Poster, 1973-74

Among the numerous retrospectives of which he was the protagonist, we remember the one at the Tate Gallery in London in 1992, with the first complete exhibition of his work, the Introspective at the Museu d’Art Contemporani in Barcelona (2003), and the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery of London (2010). In 1993 he was awarded the Golden Lion for painting at the Venice Biennale. Domestic interiors, the images that obsessively recur in the mass media and the status symbols of the consumer society are the prevalent themes of his subsequent works. ($he, 1958-61; Adonis in Y Fronts, 1962; Interior, 1964-65). In the mid-1960s, after a trip to the United States, he worked on the series dedicated to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which he exhibited at the Robert Fraser Gallery and later also at Studio Marconi. He also began the reconstruction of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass, of which he organized a retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1966. Invited to teach in the most prestigious British institutes, he obtained numerous awards and since the 1970s has had important retrospectives throughout the world (1974, New York, Munich and Tübingen; 1979, 1982 and 1992, Tate Gallery, London). A collection of his writings was published by Thames and Hudson in 1982. In 2003 the Serpentine Gallery in London dedicated an important solo show to the artist. Richard Hamilton died in September 2011.