Jasper Johns: Night Driver

Jasper Johns: Night Driver looks back at the career of this renowned American artist, considered one of the most prominent figures in post-war art. With around a hundred works from public and private collections around the world, the starting point of this retrospective show will be his iconic paintings of flags, targets, letters, numbers, and maps from the 1950s that made the leap away from Abstract Expressionism. In the 1960s, Johns moved from the impersonality of his early works to others in which he expressed a new mood of restrained yet intense emotions, reflecting a sense of melancholy and inner turmoil. By the end of that decade, Johns was seen by many as a key figure in the emergence and development of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, three analytical and self-reflective movements, much like Johns's own work.

The exhibition continues with works created during the 1970s and 1980s, including abstract images constructed with intersecting lines; pieces filled with visual references or citations of other artists from different periods; the series on the four seasons; as well as the group of creations in which he represented the face of a woman with eyes, nose, and lips gravitating towards the edge of a rectangular field. The exhibition concludes with a selection of pieces made in the 1990s and 2000s, in which the artist revisited some of his iconic themes while exploring new ideas, as in the Catenary series.