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Tom Wesselmann

   

Tom Wesselmann

  

Tom Wesselmann

A look at the last four decades of our history through the acute work of a leading artist of Pop Art, who based his research on the recognition of persistently familiar, reliable and reassuring figures and objects, such as white bread, beer and rounded refrigerators.

Two-dimensional scenarios where Wesselmann superimposes the planes of the background up to incorporate the same protagonist image, both in Still Life, and in his languid women of American Nudes where color and line define the organization of a landscape where the perspective is flattened on the surface or confused in the exuberance of the background. On display preparatory sketches, drawings but also the famous and sensual American Nudes and the dry Still Life in the Venice gallery while in Pietrasanta the strong physical presence of aluminum dominates: the steel cut made by the artist between 1993 and 2002. These are pieces with a strong material impact, where the shapes wind and twist around each other and the color defines volumes and invades the space, now showing superimposed planes, now uniforming the layers that make up Wesselmann's abstract works.


Tom Wesselmann