Full Description
At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann.
It will include around eighty of Tom Wesselmann's absolute masterpieces covering his creative periods from the 1950s to the 2000s. The exhibition will offer the opportunity to experience the beginnings of the Pop Art phenomenon through the presentation of other major works by Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, Evelyne Axell, Frank Bowling, Rosalyn Drexler, Jasper Johns, Kiki Kogelnik, Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, James Rosenquist, Marjorie Strider, and Andy Warhol. The contextualisation of Wesselmann's work within the Pop Art zeitgeist paves the way for immersion into his wide-ranging yet very distinctive oeuvre.
Contents
8 Foreword
Bernard Arnault
10 Preface
Suzanne Pagé
17 Wesselmann and Pop Forever: Dream and Reality in a Theoretically Real World
Dieter Buchhart
31 Tom Wesselmann: From "Superreality" to Participation
Anna Karina Hofbauer
39 Between a Sexual and an Aesthetic Revolution:
Tom Wesselmann and the Art of Subversion
Brenda Schmahmann
45 "The spontaneity, the false lines, etc.": Wesselmann and Drawing
Isabelle Dervaux
53 Cozy Perspective
Olivier Michelon
184 Interview "ATTRACTION AND PROVOCATION" Derrick Adams
by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
196 Interview
"FLOATING IN A BEAUTIFUL ATMOSPHERE" Tomokazu Matsuyama
by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
214 Interview
"SO PLEASE HAVE YOUR NAILS DONE" Danièle Thompson
by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
228 Interview
"A NEW VISUAL LANGUAGE THAT SCREAMS TO BE SEEN AND HEARD" Mickalene Thomas
by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
256 Interview
"AN ALMOST SCIENTIFIC AND EXTREMELY METICULOUS APPROACH" Monica Serra
by Anna Karina Hofbauer
333
Postface
How big should it be?
Jeffrey Sturges
Chronology
Tatjana Andrea Borodin
344
Authors' Biographies
345
Selected solo exhibitions
347
Selected bibliography
