The Whitechapel Gallery, London, and The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida today announced their latest curatorial partnership featuring one of the most significant and influential American artists of our time, Jasper Johns.
In dialogue with the artist Robert Rauschenberg and his friends the composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, Johns evolved a new language in art in the 1960’s. As all four artists became immersed in dance and performance, the body itself entered Johns’ work, at first as fragments, but more recently the whole body appeared as a shadow or silhouette flitting through his lithographs and etchings. Johns’ prints overlay images and textures to stress process, and at the same time reflect the way our consciousness overlaps memory and perception.
The Gallery at Windsor will present ‘the body’ as it has appeared in Jasper Johns lithographs and etchings created with Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) print studio from the 1980s to the present. This exhibition is organised by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, where Jasper Johns had his first UK show in 1969. It is curated by Iwona Blazwick and Bill Goldston in partnership with Hilary Weston and with the artist.
8 December 2013 – 30 April 2014 Jasper Johns: Works on Paper The Whitechapel Gallery at Windsor