Rinaldo Hopf

born 1955 in Freiburg, lives in Berlin, Bergkirchen and New York, numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States, 2004 Galerie Faubourg, Amsterdam, Gay Museum Berlin, Kunst(B)handlung München; 2005 Art @Large, New York

2006

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Photography • Gay/Lesbian> 120 pages • 7.8 x 10.2 in.> 90 color and duotone photographs ISBN 978-3-88769-354-1, 19,90 Euro

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Can you love someone with your camera? Yes, you can, and the pictures in this volume prove it in a spectacular way. Hopf's photographs reflect the closeness and familiarity, as well as the sexual tension, between the artist and his model, Frank, alias Fox. They depict the fullness of Fox' emotional life: his pleasure in showing himself off, his shame, his serenity, his exuberance and his sadness, his lust, his sex. These are not mere snapshots, they are complicated compositions. And as the viewer turns the pages, getting to know Fox in all his glory, he might just fall in love.


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SUBVERSIV
ISBN 3-88769-333-7, format 30 x 24 cm, approx. 120 colourprints, Fadenheftung, Texts from Ralf König (Comic-strip artist) and Thomas Sokolowski (Director Andy Warhol Museum), 24,90 Euro
Erotic portraits from the international Art- and Queerscene. Many celebrities, Artists, Models, Pop- and Pornstars. Glamourous, partly outrageous sexual, very picturesque photographs.
"Hopfs photographs captivate with their intensive colours, extraordinary sceneries and evade themselves in their intensitiy and immediacy conventional attributions - they are subversive. Partly outrageous sexual, these pictures let the viewer immerse into a glamourous world of irritating beauty, which Hopf develops through his eyes. Without words this book tells Love- and Lifestories of individuals who offend against rules and gives direct insights into a diverse and creative reality." (M.Malinowski)




„There were often famous people, celebrities, and the first impression of surprise was, that these people allowed to be portrayed like „this", fastly gave way to the calm implicitness that these pictures emulate. This was a mixture of polaroid snapshot and accurate arrangement, it is exactly balanced, and that causes this special tension. The portrayed people are young, old, fat, slim, elegant, bizarre, normal, odd but never exploited, never really exposed, always self-confident and very present." Ralf König, comic-strip artist.

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Rinaldo Hopf & Del La Grace Volcano & Daijna Roos & Rebecca Swan together only Euro 111,



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