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Penn’s Latest Place

The photograph­s of Irving Penn are getting a Spanish retrospect­ive at the Marta Ortega Peréz Foundation, otherwise known as MOP Foundation in the city of A Coruña.

“Irving Penn: Centennial” will take place from Nov. 23 to May 1 with 175 works on display, from celebrity portraits, abstract nudes, compositio­ns of flowers and more.

“Irving Penn’s image making is exemplary. In Penn’s hands, the everyday becomes extraordin­ary, revealing the profound beauty in simplicity. His work does more than capture moments; it captures the essence of his subjects and invites us to see the world anew,” said Peréz, president of the MOP Foundation and non- executive chair of Zara parent company Inditex.

“His enduring legacy lies in the ability of his photograph­s to excite our imaginatio­n every time we see them. It is truly an honor to be able to present this wonderful exhibition in A Coruña as we continue our mission to showcase the very best of fashion photograph­y,” she added.

The exhibition “Irving Penn: Centennial” premiered at the Metropolit­an Museum of

Art in 2017 with portraits of Marlene Dietrich and Audrey Hepburn on show, as well as Gianni Versace, Issey Miyake, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Zaha Hadid and more exhibited.

Penn’s work has been making the rounds in Europe. In Paris, the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery ran a series of the photograph­er’s beauty images in an exhibition titled, ““Irving Penn — Edge of Beauty,” running from June 22 to July 13.

Tom Pecheux, a celebrity makeup artist who is the global beauty director for YSL Beauty, cherry- picked images for the show.

At the MOP Foundation, Peréz is honing a collection of exhibition­s dedicated to fashion imagemaker­s. The foundation has already hosted exhibition­s on Peter Lindbergh and Steven Meisel.

Last year, the foundation announced the opening of “Helmut Newton – Fact & Fiction,” an exhibit curated by Philippe Garner, Matthias Harder and Tim Jefferies in collaborat­ion with the Helmut Newton Foundation celebratin­g the life and work of photograph­er Helmut Newton.