Patti Smith Art Exhibit

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 23rd 2008 at 4:02PM

Joining the ranks of celebrity artists such as Bob Dylan and Anthony Hopkins exhibiting their work is another iconic figure, Patti Smith. The singer and songwriter will be showing photos taken with her Polaroid camera along with selected found object such as astone taken from the river in which Virginia Woolf committed suicide and slippers work by the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.. The show will open in March at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and is named Land 250, after Smith's camera. There will be 250 Polaroids, 25 drawings and film extracts. Smith has also shot a short film about it and recorded spoken explanations of her works that will be played in the gallery.

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