Dennis Hopper, Hollywood legend, actor, director, and artist, has developed a new major work for Vienna's MAK. A kaleidoscopic production involving art, painting, photography, and film, Invitation to the Void - A System of Moments reveals the mutual influence of art and film in Hopper's work. An urban backdrop occupying the exhibition hall will be the setting for the central screening room where full-length versions of Hopper's most important works for the cinema, Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue, and other pieces are shown. Further groups of works, such as a selection from his black-and-white photographic chronicle of America in the sixties, early photo assemblages, objets trouvés, paintings from the eighties, and the major color photo cycles from the nineties, are presented chronologically and forge links between the beginnings of west coast art and the emergence of Pop to the 'abstract realities' of later years. Other elements include part black-and-white, part color billboards, found objects, urban requisites, as well as Hopper's photographs of artists in the sixties, people who exercised a crucial influence in New York and Los Angeles at the time.
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