![]() ![]() ![]() Can you speak to that history, and to how the artist’s own work inspired the shape the exhibition took?ĬBWhen we started thinking in that direction, we were both surprised to realize how deep repetition, mirroring, and doubling run throughout the work. We were excited to learn from the work that was taking place and to create our own exhibition by joining forces.ĪMcDThe idea to host a single exhibition across two institutions seems to have been informed by Johns’s own history with mirroring and doubling. There was a wonderful show the following year that opened at the Royal Academy, London, and traveled to the Broad, Los Angeles. We decided we wanted to embark on this show in early 2016, when there was a lot of renewed interest in Johns’s work: he was making and showing new work in Chelsea, the catalogue raisonné of paintings had been completed, and it was the tail end of the catalogue raisonné of drawings. Scott RothkopfAs Carlos mentioned, we’ve both had independent and long relationships with Johns, and so have both of our museums, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, going back many decades. So while it’s ambitious when you look at the list of works, our motivation was to truly represent Johns’s work as faithfully as we could. We wanted the show to appeal to a younger generation and we felt that the structure of the exhibition should echo the logic of the work itself. And the point of departure was, What shall we do to properly address the work in all its complexity? To do that we needed to represent his work across disciplines, including prints, as well as working proofs, paintings, and sculptures. We’ve long shared an interest in and admiration of Jasper Johns and his work. When did the project begin and how did your conversations and plans evolve along the way?Ĭarlos BasualdoI understand that it looks ambitious, but ambition was not our point of departure. Alison McDonaldThis is an ambitious exhibition presenting over five hundred works of art at two museums in two different cities simultaneously. ![]()
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