15 March – 10 June 2012
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
„The exhibition project “Pacific Standard Time – Art in Los Angeles, 1950-1980” traces the development of the Los Angeles art scene during the post-war period, when the city on the Pacific hosted an impressively varied and versatile art scene, thus proving that it was more than Hollywood and a sprawling metropolis in the land of sunshine and palm trees.
“Pacific Standard Time” features such internationally esteemed artists as John Baldessari, David Hockney, Edward Kienholz or Ed Ruscha as well as protagonists that are yet to be discovered like the abstract painters Helen Lundeberg and Karl Benjamin, the ceramicists Ken Price and John Mason, and sculptors such as De Wain Valentine. For Berlin the show has been supplemented to include photographs by Julius Shulman, whose architectural shots defined the image of the Californian lifestyle in the 1950s.“ (Press release excerpt)
Image:
David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967. Acryl on canvas, 96 x 96
© David Hockney, Collection: Tate Gallery, London, 2011
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