An exhibition on Roy Lichtenstein in Parma on the centenary of his birth

An exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein ( New York, 1923 - 1997), in Parma, on the centenary of his birth: this is the one held from February 11 to June 18, 2023 at Palazzo Tarasconi to celebrate one of the greatest interpreters of 20th century art and a master of Pop Art. Entitled Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Variations, curated by Gianni Mercurio, sponsored by the City of Parma and produced by GCR, General Service and Security, with Artistic Direction by WeAreBeside, for the conception of MADEINART, the exhibition presents the many themes tackled by the great American artist through a selection of more than fifty works (editions and silkscreens, experimentations on metal, textiles and plastic as well as photographs and videos) from European and American collections.

Although his beginnings in lithography and woodcut date back to 1948, followed at a distance of two years by etching and aquatint prints, it was after the “heroic” period of pop art, the first half of the 1960s, that his work and experimentation in the field of technical reproducibility systematically flanked that of painting, implemented with an equal rigorous methodology and organized on variations of the pictorial themes that the artist developed over the years. Lichtenstein worked on his subjects without ever overlapping different series at the same time, devoting a circumscribed period of work to each. Thus the exhibition, following a mainly chronological course that coincides with a thematic development, traces Lichtenstein’s entire artistic career from the 1960s onward, in which we find his themes and genres, from comic strips and advertising, still life, landscape, forays into abstraction and the forms of the great masters, two-dimensional interiors, to the series of female nudes.

A catalog will accompany the exhibition with texts by the curator, Roy Lichtenstein himself and writer and art historian Avis Berman. The exhibition Roy Lichtenstein.Pop Variations opens the year that Palazzo Tarasconi will dedicate to America and Pop Art, which was able to transport, on the plane of color, the cultural and commercial evolution of American society at the time. Indeed, from September 2023 the tribute to this artistic current will continue with the exhibition Keith Haring. Radiant Vision.

Tickets: full 14 euros, reduced 12 euros (for disabled people, groups over 15 pax, journalists with ODG card with current year stamp not accredited, under 26, over 65, police not on duty), reduced schools 6 euros, family ticket 40 euros (2 adults and 2 children up to 18 years), free for accredited journalists, accompanying disabled people, children up to 5 years. For information: http://www.palazzotarasconi.it/mostra-lichtenstein

Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Blue Floor (1990)

An exhibition on Roy Lichtenstein in Parma on the centenary of his birth

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