Pop Art Design press release - Barbican

<strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Design</strong><br />

<strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery, <strong>Barbican</strong> Centre, UK<br />

Media View, 10am – 1pm, Monday 21 October<br />

22 October 2013 – 9 February 2014<br />

An exhibition of Vitra <strong>Design</strong> Museum, Weil am Rhein, in cooperation with Louisiana<br />

Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong>, Humlebæk and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.<br />

The exhibition is supported by tp Bennett.<br />

Media partners: The Times, The Sunday Times and Wallpaper*<br />

Brash, colourful and playful, <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> was a movement that signalled a radical change<br />

of direction in the postwar period. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s <strong>Pop</strong> was<br />

characterised by an intense dialogue between the fields of design and art. <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />

<strong>Design</strong> is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the origins, motives and<br />

methods of this exchange. <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> shaped a new sense of cultural identity, with a<br />

focus on celebrity, mass production and the expanding industries of advertising,<br />

television, radio and print media. <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Design</strong> brings together around 200 works,<br />

by over 70 artists and designers, including iconic and lesser known works by such<br />

artists as Peter Blake, Judy Chicago, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes<br />

Oldenburg, Elaine Sturtevant, Joe Tilson and Andy Warhol and shown alongside<br />

objects by Achille Castiglioni, Charles and Ray Eames, Allen Jones, George<br />

Nelson, Gaetano Pesce and Ettore Sottsass among many other important<br />

protagonists of this period. The exhibition also presents a wealth of graphic material<br />

from posters and magazines to album sleeves, as well as film, photography and<br />

documentation of <strong>Pop</strong> interiors and architecture. Fifty years after it exploded on to the<br />

art scene, <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Design</strong> paints a new picture of <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> – one that finally<br />

recognises the central role played by design. The exhibition opens at <strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />

Gallery on 22 October 2013.<br />

Jane Alison, Senior Curator, <strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery said: ‘<strong>Pop</strong> emerged in the<br />

1950s yet, amazingly, this is the first major show to throw light on the relationship<br />

between <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> and design. Featuring key <strong>Pop</strong> artists and groundbreaking<br />

designers it’s a must see for anyone fascinated by this iconic period and its enduring<br />

legacy. We are delighted to be working with our generous partners at Vitra <strong>Design</strong><br />

Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong> and Moderna Museet and thank them for<br />

their enthusiastic collaboration.’<br />

After the Second World War the world changed radically. <strong>Art</strong>ists and designers<br />

explored to dynamic effect the aesthetics of film and television, advertising,<br />

typography, packaging design, everyday products and new technologies. Consumer<br />

culture spread rapidly from the USA to Europe, where London became the pinnacle<br />

of a movement that glamorised youth and creativity. A new generation of young<br />

people became the focus of popular culture for which seduction and optimism about<br />

the future were both form and message.<br />

Focusing on the dynamic relationship between <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> and design, the exhibition is<br />

arranged thematically and presents not only a fascinating panorama of a past era but<br />

also offers new insights for both disciplines. Instead of merely celebrating the<br />

zeitgeist of an epoch, the exhibition takes a more detailed look at the <strong>Pop</strong><br />

phenomenon: at the migration of motifs between art and design, at the relationship<br />

between everyday object and image and, not least, at how everyday life first came<br />

under the influence of pop culture.<br />

Highlights on show include Robert Rauschenberg’s proto-pop painting Tideline,<br />

1963; Studio 65’s Leonardo sofa which has rarely been exhibited since it was first<br />

produced in 1969; James Rosenquist’s I Love You with My Ford, 1961;<br />

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Judy Chicago’s spray-painted Car Hood, 1964; the monumental floor lamp Moloch<br />

by Gaetano Pesce,1970-71; Allen Jones’s provocative Chair, 1969; Joe Tilson’s<br />

Page 1, Penelope, 1969; Gunnar Aagaard Andersen’s Portrait of my Mother’s<br />

Chesterfield Chair, 1964; The Bishop of Kuban by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1962; and<br />

Richard Hamilton’s iconic The Gold Guggenheim, 1965-66. For the London showing<br />

at <strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery <strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Design</strong> will have a greater focus on the significant<br />

contribution of British artists and designers to <strong>Pop</strong>, reflecting a very individual identity<br />

in art and design from the 1960s.<br />

<strong>Art</strong>ists and designers in the exhibition include<br />

Gunnar Aargaard Andersen | Eero Aarnio | Valerio Adami | Richard <strong>Art</strong>schwager<br />

Evelyne Axell | Clive Barker | Saul Bass | Peter Blake | Derek Boshier | Pauline Boty<br />

Robert Brownjohn | Achille Castiglioni | Patrick Caulfield | Judy Chicago<br />

Luigi Colani | Allan D’Arcangelo | Jim Dine | Guido Drocco & Franco Mello<br />

Charles & Ray Eames | Marie-Louise Ekman | Michael English | Öyvind Fahlström<br />

