For anyone unfamiliar with architect and designer Carlo Mollino’s Polaroids, the basic story is that after his death in 1973, a huge collection (thousands) of erotic polaroids were discovered hidden in his villa. Taken by Mollino, they featured women in various stages of undress, styled and made-up for the camera. Mollino had further painstakingly retouched many of the images with an extremely fine brush to attain an idealised version of the female form. The resulting images are completely unnerving, and yet also fascinating and beautiful.
Hidden Within, artist and photographer Sam Roddick’s ‘homage’ to Mollino opens tomorrow at the Michael Hoppen Gallery...