POP MODELS will run until 28 September at Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands, who have announced the following about the exhibition:

“Advertisements, comic strips, bold colours – and women: these are defining elements of Pop Art in the 1960s and early 1970s. The role of women in Pop Art was twofold, perhaps even ambiguous. They embodied a stereotypical, desirable ideal, while also emerging as symbols of liberation. Women were at once supermodels and role models. In POP MODELS, Museum MORE becomes the first museum to put women in Pop Art at centre stage. As both muses and makers. The exhibition focuses on Europe, where the movement was often more outspoken and socially engaged than its American counterpart. This major exhibition at MORE presents an extensive selection of paintings, collages and objects by well-known artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein and Richard Hamilton, alongside exciting discoveries like Ketty La Rocca and Jana Želibská.

POP MODELS presents more than 70 works by nearly 60 artists from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain, from both museum and private collections. The exhibition was curated by guest curator Feico Hoekstra, in collaboration with Julia Dijkstra, Curator at Museum MORE.

The accompanying illustrated publication contains a text by Curator Julia Dijkstra and guest curator Feico Hoekstra, an essay by Maaike Meijer (Professor of Gender Studies) and Rosemarie Buikema (Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity), and Julia Dijkstra’s interview with British-American artist Jann Haworth. The book is published by WBooks and designed by Studio Mayra & Sam: 160 pages, approx. 100 images, price: € 34.95.”

Details
POP MODELS
Museum MORE, Hoofdstraat 28, 7213CW Gorssel, Netherlands
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm
Tel: +31 (0) 575 760 300.
Email: info@museummore.nl

More information is available here: [link]