An exhibition at the Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma is dedicated to one of the most popular pop artists of the 20th century: Roy Lichtenstein. The exhibition is entitled Variazione Pop and was created to celebrate the centenary of the famous artist.
on the occasion 100 years from the birth of Roy Lichtenstein (New York 1923) supra Tarasconi Palace from Parma show celebrates his incredible contribution to 20th-century art. One of the greatest interpreters and at the same time master of the pop art which can be seen in the exposition from the title variations pop. The exhibition is curated by John Mercurysponsored by Together From parma and produced by GCR extensionGeneral Service and Security, with the Artistic Direction of We are next. By imagining MADEINARTpresents the numerous themes of the great American artist through a selection of over 50 works. The exhibition features editions and serigraphs, experiments on metal, fabrics and plastic, as well as photographs and videos. Each work comes from renowned European and American collections.
Roy Lichtenstein Centennial Exhibition in Parma @Credits Studio Battage – VelvetMag
The Roy Liechtenstein Exhibition
Roy Lichtenstein made an important contribution to 20th-century art. He can be described as one of the main artists of American Pop Art and has gone down in history above all for his works inspired by newspaper prints comic books. The technique that will characterize most of his works is the typographic grid or a printing system with characteristic dots that vary in color. And although its beginnings in the lithography and in woodcut date back to 1948, followed by two years later prints Etching and aquatint, was after the time ‘heroic‘ the pop art that his work and the Experiment in the field of technical reproducibility, they systematically followed that of painting.
In the mid-1960s, the artist implemented with a methodology that was as rigorous as it was organized variations Image themes that have evolved over the years. As the note introducing some details of the event clarifies: “Lichtenstein worked on his subjects without ever superimposing different series at the same time, devoting a limited amount of time to each one”. Mainly following a trend chronologicallythe exhibition traces the entire career of Roy Liechtenstein. The development of themes found in pop variations also coincides with this. Among the works on display genresfrom comics and advertising that Nature deadThe Landscapethe forays into abstraction and the forms of the great masters, the interiors two-dimensionalup to the row of naked feminine.
Blue Floor, 1990 Roy Lichtenstein @Credits Studio Battage
Blue Floor, 1990 Roy Lichtenstein @Credits Studio BattageThe power of the image
The official press release reports again: “His art, based on the effects of visual perception, is an art of the gaze. And therefore understandable as in a society that was increasingly permeated from the 1960s power of the image, it still has a strong and lasting impact on the creators of the vision”. Accompanying the exhibition also a Catalog. Its texts are edited by the curator, Roy Lichtenstein himself, and the writer and art historian Avis Bermann.
Roy Lichtenstein’s exhibition: Pop Variations opens the year to which the Palazzo Tarasconi will be dedicated‘America and Pop Art. It is also reminiscent of the Exhibition dedicated to Andy Warhol, another great exponent of the same artistic movement. Described as a type of art capable of transporting at the level of Colorcultural evolution. Open from February 11, 2023 to June 18 of the same year, from September 2023 the homage to this artistic movement will continue with the exhibition Keith Haring: Radiant Vision.