Robert Longo, Untitled (Riot Cops), 2016, charcoal on mounted paper, 101 × 140 inches. Courtesy of Milwaukee Art Museum.
In the following interview, Robert Longo discusses how he seeks to slow down the act of seeing and creates an “extreme experience” for viewers through the translation of the photographic into monumental drawings. An influential figure in contemporary art since the early 1980s, and following a major exhibition at the Albertina Museum in Vienna and his current exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Longo addresses image-culture’s entanglement of politics and power, and his engagement with American iconography and canonical art-historical work.
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