Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood
Sad news to hear that Dennis Hopper has been forced to cancel appearances at ACMI due to being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The veteran actor and director is the subject of a major new exhibition, Dennis Hopper & the New Hollywood opening  Thursday 12 November, 2009
An icon of American counter-culture. The art and film that defined a generation.
When Dennis Hopper’s radical road movie Easy Rider was released in 1969, it signalled a cultural revolution. Revved up to a rockin’ soundtrack, it broke new ground in its depiction of drug use on screen. Heralding the birth of ‘New Hollywood’, the film became a banner for a generation notorious for its anti-establishment and counter-cultural values.
Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood retraces the paradoxes that emerged in an America undergoing cultural, social and political transformation – from pop culture to suburban subculture, from psychedelia to beat poetry, from disillusionment to rebellion.
This expansive exhibition brings together Hopper’s own photography and film work as a director and actor with his exceptional private collection of contemporary art, including paintings, photographs and sculptures by artists such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Jenny Holzer.
Exhibition highlights > original works by artists including Bruce Conner, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wallace Berman, Franz Kline and Emerson Woelffer > clips from Hopper’s film work including Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Blue Velvet(1986), Apocalypse Now (1979) and the Australian production Mad Dog Morgan (1976) > a stunning LED installation by Jenny Holzer, admired and quoted by Hopper in his filmBacktrack (1990) > photographs by Hopper capturing the tumult of America in the 1960s and featuring such key figures as Martin Luther King Jr, Paul Newman, Jane Fonda and James Brown
Thursday 12 November 2009 – Sunday 25 April 2010 Open daily 10am – 6pm Full $17 Concession $12 Family $50 (2 adults, 2 children) Each extra child $8 http://www.acmi.net.au/hopper_new_hollywood.aspx
ACMI is located at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
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