Inez van Lamsweerde - The Gentlewoman, 2010, Pigment Print on watercolor paper, 101.6 x 82.6 cm. Ed. of 5 © Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present a major exhibition of photographs by Inez & Vinoodh, following their first exhibition with the gallery in Paris earlier this year from July 12th to August 23rd, 2013.

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Partners in life and work for twenty-five years, Inez & Vinoodh were among the first photographers to harness the full potential of digital manipulation in portraying the human condition. Combining the beautiful with the bizarre, the elegant with the extreme, the classical with camp, they depict human identity as exquisite corpse, the spirit of transformation that has fueled the march of art history and which has become, more than ever, a sustaining aesthetic principle of our own time.

Beginning in the early 1990s, they have embraced and updated classical genres (nude, portrait, still life), inspired by hyperrealism and Pop art. Photographs created independent of commercial commissions and magazine editorials are genre-melding and boundary-riding in form and representation. Using the digital medium as the very tool of the uncanny, Inez & Vinoodh suggest the complex internal dynamics that lie beneath appearances, mapping postmodern beauty in all its guises from the classical to the utterly extreme.

Inez & Vinoodh Exhibition
Date: July 12th – August 23rd, 2013
Open: 10:00 – 18:00 (Closed on Saturday and Sunday)
Place: Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
Address: 456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tel: 310 271 9400
http://www.gagosian.com