Interiors
Robert Polidori: Versailles
Interiors
We’ve despatched New York-based photographer Robert Polidori to Casablanca and Bangkok on Wallpaper* assignments but his latest, personal project was an altogether more regal affair.
See more of Versailles through Polidori's eyes
Twenty-five years in the making, Polidori has painstakingly captured various elements under restoration in Versailles. The 18th century palace has recently undergone a process of mummification; the hardening of its decorative elements against the wear and tear of the 3 million visitors it receives each year.
Polidori’s pictures are as much an exercise in still life photography as a comment on the notion of restoration. Exquisite and opulent subject matter, photographed in painstaking detail, makes you wonder if restoration is anything more than maquillage of a contemporary culture, rather than the preservation of the past: ‘historical revisionism and present society’s superego’ as Polidori suggests.
INFORMATION
- Event dates
- 19 November 2008 to 3 January 2009
- Website
- http://www.flowerseast.com
- Address
- Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
W1S 3LZ
