The exhibition entitled “Wharol, Schifano and Pop Art” will be on display until January 30, 2025, and can be visited at the exhibition center of the diocesan museum of the church of Sant’Agostino in Trapani.
Already hosted in Erice last summer with great public success, the exhibition arrives in Trapani with exciting and evocative works created by the greatest masters of contemporary art.
The term pop art is a diminutive of popular art or “popular art” and with this typification we mean that artistic movement developed in the United Kingdom and the United States during the 1950s. It is all that artistic production that includes images taken from mass and popular culture, such as advertising, comics and objects produced for commercial purposes.
One of the main exponents of this artistic movement is certainly Andy Wharol, whose fame and the price of his works were so high that he was considered the second most bought and sold artist in the world after Pablo Picasso.
The main theme of popular art, which is what is represented in the works on display at the Sant’Agostino Museum, is consumption and, obviously, man in the role of the consumer. The interest of the pop artist is directed to the images and depictions of man’s daily life such as the label of a can of beans, an expression of that pop art that represents the common aspects of everyday life. Thus, even the display and the elaboration of a simple label can show a colorful and “light” world that actually hides the anxiety and anguish of contemporary man in the industrial and consumerist society.
The visitor who goes to the Sant’Agostino Museum will see, through painting and sculpture, images of television, cinema and advertising.
The visit requires the payment of a ticket of € 2.50.
(Texts Giuseppe Puglia)
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