Marisol UK

Louisiana Revy (English edition), published published on the occasion of  Louisiana’s exhibition (Oct. 2025) featuring the Venezuelan-American artist Marisol (1930–2016). 

Marisol (1930-2016) stands as one of the most radical and visionary artists of her generation. She was born María Sol Escobar in Paris to a Venezuelan family, and died in New York, where she had lived and worked for large parts of her life since the 1950s. Despite her enormous fame, especially in the United States, and although her work is imbued with an original, artistic vision, there has not yet been a comprehensive showing of Marisol in Europe.

Marisol had her breakthrough on the international art scene in the early 1960s. During these years, she was close friends with Andy Warhol, who, especially at the start of his career, was both interested in and inspired by her achievements.

Marisol pursued a very personal and distinct path within Pop Art with her painted and carved wooden sculptures of almost human size figures. Often they were assembled with found objects in larger tableaus, where she mixes Pop Art with folk art. One finds references both to early cultures in Central and South America, but also to the booming American consumerism of the 1960s and rise in the cult of celebrity. Her own self-portrait often serving as a focal point.