That Pittsburgh boy somewhat Martian, sickly, retractedcomplexed by his physical defects and stuck to his mother’s skirt he became The great ‘influencer’ of the twentieth century. In his time there was not yet a trace of the Internet, X, … Instagram, Facebook or Tiktok, much less than artificial intelligence. He had no ‘likes’, neither ‘followers’, nor is he doing. It was enough with a platinum wig, a silver paper lined study (The Factory), unbridled nights in Studio 54 and a sixth sense for advertising to become a star of the New York counterculture and pop art. Warhol was the best creation of Warhol, his masterpiece. Obsessed with fame and celebrities, he managed to be more famous than the stars he portrayed.
The Channel Foundation Open the expository program of the season with its posters. ‘Andy Warhol. Posters’ It gathers 134 works, from the Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe of Hamburg, who were donated by collector Claus von der Osten. Tulga Beyerle, director of the German Pinacoteca, says that Warhol «was a provocative, who took art to everyone. He lowered the iconic and unattainable to mass culture ». Visionary, predicted decades before social networks were born that “in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” Ask Montoyawhose live and live infidelity and its (above) acting of an Oscar has turned the world and even the very Whoopi Goldberg has echoed.
The American artist appropriated images that he saw in the media and customized them by making Warhol quotes. Of Marilyn Monroe He chose an image in which he appears radiant in an advertising frame of the movie ‘Niagara’. He made it, already dead, the ‘Mona Modern Lisa’. In 2022, one of his Marilynes, the ravia color, was sold at auction by 195 million dollars. By work and grace of the screen printing, Andy Warhol multiplied his creations without end: the same reasons and in industrial creations. His serial work began in 1962, when he recreates the cover of the ‘New York Times’ in which a plane crash was reported. He does not care about the facts, but the announcement of the news. Reproduced a reproduction, giving a twist to contemporary art.
Divided into six sections, and with a Warholian assemblythe exhibition reviews its first posters, the painted papers (they wallowed with cows of colored colored, fuchsia and yellow, the Gallery Leo Castellifrom roof to ground), the adaptations and graphic series, the late posters, the portraits, the covers of discs and the publications. Nothing escaped to his avid curiosity. Of the Campbell soup canswhich apparently took daily, to the bottles of Coca-Cola, the Kétchup Heinz boats, The bright soap… of the supermarket, to the museum, by the hand of Warhol, just as Maurizio Cattelan with the banana stuck with an adhesive tape to the wall. And speaking of bananas, Warhol made him an icon on the cover of ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’. He illustrated works by John Lennon, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross … from her series ‘Myths’ hangs Greta Garbo and Mickey Mouse.
Up, two works of the series ‘Queensante’ of Warhol: Isabel II of the United Kingdom and Ncomo Twala of Suazilandia. On these lines, on the left, ‘Self -portrait’, 1986, one of his last posters. On the right, a Nixon and ‘cows’ poster, wallpaper for an exhibition at the New York Leo Castelli gallery
It was the Commercial Illustrator better known, better paid and valued in the New York of the 60s. He made paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, facilities, experimental films (some pornographic) … in the rooms of the Canal Foundation coexist posters of Warhol exhibitions through the world with electoral posters (‘Vote McGovern’, who appeared to the presidential ones against Nixon, or ‘Mao’), advertising (Chanel No. 5, Levi’s, Absolut Vodka, Perrier) and of movieslike ‘Querelle’, directed by Fassbinder, with a great load of sex, eroticism and violence. Warhol made a special edition in three colors of the poster.
Sus are not missing publicationsas the ‘Interview’ magazine, or its portraits, with which he earned so much money: Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali or his muse Twiggy. One of his latest projects was ‘Queen Queens’, 16 Serigrafiad portraits of Isabel II of the United Kingdom, Beatriz de Holland, Margarita II of Denmark and NTombi Twala of Suaziland. Interestingly, Warhol was also interested The least festive facethe darkest: painted car accidents, catastrophes, electric chairs, vanitas, guns, knives …
In 1968, Valerie Solanas, a schizophrenic feministhe tried to end his life shooting him with a revolver. He left the torso sewn to scars. At the end of the sample, a Yellow Self -portrait says goodbye, one of his last posters, which made four months before his death in 1987.
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