The Ludwig Forum takes the “Year of Graphics in NRW” as a perfect opportunity, in collaboration with the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, to review its extensive collection of around 2000 graphic works on paper, and to process and document them in a series of exhibitions under the title “Ludwigs Graphik”. The first exhibition, with the theme “From Warhol to Pettibon”, brings together North American art from the 1960s through to the early 1990s. It presents early works by Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol as well as prominent representatives of Hyperrealism, Pattern & Decoration and Concept Art. Also on display, extensive series of drawings by distinguished individual artistic positions like for example Nancy Graves and Raymond Pettibon.
A lavishly illustrated inventory catalogue to accompany the exhibition will be published by the Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Curated by Dr. Annette Lagler