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10. PRINCIPE MERCANTE DEL POP<br />

All’epoca della svolta, quando l’Espressionismo<br />

Astratto era ormai giunto alla seconda o<br />

terza generazione, gli <strong>art</strong>isti pop - ispirati da<br />

un gusto per la raffigurazione che non si era<br />

mai eclissato a Londra e che ora aveva preso un<br />

tono sbarazzino e beffardo, - cominciavano ad<br />

andare oltre i loro lavori come <strong>art</strong>isti pubblicitari<br />

e vetrinisti. Il noto gallerista Leo Castelli,<br />

esteta colto nato a Trieste e attivo a New York,<br />

capì che la grande, tradizionale divisione tra<br />

<strong>art</strong>e alta e <strong>art</strong>e commerciale stava per essere<br />

colmata. E lui l’ha colmata.<br />

Qui è ritratto con uno dei dipinti della bandiera<br />

americana di Jasper Johns che i due hanno<br />

fatto diventare un’icona della nuova ondata<br />

d’<strong>art</strong>e altamente digeribile. Questo sviluppo<br />

risaliva al detto di Duchamp che quello che un<br />

<strong>art</strong>ista dice è <strong>art</strong>e. E lo è.<br />

New York, 1982<br />

32<br />

POP MERCHANT PRINCE<br />

At the turn of the tide, when Abstract<br />

Expressionism was running into its second and<br />

third generation, the Pop <strong>art</strong>ists, inspired by the<br />

figuration that had never been eclipsed in London<br />

and had now taken an impish sardonic turn,<br />

were st<strong>art</strong>ing to branch out from their jobs as<br />

advertising <strong>art</strong>ists and window dressers. The<br />

prominent gallery owner, Leo Castelli, a<br />

cultivated esthete from Trieste, understood that<br />

the great traditional divide between high <strong>art</strong> and<br />

low was about to be bridged. He bridged it.<br />

Here he is seen with a Jasper Johns American flag<br />

painting that between them they turned into an<br />

icon of the new wave of highly digestible <strong>art</strong>. This<br />

stemmed ultimately from Duchamp’s dictum that<br />

whatever an <strong>art</strong>ist says is <strong>art</strong>, is so.<br />

New York, 1982

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