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Pop Art Design

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Installation shot of Pop Art Design with a bright green cactus

Pop Art Design was the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the origins, motives and methods of dialogue between Pop Art and design. 

Brash, colourful and playful, Pop Art was a movement that signalled a radical change of direction in the postwar period. Pop Art shaped a new sense of cultural identity, with a focus on celebrity, mass production and the expanding industries of advertising, television, radio and print media. 

Pop Art Design brought together around 200 works, by over 70 artists and designers. The exhibition also presented a wealth of ephemera, as well as film, photography and documentation of Pop interiors and architecture. Fifty years after it exploded on to the art scene, Pop Art Design painted a new picture of Pop Art – one that finally recognised the central role played by design. 
 

Tagged with: Art Gallery Archive

An exhibition of Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, in cooperation with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

The exhibition was supported by tp Bennett. Media partners: The Times, The Sunday Times and Wallpaper*

Artists and designers

Gunnar Aargaard Andersen, Eero Aarnio, Valerio Adami, Richard Artschwager Evelyne Axell, Clive Barker, Saul Bass, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty Robert Brownjohn, Achille Castiglioni, Patrick Caulfield, Judy Chicago, Luigi Colani, Allan D’Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Guido Drocco & Franco Mello, Charles & Ray Eames, Marie-Louise Ekman, Michael English, Öyvind Fahlström Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Alexander Girard, Milton Glaser, Harry Gordon, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Hapshash & The Coloured Coat, Jann Haworth David Hockney, Bernard Holdaway, Robert Indiana, Alain Jacquet, Jasper Johns, Allen Jones, Craig Kauffman, R.B. Kitaj, Konrad Klapheck, William Klein, Kiki Kogelnik, Roy Lichtenstein, John McHale, Victor Moscoso, Olivier Mourgue, Peter Murdoch, George Nelson & Associates, Inc. (Irving Harper), Claes Oldenburg, Bill Owens, Verner Panton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gaetano Pesce, Peter Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alison and Peter Smithson, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Stämpfli, Saul Steinberg, Gruppo Strum (G. Ceretti, P. Derossi, R. Rosso), Studio 65, Studio DA (Cesare Casati, Emmanuele Ponzio), Elaine Sturtevant, Matti Suuronen, Roger Tallon, Joe Tilson, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Stephen Willats

Touring

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
13 October 2012–3 February 2013

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
21 February 2013–9 June 2013

Moderna Museet, Stockholm
27 June 2013–22 September 2013

Barbican Art Gallery, London
18 October 2013–9 February 2014

Emma Espoo, Finland
17 February 2015–10 May 2015

Henie-Onstad Kunstenter, Hovikodden
28 May 2015–30 August 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
19 December 2015–27 March 2016

Orange Country Museum of Art (OCMA), Newport Beach
7 January 2017–2 April 2017