More or less is the title of an exhibition with pop art and minimalism from the Louisiana and the Moderna Museet, that will be shown at the Rooseum from September 23 to December 10 1995. It is the third exhibition in the Rooseum Re-vision series. Though pop art is well known to most people through several exhibitions, minimalism has never been shown in full in Sweden. In this exhibition, however, the two movements are brought together for the first time.

These movements are usually considered to be incongruous, which is also implied in the title of the exhibition. More represents pop art's intention to bring the excesses of popular culture to art, while less is connected with minimalism and its desire to reduce shape and content, in favour of a more fundamental level in the work of art, all according to the principle "less is more".

The scope of the exhibition is wide, ranging from the predecessors of pop art, like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and those normally considered "pure" pop artists, such as Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol to "hardcore" minimalists like Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and post-minimalists such as Robert Morris, Walter de Maria, Joel Shapiro, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin and Richard Tuttle.

Pop art and minimalism have often been depicted as each others opposites, though the case is not quite as simple as their purely historic context might seem. There is an affinity and a series of interesting common points upon which we have focused in this exhibition. These peculiar hybrid forms have come to be the foundation for much of the art of the 1980's, which is also significant for today's situation.

This exhibition has been possible as the Rooseum has had access, through the Louisiana and the Moderna Museet, to two of the most prestigious collections of pop art and minimalism in Europe.