‘Off the Wall’ brings together more than one hundred works representing performative actions ranging from 1948 to the present. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the exhibition is a new version of the show presented there in 2010, now enlarged with new pieces, some of which form part of the Serralves Collection. The show features works by renowned artists such as Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Joan Jonas, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, among others.
It was designed to translate the title and feeling of the exhibition. A translation into the catalogue itself as if the title of the exhibition was “off the page” or even “off the book”.
