Ce catalogue explore les périodes créatives de cet artiste considéré comme l'un des plus importants représentants du pop art de sa génération et retrace les grandes lignes du mouvement. Les oeuvres de Wesselmann sont entourées des grands noms du pop art et de ses héritiers, de Marcel Duchamp à Ai Weiwei, révélant les influences passées ainsi que l'impact de l'artiste sur les futures générations.

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The exhibition catalogue to accompany Fondation Louis Vuitton’s exhibition, which will be held from October 2024 to February 2025; featuring 80 works of Tom Wesselmann as well as works from the major artists of the Pop art movement like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, or Yayoi Kusama.

At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann.

It will include around eighty of Tom Wesselmann's absolute masterpieces covering his creative periods from the 1950s to the 2000s. The exhibition will offer the opportunity to experience the beginnings of the Pop Art phenomenon through the presentation of other major works by Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, Evelyne Axell, Frank Bowling, Rosalyn Drexler, Jasper Johns, Kiki Kogelnik, Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, James Rosenquist, Marjorie Strider, and Andy Warhol. The contextualization of Wesselmann's work within the Pop Art zeitgeist paves the way for immersion into his wide-ranging yet very distinctive oeuvre.

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8 Foreword Bernard Arnault 10 Preface Suzanne Pagé 17 Wesselmann and Pop Forever: Dream and Reality in a Theoretically Real World Dieter Buchhart 31 Tom Wesselmann: From “Superreality” to Participation Anna Karina Hofbauer 39 Between a Sexual and an Aesthetic Revolution: Tom Wesselmann and the Art of Subversion Brenda Schmahmann 45 “The spontaneity, the false lines, etc.”: Wesselmann and Drawing Isabelle Dervaux 53 Cozy Perspective Olivier Michelon 184 Interview “ATTRACTION AND PROVOCATION” Derrick Adams by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer 196 Interview “FLOATING IN A BEAUTIFUL ATMOSPHERE” Tomokazu Matsuyama by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer 214 Interview “SO PLEASE HAVE YOUR NAILS DONE” Danièle Thompson by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer 228 Interview “A NEW VISUAL LANGUAGE THAT SCREAMS TO BE SEEN AND HEARD” Mickalene Thomas by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer 256 Interview “AN ALMOST SCIENTIFIC AND EXTREMELY METICULOUS APPROACH” Monica Serra by Anna Karina Hofbauer 333 Postface How big should it be? Jeffrey Sturges Chronology Tatjana Andrea Borodin 344 Authors’ Biographies 345 Selected solo exhibitions 347 Selected bibliography