Pop Art Design

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Stockholm | Sweden

Jun 29, 2013 - Sep 22, 2013

The time of birth for the term "pop" in relation to art can be specified almost to the day. 鈥淧op Art鈥� was the controversial subject of a symposium held on 13 December, 1962, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Artists in the UK and the USA had been challenging established traditions and hierarchical structures ever since the 1950s, with a new aesthetics, culled from the life and people around them, from mass and popular culture.

Today, pop art is regarded as the most influential post-war art movement, and its images continue to inform our understanding of cultural identity. Those who became known as pop artists found their subject matter in everyday life, pictures of celebrities and the mass media, and in advertising, symbols and logotypes created by designers. The imagery and strategies of pop art, in turn, served as inspiration to many designers.
Pop Art Design explores the dialogue that arose between the two disciplines. The exhibition covers art and design objects from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, and features some 80 works of art and as many design objects, films and documentary photographs.

Participating artists and designers:

Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Eero Aarnio, Valerio Adami, Ruth Ansel/ Bea Feitler, Gianni Arnaudo, Richard Artschwager, Saul Bass, Peter Blake, Achille och Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Andr茅 Cazenave, 颁茅蝉补谤, Judy Chicago, Luigi Colani, Michael Cooper, Allan D'Arcangelo, Donato D鈥橴rbino, Jonathan De Pas, Niki de Saint Phalle, Guido Drocco, Charles och Ray Eames, Marie-Louise Ekman, Don Ervin, 脰yvind Fahlstr枚m, Robert Frank, Robert Fraser, Lee Friedlander, Alexander Girard, Milton Glaser, Gruppo Strum, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Irving Harper, Jann Haworth, Herbert Hirche, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allen Jones, Craig Kauffman, Konrad Klapheck, William Klein, Kiki Kogelnik, Yonel L茅bovici, Loretta Li, Roy Lichtenstein, Paolo Lomazzi, Lee Lozano, Roberto Lucci, Ulrich Mack, Tom谩s Maldonado, John McHale, Franco Mello, Victor Moscoso, Olivier Mourgue, George Nelson, Claes Oldenburg, Bill Owens, Verner Panton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pierre Paulin, Guy Peellaert, Gaetano Pesce, Walter Pichler, Marcello Pietrantoni, Paul Rand, Robert Rauschenberg, Fred Ray, Martial Raysse, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Gino Sarfatti, Carla Scolari, Studio Simon, Ettore Sottsass, Saul Steinberg, Studio 65, Studio DA (Cesare Casati, Emmanuele Ponzio), Elaine Sturtevant, Peter St盲mpfli, Superstudio, Andy Warhol, Reinhold Weiss, Robert Venturi och Denise Scott Brown, Tom Wesselmann, Ulla Wiggen, Massimo Vignelli, Jack Wolfgang Beck, Wolf Vostell, Lance Wyman, Wojciech Zamecznik, Anders 脰sterlin, Barbro 脰stlihn

Archival material: Emilio Ambasz, Paul Bianchini, Ben Birillo, Thomas Czarnowski, Ken Heyman, Hans Hollein, Bernard Judge, Charles Kratka, Konrad Lueg, Jean Maneval, Gene Moore, Quasar, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alison och Peter Smithson, Matti Suuronen