Pop Art Exhibition in the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
This blog is written for my guests at the Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel Rome.
Pop Art Exhibition
Fifty artists and over one hundred works of art are on display in the exhibition e “Pop Art! 1956-1968”, in the Scuderie del Quirinale.
It is almost impossible to capture the essence of the style Pop Art in one definition, although one can pinpoint some of the characteristics: an interest in consumer culture, in the common, banal aspects of life, but also in the influence of the means of mass communication.
The first room is dedicated to Pop Art’s predecessors, while the following ones are ordered by theme: objects, portraits and brands, the historical events of the sixties (Kennedy’s death, the moon landing).
On the upper floor the exhibition goes back and forth between the high- and the lowbrow. The visitor can see that the artists did not only seek for inspiration in supermarkets and on tv, but also in museums themselves.
The last room is dedicated to the human body.
Pop Art, Gallerie del Quirinale, until January 27th
| Pop Art! 1956-1968 | |
| Where? | Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16 |
| When? | until January 27th |
| Hours | 10-20; Friday and Saturday 10-22,30 (closed on Mondays) |
| Telephone | 0639967500 |
| Price | 10 Euros |
| Web | http://www.scuderiequirinale.it/ |
Directions from the Chaplin Bed and Breakfast
From B&B Chaplin Hostel Rome you need to take bus 64 until the end of Via Nazionale. Via XXIV Maggio is its last side street on the right.