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artists & participants
Genpei Akasegawa,
Billy Apple,
Evelyne Axell,
Clive Barker,
Thomas Bayrle,
Peter Blake,
Derek Boshier,
Pauline Boty,
Delia Cancela,
Raymundo Colares,
Bruce Conner,
Waldemar Cordeiro,
Eduardo Costa,
Jorge de la Vega,
Antonio Dias,
Jim Dine,
Erro,
Öyvind Fahlström,
Leon Ferrari,
Rubens Gerchman,
Edgardo Gimenez,
Richard Hamilton,
Jann Haworth,
Antonio Henrique Amaral,
David Hockney,
Robert Indiana,
Jasper Johns,
Tanaami Keiichi,
Keiichi Tanaami,
Jiri Kolar,
Julius Koller,
Yayoi Kusama,
Manfred Kuttner,
Nelson Leirner,
Roy Lichtenstein,
Konrad Lueg,
Anna Maria Maiolino,
Antonio Manuel,
Marisol,
Cildo Meireles,
Pablo Mesejean,
Marta Minujin,
Marcello Nitsche,
Helio Oiticica,
Shinjiro Okamoto,
Claes Oldenburg,
Yoko Ono,
Osamu Tezuka,
Eduardo Paolozzi,
Pino Pascali,
Wanda Pimentel,
Sigmar Polke,
Dalila Puzzovio,
Robert Rauschenberg,
Martial Raysse,
Gerhard Richter,
Peter Roehr,
Mimmo Rotella,
Ed Ruscha,
Jerzy Ryszard Zielinski,
Colin Self,
Ushio Shinohara,
Marjorie Strider,
Tadanori Yokoo,
Tiger Tateishi,
Tetsumi Kudo,
Paul Thek,
Wayne Thiebaud,
Jean Tinguely,
Claudio Tozzi,
Andy Warhol,
Robert Watts,
Tom Wesselmann,
Jana Zelibska
curators
press release
International Pop
11.04.2015 - 29.08.2015
Curators: Darsie Alexander with Bartholomew Ryan
Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow: Mia Lopez
Organized by the Walker Art Center, International Pop chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970s. While previous exhibitions and prevailing scholarship have primarily focused on the dominance of Pop activity in New York and London during this time, this exhibition examines work from artists across the globe who were confronting many of the same radical developments, laying the foundation for the emergence of an art form that embraced figuration, media strategies, and mechanical processes with a new spirit of urgency and/or exuberance.
This groundbreaking exhibition follows the trajectories of Pop and its critical points of contact with global developments in art such as Nouveau Réalisme (France), Concretism and Neo-Concretism (Brazil), the Art of Things (Argentina), Anti-Art (Japan), Capitalist Realism (Germany), Happenings, and Neo-Dada. As such, the landmark exhibition recaptures the energy and inquisitiveness of this moment in art, expanding the frame of its influence and diversity while reenergizing questions around the true significance, breadth, and definition of Pop art.
Created in dialogue with an international array of curators and scholars, International Pop features some 140 works from 14 countries as well as a dedicated film/video program daily in the galleries.
The Walker-produced exhibition catalogue offers an in-depth study of the international Pop phenomenon with essays by scholars, film critics, and curators from Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Britain, the United States, Hungary, and Italy; an extensive visual chronology; a roundtable discussion; and a selection of stunning images, many rarely seen outside their countries of origin.
Curators: Darsie Alexander with Bartholomew Ryan
Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow: Mia Lopez
Traveling Exhibition:
Dallas Museum of Art from October 11, 2015 – January 17, 2016
Philadelphia Museum of Art from February 18 – May 15, 2016
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN from April 11 - August 29, 2015