Jean Pigozzi “Charles and Saatchi The Dogs”

Kaikai Kiki Gallery

Finished

Artists

Jean Pigozzi

Exhibition of work by the French-born Italian artist, businessman, designer, and photographer Jean Pigozzi. Pigozzi picked up a Leica camera as an adolescent and began formulating a diaristic style that revolved around his observations of upper–class life. While attending Harvard University, he made regular trips to New York City where he mingled with artists and tastemakers, taking photographs in close proximity of his subjects. His “sophisticated snapshots,” significantly influenced by Robert Frank and Helmut Newton, are candid and intimate. Friends including Andy Warhol, Anjelica Huston, and Diane von Furstenberg, among others, are captured in scenes of social revelry or voluptuous leisure.

“Charles and Saatchi” is a series of energetic snapshots that capture Pigozzi’s dogs in striking monochrome, while “Pool Party Photos by Jean Pigozzi” is set in a famous swimming pool at Pigozzi’s house in France, where big-name celebrities regularly socialize. The two series, centered around subject matter intimate to Pigozzi, are a record of Pigozzi’s personal life, as well as the embodiment of everyday life that has been arranged and directed for endless photo-documentation. Subjects in Pigozzi’s photographs are conscious of the photographer’s presence, while Pigozzi himself often appears in his own photographs, affirming the role of the camera as a tool for his keen engagement with the world.

Schedule

Jun 1 (Fri) 2018-Jun 16 (Sat) 2018