Synthesis and Tension Tom Wesselmann’s Editions

Over fifty works, dating from 1963 to 1998, are explored in Synthesis and Tension. The hard-back publication illustrates how Tom Wesselmann’s chosen subject matter came to be executed across a range of different media, from silkscreen, embossing, cut metal, collage, woodcut, hand-painting, lithography, and aquatint.

Wesselmann’s editions reinvented classical themes from the canon of art history; the often-provocative depictions of the nude, as well as his many still lifes and occasional landscapes.

An essay by writer and director of the Louvre-Lens Museum in France, Annabelle Ténèze, explores how of all the American artists of his generation, it was Wesselmann who most seemed to relish the possibilities afforded by the new technologies, using them to disrupt common perceptions about what editions should and could be.

Publisher: Cristea Roberts Gallery
Published 2022