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Artist Richard Kern has created 'Sasha in the Bath', a new limited edition photograph edited by Contemporanea, to celebrate his solo show 'Naked and Famous' in Spain (La Termica, Malaga). Richard Kern (North Carolina, USA, 1954), photographer and filmmaker remains, first and foremost, a portraitist. For more than two decades Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter, photographer and audience his subject. With his dry, matter of fact approach, he underlines the absurdity of truth and objectivity in photography while playing with our reliance upon taxonomies around sexual representation. Kern collaborates with magazines such as Playboy, Vice and Purple and he has published 12 books and he has shot more than twenty videoclips (Marilyn Manson, Sonic Youth, King Missile, Indochine…). His films and photographs have been exhibited at MOMA, The Whitney Museum and in more than 30 solo shows around the world. Kern lives and works in New York City. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins in movies like “The Right Side of My Brain” and “Fingered.” Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion and he was one of the leading lights of the movement which Nick Zedd coined the Cinema of Transgression.
See more info and buy 'Sasha in the Bath' at www.contemporanea.org/richardkern/limitededition.
 

   

El fotógrafo y cineasta norteamericano Richard Kern ha creado "Sasha in the Bath" (Sasha en la bañera), una nueva edición limitada producida por Contemporánea, para celebrar su exposición individual "Famosos y desnudos" en España (La Térmica, Málaga). A través de sus retratos, Richard Kern (North Carolina, 1954) trata el espacio psicológico entre el retratado, el fotógrafo y el público. Con su sobriedad y su enfoque subraya lo absurdo de la verdad y la objetividad en la fotografía mientras juega con nuestra dependencia en torno a las reglas sobre la representación sexual. Kern es un colaborador habitual de las revistas Playboy, Vice y Purple y ha publicado 11 libros, algunos de ellos con la editorial Taschen. Sus películas y fotografías han sido exhibidas en el MOMA, el Museo Whitney y se han podido ver en más de 30 exposiciones individuales en todo el mundo. Entre sus películas más recordadas, "Right Side of My Brain" (1984), "Fingered" (1986), "Submit to me Now" (1987) o "Clean" (2011), y entre sus incursiones como realizador de videoclips, destacan los realizados para Marilyn Manson ("Lunchbox"), King Missile ("Love Is…"), The Breeders ("Divine hammer"), o Sonic Youth (Death Valley ''69), o Is Tropical (Lover's Cave).
Más información y compra "Sasha in the Bath" en: www.contemporanea.org/richardkern/limitededition.