NEW YORK, NY.- Leo Castelli Gallery announces爐he opening of the exhibition Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein – Walls. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings燼nd collages dating from the early 1970s爐o爐he1990s, some of which have never been shown before.
The exhibition爁ocuses on the idea of taking a portion of燼 wall as the subject-‐matter for燼 work of art, an爄dea probably rooted in the爂reat爐radition爋f American trompe l’oeil painting. It爄ntends to show how Johns and燣ichtenstein, working燼t different times and爑nder different circumstances, somehow reinvented爐his爐radition, and elaborated爄t爄n a unique way.
Included in the exhibition are Jasper Johns’ paintings Untitled, 1984, in which, taped on a wall, we see the detail of燼 “Flag”; and Untitled, 1988, in which燼 well-‐known Picasso image hangs on a wooden wall. References爐o the work of Modern Masters and self-‐references appear in Roy Lichtenstein’s works as well: in Trompe L’oeil with Leger Head and Paintbrush, 1973, the artist爄s including an image from Leger; while Dagwood,爄n Collage for燭wo Paintings: Dagwood, 1983, can be seen as related to the爑se爋f燾artoons earlier爄n爐he燼rtist’s career.
Above all,爐he爓orks爄n爐he爀xhibition爏eem to create a爏pace in which the boundaries between the artwork and the actual physical wall may be perceived as broken, and the viewer is faced with seeing paintings爌ainted爄n燼爌ainting.
The exhibition is accompanied燽y燼n illustrated catalog.
