Andy Warhol's Art
March 30th 2008 11:34
Warhol’s iconic pop art has been on display as part of the year-long program of exhibitions celebrating the opening of the Gallery of Modern Art.
'The exhibition will be the first in Australia to present the extraordinary scope of Andy Warhol's work', Ms Bligh said.
'Warhol has had an incredible influence on the visual arts in the past 50 years, yet audiences here have never seen his most important works in a single exhibition,' she said.
'With an extraordinary career spanning from the 1950s until his death in 1987, he is a key generational figure in the Gallery of Modern Art's focus on modern and contemporary art.'
The exhibition presents the artist's work across all media - painting, printmaking, drawing, film, video, installation, and performance.
"Warhol" represents a great opportunity to profile Andy's film, video, and cable television programs produced in the 1980s - Andy Warhol's TV in 1982 and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes made for MTV in 1986.
Gallery Director Doug Hall said the Gallery planned to recreate key Warhol events and installations, and to present a substantial program of Warhol films.
'The new Gallery of Modern Art's facilities and its cinémathèque will uniquely position us to represent Warhol's incredibly diverse work,' he said.
'His practice moved fluidly from performance to painting to film and audio, and had a profound impact on the development of visual art and culture.'
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