Jasper Johns opens at Leo Castelli Gallery

New York, NY - Leo Castelli Gallery announces the opening of the exhibition Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein – Walls.

The exhibition includes paintings, drawings and collages dating from the early 1970s to the 1990s, some of which are brand new for the public eye.

The idea of the exhibition is taking a portion of a wall as the subject - matter for a work of art, an idea probably rooted in the great tradition of American trompe l’oeil painting.

Johns and Lichtenstein, working at different times and under different circumstances, somehow reinvented this tradition and elaborated it in a unique way.

Above all, the works in the exhibition seem to create a space in which the boundaries between the artwork and the actual physical wall may be perceived as broken and the viewer is faced with seeing paintings painted in a painting.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalog.