Beatlemania, Through the Eyes of Paul McCartney
An upcoming show at Gagosian London offers a candid look at the lives of music’s enduring legends.
For The Beatles, 1963 was the start of something great. Fresh off their first headlining UK tour, it was only up for Paul, George, Ringo and John, landing appearances on some of the region’s most acclaimed television programs and an eventual residency at the Olympia Theatre in Paris. With this ascent to pop superstardom fittingly came global fervor, an unprecedented mass hysteria we now know as “Beatlemania.”
An upcoming Paul McCartney exhibition at Gagosian London brings us back to this era – December 1963 through February 1964 – offering a backstage look at one of music’s enduring names. Titled Rearview Mirror: Liverpool-London-Paris, the presentation will feature an array of multi-image works and single frames, presumed lost for the last five decades, all lensed through the bassist’s 35mm Pentax.
From backstage candids to tender self-portraits in the mirror, the photographs on view expose a more sensitive side of the pop pioneers and McCartney’s lesser-known visual finesse. Remastered from original negatives and contact sheets, each photograph is signed by the artist and presented in a frame of his design.
On view from August 28 through October 4, Rearview Mirror: Liverpool-London-Paris comes as a follow up to the artist’s debut presentation with the gallery earlier this year at its Beverly Hills outpost, and runs concurrently with Eye of the Storm at the de Young, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, now on view through October 5.
Gagosian London
17-19 Davies St,
London W1K 3DE,
United Kingdom
