‘Our assumptions of Pop have become narrow. That word needs to be shaken open a little bit’ Derek Boshier in International Pop at Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis
Over time our assumptions of Pop have become more narrow. That word needs to be shook open a little bit. That history needs to be displaced a little bit. To allow for the diversity you have to go back to a more open idea of what Pop could be.
Darsie Alexander and Ryan Bartholomew, curators, International Pop
Today’s New York Times features Derek Boshier’s 1961 painting Special K as part of the newspaper’s coverage of International Pop, the new exhibition which addresses the fallacy that the movement was the preserve of the US and Britain.
As well as Special K, Boshier is represented at the show – which opened at Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis yesterday – by his films Link (1970) and Change (1973). These are being screened alongside works by other Pop titans such as Andy Warhol and Yokoo Tadanori. Boshier also appears in Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary Pop Goes The Easel which is also being shown at the exhibition.
International Pop is at Walker Arts Centre until August 29. More details here.
Tate Modern has a similarly themed show entitled The World Goes Pop opening in the autumn. Details here.
I am the editor of the monograph Derek Boshier: Rethink Re-entry, which is published by Thames & Hudson this autumn. Order your copy here.