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Over the course of 40 years, New York-based Pop painter John Wesley has created a singular body of work with a cast of characters including Dagwood Bumstead, birds and bears all rendered in the same flat sky blue, flesh beige and candy pink palette. Employing a comic strip style and a compositional rigor, Wesley makes warm, sexy paintings with a frequent twist of the bizarre. "When post-global-warming anthropologists begin paddling through the streets of Manhattan in search of visible evidence that this republic was... the cosmopolitan democracy that it purported to be," writes Dave Hickey of this work, "one can only hope that the earnest scientists will stumble across a trove of Wesley's paintings in some tenth-floor loft. If they do, they will almost immediately begin to think better of us. They will think, Hey! These weren't such bad dudes! How could they be? They were cool, generous, and urbane; they encouraged high spirits and valued sex enough to make it elegant and funny."
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JOHN WESLEY.
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Progetto Prada Arte, Milan, 2009
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Hardcover. 4to. Pp: xlvii, 557. First edition. Pink, black and white illustrated hard covers, pink spine with black text. Richly illustrated throughout in colour.ISBN: 9788887029437Heavy book will require extra postage. Lightly soiled top edge and wear to edges, otherwise a very good copy indeed. Seller Inventory # C69385
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'La Fondazione Prada presenta negli spazi della Fondazione Giorgio Cini a Venezia una mostra antologica dell'artista americano John Wesley (Los Angeles, 1928 New York, 2022), una delle figure più interessanti ed enigmatiche dell'arte contemporanea. La mostra, curata da Germano Celant, documenta la produzione dell'artista tra il 1961 e il 2007 attraverso oltre 150 opere tra dipinti e oggetti provenienti da musei internazionali e collezioni private. Questo è il bellissimo e prezioso catalogo della mostra, con all''interno anche la mappa dell''Isola di San Giorgio a Venezia dove si è tenuta. Si tratta di un volume raro, ben conservato e unico nel suo genere.'. Seller Inventory # 3300-034813
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