The Hopper Art Trust has partnered with the arts and entertainment business Louder Than Pop to develop "Dennis Hopper: Widescreen," a digital immersive experience that will tour eight cities next year, beginning in Los Angeles.
The exhibit will visit New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, London, and Paris, with the prospect of expanding to additional locations.
Visitors will be able to learn about Hopper's varied career as an actor, director, photographer, and artist through the Hopper experience. Experiential designs, full-scale physical sets, 3D projection mapping, sound and lighting, an Ambi-Sonic guided headphone tour with soundtrack and video, and still footage will be featured in the 30,000-square-foot facility.
The exhibition will focus on Hopper's work as an actor and filmmaker, including some of his most well-known films such as Rebel Without a Cause and Easy Rider. Apocalypse Now, The Last Movie, and Blue Velvet are three films that come to mind.
Louder Than Pop, LLC is a Los Angeles-based arts and entertainment firm that creates multidimensional touring pop-up immersive experiences in major cities in collaboration with established IP/legacy icons with cross-generational appeal.
Visitors will be guided around the Hopper collection by Hopper, who will provide his own thoughts and observations culled from written and audio interviews.
A collection of never-before-seen personal objects unearthed in Hopper's Taos, New Mexico residences, the El Cortez Theater, and items from the Hopper Art Trust are shown in the exhibition. All of them feature a wide spectrum of Hopper's artistic work as well as personal items.
Hundreds of texts, artwork, photographs, awards, film props, costumes, and unreleased film reels are among the items on display. It will also include personal letters from artists such as John Lennon, Miles Davis, and Peter Fonda to Dennis Hopper.
In addition to performing, Hopper was a well-known photographer whose work includes the cover photo for Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep – Mountain High and the 1965 Selma, Alabama civil rights march.
Hopper's paintings, collages, and photos were exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Cinematheque Francaise. He was also a well-known author. He was engaged to write stories about the new generation, the art scene, Hollywood, and other issues by Vogue and other media, who recognized him as a cool young influencer.
