A dive into “The Pop Years” on the Mémorial de Caen – Muricas News

An ultra-colorful work on which we uncover the stunning juxtaposition of a pin-up basking in the midst of a paradisiacal panorama and an American aircraft making ready to drop its bombs on Vietnam. This disturbing portray by Bernard Rancillac may sum up the exhibition “Pop Years, Shock Years”.

“It's a query of exhibiting how the artists dedicated themselves to conveying the local weather of the years 1960-1975 in addition to potential”, explains the curator of the exhibition Yan Schubert. Certainly, we discover ourselves in a couple of moments as if projected into these works, usually impressed by cinema and even comedian strips, however above all on this period marked pell-mell by the warfare in Vietnam in fact, the combat towards dictatorships or nonetheless the primary supermarkets. Objects punctuate the go to akin to these Coca-Cola bottles, this Honda motorbike or the representations of miniskirts, so emblematic of those pop years.

Heckled by the illustration of all these upheavals and the feelings they arouse, we all of a sudden discover ourselves flabbergasted in entrance of a semi-automatic pistol discovered close to a mass grave in Japanese Europe, positioned there to crudely recall the scars of Nazism. and the trials that adopted through the Nineteen Sixties.

“It's all the chaos of this decisive decade that we uncover right here. Every of those works helps us perceive the geopolitical and social transformations that passed off at the moment. It was the start of the buyer society and of a lot of the main questions that also occupy us right now,” assures Jean-Claude Gandur, president of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Artwork, proprietor of all of the works. It’s fascinating, and subsequently usually transferring, for instance when one other artist suggests the horrors of the Franco dictatorship or when a poster involves remind us of a number of the very first feminist slogans, like this: “there may be extra unknown than the unknown soldier – his spouse”

Pop Years, shock years, 1960-1975 exhibition, from June 22 to December 31, 2023, on the Mémorial de Caen, Esplanade Général Eisenhower. Entrance: 10€. Contact: 02 31 06 06 45