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Prada's Venice Splash
On the eve of the Biennale, fashion designer Miuccia Prada hosts a contemporary art gala celebrating Pop master John Wesley. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Fashion designer Miuccia Prada kicks off the 53rd Venice Biennale with another star-studded gala celebrating contemporary art on Friday night. This year’s Fondazione Prada event—taking place on the Isle of San Giorgio Maggiore—is the most comprehensive survey of California pop artist John Wesley to date. The 81-year-old Wesley’s paintings are both visually accessible and intellectually provocative, exposing latent erotic fears in the American psyche using cartoon-like figures in vibrant hues and sensual flesh tones. "His work is very complex: surreal, pop, influenced by comics,” Prada recently told the Telegraph. “He still seems contemporary, yet he is not really known. He's very shy, and that's part of the reason. Also he's subtle—his work was not obviously pop when pop was the big thing."
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