The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles reveals the art of Dennis Hopper

The exhibition titled 'Double Standard' pays tribute to the actor and director who recentrly passed away. 

Los Angeles, 07/20/10

Paintings, sculptures, photographs and even grafitti created by Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) throughout his life – excepting the works of the first 25 years that disappeared in the fire that destroyed his Bel Air residence in 1961 – can be seen until September 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in a show curated by Julian Schnabel.

 ‘Dennis Hopper. Double Standard’ will feature more than 200 works spanning 60 years of his prolific career, including an early painting from 1955, photographs, sculptures and assemblages from the 1960s, paintings from the 1980s and 80s, graffiti-inspired wall constructions and large scale billboard paintings from the 2000s.

Director of the movies like Easy rider and actor in Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper artist has approached a range of styles; from abstraction, the ready made and pop art to conceptual art inspired by Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Jean Tinguely and Marcel Duchamp.

 “I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I’m an actor”, Hopper said in his last interview to the American magazine Vanity Fair, little before he died last May at the age of 74. “Viggo Mortensen. He’s a terrific writer. He’s a good photographer. He paints”, Hopper offered an example to show that art and film are compatible. 

  • Dennis Hopper. Photograph from 1961. © Dennis Hopper and Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

  • Dennis Hopper. After the Fall. 1961-64 © The Estate of Dennis Hopper, courtesy of The Estate of Dennis Hopper.

  • Dennis Hopper. Florence. © The Estate of Dennis Hopper, courtesy of The Estate of Dennis Hopper y Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

  • Dennis Hopper. Bomb Drop. 1967-68/2000. © The Estate of Dennis Hopper, courtesy of The Estate of Dennis Hopper.

  • Dennis Hopper. Paul Newman. 1964 © The Estate of Dennis Hopper, courtesy of The Estate of Dennis Hopper.

Dennis Hopper. Photograph from 1961. © Dennis Hopper and Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.