Paolo Roversi | Palais Galliera | Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris

Paolo Roversi

Paolo Roversi, Molly, Chanel, Vogue Italia, Paris, 2015

Exhibition | Ground floor

16 March 2024 - 14 July 2024

The Paolo Roversi exhibition at the Palais Galliera features photographs taken over a career of 50 years. It shows how the artist has created a unique body ofwork within the world of fashion. This is the first monograph to be devoted to Paolo Roversi in Paris.

Paolo Roversi was born in Italy but moved to Paris in 1973. Since then, he has worked for the most prestigious magazines, including Vogue France, Vogue Italia, Egoïste, and Luncheon. Throughout his career he has worked with the world’s leading fashion designers, most notably Yohji Yamamoto, Romeo Gigli and Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons.

Since his years as an apprentice, Roversi’s choice of studio, large-format cameras and Polaroid, too, have defined both his working methods and his aesthetic, although he has also successfully adapted to digital photography.

His signature is instantly recognisable: soft, sepia-toned black and white, shot in natural light; a density and depth of colour achieved by using a Mag-Lite flashlight. Over the years, Paolo Roversi has explored and invented his own photographic language, accepting chance and accidents as opportunities to develop his style.

He has worked with many of the world’s top models, their invariably natural poses for him creating an intense presence. Every one of his fashion photographs is a portrait in itself. Paolo Roversi is at the heart of the system but, at the same time, he manages to maintain a certain distance, far removed from the ephemeral currents of fashion. In pursuit of beauty, he has created a singular, timeless body of work.

This exhibition brings together 140 works, including previously unseen images, Polaroid prints and archives (magazines, catalogues, etc.) that give an insight into Paolo Roversi’s professional and artistic career. The scenography takes visitors on a poetic journey out of the shade and into the light. The Palais Galliera becomes the artist’s studio, an imaginary space: the theatre of everything possible.

 

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

Paolo Roversi 

CURATOR

Sylvie Lécallier, head curator of the photographic collection

 

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Visitor information

Price:

Single ticket: 12€ (full price), 10€ (reduced rate), free under 18 years old

Combined ticket including the collections exhibition: 15€ (full price), 13€ (reduced rate), free under 18 years old

Accessibility's exhibition:

- Visitors with a disability
- Deaf and hearing impaired
- Visually impaired/handicaped
- People experiencing mental disability
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Information:

Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de Paris
10, Avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, Paris 16e arrondissement

Getting there

 . By metro : ligne 9, Iéna or Alma-Marceau
. By RER : line C, Pont de l’Alma


Opening times

. Tuesday to Sunday 10:00am to 6:00pm

. Late opening Thursdays until 9:00pm

. Closed on Mondays


Around the exhibition

. Catalogue : "Paolo Roversi", under the direction of Sylvie Lécallier and Paolo Roversi - Editions Paris Musées - Price: 45€