CORINNE DAY'S iconic work is set to be showcased at a dedicated exhibition, opening on September 1 at the Gimpel Fils Gallery in London.
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"The gallery's exhibition programme goes in cycles; the last exhibition of Corinne's work was in 2006," said one of the exhibition's curators Alice Correia. "She was overdue a show, but had been too ill to work on a solo exhibition in the years before her death. Instead of making new work, Corinne was thinking about an exhibition of archival work: to show works that had been out of the public eye for a while. In discussion with her husband it was agreed to schedule a show to open in September, which is the start of both the art and fashion season."
The display will feature the late Vogue photographer's earlier pictures, with subjects including Kate Moss, Rosemary Ferguson and George Clements, Curated by Day's husband, Mark Szaszy, her long-standing agent, Susie Babchick, directors of Gimpel Fils Jackie Haliday, and Alice Correia, the exhibition revisits Day's work for iconic magazine *The Face. * The exhibition will run from 1 September - 1 October.
"Corinne grew up in a North-West London suburb at the end of the Metropolitan Line," Correia told us. "She was acutely aware that the highly-stylised images in the glossies did not reflect everyday teenage life - going to school, getting a part-time job etc - so she wanted to create images that would be familiar to people looking at them. Her work is unique in that it depicts normality: pairing ordinary clothes with ordinary looking teenagers in mundane spaces."
Day died in the UK on Friday August 27 due to complications relating to a brain tumor. She was 45-years-old.
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