The Pop Art exponent's solo exhibition at GAM.
The Galleria d'Arte Maggiore, on the occasion of ArtCity, is presenting a solo exhibition dedicated to Allen Jones, the almost 90-year-old artist and representative of British Pop Art. The relationship between the gallery and the artist is a relationship that is renewed, as already in 1999 Jones exhibited in Via D'Azeglio 15 some unpublished works and in 2022 he presented a summary of his production from 1966 up to that time. The date to mark in your diary is tomorrow (gallery hours) for the Allen Jones opening. Forever Icon, another solo exhibition dedicated to the British master that brings together 13 works including painting, sculpture and photography from various periods.
The fil rouge of the exhibition is the female figure painted often, either by attributing autonomy and three-dimensionality to the canvas on which it is born, or by dematerialising it in the colour of the canvas to allow it to acquire new form. The woman is free of any physical stereotype and capable of taking on any aspect in the mind and imagination of the observer, as in the works on show Ovation (2010), Backdrop (2016/17) and Changing Room (2016); the latter echoes their male counterpart in the sculptures Man loosing his head and hat (1988) and Untitled (Man) from '89. However, the centrepiece of Jones' solo exhibition is the iconic photographic shot of Kate Moss transformed into sculpture, which was also adopted as the guiding image for the anthological exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 2014. The artist himself explains its genesis: "In 2013, I was commissioned to make the model Kate Moss into a work of art to be included in an exhibition dedicated to her at Christie's in London. I remembered the body sculpture and the result was a blanket made in a very small edition." The exhibition features the latest example of this edition, which focuses on women's objects that only exist in the minds of those who would like them.
