
This exhibition features a selection of uncanny and provocative Pop art, presented alongside recent acquisitions by contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Lucía Hierro, and Josh Kline, who interrogate the legacies of Pop. Encouraged by the economic vitality and burgeoning consumerist society of post–World War II United States, artists such as Chryssa, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and Andy Warhol explored the visual language of popular culture, drawing inspiration from advertisements, movies, comic strips, and shop windows.
Reflecting the spirit and complexity of this period in American culture, this exhibition traces how Pop art rendered the familiar strange, elevated the commercial to the sacred, and transformed the banal into the spectacular through paintings, sculptures, and large-scale installations, redefining what art could be in the 1960s and beyond.
This exhibition is organised by Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections.


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