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New Orleans' Mortal Machine Gallery will be presenting a special pop-up exhibition of photos shot by the legendary George Napolitano, timed for the same weekend WWE will present Money in the Bank in the Bank in the Big Easy.
Titled Origin Stories, the special pop-up exhibition will open Thursday 10/8. Napolitano will be in attendance.
Promotional material for the exhibition notes:
Unlike traditional wrestling exhibitions that celebrate championship victories and defining moments, Origin Stories turns its attention to the beginning.
The exhibition explores the early careers of twelve legendary wrestlers through photographs made before they became icons. Long before championship belts, sold-out arenas, and worldwide fame, these were ambitious young performers carving out their place in wrestling history. Through George Napolitano’s lens, visitors will experience these legends at the very start of their journeys.
More than a collection of wrestling photographs, Origin Stories is an exhibition about ambition, transformation, and the making of American mythology. George’s work captures the humanity behind larger than life personas, revealing moments of confidence, uncertainty, humor, and determination that audiences rarely had the opportunity to see.
This exhibition also marks the beginning of an exciting new collaboration between Mortal Machine Gallery and the George Napolitano Archive. Following its New Orleans debut, the project will expand with a featured Special Project presentation at SCOPE Miami Beach during Art Week this December, introducing George’s extraordinary archive to an international audience of collectors, curators, and contemporary art enthusiasts.
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Napolitano was inducted into the Thesz/Tragos Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2017 and this November, will be inducted into the International Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Albany, NY. Over the course of his career, he has published ten books, an untold number of wrestling magazine, traveling the world many times documenting professional wrestling from the 1970s through today.
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