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Tom Wesselmann,
from the Mugrabi Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Role: Exhibition designer
Curation: Shahar Molcho
10.06.26 –
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), a pivotal figure in 1960s American Pop Art, created bold, direct images that mirrored the culture from which they emerged. Through still lifes and nudes—fragmented, flat, and monumental—he reimagined the tradition of painting in an age marked by advertising and mass media. His work shifts between intimacy and exposure, attraction and discomfort.
The exhibition focuses on the fifteen years from 1960 to 1975, expanding its perspective through dialogue with works by artists of Wesselmann's generation such as Andy Warhol, as well as with contemporary artists like Mickalene Thomas. These juxtapositions reveal how the images developed by Wesselmann in the second half of the 20th century continue to resonate, transform, and accrue new meanings in the digital age, where boundaries between body, gaze, and media are constantly being reshaped.
Held in the gigantic Elshtein space of the museum, the design divides the space in equal volumes and provide some private and colorful experience.
Very thin walls painted in a different tone of white present the works put in dialogue with Wesselmann's works.
