ROY LICHTENSTEIN Meditations on Art

until sunday may 30 2010
Triannale di Milano
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Roy Lichtenstein is to be seen in Europe once more in a wide-ranging show that promises to be one of the most important artistic events of the new year.

Realized together with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and organized by the Triennale di Milano and Alphaomega Art in collaboration with the Milan City Council, the show, curated by Gianni Mercurio, will include over one hundred largescale canvases as well as various drawings, collages, and sculptures leant by prestigious international public and private collections.

Gianni Mercurio's Lichtenstein retrospective will, for the first time, take stock of the works this Pop artist made by appropriating images from the history of modern art.

This is the first time that a show will explore in a coherent and complete way this significant aspect of Lichtenstein’s work and highlight Postmodernism’s indebtedness to it.The various sections of the show include works inspired by the Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, the Modernism of the ‘thirties, Action Painting, and to the genres of landscape and still life.