Pop Art Myths

On June 10 the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum shows a great exhibition of Pop Art. This is not the first time Pop Art focuses an exhibition in Madrid. In 1992 the Reina Sofia Museum showed a gorgeous exhibition, but the Thyssen museum wants to offer now a renewed vision of this creative movement, which is none other than the prospect of returning to the pop art from the XXI century.

The permanent Collections of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum conclude with Pop Art, represented through important works by Rauschenberg, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein and Hockney.

For the first time in Spain the exhibition Pop Art Myths will offer a new assessment of this artistic trend from a 21st-century perspective. The approximately 70 works in the exhibition will include examples of pioneering British Pop Art as well as classic American works and others representing the movement?s spread across Europe, brought together with the aim of identifying the shared sources of international Pop Art. Paloma Alarcó, Chief Curator of Modern Painting at the Museum, will thus present a revision of the myths that have traditionally defined this movement in order to demonstrate that the deceptive superficiality and banality of Pop Art?s legendary images in fact conceal an ironic and powerful code for perceiving reality, and one that has survived into the art of the present day.

This exhibition is fully accessible to people with disabilities. The museum is adapted for scooters and for limited mobility visitors. Rent a scooter in your visit to this exhibition in Accessible Madrid (www.accessiblemadrid.com).

From 10 June to 14 September 2014.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Paseo del Prado, 8. Madrid.

Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10.00 to 19.00, Friday to Saturday until 21.00.

We suggest you to get your tickets online in advance.