Marisol returns to Rotterdam, from cars to fish
The Depot is showing a survey of the Venezuelan-American pop artist. More than eighty international loans bring her work together; her first museum solo exhibition was also at Boijmans, in 1968.
A blue Ford Falcon, half-scale, anchors Marisol’s Rotterdam story. The Car (1964) is among the works in the survey that opened at the Depot on 9 October. Nearly six decades after her first museum solo exhibition at Boijmans, the artist has returned to the same institution.
Marisol, born María Sol Escobar in Paris in 1930, grew up in Caracas and the United States. She became known as a Venezuelan-American Pop artist. The exhibition runs through 29 March 2027 and occupies galleries I, II and III on the third, fourth and fifth floors.
The museum says more than eighty international loans have come to Rotterdam. Most are from the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, which manages Marisol’s estate. The museum does not give a total number of works.
In The Car, every passenger except the driver has the artist’s face. Boijmans acquired the work in 1972. It is at once a sculpture, a self-image and a play on the familiar shape of a car.
The selection also includes La visita (1964), Mi Mamá y Yo (1968), films by Andy Warhol, and later wooden fish and underwater creatures. The museum also names collaborations with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthaus Zürich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 17:00, at the Depot, Museumpark 24. A €2.50 surcharge applies to the exhibition ticket.