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It will be 1 Opera Gallery in Via San Biagio dei Librai 121 in Naples, will host from March 6 to April 4, the colorful exhibition “I love women”, edited by Pietro Tatafiore, which includes a selection of lithographs from 1969 to 2014 by Mel Ramos, one of the last exponents of pop art.
“According to some opinions that I heard frequently express – says the American artist – I’d hate women, given the manner in which I paint. However, unlike most of the feminists say about me, I think that all of my work can be summed up in the fact that I really love women… “
In fact, for Ramos, the juxtaposition of incongruous objects, like the nude female figures combined with consumer objects or animals, tends to provoke in the viewer a sense of tension and a reaction of surprise, which refer to the poetics of Surrealism, by which he was initially attracted and influenced. His works are in major museums around the world, including the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York, the Modern Art in Vienna and the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg.
Mel, is critically acclaimed as an experimenter who ironic and irreverent, “currency” in his own way consumerism, using and exacerbating the language and technique of comics.
