X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS in Florence
The MadonnaTribe team is just back from the opening day of the X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS exhibition, the Madonna/Steven Klein project who has just been presented for the first time in Italy in Florence at the Gallery Hotel Art during the week of Pitti Immagine Uomo.
The opening day started with a press preview at 3 pm in which journalists from Italian newspapers and magazines were better informed about the ideas behind the shoot and the meaning of the photos by the art gallery’s staff.
An opening cocktail was later served to guests and press at around 6 pm while djs were playing a non stop selection of Madonna‘s music, from the big hits to some of the lovely non single album tracks.
Shown below are the cocktail party invitiation and various images from that same party
At a certain moment the MadonnaTribe team recognized a familiar face among the exhibit visitors. The ever lovely Debi Mazar, the long time Madonna friend that fans remember in the “True Blue”, “Deeper and Deeper” and “Music” videos, entered the room to take a look at the amazing photos on display.
Debi, who looked stunning in a glamorous dress was so kind to pose for a photo for MadonnaTribe readers.
There are a total of nine photographs on display: six are from the original “X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS” series, three are from the “Chair” session shot during the general rehearsals of Madonna’s re-Invention Tour.
The six works exposed in the lobby of the Gallery Hotel Art are: “Mattress”, “Back on Mattress”, “Kidney”, “Queen”, “Chair 4” and “Chair 6”.
Madonna and Steven Klein’s favourite images of the series – “Madonna on table” and “Beast” – are displayed one in front of the other in the other Brancolini Showroom space which is right on the opposite side of Vicolo dell’Oro along with a third photo of the “Chair” session and 5 videos that are being projected one after the other as a loop on a white wall.
Together with the pictures there are also two more videos, “disposition 4 and 9“, the same footage premiered at the Camera Work in Berlin that was used as backdrop video for the performance of Vogue during the reInvention Tour. These videos are shown on a flat screen in the Adjacent “Fusion Bar” space of the Hotel.
So if you happen to be in Florence, Italy, be sure to check this incredible collaboration between Madonna and Klein. We would also would like to remind our readers from Brazil that our friend Fernando brought first to Madonna fans through his website MadonnaOnline, the exciting news that X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS will reach Brazil in January 2006
Another upcoming exhibition by Steven Klein – the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Los Angeles area – is also coming up at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills this summer – but this time it will not be centered about his collaboration with Madonna but will be based on Klein’s latest series, “Case Study #13,” featuring actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a photographic narrative – an examination of the American family.