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Raymond Pettibon
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Tucson, United States, 1957
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27-11-2024
The work of Raymond Pettibon (Tucson, Arizona, 1957) follows in the wake of a generation of artists from Los Angeles that includes John Baldessari, Edward Ruscha and Jim Shaw. Along with Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Pettibon is a clear exponent of a type of artistic tradition that originated on the West Coast, under the influence of the confrontation between underground subcultures and the fictions churned out by Hollywood.

With its mix of images and words, Pettibon’s work could be said to begin at the point where comic strip illustrators and Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein leave off. The sources of his ‘fictions’ (as he calls them) are many and varied: from Goya and Honoré Daumier to the imaginary of television series, magazines and comics, literary references like Marcel Proust, Henry James and William Blake, and pulp fiction.

The exhibition Raymond Pettibon brought together around a thousand drawings on paper, five videos, and murals specifically designed and executed by Pettibon for the MACBA building, as well as music, books and documents from the artist’s archives. The material as a whole confirmed the heterogeneity of an oeuvre in which mass culture is intertwined with religion, sex and art.

The show of the work of the American artist Raymond Pettibon (Tucson, Arizona, 1957) includes a broad selection of drawings, video screenings and materials from the artist's archive.

His creations reveal his fascination with sixties American counterculture. Other references include Goya's etchings, film noir and children's television programmes of the fifties and sixties, which appear as fragmented signs in a discourse that is critical of the images sponsoring the cultural power of the time. By combining image and word, Pettibon starts at the point where the work of other cartoon and comic artists, or Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, ends.
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Sir Drone de Raymond Pettibon [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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7-2-2022
Selected Works from 1982 to 2011 / Raymond Pettibon
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2020
Point d'ironie [núm. 59]
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2016
Point d'ironie [núm. 59]
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2016
Point d'ironie [núm. 59]
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2016
Raymond Pettibon [Documentació exposició en itinerància]
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24-5-2002 - 15-8-2002
Raymond Pettibon [Reportatge fotogràfic exposició]
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8-2-2002 - 11-4-2002
The drama hour / Raymond Pettibon
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2002
Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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Hitting the strip / a book by Raymond Pettibon
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2002
Hitting the strip / a book by Raymond Pettibon
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2002
The drama hour / Raymond Pettibon
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2002
Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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The drama hour / Raymond Pettibon
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Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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The drama hour / Raymond Pettibon
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Hitting the strip / a book by Raymond Pettibon
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Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.]
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Hitting the strip / a book by Raymond Pettibon
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The drama hour / Raymond Pettibon
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Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.] [Edició facsímil (Macba)]
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2002
Mi familia / Raymond Pettibon ... [et al.] [Edició facsímil (Macba)]
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2002
Hitting the strip / a book by Raymond Pettibon
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2002
Thinking of you / Raymond Pettibon
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1998
Captive chains / by Raymond Pettibon
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1978
Freud's universe / by Raymond Pettibon
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1978