The US architect Peter Marino turns his hand to curating next year, with a new take on the work of the late US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The exhibition, at the Marais branch of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris (26 January-4 March), will include 60 photographs and 20 Polaroids with loans from museums, the Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York and private collections. According to the gallery, Marino will reinterpret “through his own vision” the three themes of the XYZ portfolios (1978/1981): gay sadomasochistic imagery (X), floral still-lifes (Y) and nude portraits of African-American men (Z). Ropac, who is participating at Frieze London (FL, A5), says that the “show will be spectacular. Peter, who has collected Mapplethorpe for more than 20 years, will bring a designer’s eye to the works.” A small selection of the works will be for sale.