MOCA exhibition now a tribute to Dennis Hopper

  • June 01, 2010 13:44

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Dennis Hopper (1936-2010), Double Standard, 1961, gelatin silver print © Dennis Hopper, image courtesy of the artist and Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
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On Saturday, actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper passed away at age 74. As ARTFIXdaily wrote last Friday, his artwork will be showcased in the upcoming retrospective "Dennis Hopper Double Standard," curated by artist-film director Julian Schnabel as the debut exhibition under new Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, director Jeffrey Deitch.

Nearly 200 works from Dennis Hopper’s six-decade artistic career will be shown July 11 through September 26, 2010, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

The title of the exhibition is taken from Hopper’s iconic 1961 photograph of the two Standard Oil signs seen through an automobile windshield on historic Route 66 in Los Angeles.

The renegade actor, who is remembered for roles in films like "Rebel Without a Cause" and for directing "Easy Rider," created a vast output of art. A comprehensive selection will be shown beginning with his early sculpture and assemblages as well as photographs documenting 1960s culture and the pop-art scene in both Los Angeles and New York.

The scope continues from a series of paintings from the 1980s and ’90s inspired by graffiti-covered walls and the urban Los Angeles landscape, to monumental billboard paintings from the 2000s, and a more recent series of abstract landscape photographs.


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