POP ART MYTHS (10/06 - 14/09/2014)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Website - Pop Art Myths,
Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid, España
Last summer there was a exhibition at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid about Pop Art Myths, like Andy Warholl, Roy Lichtenstein,... This expo lasted the whole summer, it was organized by the Thyssen Musseum in collaboration with Japan Tobacco International.
It is a really complete exhibition, it has artists of different nationalities, and it is composed of different rooms in which there are different categories of this artistic mouvement, such as Collage, Comic, Myths, Portrait, Still Lifes, ... This exhibition is pretty well-done because it has variety, in all its aspects, and it gives a light feeling, it is not surcharged of works. Everything is worth seeing in this art exhibition although, in my opinion, the most interesting part is the one about Myths and Portraits. It is a quite complete exhibition and I don't think that anything is missing.
Pop Art Myths is an exhibition about Pop Art in general, but is has works of great and well-known artists. It aims to show the purpose of Pop Art, that relates "low" culture with "high" culture and make a break with the past.
As a Terminale stuent, who only has common knwoledge about any kind of art, my opinion isn't really well-based. Cleopatra, by Mimmo Rotella, is a work that catched my eye because it is a simple film poster but that has become a piece of art. It was made in 1963. In this work we can see three characters, in the middle there is Cleopatra, embodied by Liz Taylor, and behind her, at each side there is the two roman generals that fell in love with her, Marco Antonio and Julius Caesar. This "poster" is not in a perfect state, it is ripped in various places. I think that this artwork aims to make Liz Taylor stand out as a beauty icon, and a desired woman, just as the historical Cleopatra who was a desirable woman. The light in the "poster" is upon her and the ripped parts are barely on her, mostly around her. This artwork looks like a real poster that you can find on the streets, being torned like that because of time and people that pass by and you can see pieces of the poster that was under this one, but even if it is damaged the most important part, the representation of powerful beauty, can't be damaged. In this picture Elisabeth Taylor gives the impresion of a powerful woman whose beauty is venerated, and because of that it can't be touched.
This exihibition has been the first one about Pop Art since the last one at Reina Sofia in 1992. It is an exihibition that collecs several works from different museums all around the world and it seems to be an exclusive one, because there is no information about if it's going to travel around Spain or about any other Pop Art exhibition.
Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella
1963
Courtesy of Pop Art Myths, Madrid
OK Cecilia.
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