SPLENDID POP - Trevisini palace Piran
SPLENDID POP
About the Exhibition
The stately, neoclassicist Trevisini palace in Piran will take on a colorful semblance for four months. This new, prestigious exhibition space will host the brilliant works of art of the world’s greatest pop artists this summer, in the “SPLENDID POP” exhibition. Pop art, which first appeared in the United Kingdom, spread considerably in the late fifties in the USA, where artists depicted the universality and the consumerism of American society.
The works of Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain and Robert Rauschemberg will be on display on the Slovenian coast till October 9th this year. Piran’s summer will be further enriched by a varied accompanying programme, inspired by Warhol’s Factory.
INFORMATION
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS:
Every day from 9 AM to 8 PM.
info@sijajnipop.com
About Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. And due to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Much of pop art is considered incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art themselves.
Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.
Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Kidričevo nabrežje 2, Piran (point B)
About the Exhibition
The stately, neoclassicist Trevisini palace in Piran will take on a colorful semblance for four months. This new, prestigious exhibition space will host the brilliant works of art of the world’s greatest pop artists this summer, in the “SPLENDID POP” exhibition. Pop art, which first appeared in the United Kingdom, spread considerably in the late fifties in the USA, where artists depicted the universality and the consumerism of American society.
The works of Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain and Robert Rauschemberg will be on display on the Slovenian coast till October 9th this year. Piran’s summer will be further enriched by a varied accompanying programme, inspired by Warhol’s Factory.
INFORMATION
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS:
Every day from 9 AM to 8 PM.
info@sijajnipop.com
About Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. And due to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Much of pop art is considered incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art themselves.
Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.
Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Kidričevo nabrežje 2, Piran (point B)