Sturtevant exhibition

Sturtevant in Albertina

Sturtevant in AlbertinaFor the very first time an exhibition on Sturtevant will be shown at the Albertina Museum. Sturtevant was an American painter who is best known for appropriation art.

This will be the first major exhibition on the art works of Sturtevant at the Albertina Museum and in total 100 different drawings, prints, images and paintings will be shown for the visitors. The art works present the the artist’s creative process mostly the period between 1964 and 2004. At the exhibition visitors can have a closer look on the 80 drawings which are exhibited the first time and discover more on the remarkable work of Sturtevant. Sturtevant started her career in 1965 and the drawings from this period of time help to understand the process and the motivation the artist had. All the works of Sturtevant are copies of other artist and she mainly focused on the works of the American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.

The exhibition Sturtevant: Drawing Double Reversal will take place at the Albertina Museum in Vienna from 14th February to 10th May in 2015.

Albertina Museum
Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

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