The American Dream Comes to CaixaForum Madrid

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The American Dream Comes to CaixaForum Madrid

Madrid, 8 October 2020

CaixaForum Madrid

The exhibition The American Dream: pop to the present traces the creative momentum of American printmaking over the last six decades, from pop art to abstraction, minimalism, photorealism and figurative art.

The show features more than 200 works, most of them from the British Museum in London, by artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Richard Estes, Kiki Smith, Robert Longo and Guerrilla Girls.

The exhibition narrative shows how graphic art, particularly after the emergence of pop art in American visual culture, found a new, middle-class audience affluent enough to buy serialised works. Some artists used the medium as a form of expression to address issues like consumerism, politics, feminism and civil rights.

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Isabel Fuentes, Director of CaixaForum Madrid, and Ignasi Miró, Director of Culture and Science at ”la Caixa” Foundation, presented the exhibition The American Dream: pop to the present at CaixaForum Madrid.

The show, The American Dream: pop to the present, a journey through six decades of the history of printmaking in the United States, features works by such great artists as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Lichtenstein.

The exhibition The American Dream: pop to the present at CaixaForum Madrid until 31 January 2021.

The exhibition The American Dream: pop to the present is the first time that this selection has left the UK.

Exhibition The American Dream: pop to the present features more than 200 works, most of them from the British Museum in London.

Exhibition The American Dream: pop to the present at CaixaForum Madrid.

Roy Lichtenstein. I love Liberty, 1982. Photo courtesy ofSotheby’s, Inc. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/All rights reserved/ VEGAP 2020.

Jasper Johns. Flags I, 1973. Colour screenprint. © The Trustees of the British Museum. ©Jasper Johns, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2020.

Robert Rauschenberg. Sky Garden from Stoned Moon series, 1969. Colour lithograph and screenprint. © The Trustees of the British Museum. ©Robert Rauschenberg, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2020.

Robert Motherwell. Automatism A, 1965-1966. Lithograph. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Robert Motherwell: ©Dedalus Foundation, Inc./VAGA, NY/VEGAP.

Andy Warhol. Jackie II from 11 Pop Artists, vol. II, 1965, published 1966. Colour screenprint. © The Trustees of the British Museum. © 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. /VEGAP.