“Flag” remixes renowned Surrealist painter Rene Magritte’s conundrum “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” ( “This is not a pipe”).
So who is Jasper Johns? For many the name rhymes with “Flag,” the artist’s most famous painting and foremost among his images that decades ago entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Maybe yes, maybe just lift talk to fill the ride from the 5th to the 1st floor of the museum, following our visit to “Mind/Mirror,” the first stop on our return trip (after two+ long years) to New York. Jasper Johns is, according to the elevator operator, one of the three wealthiest artists alive in the world today. “.it’s a brilliantly conceived show about the limits of vision, the limits of knowing, the fallibility and finitude of the body…”
We saw the New York installation only, which The Washington Post summed up as follows: Jasper Johns, protean artist still shape-shifting at 91. Taken together, they provide an immersive exploration of the many phases, treasures, and mysteries of a radical, enduring, and still-evolving career,” explained the Whitney. Individually, each gallery focuses on a particular aspect of Johns’s thought and work through the lens of different themes, processes, images, mediums, and even emotional states. Organized in largely chronological order, the retrospective presents pairs of related galleries-one in each city-that offer varied perspectives on the artist’s turns of mind. “This unique dual structure draws on the artist’s lifelong fascination with mirroring and doubles, so that each half of the exhibition echoes and reflects the other. Critics are tripping over superlatives when describing the seminal blockbuster titled “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror” organized by Scott Rothkopf, chief curator at the Whitney Museum, and Carlos Basualdo, curator of contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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