Almodovar's Gaze These cotton pyjamas are not

These cotton pyjamas are not only unisex

writers and poets formed at a conference in Italy in 1957

The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate motifs created new and enigmatic relationships that oscillate between satire and poetry

The exhibition inspired Hockney to investigate the medium further through his highly acclaimed composite polaroid series

Here are many familiar scenes: the gasmasked Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet

Almodovar's Gaze These cotton pyjamas are notTaking as its point of departure the meeting of two artists at a tumultuous moment in the 1980s, Almodovars Gaze explores how the photographic and filmmaking lens can fruitfully overlap. American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (19461989) and Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodvar (born 1949) first met in Madrid in 1984, when the photographer was there on a visit occasioned by his first exhibition in the city. Mapplethorpe was already an accomplished