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Roy Lichtenstein: Greene Street Mural
In collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Gagosian New York is pleased to announce “Roy Lichtenstein: Greene Street Mural.”
In December 1983, Lichtenstein created Greene Street Mural, an unprecedented, site-specific, and temporary wall painting measuring 18' × 96 1/2' at the Castelli Gallery at 142 Greene Street. In accordance with Lichtenstein's intention, the work was destroyed after the six-week show. More than thirty years later, Gagosian will present to a new generation of viewers a full-scale painted replica of the original work, based on documentation from Lichtenstein's studio and produced under the supervision of his former studio assistant. In keeping with the momentous spirit of the original project, the replica will be destroyed at the close of the exhibition.
In Greene Street Mural, Lichtenstein layered pervasive images from his pop lexicon—marble-patterned composition notebooks, cartoonish brushstrokes, and Swiss cheese—with new motifs, including the Neo-Geo tropes of the Perfect/Imperfect paintings; faux woodblock shading patterns; and office items including filing cabinets, envelopes, and folding chairs. Echoing the self-reflexive and art-historical juxtapositions of the Artist's Studio paintings made during the same period, the mural conflates citations from Lichtenstein's own oeuvre with references to Picasso and Brancusi, Art Deco motifs, and depictions of the Great Pyramids. This heady mix epitomizes Lichtenstein's ability to absorb anything and everything that caught his eye into his constantly evolving artistic idiom.
Related source material, drawings, and studies will accompany the panoramic mural, as well as paintings and sculptures of the period, among which are works from the companion exhibition that was held at Castelli Gallery at 420 West Broadway from December 1983 to January 1984.
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In collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Gagosian New York is pleased to announce “Roy Lichtenstein: Greene Street Mural.”
In December 1983, Lichtenstein created Greene Street Mural, an unprecedented, site-specific, and temporary wall painting measuring 18' × 96 1/2' at the Castelli Gallery at 142 Greene Street. In accordance with Lichtenstein's intention, the work was destroyed after the six-week show. More than thirty years later, Gagosian will present to a new generation of viewers a full-scale painted replica of the original work, based on documentation from Lichtenstein's studio and produced under the supervision of his former studio assistant. In keeping with the momentous spirit of the original project, the replica will be destroyed at the close of the exhibition.
In Greene Street Mural, Lichtenstein layered pervasive images from his pop lexicon—marble-patterned composition notebooks, cartoonish brushstrokes, and Swiss cheese—with new motifs, including the Neo-Geo tropes of the Perfect/Imperfect paintings; faux woodblock shading patterns; and office items including filing cabinets, envelopes, and folding chairs. Echoing the self-reflexive and art-historical juxtapositions of the Artist's Studio paintings made during the same period, the mural conflates citations from Lichtenstein's own oeuvre with references to Picasso and Brancusi, Art Deco motifs, and depictions of the Great Pyramids. This heady mix epitomizes Lichtenstein's ability to absorb anything and everything that caught his eye into his constantly evolving artistic idiom.
Related source material, drawings, and studies will accompany the panoramic mural, as well as paintings and sculptures of the period, among which are works from the companion exhibition that was held at Castelli Gallery at 420 West Broadway from December 1983 to January 1984.
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