ previous solo exhibitions have shown at the Pace MacGill Gallery, Daniel Wolf Gallery, Cook Fine Art, Stanley Wise and Cheim & Read galleries in New York. For more information visit www.chablis-the-french-chic.com.