Allen Jones, Happy Valley

24th October 2013

Melody Maker

October 16–November 23, 2013

Galerie Ernst Hilger
Dorotheergasse 5
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.hilger.at

Allen Jones (b. 1937) is one of the most significant British artists on the international stage. With his college friends R.B. Kitaj, Peter Phillips and David Hockney, he participated in the development of a new attitude to figuration in 1961, which became a major stepping stone in the history of Pop Art. The contemplation of the topics fetishism and obsession are evident in Jones' exploration and depiction of dance and sport imagery, which exploit the tension between figuration and gestural abstraction.

On show will be new works on paper and canvas, sculptures and editions. An exhibition catalogue is being published at Kerber Verlag, which will also be available.

PHOTO
Allen Jones, Happy Valley, 2012. Oil on shaped aluminum board, 183 x 150 cm.