Richard Hamilton: Museum Ludwig - Cologne - Brief Article
ArtForum, May, 2003 by Daniel Birnbaum
With Independent Group cohorts Lawrence Alloway, Peter and Alison Smithson, and Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton organized the legendary 1956 exhibition "This is Tomorrow," where he presented the collage that kicked off Pop art in the UK. That display and a number of key shows of his career will be reconstructed in this comprehensive retrospective, organized by the artist himself (with curator Vincente Todoli, director of Tate Modern) and bringing together some 180 works from 1938 to the present. A coproduction between Barcelona's MACBA, where it was first mounted, and the Museum Ludwig, the exhibition boasts a two-volume artist's book/catalogue with essays by Laszlo Glozer, Hal Foster, and Sarat Maharaj.
MACBA, through June 1; Museum Ludwig, July 12-Nov. 9.
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