The IVAM is hosting a major retrospective of Jasper Johns (1930).

Valencia – Today opens its doors at the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia) the exposition Jasper Johns. The memory traces. Exhibitions dedicated to this American artist are rare in general and even more in Europe. The IVAM presents today, including a hundred pieces, consists of works spanning a 50-year career.

This selection of paintings -23 paintings, 9 sculptures and 59 technical-paper comes from American and European museums (National Gallery of Art, Washington, MFAH, Houston, Whitney Museum, New York, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Milwaukee Art Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Tate, London, etc.) and private collections. All of them show the evolution of an exceptional work, and its presence is complemented by an important artist loan works–20, which contains, among others, his largest sculpture, made in 2007 and has never before been exposed.
Ink on plastic, drawings, also shown in the IVAM. But an exhibition like this would be incomplete without a set of prints that accompanies it. Johns graphic work is immense, both in the field of engraving on copper and practice of lithography. A picture of Picasso and Matisse, the work of the stamp is everywhere in their daily work and as a writer he is, has expanded and modified the boundaries of all the techniques you used.

Many works, counting all the techniques, which appear in this exhibition emphasize the numbers and letters from half a century ago appear repeatedly in his work. The nonverbal communication symbols are present in his painting as in his printmaking and sculpture. In a process based on repetition, the artist shows the importance of continued development of thematic records.