On occasion of the exhibition

Sanctuary

at Gagosian Gallery Rome

(3 February – 5 March 2011)




Gregory Crewdson

in conversation with

Michael Kimmelman
Chief Art Critic of the New York Times


Introduction by Marco Delogu



Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 6.30pm
MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo
Auditorium - entrance at Via Guido Reni 4/A, Rome


Free entrance until places are filled

For information call 06 4208 6498



Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962 in Brooklyn, New York and received a BA at SUNY, Purchase and an MFA at Yale University. His photographs are included in numerous museums and public collections around the world including Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Following the retrospective at Kunstverein Hannover (Germany, 2005, traveled to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and the Hasselblad Center, Sweden), the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome opened a major retrospective of his work in 2007. Another traveling exhibition is scheduled to open at the Kulturhuset Museum, Stockholm, in February 2011, followed by Sorte Diamant, Copenhagen and c/o Berlin, Berlin. Crewdson is a faculty member of the Department of Photography at Yale University. He lives in New York City.