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Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel is proud to present Robert Mapplethorpe: More Than a Face, an exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro.

Presenting works that range from the latter half of the 1970s to the 1980s, the show approximates
themes present in both Mapplethorpe’s photographs and the Japanese novel Confessions of a Mask (1949) by Yukio Mishima, in which a semi-autobiographical character seeks to understand his homosexuality in post-war Japan. The “mask” referred to in the book’s title is the public persona, or a sort of social prosthetic, with …