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ROY LICHTENSTEIN: Girls G A G O S I A N G A L L E R Y April 23, 2008 PRESS RELEASE GAGOSIAN GALLERY 980 MADISON AVENUE T. 212.744.2313 NEW YORK NY 10021 F. 212.772.7962 GALLERY HOURS: Tue - Sat 10:00am - 6:00pm ROY LICHTENSTEIN: Girls Monday, May 12 – Saturday, June 28, 2008 “[The kind of girls I painted were] really made up of black lines and red dots. I see it that abstractly, that it's very hard to fall for one of these creatures, to me, because they're not really reality to me. However, that doesn't mean that I don't have a clichéd ideal, a fantasy ideal, of a woman that I would be interested in. But I think I have in mind what they should look like for other people.” Roy Lichtenstein Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Girls,” a seminal group of paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. In the summer of 1961 Lichtenstein embarked on a series of iconic images of women, taken directly from newspaper clippings and the romance comic books so prevalent in post-war America. The anonymity of the mass-produced, cheap comic book helped him to capture specific impressions of real things, while maintaining the necessary degree of aesthetic distance afforded by what he understood to be the “high restrictive quality of art.” He scrutinized his female subjects, editing and re-presenting the crux of their trials and tribulations in paint on canvas on a greatly enlarged scale. The “Girl” paintings, together with the war images (or “Boy” paintings) established him as a major protagonist of the American Pop Art movement. In all of Lichtenstein’s art there remains a particular, unmistakably American quality: a knowing and laconic examination of the world that separated him from his Capitalist Realist contemporaries in Europe, who also borrowed from pop cultural sources. His mixing of text and image, and of high and low culture, as well as his strategies involving the appropriated image, continues to be a rich source of inspiration for subsequent generations of artists, from Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Raymond Pettibon to John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton. In 1962, Girl With Ball (1961), a painting of a girl holding a beach ball, taken directly from a New York Times advertisement for a Pocono resort, caught Leo Castelli’s eye. He showed it alongside works such as the prescient Masterpiece (1962). Lichtenstein went on to paint various comely women in conditions of distress, like Drowning Girl (1963) and Frightened Girl (1963). Hopeless (1963) shows a teary blonde beneath the caption: "That's the way—it should have begun! But it's hopeless!” and In the Car (1963) depicts a moment of chilly silence between a man and woman. In works such as Forget it! Forget Me (1962) and Kiss V (1964), sexual battles are fought and personal catastrophes played out, the elements of staged, melodramatic love scenes elevated to the realm of fine art. Such images accrue even greater historical importance in terms of contemporary gender stereotypes, the power of media images, and the social dichotomies endemic to modern life. (continue to page 2) 9 8 0 M A D I S O N A V E N U E N E W Y O R K N Y 1 0 0 7 5 T . 2 1 2 . 7 4 4 . 2 3 1 3 F . 2 1 2 . 7 1 0 . 3 8 2 5 I N F O @ G A G O S I A N . C O M W W W . G A G O S I A N . C O M G A G O S I A N G A L L E R Y Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York, where he died in 1997. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world. Recent retrospective surveys include the Louisiana Museum, Humelbaek (2003), which travelled to the Hayward Gallery, London, the Reina Sofia, Madrid and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2004) and at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2005). A major retrospective is planned to open at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, featuring a conversation between Dorothy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons, a contribution by Richard Prince, and a tribute by Richard Hamilton. For further information, please contact the gallery. 9 8 0 M A D I S O N A V E N U E N E W Y O R K N Y 1 0 0 7 5 T . 2 1 2 . 7 4 4 . 2 3 1 3 F . 2 1 2 . 7 1 0 . 3 8 2 5 I N F O @ G A G O S I A N . C O M W W W . G A G O S I A N . C O M .
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