January 30 - August 22, 2021
From Dallas Contemporary:
“Birds will be the first North American exhibition of legendary fashion photographer Paolo Roversi. Presented at Dallas Contemporary, the exhibition will feature over 40 of Roversi’s photographic works and will focus on his longstanding collaboration with the fashion brand Comme des Garçons and its founder Rei Kawakubo.
Titled Birds to highlight Roversi’s use of movement in photography, the exhibition will examine how the Italian photographer has created a unique visual style in which models pose in abstract, mobile ways, often evoking birds landing or taking off. At Dallas Contemporary, visitors will encounter colored walls with groupings of photographs in varying sizes when entering the Museum’s galleries and will be able to explore Roversi’s work through one unifying theme in the exhibition- mobility- to foster new connections and interpretations around his oeuvre.
“My collaboration with Rei Kawakubo goes back a long time and each time working with her is a new inspiring adventure,” says Roversi in regard to the upcoming exhibition. “As Dallas Contemporary is bringing all arts- including fashion- closer, it seemed a good opportunity to show my work together with hers.” Birds will showcase known photographs by Roversi, as well as works that have never been seen before. On display will be photographs spanning the four-decade creative relationship Roversi and Kawakubo have developed and exploring how these two fashion trailblazers have exchanged ideas and creative philosophies throughout their impressive careers.
Birds is co-curated by Dallas Contemporary Executive Director Peter Doroshenko and Independent Curator Dennis Freedman, and was originally planned to open in March 2020. This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Comme des Garçons and the support of Sue Gragg.”
On View: January 30, 2021 | 1–5 pm
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