Robert Frank | Lee Friedlander | Alexander Girard | Milton Glaser | Harry Gordon<br />

Raymond Hains | Richard Hamilton | Hapshash & The Coloured Coat | Jann Haworth<br />

David Hockney | Bernard Holdaway | Robert Indiana | Alain Jacquet | Jasper Johns<br />

Allen Jones | Craig Kauffman | R.B. Kitaj | Konrad Klapheck | William Klein<br />

Kiki Kogelnik | Roy Lichtenstein | John McHale | Victor Moscoso | Olivier Mourgue<br />

Peter Murdoch | George Nelson & Associates, Inc. (Irving Harper) | Claes Oldenburg<br />

Bill Owens| Verner Panton | Eduardo Paolozzi | Gaetano Pesce | Peter Phillips<br />

Robert Rauschenberg | Martial Raysse | James Rosenquist | Ed Ruscha<br />

Niki de Saint Phalle | Alison and Peter Smithson | Ettore Sottsass | Peter Stämpfli<br />

Saul Steinberg | Gruppo Strum (G. Ceretti, P. Derossi, R. Rosso) | Studio 65<br />

Studio DA (Cesare Casati, Emmanuele Ponzio) | Elaine Sturtevant | Matti Suuronen<br />

Roger Tallon | Joe Tilson | Andy Warhol | Tom Wesselmann | Stephen Willats<br />

ENDS<br />

Notes to Editors<br />

Press Information<br />

For further information, images or to arrange interviews, please contact:<br />

Ann Berni, Media Relations Manager +44 (0) 207 382 7169<br />

ann.berni@barbican.org.uk<br />

Ariane Oiticica, Media Relations Officer +44 (0) 207 382 6162<br />

ariane.oiticica@barbican.org.uk<br />

Public Information<br />

<strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery, London, 0845 120 7550, www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery<br />

Opening hours:<br />

Saturday to Wednesday, 10am – 6pm<br />

Thursday & Friday, 10am – 9pm<br />

Tickets: Standard: £12 / Concessions: £10 / 13–17 years: £8 / Under 12s: free<br />

Exhibition<br />

An exhibition of Vitra <strong>Design</strong> Museum, Weil am Rhein, in cooperation with Louisiana<br />

Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong>, Humlebæk and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. The<br />

presentation in London is organised in cooperation with <strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery. The<br />

exhibition is supported by tp Bennett. Media partners: The Times, The Sunday Times<br />

and Wallpaper*<br />

Catalogue<br />

The exhibition is accompanied by a lavishly-illustrated catalogue published by Vitra<br />

<strong>Design</strong> Museum. It features essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Brigitte Felderer,<br />

Steven Heller, Thomas Kellein, Bettina Korintenberg, Tobias Lander, Marco<br />

Livingstone, Mathias Schwartz-Clauss and Dario Scodeller.<br />

ISBN 978-3-931936-96-9<br />

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<strong>Art</strong> Gallery Shop<br />

<strong>Pop</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Design</strong> offers a wealth of design-led items in the <strong>Art</strong> Gallery shop made by<br />

<strong>Pop</strong> artists and contemporary makers. The Vitra produced catalogue is on sale<br />

alongside a wide selection of publications from vintage books to exhibition prints<br />

and postcards.<br />

<strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery<br />

One of the leading art spaces in the UK, <strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery presents the best of<br />

international visual art with a dynamic mix of art, architecture, design, fashion and<br />

photography. From acclaimed architects to Turner prize-winning artists, the Gallery<br />

exhibits innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries: key players who have shaped<br />

developments and stimulated change. The Curve is dedicated to a vibrant<br />

programme of new commissions, created by leading international artists in direct<br />

response to this distinctive gallery space.<br />

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About the <strong>Barbican</strong><br />

A world-class arts and learning organisation, the <strong>Barbican</strong> pushes the boundaries of<br />

all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative<br />

learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.5 million people<br />

pass through the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s doors annually, hundreds of artists and performers are<br />

featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre<br />

opened in 1982 and comprises the <strong>Barbican</strong> Hall, the <strong>Barbican</strong> Theatre, the Pit,<br />

Cinemas One, Two and Three, <strong>Barbican</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Gallery, a second gallery The Curve,<br />

foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory,<br />

conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the<br />

founder and principal funder of the <strong>Barbican</strong> Centre.<br />

The <strong>Barbican</strong> is home to Resident Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra;<br />

Associate Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra; Associate Ensembles the Academy<br />

of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, and Associate Producer Serious. Our <strong>Art</strong>istic<br />

Associates include Boy Blue Entertainment, Cheek by Jowl and Michael Clark<br />

Company. International Associates are Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of<br />

Amsterdam, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gewandhaus<br />

Orchestra Leipzig and Jazz at Lincoln Center.<br />

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