This is a retrospective exhibition of Robert Indiana, the best Pop Artist of the United States, and known as an artist of Love, and covers his art works from 1960 to now.
Indiana produces abstract works creating a new meaning from familiar concepts through the reconstruction of design favored by the public from significant of linguistics, which we are aware of. The audience sees the visualized language of reconstruction works, and links with their own experience. Also, it is an opportunity to meet with a unique art world of Robert Indiana, the most prominent artist of Pop Art, made out of the development of mass production system in capitalistic industrialized society in 1960 and the material abundance, as a result.
The exhibition of Robert Indiana has gained popularity in Europe and United States, and this exhibition held in Seoul Museum of Art is expected to win popularity of domestic audience. This exhibition consists of ‘Love’, the most prominent sculpture work of Indiana, cubic works made up of a series of numbers and paintings and printing works from 1960 to now. In particular, the big sculptures of Robert Indiana are going to be installed in outside of Seoul Museum of Art, it will provide a unique opportunity of art to the audience.
This exhibition gives an opportunity to experience ‘Pop Art’, which exists in our lives, and the audience could understand contemporary art with easiness, which have been recognized as difficult .